Lurker > MrMallard

Do you reckon Bungie/Microsoft could sue over this?

It'd just be one megacorp getting slightly richer off of another megacorp, but I'd probably laugh about it anyway.

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It's 9am on a Sunday. I threw on some tunes, I've got stuff on my laptop that I get nostalgic for, and I'm gonna grab a nap.

The battery on this laptop is fried, and the charger is fraying around the entry plug. I ordered a new charger last night, but until then I have to be vigilant about the charger in case it decides to fuck up.

The update I need is taking ages to download - like, about 40 minutes for 10%. So I'm gonna roll the dice on this one. The Wye Oak cover of We Belong just came on, so I'm gonna vibe to that for a while

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It's a stupid system that fuckwits use to buy "original copies" of shitty wojak memes for thousands of dollars in crypto.

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Sorry, I'm really fucking tired right now. It's switched out, and I can't get into S Mode unless I update my PC. It's basically telling me to install PC updates before it'll let me install applications.

The issue is that the updates I need to install aren't downloading. I've restarted my PC twice for unrelated reasons, and while it did install a quick update initially, it hasn't installed anything else. When I go into Windows Update with the instructions that Back_Stabbath provides, the top update is stuck at 0%.

Like, all I wanna do is install Steam so I can play Valheim. Windows can't let me install my own apps unless I install updates that aren't downloading? What the fuck.

Edit: tried to run Sign of the Sojourner, I got it in that racial unity and justice itch.io pack a while back. Same thing - I can't run it until I update my shit. What the fuck.

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I downloaded the setup client from the website and went to run it. The Microsoft Store came up and told me it was time to update, otherwise it wouldn't let me run applications that aren't on its storefront. It had a blurb at the bottom directing me to see how I could run unverified apps, and the rundown is that I'm in "S Mode" and S Mode isn't allowed to run unverified apps. The only way to exit S Mode is to update the Microsoft Store.

So my options are to either update the app store, or update the app store.

Okay, they want me to use the Microsoft Store to download apps. They win. I search for Steam.

They don't have Steam on the Microsoft Store.

I'm hesitant to update because it phrases the update as "keep getting app recommendations", which means they're recording my information and using it to sell me shit. I understand that it's Windows and that it's par for the course as PC operating systems get gutted to become more like phone interfaces, but the less of that in my life, the better. At the very least, I should be able to install my own fucking applications without physically being stopped by Microsoft in order to update their app store I don't use so it can continue to track my data.

I just want to see if Valheim will run on this budget laptop from 2015.

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the right can't meme

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mft1 posted...

The author of the piece should sympathize with the neo-nazis because one of them is his fucking mother.

This is what you sound like.

If OP is meant to sympathize with a loved one who's becoming more and more radicalised by a hate group, what's to stop us from insisting he should stand by a neo-nazi? That rather than bringing attention to the radicalisation that their family member went through despite their best efforts to help them, they should show a bit of loyalty to them for the good things they did before they were radicalised?

The reporter elaborated on how they approached their mother's behavior. They talked about different conspiracy theories that they had been able to challenge their mother on. They painted the process through which their mother was radicalized, and despite their better efforts to reach through, it took hold anyway and she began to view Donald Trump as a soldier against the forces of corruption despite his own widespread corruption.

The reporter tried to help their mother. They were sympathetic, they didn't want to see their mom slide further into misinformation and radical conspiracy theories. And she's now at a point where they don't think they can reach her any more.

They showed her sympathy, and they tried to help her. But she succumbed to this whackadoodle horseshit anyway, and it looks like there's no way out for her. A lot of people feel the same way about their own radicalised relatives, and maybe by sharing this process, they can affect wider efforts to prevent more people from going down this sort of path.

So let's say that the reporter's mother didn't fall in with qanon. Instead, she began spouting racist rhetoric about the "lazy" immigrants, or about black people, and how the ones that were "hurting America" deserved to be rounded up into camps. Imagine she began speaking about how George Floyd deserved to die, and the people who protested in his name deserved to get shot by the police or hit by "patriots" in their cars for subverting American sovereignty or what have you.

Are you saying that the reporter would be wrong to go "it's been an incredibly fucked up turn of events to watch my mother descend into this bullshit despite my best efforts, and I can only hope that more people can be dissuaded from that worldview if they understand the demographic that these hate groups are preying on and the journey that people like my mom are put through" if that hate group were unabashed neo-nazis?

Because qanon supporters aren't that far off in how they recruit and radicalize people. And the political aims of neo-nazis align neatly with qanon supporters, too. Should we show loyalty to family members who are praying for bloodshed in the name of a false justice fed to them by bigots, or should we do our best to prevent more people from being inducted into these fucking hate groups?

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Mom and dad being a little kooky apparently = believing that the FBI clamped down on newsrooms across America, including the author's own workplace, and was restricting the flow of news at gunpoint that only a lone patriot had the guts to "legitimately" report on.

Apparently, believing in a satanic child-raping blood cult that operates out of the basement of a pizza place and believing that Tom Hanks either moved to Greece to continue his lifelong addiction to raping children or because he was secretly executed by Q and Trump's underground resistance constitutes "a little bit kooky" as well.

People are losing their minds thanks to this horseshit. Events like Unite the Right and the Capitol insurrection attempt happen because people let this rot into their brain. And it's extremely unpleasant for close family members who see their loved ones slide further into paranoid delusion. It changes people on a fundamental level when they start to accept this bullshit propaganda as truth.

It might not help the people who are being discussed, but maybe people have already tried to get through to them and everything they've tried has failed. Maybe the next best recourse is to share in a common experience and theorise on how people can prevent their parents from going down the same shitty path, to prevent more people from falling headfirst into this buttfuck crazy conspiracy theory.

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Personally, I'm glad that we live in a world where paying off debt is seen as a less beneficial use of money than buying a flatscreen TV and the complete series of Frasier on Blu-ray.

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Apparently it commercially and critically suffered from releasing so close to Metal Gear Solid 5, and as it's got a more limited scope compared to that game its quality was disputed at the time. But since then, people who've played it tend to have a positive outlook on the game. The last I heard, it's considered a quirky but enjoyable distillation of the Mad Max experience into video game form.

Saying that, though - I've never played it. So take that with a grain of salt. fwiw, based on what I've heard, I would consider at least giving it a go.

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The best thing DC ever did was realise how much they fucked up with their live action movies, and opened their characters up to directors with their own visions. The one movie we've gotten out of that so far, Joker, was exactly what the DC cinematic universe needed to be from the beginning.

DC has been postured as the darker, neo-noir alternative to Marvel for a couple of decades at least. While Marvel went all in on the action figures smashing into each other approach to film-making, DC should have continued from the Dark Knight school of making prestige films about its characters. You could argue that Man of Steel was an attempt at going in that direction, but with BvS and Justice League, the entire thing felt like they ran for the cinematic universe finish line before they hit the halfway point.

If DC are making a series of standalone movies in the vein of Joker, like a Michael B. Jordan Superman movie from a director with a strong vision for the movie and a passion for making it, I'm emphatically on board with that. I'd rather hear what a passionate director has to say about that spin on Superman than whatever Zack "in my movie, Batman could be raped in prison" Snyder has to say about his gritty messianic reinterpretation of homeless drifter Superman with a side of baby-penis.

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30fps has like a ghosty stutter to it. It's fine if it's consistent, but you can tell the difference between something like FFX at 30fps and Jak and Daxter or Ratchet and Clank at 60fps.

At this point, I think framerate snobbery has got out of hand. Sometimes games have slowdown, and it's not a sin. I love A Robot Named Fight, but when you get enough upgrades to flood the screen with projectiles, you can slow the game to a fucking crawl. I'll probably still enjoy Age of Calamity even with the frame drops, given that it's a good enough game.

With that being said, there are genres that benefit from 60fps, and 30fps is just really ass. Final Fantasy X can get away with being 30fps because it's a slower paced game. But imagine playing a Burnout game at anything less than 60fps. Racing games suck at 30. FPS games and other genres that rely on reflexes are better off with the cleanest frame rate possible.

For the most part, a decent 30fps is acceptable. There would even be racing games or shooters that are bearable at 30, though 60fps should be the standard. And FPS snobbery has gotten so out of hand that people can't stand the thought of a game having too many particles, having maybe three seconds of slowdown because of all the crazy shit you're pulling off. But saying that, FPS does matter and 60fps should have become a standard before 4k. Given that it's a decent 30, or even somewhere in between 30 and 60, it's acceptable but not preferable depending on the genre and style of the game.

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thank you for saying that. I feel like I stole the show kind of, like what I said could be seen as attention-seeking. But sobriety is a process, and I'm going through a rough patch at the moment so talking about it helped me feel better. The topic resonated with me - it was easy to slip into alcoholism.

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I'm completing some Switch games. Gonna finish Cat Quest, start a non-bugged savefile of Agatha Knife and start playing another game I can't remember atm.

I'm also trying to get back into Paladins, if any of y'all motherfuckers play Paladins hmu

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Whenever I'm being spoken over nowadays - it's him speaking over me. Aspects of his personality annoy the fuck out of me, like when he sings the same chorus or lyric from a song over and over all day, every day, for weeks. I never liked it when he would like touch my shoulder or anything - I didn't like when anyone would touch me because of the bullying I went through, but well into adulthood, I didn't want my best friend touching me. I'm so touch-starved, but between being touch-starved and hugging my friend, I'd rather be touch-starved. I shrugged off facetious comments because it was the nature of our friendship for me to cop a joke from time to time - I only recently started replying in kind, and I think my comfort in being nasty like that is affecting my relationships with others.

These are aspects of his personality that people like him for. That people respond positively to. Where I'm the outlier. They aren't negative aspects necessarily. But I hate them.

And having gotten sober, and subsequently had to cope with the effects of sobriety, I came to the conclusion that I hadn't liked my friend for a long time. For all that he had done for me over the years, for all the things he had done for me to help me fit in and feel included, I couldn't get past his faults. Being around this guy was like being nails on a chalkboard, and I think I've known for years. Being drunk helped me cope with the aspects of his personality I couldn't stand.

He means well, and I believe he's meant well most of the time we've been friends. There have been times where he's been spiteful and made joke after joke about the same shitty thing at my expense, but there have been times where I've been a real fucking menace and he took care of me when I was too drunk and belligerent to take care of myself. But I can't keep being friends with someone out of obligation, because it's the status quo and because it makes him feel better.

I think what really kicked this off was remembering all the times someone had asked me "why do you let him treat you like that? Why don't you get him back for it?" And the thing is, I didn't want to be mean back. I didn't want to make jokes about his high-strung mother - who he would explicitly make uncomfortable for his own amusement, and because he knew it made me squirm when he would be shitty towards her. I didn't want to make jokes about his alcoholic father. But I learned to indulge in it, and now I feel gross about it.

I didn't get him back for the longest time because my self-worth was tied to how people reacted to me. If he makes a joke about fucking my mother and people laugh, that's a positive reaction despite being sick of that fucking joke about him becoming my stepfather for the 50th time. When he would harp on something I said and turn it into a running joke, it's positive attention despite how bad it feels. If I speak up about it, I'm just gonna come across as a tightass and people will double down on it. And the fact is that because I was bullied during school, because I went through a decade of feeling like shit, I didn't want to make anyone else feel as bad as I ever did.

That's not to say that my mean streak was directly tied to how I was treated by my best friend. I got way meaner about certain people. I was a backstabber, if the person was disliked by our wider group. I was two-faced if it was entertaining. And I really fucking regret that.

I wanted people to like me, and the only time I felt loose and casual enough to feel comfortable in my own skin was when I was drunk. So when I began to grow out of how my best friend treated me, I would drink more to thicken my skin and deal with it. And then it got bad enough that I would confront him about it and he'd apologize and make a conscious effort to not go there. But the fact that he made that accommodation made me feel even worse, especially when I noticed him stopping himself from doing something that bothered me. And that's just the shit that was hurtful, that was reasonable to ask him to stop. I couldn't stand his constant fucking singing by the end, and that's just a casual innocuous habit that makes him happy y'know.

I only came to this conclusion once I had stopped drinking. Being around him while I've been sober has been so fucking uncomfortable. I clench my jaw and I want to be as far away from him as possible. He recently rested a hand in my shoulder in a good faith sort of way, and I shifted my entire body to get away from him. I have this primal revulsion to being around him, because I realise how unhappy I feel when I spend time around him.

Things didn't used to be like this. My feelings towards my best friend changed over time - and they should, because people change as they grow up and mature. But I was maintaining a status quo by drinking, and the only way I've been able to cope with sobriety is by spending the least amount of time with him as humanely possible.

The connecting thread throughout my stint with alcoholism has been comfort. I feel comfortable around my friends, and drinking loosened me up and made me more receptive to being around people. Then, as they came to know me, I began to feel a disconnect between our personalities - and the best way to bridge that gap and maintain a sense of goodwill with them was to drink. Then I became dependant on alcohol during a time of crisis and stress - I severely disliked who I was when I wasn't inebriated, and I had no choice but to live with the hellish reality of once-in-a-lifetime bushfires and a global pandemic, so I made a conscious choice to get blackout drunk as often as I could during a time where social norms were degrading. And then I drank my way into a health problem.

It is very easy to lose your sense of self and neglect your own personal growth due to alcohol. You want to feel comfortable, safe and loved, but you don't develop enough as a person to find those things in your day to day life - you get a taste of how that feels when you're really vibing on your alcohol of choice, but it's fleeting and it comes with a physical, financial and metaphorical cost.

We all need comfort, and we all need to cut loose sometimes. It can be hard to find release without something to take the edge off. But you're right about it being easy to slip into alcoholism, because when you've spent your entire life feeling alienated and downcast and you find something that helps you talk to people and make real connections slightly outside of your usual wheelhouse, it feels like a fucking godsend. It makes you re-evaluate whether you deserved to get bullied for reasons outside of your comprehension, and the answer tends to be "no, I didn't, because I'm fucking awesome". But that's the alcohol talking - you're the same person as always the next morning, and the next morning after your next drink. And I think we all know it's the alcohol talking. I don't know anyone who drank themselves into loving themselves.

To move forward, we need to feel like we're fucking awesome when we're not drinking. And the process of getting to that place is a lot of hard work, compassion and personal understanding, whereas it might be a bottle of gin away to feel like that for a night. I'm getting there after three months sober - and sobriety only clicked after 2 months of sobriety, to the day almost. But it's still a process I'm going through. To be honest, I'm going through a rough patch at the moment.

But yeah. Alcoholism is very easy to slip into

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Yeah, it is. I fucked up my health recently from drinking because I let it get out of hand.

There's a lot that went into my alcoholism. Bad role models, shitty home life, and eventually the feeling that I was outgrowing the people around me despite the good things they'd done for me. I hated who I was when I was sober, so I would drink to the point of getting blackout drunk so I wouldn't have to deal with that.

The situation at home that I lived with for years was that I felt like an unwelcome guest. I spent a lot of time living at home with my mum and her partner, and her partner's a shitty old drunk with his own baggage. He gives me the creeps, and he goes on these long benders where he's either elated and being a fucking nuisance, or he's screaming swear words in the back room and calling me the c-word and the like. The entire time I was in this environment, I would be within earshot as he called me a lazy little shit and made jokes about me being slow and lazy because I would do everything in my power not to speak with him or be around him. This, along with a tumultuous school life, meant I didn't go out at all or have many friends - so I'd be stuck listening to that sort of thing.

So when I turned 18 and school ended, and by some miracle had made friends in the last couple years, I would spend most of my time at a friend's house. Over the last 7 years since school ended, I probably spent more time at his place than I've spent at my home - we hung out, we had a similar sense of humour and we would party.

I know pretty much my entire social circle through this guy. I wouldn't have made such good friends with the other guys from high school without being so close to this guy. And over the years, he's taken care of me in some really shameful moments, where I really didn't deserve any sympathy. I was really socially stunted, so being around people who were more bold and outgoing would help me develop social skills, and in return I would supplement his social skills. At best, it was a symbiotic relationship - I wouldn't have been able to survive in a social setting without that help.

So what does this have to do with my alcoholism?

I wanted to elaborate on this relationship because it's complicated, and that has informed my alcoholism. I have no doubt that having an alcoholic parent and a severely alcoholic step-parent had an impact on my drinking, and I drank liberally around friends because I felt comfortable and safe in their company and I wanted to cut loose. But shit changed, and I began to stagnate.

My self-worth was tied closely to my friends. I believed that I could only survive on the goodwill of others - if I were to diverge and assert my own tastes, I would either create friction or be ignored, and either of those would damage the relationships I had with others. I began to come into my own and step out of the shadows, but it felt like when I would try to express myself, I would be overshadowed again - like I would be put back into the supplementary role I'd been playing for years at this point. I felt like I had no stake in conversations, because people would talk over me. I felt too self-conscious recommending songs to put on, and my best friend was one of the people who would basically control the flow of music all night - he'd let you put stuff on, it was on his phone and he was cool with whatever, but he tended to have final say and he'd get less tactful the drunker he got.

In response to this lack of control, I think I began to drink more to mask my negative emotions and to numb myself to be okay with this. I internalized the idea that my contributions were cringy or not as enjoyable as everyone else's, and I would only insist on sharing when I was really drunk or when the situation allowed enough flexibility for me to share my own stuff with people. But I would drink so much because in my mind, I was only relaxed enough to be casual when I was drunk. I felt better being social when I was drunk, and being social when I was sober was incredibly anxious.

So my self-worth was tied to my friends and how they reacted to me. I felt ignored and small when I was sober, but I felt at ease when I was drunk. So my self-worth came to be connected to whether I was drinking or not.

Over time, things changed. Friends from high school started getting married and having kids. Everyone in my friend group, barring my best friend, found an SO and settled down. I'd always spent the most time with my best friend because he was easy to speak to - we were thick as thieves. But over time, I realised that I wanted to spend time with other friends as well as my best friend. So we would end up at one of our mutual friend's place, partying and having fun. We'd spend time with a mother of 4 who'd shacked up with a relative of a friend who was dad #4 - small town, very esoteric relationships, but he was a good guy. I realised that my drinking was getting out of hand, and I didn't have an exit strategy. I was usually the only person getting drunk in a group, and when we would hang out with other people, there'd usually be reservations about whether I could drink or not. I couldn't be in a social situation without being drunk.

And then 2020 started.

Keep in mind - 2020 wasn't just the pandemic year. It was the year that Australia became devastated by the worst bushfires in recorded history. Those fires started in June of 2019, started to make the news around September and became a national crisis in December. January was when we had one of the worst heatwaves in living memory, and subsequently had some of the worst bushfires days in living memory. I was lucky enough to live in a town that wasn't so affected, but throughout January and February, our air was so polluted I couldn't see to the end of my street. I woke up one morning choking on bushfire smoke, and I had to sit on the floor of my bathroom with a cloth around my mouth and nose to breathe properly. I was checking the bushfire reports daily to see if my dad was gonna be okay in northern NSW - at one point, if his town went up in flames, the only escape he had was to go west towards the Northern Territory and South Australia through a thin corridor between two separate, massive bushfires. I was stressed.

It was around December or January where I picked up a nasty habit. I would leave my best friend's place at 9pm on Thursdays - we'd usually chill until 11 - and go to the local drive-thru bottleshop before they closed at 10. I'd buy enough alcohol to get blackout drunk, and I'd sit at my kitchen table and drink until I fell asleep. And then I would only spend time with people if I could drink - I would usually be the only one drinking. It only got worse during the pandemic - I was getting blackout drunk 3-4 days a week at the height of the pandemic, mostly at my kitchen table.

And then, one day in October, I bought a box of mixed alcohol and took it to my friend's house. I necked a 200ml bottle of salted caramel Kahlua. And my hands started buzzing with static.

You know when you get pins and needles? It was like that, but I could still feel my hands. They just tingled for hours on end - they were still tingling at 5am.

I went and got a blood test, and they measured the liver enzymes in my blood. My understanding is that the borderline acceptable amount of enzymes they could have found was 40 per sample of blood. They found 169 liver enzymes.

I had to get sober. But remember - my self-worth was tied to how drunk I was. I hated who I was when I was sober, and the only way I could be comfortable in my own skin around other people was if I was drunk.

My last drink was around December 17th, 2020. I've been sober for nearly 3 months now. And I've stopped hanging out with my best friend.

I owe my best friend a lot. That made it harder to stop spending time with him. But I realised how unhappy I was when I was around him.

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IShall_Run_Amok posted...

I hope he gets replaced.

fucking lol

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Holler "What is the charge?!"

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I've been reading Atlas Shrugged backwards this whole time too, I thought it was about a Scrooge-esque figure who walked back their greed over the course of the book. Now I know which way it's meant to be read, I think homeless people should be persecuted for their lack of moral and mental strength.

it should go without saying that this is a shitpost, but just in case, plz no mod

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I still maintain that the actors don't deserve even half the shit they got for being associated with Twilight. Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart deserved better than they got at the time, and while Pattinson is getting roles like Batman on the strength of his work, Kristin Stewart still gets unfairly shit on for having a bad attitude or being an awkward, lifeless actress. It's depressing.

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that's not it, chief

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babynames.com

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Herpes

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I picked 4, kind of a let down. I love grapefruit, so 5 would have been preferable

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I put a doubled up layer of toilet paper on anything my weiner is likely to touch.

Gotta say, it's a hard and awkward process TPing the toilet water every time

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Humble_Novice posted...

Some picture bibles depict Eve as a blonde. Why though?

Because Mormons are racist fuckwits, is my guess.

But what else do you expect from a church that posthumously baptized Hitler into the Mormon faith?

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That's some nationalist bullshit. Once you retire, you cash out your life savings and you do whatever the fuck you want with them. It's your money and it's your life. You can go to Mars or Jupiter if you wanted, that's your business.

What should be illegal is making your money in America and storing it outside of the country in countries with softer tax laws.

pogo_rabid posted...

If you're making your money in the US, you're paying taxes on it.

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Next year, post-9/11 babies are going to be old enough to legally drink.

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inb4 "she improved herself because we bullied her, good work team"

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This is a completeidiot topic, which I mean as a compliment because I like completeidiot topics

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The only good thing I can say about this super straight meme is that they really nailed the flag.

It's coloured similarly to a hornet, which tells everyone to stay away from them. No-one wants to deal with a hornet.

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Sonic R sucks, but it's music is fucking fantastic. It's like how the Mac and Devin Go to High School album is good, but the movie it was meant to tie into was a piece of dogshit that got leaked on YouTube instead of getting a legitimate release

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Between you and me, between a rando on Twitter and Stephen Crowder, I'm more inclined to believe the rando. Stephen Crowder is a lying sack of shit at the best of times, it wouldn't surprise me if he was a self-centred hypocrite as well.

I'm half-joking with that. In all seriousness - I'm not going all in on a random accusation. I think it's feasible, but I feel like there isn't a way to prove that this happened. He probably paid with cash rather than cashapp or whatever - though I'm personally hoping he did pay with an app so there's a paper trail. Ultimately, I would chalk this one up to he said, she said.

It seems appropriately dickish for him to pay for sex then threaten the person with litigation should they talk about it, and I personally believe it's possible that this happened. But I'm not going to make a call on it being objectively true unless something hilarious comes out of this news, like Stephen Crowder having a meltdown and admitting to being bi-curious or something. If he's ruffled enough from this coming out to confess to one thing and not the other thing, I'm gonna start thinking something's up.

But yeah. I'd trust a dirty dish rag to pour me a clean glass of water before I'd trust Stephen Crowder on anything. But I'll let this play out.

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Shadowplay posted...

Looks like he still Tweets and, sadly, had to put his dog down.

https://twitter.com/googathepirate?lang=en

Damn. The dog was later destroyed, indeed.

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I googled Zack Snyder to find the news about when his daughter died, which had the year of her death and her age at the time. I already knew about the prison rape quote, so I googled "Zack Snyder batman in prison quote" and found a link to the Entertainment Weekly review where he said it. The interview was dated 2008.

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Bio1590 posted...

No I didn't lol

This is my original post



Notice it SPECIFICALLY says "Caution999 posted..." in the section of text I quoted

Then out of nowhere PoundGarden decided to respond to it

PoundGarden posted...

I'm not this Caution dude, believe me or don't idgaf.

LMAO he didn't prove shit but ok.

The delusion on this guy, lmao

If PG isn't caution, then it isn't caution. But I think Bio had a reasonable case here, and PG's responses seem disproportionate for someone who claims to not be that invested. But that's just how I see it.

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I saw a video from a Chinese woman that goes over the movies authenticities, and while the Rouran stuff might be truer to the text than the Huns, stuff like the witch is very silly if Disney were gonna claim to be culturally accurate. Apparently Chinese culture doesn't have witches in the same way that western cultures do, so the witch in Mulan comes off as as inauthentic.

Disney can make a handful of token changes to film the movie in China next to a Uyghur re-education camp, but authenticity in one regard doesn't matter if you're gonna create some weird cultural bastardisation that alienates the culture you're trying to appeal to.

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Cowthief posted...

Looks like it was for calling out Shablagoo. It's a shame because Shabby deserved to be called out last night.

ffs, what did he do this time?

FlameTurtle is chill.

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I think I found the words for depression and self-hate around 10 years old. It was before I left primary school, that's for sure.

I think I'm as chill as I am today because I don't want other people to go through what I went through. I want people to feel secure and loved, and I want to hopefully feel secure and loved back as well.

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Jagr_68 posted...

Hitler cancelled Hitler tho.

Came in here to post this, lmao

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pure_temper posted...

she had been depressed for a long time and that's why his movies are the way they are

In 2008, Zack Snyder said during an interview that in his vision of a Batman movie, Batman could get raped in prison. That isn't to say that he was planning to have Batman get raped in prison if he were to make a Batman movie, it was a general statement to highlight the edgy approach to his vision in regards to comic book movies. But that quote says a lot about Zack Snyder - that to communicate his artistic vision, he jumped straight to Batman getting raped. That's the approach to film-making he has - shock value at best.

Zack Snyder's daughter died in 2017 when she was 20 years old. That interview happened in 2008.

If his daughter's depression motivated the grim reality he set his superhero movies in, then we can intuit that he was motivated by an 11 year old girl to publically state that he would consider depicting prison rape against Batman on the silver screen.

Zack Snyder's grimdark vision in regards to his superhero movies are informed by his own grimdark views. Saying "they're grim and depressing because his daughter's depression really affected him" doesn't scan when he's been saying the goofiest shit for over a decade.

Assuming that his daughter's depression affected his approach to making superhero movies, even back then - because yes, children can suffer from depression, and to kill yourself at 20 implies that she had a lot of personal troubles throughout her entire life - you would be saying that his statement on prison rape was informed by his daughter. Which is, frankly, ridiculous.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

He was racist against quantum physics.

"I can't stand working with those fuckin' QUARKS!"

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skermac posted...

why? Its been decades and she just wants it dropped now

He deserves to be in jail for the crimes he committed.

Hearing "she just wants it dropped now" sounds more to me like "the extended legal nightmare that's played out has been so stressful that she regrets starting litigation in the first place, which is one way that powerful people like to disincentivise people from going after them" than "it wasn't that big of a deal to begin with and/or it happened so long ago that it doesn't matter any more, and we should let bygones be bygones".

The fact that Roman Polanski is still working in the Hollywood system, albeit in a location that he can't be arrested for child molestation, is disgraceful. He should be persona non grata and he should be in jail.

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I learned he's doing a zombie movie today, which seems cool. I wouldn't mind watching it as a pure popcorn guzzler cheesefest.

I just don't like how he approaches Superman.

Also, I'm just gonna say it. Joss Whedon had a fair bit of creative input on Justice League, ordering reshoots and changing the colour grading, but a majority of what you're seeing in the original Justice League movie is Zack Snyder. A majority of the shit that Zack Snyder is getting rid of to make his own "original" vision is probably his own fucking work on the original movie.

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au_gold posted...

One of the coldest takes Ive ever seen.

I agree, but the way Snyder fans tend to deep-throat his dogshit movies gave me a moment of pause.

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Hot take I guess, nothing that Zack Snyder has ever made has been as good as Logan.

Logan is the gold standard for R-rated superhero movies. Joker's good, and so are the Deadpool movies, but they tend to excel at specific things while I think Logan is a great all-rounder. It's also hard to top what Logan represents, and the end of the movie caps off over 10 years of cinema incredibly well.

Name a comic book movie that Zack Snyder made that comes close to matching Logan, and then we'll talk.

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Why are we playing along with this dipshit's game? He's being an anti-semitic fuckface. Fuck him.

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Doe posted...

Imagine following a serious comic through the funnies section of a daily newspaper, two panels at a time. Sounds like a nightmare lol

Newspapers over here tend to print out Flash Gordon strips that are borderline useless on their own. They're four dense, boring panels with expository dialogue or a bit of disjointed action, and you have to read every week to follow a dense-ass story. Same with the Phantom, they make for decent comic books but they have no business being chopped up for newspaper syndication.

Gotta say though, that "I don't believe in forcing my dog to walk" gag is pretty funny. Not a fan of the toilet miracle strip though. Should CE have a weekly funnies topic?

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