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pure_temper posted...

i bet there's a significant overlap between ppl who think The Last Jedi is trash and people who hate Snyder

Nah. I'd say that there's more of a correlation between TLJ haters being Snyder stans and vice versa.

Of course, that doesn't make either of them particularly great. Just saying that the camps that defend and hate each movie tend to be in direct opposition to each other.

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Darmik posted...

I dislike Snyder's DC movies but I will actually give him some credit there. Apparently this was his deceased daughter's favorite song. So I can forgive him for this one.

...okay, I can let Hallelujah slide. That's one thing I won't rip shit on Zack Snyder for.

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KobeSystem posted...

Looks like we need a Snyder Cut of the Tom and Jerry movie next

Jerry drops an anvil on a home intruder's head and breaks his neck, and the kid watches as he falls down the stairs and breaks his neck in the other direction.

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Quick reminder that Zack Snyder established his cred by saying in his movies, Batman could be raped in prison. That's the sort of guy helming these movies.

Remember when the announcement trailer for the Snyder Cut used Hallelujah, as if to signal DC's savior back to the DC cinematic universe? What a fucking egomaniac.

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ImAMarvel posted...

I still don't understand why moderate Democrats are so against progressivism.

I know. It adds credence to the idea that the Democratic party is trending center-right rather than being a truly left wing party.

On the bright side, if the entire Democratic Party of Nevada resigned in protest, Whitmer can probably staff the party with more progressive candidates. It'll be an interesting experiment. I'm curious and hopeful about that prospect.

With that being said, I thought that the Star Wars sequel trilogy was an interesting experiment and look how that turned out. So we'll see

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CM_Ponch posted...

I can't wait for all the people who championed Snyder to defend this

People still defend BvS. This is going to be hailed as the best thing since the orgasm in fanboy circles.

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It was a thread with the premise that someone would post a quote, I would write down what they said and post the handwritten quote. I didn't get many responses, but I saved the few I did get to a side blog.



I thought it would be funny because of how messy my writing is.

Should I do more?

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Headline news: "I'm training myself not to say a racial slurs, and that's worth celebrating", says multimillionaire pizza mogul

In other news, a children's Hospital was bombed in Syria today

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PoundGarden posted...

LMFAO, rent free.

I've no idea who Caution999 is, but don't let that stop your "alt" paranoia.

Buddy I don't even know who you are.

This post is insecure in the way that caution melties tend to be, but the jury's still out.

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Mother Base, and the entire Metal Gear canon, after Eli and Psycho Mantis hijack Sahalanthropus:


I love MGS5, but the content that resolved this plotline just doesn't exist in the game. MGS5 isn't a finished game.

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He committed treason. He carried a weapon into the Capitol, he referred to the event as a "fight" for Donald Trump, and he took pride in the fact that they fought their way in.

This was an ongoing series of decisions informed by extremism.

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ArianaGrandSlam posted...

No, its rotten to the very core. Theres no fixing it.

This. I feel like enough of the key shots of that movie are rancid beyond the point of salvation.

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You're about 13 years too late, my dude. But yes.

yes I know they're getting another go at the olympics, chill. I wonder if they're gonna use the Bird's Nest again.

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The thing about the detransition argument is that while there are people who have had bad experiences with gender transition and who've detransitioned later in life, it's generally a small amount of very vocal people within a group that conservatives like to point out is a significant minority of its own - a fraction of a fraction of a wider community.

And a lot of the more vocal people who've detransitioned and subsequently taken an anti-trans stance tend to dabble in other right wing topics centred around identity politics and queer culture. I feel like a lot of detransitioned anti-trans champions tend to have a lot more pots on the stove that conservatives really like than just the aspects of gender transition that didn't end up taking.

Their experiences with gender transition are valid, but for every doubter who argues about the size of the trans community compared to the weight of the policies that are enacted to ease their way of life, there's someone willing to entirely buy in on a narrative that's represented by an even smaller subgroup within the trans community because it represents the failings of the community. Never mind the people who've changed their minds later on and are still in the queer community, who are at peace with their journey and who are otherwise sensible and chill in regards to queer discourse.

The people whose experience has been negative matter to the conversation, but the process of raising a very small number of "transgender culture damages people and we should limit the scope of discussions about gender transition" opinions above a wider bevy of "gender transition and exploration helped me find a sense of understanding and belonging that I've never felt before, and it saved my life" opinions tends to betray a conservative bias.

Detransition happens. Identities evolve and change. The experiences of people who've detransitioned back to the gender they were born as are valid. But to weigh the most vocally negative takes on trans identity from a detransitioned trans person equally against the people who've been reinvigorated and validated by their gender identity - against the community that thrives, with the good that's done for them - is asinine. Gender transition didn't work for them, but there tends to be an undercurrent of something else when they reason that the wider community needs to be kept in check because of their own bad experience.

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Dude is aging like milk. He looks like a kind but sickly butler from the mid-1800's whose chronic illness could flare up at any moment and leave him bedridden.

I have trouble believing that his fifth wife, after the other young women he married and divorced, is gonna end up being his soulmate. More power to them if they go the distance, but I don't think this is a marriage of love. I think it's another step in a recurring pattern.

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NeonOctopus posted...

What discord? >_>

I'm a member of 3 CE-adjacent discord servers to my understanding. One of them had kbelf in it and I think armando joined later on, another one has Bok in it and the third one has drifted into a general server with users who want nothing to do with CE and non-users who joined after that change. I won't name them, but if you're a part of them - like armando - you know what's up.

I also got invited to another server by a CE user, but I posted like full CE as soon as I joined and the guy who invited me was like "dude most of these people don't know what GameFAQs is, chill >_>"

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leverageblargh posted...

Whatever happened to bahk

Did he finally have enough of CE

I think every CE user I know through Discord, except for maybe belf and armando, had enough of CE. Most of the people I see on CE discords don't post on CE, or they don't consider their discords to be CE discords.

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Not as good as End

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Nah

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I think they're very real concepts. Look at Oasis's second album - today it's seen as a bombastic cocaine-fueled monument to excess with a distinct lack of elegance and depth compared to What's The Story, Morning Glory, but at the time it was getting 9s and 10s because critics had missed the boat on that first album. They overcorrected for the second album, and it turned around and bit them in the ass. That album was overrated at the time, and its reputation soured the longer it was allowed to gestate and sit with people on the shelf.

You also have Crash, an intense movie about race relations in Los Angeles, which won an Oscar over Brokeback Mountain. Nowadays it's seen as obnoxious, shallow and over-acted, while Brokeback Mountain continues to resonate with audiences for its great performances and story. Few people would be pressed to say that Crash is a better movie than Brokeback Mountain.

Meanwhile, you have media that defies the odds and becomes a pop-cultural mainstay despite getting middling or devastating critical reviews upon its release. Night of the Living Dead was shredded by critics, but it was a hit among horror fans and it established its reputation over the course of a decade. Earthbound is notorious for how much of a sacred cow it is despite reviewing and selling horribly.

The terms can be used very loosely to say "I think this thing that lots of people think is good is actually bad" or vice versa, but media that fails to live up to critical reception or which establishes itself as a cultural mainstay over a period of years or decades does exist. There is media that is overrated and underrated, and we can see that in hindsight depending on its longevity compared to how well it was received at the time.

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I'm worried that the updated graphics and features of the newer games are gonna make it hard to go back to the first Hyrule Warriors. I'm thinking about getting the other two because they're 60-70 hour experiences if I wanted to complete them, but Hyrule Warriors is a 300 hour game if I was going for everything. Waiting until I'm done with HW isn't feasible, but I want the option to go back to Hyrule Warriors after I'm done with Age of Calamity and Strikers, and the length of time between games means that HW's design might be harder to go back to.

I was thinking about it like this - it's hard to go back to Pokemon Yellow and Crystal after playing Emerald, because the Running Shoes are such an elegant feature that affect the pace of the game. Maybe I'll get hooked on a new feature of Strikers that relates to the Persona series, or maybe Age of Calamity's beautiful art style and map design will make it hard to go back to HW's more conventional art style and boxy maps.

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...s

Does that make me a musou fan?

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What we owe to each other


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Criminalizing gender transition is only going to worsen mental health issues in the transgender community. The same way that criminalizing abortion can destroy lives if left to the whim of a doctor who disagrees with it, this law sees that anyone whose quality of life would be improved by this standard of care is left out in the cold to cope with their condition, to the detriment of their physical and mental health.

If you disagree with gender transition, then I doubt there's a way of changing your crusty-ass mind. But criminalization isn't the answer. All it's going to do in the long run is hurt vulnerable people.

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It does.

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If you raise the standards that you hold corporations to in regards to how they treat their workers, they'll just take their jobs to somewhere where they're allowed to exploit people. So we shouldn't hold them to a better standard, because that would be bad for the economy.

y'all probably understand that I don't actually endorse this, but for posterity's sake, I'm being facetious

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Squall28 posted...

White guy: *History of intense racism and oppression* Now let me teach you a thing or two about racial equality.

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Anything would have a hard time following Wandavision. An action show in the vein of Jack Ryan is going to have a hard time stacking up against a surreal horror sitcom pastiche that gave two very underbaked characters the development they've needed for years. It's like following Spirited Away with Fury.

With that being said, if Falcon and the Winter Soldier is being headed by the Russo brothers, it'll have a fighting chance at being a well received show. Those guys know how to make entertaining comic book stuff, whether it's whatever the fuck Endgame was or an action romp like Captain America 2. And the show might have a similar appeal to Wandavision, because all I know about Bucky Barnes comes from him being a plot device from Winter Soldier onwards - it could fill out his character in a similar way to Wanda and Vision.

And while Falcon had a great establishing movie, he's just sort of been a sidedish character ever since Civil War - he had a great cameo in Ant Man, before we knew that he'd basically be reduced to that sort of role going forward. After that, he's pretty much just a poseable action figure to supplement the rest of the movies.

Falcon and the Winter Soldier could be good if they do a remotely decent job with the character building. I feel like that's what this phase of Marvel is all about - they're actually adding depth to characters who've been missing it this entire time. I didn't give a fuck about Scarlet Witch until now, she had a little bit of focus in Ultron before becoming a poseable action figure from Civil War onwards. I didn't give a fuck about Vision at all, I never got his deal and I never saw him really get to kick ass.

Wandavision fixed both characters, because they're actually written as their own in-depth characters, their supposed romance is actually justified and shown instead of happening offscreen and being forced into an emotional lynchpin moment for a greater crossover movie despite having next to no development, and they actually get defining superhero movements like you'd see in a proper character-establishing movie.

Bucky Barnes has a journey, but does he have much character? For most of his time in the franchise, outside of maybe the first Captain America movie, he's been a plot device. Falcon was a cool new addition in Winter Soldier, but since then he hasn't had much to do. This upcoming TV show could do a good job of developing and establishing these two characters in a way that the movies have neglected, just like Wandavision did for Wanda and Vision.

Viewing it as an action show ala Jack Ryan makes it seem likely to be a failure - but thinking about it as a Marvel show featuring two underbaked characters, coming off the heels of a greatly successful show featuring two underbaked characters? I doubt it'll be as unorthodox and charming as Wandavision, but it could still be really good if they're trying to do the same sort of thing that Wandavision excelled at.

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Bump

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Turbam posted...

Gamergate is easily the worst thing that ever happened to this hobby.

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Shab, what's the deal with your posting about China? Are you a really dedicated troll, or is this a backlash to anti-Chinese sentiment that's gone too far? Because you can dislike the way that racists co-opt discussions about China to be racist, and acknowledge the fucked up things that their government is doing at the same time.

And you can acknowledge the fucked up things that western nations do while decrying the shit that China's doing, too. You post like it has to be one or the other - that because we live in places where fucked up shit happens, we can't discuss China due to hypocrisy. That we should stay in our own Lane and fix what's broken where we live before we start going after other nations and cultures.

But what if we do acknowledge the fucked up things in our own countries, and make the same accommodations to decry and protest those issues? Because Australia does have refugee camps with substandard conditions, and America does have detainment centres where hysterectomies are being carried out on unwilling women. We can't get that twisted, and it's a worthwhile pursuit to make these human rights violations more well known.

But how does that disqualify us from talking about China's detainment camps? About long-standing reports of organ harvesting, of brainwashing and torture of a religious and ethnic minority? About their brazen and undisguised false imprisonment of political prisoners, and their objective use of re-education camps that some people never end up leaving? These issues are just as real as the issues faced by Australia and America, and they can be and should be discussed. They shouldn't be excluded because of our own problems, especially if we understand those problems in our own backyards and disagree just as much with them as we do with the horrendous shit happening in China.

I never used to mind seeing you around, but topics like this are genuinely disgraceful on your part. You make a big show of defending China, preaching "sinophobia" when people bring up the numerous and extensive human rights violations China is responsible for - but then you make a topic about China stripping democracy from Hong Kong - an objectively bad fucking thing - and your first response to people decrying it is "the British Empire committed atrocities too" to downplay the news that you posted.

That's not to say that you're wrong about the British Empire. That's not in dispute. Britain fucked a lot of cultures around the world for centuries, and that's worth talking about and keeping in mind. But under British rule, Hong Kongers weren't being thrown in jail for political dissidence or being shot in the head by rubber bullets for protesting. Under British rule, Hong Kong was a free nation, and the people of Hong Kong liked that.

And now they're being shot, beaten and thrown in jail for resisting a regime that infringes on the freedoms they grew to love. That's the news of the day - people are being detained right now, by China, for advocating for the same freedom they've had for the entirety of their lives.

If no-one talks about it, even with our own issues, then the Uighur population is going to be persecuted to the point of genocide. On top of the Kurds and Armenians right now, we will be viewing the targeted extermination of the Uighur until the rest of them are rendered infertile, worked to death, imprisoned for life or outright killed. My country's inhumane treatment of asylum seekers deserves coverage and we need to do better - but that doesn't exclude me, a citizen of Australia, from understanding and decrying what China is doing to their own people. To the people from other countries they imprison for using their platform to criticize China's human rights violations. For understanding the violence and fervour of the Chinese government to bring undue harm to people who don't deserve it. To reconcile that with my own country's failings, and to pursue both evils.

How can you shitpost about the people who are going through that by saying "your country isn't ideologically pure either, so you should stay in your own lane and not talk about it"? Either you're genuinely so far gone that you don't believe anyone can have multiple causes or oppose more than one thing at a time, you've bought so heavily into China's attempts to deflect from their own human rights violations that you're repeating the same dogshit party line the Chinese government feeds the rest of the world, or you're one of the most dedicated, callous trolls I've seen in a long-ass time.

I never used to mind you, Shab, but this is out of line. You can go and buddy up with that dogshit subreddit when you rightfully get moderated for this horseshit you keep posting, but I hope you realise that you're being moderated because you're the problem in this situation, not because you're being targeted by sinophobic bias in the moderation staff.

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it should go without saying that this is a hypothetical and a joke, but I'll say it anyway

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It's hard to keep up. They put out 5 albums in 2017 alone.

The new one was alright. Pretty great crop of singles. Apparently they're making another album this year that's gonna be like psych desert rock.

https://youtu.be/lkZd2lBQb2c

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Pretty sudden announcement, that they're retiring at the end of the week.


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More power to you TC, but I wasted enough of my life the first time around. Birds of Prey wasn't perfect, it felt kinda like a more stilted Deadpool at times (and they wasted Huntress frankly, I fucking LOVED Huntress but she's only in so much of the movie), but it was head and shoulders over the mess that Suicide Squad was.

Like, I don't mind gaudy, flashy imagery for the sake of it. I would have liked it if it had more color, instead of being a washed out turd with a bunch of undefined mud monster enemies. But most of the movie is this sludgy, washed out mess, with either a drab grey or blue or a foggy pinky-red that overwhelms the screen at any given time. And I maintain that the Rick Flagg guy was the worst fucking character ever to include in your goofy, edgy villain movie, because he's basically every Sam Worthington character rolled into one amorphous blog and drained of any resulting personality that union would present.

It's such an ugly movie to me, visually and content-wise. It's a void. And while Birds of Prey didn't exactly rise up to meet Deadpool, despite seemingly trying to match the manic energy of that sort of movie, that movie was everything that Suicide Squad needed to be in the first place and it was actually an enjoyable, watchable movie.

Again - more power to anyone who doesn't mind it as much as I do. But I feel the need to reiterate how much of a waste of time that movie is to me, and the fact that it was the fun, quirky alternative to BvS that was gonna try and branch the franchise out into a new direction like DC's answer to Guardians of the Galaxy - and the fact that it came out right on the heels of BvS, in the same fucking year - is honestly the most entertaining thing about it.

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For context, I'm a lifelong f2p player. I had an account when the game was in its prime - even before the GE was added to the game - and I've had my current account for 3 or 4 years. Enjoying membership benefits was something of a childhood dream, because so much of the game was locked behind a paywall. Want to hop over this fence as a shortcut? Members only. Want to see what's behind this gate? Members only. What's this big arena in the middle of the desert? You'll never know unless you make recurring payments to us to give you additional benefits.

I've had a bond for a while, I basically hocked adamantite ore until I had enough to buy a 2m bond. It's been sitting in my bank ever since - and the price of bonds has risen to 5m.

After 15 years of imagination and expectations, what did I think of OSRS membership?

• Archery is prohibitively expensive in f2p, unless you grind for gp or for steel/mithril arrow drops in the Stronghold of Security you're always gonna be picking up arrows so you don't lose them. Members don't have this issue, because it's SO EASY TO FLETCH YOUR OWN FUCKING ARROWS. Oh my fucking god. Fletching is like a godsend. For reference, one bond gives you 14 days of membership. In that time, I raised my fletching to level 50 from scratch. I have 10,000 steel arrows to train archery in f2p now, and I won't have to scab my discarded arrows for a long, long time.
• One reason why I always wanted a Runescape membership is because of all the quests you can do. But what I Iearned is that OSRS quests kinda suck dick, and they've always kinda sucked dick. Witch's House is a waste of time for the most part, and in pretty much every single quest, there's a lot of pointless transit and a lot of pointless barriers that impede you unless you read a guide beforehand and brought countermeasures to get through it all easier. I didn't mind the Rat Burgiss quest because it gave me a fuckton of Runecrafting XP, and the Client of Kourend quest was pretty fun too - but I learned quickly that without level 50+ in all skills, most quests weren't even worth starting.
• In f2p, my go-to skill is mining and smithing. A major appeal of Runescape is the sense of accomplishment from crafting your own gear, and as I've come up through the levels, I've had more experienced players gift me really good gear and help me along. On top of selling sets to make boatloads of cash, the kindness of these other players inspired me to be that sort of player when I got good enough to make high level armor. Mining is tedious at the best of times, but it's that process of mining and smithing, and then using what you made, that makes the game worthwhile to me.
• P2P Runescape? Infinitely more fun to level mining and smithing. INFINITELY. You have slot machine-level rolls for unidentified minerals and gold nuggets, which grants you better mining equipment and great perks like uncut gems, you have outfits like the Motherlode Mine and the Blast Mine that turn the process into something risky but fun, and you have the Blast Furnace that - while expensive if you're gonna use it solo - saves a fuckton of time and resources to smith bars. I smithed over 1000 mithril bars during my 14 day membership because it cut the coal required by half, and the process of running back to the bank chest with a full inventory of blue bars was a serious rush. Mining and smithing will always be the primary source of my love for the game, but when you're playing as a member, it's really on a whole other level.
• Agility is a bullshit skill. The benefits are amazing, but it's such a tedious, shitty skill to level. The courses grant you such little XP, and even the shortcuts I was close to using always seemed to be just out of reach. I used an experience lamp from a quest I did to quick-level agility to level 20, and from there it was just the worst thing ever.
• I went from having 16 cosmic runes to having over 500 through Runecrafting. My one regret is not levelling up to make nature runes - law runes would have been great, but that was a pipedream from the start. I was 2 levels off of making nature runes.
• Slayer is a cool skill, but it's underwhelming. I think it's a great way to train your attack, and it feels great to finish a slayer task, but I feel like the Slayer skill is lacking in reward potential.
• It was surprising to go back to a point where combat levels mattered. I've been in my mid-60's for at least a year, and I've only trained my attack skills on hobgoblins at the Wilderness mine. The dude from my earlier thread was right to ask about my combat level - it mattered more than I thought.
• Farming sucked, at least for someone like me on such a strict time limit. I never touched hunting or construction. Everything else got at least one level out of it.
• I really like the expanded world map. There's a real sense of grandiosity to it, and more recent shit like Kourend is gorgeous. Those crystals are incredible for a 20 year old game.
• My main grift was sandstone for a while - an inventory of 10kg sandstone could sell for around 60k per trip. But once I realised I could get runite ore from the blast mine 10 levels before I could mine it natively, I became a dynamite production machine. I started the bond with less than 100k gold, now I have nearly 2 million.

I would pay for membership based on what I played. I'm preparing for a new job though, and I need to spend all my time focusing on that so I don't fall behind. I've also got a lot of other shit going on in my life, so Runescape has to remain a late night stress relief thing that I only touch in my free time. I won't pay for a membership where I'm not making the most out of the time and money I spend on it. Hopefully I'll master this job in a couple of months, and I'll be able to balance my free time and my priorities a little better. But until then, I have to commit fully to this new job, and in building the sort of life that I want.

Playing the game on a membership was genuinely a childhood dream come true. Some aspects of membership I was looking forward to, like the rampant shortcuts, weren't as pretty as I had hoped - seriously, fuck Agility. But the huge map, the quests - as lame as Runescape quests tend to be - and the opportunities it provided to train my favorite skills in a new and invigorating way fulfilled the curiosity that I've been carrying around since I was 10. I stole pies, I mined Runite and I had a fucking blast the entire time. I'm happy that the experience left me feeling so fulfilled.

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g0ldie posted...

maybe a female lead

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I don't care about the whole Jessica Rabbit seductress sort of angle in regards to Lola Bunny. She's a looney tunes character who's evolved and been redesigned to be more in line with the rest of the character roster. Like, this was her in the looney tunes show from the 2010's:



She's been a different sort of character for ages.

I will say that the design on the right in the original tweet is a little bit off-model and there's next to no shading. It looks like it was made in Flash. Compared to the way they were rendered in the original Space Jam, it's definitely a step down in quality.

But if your complaint boils down to "I don't want to lick the sweat off of the new design's thighs", then this is more of a you problem. Otherwise, there's precedent for Lola Bunny not being an over the top vamp character, and this is a non-issue.

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ImAMarvel posted...

It's crazy how straight up undemocratic this is.

You can't spell democratic without Democrat, so they've gotta go all in on stripping people's freedoms as a matter of principle.

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Publishers are stubborn. I think there'll be at least one more flop that goes all in on the live service bandwagon.

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How does this ensure a more secure vote? Literally all it does is make it harder to vote. Less locations, restrictions on who can fill in an absentee ballot, less polling locations and a deliberately more difficult process of waiting in line for hours on end - which is exacerbated by the lack of early polling stations.

I'd say that you guys need to get out of there, but the fact is that the people who'll be affected by this the most don't have the means to leave and they probably never will. Absolutely disgraceful.

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The issue with qanon is that I do believe in keeping a closer eye on our elected officials and people in positions of power so we can hold them accountable when they commit offenses like this. Sexual assault and rape happens in the political sphere - it just came out that an Australian politician named Christian Porter was accused of raping a woman years ago, and the prime minister stood behind him and stated that there wouldn't be an investigation because the accuser committed suicide years ago. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and we need to be on the lookout for predators who would use their station to prey on the less fortunate.

But qanon has effectively turned child rape and abuse of power into a farce. They backed a man who was caught on tape saying degrading things about women, that if you grab them by the pussy they'll do what you want because they all really want that to happen, who was accused by multiple supermodels of entering their dressing rooms while they were in various states of undress over the course of decades - and they claimed that he was a rogue force tackling the full force of the deep state to uncover the deep, entrenched sex crimes of the political elite.

They voraciously refuse to acknowledge Trump's wrongdoings, including his close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, to instead insist that a pizza shop in Washington is a front for a massively powerful pedophile ring headed by Hillary Clinton and that anyone of any note over the past 30 years has been involved in raping and murdering children in the basement of this building. And the man who regards women as disposable fuck-meat is the good guy who's trying to stop it.

I could at least attribute that to people caring. They're obviously taking things a bit far, but given my own position on the matter, I would be obliged to acknowledge the base good of their concerns on my most generous day.

But not only is the democratic party so rife with pedophiles that they have a series of public fronts to convene their ring, they're a Satanist cabal who torture, rape and murder children before collecting their blood because inflicting trauma onto a child produces a chemical that relaxes tense muscles. And they're headed by democrats and big democratic donors, not the multiple Republicans accused of rape and sexual assault or who have been caught with child porn. They're not involved, they're just being framed by the pedophile satanic democrats who are projecting their own crimes on it.

Honestly, regarding the topic title, I'm more pissed off and grossed out than anything. These dimwitted fuckface conspiracy theorists spend all their time with their dick in their hand drawing connections to claim that Tom Hanks moved to Greece because he's been a pedophile for decades and Trump's laws made his abuse of children untenable in the United States, and in the next breath they're excusing Republicans who were caught with gigabytes of child porn because it either wasn't their porn for some buttfuck insane reason, or the porn "doesn't harm anyone" so it doesn't matter.

Of course qanon shit was never real. I'm not relieved because I never believed that these fucking jag-offs were speaking from an actual place of concern or belief. My main reaction here is disgust, because I do believe that people with access to high levels of power are capable and willing to use that power to get away with heinous abuse - but that concern, that framework, has been co-opted by these dickheads with shit for brains to say that Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and George Seros are satanic child-murdering pedophiles who inflict trauma onto people's children before draining their blood - a plot point that's lifted straight out of Doctor fucking Sleep - and that Donald Trump and the Republican party under his command, which has shielded abusers, pedophiles and rapists the entire time he was in power, was the main force of good and justice fighting this evil child-raping cult of blood harvesters.

Yeah, I'm glad we don't live in a shitty 80's VHS from an episode of Best of the Worst. But I'm mostly just sickened that this was a level that those extreme right-wing fuck-ups stooped to, because it fucking poisoned the idea that people in power are more likely to commit abusive acts and associated it with child-raping satanists and Donald Trump being a saviour of the people over it.

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While the balls are still crushed, there's probably enough pressure from the impacted tissue around them to protect them from a relative amount of pain and harm. But once you take the pressure off, it hurts like a motherfucker.

Don't quote me on this, but I feel like it's similar to bracing or flexing your muscles before you get hit - the muscle tightens so it can take more punishment, but depending on the attack and how hard it is, it'll ache a lot more once you stop flexing and let your body assess the damage.

Not that you can flex your balls or anything, I just think the reflex might be similar.

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