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ImAMarvel posted...

Eh, imo, they talk a big game but most of them really aren't a threat. remember, a lot of them are the big, overweight, "don't tread on me!" militia type who probably didn't make it past boot camp, if they even tried

I feel like we probably outnumber them 2-to-1 (if not more so) so if it comes down to it, i think we'd most likely win that war. even a lot of people on the right aren't so stupid as to actually go full insurrectionist

Both sides thought the Civil War would be won in a matter of months. Before that, the British thought they would easily recapture their colony. Most recently, America was supposed to steamroll over Iraq and Afghanistan because they were two backwoods nations against the greatest army in the world.

MartinBrodeur posted...

The only way racism will end is if everyone on the planet becomes the same race, and even then people's hatred/intolerance for those who are different will never change. Instead of racism something else will take its place.

Monoracial societies typically have classes.

"My grandfather was better than your grandfather and you will always be dirt because of it," seems to be a common vice throughout human history.

Sackgurl posted...

kill racists

I'll admit the idea has some appeal, but you may find that they kill more easily than they are killed. Even if victory were assured, I would rather avoid a second civil war. Something about sacrificing the lives of thousands to kill people I dislike doesn't sit well with me.

If it happens though and the antiracists win, I want an "I Killed Racists And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" t-shirt.

If your show takes a downturn in Season 5, I'd say it's had a good run.

What is your alternative to "be nicer to racists"?

It was a simple $13 an hour data entry job where I was to fill out forms in bulk.

I got fired for filling out Form B as if it were Form A. During training, they spent about a minute and a half going over the differences between the two forms and I didn't realize some of the check boxes were legitimately in different places. When the supervisor went over the differences in forms with me a second time, they told me I'd be fired upon my next mistake. That mistake came three days later on a Friday.

I went to Disney World, came back, and got a better paying job. So it all worked out.

I'd rather watch it on its own merits than put it in impossible situation.

I'm sure I will rent it digital at some point. I just don't know when.

Xethuminra posted...

Shin > Showa

Ooh, please don't say that.

If you try and pit it against the original Godzilla, you're putting it up against three decades of nostalgia and a movie I've seen on the silver screen.

I do have to admit, seeing that panel again, it's less "Thor hit Godzilla with the worst blow he's been dealt" and more "Godzilla stepped on a Lego."

lorddrakath1522 posted...

It's good, it's not a Godzilla movie as that thing doesn't work as the big G cause of how different it is and would work best as a fucked up clone, the movie is a great commentary on Japanese customs regarding how they approach situations like this.

I hear his origin in that one is a little weird, but they've had issues with that before. In GMK, he was a demon comprised of the souls of dead soldiers - or something like that.

Xethuminra posted...

For example: every Godzilla. But geez, at least rent it if you can. Show some love if you can put your money where your heartis.

I've spent hundreds on the old G over the years. I never purchased a Blu-Ray player and I don't like to pay or digital unless I'm paying for a streaming service. Shin Godzilla was the one film (aside from Godzilla 1985) that was never released on DVD. I'm sure I'll see it eventually.

OVERGOATED posted...

It wasn't really a draw. Even Thor couldn't faze him that badly. He kinda just got bored and left. Like a grizzly bear tearing apart a beehive.

Giving credit where it is due,



I want to see that in a Disney/Legendary Pictures crossover. And, yes, Chris Helmsworth has to speak that line verbatim.

tl;dr, bigots got mad that Obama sympathized with the victim of an attack that was potentially racially motivated and elected a president who passive-aggressively used bigotry as a rallying point

The current incline of racism began with the murder of Trayvon Martin.

CNN doctored photos to lighten George Zimmerman's complexion, they referred to him as a "White Latino," and they selectively omitted audio to make it sound as if he volunteered the information "he's Black" when he was responding to an officer's question. (CNN's non-apology was to blame the omission on a technical error.) Fox News, ever scraping of the barrel, went on a big campaign about how George Zimmerman was being unfairly treated and how he was allegedly just defending himself against the unarmed 17 year old whom he'd stalked for over a mile. Then Barack Obama, in a move meant to generate sympathy for the victim, uttered the now infamous line, "Trayvon could have been my son." A lot of White people took it as an attack -- for reasons I cannot fathom -- and sided with the murderous wannabe rent-a-cop.

People forget that Trump came on the political scene essentially as the anti-Obama. He promoted the conspiracy that Obama was foreign born and demanded that Obama present his birth certificate. The right tried to make Obama out to be anti-White, tried to make his statement one of division, and sought whom they felt was the best option for defeating whomever the left would choose as Obama's successor. Trump's position as the proverbial thorn in Obama's side is what gave him a realistic chance at the White House. Then he ran on a campaign blaming America's problems on Latino immigrants, referred to COVID as the Kung Flu, and coddled white supremacist who fawned over him.

Sadly, it's only natural that bigotry would grow when the fucking leader of the nation enables it if not outright encourages it.

Today's satire, tomorrow's headline in earnest.

Turtlemayor333 posted...

I just think of Sean Connery

"Its pronounced therapist."

That's the only Godzilla movie I haven't seen. I'd like to see it. I've just never had the chance.

The Sega Pluto is not a real planet or a real console.

Godzilla once fought a super team comprised of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four to a draw.

I had two tasks for a temp agency that were one day replacement gigs. I was also hired by Sears, but let go after a week because they "accidentally hired too many people." (i.e. They got rid of me after bringing me in to unload refrigerators and stock the shelves.)

Pandamonic posted...

I am the only person IN THE WORLD that actually likes DAD.
I acknowledge its absolute and utter stupidity, but fuck I can't help it, I like it.

I voted for AVtaK. I only saw it once but I was angry throughout, I remember.
Octopussy was awful as well.

It's a bottom five Bond film for me, but I'll take it over SPECTRE or the aforementioned films in my previous post.

I'm glad that I'm no longer working for them.

Kane denouncing bigoted cops: babyface Kane
Kane supporting QAnon shit: heel Kane

He's flipflopped between good guy and bad guy for twenty years in the wrestling ring. Why should constant heel turns in real life be a surprise?

<_<

Doom_Art posted...

Lol

How can the 65% of America that is educated and open-minded lose to the 35% that isn't?

But, unfortunately, there are people on the left who passive-aggressively encourage bigotry. It could not exist unless there were people on both sides ( @Doom_Art ) who actively encouraged it.

Racism is the great distraction which allows the capitalist machine to remain in motion. People don't mind getting screwed so long as they see themselves as better and more entitled than their neighbors. And since both parties are capitalist parties, it only stands to reason that there are those on the left who must actively encourage racism or willingly lose the fight against it.

Note: I'm not saying Doom Art is such a bigot. I'm just tagging them so they see that I dared to say enemies existed on both sides of the political fence.

cjsdowg posted...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/10/4-10-republicans-dont-like-schools-teaching-about-history-racism/

And the Dems are trying to win these votes. It just blows my mind how they think they can win these people over.

What is the alternative, shoot all racists?

It's impossible to educate an adult. The way to fight racism is to prevent it in the first place. Diversified classrooms, diversity in children's entertainment, not beating around the bush and teaching that racism -- not allegorical elf vs dwarf racism but actual racism -- is bad.

That's what their bigoted parents want to prevent us from doing and that's why we need to do it. There is no cure for bigotry, only prevention. If the next generation has a ratio of less than 10% of people being bigoted, that's the best we can realistically hope for.

trappedunderice posted...

Tc is a brony that's all you need to know

Mentally, those characters are human.

Bestiality is wrong because you're taking advantage of a stupid beast -- not because they look different from you.

What I don't get is why that character is controversial. Apparently, some of the women working on the game were mad about her "sexualized" look.

She's given big eyes and eyelashes - nothing else. Yes, they're signifiers that the character is female, but is that really something to get upset about? It just seems kinda crazy to me that we're at a point where eyelashes on a cartoon animal is considered sexist.

Diamonds Are Forever? The Man With the Golden Gun? I wouldn't be quick to watch them if they were on TV, but I'd probably go and see them if they were showing at a local theater.

The same could not be said for Quantum of Solace. If my alternative was staring at a blank wall for two hours, it would be a better use of my time.

There's no way of knowing. I've seen people hold the most insane beliefs and opinions in earnest.

Ryven posted...

Or Die Hard?

Die Hard Arcade was fun. A shame it only ever got ported to the Sega Saturn.

deupd_u posted...

Last time I went to Burger King, they told me they were out of both fries and ice. That's when I decided to never go again.

Burger King prompted this topic. A burger and a drink would have been ten cents less than a combo. I wasn't about to pay that.

My lunch half-hour was pretty crazy. Arby's computer system was down and they couldn't take orders, McDonalds's line was crazy (per usual), Burger King didn't have drinks, and I finally settled on Rally's with scarcely ten minutes left to eat it.

"We'll still charge you full price for a combo though."

There's no way to know. Biden's age and health are the big factors and nobody knows about them except for Biden and his medical personnel. I hope he doesn't run again -- or that he steps down if reelected -- but anything is better than Trump.

Blue_Inigo posted...

Yeah, I deserve that. Man shall not insult man's waifu.

Alteres posted...

Vanilla Ice broke the color barrier so Eminem could dominate.

that hurt to type

Paved the way for white and green musicians.



Go ninja, go ninja, go!
Go ninja, go ninja, go!

The good news is that she's the bland one so there's no really any damage that can be done to her.

Probably whoever was responsible for TMNT on NES being so damned difficult. It's for kids. It's based on a Saturday morning cartoon show. It doesn't need to have such mind-breaking difficulty.

Honestly, the 2004 poster is the best.

Above all else, Spider-Man is a love story. That's the poster which conveys that best.

I'm a few years older than that and I still find songs I haven't heard before that can kick my ass.

specialkid8 posted...

Not a much better batting average

I don't know that that approach has been done before.

Goldeneye seems to be the gold standard for video games based off movies, so I'll use that as an example.

In the movie, Bond has maybe three shooting scenes and two hand-to-hand fights. In the video game, it's all shooting because it's been turned into a first-person shooter. In the movie, there's really only one ladder that I can think of and that's toward the end of the movie. In the video game, ladders are found in nearly every stage. The video game removes 80% of the dialogue. A number of guns are created specifically for the video game. Despite being feverishly faithful, the video game still creates a few new action sequences to pad out the game.

There's no reason someone couldn't potentially work their way backwards.

Cut out the guns, superpowers, and powerups that you don't have time for and choose the key ones that you can't do without. Condense the action. Chop out action sequences that don't adhere to the central narrative. Figure out who the characters are and what conversations they would likely have with one another if allowed to speak at length.

If a screenwriter were to tell a story about an average Joe who gets trapped in another dimension and rescues a princess from a great evil, that movie could potentially be entertaining. If that average Joe is Super Mario, you can count on a writer to more or less forget the basics of storytelling in lieu of, "What did you expect? It's based on a video game."

I'm crazy enough to take on Batman. But the IRS? No, sir!

Any excuse to watch Goodfellas works for me. I saw it last year at a theater. Awesome movie.

The X Dawg posted...

Quickest example I can think of is Arkham Origins.

Batman Returns as well.

Mary Jane Watson is like 60% of what makes Spider-Man who he is. It's the story of a nerd who scores a hot chick more than it is a story about yet another superhero.

She's got a right to gripe.

specialkid8 posted...

This is the biggest thing. The basic structure of games and movies are different. Games don't tend to have three act stories with 3 to 5 action set pieces interspersed with character development and exposition. Even "story focused" games are wall to wall action with cut scenes thrown in for story. You can't translate gameplay to a movie so you tend to end up with somethign where the action scenes are stunted and the dialogue is exposition heavy because what little story is in a game gets stretched out to fill a movie. It's easier (and cheaper) to just take characters and a few important story elements out and stick them in an existing story which doesn't usually make for a good movie.

My advice to anyone trying to turn a video game into a movie would be to look at successful movie-to-video game adaptations and work backwards from there.

E_S_M_Z posted...

You can read the whole thing here. I skimmed it and still have no clue who the guy on the cover is, lol.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Black_Jarl

Thank you. It's nice that they throw in the illustrations too.

So, I read the first two chapters and

he's a hero. He's called the Black Jarl because he has black hair.

For the record, I had guessed villain.

The spears tell me he's a hero battling against impossible odds. The menacing look on his face tells me he's the villain. I can't say one way or another whether the title, "The Black Jarl," makes him a hero or a villain. This is the same writer as Zorro who was a black-clad outlaw hero.