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So, there's an update. (Kinda.)

While the medical notes originally stated that the man's mother had shot him, it turns out that he was actually shot by his girlfriend. From what I heard from one of my coworkers, she is now in custody.

The patient received an honor walk today shortly after I arrived at work. I missed the opportunity to attend because I was interviewing a patient.

McMarbles posted...

Yes, yes, youre the real victims

I don't compare my problems to those of other peoples. But it is bullshit that people can assign a label that ties one's faults into one's ethnicity. If I have a fragile ego, that's my failing. It's not because I'm White.

LightningThief posted...

What culture. The story is literally not about France.

I retain what I said last post.

@LightningThief

Then you're lying out your ass.

Thanks, Trump.
We really needed fascists to act out in the open.

Plenty of good people. -_-

mario2000 posted...

Does it matter to the story that it "should feel like 18th century France"?

Take Mulan and change the setting. The story would not work anymore. But Beauty and the Beast? The country has zero bearing on the story itself. You could set it anywhere else and nothing would change.

If they want to move the story to a fiction setting, that's one thing. It's not like French architecture is an important part of the story.

Still, it would be nice to have the option to set the story in something resembling 18th century France. (But, again, it's a non-issue because this "mandate" isn't even a real mandate.)

LightningThief posted...

That is what you are saying.

Don't cry to me about accuracy when the story is filled to the brim of inaccuracies to 18th century France.

France didn't have magical castles that turned people into furniture in the 18th century
France didnt have magical witches turning people into furries in the 18th century.
France didnt have magical talking furniture that can break into musical numbers in the 18th century.
A whole town of people speaking American English, no French, and not even an accent was not a thing in the 18th century

Yet, you are here crying about accuracy the moment you see non white people.

No, it isn't. My own stories that I'm working on have diverse casts -- including a Black lead, an Asian lead, and two LGBTQ leads.

There's a difference between being inclusive and mandating that more than half of the cast be comprised of less than half of the culture in which the setting takes place.

I've even stated that 80% of stories should be comprised of diverse casts.

The federal government needs to step in. It's not a state's right to decide which people are allowed to have rights. We settled that dispute with the Civil War.

masterpug53 posted...

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Always fun when a longtime tag pays out.

I get the feeling that "(group identity) fragility" would be bigoted if literally any other group beyond white people were listed there.

mario2000 posted...

As we all know, France is historically famous for having magically transformed beasts and talking candlesticks.

That's what the story is about though. You can still have diversity among the human cast members. All I'm saying is that it's not going to feel like 18th century France if less than half of the cast is ethnic French.

Anyway, this is a nothingburger because it's a suggestion and not a full mandate.

It's not anti-diversity to state that some historic settings would not be as diverse as, say, a modern American college.

LightningThief posted...

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That's not what I'm saying at all. The example that I used was that 18th century France wouldn't be more than 50% non-French. If you're mandating more than 50% of the cast be individuals of underrepresented groups, you're going to run into an issue where a historic setting is going to lose all semblance of taking place where the story says it takes place.

Not everything translates to, "I hate minorities."

MrToothHasYou posted...

Things that existed in 18th century France, apparently:

Black people
A magical castle filled with servants who have been turned into talking furniture
Asian people
A prince who was cursed by a witch to turn into a hideous beast unless he can find true love before the last petal falls from his magical rose
A whole town of people who regularly break out into song, in perfect American English, with no accents

Am I getting this right?

I even used the example of giving Belle a best friend who was Asian and having a captain of the royal guard who was Black. And I acknowledged that the original Beauty and the Beast had already gone through a filter of idealism and magic.

If it's a suggestion, and not a hard quota, I have no problem with it.

All of my original story ideas would meet the < 50% criteria anyway; especially if underrepresented groups include individuals who are LGBTQ.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with retelling old stories in different settings. Even among the examples I used, Zorro borrowed from Robin Hood and Sinbad borrowed from the Odyssey.

I'm getting worried about my liquid intake. The last few days at work, I've gone through three water bottles, a Gatorade, and maybe even one other drink.

I think maybe it's because it's stuffy in the hospital. I think maybe they're overheating it because the temperature swings 20 degrees with the low being below freezing. But I don't know. I'm a little worried.

Isn't excessive thirst a sign of onset diabetes?

AceMos posted...

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Don't tell him about that guy who painted the Mona Lisa. He'd probably recommend tearing down the Sistine Chapple if he did.

TheoryzC posted...

My thinking of this is whole the hell cares when there's a billion versions of these stories that are up to your standards and will be a billion more long after we're dead

Omg stop the fucking presses!!! They just made Little Mermaid with a black lead!!!! One version of this out of hundreds out there

I was in support of that change.

I don't document my posts and I don't believe that one archive site is still around. But I defended that change numerous times. Since mermaids don't exist, who is to say what an undersea kingdom of people would look like or what their culture would be? The same goes for Mushu talking like Eddie Murphy. Who is to say what voice a dragon would have if there were dragons?

lydiaquayle posted...

Unless, they're reinventing the story, and using alternate realities, or multi-verses. AKA Spider-Verse. AKA modern James Bond, etc., etc., etc.

That opens up new doors, but it's also limiting if you're imposing a filter of "Do it, but in the modern era," or "Do it, but in the future." You can have King Arthur... so long as the story takes place in the 25th century in the galaxy known as Avalon.

No, absolutely not.

If you were a prime Leonardo DiCaprio or Ashton Kutcher, if you could walk into any bar or club in the world and walk out with a beautiful stranger on your arm, an open marriage might be worthwhile. But if you're anything short of that, her opportunities to find another partner are going to far exceed your own.

pedro45 posted...

What?

Let me put it this way.

If you're doing a Captain Sinbad or Aladdin story, 90% or more of the cast should be Arab. If you're doing a Zorro story, 80% of the cast or more should be Latino/Latina. If you're doing a Mulan story, in all honesty, the entire (human) cast should be Chinese. If you're doing a story based on Robin Hood or King Arthur, 80% of the cast or more should be White.

That's all I'm trying to say.

AceMos posted...

in other words racist bigots forced her out

I mean, extramarital affairs are shitty. Scandals like that have cost people crowns before. Now, if they went digging up the dirt because she's a minority....
and they probably did, that's lousy on their part.

But I'm not going to view someone who enters an extramarital affair as a victim if all she loses is some hokey crown in a beauty pageant. If it comes out that he blackmailed her into the affair, then fuck him into hell and she should have her crown back. If she knowingly got with someone who had made a commitment to someone else, I don't feel sorry for her losing her title.

Disney's heart is in the right place, but I can't say that I'm on board with *every* program having < 50% of the cast be comprised of members of underrepresented groups.

In the short run, it'll lead to tokenism where superfluous characters are added to inflate the numbers. That's no big deal because writers will start finding ways to make characters matter as soon as they're called out on tokenism. What annoys me about the scenario is that it limits the stories that can be told.

If they want to make an animated series based off of Beauty and the Beast, 18th century France is suddenly going to have larger Black and Asian populations because, "If magic beasts and talking teacups can exist, why can't they?" If Belle's best friend is Asian and the royal captain of the guard is Black, I could still accept that this is 18th century France through an idyllic lens. But if you reimagine it so that ethnic French people make up less than 50% of the cast, you might as well set the story in Middle Earth, Eternia, or Hyrule. "French" is an architecture and not an ethnicity.

Or if you wanted a western, you would have two options. The first would be to run the story through a filter of a minority family living in the old west. The other would be to make them all talking animal characters so that more than half of the cast can be comprised of actors from underrepresented groups.

I think it would be better if they mandated that 80% of programs adhered to the < 50% rule. Anything set in the present could mandate inclusivity. Anything placed in a historical setting could be more homogenous, but the number of such stories would be limited to less than 20% (unless it's focusing on an underrepresented group) so that everything isn't an excuse for "a small White town in Kentucky circa 1950," "a predominantly White town in 1880s Texas," "Medieval England with a 90% White cast," etc.

It'll set a terrible precedent if she wins.

BloodMoon7 posted...

No one. Alternatively someone evil just to see what happens.

Henry Ford was a Nazi.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/6/6a5d9f7c.jpg

I want to suck that

...in a heterosexual kind of way.

Doe posted...

Grown adults being like fuck the scientific consensus, I want my Hollywood movie monster is a pet peeve / irk of mine

Clifford isn't a scientifically accurate dog.
Kong isn't a scientifically accurate ape.
Arthur isn't remotely in the vicinity of being a scientifically accurate aardvark.

Like any other animal, dinosaurs on film will almost invariably be either monsters or cartoon characters.

That's better than the duck that appeared in JP3.

I'm still waiting for a live action movie where a tyrannosaurus rips the shit out of a spino.

Good games don't need remakes, just re-releases.

Hollywood was created to poison America with wokeness... which is why the first major motion picture glamorized and led to a resurgence of the KKK.

<_____<

Yeah, I don't think that fits. From the early 30s to the late 50s, Hollywood was not protected by the First Amendment and was instead run by a racist, sexist, homophobic, and theocratic Hays Code. It certainly wasn't woke back then.

It wasn't woke when we had White people in redface playing Native Americans in westerns under the excuse that they worried about reigniting hostilities if Native Americans were allowed to shoot at White people on screen.

It wasn't woke when movies were banned in the Southern US if Black people stood shoulder to shoulder with White people during World War II.

It wasn't woke when Mickey Rooney played a Japanese man by taping his eyes at the side and wearing buckteeth.

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

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lol. Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY46ZKIJBwI

Yes. I have it as part of an @Games plug 'n' play compilation. (I bought it on clearance and used my employee discount, so it wasn't a total ripoff.) It's pretty fun. It's basically more Golden Axe. Nothing noticeably improved, nothing diminished. Just more of the same.

It's better than the third game.

Two laptops. I bought one to replace the one that died. Then the first one un-died.

I keep it as a backup.

It was awful. The director wanted Rocky to be poor again so that he could recreate Rocky I.

Nobody wanted to see the man who achieved his dreams become a has-been. It kinda took one for the team -- as it opened up the door for Rocky Balboa and the Creed films to be dramatic again -- but it was a major gut-punch coming on the heels of Rocky III and Rocky IV to find our hero down and out again with no opportunity to get out of his situation this time around. He won a street fight. So what?

I was curious how the film was going to do. It seems to go out of its way to get everybody.

• we have comedy
• we have action
• we have romance
• we have spy intrigue
• we have sexy, beautiful people
• we have a funny meme-worthy cat mascot

I wasn't rooting for the film. I wasn't rooting for it to fail. I'm just sitting on the sideline with curiosity as to how well "Let's appeal to everyone" was going to work.

So, when you fight Mystique as Nightcrawler in the X-Men arcade game, that means it's a Darth Vader fight?

She is male when you fight her. Caped and helmeted too.

I didn't stick around for the conclusion, but the doctor said that it was inoperable and that he had between minutes to hours to live. No motive was listed in the notes, only what she said before she shot him. (It sounded like something "Mama" would have said in The Water Boy.) It seems to me like she was at fault in the situation. Her mother was the one who called the police on her when it happened.

Some people are just fucking crazy. <_<

NeonTentacles posted...

Why did they make Chell so hot tho

Because it was a better place and time.

saspa posted...

Wayne Knight was pretty hot in the 90s,

lilORANG posted...

Certainly not a phrase I thought I'd read today.

DKBananaSlamma posted...

He meant hot as in popular, not hot as in fuckable >_>

He might not be fuckable, but he is edible.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/ded5388b.jpg

Fuck cancer.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

The Matrix 1-3

Unpopular opinion, but I thought the second one was worse than the third. The third movie had a good fight at the end. The second movie had nothing to recommend it.

Have we all forgotten that part in Empire Strikes Back where he mentions that he was on his way to pay off Jabba when a run-in with a bounty hunter changed his mind? He got his credits.

By the way, I'm kinda surprised Disney hasn't used that actor from the Solo movie to finally show us that scene where he lost his credits / was prevented from reaching Jabba. Maybe that'll be in the next Disney+ series.

Wombat was charming. I would be fine with her starring in a spinoff with Indy as an avuncular figure in the background.

Is that how old Demi Lovato is?