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pionear posted...

Or get tested weekly and wear Masks...

I'd rather they straight up get fired.

Unless they have some officially identified and acknowledged medical condition that prevents them from being vaccinated.
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It's almost as if they should never have said it was okay to stop requiring masks in the first place.

Who could possibly have foreseen such an outcome?

Only a truly brilliant and somewhat sexy stud of a man could have predicted that a poorly-worded statement issued by people who seem to lack anything resembling a grasp of sociology was going to backfire spectacularly. If only such a glorious specimen of manhood had said something at the time (and not been ignored).
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#1 and #4 immediately struck me as being wrong. After checking, #4 is objectively false and #1 depends entirely on how you define "civilization" (but by standard definitions, it would also be false).

You spelled #3 wrong (it's Clovis), and the overall point is in dispute - what you posted used to be the common assumption, but there's been a lot of evidence since that might contradict it.

(Combined with your #4, I'm wondering if you got all of these "facts" from an older source.)

#5 is arguably wrong, and is mostly related in a bit of old-time racism, because it distinguishes between which religions "count" as "surviving" (not to mention what you count as a "religion" and what you dismiss as "mythology" or "superstition"), and the trouble with dating origins of ideas in pre-literate societies, combined with how you define start-points for ideas that are synthesized from other ideas (as you yourself touch on). Some people have referred to Hinduism that way, but it's nothing resembling an actual consensus or official academic stance.

I kind of stopped there and just skimmed the rest. I do know I've read "complaints" that are generally contemporaneous with #9, but I'm not sure of the exact dating on those and it would be a hassle to dig out the work to double-check.
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Joshs Name posted...

he doesn't need to say anything cause imo when a company like this is this sick all leadership needs to be purged starting with the ceo.

The more realistic scenario is that they deny everything, try to ride it out, plea bargain if it looks like they can't win, fire a bunch of scapegoats, then Kotick gets a raise. Then everyone forgets about it and buys the next Blizzard game because that's what gamers always do.

A lot of the silence/lack of official statement now is because they're gambling that the story stays niche and most of their customers neither know/care about it. They don't want their own denial to spread the story farther than it already has (because it absolutely would).

There's a very specific PR dance that comes into play when lawsuits happen to corporations, and it has literally nothing to do with the validity/lack thereof of accusations or the morality/lack thereof of the situation.
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11110111011 posted...

If I recall in the cartoon, she had a father still who was King. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osOORP0WH8c



blackhrt posted...

Hope to see more stuff with chess infused in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OutDgLmx-SQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(musical)
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Zareth posted...

You realize that the first thing that happens after allegations like this come out is that the alleged parties contact their lawyers, and the first thing they always tell them is to be completely silent so as not to incriminate themselves, right?

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Naruto_fan_42 posted...

i don't even know who sunny is

Sunny confirmed.
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Mead posted...

imagine this being your dad

I wouldn't want anyone on PotD to be my dad.
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Ehh.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Dat rotoscoping

People always crap on that, but I always thought it was cool.

Of course, people always crap on FMV, and I thought those were cool too. So I've apparently always been a bit more cinematically lenient than some people.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

I suppose it was even more obvious in the original, since Adam was just as buff as He-Man lol

And like literally every episode ended with Teela going "Hey Adam, where were you hiding? You totally just missed He-Man!"

And he'd be like, "Oh, I hope I get to meet him someday, tee hee!"

Man-At-Arms pretty clearly dropped her on her head a LOT while raising her.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

In this continuity, the queen knew too, and didn't tell her husband because reasons

That was true in the original as well.

Basically, Adam didn't tell her, but unlike everyone else in Eternia she's not an idiot. So she was able to figure out that her pretty buff blond-haired son with a bowl cut and chin made out of granite and his giant green tiger-thing pet who mysteriously seem to disappear every time He-Man (a muscle dude with a blond bowl cut and chin made out of granite) and his giant green war-tiger show up might be connected somehow.

She never actually admits to knowing, but she kind of hints like "Yeah, I'm not dumb, kid."

It might actually be a plot point that she's the only one on Eternia who isn't an idiot, because she's not from there (she's actually from Earth).

Which might explain why she never tells anyone else, including her husband. Maybe her attitude was "If you're so phenomenally stupid you can't figure it out for yourself, you don't really deserve to know. And would probably screw up keeping the secret if you did, because you dumb."
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Well, he obviously had to stay behind, as he was a fully digital creature and had no place in the material world. But he's probably chillin'.
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I think I have Kaiba's pre-built deck and Joey's pre-built deck around my house somewhere. I remember buying them for my nephew forever ago because he was into the show as a kid.

I also have the two dual discs around here somewhere.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

Yeah but literally everyone already knew except Teela and the King (and Skeletor, I guess)

No idea in the new cartoon because I haven't watched and no interest in doing so (and even if I did, I don't have Netflix anyway).

But in the original, there's literally only three people who know (it's explicitly spelled out in the opening credits), and two of those knew before he even became He-Man because of an ancient prophecy. And the third was there at the time he first became He-Man. Adam didn't even tell his parents he was He-Man.

Teela's probably just pissy because she's adopted.
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I think couples should be together for 137 years before considering it.
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LeetCheet posted...

I'd love to see those old Hobbit and LotR cartoons.
Are they even legally available anywhere?

I tried YouTube but there were only snippets of them that I could find.

I liked that Smaug scene from the Hobbit 1977. He kinda looked like a cat in that one lol

Looks like The Hobbit (Rankin-Bass) and Lord of the Rings (1978) are on YouTube if you're willing to pay (the Buy or Rent option).

You can buy all three as a DVD set on Amazon for around $60 (though obviously you might not want to commit to that if you don't know if you'd like them, or don't have a DVD player).

No clue if there's anywhere to watch them free online, but if there is, it likely wouldn't be legally.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

How so

Standard comic book logic for why super-heroes can't tell their loved ones is "because if you know, someone could torture you to find out".

So you're basically protecting people from the stress of having to keep the secret, or risk accidentally mentioning that they know it and placing themselves in danger.
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Channing Tatum being in anything is pointless.
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I actually have. During the mid-1980s I was sucked into a super computer and forced to battle in a digital coliseum until I was able to ally with a glitch and escape into the deeper circuits, where I eventually became a starship captain and helped the Resistance overthrow Computer Control. Fortunately, we were able to overload its processor and return back to the real world.

Turns out the computer I'd won in a local contest turned out to have been switched with a secret government project. Crazy, right?
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http://youtu.be/_bW4vEo1F4E?t=34
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Nade Duck posted...

what happened with david eddings? i used to love his books and was thinking about rereading them for a nostalgia hit.

Ummmmm....

Maybe don't read this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eddings#Child_abuse_conviction_(1969-1970)

Definitely don't read this:

http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2020/05/it-has-been-revealed-that-fantasy.html
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KodyKeir posted...

Are they not selling toys tied in to this? That's like 90% of the revenue, who would sign that deal?

That's how things used to be, but that's become a somewhat dead marketing strategy over the last decade or so. Older kids today are much less likely to play with toys (in a world of video games and Internet videos), so a lot of the push for toy sales is for younger kids.

The demo that shows like MOTU (or Transformers, GI Joe, TMNT, etc) used to push for is much, much, much weaker than it used to be. Which is part of why Cartoon Network has had trouble, and why shows like Young Justice have gotten cancelled (an expectation of toy companies to underwrite costs, sales are dismal, toy company pulls out of the deal).

Shows like MOTU are half-marketed to adults/nerds at this point because nostalgia. The other half is hoping that kids will watch, but Netflix isn't overly concerned with ratings because they're just more interested in getting recognizable name content on the platform to spur subscriptions (part of why they tend to do series for 2-3 seasons and then cancel them regardless of whether or not they're good or bad).


(As a side note, this is part of the reason why dedicated toy stores are dying. Between collapsing sales and people switching to buying things online, the need for a Toys 'R' Us is lacking. People who still buy kids will settle for Wal-Mart or Amazon, and kids are generally disinterested as they get older).
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ComradeSeraphim posted...

Well, turns out the reason given in the show isn't actually the reason women in the real world want the toilet seat to be closed. The real reason is because when you flush with the lid up, your toilet flings tiny little particles of piss and shit all over the bathroom, and the only way to prevent that is to close the lid first and then flush, which therefore makes closing the toilet seat the man's responsibility.

The problem is the argument is never really over whether or not to leave the LID up. It's whether or not to leave the SEAT up. Or down.

It's why my answer to the gender-based argument has always been that no one should be fighting over it because both sides are wrong anyway, and the answer is you should be closing the lid (which puts the seat down by default).
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keyblader1985 posted...

Kimbos_Egg posted...

competitive assplay

That's Keijo

Kancho.
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

animated clerks is the only good clerks

Oh no, bear is driving, how can this be?
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EclairReturns posted...

That reminds me of a topic that Jen once made.

That reminds me of multiple topics that all the hacks make. Repeatedly.
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adjl posted...

Anyone suggests that it isn't has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Please go back and look at who you're talking to. That's basically a given.
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Searching for Netherlands and their names leads me to believe that this is the Dutch speed skating team.

The short track part tells me the specific event is this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Short_Track_Speed_Skating_Championships

http://www.alamy.com/2E4PFPN
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CrackCloud posted...

who the fuck respected Kevin Smith for Chasing Amy?

All these people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Amy#Accolades

Like it or not, and regardless of how you view it now through the lens of 20+ years of culture shifting, it was very much the movie that made people think of him more as a serious filmmaker and not just a niche asshole telling vulgar jokes.

...and then he made Jay and Silent Bob.

But really, he was fairly well-received in general until Seth Rogen turned him into a stoner while doing Zack and Miri. That and the combination of him venting off a lot of his creativity doing his podcast is kind of where his downward spiral began.
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Zeus posted...

Cartoons used to have more highbrow elements

It's mostly because cartoons were originally for adults.

Then, after they went through the ghetto of CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT through the 60s-70s, a lot of that was mostly stripped away. By the time people started going "Hey, wait, we can make cartoons for adults, too!", it was mostly only the lower-brow humor that got its foot in the door. And kind of stayed there.









...but back on the subject of older cartoons making references to things later kids would never get, how long did it take most people to figure out that The Flintstones is basically just The Honeymooners? And how many will/did never figure it out?
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Mead posted...

Tragedy is when you buy Mamba fruit chews and the flavors inside are all lemon and orange.

Those would be the only ones I wouldn't throw out.
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faramir77 posted...

The people who would go naked in public are not the people you would like to see naked in public.

This was always the running joke about the nude beach near where I grew up. Pretty much everyone there was over the age of 70.

Of course, if you walked far enough along the shore, the nude beach with old people eventually turned into the nude beach where gay dudes hung out (literally). Which might be fine if you were into that sort of thing, but which could be a bit of a shock if you weren't expecting it.

And no matter how much you hoped or wished, there was no part of the beach with nude hot sexy ladies.
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For fun, can anyone guess which Looney Tunes character was based on... this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6-JddDUnyY
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There's a TON of stuff in old Looney Tunes (and Merrie Melodies) that kids today (or kids back in the 80s) never really realized was based on real stuff.

This might actually be the absolute peak of it, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOFG_qmoH8I

How many kids can name even some of those people?

Even as an adult in my 40s with a passing knowledge of old Hollywood, I can't tell who more than half those people are. And it's not because the impressions are bad (they're phenomenal), I just don't know the people being parodied.
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Mead posted...

2019 Jay and Silent Bob Reboot is fucking hilarious

Okay, allow me to rephrase:

"When's the last time he made a movie based around an original concept that people who aren't stoners actually liked?"

Because, even at the time Jay and Silent Bob 2 was in development, a lot of people were saying "He's going back to this well out of desperation."

The days when people respected him as the director of Clerks and Chasing Amy are long gone. Now he's just the weirdo that did Tusk and Yoga Hosers and wrote a comic where Batman pissed himself.
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Metalsonic66 posted...

<3 John Lithgow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=345uegSj-zQ







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjA92f_iCHQ
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Mead posted...

And HR at pretty much any major company exists only to limit liability so they probably did their best to just try to sweep everything under the rug

This is the thing people always forget. The point of HR isn't to protect the employees, it's to protect the company.

Usually that can mean trying to protect your employees (so they don't sue the company), but if just covering things up does the job more efficiently, they'll totally go that route.
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papercup posted...

That's the problem, they told people, and nothing happened, because the people that could have done something about it, were either the ones perpetrating it, or they enabled the people below them that were doing it.

I assume what he meant was "Tell people OUTSIDE the company".

Not that it would necessarily work any better, but it's better than going to corrupt bosses or corrupt HR and having them just cover it up.



Metalsonic66 posted...

Just 15 years too late

Why stop riding the WoW train when people keep throwing handfuls of money at you to keep going?
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MrMelodramatic posted...

I knew it was going to be shit after it was announced it would be unrelated to She-Ra.

To be fair, if it HAD been related to She-Ra, it probably would have turned out like this instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR7wOGyAzpw
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11110111011 posted...

It was like Kevin Smith was totally trolling everyone.

Kevin Smith being absolutely full of shit on social media to suck up to various entertainment companies is pretty standard these days, honestly. The prevailing theory is that if he keeps giving them free PR, they might be willing to hire him to do more things, especially now that his own creative rep is kind of in tatters (when's the last time he made a movie people actually liked?).

The only people who were fooled by his denials were the people who hadn't yet figured out that he's like 97% shill now.
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Naruto_fan_42 posted...

i was expecting Two Towers to be more popular than Fellowship tbh, maybe im just being an edgelord but i liked it way more

I voted for it, but to be perfectly honest Into the West (RotK) is probably the best of the three as a standalone song. The one from Two Towers is closer to incidental music.
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My mother hasn't taken a leisurely stroll for 20 years. She just sort of hobbles along with a walker or cane.

Also, she's not really capable of polite and lively conversation, mostly just mildly bemused and genial conversation about sasquatch and aliens. Or trying to explain the plot of British mystery shows to you, but getting half the details wrong and forgetting who the actors were.

I put it to you, good sir, that you were, in fact, dating an impostor!
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DrYuya posted...

and objectively even beyond that the show is better (even if it's hot trash) because it at least exists and will ever exist.

I think I'd rather have a non-existent book than the second half of that show.
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Criminalt posted...

But then you start to find the word "nipples" somehow slipping more and more into your speech when you're talking to female cashiers.

Nah, you'd eventually become desensitized to nudity, and it wouldn't arouse you anymore.

And then all porn would consist of women slowly putting clothes on.
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I've never done it. Mostly because I stopped using my YouTube account to log in around the same time they sold the company to Google and linked it to Google accounts.
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captpackrat posted...

I love Glenn Yarbrough's voice.

The only thing I can ever think of when hearing it now is this:

http://youtu.be/vDZkukBIZ4I?t=59
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captpackrat posted...

The best song in an LotR movie:

Damn it, you're stealing my gimmick.

Though honestly, my #1 song from the Rankin-Bass cartoons is probably this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rsEJgjks7o

I 100% prefer it to the version they used in the live-action movie. Though I'm willing to admit that might be nostalgia. But I mostly just like that it's more melodic and sort of wistful. The live-action one is closer to a dirge (which also fits), but in a way it's like the difference between something once lost but which may once again be found, versus something that's lost and gone forever.

Though my favorite song over all might be this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT18OJEPU9Q

Mainly because I DO feel a ton of nostalgia for that one. That was basically my first introduction to LotR, and I absolutely loved it and watched the crap out of it as a kid. To the point where I can pretty much quote the entire movie from start to finish from memory even today.
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Not really a fan of Hamilton at all.







...though to be fair, I'm not really a fan of most modern Broadway musicals in general. About the only musical theater I really like is Phantom, Les Mis, and Chess (basically, stuff centered pretty strongly on the 80s aesthetic). Maybe one or two others here and there, but for the most part I've always been left pretty cold by the most critically-acclaimed Broadway shows.
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Not really.

No clothes might be nice just wandering around or swimming or tanning on the beach or just cooling off on a hot day, and I'm not really ashamed of showing off my body or anything... but I feel really uncomfortable sitting down on things while naked. And I've never been able to sleep naked (or even just topless). Shorts and a t-shirt is basically my default comfort level. It's a tactile issue more than anything.

On top of which, going out into the world, it's nice having clothes on to protect me from getting dirty, or brushing up against hot/cold metal, or getting scratched by minor things, or getting abrasions, or getting too much tan/sunburned, or any number of a hundred other things that clothes protect me from. Not to mention that on cooler days they become helpful just to keep me warm.
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