I prefer to rewatch older movies like the Indiana Jones Trilogy (if it was made now Indy would be a cuck no doubt), Star Wars OT, The Godfather, Heat etc. not to mention watch shows like The Sopranos and Stargate SG-1 or play games like GTA IV, The Witcher 2 Mass Effect 2 etc.
All the shit from the past 6+ years or so has been far left propaganda and anti white men. I'm sick of smug bitchy "strong" female characters, lgbt+ degeneracy everywhere and way too many black characters.
They have butchered so many iconic franchises its just depressing
I'm currently rather enjoying Fallout: New Vegas. There's plenty of cracking RPGs from years gone by to keep us entertained.
But even I am noticing all these things in modern gaming. For example, in Cod Modern Warfare 2019, the only way you could play as a white man in multiplayer is as a Russian (who I personally think looked cool in black balaclavas and helmets).
I just recently stopped watching Conan after more than 20 yrs. His show really went downhill and was on the backburner of my DVR watchlist for a while but a week or 2 ago I watched one just after Biden "won" with NBC News loser Nicolle Wallace. They were 100% dismissive of Trump's concerns, after 4 yrs of alleging the election was rigged.
It was complete DNC propaganda and a total FU to the >70 million Americans who voted for Trump. And it wasn't funny, it was pure partisan BS.
I used to love late night, now I can't stand it.
Letterman & Conan weren't bad back in the day either. None of them ever preached politics, even when the POTUS was getting BJs from young girls in the Oval Office.
And ask yourself honestly, can you say with any certainty who Johnny Carson voted for?
Still some decent games that trickle out that aren’t pozzed, mostly from Japan. I don’t think I’ve watched a new movie I enjoyed since Joker. I’m mostly playing emulators or mods these days, I think there really are only like 2 or 3 big game releases a year that aren’t pozzed garbage or otherwise disappointing.
There's a huge catalog of 70s-90s B movies that are awful but highly entertaining.
Games can be hit and miss. Depends a lot on the developer. If I get a woke vibe from the dev team or marketing copy, I'll just skip it entirely. There's plenty of other non-woke things to do or games to play.
Also the woker something is, the shittier it is just on general quality. Whenever things get super-woke, you know the "best people aren't in charge".
I.e. even if the messaging wasn't annoying, it will just be generally shitty.
Why would you watch 70s-90s B movies when you can watch 70s-90s actually good movies?
Because I enjoy them. I also enjoy good movies, but I've already seen most of the "good" movies through that time frame, so for new stuff it's entertaining to watch hilariously bad B movies.
But mostly, because fuck you, that's why.
You're offering advice to other people, not yourself, dumbass.
I was asked why I liked them, fuckwit.
No you weren't, you delusional moron.
"Why would you"?
Who is "you"? If you meant someone other than me, maybe you should have phrased your question more clearly?
Fucking midwit. Ask a question, get a response, get butthurt about the response.
May I have your permission to like the things I like? Pretty please?
>retard doesn't even understand the concept of causality
>calls another human being a midwit
Stop drooling in my direction.
Yes. I watch old TV or film on DVD/BluRay (no streaming) and that's about it. I recently watched all of old Star Trek, which doesn't come off as leftist anymore (actually comes off as right-wing in some messaging) even though it possibly was for its time, showing what's changed.
I still play older competitive games and generally have avoided new ones unless they have no narrative, because the quality of storytelling has decreased along with average IQs since the 90s. The latest game with a narrative that I played was Alyx, because Valve is one of the last independent companies with no CCP influence.
Star Trek has an interesting dynamic.
It is "conservative" in the sense that the main characters have all sworn an oath to defend the Federation, and do so (and we see them do it against enemies both foreign and domestic). And they gatekeep the hell out of their society both in terms of who they interact with and who they admit into the Federation.
It is "liberal" in that Federation society itself is multi-ethnic and somewhat multi-cultural (within their gatekeeping constraints). Though the fact that they gatekeep their culture is itself conservative to modern standards.
It is "leftist" in how it allocates scarce resources (which do exist in-universe: I reject arguments that it is a "post-scarcity" society).
Agreed 100% Dilithium ore still needs to be mined and processed. There is also the instances of Cisco saying theres nothing better than freshly grown crop to cook with as Replicators are just a Matter / Energy Converter and the resequenced molicules are actually the food youre eating (think tofu flavoured to taste like beef, just isnt the same)
Dont even get me started on how little information we have on Star Trek atmospheric processors and how they manage to keep a ship for of 1000+ (Enterprise D) breathing the same oxygen every second :P
In both the original and Next Generation you often saw the flaws of the Federation on outskirt worlds. Everything was great and peachy in well maintained space, but the actual mining operations and poorer systems were plagued by bandits and renegades.
I remember one episode, I forget the name, but it was heavily implied that the Klingons were framing people for fake crimes to send them to distant Dilithium mines.
Yeah the replicator question is interesting too, because you get the sense they're just a futuristic version of an MRE. Except the vast majority of the population (including on Earth) eats replicated food, so is everyone just eating MRE food all the time and don't know any better? That just makes their society seem even worse.
I've heard another argument which is "the food itself is high-quality but always tastes exactly the same". But I'm not sold on that argument because they seem to have a good variety in their menu, at least in peacetime. And you never see anyone disappointed at a "real" meal not being as good as a replicated one, but you frequently see the opposite.
There was an episode of next generation with Scotty in it where he orders a scotch and complains about the taste, don't see why the replicator food wouldn't be the same.
That's because the scotch was made with "synthehol" rather than real alcohol, not because it was replicated.
it's been a while since I saw it, that makes more sense.
I would guess that most probably eat replicated food for convenience, but there are alternatives that might actually be better.
The average Federation colonist appears to be a farmer, so there are many that are raising crops or animals for food. Picard's family has the vineyard, showing that farming and real food production still happens on Earth.
There are also restaurants that serve only real food, like the one run by Sisko's father. Nog visits there because they have live worms to eat.
O'Brien says that his mother only cooked real food, and I believe Keiko was growing crops on DS9, which Sisko also used to cook. Similar with Kes growing crops and Neelix cooking it on Voyager, although they had a shortage of matter for the replicator, which may indicate that the replicator is actually expensive to use and really is just about convenience.
We also see that Klingons are probably eating real food as they're eating live or raw animals or meat, which a replicator can't make. They go hunting when they're on a planet. There was also the Klingon restaurant on DS9 that appeared to serve real food, and Dax talks about getting in shipments of Klingon food for Martok's birthday. However, the crew of that station mostly seems to go to the Replimat or Quark's, which I assume is faster due to using replicators.
As for quality of replicated food, there are quotes of people saying its good, but others saying its not the same, so I assume its acceptable but noticably different and some people have a preference for natural food while others are happy to eat processed food all the time, as is true today.
It's some scifi TV show where fuses somehow don't exist.
I don't expect much consistency.
Well said. I also don't believe, contrary to the popular leftist opinion, that the Federation is post-scarcity or even post-currency or post-capitalism, because there's many instances where they seem to not be and both the Federation and its members are engaging in trade and business. My head-canon on this is that they've made common goods on Earth cheap enough to produce that they're essentially free, so no one there "wants" for anything, but they haven't literally done away with all trade. Essentially, a technological rather than a governmental solution to poverty.
Some other things that I see as probably right-wing in it:
An argument can be made that the Prime Directive is gatekeeping and maybe even racist, because it advocates not sharing technology with or helping any society that hasn't reached a certain level of technology already, in most circumstances. There are a few instances where they intervene to stop extinction-type events, but mostly their policy is to stay away and let nature take its course where they can.
Although the Federation is presented as post-racial at least regarding people from Earth, they also openly discriminate in their postings based upon racial differences between different humanoids to some degree. E.g. when Kirk asks to replace Spock with another Vulcan; many crews are mostly from Earth, but there are crews that are mostly or entirely Vulcan, as seen in DS9; Worf likely receives his postings based upon being a Klingon, same with Troi and others, etc. Essentially, the Federation seems to acknowledge that there are different strengths for different people and to choose crew compositions accordingly, rather than treating all as being literally equal in all ways or doing some kind of affirmative action.
Oh, I just happened to think of one other thing, re: if the Federation is multi-cultural.
There was that time that Sisko yelled at Worf (IIRC) that as a Starfleet member you must adapt to Starfleet culture and can't just do something because it's part of your race's culture (forgot the exact quote but I think this was in the episode where Worf's brother requests an honor-killing).
The Federation has limited tolerance for other cultures, but doesn't ease its own standards to accommodate them, which is how America used to be before the current generation of leftists gained power.
Though keep in mind, some of the 70s-90s stuff is "woke" as shit, too, even by today's standards, because yeah, that shit all started with Twilight Zone and Bewitched, but really took off once Norman Lear came on the scene.
Quantum Leap. I still like it, but holy hell. No, the chimp episode WASN'T "the worst". Enterprise. You bet there'd be reasonable people who would have a problem with the idea of cross-breeding a human and ANYTHING ELSE in a fucking LAB. (And if humans think it'd be degrading to their dignity to have their gametes crossed with a common chimp or bonobo's, why should a space-faring alien want to sully their genetics with inferior human garbage, btw?)
I love the original Twilight Zone. Making a commentary on racism in the 50s/60s is a lot different than making that same commentary in 2020 as if no progress has been made and it also peddles a false racial narrative today. I know shows in the 80s and 90s would have the “very special episode” but that is fine considering now every episode is either “wealth/success bad, white people bad, or bow down to lgbt mafia”
Dredd wasn't leftist propaganda, though. But, yeah, they're few and far between.
Dredd was 8 years ago, even then things were better than now.
This board is becoming so paranoid that any kind of criticism against corporatism is somehow misconstrued as communism, which of course means the media in question is unholy and not fit for pious eyes.
I imagine it's only going to get worse.
What board are you reading? Most of us hate corporatism because it's responsible for Woke Capital.
The one where people refuse to watch something, play something, or read something because there might be a left-of-centre theme about something.
Just look at the Cyberpunk thread where the majority of people complain that a Cyberpunk game has themes of anti-corporatism, pro-individuality, and it's referred to as communist propaganda.
You guys are fucking losing it.
Did you read the thread?
https://kotakuinaction2.win/p/11R4SXso08/cyberpunk2077-has-so-much-sjwism/c/
Nearly everyone in power/authority (directing you, paying you, ordering you, etc) is a wahmen.
And nearly all of them are wahmen of color or trans or gay. White men dumdum, please trans wahmen of color u can tellz me wat I spose doo???
The few men in power (who are also mostly minorities) get killed quickly due to arrogance/being dum dums (men, amirite???) or are revealed to not be their true own true boss.
White government officials fascist. Black government officials good.
The west has fallen. Play with the East.
Honestly unless it has an anime aesthetic, I need some STELLAR reviews from people I know personally IRL to even watch the trailer nowadays.
Take the Nintendo pill. They don't get involved in any of this shit, in fact they try to go out of their way to keep politics out of their games. Some shit slips by from time to time, namely at Treehouse, but they tend to keep their games pure.
I've been watching them and they do seem to be the strongest of the three console-runners. However, they ruined the rpg line of mario games and that's pretty hard to forgive. Double-however, it wasn't ruined due to sjw shit, but pure incompetence at the highest managerial levels.
It's not a coincidence the Japanese company stays away from the woke trend.
Heat is such an oddly specific movie to append to your list, and yet I couldn't agree more with its inclusion. What a masterpiece.
Good movies still get made. Survivorship bias leaves us the impression that old movies were inherently better. They weren't. There's a lot of crap that's long forgotten, and what we're left remembering is what's worth remembering.
However, filmmakers could accomplish things in the 60s and 70s that just can't be done today. Things like psychologically abuse actresses so they give more traumatic performances, fire live pistols during filming, unannounced, to get better shock reactions, film live car chases in Chicago that are real and endanger real people, or my favorite, hire thousands of Russian extras to film the battle of Waterloo at 1:1 scale.
But still, TV has hit a quality revolution, starting with the Shield, continuing with the Wire, Sopranos, Xfiles, Breaking Bad, etc.
Christopher Nolan gets a lot of shit, but he's pushing boundaries and exploring concepts that would've been technically impossible decades ago.
Horror movies are hitting a resurgence, and we've seen better horror movies in the last decade than in the preceding 20 years.
It's not all bad.
Disagree. There's still good stuff being made, but there's a lot more trash than there used to be. Here's a basic point of comparison: prior to ~1999, Teal and Orange colour grading didn't exist. Now, the majority of movies and shows use it.
It’s a fad, like the two decades of cheap horror movies with jump scares. That genre is now wading into artsy, sometimes pretentious territory, which is the new fad.
I hope you're right but I'm not so sure, I mean it's been going for 15 years now.
Another reason why I think movies are actually worse now is that I inadvertently did an experiment where I tried and was unable to watch Donnie Darko back when it was released in 2001. I ended up watching it 3 years ago. The experience was shocking. It was exactly as good as movies I remember watching back when movies were good, to the point where I almost felt like I had gone back in time. After that, I started to just watch random movies from the 60s-90s without even checking ratings, and I find they were better on average and much better at their best.
For the most part I just watch or read stuff from 2014 and prior.
I wouldn't go that far. Particularly since I liked to travel so much and that's essentially dead and I have to work there's a lot of time to kill. So, I do still watch movies, TV shows, and play games.
I don't even avoid things because they are woke, I've just found that they also tend to suck. It's entertainment right? I want it to be entertaining. Generally, I trend older.
For example, movie-wise I've liked physical media for a while and I've been all over grabbing up the many top notch 4K restorations that have come out. There's a ton of movies from the 50s-70s that not only do I enjoy but I've straight up never seen at all. Some of these look absolutely top-notch too and are free of all the way overdone computer effects you get now.
TV shows, mostly anime and older mainstream sitcoms (nothing newer than Seinfeld). I think the only thing I watch that's new is the Mandalorian and while I enjoyed the first season the second is showing signs of going the wrong way as expected. I do still find it entertaining and that's the key factor. I used to watch Netflix a ton, but I cancelled it a few months ago not as a boycott, but because I no longer used it. Every new show was sex, homos, or sex homos.
Video games, I'd say 75% of that time is on things pre-2015. I do still occasionally pick up and enjoy some things newer but they started forgetting to be fun. If I were to list off my top 10 favorite games I played this year, it's a very heavy Japanese developers and I think the newest game would be from 2017.
The fact that so many reviews about Cyberpunk which I won't get for a while cantered on Trans issues shows how fucked gaming has become
I just got Diablo 1 and installed Beelzebub, so far it looks amazing at 3440x1440 on a 35" ultrawide.
Between the wokeness and the puerile colour grading, finding a good game/movie/tv show these days is almost impossible. I find it interesting that the shitty, cartoonish colour grading came with the wokeness. It's like the underlying cause of all this is mental retardation.
I stopped watching TV 10+ years ago. Only a few adult oriented anime and documentaries. People can tell when they talk to me for while and think something is wrong with me. It hurts my job prospects and "career" a little since big tech has a lot of bug men.
I've come to the conclusion that electronic entertainment, especially from the major outlets is poison, even when it isnt steeped in social justice. I wasted my earlier years playing video games and watching TV when I couldve had fun being productive or entertained myself without burning out my dopamine receptors.
People need to turn off and tune out but most people wont.
John Wick, Jojo Rabbit, Paterson (by Jim Jasmuchen), The Revenant, The Mandalorian (season one), Hannibal TV series, The Joker... Just a quick list made by memory... There is many talent and good works coming out, it is just a question of not wasting time with Netflix or HBO or Disney, and research other markets. Not to mention the Japanese market that continues strong and healthy.
Nah. It actually made many characters in the Nazi army sympathetic people. It's an anti-Nazi film but the main cast beside the mother and the Jew are active members of the Nazi Party who casually spew (comedically overblown) anti-Jewish rhetoric, and almost all of them also happen to have a sympathetic side where you'll care what happens to them at the end.
I'd never heard of the guy. Now I at least know if I ever see something that says "From the director of Jojo Rabbit....." that that shouldn't be seen as a good thing.
Jojo Rabbit is one long joke against Germans, and at least 40% of the humor comes from terrible things being said about Jews. Sounds to me like it's a case where a self-important pompous elite happened to make a good, funny film all but in spite of himself. That or he figures hypocritical speeches are what buy him the rights to continue making works filled with these things. I remember what made me decide to see it was reading an angry reviewer hissy fitting about how the film dared to make Nazis into sympathetic characters when we don't need to be humanizing what the reviewer saw as a reviving neonazi movement.
I think not. I see it as a take of a boy growing up and coming to the conclusion that he has to think for himself. The Nazis were just the scenario for the history. And the movie treats thrn fairly and humanly.
There are some good things that come out but I tend to stick to older stuff. There is so much older stuff out there. I love Skyrim and still play the modded version. But with newer stuff check out Blue Bloods, Yellowstone, Better Call Saul, and Last Man Standing.
I have not had trouble finding good games still. But I've stopped playing AAA games for the most part. More good indies are coming out than ever before.
As a PC gamer I was never bound to one of the mega publishers like people on consoles are. They were always a blip on the radar compared to the sheer amount of games from smaller devs.
There is more quality works avaliable today, in every major culture / language sphere, than you could experience in your lifetime.
No need for pozzed garbage.
I've been working out to Miami Vice. Just a 40 minute episode on a treadmill but I can get a few km done while watching something entertaining.
There are still a handful of indie games that pop up that are fine, though usually in the genre's that are a bit more resistant, like historical shooters. I've been playing a bunch of Hell Let Loose lately, and that's just pure realistic WW2 shooter - no black trans nazis with prosthetic arms there.
And on the TV front, I just stick with anime. There's always something new coming out, and as long as you stick with the original japanese audio, it's pretty resistant to being turned to leftist propaganda.
Like for many here, modern movies and TV series have been dead to me for a long time. Maybe once a year I watch some older pre 2015 stuff but that's about it.
Youtubers have replaced TV and movies for me. Plenty of apolitical entertaining and educational stuff to be found.
As for games it's primarily the AAAs that have been taken over. Plenty of indie and mid sized developers that create great stuff. Plus I'm usually 1-3 years behind in games and don't care about hype. So I can take a good look at a game and avoid anything that remotely smells of socjus.
The thing to realize about franchises is that everything dies eventually. That's not new to the current-year shitshow. It's just a fact of live.
There are a handful of games which come out which are good so I tend to pay attention to those. Mostly from Devs who aren't based in the modern leftie west but there are always pleasant exceptions.
Movies and TV this isn't the year for anyway, but I've not really had things to watch for a couple of years now anyway. Really once you get out of the cycle of needing to consume the content shortly after it's released, and into the habit of not caring about spoilers and just waiting a month for people you trust on the matter to give their opinion then the current hellscape becomes much easier to navigate and seek out the few good examples.
Eyy good shit.
I actually rewatched Stargate recently. SG-1 and Atlantis plus the movies.
The Stargate series actually has a lot of woke leftist type messaging, just like Startrek.
Thing is, it was always secondary to the overall plot and I don't think the people writing it were propagandists. They just wrote their own idealistic values. There's a shitton of racial equality, sexual equality, and liberal posturing.
But also an overarching truth of violence. Sometimes you can't talk out your problems. Sometimes people need to die. Sometimes there's a huge moral grey area and those idiotic values you have will just get you and others hurt.
I know they didn't do it intentionally but the Wraith storyline in Atlantis was unintentionally hyperbased. It was a group that no matter how much the humans negotiated and tried to reason with, they ALWAYS stabbed them in the back. When they tried their fucked up gene editing program they ended up creating one of their worst enemies and united warring enemy Wraith factions against them. Which is why I say I don't think the writers back then were trying to make propaganda, because the product shits all over woke ideology at times.
They don't do that anymore. The writers are all pure propagandists now. The story takes a backseat to the woke.
You could even see it in that newer one that I won't be rewatching, but remember well. Stargate Infinity or whatever the hell it was called, the one with the fat nerd as the lead. It was awful from start to finish.
Did you see the Stargate Origins miniseries? That one was trash. Plenty of the woke elements is there, but generally just bad writing and unlikable characters.
What are you talking about? They never made anything new after Atlantis!
Edit: I never bothered with Origins. Sounded way too current year: female lead, Nazis and whatnot. The story also sounded like too much retconning and after the mess that was Universe I wasn't particularly interested in more.
I personally can't wait for Trump to activate the insurrection act so we can take drastic action against the regressive left and censor all their garbage and thus increase the quality of the affected media if it's salvageable.
Sorry in advance for the TL;DR, but I just wanted to list off some things:
Borderlands is a good game but the second game's dlc, the pre sequel, and 3 contain regressive leftist themes and propaganda, and while I think that the propaganda in 2 and the presequel could be easily censored with text edits and redubbing, 3 might need mass rewrites as far as I know.
Wolf: New Order had some regressive leftist themes thrown into one cutscene, though that could easily be censored, but I should also note that every game after Old Blood might not be salvageable.
Most or all of the Animaniacs reboot is likely going to get banned under laws prohibiting regressive leftist propaganda as there is too much shit to censor such as the blatant Trump bashing.
I know Steven Universe is garbage along with other newer cartoon network shows, but I don't know about blatant propaganda in it. In my opinion ratings boards should seriously bump Steven Universe's rating up to PG for depicting homosexuality and having themes that contain intentional parallels to rape.
That BattleTech game reportedly has good gameplay but contains a fucking neutral gender option and regressive leftist themes. I personally think the game is salvageable if the gender neutral crap is removed and the questionable themes are censored.
Star Wars: Fallen Order may have good gameplay but it appears to have been influenced by the regressive left as it contains this ugly black woman who looks like she was put their just to cater to the regressive left. There is also the fact that it's made by Electronic Arts, who have an extremely long history of bad business practices, have slandered critics of the Regressive Left in the Battlefield V controversy, and are a known terrorist financer of the "no pixels for fascists" initiative.
I mean, there is good stuff coming out. You just have to actually look for it, rather than the best stuff being promoted and given to you.
Delve into obscure niche shit. Discover old shit you never saw because you were too busy with "franchises." The world has more entertainment in it than you could ever consume, you don't need your same shit to provide you forever.
Not that that makes anything they are doing justifiable, of course.
I still try new things but I'm quick on the trigger to hit eject when the agenda pops up.
Its been so long that I can't tell you what the last good movie was that came out. Tenet was awful not because it had an agenda but because it was so "cool and complicated" that I didn't know what the hell was going on.
2020 was pretty awful, can't think of a single good movie. I know some people liked 1917 but I thought it was just tedious. Some were watchable like Underwater and Gentlemen but none I would highly recommend or want to see again.
Tried the Raised by Wolves series and it started with a decent premise then became totally absurd. Found a list when making this post, I know picard sucks but maybe something on there is decent: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls097061774/
I've really come to like racing games. No story so no opportunity to inject faggotry, everyone's in an attack helicopter anyways, and also big engines go brrrr.
I still try new things but I'm quick on the trigger to hit eject when the agenda pops up.
Its been so long that I can't tell you what the last good movie was that came out. Tenet was awful not because it had an agenda but because it was so "cool and complicated" that I didn't know what the hell was going on.
2020 was pretty awful, can't think of a single good movie. I know some people liked 1917 but I thought it was just tedious. Some were watchable like Underwater and Gentlemen but none I would highly recommend or want to see again.
Tried the Raised by Wolves series and it started with a decent premise then became totally absurd. Found a list when making this post, I know picard sucks but maybe something on there is decent: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls097061774/