That's not actually an observation in disagreement, since you are describing a group behavior and Old Bull is describing a religious ideal. It is entirely likely that these groups wear their religiosity like some might wear a race or a sexuality for the perceived advantage, without caring otherwise.
Yes. "Terrified by."
The transparent attempt to recast warranted disgust as 'phobia' is stupid and ultimately self-defeating. Language can only be weaponized within the bounds of core meaning. When you go outside of that to prey on connotation and correlation, you end up in a small period of effect that is closed by your own misuse as each time you are actively degrading the emotional impact by the newly tortured meaning.
This is why these political pedants are on a constant treadmill requiring new terms to subvert and old ones to decanonize and forbid.
The anti-sexy-art grift is very simple, and works identically to the race and identity grifts. You criminalize quality works, so there can be a market for your lesser 'legal' version. As an actor you can't pretend to be a race you aren't, handicapped if you aren't, gay if you aren't, all to create a market for people without talent but an abundance of "rare attribute" checkboxes to be guaranteed work.
This is the same as whores opposing art. They want to minimize your choices to them and only them.
Men being allowed access things they find pretty is opposed while concern over men dying is dismissed. These seem like consistent views to me. It is all man-hating disguised as moralism.
A pretty picture - the moralist says: this is bad for society because people you will never meet are affected by you liking this instead of them.
A man unalives himself - the moralist says: this is the gun's fault.
The consistent goal is to demoralize, diminish, and ultimately destroy men. It is institutional misandry, and the male simps who parrot it are beyond contemptible.
Current generators like ChatGPT are also (at least until very recently) bad at rhyming, especially over a long work. This is because they generate text completely forward and can't based early lines on what later lines will be. If it is the least bit melodic or comparable to a normal song in meter, it is almost certainly not produced by a current gen AI. Some of the newest ones can do it better, but they are expensive to use and it is unlikely a reddit rando is using it unless he's also a researcher.
While it should be treated harshly, I believe this is actually an insidious redefinition.
She says that putting limits on alimony erodes the "institution of marriage." She used the word 'institution' deliberately to subvert it into something literal instead of the typical use as a allusion to marriage as a "holy institution" referencing it's establishment by God himself. Rather her meaning was that of the government institution(s) that are engaged to supplement, interfere, and ultimately replace marriage (of which alimony is an important part).
Deliberate corruption of a term against it's classic connotation for political repositioning.
The problem with granting any ground to racist programs like Affirmative Action, means we end up where we are now. The problem with this fellow right here, is that he defends that like it wasn't observably and painfully a failure.
And it was the poster definition of slippery slope in practice, as everyone opposed to it knew it was back then. When it was sold as a policy it was "this isn't racial quotas, this is just guaranteeing everyone gets a fair shake during interviews and hiring" and within 5 years it was racial quotas to ensure you were doing that 'fair shake' thing.
Affirmative Action had its partner slogan of Equal Opportunity. Everyone who followed the AA mandates could brand themselves as "An Equal Opportunity employer" in their advertisements and solicitations. It was a sham because all of the impositions of the policy were that you did NOT give equal opportunity to anyone because you first filtered them by 'race' and 'gender,' and later they tacked on 'sexual orientation' because gays and 'religious affiliation' because muslims. And people would want to know if you were an Equal Opportunity employer (caps palpable) and you had a legal barrier to replying to that honestly lest you be in violation of a technicality of this policy since they owned those two words now.
This is a fundamental issue of our times and culture. Disagreeing on this isn't merely missing out on a 100% compatibility mark. And he is doing more than disagreeing, he is defending the provable failure of the last 30 years with very modern, very Marxist reasoning that they didn't even use then because they lied about what it WAS then. He's buying the premise of what it turned out Affirmative Action IS and defending THAT. It is beyond unconscionable.
At least the steam replies are savage as fuck.
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Also just want to let you know I'm requesting steam support to remove this game from my library. Yea yea you already have my money and you can laugh at me all you want but I just want you to know that you're a bunch of talentless hacks riding on the back of this franchise that you took from the original creators. We all know why you won't move on to make your own thing that suits your "sensibilities" instead of defacing Skullgirls.
The Acolyte rumors have never made coherent sense. But the announced details are even stranger: I mean, they hired Harvey Weinstein's former bimbo-wrangler to be the Empowered Female Showrunner in the weirdest pseudo-irony imaginable.
So this rumor claims that she was fired, but other accounts assert that the show is in the can and will be released next year. If that is true, then this is not being "fired," as she was a contractor who finished her contract. Is the leaker right, wrong, or just being stupid and overstating something mundane as though it were exciting news? I think we can't be sure.
At this point, I find it difficult to trust anything that claims to be 'behind the scenes' info at Disney because times are so wild over there almost every possibility is on the table for any given day.
I don't claim that the past 10 years were a specially constructed psy-op to discredit Kathleen Kennedy. She wreaked all that havoc with the explicit support of Iger and many others in leadership.
But now that the damage is done, Disney finds itself in a crisis. There's strong indication that this Hulu buyout mess they got into with Comcast is dangerously close to breaking them. Disney has even been soliciting offers on several of its subsidiaries, Lucasfilm included, for the purposes of establishing valuation. That isn't something a company in a good financial place does. Instead, it looks like they're desperate and trying to decide if selling pieces will cover the gap.
What I claim is that Kennedy is a millstone around Disney's neck and they recognize it. She's been in a mad scramble over the last 4 months announcing new projects (new Rey series) and claiming progress on things that hadn't peeped in literal years (Acolyte) all in the lead up to Indy 5. A movie that was finished filming 2 years ago, but reshot and reshot and reshot, and even now the most positive reviews are claiming it is 'inoffensive', but not 'great.' Sent up to Cannes and allowed to wallow there unaided by the usual Disney hidden hand of media cooking.
That can be read as sublime confidence. But I think it isn't. I think they are preparing to pivot on this and drop it all on Kennedy's head, casting her as the sole perpetrator. She isn't, I don't claim that. But that is the play I expect to be tried soon.
This would be hilariously embarrassing if this weren't a PR stunt by a disenfranchised harpy on the outs. Ah what the hell, I'll laugh anyway.
I believe Kennedy is being positioned (willingly, because she's actually stupid) for a very public and very messy execution. Indiana 5 is being very obviously positioned to bomb, screening it a month ahead of release with no review embargo, and no paid-for fluffing in the media at all. She's being allowed to douse all of her projects with all the accellerant she can handle with these kinds of 'leaks' popping all over. And all it will take is the company to call her due for gross financial malfeasance to strike the match.
I don't say this out of any kind of silly hope that Star Wars can be saved. To be clear there is little chance that any Disney property will ever get my attention again. There is no forgiveness in my soul for their crimes. But I will still laugh. They kill her or she kills them, either way I win. Best outcome of all of this is that it isn't just Lucasfilm that Disney sells off to remain solvent, but Marvel too. So long as either property has Disney's hands on it, I say, "No, thanks."
We're still in 2016 and they still only have "He's not Presidential" as their only complaint. They're the ones who want to live in a world where all it takes for your life to be ended is for someone to not like you. They remind us of this constantly by only bringing these complaints as though they should be acted on. They are gossip mongers and disqualify themselves from having legitimate opinions that should be heard or shared at all.
I watched this finally. It summarizes perfectly my feelings on the betrayal of this franchise by it's own owner, and I never guessed that he was such a vain casual thief as to claim he had a plan with Bridget when he didn't even want there to be a story mode in XX and punted the whole project to another team.
My favorite character in the series is and has always been Baiken. I have tons of things to say about her transformation after shocking absence from Xrd, but I'll save that for another rant. I saw they weren't putting her in the roster of Strive and said as a self-promise: "No Purchase until Baiken."
When she is added as an early extra character, I put my money where my mouth was. Happy Chaos looked great, Baiken was acceptable, I was happy to support.
Then we get Testament. Motherfucker, I knew where this was going. I regretted supporting the game right there, and stopped playing. Then Bridget drops.
Bridget is my second favorite character in the series. His troll-y smugness and cavalier dismissal of everyone else's failure to recognize him for what he is; his decision to prove his own culture wrong (and validate his own existence) by being successful despite being evil by virtue of his birth. These things are interesting, deep, and invites the investment of the audience to see how and where it goes.
Given the glacial pace that the side characters get development in this series, he hasn't really moved too far from what we already got way back in his first game, and that's unfortunate, but fine. He is a recognizable and reliable 'type' and that's what you need for an interesting fighting game character.
Then we got this. Nun's habit gone, colors muted, smugness erased, and instead now we have a suddenly meek and obeisant follower type. Who again, gets no story development, with the exception, of crumbling from being 'misgendered' too much and just humbly acquiescing and giving up his entire life's mission in a moment. He's now a 'girl' and even updates his pronouns IN DIALOG.
I tried to refund the game, but Steam said no, I'd owned it for too long.
So I was baited. They gave me Baiken, then they fucked over Testament in the very next breath (I don't care, I hate that bastard anyway, but I hate cynical political pandering more), then they fucked Bridget literally as a marketing strategy. Fucking the character, fucking any existing fans, fucking the entire Japanese audience who were the only population that liked that character with any consistency. All for twitter cred, and johnny-come-lately's who just want scalps. They want to devour culture and they'll take ANY win.
They know they've been pandered to, and they're in a feeding frenzy over it. Are they buying your game, Arcsys?
I'm not. Never again. Daisuke has lost me entirely. The company has lost me.
Toshimichi Mori leaving Arc after 20 years mirrors my own feelings, and gives me hope we'll get a new game similar to BlazBlue from him soon, a game franchise that really cared about and focused on its story and characters carefully and lovingly, unlike Guilty Gear.
This is similar to the common observation that airport security don't even attempt to stop bad actors. They have a quota of examinations to make and they make them on the least likely to give them trouble for it. They are looking for non-criminals to harass to fill their time.
The entire police department can be mobilized to take down one twitter user each day, and they never have to worry about being shot at again. The cops have chosen 'easy' over 'duty' and the result is bowling for dystopia.
By 'archiving offline' I mean I'm scraping and downloading all of these albums and organizing them similarly in a local store. If I feel the backup is sufficiently well organized (at least to the level of these albums and this list) I may upload it somewhere or drop a torrent. Sooner if there is much interest.
Relatedly, Hydrus is nice for this kind of work (both the grabbing and organizing).
What women? These are characters. I'd never try to give a woman player a nose job over the internet. I'll do whatever the fuck I please to an imaginary character. Especially if the artist did a bad job and I want to fix it.