The problem is the impression that they're doing this "for the audience" and failing. They're doing this to tarnish and overtake Tolkien for the generations to come. The more slop they put out, the more the original books and movie trilogy get muddied, until there is no fond memory of a once treasured saga. Just The Message.
They're succeeding admirably and many miss the actual purpose. Just ask that English museum showcasing black medieval knights and kings. They know it's ridiculous. We know it's ridiculous. The generations to come will not know any better.
Fire them all immediately. Accept no compromises. You are a billion dollar company who doesn't need the optics.
Lead the way, China Man.
One of my best friends died two days ago. Paul isn't a surprise, but this makes shitty times worse. Call it parasocial if you want, but Paul has given me incredible intel and entertainment over the years. Godspeed guys.
As was already posted, much of this has to do with growing up and having your own life to deal with. Additionally, however, we've created a culture of the spiritual 15-minute-city already, which is why the physical idea is pushed so heavily these days. The importance of Family and family gatherings are minimized, many young people don't know how to drive, and the idea of "effort for payoff" is nonexistent. We live in an intolerable TikTok'd society of second-long attention spans, why would you assume someone wants to spend hours on a road to see someone they're obligated by blood to acknowledge?
Most people, especially young students, are too stupid to interpret literature themselves, which is why we have endless streams of "Starship Troopers is Fascist" or "this is JUST like Harry Potter." It's not enough to provide excellent literature because only the smarter kids will "get" it anyway, you must also teach them explicitly what the book is saying and how. This is why we need to retake the institutions first.
Your sister has been captured by a completely socially acceptable and state-endorsed cult where you and people like you are their arch villains. Something might eventually be able to bring her around, but that won't be you. Take that to heart and defend yourself from any damage she might be able to inflict upon you, because I guarantee you she is capable of it.
This is the most 'fellow white' example we've seen in a while lads. Come on now.
Written by Claire Moses, huh? Yes, I bet Claire Moses knows a lot about wrestlers and wrestling
Civil war is inevitable. Move to the country now, because if you actually live in a high-density metro area in most Western countries, the conflict will come to you.
Covid and inflation absolutely fucked the Magic community. Commander was ostensibly the casual deckbuilding format and now it's thousands+ for a "proper" deck. One of the many reasons I stopped collecting.
#1: having strong political opinions
I remember one day one of our Magic crew got a girlfriend who came with us to the store once. He ended up buying a card for around $100 bucks or so for his commander deck and she said, "I don't get it, it's just a piece of cardboard."
Now I, back when I thought women were genuine and rational, tried to explain to her that this guy had loads of disposable income and that Magic is a "buy once cry once" hobby. I also said to her it's kinda like buying an expensive blouse or whatever -- it's not that you need it, it's that you want it, and everyone spends their money on something.
She looked at me like I just took a shit on her carpet. "It's cardboard" she said.
Cue like 6 months later, they broke up and whenever we get the chance to play Magic these days, he still plays with that card. This happened like 10 years ago and that card is $900 now. (https://starcitygames.com/gaeas-cradle-sgl-mtg-usg-321-enn/)
I don't know. I don't have a position yet. One day I'll come to one.
Thought experiment: what if, for that to happen, we actually need to be Talibanish? Hypothetically speaking.
Your reading comprehension is incredible. I thought they taught literacy in Talmudic academies?
Let me explain, since you so desperately need an explanation (because you are a gay faggot retard). Like the incel caricature, Conservative Christians were and are continually insulted and depicted as typical inbred southern bumpkins. I used that image to attempt to explain to you how stastically irrelevant yet emotionally charged depictions of a group of people can be easily utilized to personify an entire group, but you are too much of a gay faggot retard to actually comprehend the fact that you've been thoroughly mindfucked by a media apparatus that hates you and relies on your gay faggot retard opinions. If, instead of being a gay faggot retard, you used your 30IQ brain for one goddamn second, you'd be able to see the precise ways our actual enemies are eroding our society in front of our very eyes.
Instead, you act like a gay faggot retard and just buy into it because you dislike Christians and Christians are, as intended, an easy scapegoat you can blame like a gay faggot retard.
And again, since you are a retard who is simultaneously a gay fag, you can't actually read and comprehend intent from what people say, and so think I was somehow being disingenuous. I am skeptical of the current Evolutionary model. Now before you shit your adult diapers and drool over your fucking Reddit branded mousepad, understand that it does not logically follow that I am necessarily a Creationist. I'm not sure you'll be able to do this though. Because you're a gay faggot retard.
I came into this exchange in good faith because I thought you were making an error, but I guess you're actually just a faggot. Sad.
No, you see, when the media creates propaganda demonizing Gamers randomly because some Counterstrike playing autist called one of them a fag once, that's when we notice and care. When it's Christians? Well they deserve it because 20 years ago three of them pushed back publicly against the idea that putting a bunch of monkey skulls in a row immediately proves we spontaneously burst into life from inanimate matter and then graduated from being fish.
I never said it was completely fictional, I said you fell for the same psyop they've been running for decades. They used identical tactics to paint you and I as incel terrorists because we wanted honest reviewing in our hobby. You cite anecdotes of life in the south and with corrupt Megachurches, not seeing that these two things are largely inconsequential in terms of "Conservative Christianity" in America and are largely tangential (and immaterial) to any threat to state run and funded public schools. State schools, by the way, which are now teaching outright, provable lies about the natural world to the applause of everyone who derided Christians for an "anti-Science" mindset.
Christians may very well be wrong about creation. I'm unsure. I've personally become un-convinced of traditional "scientific" models that you seem certain of. One thing I do know for certain though is that Christians have never lied about how they see the natural world. They might very well be wrong, but they aren't lying.
Now validate my gender, bigot
Of course. It's smoke is all. Not all smoke means a fire, but smoke appearing should also be investigated. I investigated.
While there were and are retarded Evangelicals, the idea that the hallowed halls of the public school system were under critical threat by 60 IQ, sisterfucking, Jesus-dinosaur-riding-endorsing, toothless biblethumpers is so out of pocket it's embarassing considering the site we're on. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Christian Conservatism that voiced opposition to things like gay marriage, and were told about slippery slopes, now find themselves in a position where they're actively persecuted while being completely vindicated.
I have absolutely zero love for Evangelicals but let's not also claim that the Jon Stewart era 2000s was at all neutral towards Christian Conservatives of any stripe.
You're on a forum dedicated to rooting out propaganda in media yet believe 2000s era anti-Christian scaremongering, curious.
Continual, extended conquest since its inception 1300 years ago? Gulags, struggle sessions, and secret police? Bombing embassies, gunning down allied ships, and enforcing an open-air prison on an entire population? Spanish Christians killed 3000 people over a period of 400 years centuries ago and modern Christians are sometimes slightly mean to gays!!!!!!!
The first breach in my Atheism was fully realizing how much they hate Christians, Christianity, and Jesus. If you think something is dumb and illogical, why spend every single second exclusively talking about it? Because "it's the dominant culture?" Yeah, maybe 70 years ago before every institution became converged.
Reagan destroyed California, among other things, so I assume this movie is meant for 70+ year old dipshit boomers. It's wild to me that leftists won't just ignore boomers playing in their fantasy world, but then again, we are on KiA.