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LibertyPrimeWasRight 2 points ago +2 / -0

Halo 4 was bad. Not necessarily the actual gameplay, although there were at least some bad parts there. The lore. A core idea of the original trilogy was that you’re in the shadow of giants. The Forerunners existed on a scale so far beyond humanity and the Covenant that it’s laughable. There’s a throwaway line early on when you meet 343 Guilty Spark about how the Chief—wearing the pinnacle of human engineering—is in something like a level three combat suit, and should really upgrade to at least an eight. The Forerunner technology we run into in the little drone guys, the Flood as it exists in modern times, these are all remnants of a long dead glory and a long-passed war.

And then in Halo 4 you fight the superweapon robots created by the most fervent warlord the Forerunners had, and they die no problem just like everything else. It’s lame.

Also, I know that it was at least alluded to before and the possibility of Cortana going insane was not completely out of left field, but man, we didn’t need to see it. We didn’t need confirmation that sorry, that character you like, your near-constant companion, really does die like that. “Wake me if you need me” was the perfect ending, they didn’t need to fuck with it at all, but they did.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 5 points ago +5 / -0

I assume offensive acting means stuff like pretend rape, pretend racism, etc. but I like to imagine it means porn acting that is just so so bad it’s potentially criminal.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 2 points ago +2 / -0

Day[9] and Husky come to mind as the giants of the casting scene. Pretty much everyone was playing second to them, as I remember it. And then if you ask me to pick third place, it would probably be TotalBiscuit. His commentary wasn’t quite as engaging, but it was still good, and I loved that he put huge “anti-spoiler” chunks of black screen at the end of his videos.

I don’t think Destiny was really on my radar at all.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 2 points ago +2 / -0

That’s not anime, that’s one of those horrible “cartoonify you” apps.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 2 points ago +2 / -0

I have to break the bit to make a correction: while the US Navy also hires fags, the ship in question is part of the NZ Navy.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 4 points ago +4 / -0

Tolkein’s laundry list would still be better written than Rings of Power.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 2 points ago +2 / -0

That’s a piece of the lore that I’ve forgotten.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 4 points ago +4 / -0

Made dead shot and his daughter black

Well, that specific one has been a push since the movie with Will Smith. Next time they reboot the comics, they’ll probably do it over there.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 1 point ago +1 / -0

hardly insignificant

Actually—and if you read the article, the further context reinforces this—he’s saying they weren’t insignificant, and it’s understandable that it would be shocking. It tripped me up the first time I read the sentence as well.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 26 points ago +26 / -0

Harley Quinn has only had any lesbian suggestion to her character since the same hacks that ruined it in all the other ways started writing. I mean, take out her terribly executed, unnecessary, generally awful “redemption” arc(s), and the actual character is defined by her romantic and sexual obsession with a man. I think even Poison Ivy used to be less “feminist man hater” and more “pure eco nut.” Doesn’t she flirt with Batman/find him attractive in a lot of her pre-modern/woke appearances?

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 13 points ago +13 / -0

Terminator? Basically the same deal: two real good ones, then increasingly downhill. Jurassic Park[/World] maybe?

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 7 points ago +7 / -0

add a lightsaber and gratuitous bouncing titty shots while she rides her horse. I’m out no matter what they do now, fuck them all.

She’s not attractive enough for that.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 8 points ago +8 / -0

In his case, it’s more that either “lethn” was always a character and he was doing a bit, or he wasn’t doing a bit, and lethn was him, and he really wrote and talked and thought that way. And if it’s the latter, I simply don’t believe a sperg of that type could maintain an alt without getting into the exact same sort of fights for the exact same sort of reasons, because there was something about him that rendered him fundamentally unable to communicate properly.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 7 points ago +7 / -0

He just said a lot of retarded shit and got sick of getting told he was retarded.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 4 points ago +4 / -0

I’m not sure he has an alt. If so, he’s good at writing differently.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 11 points ago +11 / -0

Is it bad that I’m sort of disappointed Lethn deleted his account just before this all happened.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 3 points ago +3 / -0

They made us escalate to death threats and psychological warfare

I don’t believe they receive any notable death threats or “psychological warfare.” A handful, from a handful of people, who have no real intention of taking any action to follow through? Maybe. Enough to even acknowledge unless you’re putting on a victimhood show? No.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 1 point ago +1 / -0

Right, that’s the distinction I was thinking of but I forgot the proper labels. My bad.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 1 point ago +1 / -0

Maybe with (some of) the original Earth Day stuff when it was less about "OMG GLOBAL WARMING" and more about "let's not pollute our rivers so much." Of course, I'm sure that was also corrupt in its own ways.

I'm not sure I could point to any time when I can say "this movement was definitely fine." What I'm saying is less "this movement was good and became corrupted" and more "I do want some things in place that keep everywhere from becoming smog central."

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 2 points ago +2 / -0

Environmentalists as they exist now don’t have a point, but at the same time I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water and end up living in Shanghai. I think that’s what u/SparkMandrill83 was going for.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 12 points ago +13 / -1

I’m not sure we’re reading the same title. It says that he promised he would, and didn’t.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 1 point ago +1 / -0

But still overseen and endorsed by the same editorial board. We happily say “The NYT/CNN/MSNBC/etc.” sucks, and while we also call out individual anchors and writers for sucking in specific ways, it’s understood that each organization as a whole suffers collective failings.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 6 points ago +6 / -0

Are you sure? The original formulation of the term sounds like he’s talking about the trustworthiness of a specific source, given how he likens it to an individual continuously lying and uses “the newspaper” rather than “a newspaper.”

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I'd point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all. But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn't. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

It’s not necessarily bad to apply the principle everywhere, but strictly speaking, that’s not the phenomenon it refers to.

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LibertyPrimeWasRight 7 points ago +8 / -1

It sounds like u/BlisteringCold took that to the conclusion of “he’s not reliable,” though. It would only be Gell-Mann Amnesia if he’d failed to make that connection.

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