What does that mean as a genre? Like a romcom with rape, or closer to a general comedy with a character getting raped as a common punchline, or what?

The thing about good writing like on those Simpsons episodes is that catching a reference or background detail would often enhance the joke, but even if you didn’t catch everything the main bits were still strong on their own.

I don’t know enough about autism or other communication/cognitive impairment to know exactly what I’m implying he has, but yes, that is essentially what I’m saying. And not in the cool “weaponized autism” way.

Yeah, that's also a possibility, although he just doesn't strike me as very calculating. Which I guess could mean he's really, really calculating.

I think Lethn has some sort of communication impairment. Tons of conversations between him and multiple other posters follow the same pattern: he posts something stupid, gets called stupid, and then says that the stupid thing he said isn’t what he meant, while also repeating that thing, while also misreading other comments. Over and over. And the more analogies someone draws, the more they try to illustrate exactly what the thing he wrote means and what it implies, the more he will insist everyone is “sperging out” and “misinterpreting.”

It’s like he’s working with a dictionary that’s subtly different from everyone else’s, and he never seems to realize that there’s a disconnect between what he means and what he’s actually saying.

If the law doesn’t exist, that kills revenue systems for basically every content creator of any kind that doesn’t make their own site and find their own advertisers from scratch. And while I’ll agree that many content creators and several of the platforms would make me happy by failing, your idea of “legalize royalty/ad fraud” is insane, with far too many consequences. Go on, present your side of the argument: if I enter into an agreement where I tell a person “if I make a thing, you can distribute it and then we’ll split the revenue” and then I intentionally deceive them into giving me money by faking the distribution numbers, why is that okay?

But those playstation characters are, themselves, male, female, or robots, right? Each Astro Bot should presumably have its own defined gender based on the character it is based on, right? Unless it's a shapeshifter, but even then it isn't "trans," it's a genderless thing with nonhuman attributes and abilities, and/or it may have a default form that expresses as male or female.

I’m actually with you on “an archive is better than a screenshot,” but in terms of arguments the one I think you should be making is “it’s easy to look up, but what if it’s been deleted by the time I do?” Which, with a volatile topic like this, on a less-than-stable site like Twitter, from a figure facing DoJ persecution, is really something u/ger111 should be considering, and yet you come off as too lazy/reflexively abrasive to point that out.

My understanding—based entirely on comments from here, so take some grains of salt—is that she’s half Hong Konger (which is some ethnicity of Chinese, but I don’t know exactly which), half white.

Whether that makes her a chink or not is up to how you define the term, I guess.

In fairness, I’m pretty sure that’s a typo for “quite.”

I’m not a big enough Star Wars fan to understand exactly what the critique you alluded to is, but what I’ll bring up is this:

In A New Hope, when Leia and Vader first meet face to face on the Tantive IV right after the Empire captures the ship, she says that they’re on a diplomatic mission and Vader had no right or reason to attack them. He counters that they received a transmission from rebel spies containing the Death Star plans. Essentially, Leia’s ship was the pickup for the info, but it did have a cover story of being on a legitimate mission.

The ending of Rogue One shows Leia’s ship engaged in a giant space battle and only breaking away to flee at the last second. It doesn’t really work with the understanding of what’s happening that the characters demonstrate in the start of the other film—MAYBE Leia would be ballsy and desperate enough to try such a weird, obvious lie, but even if we accept that how come Vader doesn’t point out that he obviously followed her from the scene of a terrorist attack on an Imperial research facility? Secondarily, this sequence of events also carries the implication that they somehow jumped to hyperspace to get to Tattooine, exited hyperspace for unclear reasons, and that Vader’s ship made the same jump to catch them there. I’m willing to say that maybe that makes sense with the way the galactic map is laid out and how technology works, and I just don’t know it, but it doesn’t seem right. Amusingly, the implications of that would be yet another issue for TLJ’s consistency, where they make the reveal of previously impossible hyperspace tracking into the basis for the entire plot. Looks like Vader already tracked people through hyperspace decades ago!

I would hope that making a character who is named Snow White explicitly for being extremely white brown would also trip up even some normies. Not in a sense that they’d notice the larger race swap agenda, but at least in the sense that they might not say “well, I don’t see why swapping a race matters,” since it’s literally her most defined character trait and the reason the whole story happens.

But I don’t have much hope.

For a while, GG had a lot of presence on 4Chan, and 4Chan makes anime mascot girls for basically everything. I don't know that there was ever more to it than that, although I do think that among the people that were concerned about the allegations of misogyny—either because they had not yet realized what leftism was like or because they were and remain leftists themselves—having a female mascot that was possessed of a normal, not hambeast body but also not dressed in a bikini was appealing in much the same way #NotYourShield was.

"Vivian James" is supposed to sound like "Video Games," and the clover on her headband is a nod to the 4chan logo. There are probably also details behind some of the other design choices, but I've forgotten them.

Yeah, it basically comes down to whether you think being as extreme as Islam is the only way to stop feminism or whether you think there were other bad actors and issues that could be solved without going there. I tend to lean towards option two, but I do see the logic behind option one.

What are “actual gay rights”?

I don’t agree with Islam, but the steelman is clearly: look at all the simps we have today. Look at all the thots and bitches that get influence they should never be allowed anywhere near. Heck, this forum is ultimately the result of a woman using sex to get tons and tons of influence she didn’t deserve, and she wasn’t even particularly attractive. It’s nice that you have good self control, but it’s clear that much of society does not, and a handful of individuals’ resistance to manipulation means little when so many people around them are vulnerable.

In general I do think you’re right and there’s probably a much more scaled back version of a patriarchal society where you don’t force women into hijabs and prevent them from speaking entirely while still disallowing thottery and expecting men to have the bulk of societal leadership. But it is worth pointing out that at one point, we did have that, and it obviously didn’t end well.

Sort of, but the problem is that sentinels don’t necessarily stop mutants from being born, and they also don’t really do shit except make the most powerful ones mad (unless we’re playing “alternate future where sentinels killed everyone” instead of “the ten-thousandth guy who can tie reality in knots just showed up” this week).

Really, the best solution is preventing mutants from being born. They’ve done it a couple times. It was a background detail in Logan and a plot point for a while after House of M and maybe in a couple other cases I don’t know about. They always treat it as a bad thing though, instead of having the rational reaction, which is: “oh thank god someone just unloaded the cosmic gun that’s pointed at our heads.”

If it was a Black guy we might get some "dindu nuffin, he wuz framed" stuff.

Are we sure it isn’t a satire?

Thanks. OP is a huge faggot about this.

It could be described that way, yes. That doesn't mean that it's a card game, and it also doesn't mean that positioning and terrain isn't a big part of managing that risk.

The problem with secession is that there was already a civil war fought over it, and I don’t think the government from which people are hoping to secede is any more willing—probably less willing, frankly—to let people go than the other one was. Any political body voting for succession has to understand that they need to be ready and willing to fight a war to back up their vote, which makes people very hesitant to support it.

I doubt that the orgy members of a degenerate sex club put too much thought into the logical consistency of their sex vocalizations.

Hey, I’m sure a lot of their crowd is self-immunocompromised enough for covid to actually be dangerous. Not that the vaccines help, of course.