The only interesting Young Avenger was Wiccan, and the only reason he was interesting (to me) was the spells gimmick.
Cause yeah. Some ancient tome with a grand spell will sound like "Glo-ee macka DOO MAH FAH" and yeah it's the great vanishing spell. But if you wrote it in English it probably WAS just "make the bad guys disappear, make the bad guys disappear."
This is such a lower mindset. The reason you hire only people you know or friends of friends is because that's the ONLY legal way to vet anymore.
Why the fuck would I take a chance on some stranger who claims to have skills instead of just going with somebody I trust's son who at least has been vouched for.
The rest of this thread is equally retarded, using "networking" to mean connecting with people on LinkedIn in, instead of demonstrating your capability to those you have relationships with and trading on that reputation.
I have customers I never called, never met personally, and don't even share a language with that carry certain months. Simply because I took care of their brother or friend and they gave the recommendation.
Y'all want to talk about white communities and living off the grid but you won't make the connection that that's how things function in such a place. That's what gatekeepers IS. Not this pseudo liberal "meritocracy" that never existed in the first place.
She wasn't at all imo. She plays the role of a diplomats with Mario being her muscle. The only possibly girl boss moment in the movie is when she beats him at the obstacle course. And in my view they implied that everyone in the mushroom kingdom could do it, not that Peach was super awesome. Mario being a foreigner is his biggest obstacle.
And in the end, the 11th hour savior isn't Peach OR Mario, it's Luigi being willing to jump into the fire to help his brother without even knowing what's going on.
Brotherhood is the hero of the movie. It didn't read as woke to.me at all really.
Correct, and it wouldn't be difficult to build a stable of a couple people with overlapping taste that diverges in specific, known ways to have a variety of content, including point and counterpoint stuff.
There you go, you have a gaming site again.
Hell there's webcomics with more active forums than most gaming sites. Its not hard to have a niche community exist if you aren't actively trying to murder it in the cradle.
I mean it's the transition phase from exclusivity to artisinal that every industry that has technology revolution goes through.
There IS a place for gaming websites but it's NOT what they used to be, the old ways die. They're not useful as gatekeepers and filters like they used to be when it was hard to disseminate information.
If uou couldn't watch a game play video the next best thing was a trusted outlet 2atching it and then publishing an article. Now that distance between developer and consumer has shrunk and that role no longer exists.
There is place for a taste maker, trusted curator, artisanal reviewer. And the people that do that are successful still. But it's a fundamentally different structure than these old sites
There's a band I found on Spotify whose name I forgot that just does "trailer version" covers. And I like to believe they're doing it semi ironically, or to pick up licensing deals on some of it because it's exactly as you describe.
,,,bum,,,,bum bumb,,,, la la,,,,,, la la la,,,
BOOM BOOM BOOM.
GUITAR SCREACH
Well quite. humanity is failure incarnate, it's in our nature.
Living in accordance with God's law is the only possible way towards reducing coercion and violence.
So no. It does have an answer, it's that human society is not capable of an end goal, and that the only path for liberal ideologies to survive is to hide under an objective framework that permits it to exist.
This is only possible under Christainity which recognizes the foreigner and condems coercion in favor of forgiveness.
I've said all along that leftist in the United States attempts to adopt Puritian methods and frameworks without having the baseline required to make them reasonable. They claim they deserve power because they think they deserve power.
My whole comment is based on the idea of wanting a liberal society where each can decide those things themselves. It's self contradictory as the only way this is even possible is through magniminious Christianity.
Building your own set of values being a desirable outcome is itself a value set.
There is no day zero for morality. Liberalism itself is a grand experiment and compromise in itself. Recognizing that conflict is costly, and that ignoring differences where possible is preferable to constant war. Thus we draw up rules of engagement for conflict and decision making that affects the collective, and fuck off about everything else.
It's a failed experiment obviously, and it can't be reattempted until Good people eradicate the institutional evil around us. And start over.
So at this point Christians will need to impose their values again, and non'-christians will fall in line or civilized society dies for the foreseeable future. Because that's how we achieved it in the first place
Not to mention the Bible also DEMANDS Christians to hate. Hate that which is evil, cling to that which is good.
The opposite of Love isn't Hate its indifference, Hatred is the proper emotion for seeing purity defiled, holiness blasphemed, innocence destroyed. You have to Love something enough to hate that which sullies it.
It's more about being lucky, but it has nothing to do with brainwashing. If you haven't met your eventual spouse by.... at the LATEST 22 it's over. We've disrupted the natural order enough by now to believe that isn't true but it is.
I'd really put the age lower, but i'm trying to be nice. I've made this comment here before, Quoting in part:
"I will never have a childhood best friend I've known for 20 years. Simply because I missed that opportunity, I'm not a child anymore and don't have one, so pursuing it now is futile.
A long term relationship is the same. You have to find a woman who will be with you as an investment, thus who is mature early. You both offer your best years.
If you don't find that early enough you've missed the boat. Exceptions may happen, I couldn't say. But your odds sink to the trench.
Healthy relationships are rare, partially because most of the population are selfish thoughtless morons, incapable of pair bonding without social pressure.
If you are in the category that requires that pressure to find somebody it will work with, tough luck mate. Get a dog"
The Shepard archetype is a warrior as well. He fights the lion, the bear, the wolf. He lays his life on the line for the sheep, and in the case of the perfect Shepard dies to protect them eternally.
David as the Shepard King's first act is to slaughter the threat to his family by beheading.
The Good Shepard for his part, forgave and welcomed all with the caveat to "sin no more" and he STILL enacted violence when it came to protecting the purity of worship.
It's one of those things. There's a level of unaffected, zen, monk type attitude in Christianity, but it is backed up strongly with "hate that which is evil"
Hate is a strong word. And "to hate" is commanded by God.
I considered it one of his more inspired moves than. "Okay I banned the exact thing you complained about in this shooting. Now shut the fuck up for a year." And it kinda worked.
There's also a portion of doing that sort of activity and getting it formated and working that doesn't seem to be part of the "common Z experience"
What I mean to say is the last time I was sick and stayed home from work I spent 8 hours straight trying to get a stupid Candyland cereal box game from when i was a kid to work on my computer. The process included installing Windows 3 in dos-box, before eventually giving up and running a virtual windows 98 machine in PCem, which I had never used before.
Last night I spent 3 hours getting Marvel Ultimate Alliance to work on my computer with mods and all from scratch. Even though I HAVE a fully set up copy in my backpack on a hard drive.
I haven't even played it now that it's working.
It's a different era/mindset.
It's inconceivable to me "aha! Fascists getting the opposite of what they want! Fascism intensifies!"
Spliter Cell land mines are related to ice cream sodas as described in the cassette tape audio book of Cheaper by The Dozen
There isn't a map, it's not a real belief system. It's whoever serves their interests in furthering whatever argument is currently being discussed
Innocent as doves, shrewd as vipers.
Except this is where "equality feels like oppression" comes in as a core truth. You've now recast yourself as the leftist side of the argument to seek "the greater good" for some abstract ultimately religions beliefs.
"Gender affirming" care IS better for the selfishly motivated people who push hardest for it, and in a zero sum game any gain by anybody other than them is a loss, a loss is opposition, opposition begats conflict and conflict justifies force.
You advocating for "more winners" is advocating for their loss. That's all that matters. You are trying to take away from one group to give to another in the name of fairness, and that designates you as an Adversary.
This is clown world of course, so you are harming demonic anti-human pedophiles to benefit innocent children, but the structure of the conflict remains the same.
Just as if my whole community was made up of rapists, the moral imperative would not be "the greatest good" and sacrificing my family, it would be painting the streets with their entrails. Very selfishly.
If I could sum up. If the only difference between you and your enemy is who ACTUALLY deserves the treatment under discussion, the treatment isn't actually inhumane. Which fine, but it places you in the same moral category as them. It's not enough.
It's the same way that you can't distinguish Hitler quotes from BLM ones, the framework is identical, leftist are literally one binary switch away from agreeing with the Holocaust, and that switch is "the jews didn't ACTUALLY do that, but white people DO"
Tl;Dr no bad tactics only bad targets doesn't work as a moral framework
That's how Italy was as I experienced it (20ish years ago but still) especially Roma. Garbage piles, flies, and the stench of rotten fish and open drains.
New Orleans is the only city that smells worse.
So much for the center of western culture and history, though I suppose it could be taken propheticly.
Using the McDonald's argument unironically is my cue to not talk to you ever again.
I didn't watch it :p
Compare with somebody like Razorfist, not a word wasted, every sentence is compelling and is a different piece of information, and the videos are done with when he's talk talking.
It's the same phenomenon as everywhere else "wahhh wahhh where's the viewership going whyyyyy" yeah its disappearing because you're garbage.
Because they ruined the ability of viewers to trust them? Lol
My comment isn't hard to understand.
And why?
The fault as always lies with content creators who stretch the most minor commentary into ages of ponderous useless bullshit.
The Quartering is king of this. The entire content of most videos being at most 3 sentences, but they have to stretch to that 10 minutes.
It means that i develop a strategy to save myself time, and the heuristic i end up with is that the first third and last third of every video is pointless bullshit. I can waste 15 seconds each side to get 30 seconds of content. I'm not wasting 10 minutes each side to get 10 minutes of content. Fuck off.
The well is poisoned. Too bad.
Not to mention half of "content creators" are charisma-less sacks of shit with whiny nasally voices that make me what to spew.
The people who are actually compelling earn their hour of content which I will listen to cover to cover, everybody else is just a dumbass with a microphone.
This in particular. Firstly fuck off. Secondly. Fuck off with gatekeeping people role playing for an emotional experience. As that's the point.
Thirdly. Fuck off again, because now "the wrong sort" of people becoming interested in a hobby because of the actions of the creators is a BAD thing.
It's not FOR you anymore you grifting bitch.
Fuck off you piss-ridden wino jerk off chimp.
Eat a pile of donkey shit.