Wow. That thread is an absolute goldmine for soundbites from neoliberals in conservative clothing. I keep wanting to pick one part out to repost for visibility and comedy but there's actually too many, so I was eventually just left scrolling while flabbergasted. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns a million men into nazis.
My lasting take aways:
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the absolute religious fervour that the 'broadminded classical liberal' descends into once you introduce the possibility of deporting their based hardworking brown immigrants or their descendants, as with Wayne's outburst.
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how all of this is enabled by latent feminism and boomers' resentment of their sons. There's a disturbing pattern, impossible to unsee once noticed, that these fucks will wriggle endlessly in order to spin a narrative of expectation management and harsh competition for men, but when it comes to women they still have the participation prize parade lined up, and suddenly you remember where all the 100k/year remote working fake corporate jobs are actually going. Rufo employing a random former pornstar is an extreme example, but this mindset of feminist boomers who hate their sons has apparently been destroying us for nearly a century.
Agreed. I'd go as far as saying they're in the running for best Batman in any media.
One thing I especially liked about the stealth challenges was that they teach you a bunch of techniques that aren't necessarily obvious from normal gameplay, eg. using weapon boxes as lures for gel, boosted remote batarangs to knock enemies off ledges & over railings, etc. Taught me a lot that I hadn't realised in my first run. I guess the Freeze fight is another one that's good for that, especially on hard. Really forces you to set up every trick.
In the conventional sense of returning to play properly, all the way through , the one game still having that draw for me is Tales of Maj'Eyal. I'll repeatedly take year long breaks or longer, without even thinking of it, then the urge will strike me to cook up another TOME character and I'll have another run or two, losing another couple of hundred hours to it. After 1600 hours and many runs there are still lots of classes and races I haven't even scratched, plus I've never tried the difficulty modes beyond Nightmare and probably never will. A true desert island game for me.
I also have a quirky tendency of returning to only a specific section or mode of a game to replay the same part over and over in a way that tickles my boredom. Back in the 2000s I would do this for certain shootouts in HL1 and HL2 to prod the AI and see what funny outcomes it would produce (although I also completed those games over and over as well), or in GTA4 to cause flaming chain reaction pile-ups of cars and see how hard I could make it for the cops to reach me through them in certain locations. Nowadays my preference is to periodically revisit a specific Batman Arkham City challenge map (Joker's Funhouse) to see if I can ever get an infinite timer reset chain going and post up a totally busted score in the hundreds of millions - I feel like I've proven I can do it in principle but it's been hundreds of attempts now and I keep making a mistake and dropping all my points at some stage.
The other game in that category now is Sekiro, funny enough, despite all the cliched claims about its lack of replay value. Since they patched in the boss gauntlets I was eager to clear them all, but a combination of ring rust and extra difficulty modifiers (demon bell, charmless, NG+2; I refuse to play it any easier) has seen me hit a brick wall at the Shura gauntlet. So every couple of months I keep returning to Sekiro to try and beat the Shura bosses, Demon and Inner Owl all in one go, but much like Batman, even though I can do them all easily enough in principle I can't string it all together. Once I do it there's more gauntlets to do and more NG runs... I unironically believe Sekiro's skill ceiling gives it a lot of replay value for non-shitters since it's simply fun.
Reminds me of the thing they were doing for a while during older elections and covid, when they would just repurpose the lyrics of some famous song into a series of political talking points and perform it on social media. Zero jokes, just adults reciting nursery rhymes to eachother to reinforce a message.
The vid clarifies it as even more of an obvious injustice because the owner apparently woke up to the bullshit of veganism in general. Whether or not she's couching financial motives in ideological clothing, I don't know, but she claims she once thought veganism was the healthier, more moral choice, but then she realised 'that's not true' and decided to support local farmers with a new non-vegan menu. So it's an indirect callout of veganism as an ideology and these protesters are probably angry not just at the restaurant but the idea of being called wrong.
That was my most prized VHS as a kid for years. That Ricky Steamboat vs Savage match...
Respond racially as a group to those attacking you as a racial group:
'WOKE! LEFTISTS! WE MUST DEAL WITH OUR RACISM PROBLEM!'
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4chan is more captured than post-Musk twitter (which already has plenty of problems). It attracted too much establishment attention and therefore infiltration. There was a while there, post-pandemic, in the transformation period of Twitter turning to X, where /pol/ was probably the last safe space online for pharma shills to keep rebroadcasting the stale 2021 propaganda, and other boards were where sheepish normies went for the courage to vent the stuff they no longer had the courage to say to antivaxx family and friends irl.
I mean I guess reddit is technically worse but I'm not convinced there's anyone at all human left on reddit. There are still real people thrashing around on 4chan in tidepools, but the manufactured noise drowns the signal almost 24/7 now.
Past a certain point, everything is potentially a psyop and calling everything a psyop is itself the psyop. I don't remember much of this 'Hold the line! Don't split the base! It's a psyop!' shit when the UK Conservative party imploded completely under their own impetus. It resulted in an unopposed Labour party, on the surface, but I haven't seen anyone make the serious argument that the UK right wing should have stuck by the Conservatives anyway.
Fine, we haven't seen what approach Trump's admin will actually take yet - but that's no reason not to make as much noise about it as possible. This is a core, live issue. Americans should WANT as many Republican representatives as possible quaking in their boots over the idea that they're being perceived as too neoliberal, and you should want them feeling that way fast, along with Trump too.
Telegraph is a UK rag and they're trying to gin up support for authoritarian net controls. Very hard to get a loicense for the kind of speech that chatbot used in the UK, you need to be brown or ruling political caste at minimum.
This can't be anything other than latent anti-white hatred - the acknowledgement that America has cultural problems for its professional underachievement, but that they all happen to be traceable to white pop-cultural references from the 90s, which happens to be the last generational memory of a high trust, good-natured society... and the only mention of non-white culture is about the heroic immigrant families who RESISTED the poisonous mediocrity culture of their host nation at this time, enabling them to excel over whites! Incredible.
I think any brown person who snuck into a white society when the going was good and wants to continue living in it needs to shut their fucking mouth for a few years while watching out for that pendulum swing, how about that.
Also Whiplash fucking sucked, fuck that movie and fuck jazz.
Time jump to 2024, and now informing reporters of such a thing sounds like the fastest way to tip off trannifa to take advantage of it.
That's exactly how it works. 'Get Woke, Go Broke' doesn't kick in instantly. By now everyone knows you get one freebie when trashing a franchise and it's the sales for the entry after the big DEI-fest which really matter. Companies who are fully paid up to the message pretend not to know this, however.
I started the month feeling more festive and generous than I ever have done. I'm a solitary person and my gift list averages out to about 3 names, all of them elderly family by now. But this year I decided I'd get a small gift for every business in town that I regularly patronise, so I went around doing my small santa thing here and there. Don't really know what came over me.
I came off 2 months of sobriety in time to enjoy some christmas beers which I spent way too much money on, plus some Whistlepig 10 Year Rye whiskey. I'm over-indulging, to tell the truth, but this is what Christmas means to me.
I'm in a similar situation although my mother's still at home for now. My uncle and maybe my aunt (who's already in the local nursing home) will be here on Christmas Day, which is a silly and awkward arrangement since I'm an atrocious host and cook, but it's somehow become customary. I guess it beats the alternative which is zero meaningful human contact on Christmas, but I would like to have the chance to try that one year.
An online friend of mine mentioned smoking bishop the other day. I've never tried it but I'm curious. Could be a sign to mix some up for myself. You got a secret recipe?
Is Taqiyya something like 'hasbara'?
I made my own thread on this but it disappeared because this site is broken and gay. Have my selection of quotes from this faggot:
In a thread from May 2022, he wrote, “Unfriendly reminder that anyone who responds to calls for diversity with ‘How is this fair? Hiring should be based on skill’ usually has no skill whatsoever. If you claim you can't get a job because you're straight and white, I'm sorry -- you can't get a job because you're s***e.
Concerning Rings of Power, he wrote in 2023, “Tolkien fans obsessed with ‘accuracy’ are so f***ing weird. ‘Nobody cares about this adaptation’ — why do you care about any adaptation then? The only reason you're upset about Rings of Power is because ‘critiquing’ it allows you to pretend your vitriol and bigotry have value.”
To no surprise, he’s projecting as in his next post he claims that Sam has brown skin, “What's also funny is that most of the loudest Tolkien ‘fans’ online constantly tell on themselves You've read the books, yeah? Cool, so you know Sam has dark skin. How accurate was it to cast Sean Astin then? What's that? Speak up please, I can't hear you — where are you going?”
In September 2023, he wrote, “If you are an adult who loses their mind at the concept of pronouns, which everyone, everywhere, throughout all of history has used every single day, there is something wrong with your life but it's not what you think it is. The Wokes aren't out to get you. You're just a clown.”
Maher wrote, “I wonder if they realize that by harassing trans writers who have rightfully and justifiably critiqued Cyberpunk 2077’s haphazard and sometimes harmful representation of trans people, that they themselves are the exact kind of people that cyberpunk is designed to destroy: fascistic, unempathetic, and depraved proponents of a regime designed to foster irreversible and indiscriminate misery in technophilic dystopia.”
https://substack.com/home/post/p-153361651?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
CDP managed to hire the most stereotypical, gamer-hating, woke spouting urinalist caricature as their 'franchise & lore designer'. Weird!
A selection of woke snippets for your perusal from Cian Maher, walking anti-GG cliche (whose current job is using Witcher 4 as a clumsy vehicle to BTFO the chuds):
In a thread from May 2022, he wrote, “Unfriendly reminder that anyone who responds to calls for diversity with ‘How is this fair? Hiring should be based on skill’ usually has no skill whatsoever. If you claim you can't get a job because you're straight and white, I'm sorry -- you can't get a job because you're s***e.
Concerning Rings of Power, he wrote in 2023, “Tolkien fans obsessed with ‘accuracy’ are so f***ing weird. ‘Nobody cares about this adaptation’ — why do you care about any adaptation then? The only reason you're upset about Rings of Power is because ‘critiquing’ it allows you to pretend your vitriol and bigotry have value.”
To no surprise, he’s projecting as in his next post he claims that Sam has brown skin, “What's also funny is that most of the loudest Tolkien ‘fans’ online constantly tell on themselves You've read the books, yeah? Cool, so you know Sam has dark skin. How accurate was it to cast Sean Astin then? What's that? Speak up please, I can't hear you — where are you going?”
In September 2023, he wrote, “If you are an adult who loses their mind at the concept of pronouns, which everyone, everywhere, throughout all of history has used every single day, there is something wrong with your life but it's not what you think it is. The Wokes aren't out to get you. You're just a clown.”
Maher wrote, “I wonder if they realize that by harassing trans writers who have rightfully and justifiably critiqued Cyberpunk 2077’s haphazard and sometimes harmful representation of trans people, that they themselves are the exact kind of people that cyberpunk is designed to destroy: fascistic, unempathetic, and depraved proponents of a regime designed to foster irreversible and indiscriminate misery in technophilic dystopia.”
another link from the same blogger with similar info: https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/cd-projekt-red-franchise-and-lore
I absolutely loved Birdman but it's really like nothing else. With your topic it sounds like you're searching for movies that feel momentous and have some kind of universal appeal, and as much as Birdman's brilliant it's also kind of off the wall.
Cool, thanks for elaborating. I like a lot of those movies too. You should watch Boorman's Excalibur if you haven't, although it's less 'fun' than any of those. Also has a lot of classic British and Irish actors before they went on to other things.
Funny enough some of your criticisms of LotR sound a bit like the way Tolkien himself sometimes gets criticised - overly stiff and stuffy, impersonal, more focused on the grand scale in a way that's a turnoff for some people... I seem to remember some modern author - can't remember which - saying 'Tolkien's landscapes have more character than his characters'. Which I don't agree with but I can see where the criticism originates, even while liking the books and movies. But it might be a mark of Jackson faithfully adapting the spirit of the books, if they evoke similar criticisms from those who don't click with it.
Not trying to twist your arm to get you to like LotR, but I'm curious what fantasy movies do you like if not LotR? The genre was practically dead for years until LotR came along and jolted it awake. You like darker stuff like Excalibur? Or Jim Hensoney stuff like Labyrinth/Dark Crystal?
Depends if you classify moody character dramas as 'classic Hollywood', but since I'm a Coens fan I do, so 2007 was a good year with No Country For Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James and There Will Be Blood. Can't think of much I've liked after that... maybe The Dark Knight in 2008? That qualifies as pretty classic Hollywood I think. Funny enough the iPhone was released around then so it was also the turning point where the internet died... lot of good things came to an end right around then.
I've enjoyed some directors like Eggers and S Craig Zahler in the years since, but they're pretty oddball, hard to call them classic Hollywood.
This doesn't even require an assumption of political posturing, what you said is pretty much how shonen writers scrabble from deadline to weekly deadline anyway.
Disclaimer for errors since I never read/watched MHA, but I know there was a doctor character who was called 'Dr. Maruta', translated 'Dr. Log'. Mostly (exclusively?) Chinese grievance farmers raised hell because 'maruta' was the term used for test subjects/victims of Japan's brutal Unit 731 in WW2. The claims of if being a direct reference became inflated, to the point that people started saying Unit 731's entire project was referred to as 'Project Maruta' (it wasn't; closest claim I could find is that the unit might have called the project Holzklotz internally, german for 'log'). It is also just the extremely common term for wooden logs - if you've ever played an MMO in Japanese, you've probably collected 1000 'marutas' at some stage.
Regardless, the creator acquiesced to the outcry and changed the name.
Damn, nice find. Wayne Burkette again... It could have been a tweet from anyone at all and it would have been an interesting illustration of the point, but the fact that it's one of these very same boomercon caricatures from the thread is eye-opening.
And one might say - well that's just human nature. For a man to set up a challenging childhood for his son and a protective one for his daughter, that's just fatherhood focussing on the essential nature of male and female... and in isolation that part is correct. The problem is that these boomers were coached to apply their natural, instinctual mindset to a modernised society which is already running contrary to any natural order. Once feminism rules the roost and the genders are interchangeable in the workplace, the idea of 'demand the world from your son; gift everything to your daughter' just turns into 'give your daughter the job your son was due; also gift her every forgiveness and cheap advantage you robbed from him.'
It also completely forgets the idea of men creating a familial legacy to be carried on by their sons, something surely best accomplished by gaming this globalist shitshow in your son's favour, and not by chastising him for doing a 50 hour work week while Gurmeet from Hyderabad works 51 for the same wage.
BTW this isn't some pet cause of mine, I only noticed this anti-son thing today, in this thread (unless you count the wider societal anti-male sentiment, including circumcision and the tendency of harpy mothers to trannify their sons, I notice that plenty). Rando twitter accounts were pointing out this tendency I hadn't previously been able to put a shape to. Disturbing. Fucking retard boomercons, man.