Everything posted by PK htiw klaw eriF
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The All Things Political Topic - Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one
I just googled it and got the TV channel. Maybe it's the algorithms making.... assumptions based on your search history, or maybe it's Bill Gates trying to get you into sissy hypno. The average woman's hand is about 3 inches. We can use that to judge the relative size of other objects in relation to hands. In this essay I will... In the US case, ease of access is a big issue. If you live in Southern states, particularly in areas with larger Black or Latin populations, there are not very many voting places for all the people there so lines can be hours long. To boot, some places have passed laws making giving water or food to people in ridiculously long lines illegal, because why not make this harder. To drop the other boot, you probably don't get time off work to vote so good luck getting there on election if you've got a 9 to 5. And of course, because of "voter fraud", more convenient ways to vote aren't allowed for a lot of people. To tie all of this up, there seems to be a general dissatisfaction, with most of my circle vehemently hating the Rs while thinking the Ds are at best a disappointment. I don't think this is a USA specific thing, just looking at the French election Macron is hated and like 90% of votes for him were because he's not Le Pen. There's probably something here about just not being as odious as the reactionaries isn't a solid long term strategy, but that's something that most politicos will get because they are high on their own farts.
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What You've Done Today - Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life
Let's hope that's all it was.
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What You've Done Today - Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life
No. That's the price of freedom. Yeah, I remember browsing Skyrim mods years ago and seeing some truly wacky ****. I have no idea what goes through some of these guys heads when they make this ****.
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What You've Done Today - Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life
Well now I feel bad about introducing that mod to you.
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What You've Done Today - Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life
With the Saerilith mod?
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The TV and Streaming Thread: Where is Ricky Gervais when you need him???
The Haunting of Hill House. Very much a Mike Flannigan show. In many ways it felt much less scary and more surreal, which is fine with me, but the extended monologs really felt like they got in the way of the actors' performances and the supernatural events than they supported it. Which is a shame, because I thought the actors all did a fine job and that there were very unsettling moments.
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The TV and Streaming Thread: Where is Ricky Gervais when you need him???
Russian Doll s2. It's very weird, perhaps even weirder than the first season. Strongly recommend it to anyone looking for a relatively short and well done show.
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Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 4
@ShadySands That's completely unsurprising.
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Food Thread - Obsidian Gormand's Edition
I've been experimenting with healthier breakfast stuff and whoever came up with unflavored unsweetened nut "yogurt substitute" really screwed up.
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Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 4
So how is the new DLC?
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The All Things Political Topic - Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one
Real talk, it can be fun to joke about people believing in dumb stuff, but I think repeating untruths ends up normalizing them. Given the way the world has really gone off the rails believing dumb **** like Disney being a communist plot, we need to be more careful when posting to prevent some of the more gullible forum members from unironically believing such nonsense. Which is why I need to come out against the flat earth lie, science shows that we actually live on a giant ball of ice and that the earth is actually just one of many ponds in this big ol ball of ice.
- Anime and Manga - I respect the first human to have eaten a mushroom
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Anime and Manga - I respect the first human to have eaten a mushroom
Well I'm posting from my phone, so forgive me if I stop in the middle after getting frustrated with the mobile UI. In general, I think that Kill la Kill is more deconstructive while Gurren Lagann is more played straight and has mechas. They're very similar in terms of beats and style, down to the fanservice shots (and boy howdy there are a lot of them) and the mid season plot twist. The art is similar enough that, barring different setting and characters and the no mecha rule in one anime, you could probably confuse the two visually if watching them back to back. In my opinion I preferred Kill la Kill, but I think that Gurren Lagann should be checked out by those who did like Kill la Kill. It's definitely much more in line with some shonen shows but overall I think it works well enough for what it is. And of course the software ate my post. WRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
- Anime and Manga - I respect the first human to have eaten a mushroom
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French Election, why it matters
Pretty much.
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Ukraine Conflict - Alle Dinge unterliegen Interpretation je nachdem, was Interpretation zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt herrscht, ist eine Funktion der Macht und nicht die Wahrheit
Yeah, I think most people in positions of power try to deflect, minimize blame, or talk around it. What Russia says may be a little weirder, but the strategy itself is common enough. I think you've mentioned that your wife also has family in Ukraine, how are family matters between them and the Russian family? I think making someone watch more than 10 minutes of is a crime against humanity. Or at least crime against good taste.
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Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, Part 4
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/owlcatgames/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous/posts/3487115
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The All Things Political Topic - Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/19/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media/ I found this to be interesting, and WaPo is free right now so figured I'd link. Given the rash of anti-LGBT bills being passed it's interesting to see a dive into a social media account that feeds into this culture war. Oh and in case you were wondering, the person behind the account was in DC on 1/6/21.
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The Cinema and Movie Thread
It's especially weird given that Orwell went to Spain explicitly to kill fascists. But I guess death of the author.
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The Cinema and Movie Thread
Hell enjoys company. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-curious-case-of-nazi-catboys-94889782/ They've also tried claiming the Matrix and Angry Birds. It is something else.
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The Cinema and Movie Thread
Yeah, you tend to see that a lot with reactionaries. A bunch of (amateur) bodybuilders cosplaying as romans and doing oil massages is going to look very dumb and homoerotic to passerby. But while gay fascists (almost exclusively men) do definitely exist, by and large it is more of having a specific conception of masculinity and "tradvition" than it is intentionally homoerotic. And the (openly) gay fascists are stuff like Nazi catboys, which do exist and are probably on my top ten lists of thing I wish I could forget.
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The Cinema and Movie Thread
The short answer is that you're not the target audience, so it looks extremely goofy and dumb to you. Like the above video I linked. The long answer is something I'm too tired to type, but suffice to say that fascism needs to have a threat to be a response to (communism, racial others, "degeneracy", shadowy cabals) while projecting itself as the force needed to stop it and preserve the mythic past. The pageantry is (partially) constitutive of the latter.
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Ukraine Conflict - Alle Dinge unterliegen Interpretation je nachdem, was Interpretation zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt herrscht, ist eine Funktion der Macht und nicht die Wahrheit
That's crazy talk.
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The All Things Political Topic - Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one
Madeline Albright is a very interesting person, how many people can be said to have been refugees and then (help) created thousands of refugees?
- Anime and Manga - I respect the first human to have eaten a mushroom