Gorgon

Joe was objectified by my girlfriend.

Does that work for indirect objects. I think they are too far removed from the subject, in grammatical terms.

The terms 'white people' and 'black people' are kinda meaningless anyway. What can one say that applies to all the people in those subsets. Not much.

The context is different though, I mean if you have the memory of being lynched by the clan. That's part of the context of (I can't believe I know the ones I used was weak sauce cept cracker, they were used as examples. The thing is u can flip the word and instead of "damn there's a bunch of Whitey's in here" is acceptable, but "damn there's a bunch of darkeys in here" is not acceptable right? That's what makes it confusing because it seems like a double standard. There is historical context, specifically the cultural memory of being lynched, repression and so on. That's why whitey is so anemic. There aren't really those types of memories associated with it.

Yeah but crackers don't generally care.

...Uh, actually, a billion is a thousand times a million, not a million times a million. That would be a trillion. In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000). In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000). This is my fig leaf, I will cling onto it determinedly.

I dunno, nothing. What's going to stop racism ? I mean until we have all interbred enough to be the same colour, and when that happens we will think of something else. Some other reason to hate each other.

How large a percentile of African Americans support reparations, and how many of those just wouldn't say no to a cheque. Can you really make the broad assumption that 'they complain about it'. Does 'they' mean a majority, how large is that majority.

I dunno, well first of all it doesn't matter what race the enslaved were, secondly that calculation is difficult to make. On the one hand it has probably been going on as long as there have been warring clans and societies. Enemies captured in battle would be enslaved, on the other hand population increase is an enormously important factor Google says 1400 AD 350-374 1500 AD 425-540 1600 AD 545-579 And 2017 we are at 7,5 billion. A billion is a million million. I feel like I have to write it out to really get the sense of scale. Then we have to separate ancient and more modern societies into pools of 'whites' and 'not whites' (what the hell does that even mean) a difficult task to say the least and and then for periods where no records exist have to add enslaved people to either pool. Do we count 'whites' enslaving 'whites' toward the total ?. I mean that would be cheating if one is trying to show them as victimized. Good luck with that.

Comparing the Barbary states to the trans Atlantic trade slave is kinda like comparing Walmart to my corner kiosk. That's not enough historical context. Also, the irony of doing a clickbait video about Buzzfeed.

There's no one stopping anyone from making graphic novel adaptations (well maybe licencing issues but that's not really the point here) - there's 300, Watchmen and Sin City for instance. I'd argue strongly against PG13 precluding a movie being interesting, nor are all MCU films cookies with a slightly different taste. The first batch were, yeah, mostly due to the origin story problematic where one most often runs in to the seemingly inevitable boss battle Lexx mentioned (also known as "giant laser shooting in the sky" effect). Marvel's "Phase 2" has seen some shifts and tried new things. Some films got darker and edgier (The Winter Soldier was really, really good, Civil War less so, but both were much different from the straightforward The First Avenger) and some tried new things. While there's no accounting for taste and all that jazz I think it's demonstrably wrong to brush them all with one stroke. The Guardians of the Galaxy you mentioned as a deviation from the typical comic book superhero movie coming before. As was Deadpool. I mean look at what these movies have done to Suicide Squad - panicked executives littered the movie with pop music and forced extensive reshoots to move it more towards what Marvel was doing. What they all have in common, a few examples aside, Deadpool and Guardians perhaps is the pathological fear of failing to meet earnings expectation. Take Batman vs Superman and Suicide Squad as some of the worst examples. So you get lots of fake awesome crammed into segments in the hope that something will stick. The story is butchered in the process. The winter soldier had good progression I tend to agree, but it's an anomaly. But hey, I never liked superhero stuff that much back in the day either. If it's not elevated to be something else as well, take Watchmen and The Dark Knight as examples, it doesn't interest me that much. From the perspective of what I like in a superhero movie the success rate is about 1 in 10, same as comics back in the day really.

Blade I'd argue that most superhero movies that came out in the past few years were good, with a few exceptions. They're not high-brow entertainment of course - but eh, neither was Blade (I love the series, yeah, even the second one). I'm not sure I'd rate any of them as great* movies and I doubt any of them will go down in history except for being amongst the highest grossing movies of all time. But even the most forgettable Marvel MCU fare these days is competently made. While I found much of it to be completely forgettable (like Iron Man 2 or Thor) they are arguably well made - good - movies. Especially when compared to other blockbuster summer movie crap that happens to be around, like Transformers or any number of Roland Emmerich films. * I suppose Logan comes as close to great as mainstream comic book movies can. Of course there are always films like Birdman or Super, but those weren't based on existing comic books. Nor were they really superhero movies per se. Mostly they are boring products. They are Pirates of the Caribbean 9, Guardians of the Galaxy 14. Nothing even remotely interesting going on because you need that PG13 rating. There are so many good graphic novels to chose from and we get Marvel paste used to make the same cookies with slightly different taste.

Blade More like 'so bad it's good'. Did he have a comic before the movies. Blade 2 or 3, the one with Ron Pearlman and Ryan Renolds is my fave.

mmm the dilemma felt forced. Why didn't they just go back and shoot the thing

I thought it was OK. Can't remember too many good superhero movies. It stood out because the superhero banter worked, you know those speech bubbles spider man does while punching people, those had never been captured effectively in a movie before. I don't know if I want that much interior dialoge in every superhero movie from now on but it was interesting to observe.

I'm so tired of the gender wars. What we need are Secret Sacred Wars ©

Well, the proof is in the pudding. So far no regular mortals have played it.

the new one is system shocky. stranded on a space station, there be aliens

TLDR it's out and it's **** ?

I played the hell out of that on the PS1, split sceen multiplayer

I got this far. It is necessary for the government to intervene in the economy to protect citizens. That's not specific enough, it could mean anything from taxation or environmental and safety regulations to economic stimulus packages. I understand that the question is useful for giving political inclinations but it is also meaningless. Is the government protecting the people from the economy like it was some fire breathing dragon, is it possible for the government to do anything at all without intervening in the economy in some way, is the government protecting the people against income inequality with taxation. These are not the same parameters.

This might well become my only Day 1 purchase of the year, along with Battle Brothers. Glad they've improved on the formula, and hope they get enough sales to keep making. I dunno, I remember Blackguards, the last turn based hex game I played.

Gym and a routine must become a lifestyle choice, if you not committed and make these types of excuses then rather not go I have been making excuses to go to gym the last 6 months but started last week but I injured my muscle while rowing. I have been in such pain but its getting better now so maybe I'll take 1 week off Next time I intend to warm up properly I would say one can benefit greatly from a workout even if it's just once or twice a week compared to nothing. That's about the extent I can muster. I'm not one of those lifestyle people. I only go because I want to, that's not an excuse, and then the one near me closed and... now it's starting to sound like an excuse isn't it.

Every time I join a gym they rip me off when I try to leave. Last time they 'hadn't gotten my email'. If I can find one where I don't have to sign a contract the size of the Maastricht treaty for something as simple as access to their facilities I should probably go.