people keep saying "we" caused this "we" did that when it's like, when did any of us "bury climate change data and spend millions smearing it and buying off politicians" it seems to me like vanishingly few people actually are responsible and we know their names
There’s an irreconcilable problem in art I call Hitler and the Matrix. If you sat Hitler down and showed him the matrix, I’m pretty sure he’d like it. Cause the matrix fucking slaps. But the problem is he’d start seeing the machines as a metaphor for Jews and the One as an aryan.
Something some cis people may not know: trans people can like...tell if you're trying?
Like it's actually super obvious. Someone can use all the right words and still be dehumanizing as hell, and someone can use like...actual slurs because they don't know better and get it right
you know what's really fucking weird to think about?
One of the most iconic, perfect memetic moments from The Good Place happens...about...five, six minuets into the show?
My favorite subtle detail is that the bugs have tanks, air support, use ambushes and artillery, while the humans use nothing but infantry and more infantry and more infantry.
Great bit in the high school science class dissection scene near the beginning, when the teacher can't help but praise the alien bugs as superior to humans.
The reason why we’re all so fascinated with Harry Potter is that JKR, by accident, wrote a world where the crimes of neoliberalism aren’t hidden. Horrifying prisons, endemic literal slavery, fascism EVERYWHERE, a society of strict etiquette (secrets) that primarily exists…
This ain’t because the matrix is an inherently fashy work. I think it’s pretty clearly not down with that.
The problem is that it’s being watched BY HITLER.
A friend of mine used a mirror to peek under a door and spotted an ambush and after the game she was like, "i'm glad you aren't mad about the mirror trick" and I was like, "why would I be mad?" and she was like, "I ruined the ambush" and I feel like I need to lecture all GMs
The Mummy is also one of those weird movies that comes from that time period where hollywood just casually does super racist adventure film pastiches BUT! It's also before the mega-islamaphobia happens, so heroic characters are casually Muslim and no one remarks on it
There's this phrase I see bandied about on twitter called "my nazi phase" and, guys, there's two kinds of "nazi phases"
There's "i was 14 and watched a Sargon of Akkad video because he targeted literal children to spew right wing propaganda at" and there's "I was a nazi."
that actually reminds me: New followers, if you are ever confused by a kink, any kink, usually the answer is related to a metaphor that that kink expresses, and usually that metaphor is like, "I am desired" or "I have power and respect" or "I no longer need to make decisions"
Reading his review of Conan The Barbarian was strangely revelatory too.
Dude was furious that Conan used his brain instead of just his bawn and wrote the entire barbarian class in an angry fugue, and that's why the barbarian is like that now
Every Last Jedi fan deserves a fucking apology for 10 odd years of, "but where did that KNIFE goooo?" if this gets accepted by the fandom as quality choreography.
…to keep the majority of the world poor and exploited. It is so blatant to that even KIDS notice. And in the hands of ANY OTHER AUTHOR, that would be the point?!
Shitty libs don’t write their worlds like this?! They write TNG and DS9!
Gamers™: "Games should be apolitical, like they used to be in the 90s!"
Games in the 90s: "The planet is literally screaming in agony as the socially-repressive megacorporation sucks it dry of fossil fue--erm, *mako energy*--for the sake of earning just a little more money."
It gets so much funnier and sadder if you know that this seems to be a pretty specific reference to The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Which…uh yeah, the color and the wallpaper did mean stuff!
Fun fact, when Fallout 3 came out, I was playing it and swimming around and my mom came into the room and was like, "Why is a Geiger counter going off?" and then, watching the game for 5 seconds, she said, "you know the water wouldn't still be radioactive right?" then left
@sladeofyaupon
@HazelMonforton
Also, like, the President cannot "gaslight" you.
you are not dating the President.
When the President does that, they're doing "fascism" not "gas-lighting"
@IfyNwadiwe
Hey, remember when Finn showed up in a trailer for, like, 12 seconds and the entire right wing youtube sphere decided that it was white genocide?
Did you know that the creators of Fallout put foreshadowing to Fallout 4 in Fallout 3 AND Fallout 1??? the lone survivor is in the Fallout 1 intro, he's the one laughing and waving!
You know, almost eight movies where the Jedi are shown to be hugely flawed at best ends a little flat when the ending doesn’t show a new, altered Jedi order happening and instead just has all those flawed and shitty Jedi show up to give the main character a power boost
@McJesse
It's the single most "jedi" action I've EVER seen in ANY OF THE MOVIES!?
Fighting without violence, victory through cleverness and redirection, AND working to try and save his nephew the sin of killing his own uncle??? Like??? COME ON!????
It's also deeply funny that they kept the Majii leader (who was nameless in the first movie, then given the name Ardeth Bey in reference to the OG Mummy) alive purely because Oded Fehr is fucking gorgeous
@ChrisArcher3
one thing to do is just say their pronouns repeatedly while thinking of them. Like, "She she she she she she she she" just keep doing that once every day and it'll be natural
if you're ever confused by something, check "is it cause fuck", there's a solid 50% chance that's why.
"why do people keep making vampires nicer?" cause they wanna fuck them
"why do people obsess over spaceships in Star Trek and not the characters?" cause they wanna fuck them
Like, it's actually kinda wholesome how many kinks boil down to simple human needs being met in roundabout, weird ways.
"I wanna be turned into a robot in a sexy way so I can help my friends and never hurt again" that's sweet!!!
Community Note: The imperium of man systemically exterminated everything they met until only the orks and 'nids were the only thing left and then acted shocked that the Eldar didn't want to talk to them
“Omg the imperium of man is so xenophobic” well no shit have you seen the things we had to deal with?!?!
The imperium would have been a lot more welcoming if we had the races from mass effect, instead we have 7ft fungus monsters and space death bugs
@shaun_vids
i have this idea for, rather than automated cars, we have this like, transportation system where lots of people are moved around in specialized vehicles, running on tracks or rails of some kind, and then we redesign our urban spaces around people living in them, instead of cars
When I was a kid, i read two YA fantasy series
In Harry Potter, the protagonist's elderly magical mentor manipulates him to accomplish his own goals.
In The Song of the Lioness, the protagonist's elderly mentor gives her a magical birth control amulet and tells her to go nuts
So this stuff happened because Star Trek was trying to say racism was wrong at a time where black people were being murdered for drinking out of the wrong fountain and that women could be officers on a naval ship when it was legal to rape your wife.
It is genuinely insane how what was supposed to be the dumbest, stupidest idea I'd ever heard of - "learning the backstory of the vault boy" turns out to be like...the best part of the show???
I like how if any video game accurately and realistically depicts capitalism *without saying it's a leftist game*, it instantly radicalizes half of reddit
I mean, yeah, characters are more than just how much you, the viewer, want to fuck them.
...but also, just from skimming a few episodes, Scorpia's new character is ALSO way more fun and interesting and dynamic.
@oneirossandman
There's this fantastic bit in the comic where Rorscharch is in the background, confabulating absurd nonsense based on nothing while, in the foreground, Dan guesses Ozymandias' password in two tries and instantly solves the entire case
and, like, to be clear: "coming back" is all about you? Like...if you want to be a better person, you do that shit to be better, not so you get cookies.
Like, you are under no guarantee that people you hurt will be willing to forgive you. Fortunately, forgiveness isn't required
@WorldGoneCrazy2
@arawilson
@Cath_Read
@MaryRobinette
Ah, see, I will translate, Mr. World Gone Crazy
"Icelandic is a much smaller, more homogenous country. It'd never work here in America."
Translation: "I don't want to pay for socialized healthcare if black people get it."
@Kalebfenoir
That is exactly what she's saying! ...another detail I love is that literally every adult in the movie except for Johnny's parents has some disfigurement or missing limb - this teacher is blind (and has scar tissue around her eyes.)
@katrinaltrnsl8r
@The_Far_Horizon
Sometimes, people describe translation as being finding the soul of the words, even if it doesn't mean literally translating, and I think in that case, this translation is 100% on point and perfect
This ship has fucking sailed, but I still think a predator movie should retcon the whole "this entire species is about hunting" and replace it with "we have been tussling with a string of rich dentists"
@kathbarbadoro
If you asked me the only things I genuinely liked about Biden, it'd be how he seems to actually love his kid, like, one of the few 100% decent things about the guy
The most unrealistic thing I’ve ever seen about any Star Wars movie… because why was Laura Dern on this ship with a fresh dye job and custom gown ready to take over the rebellion?
it's petty, but the ones I want to see fucking pilloried and run out of town on a rail, covered in tar and doused in feathers, their faces smeared with rotting fruit, and their bodies bedecked in signs, is Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, and those fucking southpark guys.
@RammJaeger
Oh, quick question, how do you square your belief that life begins at conception with your actual holy book, which clearly states that one only becomes a living being when one takes their first breath?
@DefinitelyEmile
@lisaquestions
Don't forget while idolizing a multiethnic empire that survived nearly 1,500 years purely because it was able to absorb other cultural ideas, to the point where it completely changed its primary religion at least once.
(Roman History is wild)
It may feel shitty to know there are some people who will always not like you, but...fucking deal, you can always meet new people who won't have that emotional baggage, and if you really HAVE changed, then those people will like you for the new you.
The thing that gets me is Harry Potter, a story where a boy finds out that there’s magical world that gives him everything but, secretly, runs entirely on slavery, exploitation and bigotry? That’s the best metaphor for growing up privileged in the first world I’ve seen!
@RealiaAmelia
The thing that bugs me is when people who haven’t written nor read a lot of zombie fiction try and sell their stuff by going “ah but in this story, it’s not about the zombies! It’s about the *people*”
That’s every zombie story ever written, dude! They’ve been metaphors for ages
I think one of the dumbest things in the Fallout show was when the knight, who was bleeding out, started insulting and threatening the only person who can insure his survival
Just because someone is a jackass or "evil" doesn't mean they're also stupid
Hot take: the very idea of “gray Jedi” represents the utter childishness of Star Wars writers. They cannot imagine life beyond any binary, the only “middle ground” is still functionally the ascetic space knight
the vampire blood drinking metaphor just feels super...not...correct these days
like oh wow, they drink a tiny amount of a renewable resource??? and they need it to live???? what monsters
@bornposting
One of the rare Based Chase moments.
I kinda loved how much he fucking sucked. Like, "Ah that's my boy, Chase, making terrible shit decisions!" and then I nod and smile and there's a twinkle in my eyes
Did you know that the creators of Fallout put foreshadowing to Fallout 4 in Fallout 3 AND Fallout 1??? the lone survivor is in the Fallout 1 intro, he's the one laughing and waving!
People who have only played D&D do not know, genuinely, how...insanely complicated and fucking weird D&D rules are. How many contradictions they've needed to learn, how many bad practices they've needed to work around to even get the game to work
I can’t fucking put this down. I’m about 70% finished at the moment, and it’s insane to me that this isn’t like a 10 episode series on Hulu or Amazon. This is up there with Dune as the best sci-fi I’ve ever read.
#scifi
#books
@Q_Review
I watched a stream where Thought Slime watched one of her videos and the thing that struck me is that she perpetually sounded like she was five, six seconds away from bursting into tears.