ITT: Things you realized are liberal propaganda after going full lefty

same here, right down to the age when i had to watch it.
Idiocracy is pretty reactionary too if you think about it. The movie is practically an endorsement for eugenics

Parks and Rec.

It was written and shot before ows I believe. Funny that Bane is more sympathetic than Batman.

Nolan did an interview where he admitted that the movie was a response to Occupy.

Its kind of understandable why given the fact that US intelligence agencies have re-written over 1000 movies. Medium and TeleSur have good articles on it
telesurtv.net/english/news/U.S.-Intelligence-Rewrites-Over-1000-Hollywood-Movies-New-Book-20170705-0043.html
medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-documents-expose-direct-us-military-intelligence-influence-on-1-800-movies-and-tv-shows-36433107c307

No, the movie was more of a criticism of how culture glorifies idiocy more than anything else. I can kind of see how you would reach that conclusion though.

Fucking a the writers were like an Obama/Clinton handbook

Fitzroy was a great character, apparently she has a redemption in the dlc for the whole "threatening to shoot a child thing".

It's really just "Superman is a bad guy" again, but this time you can choose who you side with.

I only saw one episode of this. I was hungover at my friend's house and he was watching it.

The episode was about standing up to some mean Venezuelan govt officials or some shit. How much ideology do you need to be on to make Venezuelans the ones bullying Americans?

They wrote out the one revolutionary member of the Crystal Gems in the same episode in which she debuted.

Eyepatch?

Let's be real here
There was never any question SU was liberal as all hell

Calm your tits tankie. Vox Poupli had no ideology outside of rabble rousing

Only sorta counts. First 15 minutes are so are pretty good, simply a suicidal dude who happens to live near a celebrity cunt that he wants to take out with him. Meets this stupid edgy teenage girl, then it turns into the directors "lets kill all the neocon inserts I hate" fantasy. About 30 minutes in I realized what I was watching and even high school me was embarrassed by it. Ending was pretty funny though, don't want to spoil it but it [almost] makes the rest of the movie worth watching.

Except the ending completely turns that on its head.

Bismuth?

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Batman has always been pro bootlicker even though the system is corrupt but injustices whole message was to not go ahead of the law no matter how corrupt or incompetent it has proven to be even if it's the joker and he has killed many and nuked a city.

When batboy went into his no killing bs I wanted to spit in his face.

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even the Incredibles?

The incredibles is worse than liberal, what are you talkin about fam?

I hated it even as a lib, but especially now when I remember the protagonist telling the right-wing pundit he's about to kill that he agrees with him on a lot, but he just wishes he wasn't so mean, I instantly hear Carl Diggler yelling "THE DISCOURSE!"

"On the Waterfront" was anti-union propaganda. also what said.
Also history class in general

I've heard its pretty good though.

The Storming of the Winter Palace

>Balian, instead of a lesser noble, is now a blacksmith and self-made man who pulls himself up by his bootstraps and some how climbs the feudal hierarchy
>in fact, Baldwin IV of Jerusalem is portrayed as a good guy in this movie

wat

What? It's not like Balian and friends were devout Catholics (at least in the movie)
I guess I should note that his plan was to convert to Islam and then skip town later, repent and return to Europe.

This.

this movie is bad even in a Cinematography

youtube.com/user/ExtraCreditz

Pink Diamond deserved worse

The whole thing about Batman not killing just comes off as DC trying to justify the continued marketing of the same villains

Bullshit, it lays the collapse of civilization firmly at the feet of the poor and minorities. Also it doesn't understand capitalism, it shows people being consumerist far into the future to the point that there are garbage mountains. Who the fuck is mining all these resources? The movie might as well be called the ugly American.

I go to the movies a lot and I have noticed that a lot of recent "comedies" have an implicit message that you need to be a violent aggressive psychopath to get what you want out of life. I've also noticed that there idea of a poor struggling person is someone living in a large house on one of the coasts with furniture and cars well above the pay grade of most actual poor people.

I noticed that unlike previous eras (The great depression, Dickensian England, Pre Revolutionary France ETC) and times there weren't many movies and books made about 2008 and the ongoing recession but those that were, were almost always about people who found a way to profit off the people making everyday people miserable and how this was the proper way to deal with financial shenanigans. You realize other people are doing wrong and instead of alerting others to this fraud you try to con the con men instead. Like real life is Trading Places and absolutely no bad will come from this or you simply wont be making things worse for everyone while doing this.

A common thread in all this is that a lot of current entertainment encourages you to be criminal like when it comes to financial matters, don't worry about other peoples hustle, just get your own and rip people off, because it's all a big game and the only correct response to that game is to play at other peoples expense. Maybe this all nonsense but I was wondering if other people noticed this or not.

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Extra credits is just liberals, not liberal propaganda disguised as something else. Most of the western world is "liberals".

i want to shoot myself when i see there extra history

The animation and narration style of Extra Credits always makes me feel like he's about to start telling me about time traveling space Jews.

Do you mean bismuth?

From what I can recall from some 4chan Holla Forums threads, there were widespread rumors about bismuth being a reference to a real-life incident: fans on tumblr had bullied someone into suicide.

It takes about a month to make an episode, and the bismuth episode came out one month after said incident.

That's a good thing then, isn't it? I respect Rebecca Sugar for trying to be subtle when nudging things in a certain direction, even if she is 100% liberal and just repeating the safest, most politically correct memes possible straight from tumblr- I mean academia. It that sense, you are right in that there will never be a single idea in any episode that challenges the liberal mainstream. In fact, episodes can get kinda predictable (and boring) that way.

The series will, however, continue to push its luck with LGBT ideas and somehow still manage to get the show aired in Russia. That's impressive, honestly.

Deus Ex series, or cyberpunk stories in general. None of the self described anarchists or anti-establishment character seem to use anarchists' critique of capitalism, let alone socialism. Cyberpunk in general seems to take capitalism as a given.

Duh, because the whole point of cyberpunk is depicting a capitalist dystopian future. How thick are you?

what the fuck

In that within the cyberpunk narrative there is never an inclination towards an alternative or even a possibility. You often self-described or labelled anarchists try to tear down the system but with no theory or vision on what happens afterwards. Instead they sprout shit like "Info needs to be free, man!" or usually becomes the tyrants they opposed. Would pay gold just to see a futuristic-Catalonia tbh

Just felt like posting this tbh

I don't think cyberpunk writers read political lit, so they can't imagine a future without horrific megacorps. That is, unless the entire system suddenly goes offline, resulting in Mad Max bullshit instead.

I hear Philip K. Dick was surprisingly well-read, but even he didn't dig into different political ideas. Instead he just saw communist conspiracies everywhere, being schizophrenic and all, and thought Stanislaw Lem was a KGB agent.

What's the quote, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than a world beyond capitalism"?

I believe it's a zizek quote, but I can't confirm that.

I'm not very well-read.

Not really. Idiocracy is one of those odd works that a rational individual can glean something thoughtful from, but the creator's intended message was retarded. It was just an edgy millennial spin on typical conservative declinism with a very creepy dysgenic undertone.

The book "The Lexus and the olive tree" is literally what drove me left being so apologetically liberal and straight up propaganda.

tbh I am quite mad that they only in the genre for the aesthetics instead of using a great opportunity to critique late stage capitalism.

So when a movie studio begs the military for props, the military tells the studio to rewrite the script until it's 100% positive propaganda.

Remind me never to write a script that has any army vehicles in it.

It's a Ziz quote but i don't remember where he said it. It might have been in one of the pervert films.

Haven't seen it, but its source material, "The Marching Morons", could be taken as decrying both the trends that caused everyone to be retarded, and the elitist doctrines like eugenics or consumerism, that clumsily attempt to interfere with or exploit it. Much like "Harrison Bergeron", it's somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and critical of both sides of the issue (not in "le reasonable centrist" way, either).

Are you also referring to the actual DX games from Ion Storm? Scrape some of the transhumanist sheen off it, and the Helios/Denton endings (especially in DXIW) were pretty much Cockshott meme. Silhouette from the first game had a distinctly anarchist/culture jammer feel as well.

Admittedly, most of the factions are out of lolbert/survivalist/sovereign citizen conspiratard lore, since that was the thematic source material, but it touched on a lot of different philosophies.

I unironically liked this movie, even though it looks like two different people wrote it with two different motives. On one hand, it's an edgefag movie about killing or fucking over the people everyone hates, like noisy neighbors who park you in, bratty teenage celebrities, people who star in reality TV, people who double park, and people who won't shut up during movies. And then on the other it's the political retarded shit where they kill edgey neocon and evangelist caricatures. And then there were those cringey, overly articulate rants the main guy goes on where no one can argue or refute him. The first half is an edgier, humorous version of Falling Down with more trivial subjects, and the other half is a shitty Family Guy episode. It would've been a pretty decent movie if it was just the first part.

Still enjoyed it tho and the girl was a super-max qt 3.14.

Not every superhero movie, but a lot of them sure are. I myself may be a nerdy capeshit fag, but I can see where you're coming from.

The MCU is liberal as all fuck. Tony Stark is literally a Porky (one with a far higher net worth than Bruce Wayne, at that) with his smartass charisma and convoluted internal conflicts (which are weakly cobbled together throughout the span of several movies that barely even try to be a cohesively flowing narrative) being a thin veil for his careless exploitation of the proletariat, despite the fact that we see the consequences of said exploitation several times throughout the MCU. Captain America would be one badass prole, however, if the logic of his character motivations didn't go down the crapper, where he cared more about his butt-buddy Bucky than he did about people in general. His actions were fucking retarded in Civil War. I hate that flaming pile of shit so fucking much.

There's plenty more examples of rampant liberalism in the MCU, so I welcome you all to discuss them in further detail. They shouldn't be too hard to spot.

I will, however, strongly argue in favor of the DCEU. The Snyder-directed films in it surprisingly make for a very tightly-woven continuous narrative with lasting consequences that significantly affect the overall story. That's what a cinematic universe SHOULD do, not pump out movie after movie after movie off the conveyor belt and connect them to each other as loosely as possible just to suck moviegoers' wallets dry, like the MCU does. Their excuse that they have as many movies as they do so they can "flesh out the characters" is fucking bullshit. The only reason anyone gives a flying fuck about otherwise obscure heroes like Captain America, Iron Man, Thor or Black Widow is because Joss Whedon's fantastic direction of The Avengers brought out the best in those characters from their chemistry with each other alone. The Avengers isn't necessarily a "great" film, like it isn't high-brow or anything, but it's a lot of fun and was clearly a product of pure passion, one that the MCU would take advantage of to the point of alienating Whedon after wearing him out from Age of Ultron. Now Whedon is set to direct a Batgirl movie in the DCEU's future, and he's taking care of the direction of post-production for Justice League, in Snyder's absence. If that's not one of the more subtle middle fingers to the MCU, I don't know what is.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. The DCEU is closer to telling the kinds of stories that made DC great to begin with, especially the Alan Moore stories. Alan Moore was a strong advocate for anarchy, so he's on our side, and so are his stories.

One of the biggest reasons BvS is so overhated by so many is because it hits too close to home. It's a strikingly poignant reflection of the condition of modern society, and how these fictitious superheroes and other related characters would be affected by it, and vice-versa. It forced people to think, and not in any pseudo-intellectual air of pretentiousness that the weaker of Nolan's films do. It might be one of the most important films of the 21st century… Too important, at that. If enough people beyond mere DC fanboys like myself realized BvS is as much of a masterpiece as it is, they would question the state of modern society to the point that Porky would become seriously threatened by an impending prole uprising. So they got the fucking shills at Rotten Tomatoes to shit all over it. Prove me wrong on this. Pro tip: you can't.

So yeah, that's my essay on the issue. I welcome any feedback on it. Seriously, any at all. Have the fuck at it, guys.

tbh the game doesn't even do a convincing job of making the Vox Populi look like villains

Bane is the real hero.

It's in the 2005 zizek documentary at the beginning

Can you explain the Parks and Recreation thing? I've seen the show but since I was binge-watching it with someone at the time I didn't put too much thought into it.

Ron Swanson was a real piece of shit a lot of the time though. Hated that character.

It isnt made by the same people, is it? Spirit science is so wack.

No. This is the guy behind Spirit Science.
evonews.com/life/2017/jul/10/creator-of-spirit-science-jordan-duchnycz-admits-to-rape-and-blake-dyer-disciple-of-teal-swans-team-blames-survivor/

steven-universe.wikia.com/wiki/Censorship_in_Foreign_Countries#Russia_and_Southeastern_Europe

Holy shit lol

Not really. Memes and glorious leftism aside, Bane was still a villain.

His primary motivation was to avenge Ra's Al-Ghul and the League of Shadows by finishing what they started and destroying Gotham City, effectively wiping such a hub of crime and corruption clean from the face of the Earth. His socialistic speeches were all a front to lull the people into a false sense of liberation before destroying the city with a nuclear bomb. In fact, his tactics of using socialist rhetoric to fool the masses are borderline Porky levels of evil. He even directly said to Bruce, when they were in that prison simply known as "the Pit":

"I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Gotham, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe that they can survive so that you can watch them clamoring over each other to stay in the sun."

Bane is sadly not /our guy/, comrades. He's a bootlicker of a cult leader and got cucked by Talia in the end shortly before going out like a bitch when Catwoman outright kills him.

Yep. The two quantum physics guys in the main game forced her to do it so Elizabeth would "mature" or something. Vox Populi did absolutely nothing wrong.

Thats part of the problem that they are portrayed that way. It portrays the movement of the oppressed against the oppressor as senseless and violence, and the "correct" option to be rational TM nonviolent centrists who understand both sides TM…
IIRC the writers actually wanted it to be more sympathetic towards vox, but had to tone it down somewhat.

Shadowrun Dragonfall had a mixed portrayal of anarchism IMO, while IIRC the anarchists in that (the "flux state") were supposed to be some kind of ansynd/ancom, the setting remains very ancapistan. It doesnt touch on explicit anticapitalism, more anti-state and anti corporation, as well as some anti fascist stuff which was actually pretty good.
Also you run into an american character you lectures you about how communism will never work and is only good in theory, which was kindof hilarious.

Nigga you in fo a ride
youtu.be/IaDOkMEK4uk

If you don't want to sit through 4 hours of batshit, I'm specifically referring to this segment.
youtu.be/U8NNHmV3QPw
There are people who actually believe this

Just about my entire world, fam. I'd like to say it's a redpill XR kind of deal, minus the Holla Forumsyp niggotry.

I faintly recall that comic being funny. Now all I see is potentially good gags completely wasted, and spilled salt.

As far as I know, Mike Judge is a conservative. Which explains why King of the Hill was Nice and The Goode Family was so fucking awful.

They're retarded as all hell. Even their vidya stuff is full of glaring errors.

I always heard about Dick was this clever guy who incorporated gnosticism and mind-aering substances in order to write crazy dramas about the human condition or whatever. A little while ago I read A Scanner Darkly and The Man in the High Castle. The first I can barely remember the story, the second one was fun but extremely underwhleming given its fame. That kinda killed my boner for his more celebrated works like VALIS and Ubik. Admittedly, it's very possible that I didn't enjoy those books because they went completely over my hand. I always had trouble grasping figurative meaning.

I googled it and most places say it's by Fredric jameson, but few people note that he was actually misremembering an old book review. Here's someone setting the record straight, while sperging out because a pseudo-maxim for some reason does not include a century worth of Marxist analysis.

qlipoth.blogspot.com/2009/11/easier-to-imagine-end-of-world.html

There's an ironic history about this. You see, the Tumblr-socjus set really has it in for any jap production that isn't a natural fit for Western audiences, simply because it contains offensive material. As it happens, there's a lot of them present in anime, vidya etc. translation business, and they openly brag about having the opportunity to "correct" the source material, like turning a putatively sexist joke into a dad joke. This being SJWs, they inevitably end up "correcting" completely harmless things as well. There was some jap console crap last year where they rewrote several interpersonal relations and some of the story for no discernible reason, completely replaced lengthy dialogue with endless "…", and even removed a completely voluntary minigame because they were creeped out by pats on the head.

Their excuses for it barely went past cheap insults, but in the end they settled for "it wasn't a translation, it was a localization. And then the news broke that SU's dikery was being censored in the UK and they were up sat in arms about it and, well, you can guess how much the rest of the internet laughed at them.

Horseshoe theory: the game.

Was already a left when I played it, though.

Me too. Weird that he was so beloved. I guess a lot of liberals grew up without male role models.

Can Batman vs Superman really be like you say? Hmmm okay I guess I'll give it a watch,

I mean originally it was meant to be a commentary on revolution; like the OG was on capitalism, but then it fell apart and became about muh multiverse.

Oh yeah, this show is pretty liberal. It is a kids show, however, and while I'm pissed about Bismuth, I don't think it's that counter-revolutionary by comparison to other kids shows. I still enjoy it for what it is.

This game (along with The Elder Scrolls V:Skyrim, the Souls series outside of Demon Souls, the Borderlands series and Darkest Dungeon) is on the growing list of modern games where if I hear anyone praise the game, I can safely assume that they know jack shit about video games as a medium. The writing can also lick my taint dry.

I think 20+ years of constant grimdarkness are wearing down even your average DC comics fan, because I see criticism of batman way more often nowadays. I mean, all the other super heroes are accepted as some sort of tongue in cheek suspension of disbelief deal, even in the """serious""" stories, but batman has been getting shit for a few years now. it's almost like it's becoming increasingly difficult to ignore that batman is a mentally ill person who does more harm than good. and we're talking about a crowd that actively refuses this notion with every other character, like for instance Rorschach who was purposefully made to mock superheroes being screeching autists… and yet this goes under the radar with your average reader, rorschach is cool because he throws boiling hot oil on some lowlife.

I also kinda see this with the punisher.

capital realism fam

Everyone's either a a radical christian or radical muslim in the movie, what drug were you on?
Tankie delusions

I blame overexposure plus Frank Miller. Dark Knight Returns reads like fascist apologetism especially, the central thesis of the book is that the ignorant masses are all being menaced by violent criminals so they need a strong man (batman) to lead them.
There are police departments and people in the military who idolize the Punisher as some crusader against evil. The only good punisher comics are the ones written by Ennis because he's the only person that portrays him as not a hero but a damaged murderer.

steven uinverse, adventure time etc. are American 'liberal' to the core, you can tell by the animation itself.
How do they even do this kind of animation? I mean, there's plenty of surreal quirky and postmodernist cartoons, nontheless they seldom achieve this level.

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There's a lot of porky dicksucking. Ron Swanson isn't the only thing, in fact I'd say he's there to contrast "unreasonable capitalism" with the "reasonable capitalism" of the liberals. There's some jokes about how all corporations are merging but by and large it portrays capitalism as fundamentally good.

I can understand infinite, Skyrimjob, borderlands, and dksII and III, but why DD? Isn't that just some small indie game? And also, why the first Dark Souls?

Yea that did not happen IIRC. Elizabeth and Booker just washed their hands off both of factions. If anything Vox Poupli is a warning to revolutionaries who don't read any theory

What about Pillars of Eternity?

Someone else knows about Spirit Science on here? I thought I was all alone.

Watching Our History Is Not What We Think for the first time might've been the craziest hour I've ever experienced

PKD was a literal schizo who claimed that he spoke in tongues because a girl wearing a christian fish necklace once came to his door and a pink beam of light reflected from it. He says VALIS is autobiographical, at least the first book. also ubik is shit.

don't watch movies, watch RLM reviews of movies: youtube.com/watch?v=VGsrMaxx8N4

Frank Miller should've never been a writer tbh. He's a good artist but his stories are really mostly pointless. he's very good at visual narration though and you can see it on every page made by him. sometimes it feels like he only writes stuff in order to draw it. nothing wrong with this either, but then he starts with the fash bs.

I was gonna say that i have no idea how the punisher is even a popular character but i knew someone would've pointed out something like this. the punisher is mostly just a self insert for revenge fantasies. i hate this kinda shit with a passion.

Garth Ennis honestly made some great stuff, I wish he wasn't so fixated with shitting on capes. I mean I get it, but make something else. His Hellblazer stories are wonderful.

i don't understand this question.

what's wrong with it

I like skyrim. I'm also interested in learning more about games, so why is it shit?

I said it half-jokingly, but I meant it oozes modern american liberalism.
There are typically american cartoons that don't do it for me, for some reason.

As an action game Skyrim is just meh. As an RPG, it's absolute fucking trash.

Right off the bat. Dragons haven't been a think in the ES world for thousands of years (iirc), but an Imperial fort gets attacked by one and only you and one other person survive. You then walk straight to the king, unannounced and as far as anyone might know, a wanted, condemned criminal, and he takes you entirely at your word that dragons are not only back and attacking, but he then gives you, a total stranger, an important mission to start dealing with it, based on nothing at all besides what you and another criminal tell him.

Download Morrowind and give that a try. Compare it to Skyrim. Weep.

The Elder Scrolls:
Arena = Hegel
Daggerfall =Marx
Morrowind = Lenin
Oblivion = Mao
Skyrim = Pol Pot
Online = Bernie?

well wouldn't the walking simulator be abimael guzman? you know, walking… the shining path…

Mao and his party had facial features that were straight from Oblivion

It could be the Long March

How are Arena/Daggerfall?

IMO the only thing I really like about Skyrim was the teaser trailer. Somehow it still manages to get me pumped. I can't really explain why, but it just gets to me.

of course all the souls games, but the first one are shit. Kill yourself you Holla Forumsirgin hipster.

Why?

Arena is quite bare, Daggerfall is a ton of fun for what it is.

You must know that in the original concept of the game the Vox Populi, while having shades of grey, were the good guys in the end.
Also you could do way more shit and Eaglesong had a bigger role.

The E3 demo video showed us a great game, what we got was a watered down version of that. I wish BioShock Infinite never happened

Asshole characters who are dicks for no reason or for the sake of being dicks are sadly popular on certain social media sites.
Like Sherlock from Sherlock or Vriska from that godawful webcomic, that so desperately tries to be One Piece.

They fulfill the proletarian fantasy of having to eschew insincere courtesy and the straightjacket of hierarchy thanks to their competence (Sherlock etc circumventing the orders of their boss or whatever because they were so smart they got the badguy as opposed to the competent worker that is forced to do something he knows is stupid because his boss told him to).

And you'd better be careful about what you say about Vriska because no one can talk shit about my waifu and get away with it.

I was mocking him,

truly aiming for the stars huh

Rorschach is apex Holla Forums and what they wish they were. I wonder, from where Moore drew inspiration for that character.
And generally I can't get into capeshit, because it requires so much suspension of disbelief from you. And I can't believe it took them so long to actually address them. Like OK guys realise they have super powers. So they decide to become detectives? For real?
Like they won't use their powers and force their believes on you, or they won't go in third world countries and turn it into a Mercenary paradise à la Far Cry.
I used to like Batman, because he doesn't use superpowers, he's just a normal human being with gadgets, but in the end, it's no longer about crimes, it's about his psychological problems, which he never seems to snap out of it. And every adaption of it seems to focus on the same theme again and again and again. Arkham series were good solid games, but for Christ sake, if I have to deal with the inner workings of Bruce Wayne one more time!
Fuck, Darkwing Duck does it actually better. That guy didn't even bothered to have a civilian identity AT ALL until he got an adoptive daughter. And Launchpad doesn't even have a secret identity, because Darkwing is simply not used to have a civilian persona to begin with. This is the guy Batman desperately tries to be and fails yet again and again, because authors want to retell this storyline with their own "original spin" to it, be it Nolan's or the Arkham series.

Sherlock is not smart, he is a genius, who can see letters in his mind. This is an unrealistic high standard no one can ever hope to achieve unless they fuck with their Brain the right way.

Now the original Sherlock by Arthur Conan Doyle is way more realistic, because it shows you, WHY Sherlock is smart. That guy READS a lot and basically claims that every crime was already done in a similar matter. But you know, how contemporary society has a reading disability in that regard, as some anons don't even bother to read entry level theory for that.

And Vriska is shit. A black hole sue, where everyone else becomes stupid when she is near by. If you are a Vriska fan, good for you, but if you root for someone else, the repeated OOC moments when she is around become jarring, then plain annoying.

TV Sherlock might as well be a wizard.

I actually thought Rorschach was supposed to be Batman the first time I read it, but then I looked it up and he's based on a character I didn't even know. But come to think of it, comics didn't get "totally serious mature stuff guys" until AFTER watchmen, so I doubt that's it. I'm pretty sure I've read an Alan Moore interview where he said he thought Watchmen would kill the superhero genre. Instead the industry copied all the superficial characteristics of it. So Watchmen works both as a satire of old comics and new ones.

what's even funnier is that these characters have been around for almost 80 years but they only started plagiarizing themselves in the 90s. I mean at least gold and silver age stories were funny because they didn't make sense. Now it's always the same thing except with darker ink.

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Unironically. Whatever faults it may have could be the shortcomings of it being a Shounen genre, but I have yet to read a series which does cause and effect so good as One Piece does.
Also One Piece seems to be the only series, that isn't ruined by romance yet despite running for 20 years. This is an amazing feat, since romance ruined so many good series or allowed it to take a huge dip, like happened to Samurai Jack. One Piece is the only series where an adult male and an adult female can be friends without ulterior motives at all and it would be believable, because it is that kinda show.

First as tragedy then as farce, sept it's a tragedy because of the farce it is now

Literally the most reactionary superhero movie I have ever seen (I have not seen any of the new DC ones but I hear they are worse). The moral is literally "some people are born better than others"

That actually sounds like a fun movie even if it is trash ideologically.

i read like 60 volumes of that shit and i have no idea what you're talking about. i dropped that shit the moment i realized the author has no intention of ending it. plus every arc is the same thing anyways.

Holy shit I never thought of that

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ideology is trashcan
if it sounds awesome you should try it

Syndrome was unironically in the right when it came to the idea that, if the means are available, the ability to make anyone "super" should be as widely distributed as possible. The prior generation of cape-and-cowl superheroes needed to be eliminated before such a program was put into place, as they would have (and did) attempt to intervene when it was clear that their position of superiority in the existing social order was about to be disturbed. Granted the application essentially amounted to "only those who can afford it can have super powers," but I think that more dives into the limitations of the writers' imagination more than anything.

That's more a limitation of the medium than it is the fault of the manga itself. It's a Shonen Jump series: that means in order to be published, it has to have continued polled popularity week-to-week AND be set up so that the series can run indefinitely. It won't end until Oda retires (he's only 42, so that might be a while still), the series loses popularity and is told to wrap it up (like what happened to Bleach), or Oda decides to end it himself and go do something else (considering this has been a 20 year project now, the most he'd probably do is shift to a different part of the universe he's already created; the likelihood that he'd make a second in using a completely new property today would be slim).

*sniffs*

Especially the Incredibles.

A typical "create your own hero" story. If I was Bob, I wouldn't make him my side kick, but I certainly would send him somewhere, where his gadget making genius was put on good use. Instead he got fucking ignored. A potential useful ally flushed down the toilet just like that, because hubris.

All signs are showing that it's ending.
The final location is metaphorically in sight, they just need to do some riddle stuff to get there.
And this came with last chapter.

Obligatory

I mean, it's an enjoyable movie, just very, very liberal.

I lolled hardly.
Though I'd use another character for Moriarty, because Moriarty always one-upped Sherlock and before he blew his head off and he was dead for good (no matter what they show tries to tell you), he was literally the only character in that show, Sherlock was powerless against.

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I'm not sure what you're trying to convey.

I remember running into spirit science years ago when I left religion and tried to figure shit out. Seeing that shit was one of the things that made me staunchly anti-religion.

So that photoshop where he's combined with Lenin is very appropriate then :^)

Oh, it's a very good movie, just the union are mobsters, which would give a bad impression to somebody who didn't realize the truth.

nope, it's a limitation of the way the japanese run the manga industry. the medium is fine, there's plenty of short comics and manga that are great. if i were interested in watching the same tidbits of spectacle over and over for literal decades i'd go watch a soap opera. there's only so many times i can read "luffy gets to an island, the inhabitants have a problem, the problem can be solved via everyone beating the shit out of each other and reminiscing about the tearjerking past during the fight".
and that goes for comics too, it's just way more crazy with manga because the westerners actually make efforts to make every comic feel new even if it isn't.

at least it's not like berserk that has been going on for the same amount of time with like half the content.

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Punisher is the only "superhero" character I enjoy reading because he's the power fantasy but without any of the pretense or bright colors to dress up how pitch-black superhero morality is. Most of the time when someone's writing Punisher, they have close to zero self awareness and it's a wide-open window into their psychology.

90% of that stuff is created for the sole enjoyment of the end user. if they thought comic book fans enjoyed reading 30 pages of punisher making motorboat noises, DC would request writers to write exactly that.

Fuck you just made me realize that The Incredibles works as an allegory for an attempt at a capitalist revolution that fails when the royal family kills the revolutionary.

Fates was blatant japan nationalist garbage anyways, and the "localization" didn't change that at all. Not to mention it probably had more to do with Nintendo wanting to seem family-friendly than the ess jay double yous doing cultural marxism

I would add any of McMillen's games (in particular Isaac), Undertale, Persona and any of Team ICO's games to that list tbh

who cares anyway, all media is reactionary

You have really bad taste in video games.
And you're a retard.

T-thanks.

Demon Souls is clunky as shit but it has potential if the level design in the other games didn't turn out to be liquid garbage, and it was the most non-linear in the series.

The sequel just made the combat clunkier, the level design cheaper and felt like a giant step back. Bloodborne might be alright, but I'm not picking up a PS4 until you can pirate shit for it.

It's the McDonalds of RPGs to me. Technically, I've played worse, but it's so ubiquitous and non-threatening. The gameplay itself is shallow and compared to other games in the series, the game doesn't respect the player nearly as in terms of freedom with the game's mechanics.

The amount of shitty RNG in a dungeon crawler like that is just awful. I mean, I can put up with early Megami Tensei titles, I love the Etrian Oddesy series, I can even sit through a few Wizardry's, but the balance in that game ruins it's great presentation.

I like Undertale, but I'll give you that and the Issac dude. Persona 4 really left a bad taste with people because it lasted 8 fucking years, but it's a good series and is probably the only reason we got SMT4 and Strange Journey (another dungeon crawler better than DD), and at least Team ICOs games are interesting even if they don't always work.

Popular =/= bad. My favorite game ever is Final Fantasy 6. In fact, if the person who asked about Skyrim is reading this, the cliche response is to play Fallout: New Vegas, a very popular game that just happens to be fucking great as well and a game that very much wouldn't be liberal propaganda.

Huh, I actually kinda want to see BM v SM now. (though the title is pretty shit, I mean come on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justicce). But yeah, Marvel flicks have gone from entertaining moderately well written capeshit that doesn't think too much of itself to a bland formula designed to entice potential viewers to see all the other related movies so they have to keep up to understand the major team up films. I guess that was the intent starting with the first post credits Nick Fury scene, but it's gotten so out of hand.

Pic related for alan moor, from Lost Girls. is the character's resblence to Sean Connery intentional?

By sequel, you refering to Dark Souls? I find Demon's feels much stiffer, but for sure the series didn't need to continue after that. Dark was an understandable expansion of Demon's, but after that the series just ended up losing it's best features, and the world building became predictable and the characters uninteresting.

I got truly angery while rewatching Spiderman 2 last week.
Peter Parker lives in misery, has to work two awful and underpaid jobs so he can pay his education and a small room to live in. Then the movie shows that his life goes great because he stopped being Spiderman, even if his material conditions kept being miserable.

The movie is truly good tho, and i mean not good by capeshit standard, but good by any standard.

I was referring to Dark Souls. I didn't like the addition of Estus Flasks, and slowing down the combat I felt was a huge step backward in terms of how fun it was. It felt like, because there were a few less consequences to dying in Dark Souls, they could go full retard with some of their level design choices and it really turned me off from the entire series until I went back to play Demon Souls.

I disagree about estus flasks, because you never have to grind for more and you can't stockpile an near infinite amount to keep you topped off with health no matter what. I didn't feel the combat was much slower, but I find I feel more in control in DaS. I will agree with the lack of a penalty for death, and perhaps Dark 2 actually (imo) hit the right middle ground for that (and that only). I wish they had a different use for humanity, as regulating PVP to a relatively rare item that can be lost through death was unwise.

No level design really turned me off so much as bullshit level geometry that didn't match what I saw. But I love the interconnectedness. I will give DeS top points for being one of the most daring high(ish) budget games of it's time.

Fuck you. The fact that subhumans like these have jobs in the industry when there are swarms of people that un-"ironic"-ally enjoy weebdom for what it is, is an insult to the medium.

Self-loathing Tumblrina SJWeebs are one of the bizarre mindsets I will never understand.

And regardless of whether or not such scum are really a separate phenomenon from the misguided desire to make bland and inoffensive products out of something quirky and interesting, the fact that such censorship remains mandatory (particularly in software like games) today is ridiculous.

Do you have any localization vs original comparisons? I only remember the fates thing (which was a shit game anyway) and it's kinda hard to gauge just how much the evil sjws are ruining videogames otherwise.
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What?

I hope he censors every single game you fucking dweeb

Holy fucking shit it's been so long since I've watched Spirit Science. Probably about 5-6 years now

fun fact: The Question (Who was the basis for Rorschach) was originally created by Spider-man creator Steve Ditko as a mouthpiece for his objectivist philosophy. When DC acquired the rights to the character they thought the idea of an objectivist superhero was so ridiculous he was reworked as a zen buddhist.

How was the Zero Escape series censored? 999 even had adult characters making sexual comments about underage girls.

This tbh

Nintendo and Konami made me laff.

Please tell me this is real.

What about conservative propaganda? Have you guys heard of this show? My parents love it.
Every time I see them watch this shit, it's a nonstop barrage of Heritage Foundation talking points. I guess they needed something to move on to after Fox News started falling apart.

You'll be happy to know it was cancelled being too low profit because of low viewership

Oh and a bunch of rightist sperged out saying it was canceled because of libruls

I know this, but CMT keeps playing it and they record and watch it on their DVR all the time.

Yes and buddhist question was also the best thing to come out of the 80s.
But if you want to read really batshit ayn rand crap, look up Mr A. It's takes Ditko's objectivism up to 11.and it also has really, really, good artwork. Not good enough to justify his politics, but its still pretty to look at.

i don't know how they do it, it's one of the unfunniest sitcoms i've ever watched and that's saying a lot.

Spiderman homecoming NEARLY achieved it.

I think television in general is going in a conservative direction in America, because the majority of TV watching is done by the south and the extremely old. I expect every news company to look like Fox on steroids by the time TV finally kicks the bucket and most shows that aren't reality television to be pandering dogshit about family, religion and how political correctness is worse than nazi's.

Let's admit it: the only redeeming quality of Skyrim are its porn mods which allow me to make T H I C C, well-endowed Dunmer milfs

TV is dying in general and we'll be better off without it.

Just like Star Trek predicted

oooof motherfucker

Now here's an user with great taste.

Why do people here always state a point already contained within a broader point I was making? I already said tv was dying off, I expect it to get much worse before that happens completely though.

knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/fire-emblem-fates-localization-controversy

If "the chiiiiiildrens!!!1!" are any sort of real excuse, they could simply have an in-game censorship setting. They could even release the original uncensored version as an optional free patch, or a separate SKU. All of which the Japanese have done for many years to market the same games with hardcore porn for otakus, H-scenes removed for general release, and ez-modo for literal children.

Here's your (you)

It's just a list of games the guy's worked on, but yeah, it looks like those two probably weren't hurt.

user, you might have a problem…>>1873513

Including that content in the game would probably raise it's ESRB rating though, making it harder to sell. I wasn't trying to defend Nintendo's localization anyways, just saying that it probably wasn't Anita Sarkeesian's evil army of SJWs that censored Fates and is ruining vidogames, but rather just business as usual.

Awakening had a lot of the same bullshit anyways, the only reason people complain about Fates is because Nintendo denied their god-given right to jack off to videogames, right?

Good god, those panels are physically painful to read.

Like I said, it can be a free patch or a separate SKU. There is quite simply no practical excuse.

The Sarkeesianite white knights of the world are unquestionably a factor today, but gamers have been REEEing about censorship as far back as I can remember, reaching fever pitch back in the old days with Sega and Sony one-upping Nintendo, causing Nintendo to finally cave in on T/M-rated games (strangely, there are still no AO games released on consoles in the west) during the GCN/late-N64 era.

This coincided with anime finally breaking away from Robotech-style from-scratch rewrites and 4Kids-type censorship abominations, in what was hoped to be a new era of untouched, uncensored, loyally translated anime, and weebdom in general.

Especially with a new wave of "by fans, for fans" weeb import houses, weeb gamers thought for sure the promised land was upon us in the mid-2000s.

Betrayal by the realities of porky-controlled corporate media was disappointing, but expected, however betrayal by /ourguys/ among the staff of those companies (lifelong otaku, gamers, advocates of freedom, leftists, sexual deviants, etc.) created a tremendous backlash of bitterness and hatred.

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I like how they individualize the issue. It's not like Japanese game companies were (in)famous for censoring their games prior to western release or anything. No it's that guy and the rest of the es jay double-ewes who are doing it.

Honestly the only current year kid show I've seen was "Teen Titan go!", and it I couldn't turn it the fuck off even after trying mentally to do so, it was actually kind of scary, Like some mind control shit. Back in the day there was Invader Zim, and Zone archive edits, not crazy subliminally addictive shit like today.

Employees have to conform to whatever policy their porky bosses push onto them or starve.
The problem is always capitalism.

Yes, please do check out Batman v Superman, my friends. It could be our greatest ally in spreading class consciousness. Though I would highly recommend watching the Ultimate Edition, the 3-hour R-rated cut, as opposed to the theatrical version. The Ultimate Edition contains scenes that primarily help the pacing of the film feel a lot better, and it also contains some well established scenes of Lois Lane and Clark Kent doing investigative journalism on their own terms. That's something I think needs to be promoted more strongly, is honest, independent journalism, something that modern society is sorely lacking, thanks to Porky painting most journalism as we know it yellow as piss.

I understand your concerns with the title, friend. I was very skeptical about it when it was first announced. Being the capeshit fag I am, I wanted it to be World's Finest. But once you watch it, you'll understand that it actually has a very significant purpose synonymous with the film itself, and isn't just some contrived Hollywood titlebait. Enjoy.

Fuck, I never thought of it that way. Maybe Spider-Man 2 really is as good as everyone's been saying. I already knew it's the best of the Sam Raimi trilogy, and I have seen them all myself, but everyone's just been gushing about how great it is, for whatever reason. Maybe I need to rewatch it with fresh eyes to understand… Or is there something I'm not seeing that everyone else is? Hmmm…

Tell you what, user. Why don't I ask you about it? Why do you think Spider-Man 2 is as great as you say it is?

What are you talking about? BvS is terrible nonsense

You have to go back.

I don't think you really got Darkest Dungeon.

It's sort of a dungeon crawling turn-based RPG, but not really. Basically, it's a much, much darker version of Recettear, but instead of managing a shop, you're managing what is essentially a heroes guild.

You need to remember that you're not a hero, you're a nobleman managing heroes. You're not supposed to keep your heroes alive, or even sane necessarily. You simply use them to bring back loot to develop your facilities and "A teams" that you groom to fight bosses and eventually raid the Darkest Dungeon. The RNG is simply there to bring forth a degree of difficulty to your dungeon raids so there's a degree of risk in sending out raiding parties. If the RNG fucks you, just have your team retreat with what loot they have on them and if that leaves them too stressed/insane/diseased to be of much use to you anymore without spending a bunch of money on them, just discard them and hire new ones. Spend as little money on the trash teams as you can get away with and still complete the mission somewhat reliably. Facilities are only for the A teams.

So you think cape shit could be a revolutionary tool? I'm not a huge western comics fag, though I do read a bit, but I've wanted a capeverse that actually deals with the actual struggles people face that aren't necessarily unlawful by bourgeois liberal democratic standards. Not to mention something that is more consistent, treats death meaningfully and doesn't go DBZ with the power levels.

Had an idea for an an-com (not that I'm anarcho anything, just non-sectarian) white trash hero living in a trailer park, has a crawlspace dug beneath his residence that functions as his low rent batcave.

I realized liberals use the words propaganda and reactionary for things they don't like.

So it's more about management and preparation than overpowering things through being over-leveled?

Yeah, basically.

Bloodborne was the best one, time to accept this.

The DCEU has everything you're looking for then, my friend, I strongly assure you. The most ballistic any character has ever gotten with power levels in it thus far is Doomsday, and that's because of his energy-harvesting abilities. Everyone else, even Superman and the Kryptonians, are surprisingly grounded.

Capeshit could very possibly be revolutionary, yes. Superheroes are modern polytheistic gods. People look up to them and aspire to their ideals, even though they're fictional. They have such a profound impact on society. Expressing proper leftist thought at a more widespread rate by applying them to these heroes in a way that makes sense would be one of the greatest ways to aid us all in the coming revolution. Such an opportunity is practically given to us on a silver platter, anyway. Superman's arch-nemesis, Lex Luthor, is quite literally Porky incarnate. And there's not one person alive who doesn't know who Superman is.

Top kek XD
That's actually pretty clever, user. I recommend putting that idea to good use! It sounds like it could work.

Don't get me wrong I'm no fan of the MCU, but BvS was really not a good film

Sounds to me like you didn't see the Ultimate Edition. The theatrical cut has some significant pacing issues, and that can be blamed on Warner Bros, not Zack Snyder. The film is seriously a masterpiece, it really is, no memeing. Watch it again (the Ultimate Edition, specifically) and tell me I'm wrong, I dare you.

But there already is.

True, but before, the employees were invariably subversive artists struggling for freedom in any way "the system" couldn't stop, tolerated by "the suits" only because no other type of person could make product that sells. Now, the artists themselves have swallowed a repressive ideology, aligning with their bosses in heart and soul.

It is something I never could've imagined before 2007, unprecedented in the entire history of art since the enlightenment.

I remember many months ago, some user made a post saying how golden-era Superman was very much a Syndicalist kind of guy and posted a picture showing a few panels where Superman was talking down a boss on behalf of the boss' workers. That user added that those scenes were pretty common in Superman's early issues

Oh hell yeah, Golden Age Supes was totally /ourguy/. I think modern Superman, particularly the Henry Cavill version in the DCEU, has great potential to become some degree of leftist. Plenty of his actions thus far were pretty radical in nature, such as crucifying that one asshole's truck with the logs it was carrying, smashing Zod through a power plant for threatening his mom, smashing that terrorist warlord through several walls to save Lois, and the manner in which he was confronting Lex. I fucking LOVE his bravery in telling that Porky shitstain like it is.

"I'll take you in without breaking you, which is more than you deserve."

That kinda shit almost makes me literally gay for Superman, holy fuck.

I still think from a mechanics sense, it's poorly put together as "RNG" isn't really difficulty, it's just a way of inflating the game time and honestly I'd much rather play a game like Recettear, but I didn't think of the game that way.

Nigger buy me a PS4 and I'll agree.

I'm kinda on the fence about Superman having revolutionary potential. "Red Sun" would fit as something I'd call liberal propaganda, "What’s So Funny about Truth, Justice, and the American Way?" is, although a great story, a pretty big indictment on the use of violence to better society (although it was mainly written as a knock against the hyper-violent bullshit of the 90's), and the character itself is spooked as fuck and will pretty much be spooked no matter where he grows up. His character is based off of the "ideals" of an American society that never really existed, save for comics.

Also, Man of Steel is not Superman and anything that says it's connected to that movie's universe wouldn't have an accurate depiction of Superman. I'd be slightly more upset if I liked capeshit but meh.

Even Ant-Man and Civil War? I thought that they were both pretty lefty

Yeah, it's full of "but socialism only works on paper" type shit. It's only Superman's super-intellect that keeps the Soviet economy going.

Holy fuck, I had to try and find the sources to see if this was true.

One of the guys has a crazy looking website which had the pdf. I can't prove it's actually a legit DOD document, but if true then, goddamn, that is some cartoon villain shit.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_influence_on_public_opinion?wprov=sfla1

In the mid-1990s, the CIA named Chase Brandon, an operations officer who was assigned to South America, as liaison to Hollywood. Brandon's film credits include The Recruit, The Sum of All Fears, Enemy of the State, Bad Company and In the Company of Spies. He has consulted for television programs including The Agency, Alias and JAG. He has appeared on Discovery, Learning Channel, History Channel, PBS, A&E, and has been interviewed on E! Entertainment, Access Hollywood, and Entertainment Tonight.

The Guardian journalist John Patterson criticizes the CIA assistance as being only to complimentary productions, including not running material, such as "the original pilot episode of The Agency, which was pulled. It featured the spymasters preventing a plot by a Bin Laden-backed terrorist cell to blow up a fictionalized Harrods. The airing of such an episode might have pointed up the real CIA's corresponding lack of success in foiling the World Trade Center attacks."

According to Brandon, the agency would not endorse Spy Game, starring Robert Redford and Brad Pitt. The final rewrite "showed our senior management in an insensitive light and we just wouldn't want to be a part of that kind of project", said Brandon, who also withheld approval from 24, a Fox series about a fictional intelligence agency, CTU, that also suggests all is not hunky-dory in the company's upper echelons. And The Bourne Identity, based on the 1984 novel by Robert Ludlum, was "so awful that I tossed it in the burn bag after page 25".

Patterson observed "It used to be the case that if a movie explicitly condemned CIA actions - such as Under Fire - the studios could be counted on to bury it. That was no longer true after Costa-Gavras's Missing won Jack Lemmon an Oscar in 1982, and Iran-Contra slimed the CIA in the late 1980s. Since then, "CIA renegade" has become a dependable staple not just of big-budget movies like Enemy of the State, but also of a million straight-to-cable action-schlockfests starring Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal."

Other films that the CIA has provided assistance to include the 1992 film version of the Tom Clancy novel Patriot Games, and the 2003 movie, The Recruit. According to Director Roger Donaldson When the Agency commits to providing their support to a project, that can include letting a photographer shoot stills to help in designing sets, or, in certain instances, having the actors spend time in the building. By visiting Langley, the director says, he came to “understand how the space worked and looked. I needed a real sense of how a new person would feel when they saw the place for the first time."

In 2012, Tricia Jenkins released a book, The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television, which further documents the CIA's efforts at manipulating its public image through entertainment media from the 1990s to the present. The book explains that the CIA has used motion pictures to boost recruitment, mitigate public affairs disasters (like Aldrich Ames), bolster its own image, and even intimidate terrorists through disinformation campaigns.

jesus they're so fucking thin-skinned

BvS is schlock no matter how you edit it.

Is music the most "lefty" form of entertainment? I'd probably say so but I don't know what the least left wing is.

Feminism. Absolutely incompatible with leftism, even antagonistic and classist.

Ant-Man? Maybe. Would have been leagues better if the MCU didn't treat Edgar Wright like dogshit and made him ragequit directing it. Civil War? Don't kid yourself. It's as liberal as you can possibly get. And its jokes SUCK. All of them.

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Some thoughts I had while watching it Spiderman 2:

First of all, something that shouldn't be praised at all, but considering how Hollywood movies usually work, it's something noteworthy: There isn't a single scene that didn't add to the main plot, subplot or character development. Every moment in the movie was worth it.

That aside, I found it a successful adaptation of comic book quirkyness to film language. A friend of mine that actually read comic books explained it to me better, he pointed out to the Mary Jane subplot, he said it was almost "surreal" by film standards how fast it developed, like she suddenly mentions she has a bf that her childhood friend didn't know about, and a few scenes later she's announcing that she's marrying him. While weird for a movie, it's all too normal for a comic book to make huge advances in just a few frames. Instead of it being an action movie with superhero characters, it feels like a proper "comic book movie", if that makes sense.

Also, everyone points out to this, but I'll insist: Doc Oc, he's not only super badass as a villian but also it's very well done as a character and Raimi makes a good job of showing you everything you need to know about him in only one scene, just look at the scene in which he eats with his wife and Peter, he'll be shown as a narcissist and hypocrite ("My work can't fail because I did it", "I love my wife because she proved to be on the same intellectual level as me", and so on).

And finally, I just love Raimi's skills after watching Evil Dead 1&2, since then he's to me an example of an incredibly talented person working on poorly tasted movies (b horror and superheroes). But yeah, you can tell how good of a director he is by watching it, especially on some of the smooth scene transitions. Also the Doc Oc reveal scene is a great fanservice for the Evil Dead fans.

I'm not the most knowledgeable eprson about films, but these points made me consider it a proper good movie.

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Fucking degenerates

Bane's "plan" reminded me of various nazi conspiracies about communism was some grandiose plot to avenge the jews of Europe. Still, Bane was right about almost everything. Still get chills when I hear that Blackgate Prison speech.

Nigger you don't even know the limits
loverslab.com/files/category/162-crusader-kings-2/

these fucking shit shows (literally)

it's just a try hard version of Falling Down, an actually good movie.

Wtf is this shit?

Syndrome is a revolutionary syndicalism tbh. The super powers are analogous to inherited wealth in capitalism. His vision of the world is one in which everyone is elevated to the level of business owner in equal measure, thus ensuring that everyone is a capitalist and therefore nobody is.
Syndrome / De Leon 2020

The mainstream media both traditional and online.

CNN, WaPo, NYT, etc. They're all god awful liberal shitrags

Speaking of capeshit, this trailer made me do a doubletake.

It's about the creator of Wonder Woman.

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Jesus, and I thought it was just anti-Bush propaganda.

I think this nails down why I find aberrant lifestyles and behaviors in weebshit add flavor at best, or are just groanworthy at worst, while in newer western media it near always makes me angry to some degree.

I thought it was because of the old saw about how propaganda that lacks artistic merit independent of its message, no matter how well it puts its message, can't be good propaganda. But I guess it goes further, that not everything controversial in art actually has to be propaganda in the first place.

In the former, it's just there, the author doesn't make a point of it being super great (let alone morally superior), usually in some form most people aren't expected to recognize, often you can't tell whether or not the author is even a pervert. In the latter, it's a central focus of the story, in a form everyone is supposed to notice, and whether intended as mere subtext or not, everything else in the story is clumsily distorted to accommodate it, turning the entire work into a hatchet job propaganda piece.

This is glorious. Please tell me there's more.

Completely beside the point.

Nope, they removed a bunch of seemingly harmless things as well as the usual creepy jap stuff.

But they are. I used to use the exact same argument that you just did, until we got to the point they're replacing fodder dialogue with socjus talking points.

Cut the shitty strawmen. FAE's localizers went above and beyond just setting the ESRB rating.
Cut the shitty ad hominens. That's a favorite tactic of censorship apologists.

I'll never be able to play CK2 the same way again just knowing about this sends me chills.

And even then, self-censorship still isn't justification for censorship.

Anyone who gets triggered by that translation is already a faggot for watching it dubbed

Hard to argue against that.

*for watching anime

There's your problem.

See pic.

this bullshit right here

Doesn't seem to know what kind of movie it is. The pun of "wonderful women" and a lot of the line delivery is at odds with the tone of some kind of scintillating sex thriller that seems forced onto it. I wouldn't be surprised to find that this is just an unconventional romance that treats Marston as an affable horny quack.

Am I the only very well endowed, haute culture connoisseur, stem educated, 5th percentile intelligence, amateur powerlifting, middle income, cassanova/lothario on this board who happens to like CK2 (I even enjoyed that unfinished piece of shit Supreme Ruler Cold War) and anime (favourite being Kaiji but I also completed the entire Hokuto Shoken series sans the recent spin off)?

Parks and Rec only has two decent seasons anyways

Oh yeah, had forgotten about Asscreed.

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In this case, I think it had less to do with trying to push an agenda and more of the realization that most of the directly-translated dialogue in shows like MKDM is boring. When it's subbed, there's a lot more of a disconnect between the emotive delivery (sometimes quite limited emotion at that) of the VAs and the actual content of what's being said. In many cases, that leaves the non-Japanese-speaking viewer greater freedom to internally contextualize character exchanges based on factors like what is believed to be the actual intent of a presented line versus what the translation delivers, how much influence on the tone they pick from what limited clues they can get from the VA versus a strict reading of the "script," how a line would be re-phrased to be more fitting in a standard English conversation, etc.
Compare that to the dub where that disconnect doesn't exist, and you're left with a situation where any deficiencies in the presentation of the writing will be glaringly obvious to the viewer. Under such circumstances, the script has to essentially be picked over with a fine-toothed comb to make sure it works line-to-line. In the case of a comedy anime like MKDM, they have to make sure that the humor is actually presented in the lines at a pacing that makes sense, which may not coincide with the sub but may in fact capture the intended timing of the original untranslated work more effectively.

FTFY

It's just boring.

Are there any good leftist games out there?

lmao.

No. Also games are for children.(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

wtf i hate game now

Hating childish things is just as immature as loving them. You should just ignore them.

wtf I hate immaturity now

Oh damn, games are communist now. Time to play Mall Tycoon, comrades!

Geneforge

This show is what imagine the tumblr/reddit "left" sees as a paradise.

Remember that, for all its failings of individual operation compared to those in other 1st-world nations, by far the greatest problem with the prison system in the US is the sheer proportion of Americans locked up in it.

We're the worst in the entire world, except sometimes for two tiny island nations embattled by pirates and smugglers.

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If it was just a matter of spicing up boring dialogue, they would make it fun, not a badly disguised virtue-signalling tweet. There's also an argument for not altering anything that doesn't need to be altered in the first place.

It annoyed me how ahistorical this movie was despite the fact that the actual history is way cooler. Balian helped negotiate the peace between Saladin and Dick.

Sherlock Holmes in the original books is quite cold but definitely not an asshole. In fact, he was extremely compassionate and while aloof he was very caring. That, along with the fact that it's a retard writing a smart person, really turns me off from the show.

How do the Guy Ritchie films match up the book?

Action bullshit.

There is one, and only one, adaptation worthy of the name.

don't see xmen whicb is some liberal reactionary bullshit. hell they even wrote a super villian(onslaught) as a consequence of the powerful pacifist character killing magneto in anger(deserved it) and liberals cried about it just so they could feel justified.

There was a time when NPR was the best news source in America easily. Only Democracy Now really rivaled it.

Now every time I listen to it, they shill hard for the establishment. They blatantly advertise products in what is supposed to be an informative news story. They refused to mention Bernie's name or talk about his candidacy for most of the primary. They try to shame green party voters for Hillary's loss. They skew stories in the most neoliberal way possible. I could go and on about every bad thing they do but I think what I'm about to say pretty much sums up their shitness:

I remember the exact moment I realized they were unbelievable shit. I was sitting with my dad in a car and they were talking about this eight year old black girl who was collecting funds around the neighborhood for her eventual college education. The girls motherand father also had severe health issues. Even though both of these are the number one causes of debt in America health issues and higher education, NPR didn't comment on the monetary fuckness of this shituation. Instead they tried to make it an inspiring story about the little girl and shamed people that complain about debt when she is working so hard. I applaud the little girl don't get me wrong, but it was sickening to me that an eight year old had to worry about college debt and her parents health issues and the news agency covering this was shilling for the shit system that is robbing her of her childhood instead of exposing it for what it is.

I haven't really noticed much of a change since the 2000s in regard to topics I care about. The main problem is that their more interesting stories and shows are now mixed 50% or more with (usually SJW flavored) human interest drivel that they try to pass off as impactful, so the only way to get a decent hour's listen out of them is to manually queue up individual stories on their website, instead of just listening to their primary stream.

Same with BBC World and Deutsche Welle, which is disappointing when I remember how much less fluff all of them used to pad it with.

Just finished watching B vs S on your recommendation and yeah it's all that you say.

One criticism I have of it is that it's paced quick as fuck. It practically 2 movies in 1. I guess they were trying to stand up the DCU as quick as possible. There's a pen ultimate edition of the movie now, have you seen it? Is it even better since it's the version that was too challenging for normies most likely.

Your story made my blood boil. I used to listen to NRP everyday and now they piss me off as bad as Rush Limbaugh.

Any sort of kikish subversion.

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Wtf I HATE NPR now

Like, really fucking
HATE
them

Liberals ruin EVERYTHING
D:<
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They're all dumb culturally ignorant nerds. I enjoy their videos, but they have not once expressed an interesting opinion.

I think I was the guy who made the first reply. I have a vague memory of this thread. I'm sure that banal comment was by me.

My dad loves Fawlty Towers, but he doesn't realise that Basil is framed as an utter cunt.

Sport. It is one of the most counter-revolutionary institutions in existence.

kek

What's funny is that NPR became good sometime during Bush's presidency.

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Dude, that's awesome! I'm honestly quite happy that you recognized BvS's greatness the first time around. I can't begin to tell you how much it sickens me that so many fucking normalfags, especially the Rotten Tomatoes shills, are honestly as stupid as they are for shitting all over this literal masterpiece of sequential cinema.

My guess is you watched the theatrical version, which admittedly does have some considerable pacing issues just to fit a standard run time. I highly recommend the Ultimate Edition, it cleans up the pacing issue so damn well. Hope you enjoy it, user! You're one of the good ones. Have an awesome day/night. :)

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Civil war? The whole point is that they should be able to blow up civilians with impunity because they're the force for moral good in the world. If that's not american pro-imperialist horseshit, I don't know what is

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