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the_cajun88 posted...

Most things that are more expensive are simply better. Not all, but definitely most.

lol you're going to lose so much money pointlessly for that viewpoint

No. Better Call Saul is well-produced fan service for Breaking Bad superfans.

Camera is way nicer on newer models.

Fame made her hot. I mean who wouldn't have fucked Monroe, if only for the story. She also was the type of person that seemed like anyone could have got her. Whether you were rich or poor.

I will admit Gone with the Wind was a little progressive back in the day, for having a major black female character that was portrayed sympathetically. Unfortunately the situation of her slavery was also whitewhashed in that process. In order for them to get that sympathy, she had to basically all but say that she enjoyed the whole slavery thing and waiting on whitey was a real treat.

The whole movie is just a god damn mess though. It is an epic romance movie set in a very disgusting time in our country's history. It is like trying to make the story of Dachau into a romantic comedy. The theater by not showing it is only saving hundreds if not thousands of hours of all of our collective time.

Service is a community event as much as it is a religious event. Any event where you're going to see basically everyone in your community, you usually want to dress up a bit for that. Whether it be a wedding, a funeral, etc. Shows it is not just an everyday regular commitment you have.

Back to the Future series
The Lego Movie

I'd probably quit drinking at all, now. Some people never stop and have a lifetime of horrible stories like this.

Also, hilarious that you bitch about censorship as you work to get others censored. Again proving my point that it is not actually about censorship, but keeping the brown man in line.

Ammonitida posted...

mattnd2007 posted...

You realizethat is against the ToS

Report the troll.

But I thought the ToS was evil and censors conservative thought. Now look who's running to daddy...

If the robe fits

The movie wasn't banned. An individual theater declined to show the movie. You keep reacting hysterically like this and you're going to mess your klan robes. Browns are hard to get out of whites.

No, it is about white supremacy and the lost cause horseshit. That is a theme running throughout the movie, without break.

mattnd2007 posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

Freedom of speech is a choice. You can choose not to speak. This theater could have went on with the show and had the most rollicking klan meeting Memphis has ever seen. They chose instead to listen to the complaints and then not do it. The offense over this is not so much that free speech is violated, but that someone listened to minorities and responded favorably to their concerns.

I don't see anything in the story about the KKK. What exactly are you talking about?

Because it's not in the story. I'm only assuming what happens after the white supremacist movie is shown.

Ammonitida posted...

Remaking IT? Sad!!

Another movie that doesn't need to be remade. Anyone remember the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street? Exactly.

It is exactly the kind of material that desperately needs a remake. The TV miniseries, while I enjoyed it, was on the cheap and didn't go far enough with the material.

Freedom of speech is a choice. You can choose not to speak. This theater could have went on with the show and had the most rollicking klan meeting Memphis has ever seen. They chose instead to listen to the complaints and then not do it. The offense over this is not so much that free speech is violated, but that someone listened to minorities and responded favorably to their concerns.

Doom_Art posted...

Call of Duty
I'll never understand the appeal.

Well I should rephrase, it was interesting at points in the Modern Warfare series where things in the campaign were almost like a Tom Clancy novel, but I can't understand how the gameplay itself and the multiplayer would be fun.

It's really boring gameplay too. They lead you down a narrow path. You shoot. One of you dies. Wash rinse repeat. I hate Call of Duty in particular because it changed the direction of the Battlefield series to be nearly exactly like it. Gone were the big open maps and the strategy aspect, and back to narrow corridors.

Also it just looks ugly and depressing.

Itachi157 posted...

Esrac posted...

Pokemon, I guess. Just because every time I've tried one, I got super bored with it.

This, the series is mindnumbingly dull and easy

Black and White 2 was pretty hard, but yeah. After XY especially it starts to get super fucking boringly easy, along with predictable. There isn't even the excitement of the evolution anymore because you know kind of what it will look like.

Cue the "but his early movies were good!" mantras... while I'll give you that they at least tried to be movies with a unique story and sensibility, they also were not funny or good.

jborgan posted...

It's not nearly as bad as The Birth of a Nation, but I sat through that just fine (as well as a person could through a 3 hour silent movie that is offensively racist).

I just don't agree with censoring art, regardless of how controversial the subject is and the attitudes of the people involved.

Or it's because you're white

Itachi157 posted...

Anyone have Marco's pizza around where they live?

I find it to be better than the other chains.

I've tried it. They've got some interesting specialty options, but overall it's in the same tier as the rest of them. It has that same assembled taste experience.

Have you seen the movie? It definitely is that.

Domino's has always been terrible. Every formula and incarnation. The sauce is too sweet, and the flavor in the breading is not integrated at all. It tastes like they put spices on wet styrofoam.

Cats can't tell you when they don't like something by anything other than not eating it. And not eating food can make a cat really sick. That's why if a cat likes a certain food, it's not bad to keep feeding it the same type of food.

Cats are also not like humans in that they are carnivorous. A carnivorous diet doesn't have much variety in the first place.

Every self-interested MAGA militiaman would have cooperated with the Nazis to the extent that Soros did, and more. They like to imagine themselves as these brave warriors that would stand for right in the face of death, but they only say what they mean on 4chan and other anonymous sources. I notice a lot of them tend to be children of Vietnam draft dodgers and other cowards too, so it runs in the family.

This board talks more about McDonald's than any other place

I don't think he understands, or is deliberately trying to redefine, the word elitist. An elite surgeon is not the same as an elitist surgeon. The former, yes, that's what is needed. The latter is probably dangerous.

Meritocracy would be a better term for what he wants in our western society. Calling someone an elitist is not necessarily denigrating their expertise, but an accusation that they have contempt for common people. You can express views from a place of experience and competence without also expressing contempt and hatred of the "lower life forms"

Even if they did pay for the wall, America would end up paying so much more because of the shitstorm it would provoke in Latin America, which is already drifting away from the US.

People are pretty much a collection of their actions. If you constantly do racist stuff, then that probably is your identity. Abusers love to play on that concept that "you just don't see the real me" even as they don't give their victims any of this deep thought that they demand from others about themselves.

_Near_ posted...

People always act like intent is an unprovable thing. It's proven in courts of law every single day. You can gague someone's intent by surrounding factors. In the Laugh Factory incident, the greatest piece of evidence that it was a joke is the fact that he said it in the middle of a stand up routine - the context for where such a joke would be made. Second, comedians usually insult hecklers to get laughs. Third, he has no prior public history of racism. Fourth, close friends vouched for him instead of distancing themselves. Fifth, he apologized right after (unlike Jontron).

Intent is not as clear cut as we want it to be, but it's what separates something meant to be taken seriously (not a joke) from something that is not meant to be taken seriously (a joke).

It is never proven for certain, a jury of peers makes a determination which can be questioned at any time.

But this massive rant misses another good point. Even if it was a joke, it was a shitty and poorly constructed joke, and one that probably came from a racist place deep in Kramer's brain, since it is squarely targeted at the heckler's race which doesn't have any relevance as to why they interrupted the show.

GOATSLAYER posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

The comment section is atrocious.

Is this your first time using YouTube

It is even worse than usual. Like a lot of "you sure showed those darkies" type of comments.

Lightsasori posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

The comment section is atrocious.

At least it's not toxic. But for most youtube videos, it's best to never read the comment section.

I have found insightful and interesting writings in YouTube comment sections before. And the JonTron one, for a video that didn't hint at all at politics, is just filled with horrible nasty shit.

_Near_ posted...

It's about structure but it's also about intent. The words were not said to be taken seriously. That's at the heart of what a joke is. Jokes can have terrible or non-existent structure - it doesn't make them not jokes, it just makes them bad jokes. If the comedian says the words anyway with the full intent of making fun of the person and getting laughs, it's a joke regardless of structure.

There's no way to know intent for certain, and of course Kramer is going to mark the intent as "a joke" - there is too much financially on the line for him to say anything else. So if you look at the structure of it, there is no context clue or anything to suggest he's kidding. It is genuine rage not only against the hecklers but all blacks.

The comment section is atrocious.

D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

The only people that hate JonTron for his "racist" comments were the people who already hated JonTron from what I've seen.

I don't hate JonTron, I have high praise for his talents as a YouTube content creator. I think he's the best I've seen in this space of "make fun of old stupid shit" and adds to the content he rips on, while having an interesting and engaging comedic style that I haven't seen anywhere else. But as a human being outside of his craft, he's pretty shitty.

Bannon casted Kramer. It couldn't be helped.

... but seriously even before it was revealed Michael Richards was an insane racist, the character of Kramer was always the dumbest and most out-of-place aspect of Seinfeld. He's basically a traditional sitcom character, the wacky next door neighbor. I guess they thought they needed that on a show that otherwise challenged many sitcom conventions, as an anchor for stupid viewers.

Your own question can bounce right back at you - why are you so mad about Manning if Trump pardoned Arpaio? In the answer to that question you may be able to understand why this is a faulty piece of reasoning

I wonder how bad it's going to be with the fight tonight

If there were sects of Christianity that do half the shit Scientology is accused of doing then yeah, they would also get the attention

TheVipaGTS posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

GameGodOfAll posted...

TheVipaGTS posted...

My first experience with JonTron was watching him play Guts on SNES on GameGrumps. He knew the controls but Arin didn't and he refused to tell Arin how to play because according to him it wouldn't be fair and it would give Arin an advantage. I just remember thinking that doesn't make sense and thinking he was a jerk >_>. He never really redeemed himself for me.

That's the worst first impression possible. Way worse than any political stuff he's talked about. He was such a dick that episode. lol

There was a lot of other stuff that Jon was petty about. I remember his discussion of Wolf being a clone during the Smash video. Overall I think Jon was more interesting on the show than the dude they got to replace him, because there was more tension. It's probably funnier with the other guy though.

It is. With Jon it really just seemed to be a lot of arguing coupled with Jon's screeching and drunk rambles. Now it's just two friends who like to play games and often devolves into interesting stories between the two of them. Much more calming and more of a podcast of sorts.

I'm not really a big fan of calming entertainment. I like the idea of someone saying something out of bounds at any moment. Makes it more addicting to listen to.

Jon's quarrelsomeness never bothered me because it annoyed Arin to no end, and I never liked passive aggressive Arin in any incarnation of Game Grumps. I didn't really like Jon's personality either, in fact he is kind of a monster in his personal life, but as a producer of content I have at least that respect for Jon. He is probably the best YouTuber out there, even if it does take him awhile to get things done. Arin's personality and content both kind of annoy me.

GameGodOfAll posted...

TheVipaGTS posted...

My first experience with JonTron was watching him play Guts on SNES on GameGrumps. He knew the controls but Arin didn't and he refused to tell Arin how to play because according to him it wouldn't be fair and it would give Arin an advantage. I just remember thinking that doesn't make sense and thinking he was a jerk >_>. He never really redeemed himself for me.

That's the worst first impression possible. Way worse than any political stuff he's talked about. He was such a dick that episode. lol

There was a lot of other stuff that Jon was petty about. I remember his discussion of Wolf being a clone during the Smash video. Overall I think Jon was more interesting on the show than the dude they got to replace him, because there was more tension. It's probably funnier with the other guy though.

TheDarkCircle posted...

nativengine posted...

Attack of the Clones. Unlike most, I enjoyed a lot of TPM but that's not to say I loved the movie. So I go to see AotC and we legit left that movie just baffled. I was so disappointed it led to me being angry.

I remember coming out and my buddy telling everyone on line just how bad it was.

I'm with you on this. I was in middle school when AotC came out, so I wasn't ready to admit to myself it was bad. Now it's one of my all time most hated films.

In terms of TPM, I actually feel it's the best of the prequels. At least in the sense it's the one that "feels" most like the OT. It has practical sets and designs that feel part of the same universe. The light saber battle is well shot and choreographed and isn't that ridiculous space ninja shit it became in AotC. And it has some good performances from Liam, Ewan and Ray Park.

The problem with TPM is it's really boring for long stretches, Jar Jar, and from a story standpoint became disposable after AoTC when Lucas shifted away from Obi Wan and decided to focus totally on Anakin.

I'm not defending TPM as a great movie, but it's definitely not the worst of the prequels.

They are all pretty much the same to me. Completely disposable entertainment with no other redeeming value. If you were to force me to rate which turd floats highest in the bowl I would say Sith because it had the only scene in the entire prequels that was actually engaging from a dramatic perspective (when Anakin and Palpatine are at the weird sperm opera talking shop - although even that is a little stupid because Anakin somehow can't clue in that Palpatine is a Sith lord throughout that scene, but it was still interesting to see the early interaction between those two characters).

Christian churches are neighborhood-based and local by nature. Neighborhoods are also largely segregated by race to this day. Can't reach out to someone who doesn't exist in your neighborhood.

Without taking classes

it is exceedingly rare that a movie brings me to rage because I usually gatekeep the movies I decide to watch and never go in blind. That being said, London Has Fallen. Authoritarian, politically myopic, piece of shit movie. Just thoroughly unpleasant and mean. I would have been enriched more by staring into an open sewer for an hour and a half.

After BotW I would have no interest to returning to overly long dungeons with a linear plot

Nomadic View posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

Nomadic View posted...

Pull your weight.

He who doesn't work doesn't eat.

There's just not a whole lot of sympathy for someone who can provide for themselves, but wants someone else to just take care of them. If all of society had that attitude, then no one would eat. When you subsidize bad behavior you get more bad behavior.

Funny enough that doesn't seem to apply those born into extreme wealth.

Yes, it does. Under 18 the parent is obligated to take care of the child. Beyond that it's the parents choice and discretion to continue taking care of their child.

If you want to give to charity, that's your prerogative. It's not society's obligation to do it, however.

It's easy to pretend to be high and mighty on a moral pedestal when you're redistributing other people's money.

If you want to give to the less fortunate out of your own funds that you earned, more power to you. And I commend you for your generosity. However, I seriously doubt you're willing to be so giving and charitable when the money being divided out is yours.

Your moral concern was that you didn't want to subsidize idleness but that is exactly what allowing for extreme wealth disparities does. Paris Hilton doesn't have to work a single day in her entire life from age 0 on if she doesn't want to do it. Neither does James Murdoch or any other oligarch. Yet the peasants like you and me, we have to or we starve. You masochistically apply to yourself higher obligations than you do the rich and powerful. Have fun working that out, but the rest of us are not going to live by the free market as the powerful get fat off of government pull and socialism.

It is absolutely what I would expect to read on a board that is named after a clumsy metaphor from an overrated 1990's movie.

100 years is a long time for humans because humans do things. They have a story to tell. The Earth has a story, but geologic time doesn't tell it quickly.

mike42 posted...

They know they will be outnumbered by mid-century, and are desperately trying to cling to the power and privilege they've long taken for granted. Diversity and globalism are terrifying to people who are coming to realize that whether they wish it or not people who don't look like them will be looking down at them from the boss' office, judge's bench, and mayor's office. All those young men carrying Tiki Torches in Virginia last week know they are soon going to find themselves in a job interview, sitting across the desk from a black woman. They know one day they might be pulled over by a hispanic cop who remembers Sheriff Joe. Lots of patriotic young men know they will soon find themselves joining the military, and being obligated to salute a female officer who may have been born male.

Their clumsy and haphazard attempts to hold on to a bygone era are just digging their own grave. In 130 days everyone born in the 20th century will be over 18. Everyone born before January 1, 1950 (people old enough to actually have lived in the era Republicans seem to want to return to) will be past retirement age. It will be the sixties, seventies, and eighties again before you know it. Republicans don't seem to realize that history of now isn't being kept on some dusty bookshelf and open to interpretation. History is live, in color, and verbatim. Republicans will be judged by their descendants for their short-sighted, self-centered actions in the late 20th/early 21st centuries whether they wish it or not simply by being outnumbered.

Being outnumbered doesn't determine who ultimately holds power. Honestly as a liberal this writing of liberalism as being a determined outcome bothers the shit out of me. If you want power, you have to fight for it. Nothing is going to be guaranteed to you. If it is between 100 people getting a pie or 1 person getting the pie, 100 people all looking at each other and telling themselves that they surely outnumber the 1 are not going to get the pie if the 1 gets up and grabs it himself.