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TomNook7 posted...

Im surprised this board is still here lol

this board will never disappear

i agree that phase 2 was not that great and uneven but it still had two great movies (winter soldier, guardians of the galaxy). phase 4 had one (and i even think no way home being great is debatable, like i said). for that reason, i think the comparison with phase 1 is more apt, as that phase also had just one great movie (avengers, obviously, though i get that a lot of people will say that the original iron man is also great).

TomNook posted...

It has to do with the types of films people watch. A lot of modern viewers just watch super hero films and whatever the hottest blockbusters are. They don't really have too high of film standards because their hobbies are dedicated to other things. So they like all of these movies because they land in an easily digestible comfort zone and play out exactly how they expect and want.

it's still weird to me, though. like, phase 1 wasn't that great either but i feel like the bar was really raised in phases 2/3. i'd say even the best phase 4 movie (no way home) is merely "good" and not nearly as great as the best from the phases 2/3 era (winter soldier, infinity war).

so i'm kind of surprised at how uncritical/lenient a lot of people in this topic are to the movies now that we're regressing to a phase 1 level of quality. i'd expect people to want more than second-rate MCU at this point.

at least parker goes through a character arc and becomes less stupid throughout the movie.

maybe moon knight does too (haven't seen the show yet) but yeah.

i didn't see them all but i only liked two, and one of them's debatable since i'm still not sure if i liked wakanda forever. it's... fine, i guess. (the other one is no way home, of course.)

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1647922770754273280?s=46&t=v9nzYLLBIiNYrqldFs9NWQ

Someone please tell me what hes talking about lol

typical corrik-ish "both sides are crazy extremists, i'm an enlightened centrist" bullshit

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

https://twitter.com/eve6/status/1646301496542384128?s=46&t=v9nzYLLBIiNYrqldFs9NWQ

lol @ the idea that wearing a very small pride flag is "intentionally promoting lgbtq behavior on children [sic]"

Radix posted...

it has been brought to my attention that one of the gauntlet runners chessjerk is another gamefaqs dot gamespot dot fandom user. nice!

also cool how he's apparently doing the run with his brother, yelsraek.

andylt posted...

There is no contest too insignificant for us to care about.

the quotes contest

apparently, it was because pyro saved his life. i didn't read that comic, got that from wikipedia.

it's funny because senator kelly became pro-mutant later on in the comics

xenosaga posted...

You do realize the people passing these laws aren't doing them because they care about sports, right?

this was one of the best posts in the sports argument (so of course plum completely ignored it)

LightningStrikes posted...

I thought you were a libertarian?

obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITP93pqtdQ

reminds me of alex jones ranting about how ridiculous it is that the left tries to portray kanye as a nazi, only for kanye to reply: "actually, i AM a nazi!"

no idea why conservatives keep shooting themselves in the foot like this. well, alex jones is fucking dumb but i thought hannity was slightly less dumb >_>

_Blur_ posted...

On the topic of cancel culture very obviously being a thing, albeit an overblown one, I just saw this story of a news anchor getting fired for saying "fo shizzle my nizzle" when talking about Snoop Dogg's wine. She had been there 20 years. Ridiculous.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/whoopi-goldberg-charlamagne-tha-god-152333640.html

getting fired qualifies as being canceled now? in that case, i've been canceled too.

masterplum posted...

Also you aren't allowed to post on this board at all while warned.

oh yeah, i forgot about that.

Thorn posted...

At worst you get put in timeout for a week or so and there's no rules against having as many alt accounts as you need to circumvent that. Hell, if you do get banned they generally don't touch those either so it's hardly a punishment at all.

while this is true, you do need to put in a lot of effort in getting a lot of karma on a bunch of alts for this to work. fortunately, a lot of trolls don't do this, so they have no choice but to post on a 3 karma alt with lots of posting restrictions.

I'm really wracking my brain here for people getting genuinely cancelled (permanently, and not just rebounding after a brief period of bad PR) for expressing opinions on the right of the spectrum. ...Kanye? And only after he went completely batshit that one day?

now that rihanna performed all of the lights during the super bowl, i don't consider kanye to be truly canceled.

_Blur_ posted...

This one is kind of making my point for me. Morgan Wallen is a country music star. If he was in any space remotely on the left, he would have 100% been cancelled.

i don't buy that he's only appealing to racist rednecks. you don't get the highest selling album in the US that way.

LightningStrikes posted...

Chris Brown had a sold out tour like two weeks ago, come on.

speaking of music, morgan wallen used the n-word.

...his new album is now the #1 album in the US.

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Speaking of movie stuff, people were wondering why I kept bringing up apparent alt-right YouTube news outlet Midnight's Edge. It's because I got most of my movie news from it between 2016 and 2020 (might have mentioned this earlier but I forget), so I'm still tempted to check in on it every now and then. Most recently for their takes on Ant-Man 3 and Shazam 2 which...they somehow blamed Black Panther: Wakanda Forever for both movies bombing because that makes sense.

his argument is so dumb. the problem with superhero movies lately is that they haven't been that good. he even kind of acknowledges this, but then he still says "the movies are flopping because there's superhero fatigue." no, dumbass, they're flopping because people don't like them that much. start making good superhero movies again and people will go see them.

and that's not even getting into his "MCU movies are woke" bullshit.

_Blur_ posted...

It's temporary, but that's quite literally an example of someone being "canceled"

i think saying that someone who's not posting for a few days* is canceled is stretching the definition of "canceling" to the point that it doesn't mean much of anything anymore. i'd say that for someone to be canceled, they have to be gone for a significant amount of time.

* for the record, plum isn't even banned from the boards. he can still post. a warning just means the amount of posts he can make per day is limited.

Nor is it good optics that it took me saying anything two days later for apparently even a single person to admit they also found it harsh. Do better

i mean, i've been modded/warned plenty of times for way dumber reasons than what plum was warned for so i don't care that much. it sucks that the gamefaqs moderation system is flawed but this isn't news. you've been here since 2008 so you should be somewhat used to this by now!

yeah, a warning was a little harsh.

i don't see what this has to do with cancel culture, though. i wouldn't say a user whose posting abilities are restricted for 48-72 hours is "canceled."

Kenri posted...

I would still take a libertarian over a Republican ten times out of ten though.

sure, this i agree with.

though occasionally, these two go together (i.e. ron paul).

i don't even think libertarians are necessarily socially liberal, though. for instance, they think churches should handle marriage and the government should not be involed (which would obviously greatly restrict gay marriage).

_Blur_ posted...

You know it's just another term for things like anarcho-syndicalism that Chomsky and the likes advocate for? Well I think it's more of a general term, whereas anarcho-syndicalism is specifically a strategy for achieving it, but regardless, the term makes perfect sense once you understand it. Have you never heard of the four point political compass test?

even if the term makes sense, you've already lost me if you describe yourself as "libertarian" anything. i'm a socialist period and i think libertarianism is a dogshit political ideology. (same goes for anarchism, btw.)

i'll admit to knowing little - probably not enough - about chomsky's political beliefs, though.

i just find it hard (if not impossible) to take someone who describes himself as a "libertarian socialist" seriously.

that video was good, though.

oh he's warned lol