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So I am pretty sure everyone in that audience bought a ticket to Governor's Comedy club specifically to see that set. Which means that audience is probably already feeling pretty charitable towards Louis and you're unlikely to have much pushback there.

Also, not his best work. He knows his audience here and plays it very safe and very light on the commentary. I'm sure he'll come back to himself as he gets more and more into the swing of things, but he's not going to win back the people who cancelled him with this material.
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That's also true.
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I don't think so, no. At that point he likely assumed Cap was another super type like Iron Man (since they'd been flying on the same quinjet) and durable enough to take some of the punishment he'd been throwing at Tony. As a reminder, Tony begins that fight by smashing him off a cliff and dragging the both of them through several trees. When you start a fight like that, all parties understand they don't need to pull their punches as much.
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Vicious_Dios posted...

Here's a recent one.

How does he get laughs? Like his whole thing is "wow I was a terrible person and people called me terrible".

At least part of the trick to stand-up is the awareness that the audience is there to have fun, and that so long as the atmosphere is harmonious, the audience exerts a social pressure on people to laugh.

I mean I'm two minutes into this clip Louis CK is talking about diarrhea and the person recording it can even wait for Louis CK to complete the set up before he starts laughing into his phone mic. He's made a decision to enjoy the comedy set.
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It's not really my place to offer opinions on this.

I used to judge parents who did this, but I've decided not to be that kind of person anymore because I'm not a parent and I know I can't fully appreciate the chaos a child can get up to given the opportunity. Until we have reason to distrust the parent we can all trust that they know how best to take care of their own children and keep our unsolicited opinions in their place.
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I don't know. The term 'person of color' refers to race, and race is more than just skin color, or having kinky hair, or whatever physical characteristics people usually cite here. It also refers to where and how they were raised, and how people in that context see and treat them.

A photo can't show me any of that, especially with how people be painting themselves orange these days.
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Raikuro posted...

maybe people just want a movie that finally doesn't have batman and/or superman as the center of the universe

People say this, but really, we haven't had a big-screen Superman movie that was universally agreed upon as good since, what, Superman II from 1980?

Yeah. That's not to say it isn't possible. All Star Superman gets bandied around a lot as a book that really speaks to the heart of the character. I think that could be used as the basis for an excellent Superman movie.
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Unknown5uspect posted...

Jason Mamoa too sexy to be held down by the lameness of Aquaman.

This. There are women and men that bought multiple tickets to see his wet sexy ass.

I want Jason Mamoa to hold me down.

Setting that aside. The movie is apparently a lot more lighthearted and funny than a lot of the other movies in the franchise. And they ditched that dark blue filter that hangs over all of the other movies.

Wonder Woman got praise for a lot of that too with the only complaint being the final moments of the movie when Snyder and his overly busy action sequence hijacked a perfectly good movie, and ruined the obvious conclusion to that movie where Ares reveals that he's not the movie's antagonist, but that mankinds' collective Thanatos is the reason for the conflict.

Skye Reynolds posted...

Batman killed Ra's and Two-Face without a second thought. Why was Joker so special? Was he not able to conveniently arrange some pretentious "I technically didn't kill you" scenario for him?

Ras maybe. But for Harvey there was a big to do about trying to talk him down and save his 'damaged soul.' Batman acts because he's about to murder a child. And even then the attempt is pretty messy since he tackles him off a building and easily could have died with him if not for his apparent plot armor.
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I can't open that. That headline is breaking my heart.
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From a plot standpoint it's nothing all that special. There aren't a lot of twists and turns, and in some ways the trailer totally spoiled things. Seeing two Black Panthers in the trailers kind of reveal a lot of key details that might have surprised viewers. For example, the fact that Erik has a legit reason to be in Wakanda and has some kind of relation to the royal family, is strongly implied by the trailers, even if its not explicitly spelled out. As a result an attentive viewer of the trailer already knows there's some kind of royal succession plot at play here for the crown. So when you see it happen you're not all that surprised. Probably the strongest feeling the audience experience is scene where Erik sees his father, and you get why he's so angry.

Also yes, the fights aren't that exciting. Frankly, that's whatever for me.

The setting design, the clothes, casting, the music, and the fact all the fact that all of it means something, and then there's all the little details showing several forms of African cultural expression, or the clothes and colors denoting specific tribal references. So much thought and talent went into all of that.

It's like someone told all of Black Hollywood that they have one shot to collectively snatch the trophy and they fucking snapped.
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Look up some of the search term frequencies of pron sites. A lot of sites gather data on their users' searches and browsing habits and give it to math nerds who want to study modern human sexuality through big data (I love the idea of this, BTW. It seems so much more honest than doing personal surveys were we edit ourselves in accordance to what we think the interviewer wants to see). You could probably just good the phrase 'porn search terms data,' and you'll come across several articles and/or books on the topic of kink frequencies by gender, country, state, etc. What you'll find is that everyone is quite kinky, and that their kinks are diverse and surprising.
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boxington posted...

I'd like to see an epic fantasy with a Sub-Saharan African backdrop as inspiration, tbh.

What? Lion King?

I would die if they did an adaptation of the Inheritence Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JJ86YA4/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i5

It's like a fantasy re-imagination of Sub-Saharan African society in a world where the gods are real and walk among mankind.
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Mareen posted...

Black Panther didn't have an all black cast though.

This is the tea.

Even the 'black' movies, have several non-black people in them, every time.
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EvalAngell posted...

The best part of the movie was the first credits scene where Hank, Hope & mom get dusted due to The Snap

That was the mood whiplash moment of the year for me. I saw it coming, and was still gagged. The whole movie was so much more lighthearted than IW. It was supposed be, since we're getting people's spirits up after that downer of a movie.

Only for the last moments to remind you once again that everyone is dead now.
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Patty_Fleur posted...

Nothing more attractive than a transwomen's boner poking through her skirt.

I thought you identified as a transwoman at some point in the last two years. I'd have thought you knew how rare it was to get a boner when you're on hormones.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

You basically just called an Asian girl an African. Racist

Did I? It sounds like those are completely different species possibly even not in the same family (mammals vs reptiles), not socially constructed subcategories within the same (human) species.

What do you think race is, exactly?
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IloveJesus posted...

XxKrazyChaosxX posted...

I think World's End is pretty underrated. Plus, it inspired my friends and I to come with a similar pub crawl like in the movie too lol.

Why the fuck would you need a film to give you the idea of having a pub crawl?

Before seeing it I didn't see the appeal of a pub crawl either. I figured you'd find a spot you like and then spend the evening there.
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Doesn't that mean she'll have teeth like Milenna from MKII?


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mrtopgoon327 posted...

Whats the best way to correct her.

'Hey, can we talk?'

'Is there a reason you keep calling me X? Why do I have to keep reminding you my name is Y?'

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NameMeWhatever posted...

Move to Scotland.

Do people wear kilts there casually? I always thought that was a kind of formalwear or at least conspicuously preppy.
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I felt this for older titles that I missed several years ago and am now revisiting, where if you bring it up in a room everyone assumes you played back when it was new and just want to talk. As a result the first thing out of their mouth is a spoiler.

I've been that guy. Someone brings up Spec Ops the Line, and I go straight to the white phosphorous scene, the ending, or the clear and constant references to Heart of Darkness. Every one of those conversations is a major spoiler for that game.

Really it's not just games. Try talking in depth about Game of Thrones without spoiling the events of the first season, or Harry Potter without spoiling the events of the third, fourth, fifth, and especially the sixth book. Or even more recently, Avengers: IW. You'll be tiptoeing around what is basically the point behind all of these properties.
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SSJCAT posted...

hell naw

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Where in the landmass of Japan are you supposed to bury all those people?
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PowerfulSageIRL posted...

yeah using "transgender" as a noun is dehumanising and definitely not ok

And it's a clear decision not to refer to them in more natural verbiage that emphasizes their humanity (transman, transwoman, transpeople, etc) the way we do everything else. It's a quietly insidious way of reminding your reader that you think transpeople are fundamentally different from other people.
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I really really like them. I've got several pairs and often catch myself eyeing new ones.
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I'd say it needs to go, but there really should be a used game vendor and I don't know of any other company that could fill it's role here.

Well I guess vintage stock is an option. Maybe I'd like it to become a game-centric vintage stock that only sells old hardware and software.
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Harmony
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Salt should be used as an ingredient in cooking first, because if you season properly during the food prep/cooking you won't need it as a condiment later. Salt is kind of a super hero, she kind of does everything.

Proper use of salt in food prep makes pre-seasoned meats retain moisture on the inside better and brown faster on the outside (yay!), and using salted water when blanching or even boiling vegetables keeps them from wilting and losing color (marvelous!).

Normally adding salt and yeast to flour and water is a surefire way to kill your bread yeast before it even activates and make sure your dough never rises (a perfect waste of flour and water). However, adding a small amount of salt to bread dough after autolyzing the flour with the water and activating the yeast allows you to slow the rate at which the yeast eats the sugars in the bread dough allowing you to stretch out a 2-4 hour bulk fermentation phase for your dough for up to eighteen hours (!) without killing the yeast. All this allows more complex flavors to develop in your dough. If you've ever bought a artisanal loaf/baguette from a bakery that completely blew you away there's a good chance they're adding salt to their dough and using this technique to get that result.

So salt really is that bitch. She's got her hands in most everything we love. Bow down.
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I actually really liked the idea of a blue collar black family making moves in Chicago and the show not kind of leaning into stereotypes about low income black people like some of it's predecessors. If shows like the Cosby show and later the Fresh Prince of BelAir were early attempts to capture the idea of black affluence on television, Family Matters kind of brought it down to something closer to our level by showing a family where both parents worked but they were also making it. I don't think the show needed an Urkell like comic relief character, but didn't actually grow to dislike that character until he kind of started choking the life out of the rest of the show.

I'm still living for Harriet


Gagged.

EDIT: This clip is better.
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The confusion here seems to center on the word 'primate' itself, which is just a name for a subcategory of animals under the family of mammals.

The designation 'primate' includes several subcategories of animals and is at least one stage removed from the category of species, which is where we start describing specific animals like humans, or orangutans, or mandrills.

And evolution does describe genetic change over a significant time span. But just because members of a particular species evolve, doesn't mean that other members of that species won't go on living and/or potentially evolving parallel to the newly genetically divergent species.

It's why we want to be specific with our language when we say, for example, that 'humans and other other great apes share a common genetic ancestor' instead of 'humans came from X.'
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ZombiePelican posted...

I'm not a primate though

Are you sure?

By modern biological classifications humans are considered apes, and apes are considered primates. Therefore, humans are primates.

But what's your reasoning here?
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DK9292 posted...

TC, I have something to tell you.

Wait. Don't tell him yet. Let me get this kettle going.


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DK9292 posted...

Sweet sir, would you kindly point out the part where I said I had an opinion

Surely you're not claiming you weren't expressing an opinion in post#7. I mean, you went out of your way to italicize the name 'Killmonger.' We could be deaf, and we'd still all hear the derisive sneer in that question.

DK9292 posted...

or that my opinion held any merit?

But I do stan a queen with some perspective and the awareness to know their contributions aren't what would they could be. Lord knows I've stepped in it before.
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I find referring to people by their body parts exclusively has significantly increased my success rate. Too much time talking to them like their people and instead of walking vaginas really gets dudes in their feelings. And nothing kills a boner like feelings, am I rite?
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I'm not rude. Just tired. It's been ten months and people are still in their feelings.

They're even preemptively getting mad at the prospect of BP getting an Oscar nom. Like what even is that?

DK9292 posted...

Sweet sir, would you kindly point out the part where I said I watched the movie or read the comics?

If you have an opinion about a thing, it's reasonable to assume you've read or watched enough of that thing to have an informed opinion about it.

But you didn't do those things

And you definitely don't have an informed opinion. Otherwise you'd know why the character is named Killmonger.

Frankly, I don't even know why you felt the need to chime in. But here you are.
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SolaFide posted...

On the side of his professional career as a genocidal terrorist, Osama Bin Laden also had a penchant for playing Super Mario Bros., Yoshis Island, Metroid, Final Fantasy VII, and Half-Life when he wasnt watching anime, Dreamworks movies and pornography.

https://technology.inquirer.net/68738/osama-gamer-list-bin-ladens-video-games-hard-drive

The guy sounds like the stereotypical neck beard who lives in his moms basement.

That take doesn't make sense. Each of those titles were massively popular worldwide. Everyone played them. To extrapolate anything from that is to take a page straight from Jack Thompson's playbook from the nineties when he was muckraking about video game violence causing school shootings.
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catboy0_0 posted...

good topic. I'll probably read it all later

It's not. And you shouldn't. You're welcome.
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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

s0nicfan posted...

Don't forget that the magic utopia that represents the best of African culture still rules by monarchy decided via death matches.

BP is a good movie, but that always felt sort of forced so they could have a plot contrivance for bad things to happen.

Did you miss the whole part of the movie where they outright say that following tradition isn't exactly always a good thing?

I mean that's the whole reason Killmonger was able to take over in the first place.

Not only that, tribal rivalries still exist within Wakanda, and if a tribe sees an opportunity they can and will challenge for the throne. Even Wakanda is far from perfect.

Those posters just missed that in the two hour movie because they were too busy clutching their caucasity at the prospect of the movie to notice any nuance.

DK9292 posted...

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I mean that's the whole reason Killmonger

Seriously?

The bad guy's name is Killmonger?

And this one didn't even see the movie. Or read the comic books that inspired it. Girl, bye.

The lesson: Let those manchildren be mad and pay them no mind.
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