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KinjiMuto_3 posted...

Didnt god wipe out like hundreds of thousands of men woman and children in the bible for trivial things

God technically does that every day

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Because hes old I guess.

There's interviews of him from the 80s where it shows he can speak above a 1st grade level.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

There are good things and bad things about every generation.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

I heard the vast majority of symptoms are mild.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Jeez, the UK writers made Sonic an unlikable douche.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Vicious_Dios posted...

Sounds like bullshit, to be honest.

Well I mean, when you read the rest of the articles and not just react to the click batey title and small snippet tc edited, yes.

It's a likeliness based on an association of a small number of chosen suicides for the study, not a cause and effect. The article also admits that men are far more efficient at killing themselves, which also accounts for the higher suicide rate in comparison to women.

These studies don't bring into question the rate of attempted and failed suicides by women or reasoning for why they would want to kill themselves either.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

DuranOfForcena posted...

i don't like this guy's videos. i tried watching a few before, including this one and ones about what were used for soap and toothpaste in medieval times, and almost every claim he asserted about supposed historical stuff he prefaces with phrases like "i bet you", "i suppose", "i basically think", "i have some ideas" or things like that. so i don't know if what i'm hearing from this guy and supposedly learning are actual researched facts, or just his best guesses and suppositions.

He's speaking with a UK historian in this video named Chris Carr, so you can do a background check of her if you like.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

https://youtu.be/WeVcey0Ng-w?t=56

This explains it a bit.


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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

inloveanddeath0 posted...

Yes

But what is it? Is it a variant of Eggman?

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Aren't both names canon though?

Does his grandfather Gerald Robotnik have a different name in japan too?

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

I mean I agree with some of what he's saying, but these are issues that were prevalent on a lot of DVDs as well.

Blu-ray is an arguably superior physical format to all consumer physical media before it though.


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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

So many modern indie horror games were inspired by Silent Hill 1.

Most indie horror in general really.

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Following rules doesn't send you to heaven, tc.


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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

I wasn't really a fan of the Silent Hill movie.

It was too thematically different from the games, and he changed the lore by toning it down for western audiences. It also wasn't all that scary either sadly.

The audio and visuals were great though.


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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Wow, already? I feel like I just bought one =(

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Marten Luther King Jr.

I'd rather get a proper Silent HIll collection remaster.

RE4 is cool, but it's been ported to everything at this point.

They need to port over Wind Waker HD and The Wonderful 101.

The NES Remix would be cool too if they haven't already.

Blue_Inigo posted...

Yes and the government was losing its shit over this and killed/imprisoned prominent black people to curb that activism

Racism has historically been at the heart of gun control, yes.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Naw, like other people in the NRA or whatever. It's like going to the club with a celebrity, you get instant elevated treatment cause who you're with. If you can show me a group of all black activistdoing this kind of shit, I'll shut the fuck up.

I mean the Black Panthers have done it.

Evening_Dragon posted...

This doesn't make sense because emotions aren't a binary issue. There's a vast range between "stoic" and "cowardly", and no one's arguing that you must be cowardly if you're not stoic.

I agree.
Evening_Dragon posted...

Just admitting that you feel depressed about something, or that you feel like you could use some help, or might have suicidal thoughts, real trauma, whatever. Lots of guys just think "nah that's weak gotta keep a stiff upper lip always", and then oops, men have a ridiculous suicide and homicide rate.

I feel like that's giving a simplistic answer to a complex set of issues dealing with mental health, where someone may not be thinking clearly enough to get help to begin with or even think they need help. Society certainly doesn't promote someone clamming up for having suicidal thoughts and feelings or your're not a man.

jborgan posted...

Why does one have to mean the other? Showing your emotions doesn't mean "breaking down and cowering in fear." That's exactly what toxic masculinity is.

If the base usage is characterizing men as being groomed into becoming emotionless terminators, why not the polar opposite extreme?

What does showing one's emotions mean anyway? I hear this all the time, but nobody really describes what that is and why generally men aren't doing it.

BlueMage279 posted...

The idea, which has taken root in popular culture, originally started as a concept along the lines of what Olivia Petter once wrote in "The Independent": That toxic masculinity dictates that men should be stoic and strong, both emotionally and physically, and recognizing that as a problem provides men an opportunity to rethink what it means to be a man today, and what is generally expected of them by society.

This is why the term annoys me for sure.I don't see why being stoic and strong is a bad thing.

It's the means to that end that may be turned into something "toxic", but there's nothing wrong with promoting men being capable both emotionally and physically to deal with problems that impact their lives and the people around them, instead of breaking down and cowering in fear.

If Toxic masculinity is the repression of emotions by men for some gendered tribalism, I would think women being emotionally abusive and manipulative towards men and women for gendered tribalism to be an example of toxic femininity

The feminist definition just paints toxic femininity as a form of stockholm syndrome, where subordinate women are the victim and men the abusive perpetrators of the patriarchy.

Keith_Valentine posted...

You wont see anything in Hell. Its not actually a fiery pit of torture, its just a void for all eternity, all alone. Cut off from God, empty and helpless, like floating through space blind deaf and dumb. And I wont be there, bro.

Unless you're a christian that believes in Annihilationism.

Something Christians and Atheists can agree on atleast about what happens to a lot of people when they die.

Kastrada posted...

Public schools have attempted to punish students for what they have down outside of school/private life too.

Administrations can be the same no matter the type of schooling. Just the way they attack the kids differs because of legality.

Yeah, Wasn't there a girl who got expelled from a public school for wearing a tshirt mentioning jesus a few years ago?

There was that one time some kid was expelled from a school for chewing a poptart into the shape of a gun too.

Wait, so some swedish guy said a swear word online?

I bet that purple haired chick that made that comic is celebrating with her cat.

Blue_Dream87 posted...

Lied about a Canadian bill protecting transpeople from harassment/discrimination by whipping free speech warriors into a frenzy thinking they'll be jailed for using a wrong pronoun

You can't be jailed since it's not a criminal offense to misgender, but Bill c16 does move it under the category of discrimination that can lead to fines or orders to change the accused behavior, take retraining, etc.

If you mean he hasn't upset people on Twitter lately, they've moved on to something else to be outraged about, as per usual.

Still waiting on Attack of the Clones to be considered on the same level as ESB.

This is pure cringe.

Squall28 posted...

Why do you even need straws?

Convenience, like the vast majority of things in modern life.

I mean, if people eat less meat, that's more meat for me, so I don't really care.

Same with less people driving to save the environment, more driving for me.

It looks like every other modern cartoon inspired by Pendleton wards comedic adventure Time style and tone.

Personally I feel that genndy tartakovsky could have done an amazing take on this since he knows how to do amazing stylized action cartoons.

But I'm not a thundercats fan so... Eh?

Male "feminists" have no sense of humor, judging by this thread.

Do you say nomnomnom when you eat too?

Would Democrats be praising Hillary for it though?

They felt completely unnecessary story wise.

Episode 6 ended rather definitively, with the characters and consequences over the course of 6 movies having a proper conclusion.

Wetterdew posted...

Now, diverse is NOT synonymous with poorly written. HOWEVER whenever a movie with minority/gay/female characters IS poorly written, people rush to blame it on the movie's diversity for some reason.

People are triggered by it in recent years due as the result of film companies promoting the value of their product by it being "diverse" "progressive" and "politically woke" or "meant to scare Misogynists" through online marketing and journalism, which people read and are influenced by. Companies are doing this because progressive activism is popular online amongst the millennial and z generation and they want to appeal to their supposed customers sensibilities to sell them products.

That it coincides with it being poorly written, it makes people think the product was only made to be political propaganda first and foremost, and a good movie second, so when companies promote their product with "woke" language, it becomes a dog whistle to people.

It's in the same realm of criticism as being a movie used solely to be a cash grab or sell toys. But to the people that agree with those messages, they get something more out of a product that would be terrible with or without diversity or political activism pushed into it.

Bio1590 posted...

The argument over that one was the "white saviour" narrative, it had nothing to do with whatever you're claiming.

Maybe but there were quite a few " there were no white people in ancient China" complaints.

Kastrada posted...

But for this specific example, 1 and 2 overlap.

The argument against forced diversity is always how it should be merit based and about the talent and not the race. Fair. But when you have a black woman who is overly qualified in both examples and she STILL gets labeled as token, that's the issue specifically for the Halle casting.

Sure, but it's also dependent on a case by case basis with who is saying these things and why, and they need to be looked at individually.

Someone can be shouting tokenism for different reasons than just being prejudice against minorities, like a minority person could look at it and say a company is being insincere when they take an established character and race swap them or put a minority character into a piece of media but not do anything meaningful with the character, like John Boyega recently discovered with these star wars movies.

Solar_Crimson posted...

Remember the outrage over Black Ariel and Black Starfire? Nevermind that Starfire is an orange-skinned alien, but apparently, a Black woman is not allowed to play her.

There were people screeching on here and twitter about a white ginger being in Jedi Fallen Order.

There were people freaking out over Matt Damon in that Great Wall movie even though he doesn't play a chinese character in the film.

There was outrage on twitter over the Mandelorian not initially having any female characters in it.

There are mean people online with crappy opinions. This is nothing new.

But maybe you should be wondering whether companies are sincere in marketing social media outrage to sell you their products in the name of progressivism.

Kastrada posted...

But people also default to "TOKENISM! FORCED DIVERSITY" whenever anything involves minorities getting a role. Halle Bailey getting the role as Ariel and people flipped their s*** saying this wasn't based on talent even though she's a good actress and can sing her ass off.

You have a few options in explaining that:

1.The person is coming from a perspective of prejudice.

2. Depending on the context, they see this as insincere pandering of political activism with an overall lowering of quality in entertainment as a whole that it is an overall trend in the entertainment industry currently.

3.The people are just trolls and get a kick out of upsetting people.

Solar_Crimson posted...

"Forced diversity" a.k.a. "Why are there minorities and homosexuals in the main cast?"

AKA a company attempting to appear progressive by hiring a quota based on superficial aspects like race/gender and not on merit

Or throwing in a gay kiss scene by two background characters that will be easily cut out later for the chinese market like the last Star Wars movie.

I would say forced diversity is encapsulated by people that think like this: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/whiteness-toy-story-4-1266176

Yes silent hill is a normal functioning tourist town in canon. It's why Harry decides to take Cheryl to SH on vacation in the first game.

It's not an abandoned town like in the movie.

You sound like my old gender studies professor.

I do roll my eyes whenever I watch an action movie now and a small 150 pound woman beats up multiple 200+ pound men by herself with her fists in a "normal" setting with out breaking a nail.

In a fantasy setting with swords and magic though, that's more forgiving, since those can be equalizers.

Doom_Art posted...

Would force ghosts be omniscient to that point though

Particularly when it was established in the PT that Sheev can use the dark side to cloak himself?

Considering how powerful force ghosts are now, why not? It's a transcending level beyond the limitations of a mortal Jedi susceptible to darkside influence.