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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Chief Crazy Horse is better than Mt Rushmore in terms of visuals. But i'm sure they'll blow that up because white people don't understand it was a given name and he probably wasn't crazy. I dunno he may have been.

Since some people are going in on "people with statues/monuments need to be 100% good people" Crazy Horse might very well go down too.

I hope people wise up fast from that attitude.

I'm going to go with, there's clearly more to this story.

The majority of Black Americans can't swim.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11172054
A recent study sponsored by USA Swimming uncovered equally stark statistics.
Just under 70% of African-American children surveyed said they had no or low ability to swim. Low ability merely meant they were able to splash around in the shallow end. A further 12% said they could swim but had "taught themselves".

I live near the coast, around 25 minutes away anyway (NY) and quite a number of my black friends still couldn't swim, I couldn't believe that when I heard it at fast.

I certainly hope we get a new game, F-Zero GX is still arguably the best racing title of all time.

Zikten posted...

he might be in the upcoming Eternals movie I have heard

That was rumored initially but I don't think it will happen.

Thanos' brother is interesting, but I don't think people will tolerate his power set when they read about the rapey undertones with it.

I would say that it is inappropriate to express political views while on the job.

It's up to the business itself for that though, but I wouldn't want a business with meat is murder masks or something like that.

Alexander was five foot flat (described as short for the time), couldn't grow a beard, and had a neck deformity which is why all of his portraits are at an angle.

I don't think people would view him as super attractive by his appearance, and I think people would consider him a terrible person nowadays.

I agree.

I thought Endgame was poor, and I enjoyed Infinity War. I can only imagine it was the dumb fanservice stuff that made people like it.

Black himself is a fine character, and Toriyama did give him a visual redesign later.

Compsognathus posted...

I think Boba Fett is weird to bring in. Besides being dead, he also has minimal ties to Mandalore beyond wearing the armor.

Sabine Wren makes more sense as she is a Mandalorian from a prestigious family. She was also last seen with Ahsoka Tano.

That was such a horrible retcon, like the characters Mandalorian culture is based around are no longer Mandalorian.

TheBlueMonk_ posted...

well gee how about we increase funding for schools then

Ehhh, funding for US schools isn't actually bad at all.

Just horribly mismanaged.

https://www.insider.com/how-much-countries-around-the-world-spend-on-education-2019-8

We could definitely invest more money, and schooling is obviously one of the best things to invest it.

Bishop9800 posted...

i just research CNS news........

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/cns-news/

your source is bullshit......

Alright so here's the bad news, the initial census upload was removed when they reworked their website, something like Wayback should have it but it is not loading for me so I'm not sure if you want to try that.

While that site (which I just used because it was one of the first that came up) I'm sure does have a bias on other things this was reporting on data released by the US census, Wikipedia actually still has that data uploaded if you would like to view that, although that site also has bias issues, as I'm sure you are aware.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_educational_attainment

As I don't want to repeatedly post different websites which reported on it and get rejected for the sites being biased, I would encourage you to look for a source that you like that reported on the Census information. I think we would all be happy then.

Bio1590 posted...

The US education system is that bad huh

The US education system fell pretty rapidly since the 90's. I'm not actually sure why and have done very little research on the subject, but the US used to have one of the best education systems in the entire world. It has just gotten poor in the past two decades, although maybe something like not great is a better description, the US is still better than most of the world, it has just been completely removed from the competition to be the best.

TheBlueMonk_ posted...

man with the amount of people who hate california, you'd think the state slept with their wife or something.

what did we ever do to you all?

signed,
a californian

I'm from New York, so my state gets a lot of hate (although I'm pretty sure that reputation is pretty well deserved in terms of rudeness and stuff especially in NYC)

But California just constantly seems to be doing weird stuff, it gets the kind of "Florida man" style stories in the news all the time.

Bishop9800 posted...

Can I get a source on this?

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/least-educated-state-california-no-1-percentage-residents-25-and

Texas is the second worst just to be clear, didn't really specify that in the previous comment.

Compare per capita, it really is the best kind of statistic when comparing how populations are faring.

California is doing far better by that metric.

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Is that actually a thing?

California has the highest proportion of uneducated people out of any US state.

Texas is bad too.

So they both deserve the rep of being the stupid states.

lurk posted...

Wow 11 people like desean and Farrakhan.

a whole 11 people.

11 people on professional sports teams agreeing with a posted statement that ends on "Hitler was right" is a pretty big problem.

The fact that those attitudes are present is downright shameful for those teams.

Omnislasher posted...

i don't get it

Is this in reference to mine?

Dixie Normous

Dicks enormous

Childish, but I did smile when I saw it.

Yesterday I played against a Dixie Normous which took one of my friends a full minute to get.

Germany still has statues and military bases named after people in the Wehrmacht.

Not sure why people make this argument when it doesn't work.

There are other problems I have with this, and some things I do, at least in part agree with but I'm just going to focus on it.

Garioshi posted...

The House of Representatives is locked at 435 seats, which means the same Electoral College inequity in representation is present in the House, although it's nowhere near as egregious

Alright seriously, I've seen this repeated again and again and it is completely nonsensical and I can't imagine anyone talking about it puts any thought into itself whatsoever.

How does inflating the total amount of people help anything, at all?

The number of representatives is already broken down by the population in each state.

There is nothing that would benefit from having over a thousand people screeching at each other instead of just a few hundred.

I'd say a big thing is that it is much harder to know your place in a big society like the US.

Smaller communities have a much more personal connection, and it is far easier to find where you fit in the machine.

But in a big city, thousands of people are doing the same work you do, you aren't one of a few plumbers in the town, you are one of thousands easily replaced and tossed away if something happened.

I guess feeling essential is really the most important thing.

SwayM posted...

lol you're slow on the come up aren't you?

No lol, you can't even remember scenes right.

Why are you getting so defensive about this btw? Do you have personal stake with someone who worked on that scene?

SwayM posted...

She kneed Peter Quill in the balls because she doesn't know this dude and it's a very quick scene to the audience that her death isn't "undone" completely. The character buildup between the two is lost. That's what that scene does. It doesn't undo her shift in allegiance...good lord man

So exactly how many people is she allowed to assault on her changed side before it doesn't count anymore?

SwayM posted...

Ahh I see. So you're saying "The comics should be followed to a complete T with zero divergence." There should be no digression or leeway for the film makers to use as much or as little comic influence as they want. And especially no question for the audience of what's going to happen, zero suspense whatsoever. We should know EXACTLY what's going to happen in the movie based on the comics. And Thanos should have fucked the god of death too. On camera. Full penetration.

Brb hiring a skywriter to spell out Y I K E S over your house.

Y I K E S so eliminating female roles is totally okay in your book?

Thanos doesn't have sex with the god of death, maybe if you actually knew what you were talking about it would be a good thing. He has the same overpopulation statement in the comic, but better explained there.

You could have brought up his waifu in the Infinity Gauntlet comic which is an actual thing.

And faithful adaptations are bad now? Really?

And yeah, reducing female characters' roles in the story while simultaneously trying to up play how good you are with female characters is cringy, why not give the major moments they had instead of taking them away. The biggest thing a woman does in Endgame to contribute to the plot is to kill herself. That's terrible.

Imagine how badass for female empowerment it would have been to see Nebula who has been tortured for decades by her abusive father be the one to undo his destruction after her relationship with her sister inspired her growth?

SwayM posted...

Took away?

Are you basing this shit because of what happened in the comics?

Oh my dude...

Are you saying that if an adaptation of Sherlock Holmes made Irene Adler an idiot and the one who outsmarted Holmes was actually a man that wouldn't matter at all?

SwayM posted...

And one who just, two minutes ago, shot the evil version of her sister from 2014 and obviously changed allegiances

Its called: Paying attention to the movie

And who did she assault after that?

EmbraceOfDeath posted...

It's not quite the same situation, but it also worked out pretty well for Aragorn and Arwen (I guess they would be cousins x times removed?)

He's a direct descendant of Elrond's brother.

So yeah, a cousin 54 times removed I guess.

Reminder that they took away Nebula doing the "snap" and gave it to a male character while spouting about female empowerment.

Or

How Gamora kicks Star-Lord in the dick to run over to the whole groupshot because "women power"

The scene is awful, I have no idea why people like it.

Imagine if Mantis, Drax, Jimmy Woo, Helen Cho, and Wong were the ones given focus in wooo Asians amirite?

It just comes off as cringy when it is characters with nothing to do with each other, and one who was working for the villain all of three minutes ago and actually assaulted one of the good side just prior.

ImAMarvel posted...

Honestly, I've always found it pretty problematic that a lot of these characters were played by actors who weren't of the same race or ethnicity. Even downright a little racist.

Why?

What's the problem with a black guy voicing Samurai Jack?

Or a black guy voicing Darth Vader?

Or a white guy voicing Dr. Hibbert?

This is something I've seriously never understood why it matters, as long as the voice fits the character.

Could it maybe be better if Kratos was voiced by a Greek guy? Maybe, but both of his VAs are great. (Hopefully that doesn't turn into were with all this going on)

Zikten posted...

and now she will become a hero in the comics. the comics always love to follow whatever happens in the movies in a vain attempt to get people walking out of the theater who go past the mall comic shop to buy some comics.

Honestly I'd prefer that over some of the current stuff.

Imagine telling people Howard Stark is a satanist and is now alive on Earth hunting down his adopted (yes retcons) son Tony Stark.

Overall?

Definitely Halo, 343 has definitely been a downgrade from Bungie however.

RE3 Remake

In the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man, Flash is closer to his comic depiction and is seen embracing Peter at the end and tries to comfort him during the movie.

I know for a fact there are tons of things that do show jocks being cool but I am blanking right now.

Cowthief posted...

Not cancel them, just make it so that not all of them are baby murdering barbaric savages.
Tolkien even had trouble portraying them like that way back in LOTR and they've been slowly changed anyway by settings like Exandria, Azeroth, and Eberron.

Tolkien did slip in some Orcs fought against Sauron's forces actually.

It is stated that the elves are the only race to have fought on one side during the war against Sauron, so some Orcs did rebel and fight against him.

The orcs clearly do have an honor system judging by their interactions and statements as well.

And also

Yes, I think the orcs as real a creation as anything in 'realistic' fiction ... only in real life they are on both sides, of course. For 'romance' has grown out of 'allegory', and its wars are still derived from the 'inner war' of allegory in which good is on one side and various modes of badness on the other. In real (exterior) life men are on both sides: which means a motley alliance of orcs, beasts, demons, plain naturally honest men, and angels.

Tolkien orcs were meant to represent the worst of humanity, the build and create but only weapons of war, they tear down forests and destroy nature, Tolkien hated direct allegories but orcs come pretty close to being direct commentary on industrialization when compared to the Hobbits.

Other things do make orcs just savages, but Tolkien's orcs were clearly intelligent using explosives, siege towers, and mass producing their weapons in factories.

It's weird how he says your when he himself is half white and raised by white parents.

Is he just rejecting that part of his heritage and identifying solely as black?

And Americans of every background celebrate the Fourth of July acting like it's an exclusive holiday for whites is ridiculous.

Hayame Zero posted...

Fans: "This comic is legendary. It's so influential with its social commentary!"

Show adaptation has social commentary

Fans: "No, not that kind."

So is Alan Moore stupid for hating the social commentary that the V for Vendetta film had?

BruceWayneJr posted...

I know there's a lot of bitching about the subject matter, but I just thought the writing stunk and it was awkward with the source material. There have been times when I can handle Lindelof, but so far no Watchmen spin-off has been worth a damn.

There's the Watchmen tabletop RPG that Alan Moore worked on that's pretty decent for what it is actually.

Seismic charges are just a cool bomb, they aren't sonic weapons and everything in Star Wars makes sound for the audience.

The Holdo sequence breaks the lore of space battles and while the visual might be neat it just ruins thing for the future and the past as well.

Zikten posted...

in the comics, Thor Odinson lost his worthiness and became Unworthy to hold Mjolnir. Jane Foster picks up the hammer and discovers she is Worthy. and becomes the new Thor for a while.

Thor lost his worthiness because Nick Fury told him someone commiting mass genocide against Thor's people was right.

Just for clarification on how stupid it was.

I mean the show is actually awful.

Pretty damn clear the show creator didn't understand the original comic, and it would have done better without being connected to Watchmen.

UnfairRepresent posted...

he can run nearly a mile, even though he suffers serious headaches.

I don't know if I would be going on jogs with this.

Incredible that it seems like he pulled through so well.

FortuneCookie posted...

The name "The Mandarin" sounds racist as hell no matter who has it. It's not the character being Asian that was ever the problem

What's the problem with Mandarin?

What's the difference between him and say Dutch in RDR?

James_Bennett posted...

So this isn't like Metal Gear Solid 2 where a bunch of people are pissed off at the game direction but ultimately still like the game?

The bad rap from MGS2 is largely from salt over people feeling like the advertising was misleading and not wanting to play as Raiden over Solid Snake. They felt that they were lied to and it left a bad taste for the future.

Retroactively it has gotten a ton of praise, especially when looking back the reason people disliked it has vanished, new players aren't having that same introduction with the title.

People always enjoyed the game at the time, and the fact that MGS3 wasn't continuing the story also led to criticism on release of the game, but people tend to forget that one.

Hoe posted...

I was gonna say, wait until September when the Avengers comes out. But TIL thats not a PS exclusive. Did not know that.

That Avengers game isn't going to do well anyway

Wow now Green Lantern will be even more dated.

DeadBankerDream posted...

No idea who you are, but that one post alone seems very taggable.

Then do it.

If somebody has religious reasons not to see members of the opposite sex, I can see them not hiring someone who is a trans woman in certain situations. The same way I would be willing to give a pass against them discriminating against a man in the same way.

I don't really care what people on the internet think of me, especially when the trans people I interact with regularly are friendly with me.

Since they do have The Expanse now, I'll throw my hat in for that.

Going to imagine the 3 votes against were for the transgender part and not the gay part.

And considering we have stuff like Jessica Yaniv openly targeting Muslim women so they would feel uncomfortable seeing her naked so that she could make lawsuits I can see that being remembered.

There are unaffiliated people that do use the force but aren't running around with lightsabers or masters of the force.

I think seeing some of those alien groups could be neat.

But you can't go around blasting people with lightning and pulling into dark energies and still be a super cool edgy good guy, that doesn't work is Star Wars.

Somebody mentioned Jolee, but he left the order because he wanted to get married and later became a hermit he was vehemently opposed to the sith and evil in the galaxy and fought against them, he just felt like the Jedi had departed from what should be done on some issues.

Lame

HylianFox posted...

dammit where's my Rogue Squadron 4

This is more what I was hoping for.