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| Topic | Lady Dimitrescu shows up at your door. |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 5:27:36 PM #5 | |
| Topic | Popular country star T.J. Osborne comes out as gay |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 5:22:56 PM #23 | |
| Topic | Codemasters acquired by EA. |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 12:11:21 PM #3 | |
| Topic | Popular country star T.J. Osborne comes out as gay |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 12:11:02 PM #14 | The Trent posted... nah it's terrible, fuck country musicI am not gate keeping when I say that stuff is not country. --- |
| Topic | I can't even understand conspiracy theories any more |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 12:07:53 PM #3 | Joe Biden is actually an Andy Kaufman character. That's what he's been working on all this time since he "died". --- |
| Topic | stupid recurring dreams |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 12:02:53 PM #8 | CommonGrackle posted... - I'm in college and I simply "forget" to go to a class because I can't find either the room or building. I'm left in suspense as to whether I'll fail that class or not because I never went.I've had recurring dreams about not being able to find a class room for a while now. Never had them when I was actually in school though. --- |
| Topic | This is a Chicken Wing |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 11:59:04 AM #4 | |
| Topic | Which is more triggering? Token Black characters or no black characters at all? |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 10:46:17 AM #6 | Tokens. Personally, I don't tend to notice the absence of things and the idea of no black people being within a certain friend group/ work space, etc. is not out of the question. But recent progressive tokenism is really obvious and makes me roll my eyes. --- |
| Topic | Zero black women were nominated in Golden Globes' 20 female performer slots |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 10:33:52 AM #4 | So basically, the nominations were overall very diverse, but not diverse enough for some people? ok --- |
| Topic | Meme topic 6.1 |
| specialkid8 02/04/21 8:36:31 AM #214 | MI4 REAL posted... How many of these are actually memes and not just funny pics? Meme has just meant "funny thing I saw" for a decade now. Ever since the normies got a hold of it. --- |
| Topic | Got stood up by a dominatrix :( |
| specialkid8 02/03/21 9:17:44 PM #17 | PenMarkedHand posted... Track down her FB, add her, and say that 'Hi, there was a glitch on tinder and somehow we unmatched. Are we still on for tonight?"https://i.giphy.com/media/eCqFYAVjjDksg/giphy.webp --- |
| Topic | Got stood up by a dominatrix :( |
| specialkid8 02/03/21 7:35:15 PM #13 | Cowthief posted... yeah...it's easier to find a sober russian than it is to find a dom that doesn't expect a hefty donation online. Sorry you got stood up.That's the thing. She said she was just getting into it and seemed really excited about meeting up with someone to ply her trade. It wasn't one of those weird... human ads you see. Either she got herself spooked or she's just a sociopath. --- |
| Topic | i always felt the avengers party scene in AoU was out of place, but great |
| specialkid8 02/03/21 6:31:33 PM #43 | PatrickMahomes posted... The only "out of place" thing was the banner/black widow romanceI don't know why people have such a problem with that either. She's the only girl in a tight group. She's probably gonna make a move on one of them. Why not Banner? Dude deserves it anyway. --- |
| Topic | Got stood up by a dominatrix :( |
| specialkid8 02/03/21 6:11:21 PM #1 | Matched with a girl on tinder who said she was getting into dominatrixing. Not really my thing but I thought I'd give being a sub a shot. We set up that we would meet tonight. I go to check this morning that we're still on and she fucking unmatched me. I've been highly upset all day. Was that the domination the whole time? --- |
| Topic | Avatar 2 has the potential to be the biggest box office bomb in history |
| specialkid8 02/03/21 3:55:12 PM #18 | The turnaround on Avatar is crazy to me. You nerds sure do love devouring your own gods. --- |
| Topic | Who is the #1 person in the world who you want to see naked? |
| specialkid8 02/02/21 10:02:13 PM #16 | |
| Topic | Yes, furry community, all cops ARE b-words! |
| specialkid8 02/02/21 5:15:27 PM #7 | |
| Topic | What is something allowed on gamefaqs but should be moddable? |
| specialkid8 02/01/21 10:10:12 PM #6 | |
| Topic | Wakanda TV series coming to Disney+ from Black Panther director Ryan Coogler |
| specialkid8 02/01/21 5:22:32 PM #13 | |
| Topic | Wait, so electric kettles in America aren't really a thing? |
| specialkid8 01/29/21 6:23:58 PM #40 | |
| Topic | I don't feel attactive. |
| specialkid8 01/29/21 3:39:40 PM #2 | |
| Topic | Rumor: MS in talks to buy another publisher |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 9:57:16 PM #22 | DarthAragorn posted... I feel like Ubisoft is one of the publishers that's just too big to be a realistic option here I'm sure it is but Microsoft definitely has the biggest dick to be swinging around. --- |
| Topic | 12,276 lists used to find the 1,000 greatest films of all-time!!! |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 9:56:20 PM #12 | I've still yet to see Citizen Cane but I feel like it's not actually all it's cracked up to be. Probably hasn't been the best movie ever for the better part of the century; people are just too afraid to take it off their lists. I love old movies as much as the next guy but I feel like a lot of the hype for "Old Hollywood" is just that. --- |
| Topic | Rumor: MS in talks to buy another publisher |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 9:51:54 PM #17 | |
| Topic | Kinda crazy how Trump was kicked off of social media and there's been absolutely |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 5:26:37 PM #19 | What's he been up to since being B& anyway? Seems like he would go crazy without a platform. --- |
| Topic | what is it with black widow and shower sex? (minor MCU spoilers) |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 2:59:57 PM #2 | |
| Topic | It turns out people were wrong about Tolkien's Orcs (the controversy) |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 1:27:03 PM #48 | averagejoel posted... do you see the problem with basing a race of aggressive warriors on real people who, because of xenophobia and racism, were portrayed as aggressive warriors He just used them as a visual starting point. They are not apparently a direct analogue. Intent is everythign and the fact that he is accused of basing orcs on three separate racist caricatures in this topic alone, with nothing backing them up seems to put him in the clear. You shouldn't be afraid to do anything just because people can misunderstand or willfully misinterpret it. --- |
| Topic | It turns out people were wrong about Tolkien's Orcs (the controversy) |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 12:31:06 PM #45 | Pogo_Marimo posted... Oh, you're missing out. You can make quality mac with a lot of different cheese blends. It's awesome. Except Velveta. That's illegal.Illegal and delicious. --- |
| Topic | It turns out people were wrong about Tolkien's Orcs (the controversy) |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 11:18:31 AM #39 | Pogo_Marimo posted... Yeah, what Wizards of the Coast is doing in their work is making actual Player Character Race have less forced-traits by increasing the complexity of heavily "generalized" and type-cast races in their personal worlds. I don't really have a problem with that, I always thought it was a bit bizarre that 80% of DnD campaigns depict orcs as mostly dumb and brutish when, as a GM, you could really do so much more to create a cool culture for them with more nuance than "They like to kill and raid and burn stuff". You don't need a player race that is just dumb, any member of any race can be pretty stupid if you want them to be--In fact, it would probably be more interesting making an Elf who is a total ignoramus than pushing the same tired tropes. It's always good to set some baseline foundation, especially for something like DnD where everything is dependent on player imagination. If the books didn't tell you what Orcs , Elves, Drow, and Halflings were generally like people would have very little clue on how to proceed. And if you just say any race can be and do anything it dilutes the purpose of them to begin with. It basically just turns them into people from different places. Nothing is stopping someone from playing a scholarly wizard orc but it needs to be stated somewhere that that is not the norm. --- |
| Topic | Interesting Godzilla vs Kong possible movie spoilers. |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 10:23:42 AM #2 | |
| Topic | It turns out people were wrong about Tolkien's Orcs (the controversy) |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 10:19:45 AM #31 | averagejoel posted... Tolkien's orcs were explicitly based on asians. it had a lot to do with a "Yellow Peril" going on at the time. the D&D version took some liberties and made them more similar to black people.eehhh His whole argument is built around this quote The Orcs are definitely stated to be corruptions of the 'human' form seen in Elves and Men. They are (or were) squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes: in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types. He then stretches it to it's absolute breaking point in meaning and then gives an extremely long (although well researched) rant about historical racism independent from Tolkien. The quote literally says that Orcs are a corrupted form of Asian traits, not that Asians are a corrupted form of human traits. He used Asians as a base for the physical traits of orcs and then fucked their shit up. He then talks about the "martial race" which is basically just shorthand for barbarians (but also honorable soldiers) which is... also a long used and pretty useful trope of fantasy and not exclusive to Asians. The above quote is pretty much the only thing the author shows Tolkien saying about Asian peoples influence. The rest is just his essay about historical racism. He also feels the need to say that he is personally offended, being half Asian, by some of this stuff which makes me doubt his ability to remove his own feelings from the discussion. --- |
| Topic | It turns out people were wrong about Tolkien's Orcs (the controversy) |
| specialkid8 01/28/21 9:20:23 AM #22 | Funkydog posted... So is there any evidence of Tolkien's thoughts on the Irish is that just one person's assumptions? This. Orcs were never portrayed as ape-like anyway so any comparison to black people or Irish people being compared to apes is completely beside the point. Tolkien took inspiration from the real world but really made everything his own. I doubt anyone would look at the depiction of Dwarves and say "Yep, those are Jews". Orcs being coded as black people has always been idiotic to begin with. It just shows peoples' inherent bias when they see any depiction of "savages" as having to be an analogue for black people. It's fantasy; you can make people as evil, or stupid, or savage as you want and it doesn't have to be analogues to more complex real world people. Also, black people are hardly the only ones to ever be called savages in the real world so even when fiction shows actual savages that share very few or no similarities with real world analogues "savage=black" is beyond stupid. --- |
| Topic | Biomutant finally gets release date of May 25th |
| specialkid8 01/26/21 10:37:32 PM #5 | I just hope it's good. The development seems to have been rocky but it looks extremely unique and I'm always down for small devs to make it. --- |
| Topic | God damn it. It's official. Kevin Hart will be Roland in Borderlands movie |
| specialkid8 01/26/21 7:14:44 PM #4 | With Seth Rogan as Brick, Melissa McCarthy as Lilith and Jack Black as Mordecai. --- |
| Topic | Why do people get upset when they see a poor person with nice things? |
| specialkid8 01/26/21 11:45:31 AM #11 | |
| Topic | Now That's What I Call Dad Rock tracklist |
| specialkid8 01/26/21 11:43:41 AM #27 | |
| Topic | No spoilers... But how are the Dune books |
| specialkid8 01/24/21 8:46:45 PM #7 | The first one is a classic. After that they get progressvely weirder. The first three are pretty good and tell a cohesive story. After that they get... realy weird. --- |
| Topic | Meme topic 6.1 |
| specialkid8 01/24/21 5:11:05 PM #106 | |
| Topic | The most barren corners of game worlds are always my favorite |
| specialkid8 01/22/21 5:16:08 PM #14 | I really loved the mountains in RDR2. Went up there to hunt a few legendary animals and it felt truly alone. Also beautiful as all get out. --- |
| Topic | Resident Evil 8 vampire lady |
| specialkid8 01/22/21 2:16:33 PM #41 | Why would RE8 be RE4? They're obviously jerking on some RE4 nostalgia but... --- |
| Topic | How does Quark's Bar work? |
| specialkid8 01/22/21 2:15:47 PM #1 | The Federation doesn't really use money but I suppose people can find some use for it on the station and they just have fun gambling. Where do people even get latinum to gamble to begin with? But the station also has replicators so why the fuck is anyone paying money for drinks at the bar when they can get it themselves anywhere on the station. He literally just has a replicator behind the bar. He isn't making shit by hand. This is his dumbest and most successful con. --- |
| Topic | Resident Evil 8 vampire lady |
| specialkid8 01/22/21 12:30:31 PM #35 | |
| Topic | Wendy's has a better breakfast than Mickey Ds |
| specialkid8 01/22/21 10:30:13 AM #10 | The potato wedges are great. I wouldn't be upset if they just replaced their fries with those. The rest is ass. Baconator barely tastes like anything and the sauce they pile on it is terrible. The chicken biscuit is just terrible. --- |
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