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KodyKeir posted...

Look outside, see those birds?

No, you don't, because Allen Dulles had all the birds killed in the fifties and replaced with drones to spy on everyone.

I see you are also a man of higher learning.

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Humanity was a mistake. Bring back the dinosaurs.

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Revelation34 posted...

I doubt any of us will be alive in 2080.

idk man, i've been alive every year since i was born. that's a strong pattern to break

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deoxxys posted...

Meh, I don't care if you hang the pigs from the ceiling if it makes my pork cheaper.

Yeah I'm selfish but everything in this life costs too much already. An 800 square foot house shouldn't cost $140,000. Finding affordable housing right now is ridiculous and anything I can find is in the ghetto.

Glad this is just California one more thing to drive up the cost of living over there LOL

California is expensive because rich assholes have bought up all the housing and then made it illegal to build more. In other words: selfishness.

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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is *chef's kiss*

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CoorsLight posted...

Bernie Sanders has worked high paying government jobs into his late 70s, it's laughable that people think him being worth like $3 million is a big gotcha. He'd have to be pretty fiscally irresponsible to not be worth that much. And don't be like "well he could put his money where his mouth is and give it away" as if 3 mil is really going to make significant social advancements

Exactly. Charity is a bad solution to systemic poverty. Seizing wealth through a wealth tax and redistributing it through government programs is the only way to systemically lift people out of poverty.

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Lokarin posted...

Not sure, Garnet has a butt and that girl thar has no butt

...ooh, soft?

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People who bitch about voting with your feelings are exactly the same people who support police in the face of overwhelming evidence that they don't do shit to stop crime.

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Revelation34 posted...

They'd have to prove it first.

No. Street justice.

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Wow, wtf happened with that quote

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<a onclick="return show_quoted_message(3, 79589758, 956700780, 'ce886e0c');" href="/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79589758/956700780"><a onclick="return show_quoted_message(3, 79589758, 956700780, 'ce886e0c');" href="/boards/3-poll-of-the-day/79589758/956700780">Wanded posted... </a></a>

bernie sanders comes to mind

And he also does not eagerly support the DNC, sooo

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"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."

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I bet rk is the kind of person to say "technically it's ephebophilia"

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Reigning_King posted...

I would say your mother but she doesn't quite check the box on the value part now does she?

Reigning_King posted...

Literally acting like a child deliberately trying to annoy an adult. I shouldn't be surprised that it's coming from someone who thinks might makes right, I really should stop wasting my time on cases like his.

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Reigning_King posted...

See here's the thing though, you literally already have the answer to that question you keep repeating ad nausaem. You're being obtuse or trying to get me modded, that or you seriously need every little thing spelled out for you in the simplest way possible which means you shouldn't even be having this discussion in the first place.

Can you just answer it? I can't find it, and you're coming off like a shy Nazi simp

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Giving permission for GFAQs to host the FAQ doesn't transfer ownership of it. It's like any anthology book, right? Permissions are giving to publish, not to own. I just looked up some FAQs, and many writers give permission to other sites to host as well. The only FAQs this site might own are bounties since they are paid for, but idk much about them. Anthologies also pay to include the work of others without transferring ownership.

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They are copyrighted by the writers. Receiving permission to publish from thousands of FAQ writers seems impractical

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It's still copyrighted, but copyright is also bullshit, so I support your future crimes

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america needs more riots

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adjl posted...

If it's not practical to raise pigs humanely, should we have bacon?

Yeah, what's the problem here? California didn't ban bacon. Corporations refused to be responsible.

But conservatives are dishonest.

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Reigning_King posted...

Now if only people had done this sort of thing for the rioters who burned down businesses, vandalized property, and looted anything not nailed down across most of the major cities of the country last summer.

Why?

Riots work.

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Nade Duck posted...

<3 tristram

sucks about blizzard tho

also hi wijer

hi :3

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top 10 disney movies according to soundtrack. go.

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bshwalker posted...

So what part is stupid?

The part you quoted. You are on point. :)

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Okay but Into the Woods was really fuckin good

I watched a live production, and it was incredible. I wish I could experience it again.

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bshwalker posted...

Native Americans are treated no worse than any other citizen of the US which is a rather low bar to start with.

Sorry, but 100% incorrect. There are things that Native Americans experience that those outside of their reservations, have 0 clue of such as open uranium pits abandoned and left open within a stones throw of neighborhoods, a ridiculously low number forced on them for the amount of livestock each family can own (excess livestock are annually rounded up, shoot and buried in mass, every single year. Excess being anything over 3 for example on the Navajo Rez) and being told things, off the record, by government representatives that would never be written down in an official document, but are blatantly racist if not flat out evil.
I have very close friends on a few reservations that I have spent time with, before Covid. The things Ive seen and been told are at the minimum shocking. I could relay more but it doesnt matter. No one listens to them nor do they listen to anyone that knows about them.
I completely understand why they dont say much about it so I follow the example of my friends. How long does one stand in front of a river demanding that it reverse course before you realize that it will never happen?
Believe what you want, but it is wrong.

I didn't even read his post because I knew it was going to be stupid, but holy shit

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I skipped around and saw some setups for nude scenes, but never any nudity. Only bad acting. why would you do this to me

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You want me to give a list of all the fucked up shit that is wrong with our country? Can you give me some guidance for what you're looking for? I think you are fishing for something. Otherwise, I have no idea why you're asking this particular question in this thread.

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w...what is this?

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that said, i obviously disagree with you for reasons you would dismiss, so let's skip to that part. next essay pls

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hahaha i knew throwing those two words in there would trigger one of you morons to focus on that rather than the larger point

just reinforcing that you have no interest in honest conversation

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I don't think

I know.

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Apparently when you try to say "fuck" with 13 us, you get this message and cannot post it:

An obfuscated form of the word "fuck" was found in your message text. Please do not attempt to bypass the site censor, as this word is not restricted; just post "fuck" without trying to obscure it.

wtf lol. i wanted it for emphasis

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

If anyone ever did a Game of Thrones-esque TV series set in Arthurian lore, what you'd kind of need to do is maybe make the first couple episodes the really idealistic origin story, then the rest of the first season would be Arthur actively fighting for the throne, probably winning it for the season finale. Then season two skips ahead a bit, Arthur's settled in (and maybe already had or is just getting the round table), and then you have episodic (or two-part) stories where each knight gets his own stand-alone adventure, so Gawain and the Green Knight, Pellinore and the Questing Beast, etc. Jut build up how awesome each knight is, and get the audience to like them. Maybe cap off the season by having Galahad show up and sit in the Siege Perilous, because shit just got real.

Then have your third season be the Grail Quest as a season-long story, where most of the knights we learned to like in the previous season utterly fail, some die, and Camelot generally suffers for it, as the good knights are whittled away and the less than noble ones remain.

And then season four is when everything gets really bleak. Mordred shows up, the Cuckening gets outed, Lancelot kills Gawain's brothers and war breaks out, the Saxons show up, etc etc. Then the final scenes of the final episode are Arthur dying, Bedivere throwing the sword back into the lake, and Arthur getting carried off to Avalon.

Yeah, Arthur does get into a lot of action, but it's primarily when he's young and uniting the various kings under him. There is a lot of action there (and Arthur does some fucked up shit :o). And then sometimes toward the end in stories where he fights Mordred. But once his kingdom is united and the Round Table established, the knights take center stage. Yet many modern depictions condense the breadth of Arthurian Legend into Arthur being the focal point all the time.

I love your medieval Kingdom Hearts comment. Spot on.

Did you ever see First Knight? lmao

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Generally, "style over substance", especially in a "pretending to be more sophisticated then you actually are" sort of way.

Pssht, bitch came in third place out of three when it came to Grail finding, and he wasn't even good enough to get a reference in Monty Python and the Holy Grail..

Also, he was a back-woods hillbilly and his dad got punked out by Gawain and his brothers.

Anail nathrak, uthvass bethud, dochiel dienve...

Chretien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail is my favorite Arthurian tale. The shit Percy does is hilarious. The grail means nothing to me! I want to see more of this rube awkwardly interact with knights and ladies.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Despite what happened centuries ago I think each country has developed on it's own since then and doesn't resemble European culture as it existed then or as it exists today. Making those ramifications a moot point.

Indigenous peoples around the world, including Native Americans in the US, are certainly still feeling the consequences of colonialism. Their ancestral lands are occupied and no longer theirs to control. Their peoples have often be pushed to the geographic margins. Standing Rock?

But since we're on the subject what about a modern day example? How do you feel about the US's relationship with Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Guam? Should the US cut ties with those regions and let them develop independently?

The deserve self-determination. But do they want to be independent? In 2012, less than 6% of Puerto Ricans supported independence, while over 60% wanted statehood. If they wanted to be independent, I would support it. If they wanted to remain a territory, I would support that as well. It should be their choice (except statehood--that cannot be just their decision alone).

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clench is a michael bay fan

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CoorsLight posted...

They have that counter of active board users, I just checked and it was under 1300 right now. Yikes. Back in the day I think it would usually be like 5000+. Maybe even more, looking at polls. Polls today routinely get under 10k and in 2009 they'd get like 80k votes

Yeah, we have clear data that shows the declining activity.

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Blighboy posted...

I guess I mean that Arthurian legend feels more like a "setting" than a "story", and most people aren't familiar enough with it to make it easily adaptable? Outside of the Sword in the Stone.

I only have a passing familiarity I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert, I could be way off.

But it seems most adaptations of King Arthur seems to try to adapt the King Arthur legend as a whole, when the right answer would be to do what this film did and adapt specific stories.

Arthurian legend has a narrative history dating back about a thousand years. The most influential for us is probably Le Morte d'Arthur, but The Once and Future King (The Sword and the Stone) is also influential.

Gawain and the Green Knight is part of a lengthy literary tradition of medieval romances (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wedding_of_Sir_Gawain_and_Dame_Ragnelle). The literary tradition there is rich, but probably will be bastardized or ignored by this film.

I think Arthurian legend lends itself well to Hollywood in some ways. If you read the actual source material, it is FUCKED UP. Rampant violence and a lot of sex.

I kind of agree that Hollywood tried to adapt the legends as a whole. It's impossible for one movie to do that (I would LOVE a TV series like Game of Thrones or the upcoming Lord of the Rings Amazon series. Holy shit that would be amazing) because of how many stories there are. So what Hollywood tries to do instead, often, is turn Arthur himself into an action hero. He's not, really. He's a king. He rules while his knights go out and fight for him. That's what a lot of movies get wrong imo.

Excalibur handled it well in that it depicted Arthur's rise to power, which did involve action on his part, and then focused on his governance, which is the majority of the legend.

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Blighboy posted...

I don't think the Arthurian myth follows a traditional narrative structure, unless you're following adapting specific stories, at which point I don't think most people are familiar enough to easily follow.

People know the name King Arthur more than the specifics.

What do you mean by a traditional narrative structure?

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Dmess85 posted...

King Arthur has never been treated well in hollywood :(

Excalibur is pretty good!

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

This is my problem with it. The trailer could be giving a false impression, but it makes it look like it's that sort of "faux artsy" style that people use when they're trying to convince people they're deep. Or like music video-style visuals without the music.

But I might just be biased because I loved this movie growing up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGJMV8qj9g8

Gawain the greatest knight of all? What about my boy Percy?!

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Wikis are a really good point as well. GFAQs really missed the boat on that, but the userbase is probably too immature to rely on for free labor in maintaining those.

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I think you're missing my point.

My point was that this place's activity has plummeted, and the correlation I notice is YouTube has usurped walkthroughs. I think that's a fair correlation to note, and I'll just make the jump to causation. Once Let's Plays started happening, people realized they don't need walkthroughs.

And even if you like walkthroughs, are you alone enough to make the site profitable?

How much activity is needed to make the site profitable? Where is the site compared to that threshold? What happens if the site becomes unprofitable? Your individual patronage is irrelevant to these questions.

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Gaawa_chan posted...

now imagine you have a bunch of people screaming about how Phylogenetic Taxonomy is a communist plot that is changing the meaning of the word "mammal." That is what you sound like to us. :-/

On point.

Too dumb to realize he's dumb.

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Revelation34 posted...

I don't need some asshole yelling for 15 minutes straight when it would take literally 30 seconds to show the location of a treasure chest.

That doesn't mean walkthroughs are competitive to YouTube, and GFAQs is ultimately a business.

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these songs make my heart hurt

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-vG8oPhhM


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wow you are so fuckin mad lmao

it's impossible to even talk with you because you seem to be taking everything so personally

and you are never satisfied with any response anyone gives you about anything

and i'm only posting this so you will write another book i'm gonna ignore lmfao

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i also fell down the wikipedia hole on that, and now i'm gonna look up youtube videos on ditching

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