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*inherits burgessly*

AablMind posted...

I think the decades of propaganda is the biggest factor

Something I find funny is that a socialism (and maybe communism idk) are more in line with Christian values than capitalism, but at least 90% of Christians (American at least) believe otherwise

American Christians are far more charitable than the nonreligious. Shockingly their view of generosity tends to stem from personal charitable giving rather than forcible government taxation.

MFBKBass5 posted...

Whatd he say?

Nothing new. Russia better not do anything or the civilized world will condemn them harshly. Said the American public desires to have the ideals of democracy protected around the world (lmao)

I think being a child star fucked his brain and made him a weirdo. I wouldn't let my kids hang out over at the ranch because I think he was strange, but I don't think he was a predator.

WilliamPorygon posted...

She wouldn't be my girlfriend anymore

same, she'd be my fiancee

"lmao trump is so stupid for saying they are spying on him"
"lmao who cares that they spied on him that was a long time ago"

Vote for soft on crime policies; get prolific offenders on the streets. Democracy.

Bad_Mojo posted...

But does No Man Sky even work the the Valve Index? I don't think I saw it listed as a VR Support

It definitely does.

We'd always steal the wet floor signs. Can't recall why but it probably made sense in college.

After a few days we would return them to where they were.

I declare every day "Viva El Presidente" day and outlaw unhappiness.

Breath of the Wild 2: Breath Wilder

Oh... Yeah...

women are finally rising up

Or people with a perpetual victim mentality are overblowing an innocuous statement.

Either or.

It has been a while, but it's like riding a bike.

Maybe this revival will cancel out how crappy the last revival was.

Or maybe it'll get even worse.

Let them die, damn you.

we dig giant robots

California's drops next week but there has been little enforcement of it here in Orange County.

I am skeptical of Pyongyang's claim.

James of course, he's a handsome prince.

Prosecuting a mother for having her teenager supervise their siblings is a pointless misuse of the justice system.

Smackems posted...

Is the new stuff dubbed yet or japanese only

The dubbed episodes of the final season part 2 start releasing this weekend iirc

I like when Stan thinks that change is bad but then he learns that sometimes change can be good.

I hadn't heard of Lost Ark until I found out last night that many of my friends are buying it. Guess I'm in from the peer pressure.

Very racist topic by an individual who clearly sees race first in every situation.

Sometimes

Squall28 posted...

Thanks for that. One more question because I did watch the first ep at some point. I thought the Titans were just eating the humans. How are they the oppressed ones?

The Titans are mysterious for two seasons before it's revealed that they are transformed humans. At the end of the third season it's revealed that there are even humans outside of the walls at all, until that point it is ambiguous that the people living inside the walls are perhaps the last people on a Titan infested planet.

It is instead revealed that the outside world consists of a world much like ours that has recently recovered from 2000 years of torment by the Eldian empire. The final king of the Eldian empire felt sympathy for the outsiders and decided that his people do not deserve to live anymore, but he does not personally want to die. So he takes as many of his people as possible and confines them to the walls, altering their memories and (falsely, he's bluffing since he's a pacifist) promising the outside world that if they are attacked, he will turn the walls into Titans and exterminate the world (like the protagonist planned).

The Eldians left outside of the walls are enslaved and kept in ghettos by the people who they used to rule over. The mindless Titans that attack the walls in the early seasons are created from political dissidents from the ghettos who are Eldians. It serves as an execution and a means to subtly attack the Eldians living inside the walls.

As an example, the main character psychotically hates Titans for eating his mother when he was a child. Once the reveal that Titans are Eldians is made, he instead feels sympathy for the mindless Titans as "fellow Patriots".

Tyranthraxus posted...

I am so glad I never got into this show

It's really really good and has some hype as fuck moments. Particularly right where the anime is releasing right now.

It just fails to stick the landing.

Squall28 posted...

Can someone give me a summary of why the ending is bad for someone who hasn't watched the series?

The main character's entire drive for the entire story has been about pushing forward towards freedom, violently if necessary. Throughout the story, there are explicit themes that in a cruel world, difficult inhuman choices need to be made for the greater good. The characters in the story belong to an oppressed race of people feared and hated throughout the entire world due to their ability to be transformed into giant mindless killing machines called Titans. Pretty much everyone in the world wants them wiped out because of a mixture of fear and vengeance for two thousand years of oppression carried out by the Titans.

At the climax of the story, the main character achieves godlike power over all of the people of his race. He gains control over millions of 150 foot tall monsters with the alleged intent of crushing every square foot of land outside his peoples' home island, exterminating all life on the planet except for his home.

His friends fight against him because genocide bad. In the end it is revealed that the main character intended for his friends to stop him after he exterminates 80% of the human population. He wants the remaining 20% to look at his friends as heroes who were willing to kill their own countrymen to save the outside world. In doing so he sets up the story by using his timey wimey powers to control things in the past to set up his mother to be killed, triggering the events of the story. He also has his adoptive sister who is obsessively protective kill him in order to show the little girl progenitor of their race that love isn't slavery and free her from her 2000 years of turning her people into Titans. Also she kisses his decapitated head after she kills him.

Finally it is revealed that the MC cries like a bitch over how he doesn't want to die and how he doesn't want his sister waifu to find another man for at least ten years past his death which is pointed out in the manga to be pathetic.

The main character dies and the defense and diplomacy of their home is left to his remaining friends. They live their lives and time goes on.

Once people were sufficiently pissed about the ending, extra pages came out: The world then does not forgive the island, and a few generations later the island is bombed into dust. A young boy finds a similar tree to the one that created the Titan curse to begin with. END.

Title is one of the worst sentences to ever be written.

Nemu posted...

It would have been much better had Eren just stuck to his convictions all the way through. His final "it's your freedom to try to stop me" or whatever speech was a great endcap to his character, but instead it was all a ruse and he was actually just being driven insane by his 4th dimensional viewpoint. The final arc was pretty meh overall, but it would have been much better without that backpedaling. It's not like he was wrong in the idea that it was an "us or them" situation. One side would have been eradicated at the end of it regardless.

Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense to show his fury at Frieda's first king of the walls ideology if his game plan is to probably die without finishing the job. When Eren hears Frieda say that the Eldians deserve to be wiped out for what their ancestors did, Eren looks fucking pissed to his core. Shame it was pretty much an act.

Feels like Isayama got cold feet about completing the Rumbling.

I think "even though Falco inherits the Jaw Titan, since he drank Zeke's spinal fluid first, his Jaw Titan is a bird cuz Zeke is the Beast Titan" is one of the biggest asspulls ever.

Demon Guy Boo

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

Literally a major plot point was that military tech was starting to catch up with Titan shifters. They had artillery that was capable of killing the Armored Titan.

Even the Survey Corp had the thunder spears.

The Rumbling is a different animal. Uncountable numbers of 150 ft tall steam machines is different than taking on even the nine shifters all at the same time. You'd need some ridiculous fire superiority. Maybe if you nuke them right off the bat.

Actually the steam coming off of the wall titans would probably make it troublesome to bomb their napes. Nevermind, we're probably fucked.

Balnazarr posted...

Nope. Those things shrugged off shots from Battleships. If you dont cut the nape you cant hurt them. There's millions of them.

I have more faith in the ability of a 2022 air force able to deliver munitions onto the nape of a wall titan than a shitty old timey battleship taking pot shots from the front of the advancing wave.
But maybe I was a bit too hasty to discount the amount of wall titans vs the amount of bombers in the USAF.

"You can't do that cuz the animals" is a California staple.

Modern bombers wipe the floor with the Rumbling. Eldia is genocided.

One of the literal worst episodes of Dragon Ball ever. Driving was a good gag episode. Baseball was a good gag episode. Arale is horrific.

At least Bernie doesn't witch cackle when he's nervous.

Papa always said fight and leave one crime scene rather than one for the kidnapping, one for the rape and murder, and one for the body dumping.

Anakin Skywalker
Kyle Katarn
General Grievous
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Jacen Solo

Or maybe Rebel can't help himself and his moderation history is so shot to shit the slightest infraction ends yet another account.

Glad both you and your mother are okay.

go freedom truckers go

In real life nobody is being caught with a magic murder notebook.

saspa posted...

Yeah but at the same time lol, were you really invested in Not-Alex or something?

Erm what character development? It was a goofy game that was unpolished but really fun to play.

The theme of the first game was that despite not being human, the Blacklight virus was a better "person" than the person it thought itself to be. Alex Mercer endangered the entire city/world to save himself, but ZEUS was willing to put itself on the line to save Manhattan from a nuke.

this gets thrown out the fucking window in an offscreen side comic where ZEUS is betrayed by some bitch he is staying with so he decides humanity deserves to be genocided. This is despite having consumed the most fucked up insane scientists in the first game and having already seen the absolute worst of humanity from the people he assimilated already.

Prototype 2 is a disgrace and should be retconned out of history if it hadn't killed its franchise.

That's the justice you get when you elect Chesa Boudin. Hope San Francisco enjoys every moment of his term.

Playing WoW's stress test was incredible for 11 year old me.