@D_Pad_Chad
@PDakkadakka
I guarantee you that Toby Fox was not looking to Avenged Sevenfold for inspiration lol. Look outside your bubble once in awhile
It’s buried pretty deep in there but roughly one episode of She Hulk costs the same as like half a season of Game of Thrones. These numbers are insane lol
“Marvel is truly f---ed with the whole Kang angle,” says one top dealmaker who has seen the final “Loki” episode. “I don’t see a path to how they move forward with him.”
A really low stakes hot take I have is that Shinji isn’t gay but going through a phase of self-discovery nearly every masculine presenting person goes through and doesn’t talk about
Contrasting the “Space Battleship” sub genre of Japanese sci-fi against Gibson/Pondsmith’s cyberpunk writing is interesting. Space battleship stories aren’t inherently reactionary (similar to cyberpunk) but they’re very reflective of their respective periods
Elden Ring’s art design won because it marries pulp horror to Renaissance art. It’s narrative structure (The Shattering and The Lands Between) consciously mirror the intended experience of viewing a Heironymous Bosch painting.
@valky_W
Not even comparable in the slightest to God of war: Ragnarok's art direction. I'm honestly baffled that people even compare the two. Ragnarok is objectively better at literally everything.
I'd love for someone to explain to me what they find so good about Elden Ring and why.
in Far Cry 3 you do so much molly that you get trafficked into white slavery but then you do so much ketamine that you become the Colonel from Apocalypse Now
@WokeDudeBro
Something deeply bothersome about the way Araki's work is discussed. He's a Louvre recognized artist with decades of professional work under his belt and some of the best manga period. It's not "stupid bullshit".
@JesseBrown
@TerryGlavin
You guys have had a really bad run of reporting on Indigenous issues with regards to graves at Residential Schools. I would platform basically anyone else to articulate this monumentally complex issue, for which there is no shortage of Indigenous academics and experts.
@blagojevism
@huwlemmey
I think this is substantially less cool than some of the visuals I’ve seen behind DJs at raves, which often have a bunch of squiggly lines pulsating or a skull spinning in a circle smoking weed
@viperwave
Game ends with you murdering a respectable republican with a NYT column because Raiden just feels like it. Better politics than any other game
@RaceplayShawty
Feel like I post this one too much but I’d love to see Alan‘s notes to Rick on Thatcher meeting Miracleman’s gaze and instantly accepting that the world as they know it is over
Evangelion is about Otaku shaming that's why this laboriously animated and referenced military action sequence cost millions of dollars and years of labour
@argcomics_
@RaceplayShawty
Reading through it again and it’s genuinely great comedy writing how much he coasts on Nite Owl’s just barely above rock bottom social skills in every interaction with the others. They are both constantly on the edge of getting ejected from every conversation
@shrimp_rider
Wolf absolutely could… but Sekiro’s events are being retold decades later as a folk tale and the events we see in the game didn’t strictly happen as they are presented to us. So it’s an entirely believable fireside flourish to say Wolf struck down a steel golem or some BS
@kept_simple
It’s awesome to invade safe spaces to laugh at people consistently working hard to be confident, sincere, and open with themselves and others. It’s really cool and makes you look awesome to others as well
@uckema
Ignoring that this is 100% a video for a dating profile, on offshore rigs there’s a small crane arm with a hydraulic clamp that grabs the drill bit. Beyond ludicrous penny pinching there’s no reason for a rig this old to still be in service
@sophiehurwitz
It's definitely part of a branding push to look centrist by throwing trans people under the bus while maintaining their otherwise consistently liberal bend on other issues
there are many manchildren in the tabletop hobby who should be rightfully derided but none of them are more immature than someone who earnestly believes "men toppled kingdoms" in their leisure time
Everything Everywhere All at Once must be nice if you like art to pander, flatter your vanities, authorize your attitudes, preserve you from exposure to anything that is not a positivist jamboree with the pacifying succor of pert little morals—so many readymades—lying in store
why is this a Bane of Mecha post
This is transparently, obviously correct, even if you don't want to ascribe to a strictly political reading of Gundam(which you shouldn't)
Mecha anime took off in the wake of the Student Protest movement, that's not a coincidence
@PunishedGlowy
@gkaplan70873304
I don't know how you can even argue that Watchmen's cast is amoral and that the work itself is cynical. The text is overflowing with these small moments of heart-rending kindness, compassion, and shared sadness.
I love the force with which this tiny laser hits this CIS Cruiser. Detonates the magazine and sends the prow of the ship on a totally different trajectory
@GoodBoyMachine
This account peddles not only the fantasy of collapse, but that when the collapse happens, your dad will hug you and say “you were right son”
@ShootingWolfu
Cherry Blossom pilots took pubic hair charms of their lovers in WW2. Its foreshadowing how the Federation is closer to Imperial Japan than the name may beget, and also how Amuro is definitely not going to survive A Baoa Qu.
@mrfeelswildride
It’s extremely possible this decision cost him over a million dollars in defined pension benefits because he read something on the computer calling him gay
I don't think people understand that if you're just gonna get killed for doing nothing you might as well just start doing the things you would be killed for because why not. The police broke a social contract here like they do everywhere else
I am often very surprised that people don’t realize that there is a pretty longstanding tradition in EDM/House/DnB/Breakbeat of sampling civil rights speeches
@ArchaeoMapper
Thanks for the info Kisha. It's really difficult to see these false claims circulate across the Canadian and International Press. Feels like a victory lap for colonialism. Absolutely baffled the international press is reaching out to Tom Flanagan for comment
Feyspeaker's art of Johnny Silverhand is so much better than the vanilla model from 2077 it's crazy. Every time I look at 2077 I ask "why does he look like my uncle"
@M_Gouldhawke
These discussions also highlight the ways in which Indigenous spirituality aren't taken seriously. Christianity is both publicly acceptable and tolerated in nearly all settings where Indg. is held to a dramatically higher level of scrutiny.
@CryptoAmericana
pretty crazy that countries with radically different relationships to food have different rules about ordering a 5kg cheeseburger. This is making me think
@NIGHTMAREOFSOL4
@dumpyGrimbus
Nah I was wondering if you were looking in the mirror before posting.
And you'd have more of an argument if your yellow wasn't chunky.
@M_Gouldhawke
You need to perform Olympic level mental gymnastics to affirm the existence of a historic Christ, and yet the values of that faith are the accepted foundation for all elements of colonial society.
Elden Ring also goes a lot further by leveraging historic alchemical concepts (the Rebis) to inform it’s acrid crimson and blinding gold color palette to great effect. It invites you to learn more about Elden Ring through both in-text and extra-textual learning.
@Toffkor
@AlexMooreActor
In going crazy here. "Anime is a luxury" is such nonsense. Like when libertarians frame fridges and flatscreen TVs as luxuries. It could not be more banal.
Shin Godzilla is the triumphant story of brave secretaries and research assistants cooperating in the midst of total societal collapse while their superiors sell out their country to foreign security interests
@DORFpatrol
@soulsborneotd
@Lewdsmoke
One of the funniest moments in the entire series, next to the three guys in Yaharghul who chase you around the entire area like it’s scooby doo
@lefttwick
@NickTagliaferro
I knew a guy that exclusively talked like this and he was thirty years old, never held even a part time job, and had an anxiety condition so bad that he developed a heart flutter. Last we spoke he undercut a psychopathically racist rant at me with random digs at The Last Jedi
@IwriteOK
Very heavily medicated for ADHD. Took a years long break from reading until two ish years ago? Dove headlong into McCarthy, Murakami, and Mishima. I'm really convinced that kids do innately love reading and that the education system fails to nurture developing tastes
@_weedspagon_
@shrimp_rider
I’ll do a write up later but there’s a lot of contextual clues throughout the game that you are the listener hearing this story and filling in the gaps
Congratulations,
@Netanyahu
. The partnership between our countries is based on a long history of close cooperation, enduring ties between our peoples, and our shared commitment to upholding democratic values. Let’s keep building on that and making progress on shared priorities.
I don’t mean to sound rude but if you respect the art design of God of War: Ragnarok more than Elden Ring you are an unintelligent and close-minded person
@SeanRMoorhead
Google digitized and translated books from the late period of Canada's colonization of the Northwest, and their halting of that program has had disastrous consequences for Indigenous people trying to assert their geneaology
Probably the most powerful piece of writing I’ve seen about Hogwarts Legacy is how Rowling created a world that could never crawl out from the shadow of her hate. The cosmogony of Harry Potter has no grace or mercy for transgender people. They die in droves offscreen.