The main character is sort of the prototypical modern incel rage fantasy.
I really enjoy this movie it has a lot of awesome scenes of outrage at normal life, but much like the fight club movie or the novel ‘Catcher in the Rye’ I feel like people often get the wrong idea about what problems it identifies in society and why the main character is a deeply unhealthy response to a sick world.
Unfortunately the people making that call are largely people that are on that list or closely connected to people that are.
My ideal Duke nukem plot would basically just be some hypermasculine caricature that starts a normal day and is faced with increasingly insane excuses for ultraviolence at which he performs exceedingly well.
He’s not scared, He’s not bored, He’s not brooding, He’s having a fucking day, and he’s all out of bubble gum.
Despite the ever-increasing Gore and violence he never has to say or do anything problematic, just fucking brutally uncompromisingly violence against people that super duper obviously need it.
Comical masculinity instead of toxic masculinity. Nothing even needs to change about his character.
I’ve seen two this year.
I’ve seen More bald eagles land in the yard year than I have seen lightning bugs.
Use generative AI to replace the background of all photos. I’m sure someone will come up with an app that does this automatically one day
It’s weird cuz when I go to the site I don’t see anything like that as even an option.
I don’t see any option that says “need help signing in” and you have to type in your social security number before you even get to the page that has your phone number on it? What am I missing?
HoN was the superior dota successor.
I thought this was a post mocking Tate’s tuck job ‘mankini’ picture at first.
If the cube is wiped in a single shot, there might not be enough borg left with enough data to adapt. They aren’t adapting magically, they are able to analyze the shot and adjust their shields to block shots.
Ill bet, if they could sneak up on some cubes they could pop a few before the Borg really got wise.
That just goes with a territory of having an iPhone. When you bought that device you signed on to a culture of consumption that is enforced by the developer of that device.
The developer can’t force Apple to let the developer give it to you for free. Apple doesn’t tolerate free very well and anything that is free on Apple is likely either a privacy nightmare or is paid for by some subscription you have with Apple.
This isn’t a problem with the app It’s a problem with the Apple.
Have you ever met the kind of people that keep rats as pets? I’m gonna guess that at least 1% of them have tasted rat milk.
I guess coprocracy is just the fossilized remnants of kakistocracy.
That’s for sure and I think you can make a pretty reasonable case that they only got worse. They managed to convince most Americans that somehow were becoming more liberal despite the fact that we’re in reality we are getting more fascist every fucking year.
We’ve moved so far to the right as a country that Joe Biden is more of a right-wing Republican than Reagan was. It just so happens that the alternative to Joe Biden is Donald Trump who is somewhere to the right of Hitler, And if Donald Trump were literate we would be in even worse shape right now.
This nation then reelected George w Bush while it brutally cracked down on protests and got super extra racist real fast and just in time to go murder 170,000 people in two countries that didn’t attack us.
It’s kind of hard to believe that she’s not sort of typical of American fascism. Our actions as a nation make it hard to believe that American fascism isn’t somehow incredibly widely tolerated and promoted.
Then we had Donald Trump, and the entire court system seems to be utterly incapable of dealing with this level of corruption or criminality but the right wing and the neoliberal apologists who own most of the revenue driven media seem to think this is somehow okay.
It’s not ironic it’s intentional.
After 9/11, this country took a hard turn into fascism and boot licking. I was complaining about the new McCarthyism, the demented expansion of the police state, and the march to the right when my aunt interrupted me to say “not everyone thinks McCarthy was the bad guy there.” She said it was such smug indignation I was genuinely shocked there were people that were fans of McCarthy.
When I said that that kind of un-American behavior leads to stuff like Kent State, she said, “If you can’t be loyal to the troops you get what you deserve.” That’s when I realized that we as a nation were absolutely fucked.
My father used to make fun of me for saying that I could hear the TV on even if it was muted, or that I could hear the furnace ‘scream’ before it came on.
One year, I got as a gift for Christmas, a handheld recorder and a fancy microphone from my stepfather a university music professor And that recorder could actually record the sound which he was able to show me on the computer.
That was like 25 years ago, I’ve been working with computers ever since, and now I am familiar with many many many devices that make high pitch whines.
In this moment, this man is sort of living the platonic ideal of Christianity.
Christians are supposed to be willing to suffer to do the right thing, and explicitly one of those things they’re supposed to be willing to suffer to do is help people. Care for sick, the poor, and the lost regardless of how the law feels about it.
The law commands he turn a blind eye to the suffering of his fellow human, but justice does not come from the law and their Bible has clear instruction on this.
Galatians 2:19
For through the law I died to the law, that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.
I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing
This reminds me of that teen parody of Stargate from episode 200 of Stargate.