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The Flood / you know what would be neat
« on: July 28, 2017, 12:14:38 AM »
if your old posts retained the avatar you once had when you posted them

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The Flood / Re: Unfun facts
« on: July 27, 2017, 11:34:57 PM »
this one is posted a lot in these kinds of threads, but

your eye has something called "immune privilege," where the outside of your eyes is the only thing preventing your immune system from considering the contents of your eyes to be invaders

so, if one of your eyes gets punctured, your immune system may react by literally destroying both of them
what

but I know more people with one eye than no eyes.
yeah it's rare, but it can still happen

i may have phrased it as though it were common

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The Flood / Re: Unfun facts
« on: July 27, 2017, 11:14:59 PM »
Mario is fully intangible during frames 3-6 of his up-special.
Roy is capable of performing a Ken Combo, but in order to get the sweetspot on his d-air, he needs to be at a closer range to his opponent than Jigglypuff needs to land a Rest.

And since the move is a meteor smash and not a spike, like NTSC Marth's, Roy's opponent is simply able to meteor cancel the attack anyway.

Roy will then proceed to fall under the stage and lose a stock, because he cannot recover.

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The Flood / Re: Unfun facts
« on: July 27, 2017, 10:59:21 PM »
The sperm count of white men in industrial countries is down 50% from a decade ago. While scientists have some theories as to why, there isn't an accepted cause.
that's one of the coolest thing i've heard all day

you guys suck at this

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The Flood / Re: We give each other real names
« on: July 27, 2017, 10:50:15 PM »
i default to ash's pokédex tbh

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The Flood / Re: Unfun facts
« on: July 27, 2017, 10:19:04 PM »
There is one person who is 7x more likely to kill you than anyone else in the world—yourself.

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The Flood / Re: Unfun facts
« on: July 27, 2017, 10:04:42 PM »
this one is posted a lot in these kinds of threads, but

your eye has something called "immune privilege," where the outside of your eyes is the only thing preventing your immune system from considering the contents of your eyes to be invaders

so, if one of your eyes gets punctured, your immune system may react by literally destroying both of them

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The Flood / Re: archaic sep7agon memories
« on: July 27, 2017, 09:17:21 PM »
those posts are even more retarded now than they were when they were posted

except for nuka's

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The Flood / Re: Unfun facts
« on: July 27, 2017, 09:08:37 PM »
there is no god

not even a demigod
but that's awesome
not really

nonexistence sucks my man
it's actually the greatest thing ever

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The Flood / Re: Unfun facts
« on: July 27, 2017, 09:07:16 PM »
there is no god

not even a demigod
but that's awesome

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The Flood / Re: Let's settle this once and for all.
« on: July 27, 2017, 08:22:27 PM »
i alternate

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The Flood / Re: Unfun facts
« on: July 27, 2017, 06:20:21 PM »
Inside your home you're always within eight feet of a spider, hidden under the floor or in the walls or a closet somewhere.
that's not unfun

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The Flood / Re: We give each other real names
« on: July 27, 2017, 06:03:53 PM »
Verb: Dexter
i'm just gonna act like this is you saying i'm smart

THANKS

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The Flood / Unfun facts
« on: July 27, 2017, 06:01:46 PM »
dr. seuss cheated on his wife once, and she got so upset, she killed herself

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The Flood / Re: so.....what are you up to nowadays?
« on: July 27, 2017, 05:19:11 PM »
nothing out of the ordinary

still working at my dad's record shop
preparing for my upcoming semester

things aren't exactly looking up for me, but they're not looking down either

or at least, not too far down

not six months ago down

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The Flood / Re: We give each other real names
« on: July 27, 2017, 04:14:31 PM »
Just random?
whatever kind of name you'd think they'd have

or that's how i read it

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Gaming / Re: Freeman's Mind 2 - Episode 3 is out.
« on: July 27, 2017, 11:08:58 AM »
The coolest thing about this series is just the amount of logic that Ross puts into it. It's not always perfect, but the attention to detail he puts into Gordon's actions (and even his mannerisms) is really something else.

Most Half-Life 2 players are accustomed to shooting explosive barrels near enemies, because in the game, it's an efficient way to kill them. And it's really fun.

But in this latest episode, Gordon seems to actively avoid doing that—which may not be satisfying from a gameplay standpoint, but it's perfectly logical. In real life, if someone's pointing a gun at their head, and you have a gun too, why would you shoot at some barrels with explosives in them? You don't know how big the explosion is gonna be.

It's the added touches like that that made me fall in love with this series.

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Gaming / Re: Freeman's Mind 2 - Episode 3 is out.
« on: July 27, 2017, 11:02:50 AM »
I like the Game Dungeon on the Deus Ex series, Secret World, and something else I can't quite remember. This series is fun and all, but I recently bought the game he's doing a gameplay of, so I'm not sure if I should watch any more episodes. I watched this, but I'm contemplating whether the video will be ruined if I play the game, and if I choose to watch the series then play the game if the game will be ruined.
You could watch the original Freeman's Mind without playing Half-Life 1, honestly. That's what I did. The game hasn't really aged well.

I wouldn't watch Freeman's Mind 2 if you haven't played Half-Life 2, though. It's a little bit more story-driven, and the game itself still holds up.

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i don't know if i can or can't, but i'm not gonna sit here and try

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this is indeed a great series; the difference between the author and yourself is that the author of these articles is actually capable of recognizing the good things about this franchise while also acknowledging the problematic aspects. you just kinda shat all over it for rather shallow reasons
That's because it's a shallow movie.
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all throughout SAC all of the team members can cloak while clothed. 1995 is the only entry in the franchise where she wears the revealing skintight suit to use active camo, unless im forgetting something about the manga.
Right, so there really is no excuse.

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The Flood / Re: is this a good picture of me
« on: July 27, 2017, 09:29:47 AM »
rating guys on a scale of "cute" to me is like rating trees on how aerodynamic they are

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The Flood / Re: my dog does this weird thing where
« on: July 26, 2017, 10:03:16 PM »
one of my chihuahuas likes to take one piece over to our living room, toss/play around with it for awhile like it's a toy, and then eats it after awhile

idk

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Gaming / Re: Which faction did you choose in Fallout 4?
« on: July 26, 2017, 07:54:02 PM »
memes aside, the hate for bethesda really is quite overblown though

fallout 3 was aight

i can't imagine going back and suddenly hating it when i play the first two

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Gaming / Re: Which faction did you choose in Fallout 4?
« on: July 26, 2017, 07:52:13 PM »
Brotherhood of Steel is the only one that actually got any attention with the writing. Much like Fallout 3.
waaaah waaaaah

Shut the hell up. Bethesda Fallout games have some of the richest lore in any RPG ever made. It really annoys me to see these constant threads about Bethesda are bad Bethesda can't make decent RPG's I get really pissed because Bethesda RPG's are the only games that are RPG's and are fun. You're all idiots.
new pasta?

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Many of which is exactly how you generalize. #notallmen was also used ironically.
Notwithstanding the hashtag, a generalization would be if she said "all of which."

"Many" of which implies that she's excluding some men—perhaps even more than half.

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This may be purposeful, it may be useful, but it remains inescapably sexist. It exists within a sexist system before a sexist audience, many of which will not interrogate the sexual and gendered questions that the film succeeds in asking for many viewers.
I don't think she's saying that they can't here—merely that they won't, and I think that's a pretty fair assessment of the average male who watched and enjoyed GitS.

She even uses "many of which," so you can't really say she's generalizing.

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It was all good until she implied that no man could derive meaning from the major being naked and how it really doesn't affect anything as she is manufactured.
Where was that implied?

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The Flood / Re: I'M SORRY I'M WHIIIITE OH I'M SO SORRY SO SORRY
« on: July 26, 2017, 04:52:39 PM »
You should be.

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This is an excellent article written by someone a lot more articulate than me on this subject.

Or at least, she goes far more in-depth than I'd ever care to.

It has ten parts.

Is tasteful nudity even possible?

http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/07/22/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-1/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/07/29/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-2/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/08/08/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-3/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/08/14/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-4/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/08/22/in-progress-ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-5/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/08/29/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-6/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/09/05/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-7-nsfw/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2014/09/12/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-8/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/04/30/ghost-in-the-shell-the-majors-body-9/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2015/09/17/ghost-in-the-shell-2nd-gig/
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The Major, or Motoko Kusanagi, is the protagonist of each incarnation of the Ghost in the Shell manga-anime-merchadise franchise. If you care to google, Motoko Kusanagi is autocompletes to “a man” and “is hot,” then “in bed with a boy” and “in bed.” For a science-fiction philosophy character named for her military position, we (the audience — although I don’t limit this to those who have experienced the fiction, as the Major is iconic) sure are caught up in thinking about her gender and sexual status. Why could that be?

As a long-term fan of the property, and the Major (ask my hairdresser [me]), I wanted to read about the Major’s body. The Major is a cyborg, her visible body is 100% manufactured. Does that relate to the interest in her physicality? I couldn’t find much, so I wrote something myself — one chapter per piece of the franchise. This is the first on Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 animated feature Ghost in the Shell. I’m starting where I started. VHS off eBay. Can I anime?

In Ghost in the Shell, the Major is often nude or seemingly nude. In her opening scenes, for example, her nipple shapes are visible and she has no apparent genitalia. A line at neck level, visible in some short shots, and some possible cloth bunching during a crotch-level close-up suggest a flesh-colour bodysuit to the eagle-eyed viewer. Her breasts are individualised in a way that would have to be designed into a piece of clothing purposefully: how does the fabric adhere to the sternum? Why design a bodysuit that hugs tight as a thong? Apparent nudity, such as later during the water fight scene, is emphasised by the addition of thigh-high boots and low-slung belts at her hips, emphasising the hourglass of her torso and suggesting a sensual pelvic tilt. Her posture is natural, unstudied, and not innately sexualised.

During the credits sequence which follows the creation of a body identical to the Major’s, perhaps a body that is the Major’s, the nipples are focused on and coloured, while the barest hint of genital shape is effected through momentary shapes of light.

Her full-cyborg status is emphasised again in her morning routine immediately post-credits; upon waking, all it takes to be ready to leave is a short moment in another room — an unbroken cel featuring her bedroom and window — followed by the addition of a coat. No washing, no bodily functions, no breakfast.

Advertising for the film features the Major fully nude, penetrated by wires of varying thicknesses, gun in hand and back arched so that her left breast is clear in profile and her buttocks are rounded and elevated, head tilted back.

After the Major’s iconic invisible fight in shallow water, Batou puts his large coat around her shoulder, mirroring the traditional image of the chivalrous man who covers the accidentally uncovered woman, saving her from shame (apparently irrelevant), the elements (the Major cannot be at risk of catching a chill, as she is a cyborg), or both. Later, together on a boat trip, Batou is stirred to see the Major unzip and remove the top half of her wetsuit. He grunts, and looks away, in apparent respect for a modesty she does not appear to require. In the subsequent boat scene, they talk in detail about the (non-sexual) functional differences between an organic and a cyborg body.

It was not translated for American dub audiences, but early in the film the Major makes reference to her menstrual cycle (as a cyborg, she doesn’t menstruate — I’m ignorant on whether her organic brain may retain hormonal alerts related to the expected menstrual cycle). This reproductive/cyborg theme is returned to in the climactic scenes as the Puppetmaster effectively tells the Major she will bear his compu-babies if she agrees to merge with him.

In this film, men appear fully clothed and in many roles, at many levels of society. The puppet master is referred to as male — although this is not confirmed as being for a reason other than default, based on their reputation as a terrorist and/or awakening as an aware being — and appears in a naked, female-designated stock body. At a late stage the Puppetmaster talks with a low voice, spoken by a male voice actor. The Puppetmaster’s nipples, centred in full breasts, are clearly double-tiered and delicately drawn; carefully shaped. Their nose is not detailed in this way, and the mouth is not animated to move with the character’s dialogue until late in the scene (this is subconsciously explained by “it’s a cyborg,” but remains a professional choice made by the filmmakers). This is not an outlandish appropriation of normative women’s breasts, it may be intended similarly to the huge sugar labia of Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby; “But what you see from behind is what happens when a nude woman bends over, raising a question of whether it’s a gesture of sexual passivity or not.” They may not be intentionally “idealised” — breasts may be too culturally charged to be able to appear non-sexual without being actively off-putting; perhaps these breasts are designed to be as unremarkable (through their uncomplicated “perfection”) as possible. Why were breasts necessary? Why must the Major be a woman? Why must the Puppetmaster wear this breasted body? Why the nudity? Are these aspects necessary to deliver the story (or more importantly, the thought experiment)?

Imagine the intent of the filmmakers was to neutralise female nudity; avoid sexualisation and use it to float some philosophical musing above a character study on existential crisis. Is it responsible to call the Major, naked, sexualised?

Perhaps unbalanced detail is put into the realistic, subtly emphasised nipples of these woman-designated bodies. (later in the same interview, referenced above, Walker concedes that her Sugar Baby sculpture is “sexually overt,” and resultantly “discomfiting.”) While groundbreaking and challenging in many ways, the film does not escape objectification of what the collective unconscious considers “the female body.” This may be purposeful, it may be useful, but it remains inescapably sexist. It exists within a sexist system before a sexist audience, many of which will not interrogate the sexual and gendered questions that the film succeeds in asking for many viewers. As a teenaged viewer, I was extremely uncomfortable with the semi-conscious awareness that this was how #notallmen considered my body: naked, as a default, whilst they all remained clothed. No matter how much I could achieve, mentally or physically, philosophically or emotionally, my body and face are observably female-normative, so I’m rendered nude. Even when clothed, before mentor, colleague, subordinate and victim. I’m the audience, watching the Major, knowing she’s me, knowing I’m a speck in a dust cloud.

I was interested, though. This was food for thought. And she does get things done.

The Major doesn’t let people best her, she sets her own course. She had great hair.

I got something from the Major, which was why I kept paying attention.

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The Flood / Re: We give each other real names
« on: July 26, 2017, 04:36:24 PM »
i know too many of your real names to do this very well

challengerX - Leroy

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