guy almost ran me over with a boat once, propeller was like 3 inches from cutting my thigh open. climbed onto his boat and punched him so hard in the face that he needed surgery cause his braces mangled up his cheek so bad. proceeded to jump back into the water and swim to shore while flipping him off
my hand hurt for like a month lol. im tiny surprised i did any damage
I had a warehouse full of unused hot takes I would have liked to post, but I don't, because some people get weird and vindictive and take it very personally when you criticize the treats, even here. :desolate:
You beat me to it; was shopping and almost got hit by a car... while walking on the sidewalk... because someone wanted the treats 20 seconds faster than waiting for the ramp. :grillman:
I get it. My post the other day drew enough salt for someone to create an account in response.
As to your below-mentioned take, I fully agree. Showing violence, especially sexual violence, is treated as short hand for mature or titillation. But then those writers will say it served a purpose, that purpose being something for the aggressor.
The worst defense though was citing historical accuracy. Like no, buddy. Zombies, magic, and dragons don't exist in history, so let's be real. These forms of media are created by human people and choosing to depict or not depict something is pushing a narrative. You don't get to just put some shit on a screen and act like it doesn't affect people.
It's totally for historical accuracy and maturity to have a full frontal rape scene, maybe even one in front of the mutilated corpse of the rape victim's former lover. This in no way intended to titillate the audience and will in no way normalize the expectation of this media presented as entertainment to keep churning out more of the same.
Please shitpost about the treats, I can't take it anymore in this fascist hellhole
Just a little hot take, as a treat.
It genuinely disturbs me that having a gory torture scene at the start of a new "prestige" TV series is seem as "mature" instead of some grindhouse horror movie gimmick that used to be primarily aimed at teenagers. It disturbs me further when the absence of said gory torture scene is actually noted and seen as a negative mark against a show, like it's a lack of maturity or it damns the show to being a "morality play" to not use that gimmick.
A more specific example (without naming the show) is the difference between the "maturity" of showing a full frontal gratuitious rape scene under pretense of "maturity" and pretending it wasn't filmed for titillation purposes and by contrast criticizing a different rape in a different fiction being mentioned and talked about instead of shown as if that was a failure of cinematic prestige.
Jesus Christ, yeah that's a good one. What show is that even?
I've been spending a lot of time deconstructing my surroundings and the media I consume in general, and given any amount of historical context, it's wild that this is just accepted.
As much as I want to, I absolutely will not name specific names.
Fans of any specific treat might and often do take it personally if their favorite treat is called out.
Ah loyalty, the stupidest fucking thing people have. Loyalty to their damn treats, but fine with people wallowing in abject poverty the world over.
It really is possible to enjoy something while also allowing it to be criticized. It was something said near the start of the Gamergate era, causing reactionary rage across the western world, and it saddens me that it is still good advice not really heeded much.
I won't confirm or deny but it is remarkable how that show you mentioned turned a lot of strategic sleeping around in the books into rape scenes for the show and turned a lot of female characters that had non-prostitute or non-victim roles into prostitutes or victims.
M A T U R E :so-true:
The kneejerk statement is "just because I saw a murder on TV doesn't mean I'm going to be a murderer" as if it's a binary on/off switch between media having no effect and media mind controlling someone into a specific action.
Commercials wouldn't exist if they didn't work; why is entertainment media believed to be magically lacking any such ability to influence?
They had this in Star Trek: Picard.
Why yes, I'd love to see a character scream as someone pulls out their eye while they're wide awake. Really want to see that on Star Trek. That's what the whimsical sci-fi show was missing.
What's worse is that they already had a torture episode in TNG and it actually dealt with it in a mature manner, like actually showing torture as the useless intelligence extractor it is and just done for the pleasure of the torturer.
Now it's reduced to shock value nonsense.
I feel :jokerfied: when any criticism of such cheap sensationalist "prestige" gimmicks gets a defensive fandom response like "not everything has to be a morality play" as if there's no other way to tell a story other than the camera focusing on Icheb getting his eye ripped out of his head.
I remember when Man of Steel came out and a lot of the criticism around that was the senseless destruction in the last part of the movie.
It was almost always met with the response "well, that's what would happen if two superheroes fought in real life" which I always thought was strange. Art is not real life. It never can be real. At its closest, it is an interpretation of reality through whatever mechanism you use. Hundreds of people all collaborated to show 9/11 times a thousand happen on-screen with the colour palette grimmer than Schindler's List.
You can say "sometimes people die violently in real life" and okay? But it was someone's artistic choice to portray that. It didn't just happen, the person making the art chose to portray torture, murder, rape etc.
If you're going to show something like that, then you have to accept the incredible weight that comes with those actions. If your character dies violently on-screen it better be for a better reason than "gotta give Seven of Nine something to do, like revenge or something idk".
I hated that Nolan take that Superman would "realistically" be feared and hated.
He was projecting his own Randian nonsense onto the general population.
One of the basic foundational things about Superman was that he was supposed to be INSPIRATIONAL. People literally looked up, cheered, were thrilled by his feats.
Fuck Nolan.
Nolan was just a producer. Snyder was the director.
But he definitely had an influence, especially after his "realistic" Dark Knight trilogy.
it's the sheen of modern cinematography that makes it perceived as less gauche
I do that in public chat channels in online games I play. I drop an effortpost bomb and then log out. Saves me a lot of rage tells from :le-pol-face: and still gives some air time to something other than "lol triggered SJWs amirite" :heated-gamer-moment: trash.
it's how I have the site bookmarked and because of that it's on my fire fox homepage. So is hexbear.net.
Literally yes. I get more chores done when there's a deadline for something else looming.
Have you figured out the ADHD thing cuz I desperately need to :deeper-sadness:
one time my friend picked up a pill bottle off my desk, asked what "estradiol" was, I told him it was a stimulant, then he asked if he could snort one, I said yes, he did
had a person i know ask if they could take my hrt, they were a trans girl and they were like 'yo it might just make me decide it isnt a big deal so i can finally start it legit' i was like 'yeah makes sense go ahead be careful though it can make you a bit dizzy the first time you take it'. proceeds to take it with a shot of vodka they found, vomits everywhere, and passes out :what-the-hell:
Oh, I meant a desk in my home, which I guess is now also technically my work desk thanks to covid
I have, but idk what a coworker was doing there, and if that's a euphemism for a partner/roommate also working from home, that they wouldn't know what it was
I think you misread something homie, at no point was a coworker mentioned
I have nothing to confess, I am a model citizen, FBI reading this your time is better spent elsewhere.
Do you mean the last time I spoke to mom before she passed? It was right before she went into the hospital.
Sorry for your loss, comrade. I remember you posting about talking to her on here.
I've got [a] confession to make
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