Yup, critical… enjoyment? of his work. I mean this video is just fantastic!
I mean, it's flattering that you think I'm smart enough to be a ravenclaw, I always thought of myself as a hufflep- damn it you got me! :bird-screm-2:
In all seriousness, I can't stand Harry Potter
I like His Dark Materials though.
His Dark Materials is actually good though. Who doesn't want to attack and dethrone god?
Norm Macdonald had perfect comedic timing and deadpan skills. He taught me the art of telling an anti-joke that nobody realises is a joke, where the only punchline is punishing the audience for expecting one.
i sometimes just like to watch porn. usually just like... very cute porn of a loving couple touching each other
im pretty messed up in the head cause of ptsd and its very weirdly satisfying. i dont even masturbate or anything. its not really problematic per se, but most people would find it weird that i just... watch it
sometimes im too overstimulated to cuddle with my bf so i do this
I've uh.... I've seen some anime.
I specifically have a hot take about an edgelord one that is it secretly good and about how comunism could work.
One of the first of this round of edgelord anime before it really become a trend has a protagonist who is giving to his community from his ability and taking only for his needs. Half of each episdode is about how living that way gives him purpose and happiness in life and how much better it makes the community having someone that can help them via a non-marketized relation. Which I think is pretty based. Then like a third of every other epsiode is 100% respecing women juice which is good to. It is to my knowledge the only anime to talk about sexual violence being bad. But the first episode of goblin slayer didn't really show that promise and turned people off.
The problem with anime critics(including people here) is that the anti-weeb hate(of course well deserved) and the low quality trash makes the whole thing almost impossible to penetrate unless you are willing to make concessions, but then everyone ends up going around in circles admitting the same problems, mentioning the same trash shows and the same shitty fandom problems.
The end result is unfortunately some of the greatest modern story telling gets lumped in with all the trash and never given any chance.
H.P. Lovecraft. I wrote a thesis on his work, and I love it, even though he was a sad, racist crank
For sure, Lovecraft is always the correct answer for this question. His prose is chilling.
I'd also like to add Joseph Conrad. Supremely racist dude but one hell of a writer.
English was like his third language. Incredible.
No other author has managed to creep me out the way he has. I read Rats in the Walls like twenty years ago and I still find my mind wandering back to it occasionally.
About half of my YouTube subscribes are guys who talk about medieval weapons and armor and stuff, and I have no doubt that most of them have horrible politics.
Diet soda. I drink a lot of it which I know isn't healthy, but I figure that since I don't really have any of the classic vices that I'm probably fine overall.
Conspiracy theory books and videos. Granted, I do try be somewhat rigorous in what I might be willing to believe and what looks like total garbage, but I do think some conspiracies are real. When I look at a theory, I try to look for both evidence and a clear motive. If the there’s a clear motive behind some event, it might be worth looking to see if there’s any additional evidence. If there’s plenty of evidence but no clear motive, it might be worth digging a little more to see if something was overlooked. If you have both, then a theory might be at least somewhat viable.
An example of a theory that has both a clear motive and plenty of supporting evidence would be CIA involvement in the JFK assassination. An example of a theory that really has neither (though some poor “evidence” may exist) would be that the CIA invented AIDS/HIV. An example of a theory that (to me at least) has a clear motive, but not enough existing evidence to really consider it viable, would be Bush/Saudi direction of the 9/11 attacks.
There are also some conspiracy theories I come across that are less discussed, but still extremely interesting. One of those is the theory that Obama’s mother was CIA (she worked for a number of CIA front groups) and Obama himself was basically raised into a natsec community along with others like Tim Geithner. Another is the theory that the US, with the help of Japanese scientists from unit 731, used germ warfare against Korean and Chinese troops during the Korean War in violation of international law.
So I’m a little careful talking too loudly about this stuff lest people write me off as a crank, but I do think there are plenty of conspiracy theories that may in fact be at least partly true, but haven’t yet been properly researched.
You ever looked into the the Jonestown stuff? I've always heard that theres a lot of fucked up stuff about that but never really bothered looking into it myself.
Not besides the official story, no. Based on just looking for a motive, I'd have a hard time believing it was anything than what supposedly happened, because why would anyone who's not a deranged cult leader just want to kill a bunch of people like that. I would be curious to see what's out there, though.
As for CIA ties to cults, though, the case of The Finders has a lot of pretty strange connections that I think are worth more scrutiny...
I like the wolf of wall street not because I like or identify with the main character but because I like the music and bright colours. That film for me is basically the cinematic equivalent of jangling keys in a babies face
Spirit Science.
Problematicness definitely filtered down by the fact that I don't like it for the reasons the creator intended people to like it. It's definitely a front for a harmful cultish thing. But it's also one of the coolest magic systems and best bits of world building I've ever seen. Shame they keep insisting it's real.
just remembered that when i was a dipshit 11-year-old i believed that shit for about a month lmao
Up until recently, I'd say Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear. I always knew Clarkson was a huge asshole IRL and a chud, but that didn't really come out to much in the show. But then they went back to Vietnam and Clarkson was ironically wearing a Che shirt and they had a whole bootlicking segment on some US trooper in Vietnam or something. That pushed me over the edge, I'm done.
I kind of don't get how Archer is problematic. I'm not gonna hold up as a beacon of some sort but it's just spoofs of decades of spy shit done fairly well, am I missing something?
IIRC transpeople were a common trope for the spy movie industry.
