My prediction is that "Rebel Moon" will have enough Snyder treat hogs needing to make excuses for it that there will be future "this is leftist, actually, because the Big Bad if you squint at it can actually look like nazis I guess" or even "the Synderesque Cornfield of Burgerland Sentimentality can look kind of like a commune if you squint and hold your breath long enough" or maybe just boil down to "let people enjoy things" thought terminating cliches, all the while the movie will push cartoonishly blatant up-yours-woke-moralists propaganda against straw communists. No one is immune to propaganda, least of all the "propaganda has no effect on me" believers, so I predict that'll be a struggle session.

I expect I will be told to touch grass a lot by that treat's future defenders if it has even a moderate amount of profitability, which would consequently make local hogs want to make excuses for it instead of admitting it's hog-feeding chud propaganda and just eating it anyway with acceptance, which I would respect somewhat more. feast

  • scubbo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I'm truly impressed at how incomprehensible this post is to me. "Treat", "struggle", "hog" and "chud" all presumably mean something particular to you.

    No insult intended - in-group slang is fun sometimes. It's just kinda cool to be presented with it - reminds me of the Weird Old Internet.

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Wanna know the fun part? Even we're a little lost in this guy's posts sometimes. Not as much as a BMF post (or whatever alt account they're on now), but still.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        Have I said anything that incomprehensible to you since this particular thread lately?

        Just wondering if I can do a dril and turn a dial while watching the audience for approval.

        • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Nothing specific comes to mind, just "someone in X game fandom got me riled up" and even I, an inveterate g*mer, am like jesse-wtf

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
            ·
            1 year ago

            Best I can do is my recent comparison between Baldur's Gate 3 and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.

            Show

            • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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              1 year ago

              wrath of the righteous is really good. it's a shame i have to use character guides for it because i Do Not know how to play pathfinder.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
                hexagon
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                1 year ago

                Pathfinder took all the convoluted perilous excessive options and choices of 3.5 D&D and then added a lot more.

                • silent_water [she/her]
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                  1 year ago

                  yes, but that excess allowed some truly outrageous character builds that 5e just can't hold a candle to. I'm especially proud of a damphir necromancer that ran around with the armored corpses of dire lions that soloed most of the fights the DM tried to throw at us. think he really regretted throwing those at us early on only for the cleric to go "wait, hold my beer"

                • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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                  1 year ago

                  i want to try it out but that means either running it myself or making someone else do it and i don't know anyone else

                  • UlyssesT [he/him]
                    hexagon
                    ·
                    1 year ago

                    I'd be tempted to invite you if my group wasn't full to the point of having a waiting list. sadness-abysmal

                    • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]
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                      1 year ago

                      nahhh i got my own tabletop issues to figure out (some folks want me to run odyssey of the dragonlords and i am Not Sure how that will go) and my old DM has been chatting me up about baldur's gate 3 and them having a lot of "ideas" (tho idk if i want to play with them again). i appreciate the thought though ulysses maybe sometime in the future.

                      edit: ik i wasn't being invited but i wanted to respond to the thought of being included meow-hug

        • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Your posting is pretty great most of the time. You're a certified crank, every community needs one. That being said, calling one of the characters from Oppenheimer a "booba waifu" was the most jesse-wtf post you've ever made.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            1 year ago

            Emoji that at me all you want but Nolan decided to remove a lot of agency and relevance to women that contributed to essential parts of the Manhattan project, leaving mostly titillation and maudlin moments (and embellishments like "sex makes the protagonist feel like a god" when that quote came years after the moment).

            • footfaults [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              I happen to think "booba waifu" was an incredible encapsulation of one criticism of the movie.

              Never seen the movie but I know exactly what they meant.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
                hexagon
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                1 year ago

                So much agency and relevancy was stripped from the historical person (and the movie character got stripped for titillation purposes) that I still stand by that summary even if it isn't as delicate and precise (or not said at all) than some Nolan fans prefer.

            • Are_Euclidding_Me [e/em/eir]
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              1 year ago

              You're not wrong, you're really not. I do think, however, that someone who hadn't seen the movie and isn't familiar with your posting style could have conceivably come to the conclusion that you think Katherine Oppenheimer is a "big booba waifu". I read your comment as obviously saying that's how Nolan portrayed her and that's a bad thing, Nolan should be less of a misogynist ass, but again, if someone is unfamiliar with the context and your posts, it's not out of the realm of possibility that your comment could have been (in good faith) misconstrued as saying the direct opposite to what you actually meant. (Also, it makes a really good site tagline, so thanks!)

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
                hexagon
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                1 year ago

                Yeah, I think I should have worded it more carefully to specify that Nolan was reducing the historical person towards that, so that Nolan stans wouldn't circle the wagons about their Historically Accurate But Kind Of Embellished To Pander To Nolan's Great Man Theory, Political Beliefs, And Low-Key Misogyny BWAAAAM movie.

        • Venus [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          Having had no idea wtf rebel moon is, this post did come off very dril or maybe BMF-lite. But after you explained that detail it fell into place.

          Normally it's not that there's any trouble understanding you, just that your posts come off far more intensely than I have ever felt about the topics in question. Which is a good thing, mind, they're always fun meow-hug

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
            ·
            1 year ago

            I blame a sort of allergic reaction that I got from being too exposed to Reddit-style false politeness and wishy-washy statements.

        • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I support your protracted people's war against the treats. But in all due respect, and don't take this personally, I think it comes across a little Quixotic sometimes because you make references to previous arguments where the person you're talking about is nowhere to be found in the thread, so it just looks like fighting windmills from an outsider perspective.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
            hexagon
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            edit-2
            1 year ago

            I haven't done that in a while, actually. Even if I feel it did apply and was relevant I got too much shit for it.

            I suppose there will be a few more months of people like you tilting at the windmills about me tilting at the windmills, no matter what I do.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
                hexagon
                ·
                1 year ago

                They eventually absorbed one another's roles through sheer exposure, too. yea

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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        1 year ago

        Wait I thought we were hogs feral-hog

        I think hog just means anyone who consumes slop, which is to say, a consumer.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          I'm using the slang loosely here, which is probably a mistake, especially when federated strangers see it and comment on it as they have.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      My bad; I was using a lot of Hexbear insider slang.

      Very brief translation: "Self-described leftists will want to make excuses for the blatant propaganda in an upcoming Snyder movie, because accepting a movie had bad messaging in it and still consuming it with acceptance is too hard for some people."