Posted by: etoven - 23rd October 2019, 11:03 AM - Forum: Ramble City
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Just found out that the UPS people is richmond lost my power supply for a bit and then today the UPS people in roanoke slammed it on the porch and broke it.
The thought that my supplies would arrive on time and intact must have been to much to bear.
Joker is A-MAZ-ing. Joaquin Phoenix is brilliant. You can read whatever political agenda you want into it (having seen it, it seems like a Rorschach test in that regard) but at the heart of it, it's a character study of a man who's already deranged, then pushed over the brink.
I don't think it's much a spoiler (I'm pretty sure it's in the trailer) to reveal that the Joker inspires an anti-capitalist movement without really trying. The protesters have made his clown persona into an avatar, but he feels no connection to it and takes no responsibility. I feel that the movie is the same way: apolitical at its core, but the viewer sees what they want. Is it about oppressed masses confronting their wealthy, corporate overlords? Is it about bloodthirsty, embittered anarchists, who unfairly blame capitalism for their problems? I had the notion that the movie was actually poking fun at the Resist movement at times. Then apparently, someone got incel vibes from it, which... I don't see at all.
Whatever window dressing you get out of it, Phoenix's performance is phenomenal, and worth the price of admission alone. I'll be hearing that maniacal cackling in my ears for a week.
For whatever reason, I scrolled down and remembered we had a comics subforum for 5 minutes. I thought it'd be fun to make another one. The problem is, I can't draw for spit and would probably get too frustrated and bored halfway through the first panel, so you'll have to deal with words instead.
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Obes: sup jerks I'm OB1 and I have an unrelenting obsession with A Brian Falcon and I think it'd be super witty to draw bad sketches of him and make a voice recording of how I bet his stupid dumb nasally voice sounds like lmao amirite Grumbler
Grumbler: SEMNAT LOLOLOL
Falcon: Now OB1 I don't think that's a very appropriate thing to do. It is an irrational thing for a person to see a message board poster and make a comic about them! This troubles me greatly. It reminds me of the seven obscure video games I bought last week because I'm a crazy cat lady but with video games. If you'll consider the narrative prowess of
Obes: omg who cares dude, now here's eight paragraphs splitting hairs about what you just said because my job pays me to stay on TC all day and be a douchebag
Grumbler: Haha you tell'em, OB1! <3
lazyfatbum: hey guys is this where I post porn, anyone see any girls I can creep on, where'd Mapel Girl go
Dark Jaguar: [insert satirical comment here because DJ is un-lampoonable, I got nothing]
Falcon: It's also an important point to note that with regards to Nintendo's relationship with third party Hudson Soft at the time that employees and fanbase were alike dissatisfied with the product that upper management rushed out, so
Bean: You guys I didn't read anything that you said but here's a reply based on what you probably said idk reading is hard, pass the bong, LEGALIZE WEED, one time I was stoned and
Falcon: [insert Charlie Brown trumpet because I haven't yet perfected my Markov Chain of tedious video game trivia, plus Falcon's also kind of unlampoonable, I'm really just spitballing here, wait, okay, I think the Charlie Brown trumpet in the comics kinda looked like] (fill the rest of the dialog bubble with lines)
Dark Jaguar: Glad I didn't get that treatment... *posts youtube video*
lazyfatbum: one time I wrote ideas about action figures and sent them to this company and they stole my ideas >:( Don't get me started on the dozens of scripts I sent out and months later started seeing my plots and characters show up in Hollywood movies. That's why I traveled out there and spent a week sleeping on the floor with 6 other people in a studio apartment and eating peanut butter.
Dark Jaguar: Did you drink the grape juice straight from the bottle?
Bean: GRAPE JUICE AND PEANUT BUTTER, GIMME
Falcon: But then in May of 1999, Nintendo struck a deal with an unlikely partner,
nickdaddyg: hay guiz I lift weights and sometimes I hit myself if I don't do good *
(at the bottom of the panel): * lmao no really he said this once, I wish I knew where the post was, but it was way back in the day
OB1: Guys have you seen my little brother around? I don't want him knowing I'm a douche, please revise history to pretend I wasn't a douche, what if he finds me
Grumbler: You can be Bo Jackson instead lmao this is still funny right?
OB1: LOL!! fuckn' right, kid
Falcon: Guys, are you listening? This is good stuff.
Dark Jaguar: I'm listening. I'm the only one who reads your posts.
OB1: That's because you're the only one who still visits this place except for beanjo and he's functionally retarded
Bean: HAH! But only functionally! I can quit any time I want.
OB1's Little Brother: KONICHIWA, FRIENDS!! That's Japanese for hello ^-^ I was just trawling through random obscure message boards that I found on google-
lazy: GOOGLE has us listed??
OB1's Little Brother: nah fam, I found it in big bro's internet history, holy shit the things I've seen
OB1: Get OUTTA HERE, DEREK! MOOOMMMM!!!
OB1's Little Brother: AH! Hello, big brother! Genki desu ka? ^-^ I sure hope you haven't been up to any monkey business! Mom's gonna get mad and kick you out the basement!
OB1: It's a FINISHED basement, and it's my room, it has my katanas and shut up I HATE YOU, DON'T LISTEN TO HIM GUYS, I DON'T LIVE AT HOME
lazyfatbum: cool, can I have your old room then, I have a lot of crusty old socks, can your mom wash them
OB1's Little Brother: Oh... oh dear! This is very bad posting, OB1! I am very disappointed in you. YOU HAVE DISGRACED THE FAMILY NAME, DISHONORABLE BUFFOON! COMMIT SEPPUKU LIKE A REAL MAN!
Bo Jackson: He's not the real OB1. I am! He stole my name!
OB1's Little Brother: Whoa! Why are you black now, big brother?
Bo Jackson: AND a four sport athlete
Grumbler: And he's SEMNAT LMAOOOOO!!! SODOMY ENSUES!!
Bo Jackson: shut up kid, trying to impress my little brother here, go play in traffic
Grumbler: WAAAHHH!!!
Bo Jackson: Anyway, that other guy was an imposter, he's white while I've always been black, I had vitiligo and Jesus-by-praised it's gone, how you like having a cool big brother now?
OB1's Little Brother: oh thank god, that last guy was a douchebag, glad the foundation sent a new one, Mom was about to go and raise hell
OB1's Mom: YOUNG MAN!!! What have I told you about dressing up in blackface?!
OB1: fuck, the jig is up
OB1's Mom: Don't call them jigs!
Justin Trudeau: Seriously dude, what the fuck
nickdaddyg: Go easy on OB1, maybe he's not really racist, maybe he just thinks Hitler did some good things for Germany and kind of admires him for that
Laser Link: go shit in your hat, kid
Bean: Holy shit, when did you get here?
Laser Link: I didn't. Jesus struck me dead for proselytizing video game enthusiasts across the internet. Apparently it's some obscure sin. They didn't teach that in Sunday School.
lazyfatbum: *bares nipples* ACK-SHULLY, I DID read my bible, unlike you, and after I got done fapping to Genesis I read that eternal damnation is converting your physical body into pure data and shoving it into the internets, where you're doomed to roam all eternity in old, dead Nintendo message boards with the likes of miscreants like us
Bean: god NOOOO IT'S WORSE THAN THE FIERY PITS OF MORDOR
lazyfatbum: shut up kid, this isn't LoTR
Falcon: Now while the PS2 LoTR game, which I bought for $3 because I am insane, has somewhat clunky controls, if you look closely you'll find Easter Eggs from Peter Jackson in the third cavern to the left about 47 paces past the gate of
OB1: SHUT UP NO ONE CARES BRIAN
OB1's Mother: Son! Stop trying to assert your dominance through a message board, god how did I raise such a goober, you take after your Dad
OB1's Little Brother: Yeah, you take after The Dark Prince!
OB1's Mother: And YOU stop being a little sycophant, other son. No one likes a toolbox.
Grumbler: Yeah! Knock that off! Right OB1? We're still cool, right?
OB1: I swear I don't know this guy
Grumbler: WAHHHH
OB1's Mom: Young man, you're coming home and selling those shitty thrift store katanas and moving out
OB1's Little Brother: Can I have his room?
OB1's Mom: 'Soon as the delousing is done
OB1's Little Brother: That's not lice, that's genital scabies! I walked in on him fapping!
Dark Jaguar: ...ew
lazyfatbum: for real, I don't want that room anymore, even if your mom is kinda hot
OB1's Mom pulls him by the ear and leads him into a portal to hell. Brother skips behind.
Grumbler: Can... can I come with you...?
Laser Link: Alright fuckers, I'm off to Nintendojo, then I'm gonna punch god in the face
Falcon: although minute details aside, what most people don't know about Ubisoft is their brief business deal with Acclaim contained a clause in the contract such that their development split between Sony and Nintendo legally compelled them to
Dark Jaguar: Well, he's better than OB1
Bean: What's that voice? Do I have a tumor?
lazyfatbum: no but come over here and suck my dick while I tell you all about my proto-incel thoughts about women, take this one fucking whore on the beach wouldn't give me her number
I didn't want to have to do this, I didn't, but Blizzard made themselves political, so I have no choice.
Activision Blizzard supports oppressive regimes it seems, or at least China.
So.... they can go to hell. I'm done with them. That's it. I may still go back and play their old games from time to time, but well, it's not a hard decision here. I can live without a few games more easily than I can live without freedom.
The very first thought I had when I heard about deep fake was this: "Oh great, now every single time a politician says or does something horrible on camera, everyone is going to cry out "deep fake, it's all just CG!". As evidence, flat earthers literally believe every single photo and video of the earth from space is CG, especially the ones before CG was ever detailed enough to make an image like that.
I'm apparently not alone in that fear. This is a tech we are not ready for, but even if the tech was erased right now, the knowledge that it's possible at all has already done all the damage.
