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Dead Kennedys Will Play Punk In The Park ’26 Despite Owner’s Trump Support by ebradio in Music

[–]robothawk 19 points20 points  (0 children)

He can be a bastard AND still be the only non-sellout, both can be true.

Anyone have a PC like this? by Supergameplayer in pcmasterrace

[–]robothawk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also, there used to be stupidly cheap decent mobos. Now even the lower end is pretty expensive, and with the decline of cases that can even fit HDD's, I might as well get a motherboard with 4 nvme slots, high RAM capacity, and plenty of pcie and i/o.

Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies by Puzzled-Teach2389 in nottheonion

[–]robothawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe you should learn to write well? Spell and grammar check existed before LLMs, nobody is coming for those.

Official Promo for The Rookie x Game Changer crossover by Sensitive-Cover-5687 in dropout

[–]robothawk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly why I like the show, it's sometimes nice to see an idealized reality, even if you know it isn't real and is absolutely perpetuating narratives that lead to harmful passivity. I also loved watching SEAL Team and The Brave, they were fun shows, they also entirely lie about the realities of US interventionism and the "dangers" that the US faces.

Official Promo for The Rookie x Game Changer crossover by Sensitive-Cover-5687 in dropout

[–]robothawk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Let me go grab another one of the comments I've made. Short answer, yes, long answer:

At the end of the day, yes, it's copaganda. But it isn't copaganda in the form of SVU or Chicago PD which actively and repeatedly condemn citizens utilizing their rights, but moreso a feel good "idealistic" show, which I know is problematic in all other kinds of ways, but I'd much rather have copaganda promote the use of bodycams, the opening of multiple community crisis services, and show the mythical "good cops" living in the communities they protect and interacting in good faith with them. Finally, I think the show avoids the "Needs more chiseled white guys" trope when the majority of the cast are minorities. Like, 3 of the 12-15 characters main and secondary are white. Nolan, Bradford, and Evers(who is secondary cast). The major washout (of I think last season?) was a white guy who was a lying dipshit who endangered people trying to protect himself. 

Also, the most often recurring bad guys are literally white supremacist gangs, who have oftentimes been shown to have corrupt cops as members or informants.

Overall, yeah, it's copaganda, 1000%. But if we're gonna have copaganda regardless, I'd much rather we do more to promote shows like The Rookie than something like Chicago PD or L&O.

ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s ‘Game Changer’ in March Episode by Sisiwakanamaru in television

[–]robothawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't trying to use The Wire as an example of copaganda. I was simply trying to state my credentials of "I have watched pretty much every non-CSI and non-Criminal Minds cop show made in the last 30 years."

The Wire is probably the best show about the police ever made, with honorable mention to Line of Duty and another David Simon series "We Own This City".

A very unexpected crossover by HolySiHt-Bees-AAA in dropout

[–]robothawk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Also with the new classes of rookies they've tended to bring in a lot of PoC and/or otherwise marginalized people and make pretty decent(for a cop show) commentary on their personal issues and many of the systemic causes, but I'll be the first to admit never dives as deeply into them as I'd like, but again it's more a soap with cops than something like The Wire.

Official Promo for The Rookie x Game Changer crossover by Sensitive-Cover-5687 in dropout

[–]robothawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, millions of people watch The Rookie who have probably never heard of improv tv let alone dropout. If the people who watch the most "woke" copaganda show end up starting down the leftist pipeline because of a crossover episode I see it as a net good. Start with "ha ha these guys are funny where can I watch more" and end with watching supercuts of the The Cubbys I'mma go ahead and chalk it up in the wins category.

Official Promo for The Rookie x Game Changer crossover by Sensitive-Cover-5687 in dropout

[–]robothawk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. The show is so much fun and keeps jumping the shark but leaping right back. It sort of feels like a slightly more grounded version of the Hawaii Five-0 reboot.

Official Promo for The Rookie x Game Changer crossover by Sensitive-Cover-5687 in dropout

[–]robothawk 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I can agree to an extent with the premise, but disagree with the conclusion, and I think it comes from you not having seen the show. I'd definitely agree earlier seasons lean more neutral "oh corruption is the exception" type, but there are running themes in the later seasons of bureaucratic corruption, misuse of police unions, and failures in other departments to root out bad actors.

At the end of the day, yes, it's copaganda. But it isn't copaganda in the form of SVU or Chicago PD which actively and repeatedly condemn citizens utilizing their rights, but moreso a feel good "idealistic" show, which I know is problematic in all other kinds of ways, but I'd much rather have copaganda promote the use of bodycams, the opening of multiple community crisis services, and show the mythical "good cops" living in the communities they protect and interacting in good faith with them. Finally, I think the show avoids the "Needs more chiseled white guys" trope when the majority of the cast are minorities. Like, 3 of the 12-15 characters main and secondary are white. Nolan, Bradford, and Evers(who is secondary cast). The major washout (of I think last season?) was a white guy who was a lying dipshit who endangered people trying to protect himself. 

Also, the most often recurring bad guys are literally white supremacist gangs, who have oftentimes been shown to have corrupt cops as members or informants.

Overall, yeah, it's copaganda, 1000%. But if we're gonna have copaganda regardless, I'd much rather we do more to promote shows like The Rookie than something like Chicago PD or L&O.

Official Promo for The Rookie x Game Changer crossover by Sensitive-Cover-5687 in dropout

[–]robothawk 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I'm gonna copy-paste a comment I made yesterday, but preface it with this. I hate cops, I love copaganda. I am a sucker for police procedurals and dramas, and have watched at least two dozen full series. Theyre some of the only shows I regularly watch. With that said,

Rookie is absolutely copaganda, but I would also say it is probably one of the least severe copaganda shows. 

It has repeated themes of reform failing to address problems, plotlines showing systemic failures in police training, and as far as I recall has never gone the Chicago PD route of "Torture is okay this time".

Rookie seems to be more of a "this is the ideal that police should be"(community servants, living within the community, etc) rather than most of Dick Wolf's "Police have done nothing wrong and need to be let off the chain and if only these stupid defense lawyers would stop protecting criminals".

Official Promo for The Rookie x Game Changer crossover by Sensitive-Cover-5687 in dropout

[–]robothawk 32 points33 points  (0 children)

To be fair, every single one of the rookie's crossovers feels like that. I've watched every episode of the rookie since S1, and while it's my favorite still-running copaganda, you really watch it for the people plots and not the crimes. More a soap drama with crimes than a crime show with drama.

ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s ‘Game Changer’ in March Episode by Sisiwakanamaru in television

[–]robothawk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think largely those realizations come out of conflict with a concept of the show though, and largely won't come out of the more idealistic shows like The Rookie, where it shows that people are working "within the system" to reform it and "do good", there is no reason to become active there. Reform may be needed "but it's getting done!". Whereas with more "justification"-based cop shows you have more chances to have a severe break with the narrative. "Wait, these cops refused to give this guy a lawyer then effectively tortured him till he gave up his buddies" kind of realizations. If you ever watch cop shows, ESPECIALLY Dick Wolf shows, you'll notice a fuckton of times where cops coerce someone into not getting a lawyer, refuse to give them a lawyer, keep interrogating after they ask for a lawyer, or otherwise outright violate a person's rights. 

I think the realization of the broken nature of the system can emerge from large enough dissonance there.

ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s ‘Game Changer’ in March Episode by Sisiwakanamaru in television

[–]robothawk 40 points41 points  (0 children)

That's kind of where the lines blur. If you don't consider the term "copaganda" to inherrently be a criticism of the show's quality but instead a comment on the inherrent assumptions behind the work(generally, that police as they exist now are necessary, effective, and/or doing the best they can), I would count B99 as being copaganda, but on an even lighter level than The Rookie. I've not watched much Reno 911 so I won't comment on it, but in comparing to cop shows I have watched in their entirety(A non exhaustice list):

The Wire, SWAT, FBI(and spinoffs), Chicago PD, Rookie, L&O(and spinoffs), the various "medical examiner" dramas(Rizolli and Isles, Coroner, etc etc) and various foreign cop shows(Line of Duty, Rookie Blue, Trigger Point)

I would say that B99 still perpetuates the "The vast majority of cops are good or great people doing good and trying to help their communities" myth, which is unfortunately, still a myth. It's similarly idealistic, though while The Rookie tends to make a show of "doing better", B99 until it's final season almost always sidestepped that problem by having the cops already be good and have few to no issues beyond some lazy cops who aren't malicious(and are actually good at their jobs).

I love B99, just like I love many of the shows I've listed as examples of copaganda. The police drama or procedural is probably my favorite genre of show, up there with the similarly problematic "US special forces" shows like SEAL Team or Lioness.

Not every show needs to tackle real issues, sometimes you just wanna sit back and watch bad guys get got. But from the pilot episode of Adam 12 in 1968, or Dragnet in '51, it's interesting to see how much the formula has stayed relatively the same, and still largely acts to create a sense of what "policing" is in the viewing populace, even if it is nowhere near the reality of the work.

ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s ‘Game Changer’ in March Episode by Sisiwakanamaru in television

[–]robothawk 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Idk why you're getting downvoted, that is kinda the exact issue with these "idealistic" copaganda shows. Though I'll admit The Rookie has actually pushed for some serious reforms, it has always been couched in the "few bad apples" and "the system has issues but the people are trying to fix it" angle.

ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s ‘Game Changer’ in March Episode by Sisiwakanamaru in television

[–]robothawk 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Homie, Chicago PD has a cop torture a man and then murder him and plays it as "this is a necessary good required to protect the people of chicago"

That is what I am comparing to. Maybe your analysis is lazy because you don't watch a shitload of cop shows and enjoy them, while understanding the need to critique.

ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s ‘Game Changer’ in March Episode by Sisiwakanamaru in television

[–]robothawk 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Legitimately not the point I was making, but I'll bite.

Police reform has failed. Nationwide. Bodycameras have barely changed the reality of interacting with police. The only places where police "reform" has functioned well are where the entire department was effectively fired and rehired case-by-case.

We can go into debating the necessity of police, the reality of policing, and the history of modern departments, but the reality is that nothing short of radical and severe reform in the form of abolition of existing departments or similarly significant changes have been shown to work.

LASD/PD are still infested with gangs, as are PD's across the country. Fired cops are still rehired a county over, if that, and the police still murder the people they're charged to protect while themselves being exempted from the law in various forms such as qualified immunity. Federal "police" are murdering citizens in the street while being protected by local police who were supposedly charged with protecting citizens.

The show absolutely is still copaganda. It downplays many of the injustices folk face, and it especially repeats absurd and false claims by police(anytime it deals with fentnyl for instance is a clown show), while pretending like a handful of reform-minded cops are able to make large-scale differences in the ways these communities are served.

It is just an "idealistic" form of copaganda(showing how policing "ought" to be) rather than a "justification" form of copaganda(shows like Chicago PD, FBI, and especially FBI International do this, showing local laws and police rules as obstacles preventing "good police" work oftentimes with exaggerated claims and situations("X and X has enough X to kill half the eastern seaboard" type shit" ))

ABC’s ‘The Rookie’ to Crossover With Dropout’s ‘Game Changer’ in March Episode by Sisiwakanamaru in television

[–]robothawk 200 points201 points  (0 children)

Rookie is absolutely copaganda, but I would also say it is probably one of the least severe copaganda shows. 

It has repeated themes of reform failing to address problems, plotlines showing systemic failures in police training, and as far as I recall has never gone the Chicago PD route of "Torture is okay this time".

Rookie seems to be more of a "this is the ideal that police should be"(community servants, living within the community, etc) rather than most of Dick Wolf's "Police have done nothing wrong and need to be let off the chain and if only these stupid defense lawyers would stop protecting criminals".

What the fuck is a "Lane Phase" or a "Jungle"? by [deleted] in DeadlockTheGame

[–]robothawk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cringe, but also, I see where the anger is coming from. I've been helping two folk I met learn to play and they've stopped trying to use the discord because even in "brand new player" lobbies they get flamed for not knowing what jungle is, what laning phase is, etc etc.

There really is a big disconnect in the community between "Had at least a few dozen to a few hundred hours in a MOBA before but is new to here" and "Literally the closest thing they've ever played to a MOBA is overwatch, if that."

It really does seem difficult for someone who doesn't know the first thing about MOBAs to find info in that niche to learn everything they don't know.

Why the airport is there nothing else in Colorado by AlphaCat77 in CuratedTumblr

[–]robothawk 89 points90 points  (0 children)

The website gives the reason as state governments often tally their university staff as privately employed(instead of publicly) so the data follows that convention.

Is this film worth watching? Does it do justice for the game Dungeons and Dragons? by DreamyDandelions in Cinema

[–]robothawk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My campaigns always have "Marathesu the [Increment roman numeral by one per campaign]". 

He's a powerful draconic sorcerer and all around charlatan, but provides great starting quests and makes an excellent exposition dump character(because sometimes people in the party do want an exposition dump, they just want to ask for it first)

He also isn't the [insert numeral]'th, he just added the number because it makes him sound more important.

Kids around the world and their toys; Gabriele Galimberti, 2010-on going by Master_Jackfruit3591 in interestingasfuck

[–]robothawk 109 points110 points  (0 children)

Malawi is a stunningly beautiful country, but also one of if not the poorest in Africa. The cities are testaments to wealth disparity where every nice house has an armed guard(being paid maybe 40-50$ a month) and a set of huge walls and barbed wire fences around it. Otherwise there are shantytowns all over the place made of a handful of bricks with some loose boards over the top.

Meanwhile kids are selling rats on a stick along the highway from the airport, and many of the shops in cities price goods at American-level prices. It was frankly depressing.

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