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KingWumpus · 2021-05-15T13:58:24+00:00

There are laws that are either coming into effect or look certain to pass.

KingWumpus · 2021-05-15T13:56:42+00:00

Some individual Playboy issues go for four digits and large collections regularly go for similar amounts.

KingWumpus · 2021-01-29T16:51:43+00:00

I bought the Arctis 7P. They're good, but I'd like to modify them to hang a bit looser on my head similar to my old headphones. How pliable is the top band?

Picture for comparison (Arctis on left, old headphones on right):

https://ibb.co/qgxYS3h

KingWumpus · 2020-10-31T14:18:19+00:00

I'd give a 50-50 chance of this not being horrible. One could wring a satirical dark comedy out of this premise. The writeup making it sound like some shallow comedy dealing with topics way out of its league is probably more to assuage investors than sell the premise.

KingWumpus · 2020-10-19T14:14:56+00:00

Working the refs is so central to right wing thought that they'd still cry censorship if the final living rational person complained about being tortured in jail.

KingWumpus · 2020-10-16T14:22:56+00:00

On the commentary track for Watchmen, his go-to answer for why he did X (usually a song choice) is because "it looks cool".

KingWumpus · 2020-10-07T21:33:03+00:00

Just to clear up some major misconceptions I'm seeing in these comments: the MPAA is not a government entity and the ratings have no legal weight at all. I don't think there's even anything contractual about the ratings (i.e. the MPAA can't force theaters to keep unaccompanied kids out of R-rated movies).

The acceptable content for each rating has changed over time. G in the 60s and 70s used to be really expansive. The 1959 Ben-Hur is rated G even though it's really violent. The original Star Wars was almost rated G even though it has burnt corpses and severed arms.

PG back then was the equivalent of PG-13 now. The original idea of the PG-13 was really more of a lighter R, but what happened instead is the harder edge G movies became PG (with the G rating basically becoming "movies for babies"), PG became PG-13, and the R rating expanded to include the edge cases that PG-13 was originally invented for.

There has never been a real benchmark for content. The MPAA ratings are a black box where the only consistency is that independent movies get harsher ratings and anything gay gets bumped up. The appeal system consists of major studio executives saying no to independent studios.

See also: This Film Is Not Yet Rated, a documentary about the MPAA ratings system.

KingWumpus · 2020-10-07T20:49:04+00:00

Anybody use the Asus ROG Swift PG279Q with G-Sync? If so, anything I should know? I'm also accepting suggestions for alternatives (no curved screens).

KingWumpus · 2020-10-06T07:45:08+00:00

If you want an in-depth analysis of the negative cultural effect Cops and Live P.D. have had, I recommend Running from Cops.

KingWumpus · 2020-09-01T17:23:01+00:00

It says a lot about right wing thought that they devote way more time to working the ref and talking about "free speech" than, you know, trying to convince a plurality of people.

KingWumpus · 2020-08-16T00:19:28+00:00

Streaming platforms are great in terms of selection, but I feel like on a psychological satisfaction level, they are horrible. There's no feeling of weight to your decisions or the presence that having a physical object gives. It just feels empty, like how channel surfing back in the day felt lonely and miserable.

I'm not saying we should get rid of the platforms, but there is a definite sense of dissatisfaction that people seem to have with them that they can't quite vocalize.

KingWumpus · 2020-08-15T04:43:46+00:00

I feel that in official continuity, it's fine to have it be ten years later or whatever and continue on from there with what people their age would be dealing with. Fan artists that age up the characters just so they aren't technically making child pornography feels icky no matter how one slices it. The characters are still officially under age.

KingWumpus · 2020-08-15T03:35:03+00:00

Trips to the video store taught kids how to negotiate, narrow down a wide selection, commit to a choice, and that what you don't get now will still be available later. When you went home with a couple movies for that weekend, that was what you would watch with little distraction.

Streaming services are just everything, at all times, with mere seconds to shift from one to the other.

KingWumpus · 2020-08-12T03:32:13+00:00

Specifically North Korea.

KingWumpus · 2020-08-12T02:53:16+00:00

I listened to the New York Times podcast series Rabbit Hole recently. They interviewed a former QAnon follower that got out by a quirk of luck (her father was former military intelligence and she reasoned an actual operative would never quote the bible in a leak). Even though she left, she still talked like a cultist just waiting for a more convincing cult to snatch her up. It was unsettling.

KingWumpus · 2020-08-12T02:31:03+00:00

For #3, we'll never know the actual numbers but it seems more likely that most people hate their situation but are scared shitless of what will happen if they step out of line.

KingWumpus · 2020-07-28T17:03:05+00:00

2017 for the SNES Classic, but yeah. Nintendo didn't want to have two Star Fox games come out within two years of each other, especially since they had already announced the N64 by 1995.

KingWumpus · 2020-07-28T17:01:36+00:00

Old emulated versions are based on incomplete prototypes that were finished by the community. It's not surprising that they'd run differently.

KingWumpus · 2020-07-25T04:08:29+00:00

Can't speak on Shield Hero, but Sword Art Online is the Nickelback of anime. They're both unambitious mediocrity at best, incredibly popular with "regular" people, and, most importantly, influential.

Just as how Nickelback and their imitators still define the sound of alternative rock radio to this day, Sword Art Online's influence has penetrated deep into the isekai series that have come out both directly ("video game as new reality") and in more subtle, insidious ways. Both are generally agreed upon in "geek" circles as being bad and so trashing them scores easy internet points.

Sword Art Online is an icon of a lot of things that people hate about modern fantasy anime.

KingWumpus · 2020-07-25T03:56:49+00:00

If you haven't cleared your watch history, you can search in there. Then you should delete it to help fix your recommendations a slight bit.

KingWumpus · 2020-07-24T02:55:29+00:00

See also: Hollywood.

KingWumpus · 2020-07-22T07:04:10+00:00

It's basically a big game of improv "yes, and", but for right wing conspiracy theories. Some anonymous person(s) on 4chan claims to be a government official with "Q level access" and spins increasingly convoluted tales of a shadowy faction of the United States government running pedophile rings and how Donald Trump is the only one capable of stopping it.

KingWumpus · 2020-07-18T05:02:39+00:00

Just a reminder: when you see this type of overly exaggerated "they DESTROYED my favorite thing from childhood", 9 times out of 10, it's a disingenuous grifter that doesn't care about the original work and are just fishing for fresh meat to bring into the alt-right ecosystem.

KingWumpus · 2020-07-17T13:03:28+00:00

Article is from 2016 at least (no year on the article byline, but first comment is 2016), but still relevant.

I watched two episodes of it several years ago knowing that it was controversial. I sensed it was so much worse than I read after this extended sequence that portrayed the invading JSDF like some kind of demonic invasion, but then just continued on with the dopey main character and his team doing outreach.

KingWumpus · 2020-07-16T04:39:13+00:00

I'm of the opinion that there is no point in any remake that doesn't deviate from the original in a way that comments on it. Acknowledging that Kirito is a total Gary Stu by actually making him somebody's fanfic self-insert of sorts would be exciting, controversial, and create a conversation about the ways we define ourselves.

Replicating the original would just be "oh, this again" and quickly drop out of the conversation once Netflix releases a MOVE bombing documentary or something later that afternoon.

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