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Birthdays make me self conscious, especially my own.


I’ve grown to realize that everybody is busy with their affairs, whether family, careers, life choices or just don’t want to be bothered. As a kid, you’d think that everybody would be aware of your birthday to do something. As as adult, you have more responsibilities where you have to atone with yourself of what is importanr.
 
Not "mildly" unpopular but here goes.

Harlan Ellison is overrated as a writer.

He's known for three things.
  1. I have no mouth and I must scream (IHNMIMS).
  2. Suing people for nonsense.
  3. Going to civil rights marches.
2 and 3 don't make him a "creative genius", so slash those from the list.

I've never heard people talk about his work other than IHNMIMS. But that's okay. IHNMIMS is so good that he deserves the genius label just for that, right?

Well, IHNMIMS is memorable even if I think it's overrated. It's on par with a good Twilight Zone episode for me.

What bothers me is that IHNMIMS is guilty of the same things that get other writers labelled as hacks. Like inserting sex and kinks into the story, plot holes, and unresolved threads.



Pargon dijo:
Fat women are hot. Yes, this is my hill. Yes, I will die on it.
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Die under it more like.
 
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Judge Dredd dijo:
Not "mildly" unpopular but here goes.

Harlan Ellison is overrated as a writer.

He's known for three things.
  1. I have no mouth and I must scream (IHNOMIMS).
  2. Suing people for nonsense.
  3. Going to civil rights marches.
2 and 3 don't make him a "creative genius", so slash those from the list.

I've never heard people talk about his work other than IHNOMIMS. But that's okay. IHNOMIMS is so good that he deserves the genius label just for that, right?

Well, IHNOMIMS is memorable even if I think it's overrated. It's on par with a good Twilight Zone episode for me.

What bothers me is that IHNOMIMS is guilty of the same things that get other writers labelled as hacks. Like inserting sex and kinks into the story, plot holes, and unresolved threads.




Die under it more like.
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I always liked him more for his acerbic misanthropy and willingness to go the fuck off on others in public written word

HE is the BBS troll who takes it too far and gets his ass banned, but everyone is secretly waiting for him to make a sock because his posts are funny
 
Half this site has Mormon Derangement Syndrome. I've been to Salt Lake City and it's a shitlib hellhole full of gay flags where Mormons clearly have little to no political power to hurt or heal. Anyone who believes in a "Mormon mafia" because some corrupt pigs stole some Legos is a deluded retard.
 
St Francis Xavier should be treated with just as much contempt as an Arab leader, saladin say. His people used the exact same tactics as the soviets, they wormed their way into societies, tried to spread Christianity among the disenfranchised, tried to get them to revolt against the leaders of said society so they can install somebody christian friendly. As much as I have some sympathy for persecuted christians, especially in the middle East, Japan unironically did the right thing with it's persecutions. The shimabara rebellion should've never happened.
 
You know things are bad when people post "based" hot takes, and they ask you if you're brown or not. Frankly, that's the game now. Minorities posting based, racist things on the Internet for easy engagement. Almost say I can't blame them. If people are that reactionary, why not do something to make yourself feel better? I say almost because it may prove that they stand for nothing but attention.
 
ShittlerNiggler dijo:
Cocaine is less worse than smoking
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Speaking of this, my unpopular opinion is that drugs are not that bad, it's more on the person for not being able to handle it, there are people out there doing coke and other drugs on the weekends, they live well adjusted lives, and those people can be in fact more successful than the average person, you can have rich mother fuckers doing coke, fucking whores and doing degenerate shit on the weekends and on monday they are back to normal, there was a Nietzsche quote I can't rememer now that said something like: "Only weak spirits can't exalt their senses in moderation" which applies to this.

If you can't handle the substances that has much more to do with you than with the substance, plenty of people drink alcohol, practically all adults had at one point, very few adults are alcoholics, it's like blaming obesity on the food rather than the person, plenty of people in great shape eat chocolate regularly, it's just that they eat only a small amount.
 
Soccer is faggot shit and foreigners playing on sports teams is a way of undermining national identity. “Look I’m touching the ball with my feet not my hands!” Faggot.
 
Nerd shit, but the codification of certain genres is bad. Especially fantasy and mechs.

Fantasy can, in theory, be anything you imagine. These days, fantasy means medieval Europe with elves, dwarves, and dragons.
Mecha can be any giant "robot" from Titanfall to Power Rangers, but now it means a simulation where your mechs generate heat and have reactors that go nuclear.
 
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Fantasy can, in theory, be anything you imagine. These days, fantasy means medieval Europe with elves, dwarves, and dragons.
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Isn't that called "high fantasy," generally? Low fantasy being things like Encanto where life is mostly normal but there's a little bit of magic? I know there are old hollywood terms for different kinds of fantasy, like "sword and sorcery" from the medieval european fairytale type stuff, but "sword and sandals" for gladiator bible times type stuff
 
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Fantasy can, in theory, be anything you imagine. These days, fantasy means medieval Europe with elves, dwarves, and dragons.
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You can kind of blame Tolkien for solidifying fantasy for being that way. He was seen as the father of modern fantasy. Ever since his works, if there is no book that includes elves, dragons, orcs, rangers and wizards then how can you call it fantasy? Tolkien hasn't written dogshit, but that's just the way the genre has been ironed into being circulated about.

Dungeons and Dragons was pretty much the cherry on top of that sundae.
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Mecha can be any giant "robot" from Titanfall to Power Rangers, but now it means a simulation where your mechs generate heat and have reactors that go nuclear.
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It's been narrowed down to either the mech has to transform like a transformer character or it has to be like a gundam character. But yeah these kind of things have just been boxed in like that.

I'll add too that sci-fi has been fundamentally fucked with and I blame Star Trek and Star Wars both for streamlining what there is for sci-fi and you could maybe squeeze in a couple more examples. Also, this fucking obsession with octagons has got to stop. If some sci-fi story does not involve octagons or how armor doesn't look like plastic shit of some kind, then what's the point?

All it says is that today's nerds just have a lack of vision and originality. They placate too hard into their own nerd fantasies that everything is lazily generalized just so they can shove in some shitty romance or fetish angle somewhere in between that nothing would've warranted it.
 
nycifer dijo:
Also, this fucking obsession with octagons has got to stop.
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But it's the shape of the future!


On that topic though, retro futurism (I think that's the name?) where it's sci-fi but uses 80s tech like CRTs, cassette tapes, and floppy discs is a fun aesthetic, but has been ruined by so many hipster hacks drowning us in it.
 
Judge Dredd dijo:
On that topic though, retro futurism (I think that's the name?) where it's sci-fi but uses 80s tech like CRTs, cassette tapes, and floppy discs is a fun aesthetic, but has been ruined by so many hipster hacks drowning us in it.
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That’s how I feel about mid-century modern. Fucking sick of being (figuratively) beaten over the head with MCM furniture for the last decade+. Beautiful aesthetic but I never want to see it again
 
Judge Dredd dijo:
retro futurism (I think that's the name?)
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actually the 80s one is called cassette futurism/cassette punk. There are a bunch of subtypes of retrofuturism, this image was made a couple years ago and it covers a basic selection of the most popular types.
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This is nuclear tier unpopular on the Farms:
I am in favor of putting more fatties in fiction. In serious roles. In lead roles.

Not for body positivity shit but because I - and I will argue this is a MORE traditional view - like realism and don't believe characters exist to be fapbait by default.

I was over the mood when I started to watch Spider Noir as something to have on in the background and saw Nick Cage was married to a fat woman. Imagine that: a fit man, married to a fat woman. Happily. Not even as a comedic bit. Holy shit.

Edit: Okay I don't know who this woman is in the plot, point is she's big and fat.
 
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I don't prescribe to the Native Utopia bullshit, but thanks for all that projection. Their history is much more interesting than any unga bunga nigger shit in Africa or the seventeenth time China or Japan has a civil war for the NEW TOTALLY REAL DIVINE EMPEROR

Like these niggas didn't have the wheel or cows and still managed to do shit like Machu Pichu or Tenochtitlan. Sacrificing niggas to dark gods, shit is straight out of an HP Lovecraft novel. Plus they fought until they couldn't no more, so I can respect that
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Real American tradition is LARPing as Indians for being great hunters and warriors, starting all the way back wtih the Boston Tea Party. Raging about Indians being savages instead of admiring them as braves is one of the gayer things the Aut-Right does.
 
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