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me when i understand words and concepts
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This makes my face hurt. The object of satire there could not be more obvious and he still just... looks right through it.
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See, before social media existed, I was just blissfully living my life, and now I know those people exist and I get sad
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it feels like people are way less able to understand that “creative contains x” doesn’t mean “creative work endorses x” now?
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Or he's being deliberately bad faith.
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I'll bet this dude rides super hard for McCarthyism and just thought the robot had great takes that everyone would agree with.
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"surely if you beat them over the head with it, they'll understand" you would think, and yet
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I'm Doing My Part
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Starship Troopers made me the man I am today
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I'm Doing My Part, too!
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cf The Professional (Luc Besson, 1994)
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You mean the Best Movie? I'm familiar.
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This is known as “the verhoeven paradox”
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Robocop is another big one and showgirls too. Robocop became an action figure and that’s just a very bizarre way to process the themes of that movie.
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Merchandising: where the real money from the movie is made - trailers.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/49...
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Starship Troopers almost reads like: “they can’t possibly mistake this satire,” and yet
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same guys who identify with Starship Troopers
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They’re so close to having a moment of self awareness
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if the concept of understanding it was a clear globe, and you stood at “it” and looked down, you’d see them standing on the other side looking confident about their position
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Blue check says what
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we should really teach media literacy, otherwise people won't realize they're supposed to be empathizing with the giant unfeeling robot firing death lasers
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Throwing nuclear weapons like footballs, but yeah. Also, it was designed for the liberation of Anchorage, but it wasn't ready before the War ended. The Brotherhood brought it online two centuries later. Not exactly a capitalist triumph.
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I wonder what they think about Tony soprano, the hero we all know and love.
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A good family guy who learnt to handle his emotions and problems in therapy and won.
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I mean he’s obviously woke and weak for needing therapy but even great men have their weaknesses. It would have been better if he just drank the problems away but the good thing he stopped seeing the doc and had a great family dinner to celebrate his past and future life.
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Who built the robots Corey? What was their fucking motivation COREY???
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If you can't see the satire in a giant robot that was built to fight in an intercontinental thermonuclear war throwing nuclear grenades at what remains of the US government while mindlessly blasting anti-communist propaganda on its very first deployment, you are not what I call a deep thinker.
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Liberty Prime was a failure that the military couldn't even power on, which that major corps in the game couldn't help figure out. By the time it's turned on the US hasn't existed for 100 years and it says things like "Embrace democracy or be terminated" lmao.
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Can't believe it's been 17 years and people still haven't figured this out.
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My brother, before in crumble into dust it’s been 27 years….
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This typo will haunt me
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True but Fallout 3 which is used as evidence has only been 17.
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Technically correct, the best kind.
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ah, my favorite part of niche media I enjoy coming into contact with The General Public: dudes deliberately misunderstanding the message. anyway teach media literacy in schools again
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this is what happens when fallout 2 isn't mandatory for unlocking the other games.
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My brother in Steel, I never played 2, but the satire in every entry in the Fallout series is about as subtle as a mini-nuke to the face.
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Without spoiling, because it is the whole plot, the satire in Fallout 2 is even less subtle than that somehow. Also, I'd recommend giving Fallout 2 a shot, it's easily my favorite Fallout game.
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temple of trials is a hard pothole to get past at the beginning, mind
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Yeah I’d recommend a build guide just to get a feel for what is a survivable build for that section.
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I mean my 12 yr old has a healthy bottle cap collection and keeps trying to trade them for DLC packs. (FWIW I did just accept a 20 cap trade on the Pittsburg DLC because it is only $2 and those caps are a nuisance.)
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Oh shit. The bottle cap economy is kicking off under your roof. Time to start hoarding bottle caps I guess. How many bottle caps do you need to fix my Dreamcast?
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Son. There ain’t nothing that can fix a Dreamcast, just let it go…(I say as I bid on a Sony Walkman ‘Sports’ to play the mix tape I am recording for my wife for her birthday.)
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They 100% paid for that blue check and ate proud of it
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