this? is this what you're referring to? yeah i think calling other people slurs is bad

reminder that the people this slur refers to, people with intellectual disabilities, are still campaigning to REDUCE/end its usage, not "reclaim" it. the r word used to be a medical diagnosis--it was never a 'nice' term and it was always used for ableist, and generally eugenicist, ends--and it is still included in several state laws, so self advocates with intellectual disabilities have been passing laws around the country to get this word out of laws. under no circumstance does it make sense to "reclaim" this term, especially if you are not affected by the ableism that people with intellectual disabilities face.

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another required reminder for people, because bigots love to forget. Reclaiming is slur does not mean you get to use it as a slur. If you are using it as an insult, you're not reclaiming it, you are literally just calling people slurs.

"But then how do I call people stupid"

a) just call them stupid?

b) but maybe try to find a better category of insults because "stupid" is kind of meaningless

c) also if your actual point is "I think you have lower intelligence than I do and that's funny/bad" you kind of suck at this

wait is this about reprobate because I thought we were all okay with bring that back?

The remake reboot prequel sequel industrial complex is killing me but the good thing is I don't have to watch any of that. I can just think "that sounds boring or otherwise doesn't interest me in any way" and do something other than watch it

"They're making a willy wonka origin story with timothee chalamet," you might say to me. "They're doing a live action the last airbender again, didn't you love avatar?" I don't find it necessary. This is nothing to me

#my ability to not watch something is unparalleled

Okay but hear me out The Devil Rides Out remake with Oscar Isaac and Daniel Craig.

This shit is gonna be amazing.

GOGOLA LIVES!!

A good point by our friend @astoundingbeyondbelief , it's good to have a healthy skepticism around these things. Let's keep an eye out to see if anything comes out of this.

I'm pretty sure its real, at least the film.

The wayback machine puts the addition of Gogola's page at Feb 12, 2017. So the movie is more likely than not actually real.

The pictures weren't added until recently, and few photos all have a slightly uncanny feeling to them, but I haven't found any obvious tells that would indicate they're AI gens. This doesn't mean they aren't, as AI + competent photomanipulation can remove or obscure those tells.

However, there's not a lot of artists working in AI fauxstalgia who also combine that with photomanipulation, and I know that I didn't make this, so between that and having multiple consistent angles on the monster, I'm 90% certain the pics are made the old fashioned way.

If its a fake project, the creator put a lot of effort into choosing real people with actual projects under their belt to credit it to. If it is a prank, it is one with a lot of effort put into it.

I can't speak to the authenticity of the images. However, a movie called Gogola is listed in Donald C. Willis' Horror and science fiction films: a checklist, first published in 1972. I'm including a screen capture of the relevant entry.

This doesn't rule out the remote possibility of a fictitious entry by Willis, but that seems unlikely given the purpose of his project (and three subsequent volumes).

Whether the OP has actually found the movie or not is a separate matter.

Promising news!

Relevant thread in R/Godzilla:

I think the key takeway here is that there's a long road before anyone's watching this, but it's not impossible.

This shit is gonna be amazing.

GOGOLA LIVES!!

A good point by our friend @astoundingbeyondbelief , it's good to have a healthy skepticism around these things. Let's keep an eye out to see if anything comes out of this.

I'm pretty sure its real, at least the film.

The wayback machine puts the addition of Gogola's page at Feb 12, 2017. So the movie is more likely than not actually real.

The pictures weren't added until recently, and few photos all have a slightly uncanny feeling to them, but I haven't found any obvious tells that would indicate they're AI gens. This doesn't mean they aren't, as AI + competent photomanipulation can remove or obscure those tells.

However, there's not a lot of artists working in AI fauxstalgia who also combine that with photomanipulation, and I know that I didn't make this, so between that and having multiple consistent angles on the monster, I'm 90% certain the pics are made the old fashioned way.

If its a fake project, the creator put a lot of effort into choosing real people with actual projects under their belt to credit it to. If it is a prank, it is one with a lot of effort put into it.

I can't speak to the authenticity of the images. However, a movie called Gogola is listed in Donald C. Willis' Horror and science fiction films: a checklist, first published in 1972. I'm including a screen capture of the relevant entry.

This doesn't rule out the remote possibility of a fictitious entry by Willis, but that seems unlikely given the purpose of his project (and three subsequent volumes).

Whether the OP has actually found the movie or not is a separate matter.

A guide to different types transit of systems

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@mackensen discuss

The Boylston curve has a deserved reputation.

OK SO

I recently HORRIFIED someone by describing the plot of Titus Andronicus. English isn't her first language but she's got the complete works of Shakespeare translated into her own language.

Except. That one. It turns out the translators left out THAT play, and I've soured her view of Shakespeare forever.

Now I'm curious if other translators are quietly leaving out Titus Andronicus.

Please reblog for sample size!

Edit: To be clear I love this play, I'm just curious how it's being treated.

This is how Roger Ebert started his review of the film adaptation, which came out in 2000:

To be clear, Ebert liked it and compared it to Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer:

Lake Superior , Canada 🇨🇦 / USA 🇺🇸

Welcome to the sea of death.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy

Call the Great Lakes the Great Lakes the way you call the Fair Folk the Fair Folk.

The Kate Middleton mysteries, as channelled by Emery Robin (from here):

NERO WOLFE: Theodore Horstmann supplies an orchid for one of the princess' outfits. After the orchid is found on the body of a young woman who is not the princess, the UK requests Horstmann's extradition as a witness and is arrested by Cramer. Archie uses Lily Rowan's contacts with the British establishment as leverage to unravel a massive conspiracy. Wolfe's fee is paid by the Duke of Westminster.

Unusual word: Eleemosynary

After watching Skyfall and Spectre in close succession I’ve become newly aware of just how bored I am with Hollywood’s Prancing Psychopath – you know the trope, pick at least two from the following list: inappropriate cheerfulness, sing-songy speech, absurdly refined tastes, ironic music choices, flagrant disregard of personal space.

it now occurs to me that they’re all just iteratively worse versions of the Reverend Harry Powell, desperate elaborations on a theme so bone-simple Robert Mitchum did it in his sleep and it’ll still never be equalled

To be fairs it was Mitchum’s superpower to make everything he did look easy and effortless.

Yes, and there was a degree of mockery, of himself and others, in his “acting is super easy I don’t even try” shtick. But what strikes me is that later variations on the Hollywood Psychopath are trying so hard – overwritten always, overacted almost as a matter of course. What do you do if you’re handed Hannibal Lecter? Underplay it??

There’s something to be said for the back-to-basics approach.

Contrast this with Dominic Greene in Quantum of Solace, who often gets dinged as boring – whereas I find him quite frightening, as a sadist with an inferiority complex. Basically imagine if Elon Musk was willing (eager) to kill to shield his ego instead of firing people and getting in Twitter fights. Incredibly dangerous and liable to go off at any minute.

Skyfall is a beautifully shot movie but I like it less every time I watch it.

The air does go out of it a little bit once they get back to London. Javier Bardem made a lot of choices to develop Silva and I don't think they work.

Here's a curveball. The Albert Finney role was intended for Sean Connery, who stayed in retirement. Take the Silva role, refactor it a little, and cast Pierce Brosnan. Is he Bond? Is he someone else? Which Judi Dench version of "M" did he know? Play with it, have fun with it, and absolutely leave the homoeroticism in with all the added subtext.

how did gen z end up with 1950s gender roles: expansion pack

Men need to clear their minds because they're so tired from having important man thoughts all the time, whereas women need to think about how much they love their husbands and children and what they want to go shopping for.

Not a day goes by when I don't ponder the significance of Rabaul in the Second World War.

The satire in Helldivers 2 literally could not be more boldfaced. It's so over the top. The Helldivers are given 5 minutes of training, convinced they're invincible and sent to the front to die for no reason. The bugs literally turn into oil when they die. I saw an ad on my ship that said the only thing that can stop the invasion is a strong economy. The opening cinematic has a propaganda video of a guy falling to his knees and crying "sweet liberty" as his family gets murdered like it's a joke it's all a joke how do you not see that it's a joke. Look at this trailer. Half of it is the Helldivers dying hilariously, the other half is the words "democracy" and "liberty" repeated ad nauseum without any connection to what those words actually mean. It convinced me to get the game. It's all a joke.

the problem with satire is that the people its making fun of are too dumb to realize theyre being made fun of

Those fascists would be really mad if they could read

I literally got this game because of the satire (also, it's reasonably fun to play).

Is Blunt Force Satire a thing yet? Because it is now.

duality of man

I’m not. Law enforcement doesn’t exist in the Wasteland.

canonically, not arrested - I'm getting banished to the wasteland for failing to provide food, shelter, healthcare, and most importantly warmth to the people I'm meant to be leading in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostpunk

Illegal horse betting

Cat hoarding? But officer, they don't live here --

Listen, the Sultan himself said I had permission to build that railroad to Constantinople, the property owners be damned.

CHOPPING MALL (1986) dir. Jim Wynorski

I LOVE THIS FILM SO MUCH :D

“Our mall will finally be safe from the scourge of shoplifting and loiterers thanks to these HEAVILY ARMED MURDER BOTS”

Featuring a cameo from my favorite platonic life partners and eyeroll champions, Paul Blart and Mary Woronov (reprising their roles from Eating Raoul).

Probably the least problematic/most accessible of Jim Wynorski's output. The title and the Blart-Woronov cameo are the best parts, and they're both over in the first few minutes.

When a meme is representing the "bad/wrong" opinion with an image of a drooling person with a dented head, especially contrasted to white people with blonde hair and blue eyes, maybe it's time to reconsider posting or reblogging it. Just a thought.

a proposal;

@mackensen

When you need to get from France to Switzerland as quickly as possible, accept no substitutes.

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

Tor (Reactor now) did a deep dive on that scene in Star Trek IV when Kirk and Spock talk about "bad" literature:

"I miss when movies weren't political-"

ALIEN is about a megacorporation coercing some salvagers into transporting a dangerous creature without telling them what it is, all because the creature could be a great bioweapon for them. When a survivor of this failed transport mission wants reparations, they screw her over to avoid a scandal.

ROBOCOP is about another mega-corporation experimenting with a cop's body and declaring him their property, trying to reduce him to an obedient killing machine who can maintain the status quo for them.

JURASSIC PARK is about a rich billionaire going all out to make a dinosaur-themed amusement park, not caring about the real-world implications of resurrecting giant lizards. He also underpays ONE guy to maintain the entire park's security systems so predictably, that one guy betrays him at a crucial moment.

The best movies weave their politics with plot & character, so you can enjoy them as entertainment but can also notice the themes. Movies without themes wind up being all spectacle and no substance, just noise and color like Michael Bay's Transformers franchise. Yeah, they make money, but they'll be forgotten in 2 generations.

PREDATOR is about the United States and Russia clandestinely fucking around in Latin America and the damage their little proxy wars cause to the people who live there, interrupted by an alien who is treating the planet like its own game preserve.

STAR WARS is George Lucas's feelings about the Vietnam War sublimated through space opera.

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK is about fuck Nazis.

PLANET OF THE APES is about how human civilization destroyed itself in a nuclear catastrophe and was replaced by a society of apes who act racist toward the human survivors.