GasBandit
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Bigfoot's dick!
not so serious but I want to rant II: Redemption
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Necronic
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Since the whole "invade the objectivist forum" thing didn't really pan out, I'm just going to mention a really derp conversation I am having there. They say that an understanding of reality is paramount, and that intentionally ignoring reality is immoral. Ok, lets go with that.
Then is it immoral to not study science (since science is our best understanding of reality)? It's a trap of a question, because Rand herself was scientifically illiterate.
Their answer? No of course not. You don't need science, just philosophy.
wut........
You guys really should come in here with me.
Then is it immoral to not study science (since science is our best understanding of reality)? It's a trap of a question, because Rand herself was scientifically illiterate.
Their answer? No of course not. You don't need science, just philosophy.
wut........
You guys really should come in here with me.
figmentPez
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Power was out most of the afternoon. Ruined my nap too, since it meant I couldn't use my oxygen concentrator.
fade
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What the hell is this?? How did Liefield ever get hired? I really don't understand. I can draw better than this with my eyes closed. I'm almost willing to bet that that is literally true.
I know it's been done before, but let's see what's wrong with this image. Domino's mismatched eyes and Klingon-like forehead? Her inexplicable thigh? The infamous pouches? Deadpool's (in his debut appearance) weird-ass thighs and tube-gun? The mutated abdominal muscles on Deadpool? Hatch marks on like, everything? Deadpool's b-cups?
Rob Liefeld happened to be in the right place at the right time and somehow managed to attract a cult following?
I know that, back when I was a dumb kid buying comics, I had no concept whatsoever of how bad it all was. I just wanted people to shoot lasers from their eyes and bad guys to get punched in the face. I didn't actually gain a sense of good and bad art until I was much older. So for the young crowd back then Liefield's work was perfectly fine. I imagine that was a big part of his success.
Oh, that was directed at Fade's "How did Liefeld get hired?"
I don't understand Liefeld's popularity either.
Also, to get it out of the way, "Fade doesn't like something?"
I don't understand Liefeld's popularity either.
Also, to get it out of the way, "Fade doesn't like something?"
I know. I was just adding to your point.
Oh man, my bad. I thought I had somehow offended >.>
Nah, you're completely correct. He was just at the right place at the right time. A bunch of kids wanted X-TREME action and he gave it to us... he just didn't include any feet along with it. We didn't have the good sense to care.
That's my theory anyway.
fade
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Wait, this is the rant thread. Don't I get a pass here?
Do you? I don't know the etiquette behind that dumb meme.
North_Ranger
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Man, Deadpool has some serious boobage.
Also... Goddammit, I ate Chinese food today, and I'm still feeling bloated as hell. Not to mention my burps taste like sweet and sour sauce...
Also... Goddammit, I ate Chinese food today, and I'm still feeling bloated as hell. Not to mention my burps taste like sweet and sour sauce...
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makare
Ah yes memes, the herpes of the internet.
Actual rant, I am so sick of having to fact check news reports! Every time I see a report, especially on hf, I go and confirm that what they say happened is actually what happened. Usually it isn't. I hate the news because most people aren't taking the time to figure this shit out. It's misleading and harmful.
Actual rant, I am so sick of having to fact check news reports! Every time I see a report, especially on hf, I go and confirm that what they say happened is actually what happened. Usually it isn't. I hate the news because most people aren't taking the time to figure this shit out. It's misleading and harmful.
fade
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I was reading up on some of the reactions on both sides of the Liefield argument. Okay, I can see some of his popularity in retrospect. A lot of fans argue that his... unique anatomy choices were stylistic, and should be taken as such. Well, okay. I guess. The problem is the old uncanny valley. It's too close to realism to change things like that without it looking weird. Besides, I don't believe it. I think it was just poorly drawn realism. Whatever it was, it was undeniably popular, apparently.
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makare
I am still weirded out by the chick with the S waist. I don't mind stylized females that are impossibly thin, I do love me some barbie, but if they are supposed to be human I want to think human when I look at them. Not, oh dear god what is that
GasBandit
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Actually, let me put on my hipster glasses and tell you that memes actually predate the internet. A meme is any idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. So examples of pre-internet memes would be all those movie quotations everybody bandies back and forth, or old repeated catch phrases like "Where's the Beef?!" or "Of Course not, don't be ridiculous," or "Ehh, what's up, doc?"
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Gas, I really hope you do not actually think I did not know that. I usually take this kind of thing in stride but goddamn it I was an English major for 7 years.. I know what memes are.
If you were an English major for that long, apparently you weren't very good at it; hence him having to explain
(I kid I kid...mostly)
GasBandit
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So why didn't you say "memes - the herpes of human culture?"
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I still stand by memes being the herpes of the internet and hf as the most virulent strain.
Oh god I can hear it. It's inside my ears!
BACK TO RANTING,
Things are looking promising with this girl I've known and liked for a long time though we've been in the fringes of our social circles for some time, so we aren't really friends. She feels alone, she seems to kinda like me, last wednesday we go out for some coffee and a walk through the medieval town "She: we should watch a movie next week. Me: Oh, but you just watch artsy movies with subtitles, lets do something you'll enjoy too. She: Oh, with you, i'd go watch regular films".
Because of scheduling trouble, we didn't watch one today, we just had dinner with some friends. She had to leave, though, tonight she is -or she hopes she is- fucking the dude she had seen and lusted after during all her college years around her university, who she just randomly met at a party past saturday, where she told him he was his erotic dream and he told her she has always found her to be very sexy. Guess who will she hang out with??
BOY, AM I LUCKY
lucky and kinda drunk.
Things are looking promising with this girl I've known and liked for a long time though we've been in the fringes of our social circles for some time, so we aren't really friends. She feels alone, she seems to kinda like me, last wednesday we go out for some coffee and a walk through the medieval town "She: we should watch a movie next week. Me: Oh, but you just watch artsy movies with subtitles, lets do something you'll enjoy too. She: Oh, with you, i'd go watch regular films".
Because of scheduling trouble, we didn't watch one today, we just had dinner with some friends. She had to leave, though, tonight she is -or she hopes she is- fucking the dude she had seen and lusted after during all her college years around her university, who she just randomly met at a party past saturday, where she told him he was his erotic dream and he told her she has always found her to be very sexy. Guess who will she hang out with??
BOY, AM I LUCKY
lucky and kinda drunk.
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