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[Baloney Face]

lololololol safe from what, wrongthink?

Considering that Reddit is already subdivided into heavily moderated hugboxes, I wonder why they bother. Maybe to decrease the amount of human interaction necessary for moderation?

 

[Matt Damon]

Considering that Reddit is already subdivided into heavily moderated hugboxes, I wonder why they bother. Maybe to decrease the amount of human interaction necessary for moderation?

I suspect it's a way for admins to further suppress dissent and squelch wrongthink (especially on the more based parts of Reddit where it would otherwise get up votes) while also giving themselves plausible deniability.

"It wasn't management exercising ideological censorship. It was the totally apolitical, impartial algorithm and we don't have to justify or substantiate anything the algorithm does."

 

[Lemmingwise]

Considering that Reddit is already subdivided into heavily moderated hugboxes, I wonder why they bother. Maybe to decrease the amount of human interaction necessary for moderation?

It's always nice to be able to squelch any particular type of "misinformation" and at the same time have plausible deniability of it being an AI responsible. AI isn't just a way to put power back from mods into admin hands, it's also a plausible deniability blackbox.

edit: whoops like I @Matt Damon got there first.

 

[Not Jewish Wario]

9/11 is just like my heckin capeshit space kino!

Starship troopers (1997), a movie about fascism, predicted the American government’s response to 9/11.

News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures.

old.reddit.com

 

[XANA]

Give me a fucking break. I will never understand why modern creators choose to add Black, Asian, etc. people into media based on European mythology or history for the sake of "diversity" instead of actually creating something new based on African, Indigenous, Asian, etc. mythology or history (which in turn creates more representation for other ethnic groups), especially considering how interesting it is.

Maybe gatekeeping cultures is a good thing sometimes.

They do it because it's easy. The franchise is already established, as well as the character. They don't need to make up a complex and believable backstory, they don't need to figure out character traits or personalities or weaknesses/strengths. They don't even need to build a universe that both supports and opposes the characters. They don't need lore or mythos, or need to think about minute points of interests. By slapping a new coat of paint on an established character, they can claim they're being diverse when in reality, it's simple blackwashing.

And thus, that's why the people that cry for diversity doesn't make stories about actual African heroes. I remember there used to be a man named Mansa Musa - an African king who was the richest man who ever lived. It must be super racist for producers and such to not make stories about his life. Surely they have loads of materials they can work with - it doesn't have to be purely historical.

 

[Matt Damon]

9/11 is just like my heckin capeshit space kino!

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Starship troopers (1997), a movie about fascism, predicted the American government’s response to 9/11.

News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures.

old.reddit.com

Yep, and ED-209 is an obvious parody of Derek Chauvin.

Paul Verhoeven is the modern-day Nostradamus, as long as you're willing to read way too much into insanely broad satirical themes (militarism, overzealous policing) that could be applied to any society at any point in the history of the world.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

and the whole gamer thing, i didn't get it, however they switched the narrative:
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let's totally ignore a crippling feature, which is BEING FAT and try to make people as capable if not more than fit people because, gaems...
and while we are at it, let's "dab on them haters" for pointing out how stupid that is.

If they were trying to differentiate themselves from Marvel's version of Thor for legal reasons, they really fucked up. He's fucking obese. Not even a bit plump, they just make his fat belly exposed and the ENTIRE centerpiece of his costume design. What fat-fetishist, inflation-fetish loving faggots are they hiring?
First they're making the chicks ugly as balls, now the men. But healthy at every size though, right? You play a literal God except he's fat and scruffy.

I hate to praise Disney or Marvel but this design looks better. Also I noticed some of the Reddit crowd who were upset at ugly female designs are praising this, be ashamed fatass.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Oh no, a fictional character who isn't even a normal human is fat in a video game.

What happened to muh artistic freedom?

Who said that he is staying fat the entire game?

What's next? Are people start bitching that Loki is part greek?

 

[The Demon]

interestingly enough, if you bother to check the damn thing people are going against the idea.

not perfect but it still odd considering it's reddit, like them post-masturbation depression thingies.

he's a redditor, duh.

and the whole gamer thing, i didn't get it, however they switched the narrative:
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let's totally ignore a crippling feature, which is BEING FAT and try to make people as capable if not more than fit people because, gaems...
and while we are at it, let's "dab on them haters" for pointing out how stupid that is.

do redditors think boogie2988 is the strongest man on earth?

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

9/11 is just like my heckin capeshit space kino!
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Starship troopers (1997), a movie about fascism, predicted the American government’s response to 9/11.

News & Discussion about Major Motion Pictures.

old.reddit.com

>"Starship Troopers is a movie about fascism"
>The film, like, satirizes a fascist society maaan they're an army maaan that's fascist

Typical Redditor making shit up again. I always laugh when I hear some troon spouting this, because the book, Starship Troopers, blatantly shits on communism and Marxism. Any interpretation other than Starship Troopers as anti-communist is projection, if not cope. Not that a Redditor would know that, because why would they read books?


Fuck all commies

 

[Lester Jones]

>"Starship Troopers is a movie about fascism"
>The film, like, satirizes a fascist society maaan they're an army maaan that's fascist

Typical Redditor making shit up again. I always laugh when I hear some troon spouting this, because the book, Starship Troopers, blatantly shits on communism and Marxism. Any interpretation other than Starship Troopers as anti-communist is projection, if not cope. Not that a Redditor would know that, because why would they read books?

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Fuck all commies

LMAO! You don't know what you're talking about. The director himself SAID that the movie is about "fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism."

How we made Starship Troopers

‘I borrowed from the films of Leni Riefenstahl to show that these soldiers were like something out of Nazi propaganda. I even put one in an SS uniform. But no one noticed’

www.theguardian.com

Here's the director statement from the link above on the fascism point:

Robert Heinlein’s original 1959 science-fiction novel was militaristic, if not fascistic. So I decided to make a movie about fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism. Robocop was just urban politics – this was about American politics. As a European it seemed to me that certain aspects of US society could become fascistic: the refusal to limit the amount of arms; the number of executions in Texas when George W Bush was governor.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

The director himself SAID that the movie is about "fascists who aren’t aware of their fascism."

The author of the book > The director of the film.

Read the book, Redditor.

 

[Lester Jones]

The author of the book > The director of the film.

The post was talking about the movie, not the book.

Read the book, Redditor.

Oh! You even updated your message to show how salty you are. LMFAO

 

[Baloney Face]

The film is really a parody of the book.

 

[Kabuki Actor]

Jewish hands typed this post.

And I'm sure that the pogroms and ghettoes were a hoax as well.

 

[AnOminous]

Here's the director statement from the link above on the fascism point:

Heinlein's novel wasn't fascist. If you were going to pick a Heinlein novel that is actually fascist, Farnham's Freehold is a far better choice, but not many people have heard of it. Incidentally, the sole limitation on the rights of non-veterans was to the franchise, and otherwise, they were entitled to the same liberties as anyone else.

The general concept, and it is at least a rational argument, is that those who have actually done military service (in a society which was quite literally fighting for its existence) are better situated to make decisions about who is an appropriate leader under the circumstances. There was also no real moral ambiguity to exploit here. The bugs were just flat out going to exterminate us as a species and it was us or them. What do you do in that situation? War. That's the only answer.

I think it is one of Verhoeven's worse outings[*]. In general, I do not like "adaptations" that openly disrespect the source material, and he openly admitted never having even read the book. This is especially the case when the adaptation is nowhere near as good as the original.

If you're going to do this, you'd best be Stanley Kubrick or some shit. He actually not only disrespected the source material, but arguably even openly mocked the author insert character in The Shining. He got away with it because it was a masterpiece and better than the actually really good novel.

ETA: I forgot Showgirls.

The film is really a parody of the book.

But it didn't even have the respect to be openly a parody.

 

[InteracialBowelSyndrome]

Reddit installs some new AI (or something).

Im already wondering just how this can be used against Reddit Admins. Maybe abuse the system so it targets their own alphabet employees?

 

[Toolbox]

interestingly enough, if you bother to check the damn thing people are going against the idea.

not perfect but it still odd considering it's reddit, like them post-masturbation depression thingies.

he's a redditor, duh.

and the whole gamer thing, i didn't get it, however they switched the narrative:
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let's totally ignore a crippling feature, which is BEING FAT and try to make people as capable if not more than fit people because, gaems...
and while we are at it, let's "dab on them haters" for pointing out how stupid that is.

Tell me if this was posted here but it ties into the whole autism around r/gaming and r/gamingcirclejerk.

Relevant parts are 5:30 to 9:35. People got pissed about a remake of saints row starring not the game's original cast of characters, hardened gangsters, or even existing in the same location, a fictionalized inner city, but replacing the cast with a bunch of fresh out of college friends who are every stereotype of 'millenial'. The plot is then set out as them needing to pay off their student loans so they become gangsters. That's it. A lot more details in the saints row thread.

But back to the point, gamingcirclejerk got mad that in the subreddit for saints row fans, actual fans were getting mad at this redesign and on top of that the dev team was pissing all over the community and doing typical ignore the haters nonsense. Then suddenly the attitude there starts to shift, and there's a bunch of posts making fun of the people who actually cared about the plot of the first four games in the series (or at least the first two). Lo and behold it's a bunch of retards from gamingcirclejerk invading the subreddit and acting like they've been fans for years. You even have some of them having posted stuff relevant to older games in the series just a few days before doing this as to establish some sort of legitimacy for being there. It's pretty sad how much effort these guys put in just to defend random companies that don't care about them. They've been at this for weeks now.

 

[The Demon]

The plot is then set out as them needing to pay off their student loans so they become gangsters.

this feels like the story was written by committee. "what do those ungrateful little shits like? being related to? don't they complain about being in debt? let's do that"

 

[Toolbox]

this feels like the story was written by committee. "what do those ungrateful little shits like? being related to? don't they complain about being in debt? let's do that"

Seeing as the right half of the thumbnail is a possible self insert of a long time employee of the company, somehow some of them seem to actually care about this story.