#521
I don't care for that Hannibal/Young Pope kind of excessive gloss but yes young pope is a better show.
#522
nothing in the rules says a dog can't be pope
#523
I've watched most of the films here I think.

#524
I saw Get Out last night. It was pretty good, but you can tell Jordan Peele hasn't even read Settlers.
#525
I saw Get Out in the worst possible conditions (at a movie theater) so its hard to even recall whether it was any good. what i do remember is that the theater which seats less than 100 people somehow managed to house an audience made up of 99% white NPR fans and i got the feeling everyone was just a little bit too in on the joke. theres a kind of performative allyship going on in the response thats 10x more obnoxious when it takes the form of applauding an inanimate move screen like a fucking degenerate
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I just discovered Super Deluxe channel on youtube and I am watching Jim Bakker videos for the first time on it (as stoner parodied). They are hilarious, especially when stoned.
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chickeon posted:

tears posted:


yesssss, get that dog a recording contract, and an account

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"that is what freedom looks like" haha i hate to break it to you lady but freedom kind of looks like shit.
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just watched The Coming War On China. really great for a mainstream western doco, as Pilger's stuff usually is. there's a weird patch in the middle where he feels the need to insert the standard critiques of contemporary china (it's capitalist, there is significant inequality, repression of speech) but none of it's really harped on too much. the vast majority of the film is condemnation of the amerikkkan war machine and a catalogue of horrors - most of the first half is just about bikini atoll and the marshall islands. strongly recommend this one
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The one constant of the Star Trek universe is characters in it care deeply about things current day earth men would know about - but only if those things are in the public domain. This is the reason the JJ Abrams movies are garbage, Kirk likes brands of motorcycles and liscenced rock and roll music? Bull shit. The man likes ragtime music, classical music, George Bernard Shaw, and Moby Dick.
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Petrol posted:

"that is what freedom looks like" haha i hate to break it to you lady but freedom kind of looks like shit.


(video shows footage of corpses from the holocaust) This is what freedom looks like

#542
mst3k would quote roughly fifty thousand times the part of that episode where the klingon guy does impressions and shouts "help me spock", and that's good.
#543
Have you guys seen the new mst3k it looked real real bad but some people seem to like it
#544
it has celebrity guest stars that include Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt so i'm unlikely to ever watch it
#545
I watched two episodes. it's as aware of itself as you think it'd be and just as insufferable about it. Wesley is even in it.
#546
are there books/stories that you'd explicitly call marxist or neo marxist fiction/spec fic? would love some recos esp anything that can count as a "labour fiction"
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spectralmarx posted:

are there books/stories that you'd explicitly call marxist or neo marxist fiction/spec fic? would love some recos esp anything that can count as a "labour fiction"



Mccaine hyped up red plenty, looks good but I've never read it

#548
i watched "the void", which is exactly the film you'd get if you set Event Horizon in a hospital, by that i mean it fwikkin owned

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spectralmarx posted:

are there books/stories that you'd explicitly call marxist or neo marxist fiction/spec fic? would love some recos esp anything that can count as a "labour fiction"



looking backward (1888) by edward bellamy owns in its own right but also galvanized the american labor movement leading into the 20th century

#550
oh shit and also USA by john dos passos, which is maybe the one Great American Novel, moby dick aside
(dos passos went weirdly proto-libertarian later in life and fell from grace but his early novels are still incredible)
#551
a lot of the stuff by china mieville
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ok trying this out. fast and furious (2001)
7:31: a character announces a fatburger menu item and price
9:09: ifilm logo with ifilm .com url beneath
10:30: this driver's incredible passion for NOS has convinced me to shut up and watch the movie. inside the actor's studio queued up next

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#554
that was a good run. our age will retrospectively be known as BS (before singularity)
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aerdil posted:

a lot of the stuff by china mieville


yeah, and try the works of steven erikson, joe abercrombie, brent weeks, brandon sanderson and george.rr.martin, you might also like dark souls

#556
some of the noon universe stories are good soviet sci fi but a lot of it is like reading an appliance catalog from the seventies
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Good.
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roseweird posted:

i know mieveille calls himself a marxist but i read perdido street station and thought it was kinda just regular dungeons and dragons pulp fantasy. maybe something else is good


one of the sequels, iron council, is very explicitly socialist, but it's also suffers from the same sense of self-indulgence you were probably picking up in perdido. if you have a high tolerance for pulp, as I do, it's worth reading, but it's not what I would reach for if I trying to sell someone on the idea that genre fic isn't for gay nerds