Talkin about Tumblrs, man

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  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Haven said:

    apparently the context is


    image
    a big jerk
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
  • <SukebanJane> uh actually it's spelled Berenjoeklmarelspottydottyopolistain
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    neat!

    kishōtenketsu is a new word to me, i shall have to remember it
  • edited 2015-08-17 23:46:18
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    as a pedant, i want to point out that "there is nothing outside the text" was a mistranslation, or at the very least misleadingly phrased

    but Derrida arguably built his career on misreading other philosophers so i suppose turnabout is fair play
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I don't like the three-act structure. I prefer the five-act structure.

    Also, "conflict is everything" is by definition a really stupid concept. If you put conflict in everything, the audience doesn't know what to focus on.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I feel like this so perfectly encapsulates what's wrong with Tumblr

    I can't quite articulate why, but you know what I mean

    The whole "everybody constantly at each other's throats" thing
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Pretty much.
  • Progressivism is a circular firing squad, unfortunately.
  • Central Avenue, you have in the past referred to "social justice" as a thing that is shoved down "normal" people's throats. 

    forgive me if I don't quite care about your opinion when it comes to "what's wrong" with Tumblr.

    mind you, there is quite a lot wrong with Tumblr, the site itself has horror stories to offer about the people who work on it, nevermind that the code and mobile apps for the site are actually garbage.

    it offers a platform to whoever wants one, and can create a feedback loop. replies to positions are often secular in their existence. this helps people like, Neo-nazis on the site, MRAs(Misogynists), Gamergaters, etc.

    there's also very little protection against harassment, there's little tools in place to report people.

  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Does every single statement I make about Tumblr culture need to be prefaced with "but of course there are bloggers who aren't like this"?

    I mean, people being too eager to call others bigots instead of engaging in discourse isn't a universal problem, no, but it's definitely a widespread one.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    image
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Is it actually widespread, or is it just our perception of it, because nobody wants to hang out with the Nazis?

    Also, isn't the statement a screenshot of a tweet?
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Haven said:

    Progressivism is a circular firing squad, unfortunately.

    at least the right seems to be engaging in the same ridiculous internecine action now
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I don't get why tumblr keeps watching huge movies and shows with poor treatment of queer characters, then gets inordinately angry at indie movies that are 96% good at trans instead of 100%
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Odradek said:

    I don't get why tumblr keeps watching huge movies and shows with poor treatment of queer characters, then gets inordinately angry at indie movies that are 96% good at trans instead of 100%

    A lot of Tumblr teens are new enough to social justice stuff that they haven't yet learned that you have to accept small victories and incremental improvements. There's a sort of all-or-nothing thinking that I hope most of them will eventually grow out of.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    which indie movies are 96% good at trans?

    /bad at being into movies
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    because truly that's still like 86-91% better than most mainstream media
  • In addition to long-held biases, there's also the fact that most mainstream shows will be broadcast in places with anti-gay laws. So...
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    haha, right

    like how Hollywood movies are made not to piss off the Chinese government
  • That's the reason they had to change the Mandarin in IM3, right? Because of the Yellow Peril stuff?
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    I think

    also speaking of Yellow Peril stuff, I wonder how Warner Bros. will handle Dr. Zin if they make a Jonny Quest movie
  • edited 2015-08-19 08:14:06
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    Acererak said:

    That's the reason they had to change the Mandarin in IM3, right? Because of the Yellow Peril stuff?

    that's a big part of it, yeah.  also in the Chinese version, his name became the meaningless "Man Daren"
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    in finding confirmation for that i was reminded of the scenes they added to the chinese version of iron man 3 which the chinese audiences panned
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Anonus said:

    haha, right


    like how Hollywood movies are made not to piss off the Chinese government
    Hollywood thinks the Chinese people are too dumb to ever figure out they did a search replace for "China" with "North Korea" in the Red Dawn remake.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    As it turned out, it didn't matter because American audiences didn't give a shit about the Red Dawn remake, let alone Chinese ones.
  • edited 2015-08-20 04:45:56
    THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    The original Red Dawn was such a product of its time that it was dated before it even hit its fifth birthday. Why anyone would want to remake it (or cast China as the villains when our relationship with them has never been as adversarial as the one with the Soviet Union) is beyond me.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    It was a movie MGM made before they went bankrupt, which figures
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    It was actually finished in 2009, but it wasn't until 2012 that it was released, by FilmDistrict
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    aha
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    TUMBLR COMMUNISTS: I'm sick of all these posts defending SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY. Sure it has a nice social safety net and improved policies from places like the USA or the UK, but surely it's wrong to endorse it when it's frankly unacceptably racist.

    TUMBLR COMMUNISTS: *Unironically defends North Korea*
  • Relatedly, this is my favorite take on the "netflix and chill" meme

    http://aegisaglow.tumblr.com/post/127136592780
  • Odradek said:

    TUMBLR COMMUNISTS: I'm sick of all these posts defending SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY. Sure it has a nice social safety net and improved policies from places like the USA or the UK, but surely it's wrong to endorse it when it's frankly unacceptably racist.


    TUMBLR COMMUNISTS: *Unironically defends North Korea*
    do these people actually exist because I've never seen them
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i generally try to avoid them but i've encountered them once or twice
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    Odradek said:

    TUMBLR COMMUNISTS: I'm sick of all these posts defending SCANDINAVIAN COUNTRY. Sure it has a nice social safety net and improved policies from places like the USA or the UK, but surely it's wrong to endorse it when it's frankly unacceptably racist.


    TUMBLR COMMUNISTS: *Unironically defends North Korea*
    do these people actually exist because I've never seen them
    Yes.

    You have not seen them because you presumably have better taste in who you follow.
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    are they the same people?
  • generally not in my experience

    although tumblr communists who take potshots at scandanavian countries for being racist and the ones who love Mao's Combat Liberalism do have significant overlap
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Calica said:

    are they the same people?

    Yes
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Also if we could not act like any statement I make is probably founded on mad delusion, that would be nice.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    It disturbs me how willing some sad, naive young leftists are to defend Red Fascists because they think they need the ideological armour such extreme views give them.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    Second Option Bias.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Thank you for allowing me to put a name to that.

    Now I know what anti-vaccine people have too, incidentally!
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