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site got nuked edition
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>>45394
did you post this in the wrong thread?



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What's the appeal of fashion for you guys?
Like do you just see it and go
> Damn :)
Or is there a greater enjoyment like you enjoy the gym not because of the workouts but the results.

I impusively stabbed a dress shirt out of frustration of having to wear them, so I'm wondering

>>45388
No fucking way. At most those black leather caps associated to queers.

>>45314
I like looking at certain fashions and feel nice when i wear an outfit or certain clothes that are pleasing to my eye

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>>45388
Why would you wear a military uniform out of uniform? People already decry me for wearing my BTU jacket when every fashion label offers some fake camo jacket.

Crop-tops as a hetero man?

>>45411
Sorry but unless you have dyed hair or some lefty patches I'd assume you're a reactionary if I saw you wearing camo in public.



 

Ancient History and Lost Civilisation Enjoyer Thread #3

>Previous threads:

https://archive.is/niXSf

https://web.archive.org/web/20230326214826/https://leftypol.org/siberia/res/384126.html

<Confirming the age of ancient footprints


>For their follow-up study, the researchers focused on radiocarbon dating of conifer pollen, because it comes from a terrestrial plant and avoids the issues that can arise when dating aquatic plants such as Ruppia, according to the news release.


>The scientists were able to isolate some 75,000 grains of pollen, collected from the exact same layers as the original seeds, for each sample. Thousands of grains are required to achieve the mass necessary for a single radiocarbon measurement. The pollen age matched that found for the seeds.


>The team also used a dating technique known as optically stimulated luminescence, which determines the last time quartz grains in the fossil sediment were exposed to sunlight. This method suggested that the quartz had a minimum age of 21,500 years.


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>>40979
What are you talking about? The overall point of "there are older cultures we haven't found yet" or "ancient peoples were more advanced than we give them credit for" are pretty mainstream. Some of the more marginal and less important claims that Hancock reports are also seeing more evidence pointing towards them, like that crater found under the Hiawatha glacier or the South American crop residue found on Rapa Nui.

>>40963
>The Holodomor being a myth is academic consensu

Leftypedia does not agree with that

>>40982
>In the early 1930s a series of food crises affected major agricultural countries,[4] the one in the UkSSR being an outright famine:

>[…] the USSR experienced an unusual environmental disaster in 1932: extremely wet and humid weather that gave rise to severe plant disease infestations, especially rust. Ukraine had double or triple the normal rainfall in 1932. Both the weather conditions and the rust spread from Eastern Europe, as plant pathologists at the time documented. Soviet plant pathologists in particular estimated that rust and other fungal diseases reduced the potential harvest in 1932 by almost nine million tons, which is the largest documented harvest loss from any single cause in Soviet history.


>— Mark Tauger, [5]

This was followed by severe drought.

>Anticommunist sabotage also had an influence.[6][7] While collectivization might have influenced the famine, its extent remains disputed, but is likely that inappropriate procurement targets also contributed to the crisis.


>The Soviets responded to the famine by sending food aid and reducing food quotas and food exports.[8][9][10][11] Despite their efforts, modern analysis indicates that 1.8–2.5 million people still perished, which corresponds to the Soviet estimate of 2.4 million.[12]


https://wiki.leftypol.org/wiki/Famines_in_the_Soviet_Union

Bumping with new DeDunking about the statues with the navel holding pose. Appropriate for a thread that hasn't been bumped for 9 months lol.

>>40982
Leftypedia is run by glowies and feds.



 

How do you feel about it (and its creator)?
also please spam Charlie pics
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zrqqq_torpedo on xiauhongshu

Don't watch this show but I kinda want to fuck the little red dude that gets picked on. I saw a bunch of art where he had a fat ass and it got me torqued

Tiktok people are obsessed with the creator. All they do is try to make up a reason to hate the show and its creator, just say you don’t like the show. Why try to cancel the author?

>>5453
hazbin hotel outlasts ASS-AD regime
gay spider won

>>45398
The same spergs saying "le cringe culture is dead" have now rationalized that the only way to dislike some cultural product must be a deep moral reason.



 

A general for "western" animations/cartoons.
Gonna start off with a recommendation to watch The King and the Mockingbird the 1980 version especially, absolutely comrade-pilled movie.

Good torrent sites (massive pop-up warning, put on an adblocker):
https://kimcartoon.li/CartoonList
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=movies
https://rarbg.to/torrents.php?category=2;18;41;49
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>>45396
Yeah, and I want an explanation >:(

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Bros…?

>>45427
I don't get it. I used to watch the Moral Orel show but I don't think I've seen every episode but many of them.

>>45396
that's true of most countries controlled by "bad guys" in fiction tbh,nobody wants to think about the logistics of running a country size concentration camp (it would run like shit)

>>45427
starburns?



 

Anyone else going to watch this show out of solidarity? Chuds are already mad that Abby isn't a steroid hulk and claiming that the actress playing Abby should be playing Ellie instead. The seethe over this show is going to be immense and generate nonstop rage videos for at least the rest of the year.
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>>45406
Then prove it by killing yourself. You have no principles to uphold, so this shouldn't be hard for you.

>>45417
The lack of principles is a principle in and of itself and your refusal to kill yourself proves that you hold to a principle of keeping yourself alive at all costs hence you are not actually lacking an ethical framework which you operate under.

>>45419
>I have no principles
<feels the need to keep defending himself
anti moralism is always performative

>>45421
and yet you keep replying like a jealous ex girlfriend

>>45430
cute



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Elf edition.

Since a bunch of the old threads were basically nuked with the server transfer, I wanted to revive some of them.

General discussion of the fantasy genre.
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>>45390
Hard magic is okay in an RPG context where you need well defined rules and numbers to make the game work, but it typically feels too rationalist in a fantasy narrative. I think magic is supposed to be somewhat mysterious.

This is one of my problem with the new Warcraft lore. Originally, the various forms of magic were mysterious and generally unrelated to each other. Then they retconned and reworked it into this stupid hard magic system (pic related.)

This is just one of many things that has ruined the setting, but this was not a fucking improvement.

>>45390
Actually, Tolkien had a magic system in mind and concrete ideas about how various magical things worked, he just kept it deliberately vague in his published books and tended to go over them mostly in letters and notes. For instance, he says in a letter that each mortal life has a certain lifespan allotted to it, and magical life extension worked by stretching that lifespan out, and as a consequence it sort of gets thinner and, well, stretched out. In the book, Tolkien only vaguely alludes to this, like when Bilbo reaches the great age of 111, and yet doesn't seem to have aged at all, and later remarks to Gandalf "I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread."

In addition to this, there's also the fact that most "hard" magic systems kind of operate like an alternative version of physics, while Tolkien's magic system wasn't anything of the sort and seem to be based on Neoplatonism like a lot of the rest of the book. Like in one part of the book, the Hobbits mention that the elves have magic like Sauron does, causing Galadriel to be somewhat taken aback that they think that the power of the elves and the power of Sauron are the same, but concedes that to those unfamiliar with these things, it would all seem to all just fall under the umbrella of "magic." In a letter, Tolkien explains that the power of the elves comes from the ideal of beauty, while the power of Sauron come from the ideal of control and is related to a type of evil he calls "The Machine." Which is all very different from most other magic systems which, like I said before, tend to be more like an alternative form of physics, while his magic is essentially emanations of Platonic ideals, made all the more obtuse that he deliberately keeps it all vague and mysterious in the books themselves.

>>45415
Platonism is still "alternative physics" just that it's an idealist version of physics vs a materialist version. The Greeks had physical theories, they were just very different from what we have developed through science. To have a really "soft" magic in this sense would require magic to work more by fiat and hand waves (which isn't totally unreasonable depending on the story).

>>45422
Didn't the Catholic church absorb a lot of these Greek/Platonic theories and reasoning over their centuries of discourse on temporal and supernatural subjects? Would it be fair to say that the would of lotr functions along these lines given Tolkien's influences?

>>45423
Yeah but the thing is that this idea of physics is much more vibes based because it's idealist. In that sense it's still a more "soft" magic. It might be very elaborate and detailed but it's not necessarily concrete or consistent like a set of rules.



 

What can we really consider a "masterpiece?" And who's to define what is a masterpiece and what isn't? Moreover, how can we compare "masterpieces" of different art forms? I'm asking this since the only undisputed masterpieces in our society seem to be classical literature and classical music while everything else has to constantly prove itself to be as good as them. And when it comes to defining masterpieces in animation, let alone anime, instead of someone more professional like Roger Ebert or whatever we have some random YouTube essayists that gush about how this and that cartoon/anime is a "10/10 masterpiece." And when it comes to video games all we have are corporate journos giving 10/10 to games that become dated after 5 years. In the video game world what was considered a "masterpiece" before would be considered merely decent at best if it was published today. This is such a unique situation that literature never had to wrestle with (it's just letters on paper). And don't get me started on just how many of these "masterpieces" exist and how not every person may even vibe with the same type of game. Say, Mario 64 is considered a masterpiece. But I like Sonic Adventure. I like the sense of speed, I like the flow of movement, I like to go fast and never stop to take a breath. These are completely different feelings to those you get from playing SM64. Same for Super Meat Boy, another favorite of mine. It too makes you rush at a breakneck speed but it also punishes you for a slightest mistake which is very different from Sonic games which are very forgiving even compared to Mario games due to the ring system and the safety required to reach high speeds since Sonic is more physics-based.
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>>45376
Inception is the movie that firmly solidified Nolan as a hack utterly devoid of creativity. A movie about exploring peoples subconscious, and the most he could do with that premise is make a city bend at 90° angle.

>>45377
No you retard that's exactly why Inception was good because it didn't go into autistic reality warping and the core of the story was a sentimental tale of a criminal trying to find a way home while dealing with the ghosts of the past that he had failed. Take out the dream element and Inception can still work as an interesting heist movie with an emotional core that's what makes it good.

What YOU are asking for on the other hand is the same Marvel-esque "muh beautiful CGI" slopfest that every action movie and anime is nowadays where the focus is on sheer spectacle and characters being "badass" by killing each other in increasingly ridiculous ways, rather than on character work and telling a story that can resonate with others.

>>45378
>Take out the dream element out of the movie whose whole selling point is exploring the dream world and Inception can still work
You understand that is not a positive, right? They wasted an interesting premise to make a generic action movie.

>What YOU are asking for on the other hand is the same Marvel-esque "muh beautiful CGI"

Really? Am I asking for that? Could you point to me where I ask for such thing? It really shows what kind of people Nolan fanboys are, I criticize the movie for lack of creativity, and all you can conceive as an alternative is Marvel.

>>45379
>You understand that is not a positive, right? They wasted an interesting premise to make a generic action movie.
A good story is a good story regardless of setting. A good story is timeless and doesn't require the specificity of a locked in setting or universe in order to be interesting.
See: Stark vs Lannister in GOT working but Dany and Dragons and White Walkers being dumb boring cgi slop. Or anime slopfest that prides itself in being incoherent.
>Really? Am I asking for that?
Prove it then and write a post explaining what you mean by "creative" because every time I've heard this complaint it's some retard who wants more spectacle that doesn't add anything to the story. Yeah I'm sure they could create a dream with aliens in it that would be more "creative" doesn't meant that it's not a retarded idea.

>>45393
>A good story is a good story regardless of setting. A good story is timeless and doesn't require the specificity of a locked in setting or universe in order to be interesting.
Yes it fucking does, if the setting is actually utilized in it. You cant strip LOTR of fantasy, you couldnt make Jurasic Park without the dinosaurs, or to give an example of another Nolan movie, Interstellar had to be in space, because the setting is core part of the movie.

By creative I mean exploring the human psyche, the unconscious mind, desires and anxieties. World unbount by reality principle. Seriously, do you have many CGI battles in dreams?



 

Anyone here /bardpilled/?

I've been dipping back into the Shakespeare well a bit recently. Takes me back to school when the world of "serious literature" was still this mysterious and exciting unexplored place for me.

What are some of your favorite plays, characters, lines, etc.?

>>45279
I was once told that Shakespeare was a muslim from Morocco called Shaykh Zubayr

I have read Hamlet three times, in three different languages, and I still don't get why people think it is such an important work.

>>45285
Actually his name was Sheik Pir



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Rewatching the cartoon of my childhood - Justice League.
>In the alternate reality, Lex Luthor is elected as US President, kills Flash, and threatens to start a nuclear war.
>Alternate Superman is pushed over the edge, assasinates Luthor, and together with his comrades violently takes over USA (and implicitly, entire world).
>From what little we saw about this alternate reality, it had turned into Georgeorwell1984 police state, but crime (both ordinary and superhuman) was eradicated and it's implied all wars had stopped.
>"Justice Lords" find a way to travel between realities and lure the Justice League from the "prime" universe into their one and capture them, then move on to taking over the "prime" universe as well
>Justice League escapes the Justice Lords' universe and returns home
>Superman STRIKES A DEAL WITH PRIME UNIVERSE'S LUTHOR by organising his pardon from all his previous crimes in exchange for a weapon that defeats all of Justice Lords at once
>The episode ends with Superman picking up the fallen American flag, symbolising that "democracy" had won
>LITERALLY the next episode immediatedly begins with the scene of a squad of American soldiers chasing an unspecified "warlord" in an unspecified Middle Eastern country

Are you fucking kidding me, writers? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

Reality is this point is more ridiculous than this tbh.



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