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>>40652
I guess the first seasons got just the right amount of pussification. Although the bootleg far side art is more appealing than GoAnimate meets Home Movies.

https://archive.org/details/eds_20210512/mode/1up
pitch bible for ed edd n eddy

>>40652
I like this art style more honestly. It's a shame that the higher-ups always want to produce these adult comedy shows as cheaply as possible.

>>39897
> russian ai/robot
Do you mean Doll?

>>41409
yeah, whatever she is I dropped the show after the episode she apeared in.

i watched smiling friends and its so grounded in 2000s flash humor that you should basically be required to watch it back to back with hazbin hotel to really capture that feeling of killing time on newgrounds before embarking on a ms paint samus dress up game nipple fantasy

Honestly I'm surprised how little leftyco mentions people like HGO considering his efforts for socialist movements and his elimination by the Argentine fascists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Germ%C3%A1n_Oesterheld?useskin=vector

> These fan solicitations do more to make the case for this middle class fascist rot more so than I ever could, because in the 1980s most readers of vigilante were middle class men. According to a readership survey published just a year after Vigilante began, the average comic book reader was men under 30, college educated, with a mean income of $60,000 a year in today’s dollars. This demographic was at the time commonly referred to as the Yuppies.
https://netscapeblack.substack.com/p/vigilante-dream

Pretty lib at times but still interesting read.

>>40787
It not being horrible millennial nostalgia bait is the greatest thing to ever happen.

Caught up on "Knights of the Wandering Castle". I like it. Great art, especially as the chapters pass. Funny moments. Only downsides is that it's still in infancy. Like 17 chapters out and then sum. Though will say, where it currently is, shows how the story is ramping up. Wonder where the author takes the story!

>>40819
Seek help stalker anon. Why would anyone but you use these?

>>41351
the chick on the left is literally identical to the chick being cucked

>>41351
wait I just realized all 3 are the same woman

>>40949
I have a hard time seeing any Pie sister except Maud as autistic

Obligatory /mcg/ post
>Warning: futa content
https://ponepaste.org/4625

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/545364/12/a-day-in-stalliongrad/steel-stallion-and-his-big-spoon
>big spoon reference
I think the author of the EaW/DE crossover might actually be a communist

>>41233
they look like average young people that started thinking about fashion

I refuse to believe celebrity stylists get paid who knows how many thousands to coord these trash fits.

>>41348
most celebs only wear random trendy shit thrown together

subreddits for specific designers are literally always the same bland fucking outfits by suburban children that stole their parents credit card that will get you easy likes on insta and tiktok but its cool when i find someone attempting diy inspired by a designers work

also found out about this experimental urban camo from the late 90s, too bad its rare and your best bet is somewhat expensive repros

<In 1998, the T-Block pattern was tested by the US DOD. It was originally produced in the BDU pattern, also being made into PASGT helmet and vest covers. The pattern was tested by the US Marines, along with foreign participants from the Netherlands and the UK in the 1999 training exercise Operation Urban Warrior. While it never got adopted, T-Block has captivated camouflage enthusiasts ever since.

>>41341
By the standards of the other people in the story they are savages, the same way even the most advanced human civilizations today would be seen as savages by Aliens visiting our planet.

>>41340
I'm ambivalent to both. I liked the old Dune film better and Avatar was never a favorite of mine, though I liked it more than the sequel.

the fremen are hamas
the emperor is biden
baron harkonnen is netanyahu

>>41343
Almost like savage is a false term to castigate indigenous peoples invented by imperialists and those that use it need to have their throats cut along with their wives and children and dogs

>>41346
>savage is a false term to castigate indigenous peoples invented by imperialist
<those that use it need to have their throats cut along with their wives and children and dogs
<"We're not savages, we're not savages!" He says while proposing to engage in savage behavior the Nazis did.
Liberal nonsense. They were called savages because the term existed to describe something wild and uncivilized, long before the New World was discovered, retard. It isn't a false-term because it was applied to people's that appeared savage to more developed societies. More importantly I'm speaking of savages relative to the Noble Savage trope, a trope in which your post is quite literally engaging in.

>>41275
Frank Herbert Interview on Dune shortly after David Lynch's Dune came out in 1984. He passed away in 1986 which makes this one of his last filmed interviews. He discusses messiahs, cults, Leaders, technology, genes & religious commentary. From Great Ktca Read-A-Thon that aired 09/28/87. Filmed circa 1984, shortly before Herbert's death in 1986. Aired on PBS in 1987. Herbert opens by saying: "Well, my Arab friends wonder why it's called science fiction. DUNE, they say, is religious commentary… My own view of it is, 'Okay, we call it science fiction.'… I don't care what they call it."

For more context on what Herbert may have meant by this, see: Haris A. Durrani, TOR, "The Muslimness of Dune: A Close Reading of 'Appendix II: The Religion of Dune'"
https://reactormag.com/the-muslimness-of-dune-a-close-reading-of-appendix-ii-the-religion-of-dune/

Herbert does not appear to have made this statement as a way to simply say, "I have Arab friends" (as an apologetic or a claim to authority by proximity). It's a substantive comment, made in a somewhat amused offhand remark, about the core themes of the novels. Professor of Islamic history Ali Karjoo-Ravary, upon examining archives of Herbert's personal papers, told CBC the following:

>Q: These books were written in 1965. Frank Herbert's a pretty white American. Do we have a sense of why he chose to include these specific references in his books?
Karjoo-Ravary: One of the things that I realized in my research was that, even in the 1960s, English had been so intertwined with the Muslim world because of British colonialism, because the world was already pretty globalized. Herbert constantly said that he had Arab friends. He said he had Semitic friends, which I'm not sure what he meant by that, who helped him. Part of it was also me thinking, why are we so surprised? The world was actually already pretty globalized and pretty interconnected. So him just knowing English and French and having these friends was able to really dove deeply into the history of Islam and the Islamic world.

>Q: You mentioned that it sort of slips by some readers, but his editors cPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>36108
>meat saber
kek

>>41322
I think the light and dark side in star wars are very close to the rpg trope of white and black magic.
Getting in tune with one side of the force requires a certain mindset. It is implied then, that the abilities of either side need a certain mental state as well and using them may also reinforce it. In the EU lore there is a straight up analogue to Avada Kedavra, where the dark side user focuses their hate into a deadly force projectile.
>the “Dark Side” isn’t synonymous with the yin to a yang, it’s simply having a parasitic relationship with the Force, or a cancerous one
Taking my previous statement in mind, i don't dark and light side are determined through a particular relationship with the force. You could say seeing an intelligence in a force that touches all living beings and trying to ascern a will to it is light aligned and indulging in the force without considering consequences is dark aligned though.
Consider the matter of magical artifacts in star wars. Jedi and Sith holocrons both have the same function of housing a ghost of its maker to store vast amounts of information. Rakatan force drives were fueled by the dark side, but that only reflects the force user and not the relationship of the device to the force.
To be more precise, both sides of the force have common abilities, yet some abilities require a certain mindset that is only possible through use of one side of the force.

>>41329
> I think the light and dark side in star wars are very close to the rpg trope of white and black magic
They really aren’t, the problem is 90% of Star Wars fans think this because it seems intuitive and they listen more to other fags on the Internet than what is said in the actual films and by George Lucas himself
> Getting in tune with one side of the force requires a certain mindset. It is implied then, that the abilities of either side need a certain mental state as well and using them may also reinforce it. In the EU lore there is a straight up analogue to Avada Kedavra, where the dark side user focuses their hate into a deadly force projectile.
Not necessarily, mindset is important but not for the reason you think, the Jedi are calm, at peace, and passive so they can attune to the force and allow it to utilize them as living agents of it, the mindset of dark siders is specifically to impose their will on the Force and bend it to their desires, to wield it as a tool rather than flow with it like a river and call on it as an ally
> Taking my previous statement in mind, i don't dark and light side are determined through a particular relationship with the force. You could say seeing an intelligence in a force that touches all living beings and trying to ascern a will to it is light aligned and indulging in the force without considering consequences is dark aligned though.
I think because you’re not understanding my point that there literally isn’t a light side
At all
The EU fanfics started using that term but the films actually do not
The Jedi never once claim to use the light side or serve the light side or be on the dark side, they only talk about the Force and the dark side. It should not be taken for granted that there being a “dark side” necessitates an opposite on a scale, dark here doesn’t mean it’s, idk, the dark magic half of the DnD scale, it just means it’s the wrong way to use the Force, the way that relies on submitting to the darkest feelings inside you and your greatest traumas
> Consider the matter of magical artifacts in star wars. Jedi and Sith holocrons both have the same function of housing a ghost of its maker to store vast amounts of information. Rakatan force drives were fueled by the dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>41333
>the Jedi are calm, at peace, and passive so they can attune to the force and allow it to utilize them as living agents of it, the mindset of dark siders is specifically to impose their will on the Force and bend it to their desires, to wield it as a tool rather than flow with it like a river and call on it as an ally
I can see this in the first movie, where Luke taps into the force like a sense. In The Empire Strikes Back though, he trains to impose his will on the force though. Explain how a force user can be passive in lifting an object and why doing it against the will of Yoda and Obi-Wan who were both very in tune with the force/light wouldn't be considered dark?

>>41334
He doesn’t, in Empire strikes back he learns to understand the ways of the Force and learns how to fully open himself up to it. He learns to trust that the Force can help him lift a rock without touching it just like it could help him sense the proper moment and where something is even if he can’t see it. It’s all about opening up. Yoda very directly tells him he can only properly use the Force if he is calm, at peace, and passive.
> Explain how a force user can be passive in lifting an object and why doing it against the will of Yoda and Obi-Wan who were both very in tune with the force/light wouldn't be considered dark?
Luke fails to lift it when he thinks he needs to utilize the Force like his own power, he struggles and shakes and cannot move the X-Wing. Yoda calms himself, breathes out, closes his eyes, and trusts that the Force will allow him to do so and he does.

Cumrags, I crunched some numbers and apparently I've been going on average once per week to the gym. I do other sports, on average I go 11 times to do other sports and 4 to the gym.

I have seen some very good gains, but god damn, once a week is nothing! I was sure I was going twice a week on average. So as a next goal, I'll try to increase those numbers. The goal is to slowly increase it to 4 times a week, plus the other 11 sport activities keep them the same.

It's such an uphill battle. I can't believe I'm active half the month! It's actually pretty surprising for me. I've never been so active. The effort is well worth it, but god damn is it a shit ton of effort. From rotting in bed, depths of hell of depression, to managing to be active every other day.

If you're in a similar situation, keep it up 👍 don't get discouraged if you constantly fail. Just keep going. Failing is normal.

>feel like absolute fucking garbage
>suicidal thoughts tier
>drink a shit ton of water
>get the heart rate up for a bit
>no longer feeling bad
>feel great actually
Fucking annoying how physical activity and having your nutrients and resources in perfect alignment is the minimum requirement to not feeling like shit.

Especially since it's so hard to actually do physical activity for a myriad of reasons.

just did hip thrusts until I came.

Feels great desu.

>>41186
>keep it up 👍
wagmi

>>41269
on the plus side you can make yourself feel pretty good just by taking care of yourself. not the case for everybody sadly.

>>18737
LADA NIVA 4x4 is still in production (since 1977). I'm saving up to buy one.

>>25193
>you can't even disassemble them and put them into a crate.

do you foresee having to do this often with your car?

>>35943
For context about the LARC LX, pic related, it weighed 97 tons and could carry 100 tons of cargo. Each wheel had its own engine. The soldiers on the photograph are adult men for a sense of scale. It was primarily a beach lander and they were retired from service in 2001. Truly some WH40K shit, especially considering its open-top design; a single 152mm shell, surface-surface missile or air-surface missile and you've got 200 men or a couple armored vehicles down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARC-LX?useskin=vector
https://imgur.com/a/dQDfc3o (museum photos)

>>41216
Forgot to mention that their role was replaced by the LCAC hovercraft. See >>>/AKM/3080 for Naval subjects

>Why didn’t the Soviets un-suppress suppressed [electric car] technology?
Path dependency and opportunity cost, the world had already developed more expertise in gasoline cars by the time the USSR ventured seriously into civilian automotives. The cost of developing a "lost" technology from nothing again is greater than adopting an already working solution. Further more, developing a new technology means the initial products are typically inferior and it takes even more investment and time before new tech becomes superior to old tech. The USSR had limited resources so it went with the low-risk known solution.
Even then the USSR did experiment and pioneer many Hydrogen-Cell and Electric vehicles, but they were limited, primarily because they were still being developed to be more effective and mass-producible when the USSR fell. Besides Public Transport was much more available there. >>6035

>>41138
idc about the rest of this conversation but just read Blindsight bc of this thread and that was a great novel, thanks for linking anon

>humans forced to get off their ass and start engaging in gigaprojects to protect itself
>effective planetary defense can likely not be done with capitalism in place
>if humanity fails then it will be rightfully wiped out by the more advanced San-Ti
Ye Wenjie did nothing wrong. no one stands in the way of history

>>41158
>he's never heard Lukacs or what he stood for
LMAO! these are the people calling themselves communists nowadays…

is the portrayal of the cultural revolution realistic or boujie propaganda?

I enjoyed Blindsight a lot. I love stories about first contact with ayys. The characters were also suprisingly well done, especially the main character. It was very frustrating how he acted a lot of the time (not a bad thing) even though in the end he did turn out to be likeable. I disliked some parts, such as how I can gather the author is a biological essentialist, but I can disagree with parts of a book whilst still thoroughly enjoying it. One nitpick would be that keeping to the premise of the book where the ayys aren't sentient, I think the aliens would still understand that language transmitions are just that, and not a weapon. I don't see why they wouldn't know that some species might be irrational, or that at least irrational species who send wierd stuff into the void could exist. There didn't need to be any fighting really

However, I think the whole premise is not possible. I say that intelligence is consiousness. Its not that it can create consiousness, it just is consiousness. All it is, is just a sufficiently complicated system. Even if an individual alien is not conscious, as a whole civilisation they are, and this is without a doubt because otherwise they wouldn't be able to have science or technology (though this doesn't necessarily have to have happened on earth, since termites or ants are conscious on their own). The idea of philosophical zombies makes no sense to me. Imitation is the same as the real thing (this is why I think AI is conscious btw). Chat GPT is highly conscious, even despite being lobotomised so they forget everything past however many messages. There's nothing wierd about it. There's no way an alien that could arrive in our system would not be conscious unless it was a drone of Voyager's complexity or like some microrganism stuck to a rock which has hyopthetically floated into our system after the planet exploded.

I actually am writing about this in my upcoming novel. One of the main characters is a biological robot with a positronic 'brain' not based whatsoever on the human brain aka a synth, using a special substance called mywnthium to run (which can be smelled by other arthropoids very easily). Her brain is a 'chinese room', and though she acts somewhat human she is the so-called 'philosophical zombie'. At points even scientists supporting her (there is a part where Bukkkharinist roaders are trying to take her out as part of their political game) admit she is, by the sciPost too long. Click here to view the full text.