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>>39535
Funniest part is that most of the men are still muscular.

Also inb4 "Muh mutants and Rogue were meant to represent the gay struggle"
Stan Lee literally created the idea of Mutants because he was tired of creating hundreds of backstories for the superpowers his characters had, so it was just "the X-Gene" and it let him create characters more freely… that's it, that was the entire motivation behind the X-Men. And the idea of alienation and wanting to be accepted by society is a universal concept among all people. The flamboyant designs are also just because it was cool, and literally applies to most superheroes in DC and Marvel that have no relation to the X-Men. If gay people identified with it, then good for them, but it wasn't intended to be specific to any one person or group, and people trying to say that are projecting their own political views onto illustrated power-fantasies for children and teens.

IMO Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes is probably the best version of the Avengers. Venxous has a good video series on the individual characters and generally its pretty well made for a capeshit cartoon series.

Also the intro theme slaps.

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>>27897
>SPOILER WARNING: Reactionary faggotry
What a fucking lame ass, liberal Mod edit. That's not even what reactionary means you fucking twats.

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Restoring files

>>47210
i thought parts were good but the whole people are selfish and evil part was mega shit. they could have done an analysis on how insane conspiracy theories parallel reality because people inherently know something is fucked up but rationalize it towards incoherent causes. i thought thats where they were going with it for a moment before they pulled a both sides

>>47218
To be fair, the original Korean movie Save The Green Planet also does this

i just downloaded it i'll watch it later today

it was okay. pretty fun. i knew exactly how it was gonna end tbh. watched with my gf and she didn't see it coming. honestly wish i hadn't, it would definitely be a lot better

>>47212
early yorgos is great

>>47263
Oh hey, thats the guy who wrote Whatever, the famous incelcore novel.

>>47263
Don't know about explicit Zionism but he's famous for being very anti-Islam and also not at all aligned with "liberal values", so giving the prize to him feels amusingly suggestive.

i would like to see more socialist or anti-imperialist fiction but i feel there is too small a market

i have started to read things fall apart by chinua achebe.
does anyone know what igbo clothing looked like in the 19th century? i have a hard time picturing this aspect of the setting and i don't seem to find any good pics

>>47277
What do you think of it? I read that a long time ago in middle school and didn't like it, but I've been meaning to reread it as a middle aged adult.

>>38292
In theory: maybe
In practice: nah, because we are all actively reaching towards that truth anyway again via synthesis. Perennialism in its most extreme form won’t just look at the truth found in ancient scripts, but as reflected in all sorts of ideologies and even in pop-cultural ideas as they are all reflections and shadows of understandings from something above

>>44187
The ironic thing is that there is real spiritual power being projected from all that atheistic Stalin worship

>>44189
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>>38174
> So the only way to reach god is by being an atheist, because this reveals god in his own absence.
Pretty much the logic of Buddhism

just read plato's "cratylus" (380 BCE) and cratylus appears to be the first kabbalist in history, stating that words are composed of elements, which are the letters of which they are composed (directly comparing grammar to arithmetic in the style of gematria), and saying that the true names of things belong to an ancient language that was delivered to man by the gods (this appears to also be socrates' resolve, though he remains inconclusive). in kabbalah, this language is of course hebrew, which set the world in order from the mouth of God (esoterically exposited in the sefer yetzirah, 100 CE).

>>47028
It's a problem outside of shows tbh. Production is being run by Business Majors who think of production of any kind in terms of numbers and spreadsheets divorced from the actual process of production. In Marx's terms you could say they are entirely preoccupied with human labor in the abstract vs concrete labor specific to the actual things being made. They don't actually recognize that people like a show or a pair of boots for the specific work that's put into them that you can see in the details and in the experience of using them. It's all just numbers and spreadsheets to them.

And you are just not gonna easily find people who actually like the genre among the class that showrunners belong to (in most cases) because the appeal of these stories is usually too outside the box or personal. The suits running things usually only care for specific idiosyncratic stuff when it's theirs. It's seemingly very common for these people to be neurodivergent in some way that they can't relate to other people very well. If you are a capitalist that is actually a benefit because it means you won't have as many scruples about exploiting people. But at the same time they recognize these genres and stories are popular and culturally significant (which they care about because it means potentially profit), so you end up with a lot of them seemingly being obsessed but not really "getting it." Look at Peter Thiel's completely nonsensical interpretations of LotR for example. Being that kind of blood sucking vampire alienates you from other people so much that your attempt at understanding popular media ultimately becomes a rorschach test for your own psychosis.

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Why do I live in a world where The Rings of Power, The Wheel of Time and The Witcher all got three seasons, but The Dark Crystlal: Age of Resistance was cancelled after the first season?

>>47195
Covid restrictions made it impossible to make more Dark Crystal. Almost all the puppets require multiple operators working in very close proximity.

>>47195
Puppetry and animatronics are honestly super slept on in contemporary fantasy media. There's economic reasons for it of course (VFX artists aren't unionized like most of Hollywood), but if you actually care about the craft of filmmaking in particular, the more stuff you do in-camera the better it tends to look. The Dark Crystal show did a pretty good job of relying mostly on the puppets and using VFX for touch-ups and certain details like tongue movement to make the characters a bit more animated. Fantasy in particular stands to benefit from more puppetry either for creatures or devices rather than slapping a layer of CGI on everything. It looks a lot more real (because it is actually there in the world and can interact with other things), and they don't have to use tricks like darkening the frame to hide the flaws.

>>47195
i liked it better than the movie. shame it got cancelled

Me personally I fucking HATE Jax. TOTAL GANGLE LOVE! TOTAL RAGATHA LOVE!!!! Jax is an ASSHOLE and I bet he STINKS!!!

Also it reminds me of Berserk somewhat: people stuck in a shit situation and the only thing that can truly help is togetherness.

>>46864

I see. What makes it degen though?
I assume you generally have a negative preception towards shows or any mean of media that fits your definition of bourgeois?

>>46867
It was a joke
I like the show

>>46868

ah. same.

What do you thing about Jax' flashbacka in ep7? Were they fabricated by Caine or were they real? Did he kill someone or was he running away? I personally think the flashbacks are pretty meaningless and his life outside is shitty

>>47009
I have Tyranids as a proper army but haven't played a regular game in years. I mainly play kill team now.

>>47019
wanted to put together a Tau kill team but at my glances they seem to be trying to push Tau into using the kroot or the bug guys as a kill team, which is meh, whatever for me.
Another frustrating thing for me was searching for local groups, my city is pretty decent, has a lot of nerd shops and GW shop and shit so thought this would be easy, right? NOPE. every group in my locale is locked behind some shitty social media site… some have websites, but they're just landing pages trying to push you onto their fake and gay social media pages.
People are so obsessed with social media clout these days it's so pathetic, the only analogy i can think of to this would be like, 'you want to find out about local book clubs and reading groups? sure, we'll tell you all about it but only if you come in to the casino, relevant information will be posted nowhere else but the front of the slot machines at my members only, full credit card and personal details required to sign-up private casino.'
Fuckers.

>>47035
GW used to sell a Tau kill team box that would have been what you are looking for, you can still find rules for it online.
https://ktdash.app/killteams/TAU-PF
But getting ahold of one now might be difficult, maybe you can find decent 3d printed proxies online.
>searching for local groups
I have avoided putting up with this by getting all the minis for smaller scale games and asking friends if they want to play with me. It's easy to get some of your buddies into it, when you can provide all the miniatures yourself, instead of trying to get them to buy a whole 2k points army.

>>47037
Yea, i was told that this team is being phased out of Kill Team, Next year is 25th anniversary of Tau though so i am thinking they might do a bunch of releases and a bit of a narrative push with them. Here's hoping anyway.
I'm going to get some of the little fire warrior guys then maybe a suit to paint for now, at least. Thinking of doing them in camo and such, like some in naval camo, some in green, should look pretty good.
>pic
They are all painted what in the promo's, which is, ehhh not great to begin with but on their website they also put them on white backgrounds (also large portions are always sold out). Why are GW like this? they are a top traded company? Legitimately farcical, someone tell me under what context this is a good way to sell a product, as compared to one of the few non-white examples pictured (still a dogshit colour and not even the same Tau tan colour they make them in their pictures?!

I understand why this company gives people aneurysms now, already.