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Thread for talking about webcomics. Share your favs, discuss latest updates.

I recently discovered "basket of guts"
https://basketsofguts.thecomicseries.com/comics/1#content-start
A story about a lich that comes out of his crypt for world domination and find the world evolved and then quickly end on the run from a "modern" state security services.
Really liking it so far. Good mix of genres, starting from a standard fantasy world and instead of freezing it in time add societal and technomagical development. Also I find it pretty funny. Not everything translated yet sadly.

its on leftypol that I discovered Out Of Placers (apparently created by a furry artist, which explain the horniness)
https://www.valsalia.com/
Pretty interesting world building.

Finished since quite a while but at the time followed schlock mercenary. Goofy SF about a mercenary company.

On a more smutty side, I like alfie by incase.

For the non storyline webcomics, existential comics, oglaf and SMBC are my favs.
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>>46688
>Is there specifically blanchardism in it

Lol no

>>46688
it's agp in the sense that there's fetishistic narrative focus on the female body as something arousing to inhabit, and there are several characters that get sexually excited by inhabiting female bodies

>>46700
I mean that'd be like calling OniMai blanchardist.

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>>42955
Some cosmic horror webcomics

>>46700
That's retarded my man and sounds like it was cooked up by radfems that think hating being a woman is the essential female experience.



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So you might be looking at the name of this thread and thinking Language learning as a hobby? Why yes, this thread is to be dedicated to those that are learning a new language as a hobby.

Not only this but to provide resources for those that wanna get help with their progress and just talk about their language learning journey.
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>>45746
Expedition 33

anyone has resources on burmese?

>>46906
found this

>>46393
sexo??

>>46393
Toxic yuri



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Any puroresu fans here?
Puroresu is Japanese pro-wrestling. I realize there's a /wooo/ thread but puroresu is quite different than WWE or pro-wrestling you might encounter here in the US. It strives for a more sports-like feel and tells stories in the ring rather than people talking at each other or doing stupid antics. It's still fake (and people watching know it's fake), but it tends to be faster and harder hitting. It's also a lot less commercialized - you pay to watch online and there aren't any commercials.
The top two puroresu companies in Japan right now are New Japan Pro-Wrestling and its sister company STARDOM (which is women's wrestling). For my money, STARDOM is actually the best pro-wrestling company in the world to watch right now, as it tells the best stories, has the most compelling talents, and puts on consistently entertaining shows.
The main picrel is Zack Sabre Jr., who is the World Heavyweight Champion of New Japan. He's British. I chose him because he's also an outspoken socialist. The other picrel is Saya Kamitani, the World of Stardom Champion and *the* best person in all of pro-wrestling to watch at the moment.

Zack Sabre Jr. vs Bryan Danielson
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9gktyw

Saya Kamitani vs Tam Nakano
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9im4so

A few other favorite (modern) matches of mine:
Utami Hayashishita vs Syuri
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CvvdjXWPvY

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I just wanted to continue this post a bit, to explain part of why I'm promoting pro-wrestling.
As an aside, picrel is a Japanese wrestler named Veny. Veny is a trans woman and both quite popular and successful on the Japanese pro-wrestling scene at the moment.
Now, I think pro-wrestling has a lot to offer from a leftist perspective. Which sounds absurd, given that its original audience was redneck hicks, but hear me out.
Pro-wrestling is the antithesis of MMA in many ways. In MMA, you can be the meanest, most selfish fuck ever to step on the mat and, so long as you're stronger than everyone else, people just have to take it and accept you as a winner and sing your praises. At its core, it's a very right-wing sport. Winning is all that matters in the end.
Pro-wrestling, on the other hand, is a storytelling medium. In the past, it was full of men who looked out for themselves but the mentality has changed for the most part - those types gravitate towards MMA. Instead, pro-wrestlers largely understand that they are a team. While in MMA you are competing against your opponent, in pro-wrestling you are actually working together to put on a show where it *appears* you are in competition. Whether you win or lose personally is less important than whether the match you put on is entertaining and tells a good story. You're not doing it for yourself or your own self-aggrandizement, but rather for the sake of the fans who made an effort to come see you.
And it's the stories that matter. In my earlier example, in MMA the bad guy wins if he's stronger. In pro-wrestling, being the good guy matters. What everyone is waiting for is the good guy who will finally beat the bad guy and finally put him in his place like he deserves. There is a hopefulness about it, and hope is central to the human experience because without hope of victory there is rarely anything to drive people to make things better in the first place.
Interestingly enough, despite pro-wrestling having a reputation as being a right-wing form of entertainment (despite that not having any mooring in reality - studies have shown most pro-wrestling fans are left leaning - https://www.businessinsider.com/politics-sports-you-like-2013-3 - look at the bottom of the chart), many pro-wrestlers are actually left-wing, including here in the US. The champion in New Japan at the moment opePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Grovit, anyone?

Coach in the video was involved in a Japanese promotion called "Bushido " in the early 90's. Just about the realist fake wrestling ever, if that makes sense. I remember watching it on cable via a top box on my telly.
Carl Beijer has written a load of stuff about pro-wrestling. I'll look for a link and see if there's any that isn't paywalled.

>>46491 (me)
Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man https://share.google/I7Oe18lRPP56bU3Io

>>46491
>Coach in the video was involved in a Japanese promotion called "Bushido " in the early 90's. Just about the realist fake wrestling ever, if that makes sense.
90's Japanese pro-wrestling was where it was at, really. Hard hitting and not nearly as "fake" as it is now.
Of course, there was a lot of scumminess too.
>>46492
>Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man https://share.google/I7Oe18lRPP56bU3Io
No argument there.
He showed up for one last show earlier this year, right before the LA fires.
He was booed, hard. And he was booed because most pro-wrestling fans hate the guy for who he is because he reflects a view of the world many wrestling fans do not embrace.
https://www.wrestlezone.com/news/1572477-jimmy-hart-hulk-hogan-was-devastated-over-being-booed-at-wwe-raw

I love that for him.

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>Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man
Now he's a very dead man

>AAAAAAAAHHHH!!! IT'S NOT COLD!!!



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So i remember a while back, while i was lurking, that we had a language learning thread here too.

Personally i think it is better suited in /edu/ but i understand how it is a hobby for some folk too, so here is the thread.

https://leftypol.org/edu/res/25414.html

>>46853
we still have it >>32096



 

Whilst we are waiting for episode seven, i see no reason why we should not discuss what we have seen already.

I personally enjoyed the show, and the symbolism of how the characters personalities in relation to their bodies was quite interesting.
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>>46863
If it is done by a bourgeois estudio: bourgeois show. Examples: disney, marvel, sony, madmax
If it is done by a smaller studio: petit bourgeois show.
Examples: TADC, Ghibli, Dead Cells (coops are bourgeois), hazbin hotel
If it is done by a nationalized company in a socialist state: proletarian show. Example: squirrel and hedgedog,

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.



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Hey all, I was curious at to what you guys think about the SCP Foundation shared universe.
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>>42516
>usually

spidercels rise up! reject maneater thots!

>>24698
This guy has a shitton of animations. Their Statue of Liberty stuff is prime for communist meme edits btw.

>>19013
>SCP-ОТ ВИНТА! | (049 | MEME | ANIMATIC)
>by Makart

does anyone here like 001 three little piggies or whatever its called and similar absurdist scps/articles

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SCP-9835 aka Fat Vomiting Man



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So I know pretty much nothing about working on cars because I'm a fag, the most I've ever done is change a tire. But the brake light came on the dashboard in my Toyota Highlander a few days ago and I took it to a brake shop who did a free inspection but quoted me $1500 for a brake job, so I decided to finally learn how to do this shit myself. The mechanic told me the rotors needs replacing but I looked at them and they seem perfectly fine to me and I haven't felt any wobbling or anything when braking, so I think it just needs new pads and brake fluid. I watched a couple of Youtube videos on how to change brake pads and brake fluid and I ordered a set of brake pads for my car from RockAuto for about $50 and a brake bleed kit from Amazon for $20 and I bought a quart of DOT3 brake fluid from a local Dollar General for $10. I have sets of metric wrenches and sockets from working on bicycles years ago and my neighbor has a floorjack and jackstands I can borrow so I think I have everything I need. I know to not let air bubbles into the brake line and to not put any stress on the brake line when taking off the caliper, is there anything else I should know? I don't want to screw this up and end up killing myself driving my car later.
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some brake pads are a pain in the ass to change, others less so. look and see if there is a forum dedicated to your brand of car, and also videos as the other anon suggest
I have a Citroën, so everything runs on the one hydraulic system, which is self-de-airing. I'm also friends with a Citroën nerd which comes in handy. I let him keep his cars on my yard in exchange for him helping me every now and then
I managed to diagnose some ABS problems this year, which turned out to be electrical. fixed some wiring and installed a bypass switch for connecting the ABS light to the airbag light so that the car would pass inspect while I wait for parts
do try to find as much documentation on your car as possible. for mine I got several GB of documents from my buddy, which includes
>workshop manual
>full electrical schematics in French >_<
>Haynes manual
>a bajillion archived websites with information
$1500 sounds excessive for the work involved in just fixing the brakes. I paid $900 to have the wheel bearings changed on my car and that's a way bigger job

>>46783
>forgetting to loose deez nuts before jacking up the car
classic

Update: I changed the pads and brake fluid and went for a test drive and everything seems to be in order. It was a lot of fucking work and I cut myself several times but it only cost me about $80. I don't have an impact driver nor sockets that fit the lugnuts so I had to use the horrible miniature tire iron that comes with the car to take all the wheels off and put them back on. The most annoying part was pushing the pistons back into the calipers because I don't have C-clamps so I had to use crappy squeeze clamps which really sucked. I also forgot to loosen the lugnuts before jacking up the car and had to try again. I think I've forgotten to do that every single time I've ever jacked up a car.

hoping to pay my dad a visit soon so I can borrow his garage and change the ABS sensor on my car

>>46795

I miss being able to steal tools from my dad.



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Old thread (v1): https://leftypol.org/hobby/res/7136.html

The practice and principles of Permaculture are one of the most important tools for not only creating a sustainable socialism, but also for repairing the damage done to the global ecosystem by capitalism, and lessening your individual reliance on the current capitalist system.Permacultural practice and socialism are two very powerful allies, and learning about permaculture should be necessity for modern socialists and communists.
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<Cabbage Leaf Epicuticular Wax Deters Female Oviposition and Larval Feeding of Pieris rapae

>The small white butterfly Pieris rapae is a major pest of brassicaceous crops, causing extensive damage to cabbage Brassica oleraceae[…] Wax removal treatments, in which the leaf surface was rubbed with cotton balls, significantly increased female oviposition and mid-stage (2nd–4th instars) larval feeding compared with untreated (intact) leaves. Spraying treatments with n-nonacosane standard on wax-removed leaves significantly suppressed female oviposition and mid-stage larval feeding[…]This suggests that young larvae are more susceptible to wax feeding inhibition than older larvae and that increasing leaf wax content enhances the resistance of cabbage against P. rapae. Acquiring these traits in cabbage leaves through improved breeding and cultivation methods may reduce and control the oviposition and feeding damage by P. rapae.


https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11937181/

<Environmental Conditions and Agronomical Factors Influencing the Levels of Phytochemicals in Brassica Vegetables Responsible for Nutritional and Sensorial Properties


>Anthocyanins were detected in Brassica vegetables and described by several authors [13,29]. They are present only in bright coloured species and varieties with red, orange and purple pigmentation, such as some kales, purple broccoli, and red and black cabbage[…] In particular, red cabbage possesses eight main types of anthocyanins (for a total of up to 190 mg Cyanidin−3-Glucoside equivalents/100 g of fresh weight) [30]; cyanidin−3-diglucoside is the most represented [31]. In broccoli, more than 17 anthocyanins were detected [29].


https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/4/1927

<PLANT ANTHOCYANIN INSECT FEEDING DETERRENTS


>A few studies have determined that some anthocyanin compounds can reduce insect feeding. Of several anthocyanins tested, we found that delphinidin-3-O-glucoside added to insect diet at 1000 ppm significantly inhibited the growth of fall armyworms and cabbage loope
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>>46753
potato anon here again. picked some today, Timo and Queen Anne. boiling up some of the latter to see if they're good. most of them went in the "to be planted next year" box due to green spots. will harvest more tomorrow, because I still have
>more Queen Anne
>Almond potatoes
>King Edward

>>46763
update: the Queen Annes were good. could maybe have boiled them for a few more minutes

>>46763
brought the almond potatoes to a party which were turned into gratiné and much appreciated by the guests
it's not a lot of potatoes for the amount of work, but the fact that I successfully grew them and that I have seed potatoes for next year is pleasing

I've thought about getting into gardening for myself, I learned some stuff about it as a kid when my family grew a vegetable garden in the backyard for many years. I'm not really clear on what "permaculture" is or what the benefits of it are exactly compared to traditional gardening, but the way I learned to do it was to first start a compost pile, throw lawn clippings in there and use a lawnmower to chop up raked leaves and pine needles and sticks and shit like that throw it in the compost pile as well and mix it around with a stick every few days or so to air it out, then when you have enough compost for the size garden you want go buy/rent a gas roto-tiller and buy bags of composted manure from a farmer's market, 4 parts composted cow shit, 1 part composted chicken shit for extra phosphorus, till a plot mixing your compost and cow and chicken shit with the natural dirt and just plant according to the season, also bury food scraps, egg shells, fish/animal carcasses in the garden, avoid synthetic fertilizers, etc. I don't know if this is the right way to do it but it seemed like it worked pretty well.



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Was she a Stalinist? She sure as hell never did anything wrong.
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>>20454
>Ward is liberal
Wildbow predicted the rise of "titans" who cause the foundations of the world order to crack

Worm was a story about the collapse of liberalism into neofeudalism, as seen in Hurricane Katrina. Its sequel Ward is about how these inhuman tech oligarchs like Elon Musk are far above normal bourgeoisie, just as Porky capitalists are above workers. That's why Glory Girl is so triggered by the idea of titans being way stronger than her where regular people are like "lol its just Thursday for us, relax". This accelerationism trend of wealth accumulation towards the ultra powerful makes the "petite" bourgeois class very offended by the idea that Elon Musk has exponentially more hegemony than they ever will. Taking control over the firmament on which we all stand isn't fair!!!

>“I’m on a brink, and I can’t see it, but I can feel it,” the man said.

>“Try not to think about it,” Rocketround said. “Okay?”
>“I can feel it,” the man said. He wasn’t paying much attention to Rocketround. “All the way down to this vast well, partially filled with potential energy. Like I’m on the lip of a volcano and it’s an impossibly long fall with only magma at the bottom. I don’t know if I’m better off throwing myself down into that or leaving it alone.”
>“Leave it alone,” I said, my voice joining more than one other person’s.
<“What if my thoughts and brain get made into a part of that? One piece in that thing’s construction. What if it makes me immortal, forever a part of this thing? A recording of me in there, how I think, how I do things.”
>“We’ve studied parahumans, powers and power sources a lot,” Roadblock said. “We’re pretty sure that’s not a thing.”
>“Yeah,” the guy in the clearing’s center said. “But…”
>He trailed off.
>“It’s not a thing,” Rocketround’s voice joined Roadblock’s.
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Anyone following his latest story? How is it going?

is stalin canon in the world of pikachu or whatever

>>46727
Only in the first game when the US existed.

>>46726
every niche fiction community has someone that makes most of the daily contributions so you should just ask this question in wildbow's discord server



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Star Wars thread; To discuss, laugh and meme about Star Wars

Don't be a cunt and may the Force be with you


New general since last one hit bump limit.
Previous general:
>>2737
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>>46553
>the Schwartz(tm)
Please say sike

>>46283
>>46294
Apparently they crammed like 4 seasons into one or something lol


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>>46123
So I do this largely forum-based RP and one of the big things there is 'faction' RP, where there's a big emphasis put on geopolitical stuff. Since like 2019 I was doing RP partly as an exercise in social fiction. I also run a character who left the Jedi Order because it was full of idealist pussies and liberals. He has since become Mand'alor and rides a boomer-ass Basilisk droid into battle, it's kino shit.

The Solidarity started as a coalition of Outer Rim spacers, droids, and AGIs who rose out of a massive slave revolt during the Hutts’ collapse. By ~300 ABY, they’ve grown into a hyperstate of around 100,000 planets, running on a centrally planned economy and labor-credit system. Their alliance with the Republic is pragmatic: both need each other against the Sith, but the Republic also keeps ties with the Hutts, who are quietly reviving slavery as debt peonage.

Militarily, the Solidarity fields smaller but far higher-quality forces than their rivals, avoiding clone or droid armies out of principle; they uphold a “joint dictatorship of the organic and synthetic proletariats.” They’ve just finished a war that quadrupled their territory and can’t sustain more fighting, so their focus is political: undermining and delegitimizing the Hutts while preparing their own Force traditions alongside the Jedi.




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