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It's a trope, one of many that bounce around in pop art, at this point purely because of tradition. It obviously comes from the concept of a corrupted revolution that was derived from the Russian Revolution and later development of Stalinism.
Sometimes it can be conscious, though. In the 2010s reboot of the Planet of the Apes, the malicious corrupter of the ape revolution is literally named Koba, lol.

>>41839
Dude, the plot and writing of the Micheal Bay-era Transformers films is literally schizophrenic and it doesn't matter since big names like Optimus Prime and Bumblebee always survive each film anyways which is what matters to the (then) kid viewers at the time. I'm a Transformers fan and as soon as the first film came out back in 2007 all of the old-school G1 fans discarded it and were never interested in the entire Bayformers franchise. It's sole "fanbase" were kids who were solely interested in the action, nothing else.
No one actually follows the plot. Every movie literally contradicts the next one right after. People just want their dumb robots fighting each other with racial stereotypes jokes and subliminal pro-pedophillia propaganda mixed in (look up the age of consent scene in one of the Mark Wahlberg Transformers films lmaoooo). Oh and CCP shilling.
While I think Rian Johnson and J. J. Abrams are both hackfrauds, they are capable of writing the basic structure of a saga that is mid at best, stupid at most but I can at least comprehend it.

What writers did the Transformers people even have??? It's always "ancient Transformers-related threat resurfaces from 9 trillion years ago to enact Total Human/Autobot Death, now it's up to the guy from 'He Will Not Divide Us' or that guy who screamed the n-word five times alongside his plucky robot sidekicks and a hot bitch to help him save the day!" simple as'.
Not like that matters now since the new generation of Transformers film is going back to its lighter G1 roots and the last Bayformers did so badly they had to reboot it with the aforementioned.

Also interested in this.

PBS frontline has a lot of good videos, the one I linked is about the Iraq War through the view of the Iraqi people.

I've had mixed success with "The Great Courses" you can find a lot on Youtube and they're easy to pirate if it's not there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjuD_BfSCZM&list=PLdttdG7j6PBaEnfCMPTwWqvicHHWV8vpK

This ones good, some aren't, it really depends on the lecturer they have. Generally, anything before 2005 or so will be higher quality. I find that they are the ideal in terms of engagement required, it's a step above pop-shit or random Youtubers but it's not an audiobook which really demands 100% engagement.

Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology

Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky gave the opening lecture of the course entitled Human Behavioral Biology and explains the basic premise of the course and how he aims to avoid categorical thinking.

Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu

Stanford Department of Biology
http://biology.stanford.edu/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D

>>43412
pseud?

surprisingly good pbs documentary
anyone wants to watch it on https://tv.leftypol.org/?

I just love playing RPG so much. Don't think i've ever had a better power fantasy than it.

how come there no sci-fi general in here

>>43375
Make one, anon. There's nothing stopping you.

>>43238
>they have two brains
That's cool as fuck, I love when fantasy goes a step beyond. Makes the world feel so much more real.

Knights of the Wandering Castle! Its a fun story and honestly not to dense of a read. Read it all in a dayish. Also helps its only 20 chapters so far. It updates by a few pages before its all made into 1 chapter
Webtoons: https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/knights-of-the-wandering-castle/list?title_no=522532
Their own website: https://wanderingcastle.net/#/

>>43149
>actually believing that
you fell for obvious 4chan bait

>>43171
name and shame

>>43176
Oh that was just kiwifarms making shit up. Already debunked.

this one's a classic http://bobandgeorge.com

>>43125
>Read this book that misrepresents and parodies fantasy and science fiction fictionally authored by Hitler!
I already did, and its boring, overrated and poorly written like most attempts at satire.
Not an argument. This nonsense is liberalism that deliberately attempts to project fictional stories onto real life with poor parallels that speak more about the author's closeted vision of the world and others, than the stories being referred to. The very fact that it was meant to mock Conan (among other stories) demonstrates that Spinrad utterly misunderstands what those stories were about, in the same way that reactionaries misunderstand and misrepresent such stories by the same token. In other words that book id further demonstration that liberals and reactionaries are two sides of the same fascist coin.
>inb4 Spinrad and Le Guine said it was about how we should think about our ideas of heroes
Its an entirely West-centric understanding of stories and settings that relies on the fact that fascists appropriate anything they may like, regardless of a literary works actual themes. As a broader example with orcs, this has been discussed to death in the fantasy thread and LOTR thread, wherein both this conception of "orcs as blacks" or other ideas of "orcs being codified others" fails on the grounds that MAGIC and DEITIES exist and concepts of pure evil and good manifest in a literal sense. Only ideologues and idiots would attempt to apply this literally or unironically to real life people. By the same metric as propagated by Spinrad and other liberals you can just as easily make Orcs out to be Nazi allegories, doesn't make it any less idiotic.

So I'm reading dune with this "white savior" shit in mind and imagine my surprise when the atreides aren't even white.

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>>32224
If you include myth in fantasy (you should) then it's the oldest genre that we have surviving examples of and arguably the richest of all literary traditions.

>>43111
>sci-fi is fiction
yes, it's in the name lol
>sci-fi = magic
does not follow from above

sci-fi has fictional science, but it (and its consumer) still assumes the scientific structuring of reality ("physics" in the modern sense). it is a modern disenchanted worldview

magic on the other hand assumes there are forces beyond physics, meaning beyond mere physical manipulation, usually with a will of their own. hence there is a degree of uncertainty that is not due to lack of scientific knowledge or technological development but due to something that the agent can never fully control even in theory. this is still an enchanted view of the world

both can be done well or poorly and both attract many idiots. I have to agree with the other anon about sci-fi and midwits though. magic does not attract midwits for the same reasons anon has given.

I don't know shit about skincare, where should I start?

>>43243
When washing your hands, you should always use it. For showers and baths, it's up to you.

>>43279
exfoliate (clear the skin to varying degrees) and moisturize (use a product with occlusives and humectants in it, and drink water)
sunscreen is essential too. get spf 30 or higher and broad-spectrum and non-comedogenic
there are also treatments for specific skin conditions
examples of exfoliation: washing with soap or body wash, loofahs, pumice stones, facial cleansers, aha or bha chemical peels, foot peel masks
examples of moisturization: anything that calls itself a moisturizer, body lotion, hair products like hair oils and hair masks and some of the ingredients in shampoos and conditioners
ive also seen "foot creams" and "hand creams" that have both exfoliating and moisturizing ingredients. they have urea/carbamide in them since it has special softening qualities against really rough skin. there are high concentration urea creams as well
you could have oily skin or dry skin or different patches of oily and dry. you might have to target them with different products or find a product that claims to work on "combination" skin if you have that

>>43283
for example for oily skin, you might want to exfoliate more and not use an overly oily moisturizer
for dry skin, you want to moisturize more

i use these loofah gloves
theyre pretty cheap
cover them in soap or body wash lather and rub them all over yourself

Scavenger's Reign was great. It's exactly the sort of exploration of a harsh and dangerous alien world which I love, and which is severely underrepresented in visual mediums. Books like this are really common in the sci-fi genre but when it comes to TV or film that fit this kind of genre, all I can really think of is Made in Abyss and this. I think it is something that can only really be done in comics and cartoons, since with live action you'd have to rely so much on CGI and you wouldn't be able to do it stylistically so it'd end up a mess. Live action alien exploration stories always downplay the aliens.

>>37787
I liked it a lot. Overall its a really good film. I didn't really like the character designs but the rest of the art was great, especially for a Western Animated film of which I am not really into the cinematographic tropes of. A lot of thought was put into the detail. Action scenes were kinnetic and exciting, even though as I said I don't really like the tropes of Western fight scenes. It kind of had a wierd ending which didn't sit well with me though, its kind of like a reverse GitS. But, I don't understand why in all robot films where their minds are directly copied from humans, they are still discriminated. Surely if you are going to have a robot backup activated once you die you'd want them to have the same rights you did. Every single person would have the motivation to give robots equal rights because they are all going to die and become robots anyway one day. I will say the story is not exactly the most original ever, but its good enough.


I legitimately hate Invincible. It's such rubbish. There's no consistent world building, and no themes other than exciting alien superhero vs CIA and good guys!!! I hate superheroes. I also hate smiling friends and South Park so much. How can anyone enjoy that rubbish. I feel sick just trying to watch either of them.

>>42640
>Both, some anime like one piece is extremely mainstream and some other anime like “my little sister can’t be this cute” or whatever it’s called appeals to another kind of audience.
Almost like blanket statements about a whole medium are fucking retarded.

It pains me that Regular Show was cut short. Pains me even more when I remember what happened to JG's second show. It's extremely disheartening that the crew never shared all that openly announced cut content. At least with Regular Show you had to poke around to know they had more plans for Season 8 but it got cut. Quintel came out and talked about Close Enough's episodes getting cut down with half of almost each one in S1 gone. Plus if you pay attention you can see bizarre inconsistencies in those episodes that imply the cut content had been fully animated and removed at the last second without the chance to revise scenes.

After Close Enough I just gave up on new shows entirely. I'm tired of trying. It's hard enough as it is to find something to enjoy, Close Enough was even a little disappointing since it obviously leaned more into Californian writing, but I still stuck with it because I did ultimately enjoy the characters and I wasn't going to drop a JG show. But even when I do find something to enjoy there's always something that fucks it up for me, usually in production.

>>42636
They can't, already sold it to some other distributor, so unless they somehow try and get out of that contract , they don't have a say
also sad that WB, the studio that created and is the homes of the looney tunes, sold off a classic 2d LT film because they have no faith

>>39052
>twismug
More like twi-lewd seriously the fuck was with that facial expression

>>42977
broken link

I still enjoy reading horse words

>>43137
me too occasionally but not looked at it much lately, what you read recently?

>>43142
I caught up with this recently:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/479815/everyday-life-with-guardsmares
I also found this Disco Elysium / Equestria At War crossover:
https://www.fimfiction.net/story/545364/a-day-in-stalliongrad

>>36501
>>36517
>>36519
Been unable to work on this properly for the past half year, but I've begun to make a return to my writing and I with how much of a block this has been for my story's progression I thought I might as well try to get some feedback on some ideas, thoughts and questions I've formulated over this time. Additionally I've ended up having so many ideas that I've begun drafting out several other stories of different settings. One is set in a distant future of a post-apocalyptic world and another two which I'm intending as a sword and sorcery story. For the former the question of language is not an issue, its set on Earth. The latter however are set in fictional worlds and it's a significant challenge.

Tolkien's LOTR, whatever you may think of its themes or story, is a masterful example of world-building, with languages and names that have meaning and entire cultural histories. Part of this understanding is materialism; there are material origins and pressures that change and form languages, so it can't just be random nonsense noises, there needs to be a method to the madness so to speak. But even then the Silmarillion was never completed and was finished post-humously. So how did he organize writing The Hobbit and Lord of The Rings?

That being said, writing out an entire language, world history and environment is a monumental task, and by the time I'd be done writing out a history and languages properly, it would be years and years, not to mention that it takes away from the adventure; If I already know what will happen as I write it out, where's the fun? The adventure? While I would and do want to create a fictional language to support and maintain consistency within my story(s) what I write will be in real world languages like Russian, English or Spanish, this being an example of Translation Convention; in short call a space a spade.

So a major problem is primarily Names and nouns: the names of places/locations like cities and mountains or of objects and people have their origins in cultural development. Tiamat did not get her name because the Mesopotamians thought it sounded cool, it is linked to Ancient words for the sea and . While Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>43212
It's probably gonna peak early then fall off.

>>43221
Cope. I have never seen a player at this age playing this experienced. The guy plays like a 28 year old. You can't possibly fuck that up other than with constant injuries. C7 wasn't that good at all at that age.

I think it's disrespectful to pat the king on the back like he is your buddy. Just give a handshake and a nod.

>>43223
He is a literal cuck lmao

>>43222
Who knows honestly, it's too early to hype him up.

>>42559
It has aged pretty well. The low production values make it more like a stage play in some aspects which gives it kind of a timeless quality. Not every episode is great, with the pulpy ones being really hit or miss (like the space roman episode). But when it's good it's really good.

>>42559
Twilight Zone

>>42565
One of the big strengths is being mostly episodic since it allowed the show to experiment with a lot of different ideas. Serialization has its strengths too, but TV has really moved too much in that direction that it's hard to get stuff like Star Trek or The Twilight Zone that has the opportunity to try a bunch of different ideas and be hit or miss. If you're going to try something more daring and unconventional, you're going to fail some of the time and that's fine. People don't remember these shows for the duds. They remember them for the bangers.

Bell Riots are due in 2024 and Unification of Ireland at some point in the next few years, going by Trek. Anyone remember any other Star Trek Predictions for the 21st century?