/hobby/ - Hobby

>>14410
>at the expense of culture and soul (an obvious example may be brutalist architecture, and the iconic geometric style seen in many propaganda posters)
brutalism is amazing, fuck off to your glass towers.

>>14485
I think OP was just presenting that as an accusation by other people.
Is it right to say that socialist art and architecture emphasizes practicality then? Not that that's a bad thing.

>>14487
This.
Just in time, I was taking a while to find the right images… well might as well post my original response:

>>14485
>>14486
I didn't properly say what I meant; I'm actually a fan of brutalism done well (and also that iconic propaganda poster style) but I'm talking about the accusations. You know those cherry-picked run-down cookie-cutter economic blocks of apartments that people like to put in anti-leftist propaganda? Typing "soulless" next to "brutalism" gives no shortage of discussion, despite how beautiful the style can be.

>>14488
I think most people don't give a shit if their house is "ugly and plain" as long as it's sturdy and a decent place to live.
Any other architectural style can be just as "soulless and cultureless" as capitalists claim brutalism is, and hey, some people just like simpler things and styles while, to them, fancier buildings may look disgusting.
(These are some of my thoughts, extremely simplified because I'm sleepy.)

>>14488
>filename 2
Oops, it was in plain sight on the Internet Trash OP.

>>14489
I personally agree fully; I'd happily live in an ugly or plain house so long as I can decorate the inside to my taste. I was raised around a lot of people who cared about how other people's houses looked though, really entitled bourg shit.

>>14411
Too much fat dude. Tried Kenji Lopez’s Mac and cheese once and although delicious, I feel my heart was going to burst if I have another serving. Barbecue is just meat injected with pure carcinogens.

>>14411
I fuckin love jambalaya, buffalo wings, fried chicken and barbeque

>>14416
You're totally right, I have a family mac and cheese recipe that goes back a ways and you can feel it when it hits your bloodstream.

As for BBQ, yeah it's definitely pure carcinogens, but ultimately i feel like it's more justified than dishes like mac and cheese.

Every time you get a craving for food, find a picture of it and post it here and discuss it
I'll start; bean burrito with cheese (and lettuce). I love em

>>14423
This is my favorite food my father made it for special occasions

1k17 Szhatsie

A self propelled laser tank

>>14048
>Soviet was IG irl
everything makes sense now

>>14048
from wikipedia:
>[The laser beam] was created by focusing light through 30 kg of artificial rubies

COMMUNIST
SITH
LASER
TANK

>>1526
>The modernized versions are as powerful as the T-62 or early T-72
This is false, modernized T-55s don't have composite armor.

>>14401
Wait really? I though both Belarusian and Ukrainian T-55 modernized variants have both reactive and composite armor?

Gaumont State Cinema, Kilburn, London, England

Pic related of Senate House in London, in a recent Morning Star article https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/union-demands-non-essential-university-sites-be-shut-down-as-covid-rips-through-london

a better question is: Is art Deco bourgeois?

>>14207
100%

>>14207
It is bourgeois. But is it any good? That's another question. the better question depends on whether you're looking at it from the viewpoint of hobbyist, or from that of a town planner, in my view.

>>14356
Fucking based
I never watched the movie and always felt uncomfortable how much pol liked this movie but lmfao they got project muh jews onto everything

>>14366
>I never watched the movie
Why haven't you seen it? You should, and also watch Zizek's funny commentary on it.

>>14367
The movie is great were can I watch zizeks commentary?

>>14355
I got the feeling that they were satirizing something (that I can't put into words because I'm ESL) at the end of The World's End too.
Has someone else felt like this when watching Hot Fuzz? It's the only one I haven't watched recently so I wouldn't remember if there was anything that could be considered commentary on capitalism.

>>13634
>why would the fire nation develop faster than any other nation, from a materialist standpoint?
Power, like in the physical sense. They can create fire out of thin air, which means they are able to heat things up more effectively. It's the same kind of benefit as having oil. Other benders can only move things around. Firebenders can create energy. They're insanely OP in that respect, even though fire has other limitations that make up for it in most (small scale contexts). Fire can't be used to build anything, and it just doesn't work underwater (unlike airbending which can make bubbles) or if it's too cold for the bender. It's also dangerous in ways that the others aren't. IMO the show did a great job making the elements balanced in a general sense but also giving them massive strengths and weaknesses that shape the whole society.

>water-bending could easily be used to create powerful water turbines
Problem is this is both unintuitive and inefficient. You need people to continuously power these turbines, when in reality you only set up such a thing at a natural source of water. They might be able to reshape rivers to this end, but just having people run the turbines is the same kind of thing as generating power by people riding bicycles. Also for it to scale at all you need to discover electricity.
>and earthbending has the ability to track and unearth great quantities of ore and coal
Only Toph is shown at first to have the tremorsense abilities, although earthbending obviously makes mining easier. Just because you have the resources doesn't mean you have the technology to work them, though. Prior to the development of ironworking, iron was not seen as particularly useful. It's too hard to work without sufficient heat, and usually full of impurities. Without the ability to metalbend, it's probably just not worth the effort for an earthbending culture to figure out advanced metallurgy since they can just send earthbenders into combat, and their "weapon" is just sitting around everywhere. It's sort of like mining asteroids to us. Sure it's possible in theory and it would be very useful, but the difficulty of it compared to the much easier alternatives means there's little incentive to try it.
>as well as the ability toPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>13635
I explained why there is focus on killing by Aang in my posts about the Lion Turtle Deus Ex Machina; They specifically focus on his dilemma of violating his principles of pacifism, and then just give him the ability to make a choice with an asspulled new ability, which isn't something uncommon, but still feels like a bit of a cop-out. This is in the same tier as Goku going Super Saiyan against Frieza, except unlike Energy Bending, that was talked about at length over the Namek Arc, while Energy Bending isn't even mentioned until the final couple episodes, thus we get a feeling of a copout >>2756 >>2810 >>2816 >>2817 >>2822

Additionally, his Avatar State against Ozai was an accidental unlock. A literal plot-device rock hit him in his lightning scar… why didn't toph's massage do that when she pounded his entire back with rocks? Plot. Why was the rock specifically in that spot to hit him? Plot. It's a bullshit move for an otherwise awesome scene.

Finally there is a saying; Pacifism is a coward patting themselves on the back.
It's one thing to be against violence or harm and thus seeking other methods, that is being a gentle soul. But outright refusing to fight seriously and be ready to kill because you're against it and refuse to budge is pathetic negligence. Making the hard decisions and dealing with them is the consequence of having power and leadership, and if you don't you are jeopardizing the lives of everyone behind you.

here is a decent video about the ending of avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip1xe7JFb-g

I guess we might see a resurgence of Avatar stuff with the netflix release of the series

>>13650
> Aang was never going to do it, so him pulling back doesn't sUbVeRt ExPeCTaTiOnS and narratively it's kind of blue-balling or something.
How so?
I actually like the way they did Aang’s ultimate refusal to kill Ozai, it reminded me of Luke’s refusal to kill Vader. Both flew into a blind rage and nearly killed the opponent, however they both realized before the final blow that killing really is a choice and each choose not to. Both Luke and Aang are told to follow a destiny but chose their own instead. I like how it goes down with Aang somewhat more, honestly, since the Avatar State actually DOES mind control people and thus Aang’s refusal to kill had to be strong enough to overpower the combined wills of all avatars that came before him.

>>14082
Guess we are going to see a resurgence in Avatar.
https://ew.com/tv/nickelodeon-expanding-avatar-the-last-airbender-animated-film/
<Nickelodeon is launching Avatar Studios, a new division to create original content spanning animated series and movies based on the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, the network announced Wednesday during ViacomCBS' Investor Day presentation. Original creators and executive producers Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko will lead the studio as co-chief creative officers.
<The first project is already lined up: an animated theatrical film set to begin production this year.
Nick must have been seeing those Netflix numbers and realized what they were sitting on.

>>14373
I can confirm that bumping old threads works. Not everyone browsers the catalog.

>>14376
you could just post nudes :D

>>14380
Porn and memes are the wood chips and fertilizer that help the garden of community grow.

you can't, it's a misnomer because these boards have always been dead

>>14382
wrong

>>14241
Elder Things?

Lovecraft became extremely based and REDpilled later in his life. Kind of a shame he died so young and never got to see the defeat of fascism and all the greatachievements of socialism after WW2

>>14364
The first pic cuts the most based part of the quote
>As for the Republicans – how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

>>14365
Its great to see the redemption arc of your heroes

One of the more unknown snipers of the Red Army, his kill count is 367 (368) nazis.
- https://thesanghakommune.org/2017/02/28/semyon-nomokonov-1900-1973-evenk-soviet-sniper/
- http://soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/snipers/abc/n/nomokonov.htm
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjS-BqYpCwQ
- https://azarovskiy.livejournal.com/631762.html
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Russian TV series about him: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80_2._%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%81

Он мастер снайперской науки
Фашистской нечисти гроза
Какие золотые руки
Какие острые глаза
- (Лебедев – Кумач.)

>>10758
context?

https://leftypedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
The page for World War two on leftypedia wiki is active and in need of improvements and more information and content to flesh out the vast conflict.

Lies must be debunked, crimes exposed and truths/heroics displayed for all to see and know.

>>6422
>The beauty of the Russian spirit. This is why the Nazis were defeated…
Hello vlasovite reactionary cuck. How much did United Russia™ pay you?

>>14338
Tell me more about it
Whats it about etc?

Does it match Patlabor and GITS?

>>14340
Aliens give humans a bunch of mechs and the third world use them to resist first world imperialism. The first world's military hardware becomes "obsolete".

>>14342
Sounds great ill give it a chance

>>14342
>Aliens give humans a bunch of mechs and the third world use them to resist first world imperialism
Looks like a posadist anime, I will try watching it but there's an anime board you know. You should post stuff like that over there next time.