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>>48180
idk, it looks good to me?

>>48180
I guess, but the first one just looks unfinished, doesn't it? Sure, it's messy, but i just don't think comic books would "die" because of this.

>>48181
>>48182
nah dudes (are you two different dudes? are you twins separated at birth??), the original comic has purposefully lush, bright, simple colors. whether or not you think it looks good, it's clearly done the way it is for a reason. someone decided it needed to look like every short-lived late 90s creator-owned comic about an anti-hero named some shit like "killfucker". i won't stand for it!!
now obviously, i'm using hyperbole by saying this is the one reason that comics got worse. but overuse of digital gradients is prominent today and looks bad 90% of the time. in addition to that it's just the disrespect for a classic, the disregard for detail and
restraint and careful choices, the need to flatten something original and distinctive to fit in with what's "modern", and lastly the fact that the only reason this was done at all was to squeeze more money out of a comic that wasn't even that old and did not need to be republished in a shiny all-new edition, let alone "retouched"
(as for the original looking "unfinished": the bottom layers are gradually less colored than the top as a deliberate effect. this isn't clear out of context but it's clearer when you look at other panels from the comic which don't make use of this effect. the point is to highlight, for that specific scene, the feeling of altitude)
but fine, i'll say the most pertinent reason, since society is too cowardly to admit it: this is racism against the french

>>48183
Hey, now i get your reasoning, but i still would have to disagree (also yeah, we're twins, the other guy is sitting right next to me)
As you pointed out, the color pallette became alot less original (which is self-evident) but i'm not sure if it makes sense to even re-release the original comic as it is. People that like this original style will read the classic, but the new comic will be more understandable (in terms of the styling choice atleast) for a broader audience, you could argue that it looks worse, but id say its just less original, such safe colors are more popular (they wouldn't put them in all the "darker" comic books if it didn't sell). And before you say that its the lack of originality killing the comic books, i'll disagree in advance. It was alot harder at the time to make comics, but now, since anyone able to draw can publish there is no lack in colorful experiments, you just have to look for something less popular.

>>48180
aren't urban environs supposed to look like that

Make sharp my intent, murder, that
This knife slither amongst thy blood
And empty it of life; come, I'll see thee
Though thoust seest not. I'll right
The wrong and upon gallows stand,
Delivering thee unto hell and with
The devils hang

Weakest writing of the character yet, the first line doesn't do justice to the feeling but I need to get written thoughts on this.

>>48209
Perhaps "Sharpen my intent" works better, as it removes the inane

>>48209
>>48210
And "the devils" sounds weaker as it loses all force.

The overall passage could be rewritten but I've got no readers, and hence, no writing

>>48212
>>48210
>>48209
Finished:

Sharpen my intent, murder, that
This knife slither amongst thy blood
And empty it of life; come, I'll see thee
Though thoust seest not. I'll right
The wrong and upon gallows stand,
Delivering thee unto hell and with
Devils hang

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>>46123
>I don't write fanfic lore friendly I just do it as a take on the ideas of the setting.
For the best. Star wars is unfortunately a bourgeois dystopia on the level of the cyberpunk genre. As well as having an idealist, un-dialectical worldview, if we take Lucas "latest view" on it.

Plus, it not like the actual writers heading the star wars franchise, don't do the same thing for the content they produce. But the setting is conceptually intoxicating.

>>46112
>bounty hunter
petit bourgeois occupation. The Swtor MMO actually pulls no punches in showing how scummy the actual job being a bounty hunter would be, in said name's class story narrative. Commodification of killing and capturing people for the state, criminal elements, and capital. It's not a proletarian friendly occupation.

Anakin Was Right About Democracy
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Pretty good so far, another banger on Glitch's belt.

It was good and I can't wait for the whole thing to be released. But it just made me think, why can't Western animation do spacial consistency. Like it feels like the world does not really have distance and the characters just bend the rules of reality to get places. Most western animation has this kind of consistency / pacing issue. But yeah it was great.

>>46659
I hadn't the words for this until you said it, but I think you're right. With anime you sometimes get a lot more liminal / en-route scenes, like stuff is still happening but they aren't teleporting just to The Place Where The Next Thing Happens as often.

>>46659
>But it just made me think, why can't Western animation do spacial consistency. Like it feels like the world does not really have distance and the characters just bend the rules of reality to get places.
I've noticed that a lot, especially in GoT. Like in the 5th season one character makes a trip of thousands of miles in a sailing ship in a matter of days. Recently in alien earth similar disregard is shown for the time it takes to travel. The general tendency just seems to be "whatever the plot needs."

Imo it's part of a much larger writing problem that seems to be effecting media where little or no thought is paid to how things actually work or why. The only consideration seems to be how spectacular or melodramatic a particular scene might be in the moment.

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Harakiri, great anti samurai film from Kurosawa, about class tensions, historical revision, and how the fuedal samurai class has always used concepts like "honor" to whitewash its crimes and blatant sadism.

>>48169
Harakiri was directed by Kobayashi, not Kurosawa.

>>48170

im so fucking retarded

>>48151
Finally got around to seeing this one after I read your post about the dialectics gun. After seeing boots advertise and engage on Twitter I guess I thought it would be… more complex and serious? Idk, it was a fun romp with lefty ideology all throughout, but it seemed to be doing too much all at the same time and was playing into the chaos quite a bit whenever the current gag or scene had played itself. Like the anxiety ball metaphor or the eating souls through pussy or the evil skinless democrats. All interesting bits, but they seemed superimposed over a different movie.

boots riley is mega overrated, and digger targets exactly the kind of movies boots riley makes. i didn't watch "i love boosters" but wasn't "sorry to bother you" a bit too much like fossil fools? tons of movies are going to be seen as fossil fools. digger really is a sucker punch.

>>48188
if genuine, i was mistaken and i wish you all the best, good luck
>>48189
if a work's thesis is self-absorbed as to scold me for its lowest common denominator mistaking its
>accidental
genius for something it thinks it wasn't (as of an hour ago), why would i bother appreciating it at anything other than that lowest denominator, i.e. a child? that's my point, not that it's a bad kid's show- i think it's actually a really good one- but that it's more samurai jack than cowboy bebop. i also disagree with evangelion being some sort of accident in that it set its pins up in much straighter lines to knock each other over, but that's besides the point

>>48194
> why would i bother appreciating it at anything other than that lowest denominator, i.e. a child?
this is an odd way to look at any piece of art, i guess it would be functionalist? why would i bother thinking about, like carpet or furniture, beyond what it literally presents itself as. it really just needs to match my curtains. anything that escapes its stated utility is either pretension or a contrivance. baroque? nonsense. who cares if a sofa has an engraved architrave inspired by elizabethan period, it's just a couch, stupid. you're meant to sit on it. that's one way to look at things i suppose.

>>48196
>this is an odd way to look at any piece of art
if the art doesn't want me to look at it that way, it shouldn't spend so much time engaging what it treats as childlike interpretations. it's the same mantra as "all art is political"- i CAN look at the teletubbies and wonder "are the writers portraying the benefits of a non-nuclear model of childcare in having the tubbies largely exist as equals? or do the nuances of their relationship reveal cultural carryovers, e.g. tinky winky as a masculine-coded authority?", but i'd be wasting my time because inference can only go so far w/o intention, the nucleus of all art
>i guess it would be functionalist?
which is different to this in that i don't think the creator REGARDS their work as being for children, but still feels compelled to argue with them? imagine; melfi, in her conversation with kupferberg about tony, going
>… maybe my tony and his soprano really are inseparable!
it'd be idiotic, right? after all that effort showing you that evil can't be compartmentalized, our understanding of sociopathy has been prescribed from one guy to… two guys. imagine; as achilles grants king priam hector's body, he says
>heh, i'm such a big softie deep down!
… sure, it's still depth, but it completely flattens not just achilles, agammemnon, etc., but the entire conflict's subtext of the greek understandings of good war being a mutually ruinous facade in it's "civilization", imagine; schierke sits down with the beast of darkness and says
>geez, this femto guy seems powerful! i don't think we should fight him, guts!
… on one hand, powerscaling mouth-breathers now understand that guts is not kratos killing ares. on the other hand, the story now has gow1's depth- sorry, were you more interested in why guts thinks he isn't death-marching himself into the palm of the godhand? does he care? is he motivated by something else? do other, more healthy motivations exist around him? is femto even the man he wants to kill anymore? fuck, why not make them 3 distinct characters in a hotline miami-esque dream to tell the audience he isn't gay and that he just fucking hates being a cripple

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>>48199
>it's the same mantra as "all art is political"- i CAN look at the teletubbies and wonder "are the writers portraying the benefits of a non-nuclear model of childcare in having the tubbies largely exist as equals? or do the nuances of their relationship reveal cultural carryovers, e.g. tinky winky as a masculine-coded authority?"
i think if the teletubbies suddenly had an episode where like poopie or whatever breaks down and starts an hour-lenght confessional, then that'd be worthy of examining, sure. not sure how you'd pull that off but even as a "honey and blood". kinda disasterpiece then it would be fun to analyze it. besides that, TADC is not made for literal toddlers, but teens and preteens who would be going through a at least some emotions of inadequacy, particularly if you identify as queer. adults can relate because they were teenagers once and can feel emotionally moved too. you'd think this was obvious! gooseworks is doing something bold, sure, but it's not doing something not intended for kids, rather she's elevating a children's cartoon, which seems respectable to me. you're just looking through a tight lens which requires assuming teens cant feel complex emotion AND that cartoons are meant to just be silly or exciting. which is, well, an odd way to look at things.

> if it's gotten lost in translation
it did, i'm afraid, what the fuck was that

as an aside, teletubbies is worth examining because it champions a particular style of pedagogy that is now largely discredited, it was meant to teach children how to speak but it turns out them bumbling and repeating words like imbeciles was actually counterproductive. does this it at least not strike you as fun trivia to tell your friends?

>>42448
Given that the Fremen are semi nomadic peoples they have similar interactions to the Taureg and Berbers irl over similar distances. Thats plenty of isolation to develop distinct phenotypes over distant, especially given the high selective pressure in such an environment.
15 thousand years is plenty time to develop "special adaptations" such as quicker blood clothing to prevent moisture loss given that such variation is already present in todays population and it just a question of selection and duplication of genes, which happens fairly quickly in an environmentally highly selective environment.

Also who care. Why aren't you talking about the erasure of the identity of the harkonnens.

>>42449
>Also who care. Why aren't you talking about the erasure of the identity of the harkonnens.

Ugh, the F*nns…

>>42449
>Also who care. Why aren't you talking about the erasure of the identity of the harkonnens.
I can. It makes the lineage stuff bizarre. If Jessica is half Harkonnen what happened to all the freaky Harkonnen traits? In the book they are redheads and she is a redhead. She's more closely related to the Baron than Feyd is lol. I guess because the rest of the characters didn't really get much attention on planetary adaptation, they went to the extreme with the Harkonnens (also because they're bad guys and making them more inhuman works for that purpose).

>Thats plenty of isolation to develop distinct phenotypes over distant
Yeah that's what I said. It's just a matter of degree. Arrakis doesn't have that much variation in environment compared to Earth. You would expect a lot more diversity on Caladan since the wetter climate allows more diverse environments. House Atreides is relatively diverse compared to the rest of the Imperium, but not compared to the Fremen. Giedi Prime being homogeneous pod people makes the most sense given they live in a mostly artificial environment. Being super fair skinned and fair haired fits with that in the original version too, but keeps them less alien.

paul is sort of like trump if u think about it

>Chani is involved in the assassination plot
Fucking dropped.

I actually defended a good deal of the Villeneuve Dune films, but this is completely jumping the shark. I can't believe he actually doubled down on the stupid fucking atheist Fremen plot and the butchering of Chani's character.

>>46852
>you should spread put your meals over the course of day to maximalise musle growth?
That's a thing for pro body builders. Past a certain point of swoleness your muscles will start to break down if you go for a few hours without food. This isn't even really an issue if you are still mega swole but not extremely low body fat. For anybody but pro BB this isn't really that useful for retaining/building mass though *technically* I think spreading meals out more is generally good for you (but so is intermittent fasting). For the average person trying to maximize gains you probably get better results by eating (more) around the time you train.

>>46999
Lifting is better for muscle growth than calisthenics because you can train with higher weight, but calisthenics are fine if your goal is to do cardio/endurance strength. As for pulling vs pushing and losing weight you probably notice a tighter chest because of less body fat. Pulling won't make your pecs bigger, but you will have more of your chest shaped by pecs if you lose body fat there.

>>47000
>Lifting is superior to calisthenics and cardio yes
None is superior to the others in general, they all do different things and ideally people would combine them all. Lifting weight maximizes your ability to gain muscle and raw strength. Calisthenics is good for mobility, stability, and some light cardio and supporting strength. Cardio is cardio - it's good for your cardiovascular system and is often neglected because the results aren't visible.

>>47302
Nobody ever accidentally put on "too much" muscle mass. Just do some kind of training regularly, whatever you find appealing enough to do consistently. The only things you need to avoid are caloric surplus and progressive overload. Weight loss is more a diet thing than a training one.

Hey swoletariats, I'm trying to lose weight again after like 3 years of gaining shitton of weight. Back then I used to rely a whole lot on soylent to curb cravings between meals, 300 cal gave me roughly 3 or 4 hours of being hungerfree, which was a good tradeoff, but apparently the soy memes and seed oil obsession killed that brand dead, so I'm wondering if you know of a good meal replacement to make up for it? I need something that is 300cal or less per portion, dairy-ish flavor profile to curve sweet tooth, and something that is not just a protein drink because they make me feel icky if i have too many of them. not oatmeal because i already eat too much and more of it will give me the runs, and something that is dairy free, but bonus points if it's able to thicken like soylent. should i just bite the bullet and get slimfast

>>48150
With the number of requirements you have. I’d think you’d be the best judge of it. Costco protein bars are great. Gold standard chocolate whey protein is the all time standard. Or just do OMAD after a 3 day fast and come to terms with your addiction.

>>46999
You can definitely get jacked doing calisthenics, you probably had poor form.