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>>48139
It's usually because these types of characters are not just the ones with the coolest gear, but because they're often portrayed as hyper-competent. In Star Wars, the imperials don't just have cool uniforms, they're portrayed as intelligent, orderly and exacting and put such a high value on competence and success that the punishment for incompetence and failure is often death.

Another example of this would be Regill from Wrath of the Righteous. He's a Hellknight and serves as one of your token evil teammates and the game seems to assume that you'd find him appalling, but he's easily one of the most popular characters. Because he's the only one taking the war seriously. He's the only one who seems to want to hold the crusaders to actual military discipline. He's the only one that apparently values competence and results over being a nice guy. His methods are often harsh and brutal, but he can still come across looking really good compared to the circus of clowns you have to deal with elsewhere in the crusade.

I think that for certain libs, strict discipline and military excellence is scary and fascist, but to broad audiences its cool. I think to the average Joe, the strict and harsh leader, but is also extremely competent and an absolute exemplar to his men and would never ask his people to do anything he himself wouldn't do is actually a figure of respect and admiration, not fear and loathing. Darth Vader was a bad guy, no doubt, but it was hard not to have some admiration for him when you see that he personifies the discipline and competence that he demands of his officers and that he leads from the front and frequently gets stuck in with the boys during military engagements.

Yoshitaka Amano by Michael Moorcock

https://www.nippon2007.us/GOH/Moorcock_tribute_to_amano.php

>>48154
>I first became aware of Yoshitaka Amano's work in the early 1980s when he was illustrating and painting the covers for my own Elric books and the Japanese version of Behold the Man. I loved his work, and thought that he, of all artists, had managed to capture the essential spirit of my characters. Many other fine artists, such as James Cawthorn, Michael Whelan, and Robert Gould had depicted them, and I certainly should not wish to minimise their work, but for me Amano captured something no other artist had seen.

>I began to buy books of his work, and was astonished at their variety and beauty. When a company produced a model kit based on one of his Elric paintings, it was the only representation of this character of mine I felt worthy to keep amongst my collection of original Art Nouveau and Art Deco figurines. My only hope is that one day some artist feels an urge to make it in ivory, silver, and brass. It deserves that kind of permanence.
You may not like it, but this is what canon Elric looks like.

>>48155
Also, I kind of get why Moorcock would have had a particular liking for Amano's Elric because I think he's the only original Elric artist that had any respect for the fact that Elric is supposed to be kind of small and thin. His strength comes almost entirely from magic. His natural body is so weak and sickly that his heart can't even continue pumping under its own power if he doesn't get his magical drugs (or a fresh soul from Stormbringer.) The Western artists all made Elric fucking yolked and sometimes Liftric just straight up looked like Conan's albino cousin.

>>48155
>>48156
Yeah, I gotta agree. Amano's Elric is superior.

>>48056
>>48055
A character I'm working on

Feedback appreciated

Are there repository websites less infested with AI than others?
Lately it feels like I'm reading the same thing over and over again, the same fucking expressions, the same OOC non sequitur banter disregarding the situation at hand. And the thing that actually hurts si following fics for a while and noticing the exact moment the author gives up and tasks the bot to keep the story running.

>>48054
>>48055
>>48056
This is magnificent. I was filled with envy in my simplicity when I first read it.
I'll post some of my writing here when my website host is setup.

>>48098
I only have one small and simple short story posted so far. A longer short story is currently in the works.

https://the-flower-is-awaring.statichost.page/

Father was suddenly placed on end of life care. Wrote this two weeks before today:

Late at night,
When the shuffling
Of hands cross
Into the small
Hours, there,
I remember you.

>>47438
I was going to say "what a coincidence, I'm also reading it" but then I realized your post is four months old, so not that much of a coincidence.
Anyway, I'm not that deep into it yet but I'm actually enjoying it immensely. But I tend to like plotless books. I actually find it refreshing how much of the book is just dedicated to drawing out the protagonist's deranged aestheticism. But I can also see why that would put people to sleep.

I thought getting into the classics was just a matter of picking up the books as cheap as possible and reading them at your leisure but apparently you also have to be extra careful that you don't get a shitty translation or low quality edition. Like I found out that the copies of The Count of Monte Cristo and Crime and Punishment I read at my school library were made by some sketchy Mexican publisher that although it sells literature classics at very low prices it also cuts several pages of both books, had several typos and outright censored lots of shit because the translation they got was made during Franco era Spain.
It fucking sucks how people have to pay more to get the REAL book from a proper publisher like if it was some special edition of a video game, completely anti-art.

>>47927
If its classics you want, cant you find them at libraries?

>>47930
The last time I was in my local library they'd gotten rid of half their damn books.

currently reading the glass bead game.

wow… the glass bead game… it's all computer…

The new resident evil movie was pretty good.

good god dude

there's a clear thread between matrix resurrections and digger, in that, they're both deeply cynical movies that turn the camera towards the process of movie making itself, examine it, and find nothing but contempt towards it. i wonder if WB execs really hate themselves this much, i understand getting fooled once into making a brechtian piece on cash grabs pretending to be a belated sequel to matrix, but getting fooled twice into making the same movie? it's so fitting that this is the swansong for WB, there's a merger going through with paramount, just as the ellisons are running around like headless chickens to fill their coffers, which may mean an end to WB as it has existed for decades; and Digger, their swan song.

insane fucking movie.

A Hollywood superstar in a ridiculous getup being paraded around through a preposterous premise stuffed with half-baked socio-political commentary that isn't funny nor insightful by one of the industry's celebrated auteurs. But enough about One Battle After Another

chong's dad in cheech and chong's up in smoke was a pretty accurate and memorable social commentary about the dynamics of square conservative bourgeois parenting

>>48129
I love boosters is an awesome movie that was improved by the fact I saw it on acid. Features a dialectical materialism gun that can "deconstruct" things

>>46999
Lifting is superior to calisthenics and cardio yes, there's a reason people lift.

How do I go from skinny-fat to fit-but-thin? I don't wanna get swole

>>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

>>48136
I wonder how responsible the history channel is for the alt right and wehraboos.

Ya gotta treat video essays as audiobooks. If you're only partially paying attention, bookmark it and listen to music instead until you have the time to listen actively.

Even if I'm listening to a vtuber while playing a game, if I zone out I tab in to pause and rewind.

>>48093
Allistics just sound like that though.

>>48143
If you had your full attention, why would you listen to an audio book?

>>48147
I guess that's a fair point. I listen to them while doing chores for multi-tasking, but that is very clearly splitting my attention, isn't it?
I did check out House of Leaves from my local library recently, which I doubt is possible to faithfully audiobook, so it'll be a good test of how well I can give a text my direct attention.

if you like this shit you are in arrested development and should read/watch any substantial artistic contribution within the last 100 years, i don't care if it's blood meridian or evangelion, it just needs to be anything not made for babies

>>48133
Tadc is not made for babies, it even kinda takes inspo from eva. Its aesthetics give a false idea of what it is.
>>48127
Based, the ending is very strong.

>>48134
It is absolutely made for children. I watched the first 5 minutes and it was nothing but exaggerated over the top emotional signaling like the audience was either supposed to be autistic or 5 years old and still mirroring emotions. To say that its 'aesthetics' give a false idea of what it is is itself a deceptive argument. The plot and intent of the author could be that of the pinacle of the medium, but if it looks and acts like paw patrol or bob the builder, no one is going to watch it all to get to the EoE moment.

>>48134
>Tadc is not made for babies
there's no reason why you can't enjoy it as an adult, but it's definitely intended for teenagers, maybe young adults.

>>48133
>if you like this shit you are in arrested development and should read/watch any substantial artistic contribution within the last 100 years
bro literally an art thot who is into criterion movies recommended tadc to me lol

I just want it on record that I hated Lesbian Space Princess before it was cool

>>47883
I thought this show was about demons killing people for money

>>48028
You'd think that but it's actually about a gay imp fucking an owl

>>47883
>shorts
>~10 minutes
Well that's pretty much a full episode. Like I get they mean it's side-content, but still.

Also it's neat how they differ the scribbles of the stuff added by Stolas and the stuff added by Moxie, like one has cleaner handwriting than the other.

>>48046
It's actually about homestucks finding something else.

I just found out Hogwarts Legacy is one of the best selling video games of all time. Genuinely felt offended, this monument to mediocrity designed by a marketing team should have been burried under 3/10 reviews and condemned to obscurity.

>>47978
>tied with Cyberpunk 2077
holy shit

>>47978
why are you surprised? it's actually kinda weird that it took this long for a triple-A harry potter game to be produced, the demand was there, it was going to be a slamdunk no matter what. it's like THE normie fantasy IP, and a property that allows itself really well to inserting yourself in it. probably people who dont even play video games bought a ps5 to play that shit. also most people just aren't even aware of rowling's online antics, nor are they really interested in trans rights

>>47978
>>47984
boycotts doesn't always work anons

>>48130
that wasn't isn't just a boycott that was passing as usual; that was a boycott by Twitter users and alike aggressively attacking other people for playing the game (including communities with ravenous fans like VTubers), alienating people in general, probably because all modern boycotts were passive beforehand and they "needed" to be forceful this time. in the end failing and again alienating other from there identity politic topic in general.