Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:11 No. 11399
>>11354 I don't remember too well, but when I was in second grade they put me in retard segregation for a day because I would ignore everything the teacher said and stare into the abyss.
Then I guess I did well enough there that they took me out and gave me and IQ test, I got a big number, and then I got put in the 'gifted' program for the rest of my days.
I don't necessarily know if there really is a Bourg element to the 'gifted' program, but it is absolutely an exercise in IQ-based segregation likely with roots in eugenics (if I had to guess)
I would definitely agree that 'gifted' did absolutely nothing to help me nor my fellow students in it in terms of developing intellectual capacity, but the program also did get more resources than the rest of the school:
great efficiency there, eh.
If you were in the program of course, you would get priority if you applied to go on any field trip or outing, which is some real IQ-based caste shit.
I always did pretty shit at half of the gifted stuff anyways and was always really bad with socializing compared to the rest of my 'fellow ubermenschen,' so I'd guess my 'magical big number' was more a side effect of a certain
spectrum if you would.
Or some other manner of non-neurotypical disorder; I would say they should have kept me in 'special' for some help instead of 'gifted,' but I doubt they actually help all that much, and just serve to keep you cordoned away from the normals.
Pic unrel again
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:12 No. 11400
>>11314 Couldn't agree more.
That is an actual design from the man himself for the National Life Insurance Building in 1923-25 that never got built.
The few buildings he designed that weren't suburban houses commissioned by bourgs were truly splendid.
Makes me think how nice it'd be to have Soviet style mass-production of real Prairie stuff, that doesn't abandon FLW's actual style and aesthetic.
Folks here are quick to judge him I feel since he did do mostly suburbanshit for bourgs, but it was his intention to build stuff for working folk.
Just couldn't actually work out that way due to material conditions.
An architect is allowed to be a bit of an idealist damn it.
As long as they're not a fucking NAZI like a certain Herr Speer.
sage for off-topic
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:12 No. 11401
>>11400 Respectable Ted talk anon, I liked it
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:29 No. 11537
>>11440 could have saved it if he hadnt lasered both the control panels and the people with the knowledge to use it. Sadly he is so lazy, complacent and stupid he dooms the whole siuation in seconds
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:44 No. 11657
>>11656 The Boys has installed bugs.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:45 No. 11667
>>11656 Hughie fudged the cameras in the apartment, including the smart TV, I'm not a tech guy but A-Train must have accidently pulled up the footage.
Now, where the real fuck up is, it's pretty damn sloppy to not come back to the apartment, uninstall everything, and delete the footage. They must have known A-Train or literally anybody at Vought would come back and check her apartment out if she would defect, right?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:47 No. 11683
i've seen nazifags unironically agree with stormfront's white genocide speech, just a perfect encapsulation of these people missing the point
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:48 No. 11689
>>11683 Am I the only one who cringed whenever she said race? Not as in the acting or writing is bad, but in character it sounds kind fucked?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:49 No. 11696
>>10810 They got buttmad cause the boys fucked Stormfront in the ass.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:49 No. 11697
>>11683 They actually took it from these rightoids themselves.
>>11689 I think you would have same visceral reaction if any internet nazi said that shit irl.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:51 No. 11707
>>11683 >>11689 at first i thought "oh they fucked up naming her stormfront", then i saw it
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:51 No. 11708
>>11707 I'm honestly really curious how Garth Ennis came to be aware of the oldest neo-nazi forum on the internet—assuming that's what the name is in reference to.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:51 No. 11711
>>11667 Still, why would the footage be saved on her tv? I thought it the boys tapped it on their laptop, why would it move from laptop to tv? Also, in the beginning, why would Vought seek to compensate Hughie and not Robin's legal guardians like her family which we don't hear of at all? He's just her boyfriend, almost irrelevant legally.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:51 No. 11712
>>11667 >>11656 There was a secret camera teddy bear filming everything. Nobody noticed it.
Hughie was fucking with the security webcams. Not the teddybear.
>>11440 I think yes, he could've, but as you say, he was a lazy bastard and fucked shit up.
>>11711 They were bribing Hughie to STFU, not for anything legally. If it were in this reality, I don't even think it would be legally binding, but that doesn't mean lawyers wouldn't pressure you to sign it anyways and threaten you if you break the NDA. Presumably, they also bribed Robin's family, if she had any.
I liked The Boys. I'd definitely recommend it. Curiously, a friend who likes cinema as well as trash avengers movies didn't like The Boys. I don't get why, this is clearly superior to any Avengers trash. For me, one of the best series I've seen this year. Granted I don't watch too many.
The political commentary was usually on point. The second half of the second season progressed a little too quickly, but I think it's fine. I liked it anyways. The characters are great, lots of character development, etc. The political commentary is also really fresh, with fake AOC, Stormfront, fake feminism, etc.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:51 No. 11713
>>11708 i assumed it's pretty common knowledge to anyone who knows american far right politics
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:54 No. 11732
>>11689 >We are in a war for the culture. Seems like a perfect encapsulation of these annoying suburbanite /pol/yps. "It's not breads and circus if the massive multibillionaire Fortune 500 CEO is a part of the volk."
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:55 No. 11741
>>11712 >Curiously, a friend who likes cinema as well as trash avengers movies didn't like The Boys. It's because the political commentary and the more subtle elements of satire flies over their head, but they know deep down that it takes the absolute shit out their favorites so they dislike it. It's the normie consoomer equivalent to when you try to present /pol/yps actual theory and they react like "you are trying to deceive me with those big Jew codewords!!!"
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:56 No. 11746
>>11741 I mean, I don't think the bit about the "pray the gay away" hero being gay himself is that subtle.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:58:57 No. 11754
>>11732 I like how some time after she said this they took the boy to fucking Vought Land. This is the culture they're "defending". And "bad guys want to hurt just 'cause of what we look like" the irony truly escapes her. Guess this was intended. Watching this show honestly felt like an exercise in seeing how the writers will write themselves out of this, their presence was palpable sometimes, but it was enjoyable nevertheless.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:32 No. 12027
>>11440 He was completely right about trying to catch it not working. It's a common point made about superman, just like catching a falling person somehow being less destructive than hitting the pavement with the same deceleration. Planes are not designed to be caught by somebody. They hold themselves up by the landing gear when on the ground, and you need 3 points of contact there. In order to lift a plane you'd need 3 supermen to grab the plane by each piece of landing gear.
But if he didn't blast the controls they could have just flown it. Modern planes are not hard to fly, and usually just use autopilot. The human pilots are basically there in case the computer can't handle it like with self-driving cars.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:35 No. 12046
>>12042 Commercial jets are literally on autopilot 99% of the time, including landings and takeoffs.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:36 No. 12048
>>12046 That doesn't mean you can just take the stick and wing it. You couldn't have had even protract the landing gear.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:38 No. 12062
>>12042 You can literally teach someone to land a plane through an intercom, Airplane was accurate.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:38 No. 12073
So with Biden winning the election, and the last two seasons building on a Trump-style America, and the third season probably being about totally-not-AOC being a corporate plant, plus the return of Soldier Boy being a disillusioned cynic, this show might accidently hit the zeitgeist again with the third season.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:40 No. 12085
>>10826 Ugh, my homeric epics. This is what they took from me? :^)
>>10827 In that sense, Moore is just an old grouch that can't own that he and Miller wrote two of the 80s best superhero comics. (Also, have anyone seen
Born in Flames ? The technique in
The Dark Knight of having this tv news inserts seems to be have been inspired of that film.)
>>10952 >Capitalism finding a way to recuperate critiques at its most sublime. No, it's just esthetic.
Alos, brands aren't anything mystical. Just because someone is having a product etc it is not a religion. If you think it's a religion, it sounds like you're sad that the old religion has fallen aside.
And the origins of brands is just a function of larger societies. Back in the old days, you hanged your wares outside the shop. A broom maker a broom. A cobbler a boot and so on. And from that it's easy to make a metallic or wooden representation of the goods. And this was in a society where you could know pretty much everyone in the manufacturing process.
But when you can't do it, it's important that you have a brand that guarantees that the quality will be even.
Therefore, hanging goods outside the store or having a brand is nothing stranger than a road sign. But who is talking about "road fetihshism" or "reification of roads"?
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:40 No. 12086
>>12085 https://coolerinsights.com/2014/06/transcendental-marketing/ Not the person you are replying to but I think the fetishism of branding is to actually treat brands as some kind of natural phenomenon of society
Right, that's why Apple's electronics is so desired & the branding so well known. Because of the quality is far & beyond anything else out there on the market.
/s
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:40 No. 12089
>>12073 AOC as a corporate plant almost makes me think the writer is a tankie lamo.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 04:59:41 No. 12097
>>12089 More like the writer has eyes.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:00:59 No. 12716
The episode where they kill the whale made me sad.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:14 No. 12784
>>12716 The killing of sea mammals is a bit too edgy for my part, feels a bit like South Park. However the Deep works as a comedic relief imo.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:15 No. 12786
God can you imagine the horny that is going to come from !NOT AOC being the focus of the series…
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:16 No. 12798
>>12784 The Deep in general is handled really well IMO because it's showing what actually happens with the metoo/cancel thing. Those people don't go away, they just become jilted has-beens with a drive to try to redeem themselves and perfect material for groups like scientology. The dying animals is edgy and offputting but I think it helps keep the audience from being endeared to The Deep despite the shit he goes through. It's harder to find someone sympathetic if even when they're at the low point they're still being abusive and causing harm through their negligence.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:30 No. 12916
Honestly surprised that shows like it and "The Expanse" and "Mr Robot" are even on Amazon Prime.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:31 No. 12920
>>12916 Amazon Prime outbid netflix on very specific shows so they can get the prestige. Remember the first major work of alt history of the Golden Age of Television was Amazon Prime…
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:34 No. 12937
>>12916 Apparently Jeff Bezos personally liked The Expanse so he got it for Amazon.
Anonymous Comrade 2020-12-21 (Mon) 05:01:42 No. 13016
The New Mutants is also trying to pull the same thing as The Boys but not as well TBH. A lot of dumb shit in it, though the effects are decent
Anonymous 2021-09-20 (Mon) 21:45:58 No. 19706
Reviving the thread!
Anonymous 2021-09-20 (Mon) 22:34:14 No. 19707
>>13016 >New Mutants I gotta say it bores the fuck out of me. I'm not really into The Boys either but it's still better. There's another similar DC TV series that has Brendon Fraser voicing a Robot containing the imprinted mind and memories of his character - an 80s racecar driver that died in a crash, but the brain got preserved.
Anonymous 2021-09-25 (Sat) 14:46:20 No. 19862
Looks like for season 3 they'll be doubling down on the political implications.
https://twitter.com/TOFilming_EM/status/1398996909944053767 Also, they did some funny song with the A-Train actor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcd-rwe-SEw Gives you some 2005-2010 vibes.
Anonymous 2021-09-25 (Sat) 14:48:44 No. 19863
>>19706 >i'm just watching it for the Homelander, who is my new >LITERALLY ME character That is concerning anon.
>Also if you go to the subreddit, the show is mostly liked by democrats who think that they're some sort of radical leftists. Producers probably fall into that category too. I mean, it's reddit, but they seem to be pretty oblivious to the fact that they also took the shit out of Democratic woke politics. Producers are probably somewhat liberal but they are not too on-the-nose with it. I mean, "AOC" literally turned out to be a master villian.
Anonymous 2021-09-25 (Sat) 15:24:51 No. 19864
>>19706 >Also if you go to the subreddit, the show is mostly liked by democrats who think that they're some sort of radical leftists. Producers probably fall into that category too. Agree with
>>19863 I thought it showcased how rotten and insane capitalism/capitalists is/are, and how powerless people are. It really drove the idea that no leader can really fix capitalism, and no scandal is big enough to make capitalism collapse.
Also that everything is manufactured, from AOC to heroes to wars to public outrages. The AOC bit was really prescient, she hadn't yet betrayed her constituency as blatantly and openly as she does now.
Anonymous 2021-09-25 (Sat) 17:19:10 No. 19866
>>19862 >DEEPER Ted Cruz Lewd.
Anonymous 2021-09-25 (Sat) 17:21:33 No. 19867
I only watched the first season but it was kinda fun
Anonymous 2021-09-26 (Sun) 22:13:13 No. 19914
One thing that bothers me is that they use touch screen phones which i don't know if there are burner phones with touch screens but regular android/iPhone phones would expose their location easily to a corporation of super heros.
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