No.14103
Law & Order and similar shit
No.14105
As for vidya, I consider Pokemon a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't see anybody on this site talk about it so I automatically assume I'm alone in liking it. I know the games are shit compared to pretty much any other game and I've hated the franchise since Gen 7, and under this system there's nothing I can do to stop that trainwreck of a series. But I like the monsters and characters, and the setting has so much potential. Which is exactly why I hate it because it's all wasted. Not to mention that they're still selling 2 versions of the same game which in this day and age could be easily replaced by some pokemon randomization per player like what they did with the Friend Safari in XY, but for obvious reasons they'll never do something like this. It's disgusting to see, but I can't help it, I still like Pokemon to an extent. Unfortunately if I tried to hack the games to make them better in any way, and share it with the world, I'd end up in some top secret Game Freak/Nintendo list, after which I'd get sent a C&D letter or worse, men in black would visit my house and physically threaten me so that I stop all "violation of intellectual rights" forever.
No.14109
>>14108It's not things that aren't communist. It's things that are blatantly anti-communist or things that promote the worst ideas of neoliberalism, it's hard to ignore once you start noticing it. Of course, sometimes you're able to enjoy that stuff in an ironic sort of way which is not really a problem when the piece of media in question is just ridiculous or not taken seriously at all. So it depends.
No.14110
>>14099Stranger Things (Either is genuinely anti-communist or plays it up for fun)
Marty Robbins (Wrote an anti-communist song)
Maybe billy joel…? I don't think he is openly political
He toured the USSR and wrote leningrad and we didn't start the fire but I'm not sure there's much politics in them other than just "events and stories that happened to billy joel"
Also maybe Holiday in cambodia, which I am not sure if it's supposed to be making fun of intellectual communist professors or radlibs
I haven't read up on pol pot regime so that's why I'm confused on whether or not he was communist, or the nazi type of """""communist"""'
https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/khmerrouge.html - I found this link about cambodia but I don't know if I can cite it as a real source so I'm unsure if I should read it or not
No.14111
>>14105>>14106You know what really makes me mad is how the supposed anti-reactionaries lefty gamers that usually made fun of right wing gamers turned around and made fun of people who were mad about pokemon sword and shield.
Not gonna lie gamers are crazy consumerists who sometimes send death threats to devs and that deserves to be mocked
But those popular good gamer twitter accounts painted all who thought gamefreaks practices are anti-consumerist, lazy and anti-worker (not hiring enough devs and people to work on the game to make it better and pushing out a product because muh merchandising deadlines) as psychos who threaten developers and are le silly and stupid and equating them with incels who complain about misogynistic gamer shit.
Really made me rethink who was really a leftist and who were just socially leftists.
No.14122
This man, this corsican pimp, this back alley tunisian knife fighter, despite being a Nazi ancap faggot, and not being white at all, made me laugh so much in the past.
His impressions are top notch
https://youtu.be/KyUqrUZmNhAProbably the funniest person to never do comedy imo desu
anarchismAnarchism No.14124
>>14121Sorry moite, the OP said vidya too. Either you move these posts to the new Pokemon thread on /games/ or I repost there what I wrote myself.
No.14131
I like Warhammer 40k for the aesthetics but not the imperium of man one, is this a guilty pleasure, also amon from level of Korra is cool
No.14146
I like power metal. The cheesier, the better.
No.14178
I like this dude, Rob Ager, makes pretty good film analyses and reviews, decent bloke with it, doesn’t have any dumbass film degree but is on par with anyone who does; however he also has a lot of rightoid views, used to be in UKIP, believes in retarded shit like “communist fascism”, and is a goddamned Gold Bug
Can’t say there are many things I like that can even be construed as explicitly anti-communist, however; so many explicitly anti-communist works hail from the 50s and 60s which I’m just not interested in, by the 80s the topic mostly seemed to shift from “Commies bad” to “nuclear war bad”
I guess Threads can be thought of as slightly anti-communist since the Soviets are the aggressors in the war, but the movie is still mostly about the war
I guess Rocky IV would also count as a guilty pleasure of mine that has communists as the antagonists, but again, it wasn’t really about communism imo and they did do something interesting with Drago’s character in Creed II by showing how the fall of the USSR basically ruined his entire life
No.14179
>>14178 (me)
Forgot picrel
No.14186
>>14138I feel like an absolute retard for never connecting 'Contra' and 'contras' until now. Though in fairness I don't like those games, but still.
No.14187
>>14106>30 foot long boulder snake>500 poundsIs it made out of fucking pumice?
No.14202
tbh this site
No.14304
90’s Adam Sadler movies. Even now as an adult I still love them for some reason. Maybe due to shit taste or because they were the only things outside of ghibli movies I got to watch during elementary school. Also I have a soft spot for Kevin James garbage mall cop movie but still hate the sequel.
No.14309
My little pony
No.14310
>>14309Im just kidding ive never even seen it before
I do have a legitimate guilty pleasure in the form of trance music though. Like the upbeat gay shit
No.14370
I'm an ML now but I cant resist shitty punk
It brings back the feelings i had when I was young
Sitting on the cold street smoking and drinking all hope dead back then I was really free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRS9Bz0IH54&ab_channel=HoraceRenardeauvv No.14390
Contrapoints videos and streams
No.14405
>>14390Also unironically enjoy cushvlogs and chapo
No.14407
>>14304Same, although I'd also add on early 2000's Adam Sandler films aswell
No.14412
I have so many guilty pleasures, but my most recent and one of my most guilty is turbofolk. All the lyrics and video are pure evil, but fuck it, Oj Alija, Aljo! is a fucking banger.
No.14419
>>14413I mean I can see why Venezuela was offended by this game but at the same time, it portrays the American oil company as parasites, and later when the USA and China deploy to the country it pretty much shows them both to be equally vultures picking over the corpse of VZ for their own gain. It's hardly a 'murrica fuck yeah' narrative.
No.14421
>>14390>>14405Those are generally objevtively enjoyable
No.14460
>>14131This. Admech and Xenos are peak of coolness. Wish that they had kept some of the old Tyranid designs, crotch maws are cool.
No.15217
>>14108To me the message of the movie was that pleasure-seeking is inherently fascist. So yeah I disagree.
No.15221
>>14099Bond movies. I love spy films and franchises. Unfortunately Bond just happens to be a classic, equally beautiful and blunt imperialist tool.
No.15270
The Riddick movies
No.15273
>>15272>even if he seems pretty conservativeWhy because he didn't join the parade of hacks doing easy Trump jokes the last four years? I've never detected a hint of politics from Norm.
No.15275
creepypastas and other amateur horror from the web varying in quality from hobbyist writers with their own podcasts to random anons. My favorite I've encountered would be
https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com, simple voice narration, his stories can be hit or miss but his good stuff is up there with some of the better short fiction I've read. professionally written horror consistently veers too far into bizarro fiction territory and is usually more preoccupied with developing a c tier narrative rather than any sort of compelling horror premise, someone like Ligotti that still manages to be spooky at a basic level in spite of his aspirations is rare.
No.15284
>>15275>creepypastaswhat's your favourites anon? I used to be really into them some years ago. For me, nothing beats the Goatman one from /x/
No.15287
>>15273I didn't get the impression from his comedy but rather his interviews and tweets. Still, I don't really care because he's hilarious.
No.15296
>>15284goatman might be it honestly. That uncanny feeling he was able to drive into was genuinely transcendent for a creepypasta, the look into black rural culture was a bonus.
No.15299
>>15284Any of the ones dealing with the surreal backwoods parts of the US for me, like people getting lost in corn fields on dirt roads that seem to change direction or goatman
>>15296A mistake a lot of writers make is revealing too much. The key to keeping something creepy is mystery and ambiguity.
No.15309
I enjoy reactionary shit like Yukio Mishima, that kind of grandiose hatred of the world, enjoying your own negativity and (self-)destruction too much, etc., Although I don't feel completely guilty about it in front of others because I think it has some value from a purely artistic standpoint. I'm just afraid people will think I'm an incel, because these days every past work of art that talks about alienation and negativity is now considered to be incel.
What I hide more is my enjoyment of Asian and specifically Chinese art cinema, because I don't want to come off as a fetishist of Asia. I'm just tired of the pretentious yuropean woke realism that takes itself too seriously to play with style.
No.15316
>>14099Wind of change, rockin' in the free world etc.
No.15343
>>14110Joel's a dem and I would guess he's a pretty typical lib on that front, but I get the impression from his songs he's very "people orientated". Even if he thinks the USSR was dumb, he admired the people.
I think wiki even has a story about that time there where one of the lighting people shone a light on the crowd who were visibly uncomfortable, so he stopped the show and went off on that person.
He has working class roots and clearly has an affinity for those people, but by that same token, I take Angry Young Man as firmly anti-revolutionary.
No.15365
I really enjoy those roided-out action movies like Rambo, Commando and Predator. I find that the atrocious fucking politics and blatant propaganda somehow adds to the experience
>>15309>Chinese art cinemaGot any recommendations? I've watched my fair share of Taiwanese and HK stuff but I haven't really seen anything from mainland China.
No.15413
>>14099I once unironically enjoyed "Charlie Wilson's War" before I saw the light!
No.15693
>>15365>Got any recommendations?Jia Zhangke - pretty much everything by him is good. If I had to single out some of them… Platform and The World are good examples of his early style. Ash is Purest White is a good example of his later style and it recycles some cool details from his previous films. The themes of his films are also interesting, they're mostly about globalization, alienation and rapid development after Deng's reforms, protagonists are people from less developed regions or on the edges of society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKj8liAHny4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2TauU6IGQEDiao Yinan - The Wild Goose Lake. He's more style than substance but to me his style is delicious, especially in this last film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2pcumduhDM No.15695
>>15365>I find that the atrocious fucking politics and blatant propaganda somehow adds to the experienceYeah, I enjoy over the top fearmongering about Russia and China from Westerners. They're so passionate and creative. It's like consuming spicy food for the taste alone, without absorbing it into your body.
No.15807
Americans larping as guerrillas doing ppw is hilarious shit and v entertaining, shout out to homefront the game as well
No.15819
>>15807was homefront a fun game because it looks fun
No.15833
>>15806>Conservative At least he did this bit.
https://youtu.be/7YNi11261So No.15849
>>14105I have nostalgia for pokemon, but the gameplay was objectively shit grinding, and the message and content hyper consumerist low effort shit
Gave up on it long time ago, but that opening still gives me goosebumps
No.15851
>>14131>is this a guilty pleasurenot really, the origins of 40k are rooted in punk and counter culture, even if current day evolutions couldn't be farther from it
No.18759
A large portion of Adam Sandler films, although some are straight up unwatchable.
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