Sasha Kishko

@Srirachachau A very very varied penta-.... hexa-.... Series. jabootu.net/?p=2138

Rocky is more of a gritty 70s character study than I’d assumed. Had seen the parodies all my life but when I finally saw it, while it’s certainly an inspirational sports movie, was surprised by like Paulie’s cruelty to Adrian or tender moments like the date at the closed ice rink

@cowboy_postbop "Driving Miss Daisy" isn't about overcoming racism, it's about growing old.

are there other pieces of media with as wide a gap between its assumed vibe and its actual vibe as “Saturday Night Fever”?

@Festtag726 @BunkerDwellerYT You forgot to add /s so everyone thinks you were serious.

@BunkerDwellerYT What's with the unrealistic beauty standards, sexualization and lack of diversity?

To add I think there's a distinct art style for medieval fantasy aesthetics pre-Millennium, compared to how it is now I've seen people attribute this to the LotR films though I'd be curious to know if there are any other influences Just a visual style that we don't have anymore

@DerekPederson3 It's been one wee... less than two years since he fled. Nothing has ended, nothing worked out, we still don't know the actual result is going to be. Basically the equivalent of "see, Trump was elected and the world didn't stop spinning".

People who opposed toppling Assad because of the risk of instability really should concede that they were wrong, and keeping him in power was just far more destabilizing than getting rid of him was.

@MCommandCEO @FightWithMemes Sad that no one will ever see this tweet, because it's a perfect illustration of what "nepo babies" actually means.

@FightWithMemes He doesn't want to create nepo babies which is perfectly valid. He likely isn't in their lives every day to make them in to good people and single mothers are statistically likely to have a bad influence as proven through actual peer reviewed science.

Goldblum is 73. HIs kids are 8 and 6. Having kids at an age where might not even live to support them for very long, then refusing to give them support after your death is... evil. 🫤

@planefag A few anti-war creators have a fully one-sided "war is bad" view of the matter? Good god, how awful. Whatever shall we do with this statistically insignificant deviation? Obviously, we must erased it at once, and all art must be in compliance with our views.

@planefag OMG this view (of war) is so terribly unbalanced. Wow, this spherical cow rolls so well in this vacuum. There is a LOOOOOOOOOOOT of media that glorifies "just" war and those who fight it. And it's notably very hard to make an anti-war films that doesn't make war look cool. (1)

As someone who's been writing military science-fiction for years, and have many friends in or formerly in the military (some of which are authors themselves,) I have something to say about this: If all Yoshiyuki Tomino has to say with his art is that "war is bad," then he should stop making art, as he's only going to waste our time. Any fool with two brain cells to rub together knows that war is ugly, brutal and costly. That doesn't mean war is pointless and should never be fought no matter the circumstances. In fact, such a statement is worse than pointless, as lethal conflict is a common constant of human civilization - and, for that matter, a constant among the vast majority of life existing on Earth, even between bacteria. If all your story does is shout "this is bad!" it's a childish lament that leaves a tremendous amount of this constant of human existence unexamined. Who fights wars - the elites, like the ancient Greek Hoplites, or the knights of the middle ages, or the common men who volunteer, like in many modern nations? What do they fight for - for the ideals of their beloved nation, for honor and glory, or to save the women and children in the city that stands at their backs? What defines a good soldier? What defines a good leader? These questions are just as essential for us as they were for our forefathers, because the world is a tumultuous place full of evil people and great dangers and the time is coming, sooner than many may think, where wars between great powers will shake the foundations of the world and the lives of millions will hang in the balance. To explore questions like this, of such import to our souls, is one of the core reasons people tell stories to begin with. And our tools and machines have always been essential to the conduct of war and the defense of all we hold dear. Men have told stories of talking swords or "tsukumogami" for as long as swords have existed; long before we could even conceptualize a thinking machine might be made with science; we dreamt of them existing through magic or spirit. Tools are what first brought us out of the trees to stride the earth as its masters; in the tools we shape and wield with our own hands we make manifest our intent, our will, our spirit. In the modern age, the vastness of our creations sometimes makes it easy to forget, but the human element is still the entire point. I quote from page 71 of "Shattered Sword" by Johnathan Parshall and Anthony Tully: "The study of naval warfare (more than any other form of combat) holds the potential to completely subordinate the human element to the weapons themselves. Naval combat is conducted almost exclusively by means of machines – machines that are in many cases so huge and grand that they often seem to take on a life and personality of their own that transcend the tiny figures that inhabit them. Yet, in the final analysis, it is men who live in the ship, command and fight the ship, and often die in the ship. Their story, no matter how seemingly eclipsed by the great vessels they serve in, is still the fundamental story to be related.” Its only natural we should be entranced with the great machines of war that we build, as they're the final product of the genius and labors of an entire society; fashioned into an incredible tool that is nothing if not wielded by the hand of a skilled warrior devoted to his craft and his mission. I know of not a single mecha story that runs afoul of Parshall and Tully's warning as quoted above; everyone seems to understand the assignment. The ones that don't are the likes of Tomino, or his fellow anti-war traveler Miyazaki. I can't understand a man who thinks fighter planes are beautiful but has little more to say about war than "it's bad;" he refuses to see that the beautiful form of a fighter plane follows its function, and that there's a savage, primal beauty in that function, like the fury that animates a thunderstorm. Or the fury and purpose that animate its pilot, for that matter. Tomino seems to think that "nothing of substance is getting across." I disagree. I think the substance came across very well, and many in younger generations just think that substance is woefully lacking. There's a cutscene in the Knights of the Old Republic, between Carth Onasi and Canderous, where Carth expounds on the difference between "soldiers" and "warriors," defining warriors as those who fight for plunder and the glory of conquest, and soldiers as those who fight to protect their nation and peoples - usually from warriors. He made a great point, but Canderous wasn't entirely wrong. As any fighter pilot can tell you, you need more than noble motivations to sacrifice and serve to be truly excellent - to overcome your enemy in an aerial duel, you need that urge to "lean in" to the fight; that competitive drive - a part of you needs to love the fight. Many soldiers over the ages have spoken of this; as Robert E. Lee said "it's well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." It's that primal urge drawn straight from our deepest instincts; that thirst to compete and win, that gives soldiers the fire and fury to do their utmost in combat, to win the challenge, to defeat those who would plunder their temples, raze their cities and enslave their women and children. That is the truth of war, every bit as much as the death and boredom and bloodshed and terror. And if you can only tell one half of that truth, because the other half doesn't align with your political or personal views, then I don't give a god damn what you have to say about it, or about the works of storytellers who do.

@ShirPeled לחגורה יש סיבה לחיות. לעניבה לא.

דל״פ: פריט הלבוש הכי מטומטם בפער עצום זה חגורה. אין בה שום היגיון פיזיקלי, ואם היה לנו שכל היינו כולנו הולכים עם שלייקס במקום זה. בשום מקום אחר לא היינו משתמשים ככה בחיכוך כדי למנוע מבד לגלוש למטה, כאשר אפשר פשוט לעגן אותו למשהו שנמצא בכיוון ההפוך לכיוון הנפילה.

@WalkerMarcus The article opens with "Mohammad Mosaddegh was NOT democratically elected, he was *appointed* by the Shah as the request of the parliament, which is totally not how democratic elections work in most of the world". The rest of it is equally full of obvious bullshit.

This is quite astonishing. You know the Original Sin of the West in the Middle East? The Mossadegh coup in Iran by rhe CIA in 1953? Well it basically didn’t happen. At all. How many narratives are built on this misconception?

@gncgalactus ME1 is Star Trek, ME2-3 were nu-trek dreck.

Mass Effect 1 is a game that you could genuinely convince yourself was the adaptation of the world of some door stopper military sci Fi books (probably about the first contact war) and 2 & 3 are clearly just video game worlds for playing video games in

@PromptNoJutsu @MrDarki257 "I can't explain to you why you should care about other people"

@MrDarki257 If you vote Red, you live. If you vote Blue, you might die. The fact that you're unable to directly address this framing and instead dance around muh humanity shows you haven't really accomplished anything in this thread, let alone a compelling argument.

Ahora que ha terminado esta encuesta y después de haber visto varios puntos de vista, he llegado a una conclusión: La opción correcta es SIEMPRE votar Azul🔵 en cualquier contexto Y en este hilo voy a explicar varios de los motivos 🧵

@tribelessjew Why?

Fuck the onion, but this was a banger

@AriLamm "Foreign \ minority character has name commonly found among that ethnicity" is such a weird complaint. One that actual representatives of that ethnicity never seem to make. (They DO get annoyed if the name gets messed up - something no is called, wrong gender, etc)

As many times as I’ve had this explained to me I cannot for the life of me understand why I’m supposed to be offended by a Jewish character named “Anthony Goldstein”

@NextGenNero A semi recent post was like "4 years later, Elden Ring has 10% of the playerbase it had at launch". FFS.

Battlefield 6 went from.. Arc Raiders went from… Marathon went from… Cod went from.. Halo Infinite went from.. Bro people have jobs, families, lives and other games to play. This constant watching player counts has to be the most virgin energy shit I’ve ever seen NGl

@Flyingclameleon @Allfurball9 For sure. Tinsley, Ramirez, Payne, Garrison - all absolutely hilarious. Or did you mean specifically Nazis?

@Allfurball9 One thing the right has hand over fist on the left is that the right is genuinely really funny despite their shitty behavior/ideas

heartbreaking: worst person you know makes a funny joke

@Allfurball9 As someone unfortunate enough to be interested in political cartoons as a genre, that's the one thing separating Red Panels from most of his peers, right or left.

@ChagayG @YuvalSegev6 שמעו, הלכתי לחפש בגוגל כדי להבין מה זה הקיצור הזה, כי כולם בטוויטר הישראלי משתמשים בו כמו מפגרים. "דעה לא פופולרית - אני אדם טוב, תמחאו לי כפיים". מאה אחוז דל"פ.

@YuvalSegev6 הייתי בתורים בבתי חולים. עוד מהצעק. הראשונה מזמינים מאבטח. דל"פ- מעולם לא הרמתי קול על נותן שירות. זה תמיד גרם לתת לי שירות טוב יותר ולא להיפך

ממתין בתור בשיבא. מאחור אמא עם ילד צורחת על המזכירה: ״אני יכנס עכשיו ולא ימתין בתור! אני יראה לך!״ (הטעויות במקור כמובן). מיד מכניסים אותה לפני כולם. יוצאת אחרי 5 דקות מחויכת ועוקצת את המזכירה ״מאמי, הבנת עם מי יש לך עסק?”. הילד לידה רואה ולומד. למקרה ותהיתם איך מגדלים אלימות.

@Needle_of_Arya For anyone confused, the OP wants to tell everyone he has boomer-level understanding of "this guy does computer stuff". He thinks a web developer has access to everyone's email and blocked the rest of the team from receiving the invite.

So, who's going to tell her?

@passthechill At the very very least you could have went with Michael Jordan.

How big is the gap in fame between say a lebron James and Michael Jackson

@varrock Apparently: pbs.twimg.com/media/HG76pvNb…