Belly_Beanis

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

They should have made them silver bordered and put in special Un-sets. Like now you have Un-cards people actually want, while keeping them seperate from the main IP, with the option of making them tournament-legal by reprinting them in-universe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Journalism has always been this way under capitalism. Journalists lied about Iraq. They lied about the Black Panther Party. They lied about Vietnam. The term "Yellow Journalism" came about in the 1890s to describe the inflammatory newspapers of the era.

The Edward R. Murrows and Walter Cronkites are the exception, not the rule, under capitalist news reporting because the entire industry relies on selling what sells, instead of broadcasting what informs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Wow that's incredibly out of nowhere. I only know him from LSV's channel since he's a regular player on that stream. Really young guy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You're describing monarchies lmaooo

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Time gets shorter. I've already experienced this going from my teens to my twenties and into my thirties. I can remember entire weeks of my childhood. By the time I was in my mid twenties, days and weeks blurred together. Now it's like months go by and I don't even notice.

People talk about it more as they get older. Eventually when you enter your 80s and 90s, it's like entire decades can come and go. So imagine when you're immortal. If you've been alive for 100,000 years, that's longer than writing has been around. Entire civilizations will have come and went.

But from your perspective, it's all a blur. Entire genealogies were experienced, yet those people barely registered in your mind. If you had a favorite food, maybe the recipe disappears when you went four centuries without eating it. Jokes and fashions you're familiar with are completely alien to everyone else. Are you even capable of noticing when things change at that point?

There's also the question of how human are you? Everything and everyone would seem inconsequential. Would you even be able to socialize with others, or would you be completely sociopathic? That's if you don't hurt anyone and get tossed in a jail cell. What happens if you spend a few centuries in prison? Fight in multiple wars? Would you even feel the slightest discomfort when you kill someone?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Okay but if we use "Late stage capitalism and the quest for profit above all else is causing the quality of goods and commodities to drop while their value stays the same or goes up," it's going to result in 20 minutes trying to explain things correctly followed by 20 hours of anti-communist arguments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I inherited this pet peeve from someone else and at the same time, developed the pet peeve of inheriting other people's pet peeves.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Counterpoint: Agu is volseal and will let you smooch him if you ask nicely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Then you get the women who hate ethnic minorities, foreigners, sex-positivity, other religions that aren't their own denomination, and LGBTQ+ people more than they hate sexism. They will put up with misogynistic bullshit if it means they get to be racist and homophobic.

There's probably more of the former, though. Like you say a lot of them trick themselves into "being the exception," often because their partner is nice to them specifically.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Crumblin

:kelly:

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Nobody ever criticizes me for being straight IRL so I have to do it all myself :cri:

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