VOAT Containment Megathread of Trash People for Trash People

[counterhit]

So was Ken Bone a milkshake duck?

Whedon doesn't seem to qualify. NeoGAF running old memes into the ground again.

Yeah Ken Bone is the perfect example. I don't know who the tweet was referring to originally, but that sounds about close to it.

Also a good example of how people become milkshake ducks for the dumbest reasons.

[agrajag]

Wait a minute..


Amir0x is GAF's reverse reverse milkshake duck.

[bork]

Is it safe to go outside during a Solar Eclipse?

My dad is being super paranoid and is basically locking me in the house. I don't see any government warnings or closings of stores or business or anything, so I don't think it's going to be a dangerous thing to do. Fwiw, I live in the Toronto area.

[Bananas]

It's still crazy to me that Whedon is straight.

Why? Because of the "girl power" stuff?

Most of his shows are filled with hot women and lesbians.  It's the Hollywood equivalent of those dudes who watch moe show with an all-female cast.


This said

>Ex-wife
I would take it as a grain of salt.

[ToxicAdam]

Is it safe to go outside during a Solar Eclipse?

It's so strange. On Friday, I polled my co-workers and asked them if the sun's rays are stronger during a solar eclipse and they all said yes.

I think years and years of the media warning people not to stare at the sun during an eclipse has left the impression that the sun is somehow more dangerous at this time.

[Joe Molotov]

I polled all my co-workers and asked them if the eclipse fortold the awakening of Father Dagon from his slumber beneath Devil's Reef, and not a single one of them knew that it did.

[samfish]

I can tell I'm getting old because I don't know what a milkshake duck is supposed to be. I can't even glean a clue from the context it's used in.

[agrajag]

Is it safe to go outside during a Solar Eclipse?

My dad is being super paranoid and is basically locking me in the house. I don't see any government warnings or closings of stores or business or anything, so I don't think it's going to be a dangerous thing to do. Fwiw, I live in the Toronto area.

You laugh, but I had two employees ask me if work is canceled today.

[Tasty]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=246581422#post246581422

[Momo]

I can tell I'm getting old because I don't know what a milkshake duck is supposed to be. I can't even glean a clue from the context it's used in.

Same here, however since I havent heard this term outside of a neogaf context, I just ignore it.

[FStop7]

Whedon is an example of my personal definitiion of Social Studies Warrior: someone who publicly wraps himself in social issues in order to market, promote and glorify himself to an audience while privately engaging in shitty behavior.  The progressive equivalent of the televangelist.  Smalll wonder he has such a defense force on GAF.

[Joe Molotov]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=246581422#post246581422

The era of Twin Peaks is finally over. Maybe next decade.

[agrajag]

http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=246581422#post246581422

What a snowflake. Season 3 is magnificent.

[WanderingWind]

Whedon is an example of my personal definitiion of Social Studies Warrior: someone who publicly wraps himself in social issues in order to market, promote and glorify himself to an audience while privately engaging in shitty behavior.  The progressive equivalent of the televangelist.  Smalll wonder he has such a defense force on GAF.

True, but on the other hand (and I've only read what Twitter provides here, maybe there is some abuse or something I'm not spun up on) but him having an affair and being for basic levels of equality for women and men aren't disparate ideals. That's a bit like saying you can't be anti-racist if you ever disliked a black dude. It's a shitty thing to do, but it doesn't mean you can't also be for higher ideals.

[agrajag]

I think the fact that he gave his wife PTSD and that he claimed he likes being around women because he is a feminist when in reality he was lusting over them speaks against his supposed feminism.

[agrajag]

Victim blaming I can't even

[ToxicAdam]

No one ever calls out male feminism for what it is. A different way to get laid.

Some dudes leave it back in college, other dudes make a career out of it.

[benjipwns]

wait

i thought this Whedon stuff was well known and the root of that Sensitive Joss Whedon meme, their separation was one of those Hollywood ones where supporters of both sides flood sites like Deadline's comments under anon accounts

he also has gotten in arguments with fans over this crap for years, i think some big name feminist blogger (aka loser) tried to call him out at a Con or something about his definition of feminism ("women who have superpowers?") ten years ago or something

Firefly and Angel are better than Buffy and X-Men, it is known

also i still blame him for killing off Runaways because he couldn't meet the deadlines, even if he sorta is an ideal person to adapt that shit for TV

[benjipwns]

I try to think how we got here. The theory I developed in college (shared by many I’m sure) is one I have yet to beat: Womb Envy. Biology: women are generally smaller and weaker than men. But they’re also much tougher. Put simply, men are strong enough to overpower a woman and propagate. Women are tough enough to have and nurture children, with or without the aid of a man. Oh, and they’ve also got the equipment to do that, to be part of the life cycle, to create and bond in a way no man ever really will. Somewhere a long time ago a bunch of men got together and said, ‘If all we do is hunt and gather, let’s make hunting and gathering the awesomest achievement, and let’s make childbirth kinda weak and shameful.’ It’s a rather silly simplification, but I believe on a mass, unconscious level, it’s entirely true. How else to explain the fact that cultures who would die to eradicate each other have always agreed on one issue? That every popular religion puts restrictions on women’s behavior that are practically untenable? That the act of being a free, attractive, self-assertive woman is punishable by torture and death? In the case of this upcoming torture-porn, fictional. In the case of Dua Khalil, mundanely, unthinkably real. And both available for your viewing pleasure.

It’s safe to say that I’ve snapped. That something broke, like one of those robots you can conquer with a logical conundrum. All my life I’ve looked at this faulty equation, trying to understand, and I’ve shorted out. I don’t pretend to be a great guy; I know really really well about objectification, trust me. And I’m not for a second going down the “women are saints” route – that just leads to more stone-throwing (and occasional Joan-burning). I just think there is the staggering imbalance in the world that we all just take for granted. If we were all told the sky was evil, or at best a little embarrassing, and we ought not look at it, wouldn’t that tradition eventually fall apart? (I was going to use ‘trees’ as my example, but at the rate we’re getting rid of them I’m pretty sure we really do think they’re evil. See how all rants become one?)

Now those of you who frequent this site are, in my wildly biased opinion, fairly evolved. You may hear nothing new here. You may be way ahead of me. But I can’t contain my despair, for Dua Khalil, for humanity, for the world we’re shaping. Those of you who have followed the link I set up know that it doesn’t bring you to a video of a murder. It brings you to a place of sanity, of people who have never stopped asking the question of what is wrong with this world and have set about trying to change the answer. Because it’s no longer enough to be a decent person. It’s no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself. I’ve always had a bent towards apocalyptic fiction, and I’m beginning to understand why. I look and I see the earth in flames. Her face was nothing but red.

All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once. If you can’t think of what to do, there is this handy link. Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.

I have never had any faith in humanity. But I will give us props on this: if we can evolve, invent and theorize our way into the technologically magical, culturally diverse and artistically magnificent race we are and still get people to buy the idiotic idea that half of us are inferior, we’re pretty amazing. Let our next sleight of hand be to make that myth disappear.

The sky isn’t evil. Try looking up.

[agrajag]

I never liked Buffy or Angel or any of that bullshit.

I liked the original Buffy movie though. 

[Nabbis]

People with no real historical or sociological knowledge write essays on those things and take it as gospel. Sounds like Gaf. 

[VomKriege]

To be part of the life cycle !
Come. The emperor !
Dogs of the AMS. Time they made a move.

[Rahxephon91]

I can tell I'm getting old because I don't know what a milkshake duck is supposed to be. I can't even glean a clue from the context it's used in.

I honestly think it is a gaf manufactured term. I'm not old and am around plenty of people younger then me. No one has ever used this term and current lingo seems to be all about short one word terms not random combinations of shit.

Stuff like:

100
Bet
AF
Lit

Not milkshake duck whatever the fuck that is.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I'm hoping that "male feminist" becomes this year's "nice guy."

[agrajag]

haha, I remember when you could say that someone is being a white knight on GAF without being banned

[benjipwns]

haha, I remember when you could say that someone is being a white knight on GAF without being banned

You can probably still do that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Knights_of_the_Ku_Klux_Klan

[Joe Molotov]

They were just nice guys trying to save white women from the darkie menace.

[I'm a Puppy!]

I actually sorta look forward to a world where everyone is judged on the words of their exes.

[Raist]

I actually sorta look forward to a world where everyone is judged on the words of their exes.

So GAF is safe then.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

They were just nice guys trying to save white women from the darkie menace.

So you're telling me that the Klan is the 1870s version of Joss Whedon?  Makes sense

[Tasty]

I never liked Buffy or Angel or any of that bullshit.

I liked the original Buffy movie though. 

[Raist]

Boggles my mind how we just happen to be alive at the right time on a planet that has such a perfect eclipse. Got to be the only intelligent species that gets to witness such a thing in the entire universe.

[benjipwns]

Boggles my mind how we just happen to be alive at the right time on a planet that has such a perfect eclipse. Got to be the only intelligent species that gets to witness such a thing in the entire universe.

of course some idiot on NeoGAF.com thinks there aren't alien spies living among us on Earth who saw it too

[Raist]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=246561338&postcount=826

 

[benjipwns]

was just about to post that

I wish people would stop replying to that fucking sperglord. Maybe then he'd go away.

Maybe YOU should go away spewing venom like the bolded.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=246568120&postcount=881

I love you Bobby. You're doing God's work here.

also that whole thread

That exchange was funny. Got big laughs both times I saw it in theaters.

"Flavorless." Come the fuck on. The improved visual and sound effects alone give TFA plenty of flavor. Never mind all of its actual substance, like the cast of really good, entertaining, well acted, interesting new characters.

BTW anyone who denies that Kylo Ren is a great and well written character is not worth engaging with.

And of course:

Remove Lucas from the equation and let's see how many people die on this hill

[benjipwns]

there was somebody in there arguing that if you care about minor details like why the universe is suddenly back to being like it was pre-ROTJ when the Rebellion and Jedi Luke and so on seemingly defeated the Empire and the Sith you should expect to have to read novels and explore the canon fully through tie-in materials as the films are made for the general public, not Star Wars junkies who would rather read wookiepedia entries, at the same time if you want to watch Star Wars you just want Star Wars not galactic politics

that's the argument HUELEN used to make against people who complained about AbramsTrek's self-inflicted plot holes

[nudemacusers]

Doesn't know who joss whedon is but can probably drop a top 5 moe anime list in seconds 

that's because manga + anime >>>>>>> shitty western comic book films

you know I think you're right

[benjipwns]

DEBUNKED:

Constantine
Dredd
The Losers
Men in Black
The Rocketeer

 

[Tasty]

Manga doesn't have Tim Drake, so it's not as good by default.

[benjipwns]

 



 



 

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i actually think all three of these are way more thematically in line with the actual comics than they were given credit for, even perhaps especially by "fans" though dredd has since recovered quite a bit to where they were talking about a sequel again not too long ago

constantine especially gets shat on because of keanu, but barring the change to get a name actor, his detached nature from everything happening, his cast of reject acquaintances, and the private suffering burden is very in line with the original character...and literally all the other castings are awesome from lucifer to gabriel to balthazar to papa midnite to even shia as chas and the depiction of hell is pretty clever...now obviously we know about matt ryan actually being constantine himself in reality but considering at the time we didn't...

i would have loved the losers to keep the mystery from the comics but again thematically it more effectively fits it into a film by dropping that, a tv series would have been a different situation, it's also funny that it's yet another movie from just before the boom that retrospectively has the cast of an entire MCU film in it

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[Let's Cyber]

I was a dumb teenager at the time but I remember liking Constantine.

I don't know if I should go back now and possibly ruin my otherwise fond memories of it.

[benjipwns]

I was a dumb teenager at the time but I remember liking Constantine.

I don't know if I should go back now and possibly ruin my otherwise fond memories of it.

I legitimately think it's actually great. And I fucking love Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, Vertigo, etc. There's barely any action in it at all. It's a mystery film. The pacing of all the scenes and cuts work great. Like that Lucifer scene, or rather...THE Lucifer scene...or when he believes Rachel Weisz's story about serious apocalypse shit, they grab a cat, stick his feet in water and he hangs out in Hell for a little bit. Which is the kind of setup and underwhelming magic the comic would always do. Or when they go in Papa Midnite's club. They show "what's off", quick cuts and/or shots of demons, and then the film comes back to play it like it's a regular noir film with nice slow detached pacing.

Really Weisz is the worst part probably because she's a plot device character wearing multiple hats (just happens to be a cop so bonus!) so she doesn't get to have fun, and she's also there for the exposition dumps. At the same time though, they don't do anything like how she doesn't believe and think he's just a nut or whatever, instead, she's actually religious and totally believes even more so which makes her a more relevant ally who turns out to help.

I think way too many people could never get past Keanu. There's so much of this shit that's just like all the Vertigo comics were always doing in taking some other genre and twisting it:

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Most of the fights are like the one with Gavin Rossdale, short, borderline non-comic in their staging outside of the special effects, John pulling off some con or working multiple angles. (Which is totally accurate to the comic!)

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Easily one of my top ten comic films, maybe even top five. Probably. Maybe. It's plausible anyway.

But then again, I think Batman Returns in many ways remains the one to top.

(And of my once five personal cult great movies set, only American Psycho has broken out into the internet mainstream and that was recently. The Mexican and Ravenous remain generally unknown. Three Kings doesn't really have any memorable lines. And Antz has too much stacked against it obviously. That's with two of those getting near Demolition Man levels of basic cable play. Constantine can have American Psycho's slot I guess. Except that it made $250 million. Though all of these films except Ravenous made bank. I probably actually need to more redefine "personal cult film" to not be stuff I think is great but other people saw and were like "meh" or expecting something different like in the case of Antz )

[TVC15]

I was a dumb teenager at the time but I remember liking Constantine.

I don't know if I should go back now and possibly ruin my otherwise fond memories of it.

I legitimately think it's actually great. And I fucking love Hellblazer, Swamp Thing, Vertigo, etc. . .

This is where I stopped reading to

[benjipwns]

John fighting a war he doesn't want to fight while recovering from and running a series of multi-angled scams (including pretending he's an American) and losing everyone who gets close to him until he's alone again in the end after turning his back on Gabriel, the perfect villain. It's a great John Constantine movie, deal with it.

From the director of the "Ghetto Superstar" music video! (And later, "Bad Romance" which got him a Grammy. Like PETRA.)

[Momo]

manga/anime for sure has higher highs and straight better work than comics/cartoons, it's also (mostly on the anime side) infested with moe shit and generic shonen, so it's a bit harder to get into as a casual as you will need to ask for recommends or spend time looking.

[nudemacusers]

DEBUNKED:

Constantine
Dredd
The Losers
Men in Black
The Rocketeer

 

The only good one on this list is men in black

[benjipwns]

the category was shitty western comic book films

[nudemacusers]

Even sit has strata 

[Transhuman]

Dredd was streets ahead

[Oblivion]

Anime can be good sometimes too, it's just that 90% of it is trash.

Are you posting this as an example of an anime that's NOT trash? 

[Momo]

DragonBallZ is trash tier, here is the gold standard shonen

[Oblivion]

Momo gets it.

Though, my only beef with that particular clip is that no way should Gon have progressed that much in such a short amount of time.

[demi]

That was the dumbest fight in a shonen. Wheres the screaming? The powerups? The move shouts? You weebs are dogshit

[Momo]

Momo gets it.

Though, my only beef with that particular clip is that no way should Gon have progressed that much in such a short amount of time.

We know Hisoka was significantly holding back by making deductions based on his motivation and relative to his later feats though. the thing HxH does significantly better than any other shonen to me is power scaling, a hard lesson Togashi learned at the end of YYH lol

[bork]

So... There was a small insect in my morning urine today.

Pretty sure it wasn't already in the toilet. A little black thing that looked like a lice. It was very small, i had to get it out with some toilet paper and inspect it up close to see it clearly. Oh and it was alive and well, in all it's crawling and twitching glory.

Can bed bugs or other parasites crawl in the urethra while you are asleep? It's either that or i'm jumping in the nearest fire.

[Momo]

DBZ > HXH

Y'all nerds lost the dumb internet war a long time ago, deal with it.

[Bananas]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1422180

That desperation.

[Oblivion]

DBZ > HXH

Y'all nerds lost the dumb internet war a long time ago, deal with it.

When it comes to Dragonball, there are no winners.

[daemon]

One Piece >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DBZ

Much better pacing of power distribution, more iconic scenes, generally better humor.



However, the anime itself has been shit for many years now. I just stick to the original manga vision.

[agrajag]

would you nerds stfu about power levels