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Reading the Chappelle thread they’re now calling him a champion of the alt-right? Literally wtf?
Quote from: Boredfrom on August 28, 2019, 07:55:20 PMIf I were a cynic asshole, I would say all this accusations are genuine coordinated effort from some scumbags to create a artificial #Metoo moment, and some people on RE are on it hence the “this day of all days”.spoiler (click to show/hide)Sorry for sounding like Nintex or a shitty MRA. But Zoe Quinn is vile regardless.[close]Nah they're just sensitive ass bitches jumping on anything to proclaim they're better than it only to move on to the next thing they feel oh so strongly about.
If I were a cynic asshole, I would say all this accusations are genuine coordinated effort from some scumbags to create a artificial #Metoo moment, and some people on RE are on it hence the “this day of all days”.spoiler (click to show/hide)Sorry for sounding like Nintex or a shitty MRA. But Zoe Quinn is vile regardless.[close]
Quote from: Boredfrom on August 28, 2019, 07:55:20 PMIf I were a cynic asshole, I would say all this accusations are genuine coordinated effort from some scumbags to create a artificial #Metoo moment, and some people on RE are on it hence the “this day of all days”.spoiler (click to show/hide)Sorry for sounding like Nintex or a shitty MRA. But Zoe Quinn is vile regardless.[close]Brianna Wu tried to get a gaming #metoo started a while back but it didn't take.
If you believe the definition of leftist includes someone who holds a few left positions but makes a career out of attacking at-risk marginalized communities, rape survivors and other victims of sexual assault, I'm not sure what else to say.
He's an icon of the alt-right who is making a career out of punching down at marginalized people. That's not a leftist. Targeting marginalized communities who are disproportionately victims of violent crime is more than enough to disqualify him from being able to ever be considered a leftist. But his misogyny also contributes to the calculus.
I'm just glad I didn't waste my time watching Chappelle's Trump rally "standup" and instead spent 35 minutes having a YouTuber reinforce my pre-existing beliefs about Republicans
Stop gaslighting, Dave Chappelle has never once, NOT ONCE, led a revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist class and seized the means of production, he's not a leftist in the slightest.
QuoteLGBTQ advocacy isn't the key to the leftist gate.Sure, it's one of several things, but I wouldn't let them in the gate without that key.
LGBTQ advocacy isn't the key to the leftist gate.
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QuoteQuoteLGBTQ advocacy isn't the key to the leftist gate.Sure, it's one of several things, but I wouldn't let them in the gate without that key.https://www.resetera.com/threads/hollywood-reporter-dave-chappelle-slams-michael-jackson-accusers-and-cancel-culture-in-netflix-special.137409/post-24017988chappelle forgot to check with forums poster red mercury before deciding his political positions. wrong move, alt right scum
Quote from: nachobro on August 28, 2019, 08:25:57 PMQuoteQuoteLGBTQ advocacy isn't the key to the leftist gate.Sure, it's one of several things, but I wouldn't let them in the gate without that key.https://www.resetera.com/threads/hollywood-reporter-dave-chappelle-slams-michael-jackson-accusers-and-cancel-culture-in-netflix-special.137409/post-24017988chappelle forgot to check with forums poster red mercury before deciding his political positions. wrong move, alt right scum Keeping a black man from entering your gated community
We're not going to agree on this, and this back & forth is not going anywhere unfortunately, so I'll end here. If you believe the definition of leftist includes someone who holds a few left positions but makes a career out of attacking at-risk marginalized communities, rape survivors and other victims of sexual assault, I'm not sure what else to say.
they really don't understand what jokes are
One way Gadsby does that is by making comedy itself one of her main topics. Among other things, she argues that “jokes” are less useful for describing the totality of the human condition than “stories.” Jokes, she says, are incomplete thoughts expressed in two stages, the setup and punch line (or “a question” and “a surprise answer”). This structure ensures that jokes as a method of communication are always on some level “incomplete,” which means that by definition they can’t really challenge or change anything, and are therefore more conservative than progressive — reinforcing what we already believe rather than entertaining new information or unfamiliar philosophies.
She wonders if participating in stand-up comedy as it’s usually defined (by men) is just enshrining negative emotions and reactionary thoughts. Here, again, she’s not so much rejecting an element in the basic toolkit — all stories employ tension to keep us excited or interested — as highlighting how it’s used to propagate ideas that don’t do people like her any favors. “Taking a joke,” from her perspective, is a nonphysical equivalent of taking a punch. The object of the joke is proving that she can withstand pain by laughing. This in turn reassures the joke-teller that it’s okay to say something that’s wounding, that punches down, that reminds particular groups of what society has decided is “their place.” This is how ideology reproduces itself.To illustrate this idea, Gadsby tells a joke that both she and the audience agree is amusing: “What sort of comedian can’t even make the lesbians laugh? Every comedian ever.” When the room dies down, Gadsby describes that joke as “bulletproof” because it’s constructed in such a way that its target audience — lesbians — are all but required to laugh at it, in order to prove they aren’t humorless. Of course, that’s the entire point of telling that sort of joke: to get everyone to laugh together at the fact that lesbians are sourpusses who can’t take a joke. “We’ve got to laugh because if we don’t laugh, it proves the point,” she says.We did laugh, though; Gadsby encouraged us and gave us permission. But thanks to her follow-up, which takes the joke apart like a sculptor dissembling an armature, we also understand the hidden intent of its construction. Which means next time, the laughter sticks in the throat. Or maybe it doesn’t. Either way, Gadsby got a laugh out of us, while also making us wonder why we laughed, and what larger social-conditioning role our laughter plays.That’s a specific kind of magic trick. Gadsby does variations of that trick throughout Nanette, always pulling us along to the next joke, the next deconstruction of a joke, the next touching or wrenching personal anecdote, pointing out at each stage how she’s shaped the material to elicit certain reactions, and how other comedians find their own ways of doing it, whether their larger goal is to stimulate the audience’s imagination, shut down dissent, or just hear themselves talk. How we tell jokes and stories, and whether we decide to tell a joke or a story, expresses who we are and what we believe. Nanette is an attempt to get people to take ownership of their choices and admit that they mean something and reveal something. It’s a reminder that there’s no such thing as “just a joke” or “just a story.”
Ms. Gadsby, an Australian comedian, is the creator of “Nanette,” a stage show turned Netflix special that is lacerating in its fury about how women and queer people like her, and anyone else who might behave or look “other,” get treated, dismissed and silenced. She is unflinching about the abuse that they — that she — endured, and the cultural norms that enabled it. She calls out men, powerful and otherwise.In stark personal terms, she reveals her own gender and sexual trauma, and doesn’t invite people to laugh at it. “Nanette” is an international sensation, the most-talked-about, written-about, shared-about comedy act in years, exquisitely timed to the #MeToo era. And in its success Ms. Gadsby has perhaps pointed the art form of stand-up in an altogether new direction
Audiences are in tears, too. Josh Thomas, a young Australian star who hired Ms. Gadsby as a writer and performer on his TV series “Please Like Me,” about a young man coming out, thought that as a gay man with a supportive family himself, he had it easy.“But then,” he wrote in an email, “I see storytelling like Hannah’s, where she rages about the homophobia in the world, and I cry and I realize that I grew up with so much shame.”“Nanette,” he added, “made me question if I could have made more space for people that are different, as well as empowering me to stop people from taking space away from me because I’m different. I feel like it’s permanently changed my point of view.”
Let’s make art great again, guys,” Gadsby proclaims toward the end of Nanette, tweaking Trump subtly enough that it takes a second to register what she just did.
He's no Hannah Gadsby.
QuoteOf course they are. Chappelle has morphed into someone who can justify their shit views and shit existences.Morphed into?No. He's always been a favorite of bigots going back to comedy central.
Of course they are. Chappelle has morphed into someone who can justify their shit views and shit existences.
so has chapelle morphed from a genius to an asshole who was always asshole and never a genius?Also nannette's special is great and lambasts alot of what era does, but they don't see that.
last time Chappelle had a special, people were lambasting me in the OT for saying he was trashhere we are 18 months later and it seems the worm has turned
Quote from: Cauliflower Of Love on August 28, 2019, 09:02:26 PMso has chapelle morphed from a genius to an asshole who was always asshole and never a genius?RE is continuously proving she's becoming her mom."Why would you watch that? It's so violent/hateful/sexual. Why don't you like flowers and nice disney movies?"
so has chapelle morphed from a genius to an asshole who was always asshole and never a genius?
Personally, I've always disliked everything bad.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/john-carmack-is-on-joe-rogan.137870/Doom cancelled.
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Previously, I would just buy the game used. The company/people I have an issue with don't get my money, and I still get to play the game. Having my cake and eating it too, so to speak. However in 2019, mindshare is just as important (if not more) than a single sale. While I'm not giving them money, by me playing the game at all I'm contributing to the mindshare of the title. My feed for example, shows my friends what I'm doing. Gameclips, achievements, screenshots, streaming, etc. All of it contributes to said game in a way that could actually be more rewarding for that company than my $60 ever was. I may have bought it used, but my friend who just saw me post a clip of the game having a blast with others might not know a thing about the controversy and buy it right there after seeing me playing it. This is something that happens, at least in my friends list and now that I'm thinking of it from that perspective, it's making my usual routine of just getting it used not seem like the great middle ground I thought it was. These days seeing other people playing is arguably just as effective at marketing a title as a commercial would be, if not more so.
Because a lot of the times, when the charge is something serious like, "these ceo's are dabbling in child pornography", "these developers are wife beaters", "this developer is a rapist", it's hard to support the system that facilitates such behavior. "I don't care as long as a get to play the video game" is a pretty callous way of thinking in 2019 when we know more about the behind the scenes of literally everything we consume. That being said, it's perfectly acceptable to buy in on a product with a questionable background and still bring said questionable backgrounds to light, criticizing and not letting it be forgotten. The THQn threads on this forum are how such conversations should be constructed, even though people complain about it because knowing the game they wanted to play was passed through the hands of pedophile enablers is uncomfortable and they don't want to think about it.
Just play it on a dummy account thats not connected to PSN/Live/etc. whatsoever. Well, that works if its strictly/predominantly single player game. If you're getting it for the multi then you're by default supporting the game since loads of people playing is a selling point.
It's no different than boycotting McDonald's, but happily eating the leftover food they dump in the trash.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/is-buying-a-game-used-an-acceptable-way-of-protesting-controversial-devs-pubs-in-2019-and-beyond.137793/QuotePreviously, I would just buy the game used. The company/people I have an issue with don't get my money, and I still get to play the game. Having my cake and eating it too, so to speak. However in 2019, mindshare is just as important (if not more) than a single sale. While I'm not giving them money, by me playing the game at all I'm contributing to the mindshare of the title. My feed for example, shows my friends what I'm doing. Gameclips, achievements, screenshots, streaming, etc. All of it contributes to said game in a way that could actually be more rewarding for that company than my $60 ever was. I may have bought it used, but my friend who just saw me post a clip of the game having a blast with others might not know a thing about the controversy and buy it right there after seeing me playing it. This is something that happens, at least in my friends list and now that I'm thinking of it from that perspective, it's making my usual routine of just getting it used not seem like the great middle ground I thought it was. These days seeing other people playing is arguably just as effective at marketing a title as a commercial would be, if not more so.
Play in a second account, where you didn't added any friends.
