River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[CHOW CHOW]

[D3RANG3D]

 

[CHOW CHOW]

I bet you regret that Like now, motherfucker

[Rman]

Is this guy a bot that just auto-posts random news from Baltimore everyday lol.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-preakness-stakes-horse-race-which-has-been-in-baltimore-since-1873-and-was-in-danger-of-leaving-baltimore-potentially-rescued-by-mayor-jack-young.145398/

[Uncle]

Wouldn't surprise me if some of them are praying for a shooting inspired by Joker. They are so, so desperate to make it a thing at this point after being terrified something would happen for however long now. Meanwhile in reality, it's been released, audiences are liking it a lot and then going on with their day, zero shootings in sight.

ERA wrong again, to no one's surprise.

as with gamergate they're going to bring up the spectre of this movie for years to come

college shooting 2020:

I've been warning everyone about this for ages.  What do you expect when incels have been raised on a steady diet of media catering directly to them like 2019's Joker?  Check his subs and I guarantee you'll see he's got HBO Go where he can leave that movie on repeat while pacing and muttering to himself.

[Tripon]

https://twitter.com/ReeraTakes/status/1180787617941594112

Are the Ree mods saying making fun of Ree is ableist? Does that mean they think themselves as mentally challenged?

[Chim Richalds]

Is this guy a bot that just auto-posts random news from Baltimore everyday lol.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-preakness-stakes-horse-race-which-has-been-in-baltimore-since-1873-and-was-in-danger-of-leaving-baltimore-potentially-rescued-by-mayor-jack-young.145398/

Pretty much.  His Twitter account is the same thing.

[nachobro]

https://twitter.com/nickmullen/status/1180848602366844931

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joker-had-the-biggest-october-opening-ever-with-93-5m-in-the-us-ww-est-234m.145390/

RE pretending that they don’t totally shit on DC films regularly and shitting on OT threads.

[ShutUp]

Popcorn flick implies a light, throwaway experience that panders to a general audience and doesn't dig into the serious side of life. In spite of what Marvel critics like to claim, that is not the MCU.

  that's exactly what MCU movies are

Thor Ragnarok is about colonialism and imperialism and letting go of a monstrous past regardless of its leading to a comfortable present.

The Winter Soldier is about government stepping over personal freedoms and the effects of things like Operation Paperclip and letting fascism grow stronger right under one’s nose

Whew. The Marvel defense force meltdowns have begun 

[NekoFever]

It says something about the state of blockbusters that having themes and subtext is seen as precluding something from being a popcorn film.

[HaughtyFrank]

Fucking Transformers 3 is about war refugees, colonialism, imperialism and fascism collaborators

[ShutUp]

Fucking Transformers 3 is about war refugees, colonialism, imperialism and fascism collaborators

Revenge of the Fallen is really about robots just wanting their giant balls be allowed to air out when they want to.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Thor Ragnarok is about colonialism and imperialism and letting go of a monstrous past regardless of its leading to a comfortable present.

The Winter Soldier is about government stepping over personal freedoms and the effects of things like Operation Paperclip and letting fascism grow stronger right under one’s nose

lmao, thor ragnarok 'is about' chris hemsworth was about to bounce because the thor films were boring as fuck

[Don Rumata]

God i hate that "is about" shit.
Having a "mature" theme doesn't mean shit, you hear it from weebs about Anime and videogames all the time.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joker-ot-viviamo-in-una-societ%C3%A0-spoilers.140109/post-25201326

Joker spoilers. But, way to not get called out for calling a small person Midget.

oh, hey, excelsheet acting like a cunt for no reason, and undoubtedly hammering the report button on the people pointing out "it sucks and they shouldn't have done it" isn't actually "criticism"

[Tripon]

We're going to eat our words and deeds after Ree finally hits 50K members. 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

(Image removed from quote.)

We're going to eat our words and deeds after Ree finally hits 50K members. 

wait, they hit 10k bans before they hit 50k users?

 

[Boredfrom]

The term “popcorn flick” has its roots in classism. Popcorn was a cheap and easy snack to serve, and resulted in a fair amount of profit, but theaters actually disliked it both for the noise it made and the kinds of people who liked to eat it, which created the idea that movie theaters featured a lesser form of entertainment that attracted a lesser form of clientele. The term “popcorn flick” evolved from this attitude so theater owners and auteurs could have a way of separating the “higher tier of production” and “cinema” from the kinds of things they showed to the so-called rabble. As theaters started to prioritize ticket and concession sales this more or less started to be less of a prevailing attitude, but it remains as a term to write off certain forms of entertainment - a reductive and flawed viewpoint, in my opinion, as I think that even the most banal and crude works of fiction can reveal important things about social attitudes and the human experience. It’s the same kind of dismissive twaddle that leads to the Academy considering animation an afterthought.

 

And from other thread:

The director invited this kind of discussion, though, both in the insistence Todd Philips made that he was making a “real movie”. The film, without getting into specific spoilers, all but states that this is one of the issues it’s confronting.

Furthermore, the recurring issues of Batman’s rogues gallery relying too much on outdated notions of mental health is also something that people have talked about a great deal. These characters don’t exist in a vacuum, and Joker’s iconic status doesn’t protect him from criticism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/equivocating-mental-illness-and-violence.145419/

So banality is okay or not? 

[VomKriege]

Fucking Transformers 3 is about war refugees, colonialism, imperialism and fascism collaborators

Also the absurdity of capitalism and work culture. I got a couple smart friends who actually went in that tangent at the time. I was unconvinced.

[ShutUp]

The term “popcorn flick” has its roots in classism. Popcorn was a cheap and easy snack to serve, and resulted in a fair amount of profit, but theaters actually disliked it both for the noise it made and the kinds of people who liked to eat it, which created the idea that movie theaters featured a lesser form of entertainment that attracted a lesser form of clientele. The term “popcorn flick” evolved from this attitude so theater owners and auteurs could have a way of separating the “higher tier of production” and “cinema” from the kinds of things they showed to the so-called rabble. As theaters started to prioritize ticket and concession sales this more or less started to be less of a prevailing attitude, but it remains as a term to write off certain forms of entertainment - a reductive and flawed viewpoint, in my opinion, as I think that even the most banal and crude works of fiction can reveal important things about social attitudes and the human experience. It’s the same kind of dismissive twaddle that leads to the Academy considering animation an afterthought.

 

And from other thread:

The director invited this kind of discussion, though, both in the insistence Todd Philips made that he was making a “real movie”. The film, without getting into specific spoilers, all but states that this is one of the issues it’s confronting.

Furthermore, the recurring issues of Batman’s rogues gallery relying too much on outdated notions of mental health is also something that people have talked about a great deal. These characters don’t exist in a vacuum, and Joker’s iconic status doesn’t protect him from criticism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/equivocating-mental-illness-and-violence.145419/

So banality is okay or not? 

He's really having problems with his favorite movies starring talking raccoons and sentient trees being called popcorn flicks.

[Boredfrom]

One of the dumb things about Joker is that a large part of it hinges on Arthur’s terrible stand up routine going viral in a time period when video tape was uncommon and expensive and not something you just broke out willy nilly.

People accused Captain Marvel of wearing it’s setting superficially but this is a modern movie that makes you want to believe it’s set in the 1970s. It’s tied to the core problem of the movie, honestly; both it and Todd Philips’ all consuming desperation to be seen as a “real movie” with “something to say”, so it steals the iconography of other, better movies set in the same time period in order to create the illusion of a better film around itself. Aside from Phoenix’s performance, which I think comes from a legitimate place of effort and love of acting, so much around this movie feels like imitation more than homage.

 

 

Jesus, being a combination of Nintendo and Marvel stan is a really bad combo.

[Boredfrom]

The term “popcorn flick” has its roots in classism. Popcorn was a cheap and easy snack to serve, and resulted in a fair amount of profit, but theaters actually disliked it both for the noise it made and the kinds of people who liked to eat it, which created the idea that movie theaters featured a lesser form of entertainment that attracted a lesser form of clientele. The term “popcorn flick” evolved from this attitude so theater owners and auteurs could have a way of separating the “higher tier of production” and “cinema” from the kinds of things they showed to the so-called rabble. As theaters started to prioritize ticket and concession sales this more or less started to be less of a prevailing attitude, but it remains as a term to write off certain forms of entertainment - a reductive and flawed viewpoint, in my opinion, as I think that even the most banal and crude works of fiction can reveal important things about social attitudes and the human experience. It’s the same kind of dismissive twaddle that leads to the Academy considering animation an afterthought.

 

And from other thread:

The director invited this kind of discussion, though, both in the insistence Todd Philips made that he was making a “real movie”. The film, without getting into specific spoilers, all but states that this is one of the issues it’s confronting.

Furthermore, the recurring issues of Batman’s rogues gallery relying too much on outdated notions of mental health is also something that people have talked about a great deal. These characters don’t exist in a vacuum, and Joker’s iconic status doesn’t protect him from criticism.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/equivocating-mental-illness-and-violence.145419/

So banality is okay or not? 

He's really having problems with his favorite movies starring talking raccoons and sentient trees being called popcorn flicks.

I don’t exactly disagree with him about this films having something worth to talk about, but is clear he is saying this because he doesn’t want to be called out when he is mad because “pretentious problematic film from DC”, and rants about mental illness being misinterpreted in fiction (I would not disagree if it was not so transparent he is talking about all this just to defend his own banal tastes).

Talking about getting mad about films:

Except barely anyone was there. One of the people we thought was there wasn’t even there. The whole plot point is founded on the notion that someone was going to film this guy no one showed up for and then not only replicate it but pass it around. It would be one thing of this were a comedian who developed a fan following, but one disastrous stand up routine leading to it coming to the attention of a nationally televised TV show is an enormous contrivance.

 

[ShutUp]

His routine goes viral because it was played for laughs on the talk show of his favorite comedian, who is seemingly like a Jay Leno level of popularity with casual audiences. Before social media, that's how things went viral.

[ShutUp]

The club he was at looked like a full audience he went out in front of. Nobody was there for him specifically but it's not exactly shocking that as he starts to bomb with his routine that someone would start filming him and then the biggest comedian in town gets word of it and uses it for laughs on his show.

Pay attention, ERA.

[Tripon]

One of the dumb things about Joker is that a large part of it hinges on Arthur’s terrible stand up routine going viral in a time period when video tape was uncommon and expensive and not something you just broke out willy nilly.

People accused Captain Marvel of wearing it’s setting superficially but this is a modern movie that makes you want to believe it’s set in the 1970s. It’s tied to the core problem of the movie, honestly; both it and Todd Philips’ all consuming desperation to be seen as a “real movie” with “something to say”, so it steals the iconography of other, better movies set in the same time period in order to create the illusion of a better film around itself. Aside from Phoenix’s performance, which I think comes from a legitimate place of effort and love of acting, so much around this movie feels like imitation more than homage.

 

 

Jesus, being a combination of Nintendo and Marvel stan is a really bad combo.

Wut, the whole reason it went viral in Gotham is because it got played for laughs at the local late night show. There's no reason to over think it.

[ShutUp]

Bringing up Captain Marvel for no reason says all you need to know about what's he trying to accomplish with that rant.

[Straight Edge]

The club he was at looked like a full audience he went out in front of. Nobody was there for him specifically but it's not exactly shocking that as he starts to bomb with his routine that someone would start filming him and then the biggest comedian in town gets word of it and uses it for laughs on his show.

Pay attention, ERA.

The club was filming all the acts as shown by the monitor before Arthur went on.

also:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/equivocating-mental-illness-and-violence.145419/

I have six diagnosed neurological conditions that interlock in a complex comorbidity matrix that can make me very hard to understand, or for me to understand others.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Sooooooo "Joker bad because media representation of mental health" allowed as a thread, "Why are the media so up themselves about the Joker film?" isn't?



is there, like, even any fucking pretense at moderation consistency at this point?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I went off on someone back in college who insisted that all mass shooters had to be mentally ill. That's the problem; the insinuation that evil and violence must be the cause of some extenuating circumstance that can be easily controlled, and not the banal happenstance of a society that deems these ills feelings towards the vulnerable socially acceptable while simultaneously allowing people to hoard deadly weapons. An America with a perfect mental health system will not stop these events from occurring.

...the actual fuck?

[NekoFever]

also:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/equivocating-mental-illness-and-violence.145419/

I have six diagnosed neurological conditions that interlock in a complex comorbidity matrix that can make me very hard to understand, or for me to understand others.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Joker movie was so non controversial.

era is fucking distinguished mentally-challenged fellowed.

They're all just salty this is the best comic book movie to date

[Potato]

Why is mental ill health worn as a badge at REEEEsetera? So much so that to not have a mental health condition actually paints you as abnormal.

[Nintex]

Why is mental ill health worn as a badge at REEEEsetera? So much so that to not have a mental health condition actually paints you as abnormal.

Eewww get out saney

[Propagandhim]

 

also:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/equivocating-mental-illness-and-violence.145419/

I have six diagnosed neurological conditions that interlock in a complex comorbidity matrix that can make me very hard to understand, or for me to understand others.

Sounds like he's selling me on the features list for a new laptop. 6 Overclocked GTX cores on a CoMorbity Matrix 980XL

spoiler (click to show/hide)

i take antidepressants  :'(

[close]

[Potato]

What annoys me so much about it is that any time a film uses mental ill health as motivation for an antagonist they are up in arms, but in every other thread over there, some REEEEsetera member is using their own mental ill health to explain their antisocial behaviour.

[Propagandhim]

I like when the Ree incels have to preemptively apologize for being incels.  "I can't get laid, but I'm not like those people.  Please don't think of me like one of those guys."  Like, it's bad enough you can't get laid, now you have to preemptively apologize to excelsior and red mercury for it.   I'd just order Nembutal and get it over with at that point. 

[Cauliflower Of Love]

So, disclaimer. This thread is inspired by Joker, but I don’t want it to be *about* Joker.

First sentence.

[Lonewulfeus]

I like when the Ree incels have to preemptively apologize for being incels.  "I can't get laid, but I'm not like those people.  Please don't think of me like one of those guys."  Like, it's bad enough you can't get laid, now you have to preemptively apologize to excelsior and red mercury for it.   I'd just order Nembutal and get it over with at that point.

I wish bore incels would apologize for their existence

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/buy-sell-trade-thread-2019-read-the-new-rules-in-the-op.454/page-454

WTS
Devil May Cry 5 - $30

On sale for $18 from gamefly right now - https://www.gamefly.com/game/devil-may-cry-5/5018046

How’s that help him if he’s selling it.

it does not, but it let's interested users know there is a cheaper option.

Kind of a CB.

Might want to review the OP.

5. Don’t complain about prices

    Everyone involved is just either looking to buy, sell, or trade. If someone wants a certain amount of money for something, the amount of money it's worth will be determined by the people willing to pay for it. There's no need to guilt people for selling items they received for free or fussing about perceived overcharging. It's a free market. Labeling a Seller as a “scalper” or any other derogatory term is absolutely NOT allowed.


    The ONLY exception to this rule is when an item is currently still widely available for a lower price from a readily accessible seller. For instance, if a Seller lists a game for $55, but that same game is available (in-stock) at Best Buy for $45, then you may inform others of the cheaper item. You must do this in a matter of fact manner though and, as mentioned above, you may not call out the Seller in any way.

Literally what he did then? I called out his complaining.

The person you quoted didn't complain about a price. They simply posted a link to the same item for sale elsewhere, exactly as specified in the rule that was quoted.

You're the one that hopped in with the cockblock comment.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

They literally have an exception in their guidebook to allow derailing a thread.

amazing.

[OnlyRegret]

Why is mental ill health worn as a badge at REEEEsetera? So much so that to not have a mental health condition actually paints you as abnormal.

A combination probably of some greater awareness/acceptance lending people to be more forthright with their struggles on one side. And on the other, some inherently terrible people co-opting whatever to make themselves feel special and manipulate people. See: stolen valour, suicide blackmail, etc.

[Straight Edge]

Why is mental ill health worn as a badge at REEEEsetera? So much so that to not have a mental health condition actually paints you as abnormal.

When you’re a white cishet male, it’s the only card you can play to get those sweet sweet oppression points.

[Straight Edge]

Double post

[clothedmacuser]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joker-ot-viviamo-in-una-societ%C3%A0-spoilers.140109/post-25201326

Joker spoilers. But, way to not get called out for calling a small person Midget.

oh, hey, excelsheet acting like a cunt for no reason, and undoubtedly hammering the report button on the people pointing out "it sucks and they shouldn't have done it" isn't actually "criticism"

I'm going to assume she's arguing the movie is poorly made and bad film making while only bringing up moral issues like glorifying violence or promoting incels.  The same way a shirt is "poorly designed," if it shows cleavage.

[bork]

The classic heel tactic of spitting green mist is now "racist" in pro wrestling according to Era.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/dubya-dubya-eee-worthless-gimmick-match-pay-per-view-is-tonight.145434/page-9

She's Japanese, so she has to use the Mist you see...

Fuck this

So stupid

kairi is heel? Racist poison mist? Asuka deserves better man

See this is why I really hate event threads in the OT area.  It is a breeding ground for idiots who do not know what they are talking about and just straight up shitty takes.

  Going against the hivemind

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Hey Look someone actually watched the film!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joker-ot-viviamo-in-una-societ%C3%A0-spoilers.140109/post-25211073

[team filler]

what is the reeee saying about my raidahs winning today?

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I loved the batman origin though. I got chills whenever Bruce was on screen given what's gonna happen next.

It’s kind of odd coming out of a film that has such strong reactions and thinking ‘eh, that was okay’

geee...I wonder why

[Uncle]

Hey Look someone actually watched the film!

https://www.resetera.com/threads/joker-ot-viviamo-in-una-societ%C3%A0-spoilers.140109/post-25211073

the post quoted there

Say what you will about this film.

But what I found surprising about this film (and I honestly didn't expect this) is it's...kind of progressive with its messages?


- Government funding: The film has an entire scene about how governments should spend more money (not less) on social services and mental health services. The film makes it a point that the government should provide mental health care services to everyone - not just the wealthy who can afford it.

- Wealth inequality: The film is a warning that if you allow wealth inequality to continue long enough - it all eventually leads to violence. Thomas Wayne is basically Donald Trump in this film.

- Labor unions: This film has an entire storyline about a garbage strike, where mountains of garbage are piling on the streets of poverty-stricken neighborhoods. The more the garbage piles up, the bigger the rats are becoming.

- More gun law restrictions: The film argues that it shouldn't have been so easy for Arthur to get a gun from his friend, Randal. In fact, Arthur tells Randal multiple times that he's not allowed to own a gun.

 

right on the nose with all of this

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/new-yorker-joker-is-the-comic-book-green-book-scorsese-parodies-spoilers.145456/

Thread backfired.

The OP:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Messofanego 

[close]

[Uncle]

I don't know how anyone could look at this movie as a right-wing propaganda film.

I had heard this before going to see the movie so I was actively looking for the relationship between this and alt-right viewpoints...and I found nothing.

how can this be?? ?? ?? 

[Boredfrom]

Is like the woke twitter crowd are a bunch of shallow assholes that are easily riled by uncaring pseudo intellectuals.

[Tripon]

What's an alt-right movie, Zero Dark Thirty?

[Superstar]

The classic heel tactic of spitting green mist is now "racist" in pro wrestling according to Era.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/dubya-dubya-eee-worthless-gimmick-match-pay-per-view-is-tonight.145434/page-9

She's Japanese, so she has to use the Mist you see...

Fuck this

So stupid

kairi is heel? Racist poison mist? Asuka deserves better man

See this is why I really hate event threads in the OT area.  It is a breeding ground for idiots who do not know what they are talking about and just straight up shitty takes.

  Going against the hivemind

The people who post in these wrestling threads are the most miserable people on the website, which is saying something.

[bork]

https://twitter.com/GamesNosh/status/1179369008946143238

[Uncle]

the site tracks 1 day bans too, a tiny percentage of those are permas 

[ShutUp]

The classic heel tactic of spitting green mist is now "racist" in pro wrestling according to Era.


https://www.resetera.com/threads/dubya-dubya-eee-worthless-gimmick-match-pay-per-view-is-tonight.145434/page-9

She's Japanese, so she has to use the Mist you see...

Fuck this

So stupid

kairi is heel? Racist poison mist? Asuka deserves better man

See this is why I really hate event threads in the OT area.  It is a breeding ground for idiots who do not know what they are talking about and just straight up shitty takes.

  Going against the hivemind

The people who post in these wrestling threads are the most miserable people on the website, which is saying something.

 "WWE is just SO BAD MAN GOD" as the ones with that mentality are currently posting in the OT for tonight's Hell in a Cell show. Which will likely have over 1,000 posts before the show is over.

[Shuri]

Wrestling ERA is just content, posts and opinions posted hours before on /r/squaredcircle

[Crumb]

New RLM video is out time to grab those pitchforks!