River Of Slime |OT| Mission: Impossible

[clothedmacuser]

Fact: Princess Jasmine was a hardcore alcoholic who would physically abuse Aladdin,  make Genie preform degrading tricks, and relied on Rajah as an enabler as well as fall guy for the mysterious poops found in the palace.

[VomKriege]

Also, who the fuck is that admin. Never heard of them before.

He's the replacement for Finale Fireworker.

[clothedmacuser]

The Mod/Admin burnout rate at Era is embarrassing.   They really should unionize.   

[Pissy F Benny]

I imagine being constantly bombarded with reports, dm’s n shit from certain protected users becomes a tad boring after a time.

[ShutUp]

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.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Look, whether Jokerdingers Shooting ever actually happens or not is besides the point, the important thing to remember is that Era were right all along, and that all the people banned for dismissing other users concerns about a moral panic, downplaying hypothetical future actions of a hate movement and trolling other users over a series of posts saying 'maybe breathe into a paper bag for a bit?' definitely deserved it

[Potato]

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.

I'm seeing it tomorrow, so there's still time

[Potato]

Look, whether Jokerdingers Shooting ever actually happens or not is besides the point, the important thing to remember is that Era were right all along, and that all the people banned for dismissing other users concerns about a moral panic, downplaying hypothetical future actions of a hate movement and trolling other users over a series of posts saying 'maybe breathe into a paper bag for a bit?' definitely deserved it

You know they do this all the time right? But the paper bag is filled with their own farts and they like to huff their own farts.

[Crash Dummy]

Look, whether Jokerdingers Shooting ever actually happens or not is besides the point, the important thing to remember is that Era were right all along, and that all the people banned for dismissing other users concerns about a moral panic, downplaying hypothetical future actions of a hate movement and trolling other users over a series of posts saying 'maybe breathe into a paper bag for a bit?' definitely deserved it

"...mass movements strive to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth outside it..."

[Potato]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/game-dev-exposes-kotaku-they-asked-me-for-1500-if-i-want-to-quote-their-review-of-my-game.1505182/

NaziGAF continues to be generally confused about how the world keeps turning.

[Potato]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/pentagon-official-theres-compelling-evidence-that-we-might-not-be-alone.1504708/

The other option is that the powers that be are getting the population ready for a false flag alien attack which would mean we have some dark dark times ahead for us.

The crazy over there is real.

[team filler]

did amirox get a hug from the judge and the victims family? 

[Transhuman]

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/pentagon-official-theres-compelling-evidence-that-we-might-not-be-alone.1504708/

The other option is that the powers that be are getting the population ready for a false flag alien attack which would mean we have some dark dark times ahead for us.

The crazy over there is real.

I hope aliens happens in my lifetime so I can fight them with the rest of the resistance Independance Day-style. Or destroy their way of life and fuck a princess like in Avatar.

[Potato]

The thought that in a universe that's 13.8 billion years old, two sufficiently advanced species evolved at the same time at locations sufficiently close together to allow them to travel between their respective solar systems is absurd.

[Transhuman]

So you're saying James Cameron made a film about sexy space aliens because he's some sort of pervert or something?

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I'm like... 80%? sure most of era will be falling over themselves to be collaborators in a hypothetical alien invasion

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

Sector Purged (40%): Downplaying benefaction of the Z'zlluthar Allegiance, Inflammatory rhetoric of false equivalence, Severe History of Insurrections

[VomKriege]

I'm like... 80%? sure most of era will be falling over themselves to be collaborators in a hypothetical alien invasion

Depends on their opinion on the 2016 primaries.

[VomKriege]

And the armour design of their female soldiers.

[VomKriege]

Please take me away from this planet aliens. Even if I'm just am exhibit in a zoo. I'll be fine

Then after 10 years you can claim adverse possession of the cage !

https://www.resetera.com/threads/popular-mechanics-the-navy-says-ufo-videos-published-by-the-ny-times-are-real-never-meant-to-be-released-to-the-public.141466/post-24595369

Some guy managed to make it about baby boomers

it felt like watching you argue with the spirit of the Baby Boomers. "You think this universe likes you? you're not special, no alien is going to come here and be nice to you, you better go out and get a job and pay your taxes and stop waiting on ET because that's the real world. Also, I'm dying....please hold my hand."

https://www.resetera.com/threads/popular-mechanics-the-navy-says-ufo-videos-published-by-the-ny-times-are-real-never-meant-to-be-released-to-the-public.141466/post-24727518

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/josh-brolin-defends-%E2%80%9Cjoker%E2%80%9D-against-critics-as-a-true-work-of-art-on-showcasing-society.145337/post-25191551


Locked: Please don't make threads that prove our reputation true

OP banned

User Banned (duration pending): Trolling with intent to antagonize, creating a thread in bad faith

It's always trolling when someone is too woke 

Sounds a lot like dismissing concerns

[Great Rumbler]

If Bore started banning people for "trolling with intent to antagonize," there'd be nobody left after a few days.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/josh-brolin-defends-%E2%80%9Cjoker%E2%80%9D-against-critics-as-a-true-work-of-art-on-showcasing-society.145337/post-25191551


Locked: Please don't make threads that prove our reputation true

OP banned

User Banned (duration pending): Trolling with intent to antagonize, creating a thread in bad faith

It's always trolling when someone is too woke 

Sounds a lot like dismissing concerns

That thread could only possibly be viewed as "bad faith" or "trolling" if you take the perspective that you have posters on your site that are so fucking sanctimonious, self righteous and zealous, that the mere statement of an opinion contrary to their own, no matter how well reasoned or argued, is going to trigger them into a report button mashing apoplexy of furious indignation that how fucking dare someone - anyone - not agree with what they have declared the Truth to be.

And as a mod how do you look at the problem and decide its the people who don't 100% fall in line with certain posters barely coherent and literally uninformed opinion that are the problem.
Even if one of those posters happens to be a mod.

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

I mean, I hate to be the one to bring up abduction stories because of the hostility it brings with some people, but since we're talking about aliens and their possible interest in us. Most if not all abduction stories the aliens just treat us like we would examine a dolphin for example. Check them biologically and then tag and release. I'd imagine they'd have at least some scientific interest in us at the very least. Even if we're not ""special".

...
I think it's a grim reality if abductions are real due to the various experiences people have. Some are all lovey dovey. But some people are terrified have been raped and have PTSD.

if a veterinarian uses a rectal thermometer, they're not "raping" a patient

[Boredfrom]

This definitely deserves its own thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spanish-far-right-political-party-shows-up-on-a-gaming-event-with-a-jacket-claiming-is-a-present-from-my-friends-of-cyberpunk-2077.145376/#post-25196391

[Nintex]

supporting Vox is inexcusable, these people are monsters

 

[Boredfrom]

Given that it sounds like Twitter drama, I got the feeling somebody is totally not using hyperbole. 

[HaughtyFrank]

This definitely deserves its own thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spanish-far-right-political-party-shows-up-on-a-gaming-event-with-a-jacket-claiming-is-a-present-from-my-friends-of-cyberpunk-2077.145376/#post-25196391

No cancel culture to see here, please move along

[Anti-Monitor]

To be fair, Vox is fucking scum. But that doesn't mean CDPR is making any sort of political statement or anything, which is what they seem to be implying.

[Pwnz]

Pretty sure just the text CDPR triggers transphobia concern trolling for dozens of posters on re. Oh noes a dystopian future has lots of dystopia, including corporations monetizing non binary genders, oh the transphobia blah blah blah

[zepblackstar]

This definitely deserves its own thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/spanish-far-right-political-party-shows-up-on-a-gaming-event-with-a-jacket-claiming-is-a-present-from-my-friends-of-cyberpunk-2077.145376/#post-25196391

Shouldn't they be more worried that gamers and devs were talking to him and taking pictures and showing demos

The scandal!

[Cauliflower Of Love]

I mean, I hate to be the one to bring up abduction stories because of the hostility it brings with some people, but since we're talking about aliens and their possible interest in us. Most if not all abduction stories the aliens just treat us like we would examine a dolphin for example. Check them biologically and then tag and release. I'd imagine they'd have at least some scientific interest in us at the very least. Even if we're not ""special".

...
I think it's a grim reality if abductions are real due to the various experiences people have. Some are all lovey dovey. But some people are terrified have been raped and have PTSD.

if a veterinarian uses a rectal thermometer, they're not "raping" a patient

Define patient.

[CHOW CHOW]

Got so excited thinking we were about to have an another incredible 30 page transphobia thread, about to CDPR to boot, only to see it was some nonsense and locked after a page.  Worst blue balls ever.
 

[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.