megalithic-xyster.bsky.social
Mostly just here to follow and occasionally respond. I was also a nobody on Twitter. Lawyer (not that kind). 願其名泯絕
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Awesome. War of the Gargantuas is, somewhat inexplicably, one of only two kaiju movies my 10-year-old daughter likes (the other being Mothra 1961). Looking forward to the discussion.
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I'm sorry, that is a tragedy.
I realize after the fact that my post could be read as encouragement for people to carry it out. I didn't mean that, but offered it as an example of how people think that they will escape disability.
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Thank you! I've been trying to remember the name of this mindset for a couple weeks now.
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A variation that has been repeated by several of my clients -- "I'm never going to a nursing home. I'll just kill myself if it comes to that."
They don't.
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Oh, no, you have to walk, like, 7 meters away from the main entrance to the designated smoking area. Far enough to be annoying to the smokers on a rainy day, close enough that passersby can still smell it.
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Always love it when I go to the local hospital and the outdoor smoking section invariably has at least one person puffing away in a gown and either using oxygen or an IV.
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Reagan et al consolidating the modern three heads of conservatism — big business, religious fundamentalists, and white supremacists — which were a bit less unified before the late 70s.
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Beneath the totalitarian's carefully crafted veneer of peace, the walls bleed.
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Should we criticize the worker or the boss when the workplace sucks?
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To be sure, Minus One is not blatant about these leanings. It has great things to say about grief and trauma; Shoichi's story is fantastic. But the subtext, the conscious omissions, the qualified nature of its critiques, the geopolitical depictions, are all nationalistic.
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Respectfully disagree. The only sympathy extended is to the racial in-group; the critique of the empire is a Dolchstoßlegende about distant officers, not the empire's cruelties; the foreign enemy is both stifling strong and ineptly weak; the solution is to create a 1919 Freikorps.
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The really discordant thing to me is how much Yamazaki says he loves this movie — to the point of making several clear references in Minus One — only to use that influence to make the most overtly pro-fascist Godzilla movie.
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Huh, never thought of that. Looking again, I’m getting Gomess body with a Pagos-ish head.
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I will scoff in metalhead at this controversy. One of my favorite albums in high school had a photo of literally JFK’s brains as the cover. There were plenty of others I had to grit my feminist teeth and ignore the bare boobs on to get to the good music within. This seems so tame.
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Trump seems to love this song. He’s been playing it at his rallies for YEARS and it seems so obtusely oblivious, much like his love of “YMCA.”
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It seems to be one of Trump’s favorites. He keeps playing it.
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As a central Ohio Godzilla fan … where at?
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I seem to recall this being an argument between some of the worst people on Twitter during the election last year, though at the time it was through the lens of visas for tech workers. The capitalists assumed there'd be (self-serving) limits to the racism, the racists called them traitors.
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The fourteen-year-old boy test — always run the proposed design/slogan by a young teen boy and if he starts snickering, try again.
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I know almost nothing about the Master, but have heard him compared to Jugglus Juggler, and I can make parallels between Juggler and Sinestro, so…yes?
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Homo hostilis generalis.
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That perspective is messed up.
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This is not meant to criticize the creators or the characters, but to bemoan the actions/takeaways of a portion of the audience.
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Of course, but I feel that some of the vindictive viciousness of the people destroying society today — and the voters who excuse it — is downstream of people glamorizing characters like Scarface, Punisher, Gordon Gekko, etc. Some % of the population identifies with a bad guy’s coolness too much.
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The Great Dane hug!
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Reading this while walking a combined 260 lbs of two dogs, one of whom is a great da e/wolfhound mix — hell yeah.
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This is literally the worst piece of literature I can think of to try to pull this shit with.
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About 20 years ago, I was in a record store in Reykjavik when Aðalbjörn Tryggvason (singer/guitarist of Sólstafir) came in and started browsing beside me. At least I think so - I'm bad enough with faces that it could have been someone aping his style, so I didn't say anything.
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Early 00s, working at a movie theater in DFW.
Coworker: Hey, man, your friend looks like Emmitt Smith.
Emmitt Smith's friend, with a laugh: Oh, yeah, 'looks like.'
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I feel like over the last 40 years, we have made too many cool villains and now are paying a societal price.
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If you like Showa stuff, yes! It is hella Showa. Also, Dr Gori and Kara’s (La in the English dub) are routinely among the best dressed toku villains ever
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Gotta assume that was tongue in cheek that some insecure fans talked themselves into taking seriously.
The alternative is…ghastly.
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It’s a problem that is ingrained in some people constitutionally and some of those people helped make the various world religions, so…
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Thinking back to the Austin Powers 3 scene where Austin and his dad just spoke in accented British idioms and their American compatriots couldn’t understand them. Probably the only time I, an American, have actually heard someone utter the phrase “at sixes and sevens.”
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Unapologetically embracing your out of the ordinary fandom in a positive manner is the good kind of weird.
Obsessing over other people’s sex lives and genitals is the bad kind of weird, as was brought up in last year’s American election.
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“Weird” and “nerd” at one time were mostly insults but have since been claimed by people who are okay being different or by fans of sci-fi, fantasy, etc. They can still be insults, sure, but also endearing (as here). Language is full of little invisible social battles.
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A John Paul Stevens L, that one.
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Still love the woman at the local preferred Chinese place who would hear our number when I called in and already knew my wife’s order. I how she’s enjoying retirement.
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That is definitely not the right format for the Ohio Administrative Code.
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The layers-
1. The demand should be paramount
2. Regrettably, optics matter
3a. Bad faith actors criticize optics to undermine the movement
3b. Good faith allies need to be aware of 3a if they also offer critiques
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As with Boomers, Gen Cers, and Millennials before them, whenever the new generation reaches young adulthood, their parents’ generation (and a little older) start a moral panic about their supposed failings. This is a product of the older generation’s neuroses and insecurities.
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Not sure about posts about protest, but I did see a really uncharacteristically blithe one about the US immigration system (he seemed to recommend that immigrants to marry Americans, but not in a fraudulent way, as though that actually protects people)
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The inheritors of the John Birch Society’s members convincing themselves that the government was being taken over by communists from within.
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Gonna have Grímur á Miðalnesi stuck in my head all day now (approving)
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That margin tho
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As a more extreme-style metal fan, I generally disapprove of glam rock, but “Kickstart My Heart” by Motley Crue is almost always welcome.
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Where that much Skyline Chili would give us mere mortals vasovagal syncope, it triggers the Super Saiyan reflex in Goku.
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Notably, this is John Roberts’s justification for demolishing the Voting Rights Act
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Graduated high school in early 00s. History classes stopped at the end of 1945. The only Civil Rights history I was taught was in elementary school in Iowa in the 90s; at that age 25-30 years ago was another world.
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Looks like he was drawn for a 90s DC animated show.