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Like a spaceship traveling through the technicolor void of gender
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Yeah, pretty much exactly my feelings
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He's making a Duke Nukem show
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regard for who that Duke was, why he existed, or how he was a parody, one who just spouts off outdated one-liners and whose roided-up, meathead misogyny isn't treated like a parody, but instead is practically indistinguishable from Andrew Tate?
Spoiler alert: they're gonna do the latter.
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Are they gonna create a Duke who truly condenses down the past 15 years of action hero characters, who's infused with a commitment to the bit that makes these traits read as over the top and parodic, who is exaggerated in every way?
Or are they gonna make a Duke who apes the 1996 Duke with no
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the guy who when the chips are down, steps up and goes balls to the wall to protect what's important to him: the babes.
And as for this show? Action movies have changed a lot from when we last saw Duke, and a lot from when we last saw a Duke who was actually executed well as a character.
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without even being played for laughs.
Imagine a Duke who, with the time that's passed, has much more updated one-liners, who's a bit tired of this shit, who's maybe a bit lost in the more modern world of 2011, who's maybe a bit more drunk and aloof but still at his core
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but no, you absolutely could have. Imagine a Duke taking nods from characters played by the likes of Vin Diesel, Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, with a bit of Wesley Snipes, Johnny Depp, and Keanu Reeves for additional flavor. This Duke avoids the stagnation of being the same guy from 1996
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and other aspects, but played him entirely straight.
Forever's Duke isn't parodying anything; he's presented almost aspirationally, with no sense of the irony Duke 3D kept about him. I remember a lot of people thinking you couldn't make a Duke game anymore, it just wouldn't work these days (2011)
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Duke is supposed to reflect and parody the pop culture of the times. Forever didn't update Duke for 2011 and make him a parody of the action heroes from the late 90s through the aughts. It kept him stuck in the 80s, and made choices with his characterization that not only reinforced the misogyny
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Duke 3D's Duke is a pitch perfect parody of action movie heroes of the 80s/early 90s - overly muscled, quippy but otherwise a meathead, macho and misogynist in equal measure.
So what went wrong with Forever, and what does it look like @apogeeent.com expects from this adaptation?
It's simple.
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like They Live, Evil Dead, Die Hard. He's an entire era of action movie condensed into one guy and given the motivation of saving the babes. Johnny Bravo is like what happens if you take Duke and tone him down for a kid's show and make him more explicitly the butt of the joke.
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because he's there to save the babes. He's dumb, he's crude, he's vain, he gets steroids as a pickup that boost his capabilities temporarily, he can piss in the toilet to gain health, then kick the toilet apart and drink the water that comes from the pipes too. He drops one-liners taken from movies
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misogynist, sure, but he's very clearly played for laughs. He's the butt of the joke. He's a point of parody, a parody of the Stallone/Schwarzenegger/Van Damme archetype and the macho manly man hero who always gets the girl. Duke's that guy, but he doesn't just get the girl, he gets all the girls
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Duke 3D gave us the fully realized character of Duke Nukem, well beyond what the first two games could come up with. So why did Duke 3D work and Forever suck? You might be wondering, isn't Duke a roided up meathead misogynist in both?
Well, here's the thing. Duke 3D's Duke is a roided up meathead
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Wait, Stephen Fry managed to figure it out? That’s extremely surprising
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Fucking banger insults earning this a 📌
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The bowing and scraping and mewling to the center-right from this Susan’s Place-ass cunt would be disgusting enough if she wasn’t a politician but at this point she’s just a walking Harry Turtledove novel whose premise is “what if Brianna Wu didn’t lose her campaign”
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This is what you want for yourself? A life of saying your trans siblings have just gone too far so you can keep getting Mr’ed by people who will never stop hating you? A legacy of lapping up whatever politician’s piss didn’t land on your face? Get your orchi reversed and grow some balls, cunt
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Like where do we think Blanchard got this stuff from lmao
Research? Nah
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Can I just say yes?
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I squat one of mine, so I get this
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Let the idea be inspiration for a future day 😊
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Why are the hets like this?
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I seriously thought it was a clicker first when I saw this on reddit
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I have the equipment. That’s just not really possible.
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I find it so curious that the detransition grift seems to always be from formerly transmasc people. I wonder what the psychology of it is. I almost want to study them
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I mean, she already covered that bit in the post, so yeah, she does seem to know what she’s talking about
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I may need to incorporate this into the longboi I'm working on
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Deported. Stupid autocorrect
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Good gods