Worst, laziest cop-out ever. I have no time for that plot device. Inception was a no go for me for that reason, even though it wasn't a standard "it's just a dream!" theme. No thanks
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I hope that is how the last fire and ice novel ends.
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One thing that annoys me is when IPs bring characters back from the dead through alternate timelines and time travel. Comic books are really bad with this.
If everyone can come back to life then nothing matters since everyone is effectively immortal.
If everyone can come back to life then nothing matters since everyone is effectively immortal.
Don't they usually just bring them back without an excuse? Or rather "well we're not writing that universe anymore, it's a reboot in random new universe in our infinite realities."
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Starting a new series is more forgiveable than time travel. I don't like time travel as a story telling concept.
How many times must Uncle Ben die?
How many times must Uncle Ben die?
What difference does it make if it's Spiderman from universe 606 or universe 607, or the future Spiderman from universe 606? It's just another Spiderman reboot. People expect too much out of comic books.
There's also 'seemed like they died but in fact transcended to another dimension/state of being, then decided to come back to this one'
I think Jesus was the first one to do that.
I think Jesus was the first one to do that.
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erm anyone with an anthro #101 class could inform you that the form of the jesus myth is much older than christian theology. same as with virgin births, being-the-chosen-one, etc.
All the original super-hero stories are the same, mysterious birth/origin, wandered in the desert, discovery of super-powers, unjust death, supernatural resurrection.
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you sure are making an incisive commentary by comparing jesus christ to superheroes. very transgressive stuff.
i remember being 13 too and reading about the parallels between the life of jesus christ and some ancient egyptian child god theology. wowsers!!! so ... comparative religion is a subject? and media studies too? mind blown!!!!
i remember being 13 too and reading about the parallels between the life of jesus christ and some ancient egyptian child god theology. wowsers!!! so ... comparative religion is a subject? and media studies too? mind blown!!!!
What if Goku was bitten by a radioactive spider, crossover alternate universe youtube series part 1 of 24.
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Listening to first hand accounts of World War 2 from German military leaders who survived. It is comical how full of shit they are. Every surviving German general seems to have a story about how they argued with Hitler against doing something evil Hitler and someone else who is dead and can't defend themselves ordered.
to be fair the german 'establishment' has taken responsibility for ww2 in a way that, say, japan hasn't, nor even (vichy) france or italy.
jokes abound about the slipperiness of french official historiography and popular culture about the war. everyone claims to have been a resistant ... when really there's ample evidence that many french openly cooperated with the germans, or colluded in exporting jews, etc.
as for generals insisting contrariwise, i'm sure there's something like the old prussian-junker arrogance there. the old noble caste who can't accept that they contributed to something abominable, and who are deeply high on their own supply of martial honour, proper conduct, just war, etc. asking the soldiers who went away to die, or who saw their friends and comrades killed, etc, to openly disavow what they did might be asking a bit much. the important thing is that the german state has officially accepted culpability, many times over.
jokes abound about the slipperiness of french official historiography and popular culture about the war. everyone claims to have been a resistant ... when really there's ample evidence that many french openly cooperated with the germans, or colluded in exporting jews, etc.
as for generals insisting contrariwise, i'm sure there's something like the old prussian-junker arrogance there. the old noble caste who can't accept that they contributed to something abominable, and who are deeply high on their own supply of martial honour, proper conduct, just war, etc. asking the soldiers who went away to die, or who saw their friends and comrades killed, etc, to openly disavow what they did might be asking a bit much. the important thing is that the german state has officially accepted culpability, many times over.
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I have three new copies of some Ayn Rand books paid for by a grant from the Ayn Rand institute over a decade ago. I am trying to come onto the Korean English teacher and offered to help clean out her room. She has some brand new books all boxed up: The fountainhead, Atlas shrugged, and Anthem. She let me take one of each since she never used them.
I am now Mac Shuburt
I am now Mac Shuburt
I have an ancient copy of one of her books that brags in a blurb about how she knew little English but was determined even if publishers declared it unsellable (look at it now!), underneath an unenticing summary (only one chosen one stands out from the herd or whatever).
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Would you like me to hook you up with a brand new student edition?
I got that picture from an ebay listing. The person is selling dozens of copies of the student edition which leads me to believe somebody also found a box of these things and is trying to sell it.
Why would somebody do something like that? It says on the back "NOT FOR RESALE"
I got that picture from an ebay listing. The person is selling dozens of copies of the student edition which leads me to believe somebody also found a box of these things and is trying to sell it.
Why would somebody do something like that? It says on the back "NOT FOR RESALE"
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After having read the introduction to Anthem, I have become an objectivist. I went through the same change RTHKI made when he saw AdamsBJ just standing there putting out a fire.
As an objectivist, I have a moral imperative to seduce the English teacher. Ayn Rand said so.
As an objectivist, I have a moral imperative to seduce the English teacher. Ayn Rand said so.
There is a … student edition …
of Atlas Shrugged.
Think about that for a moment.
of Atlas Shrugged.
Think about that for a moment.
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The fact that they made a student edition is less weird to me than them sending cases of these to a school for free. They probably sent lesson plans and other material for free too that way the teacher doesn't need to do so much work...wat.
Something about having "student edition" of a hypercapitalism erotic novel just made me want to reread the Libertarian Police Department again.
Don't start me on the miserable books I had to read at school.
Black Banners - Ali Soufan
Interesting stuff. Obviously he was big-noting himself but probably he had a right to. My god the CIA are morons.
Anyone remember the discussions about torturing people on this forum?
I think that makes book #53.
Black Banners - Ali Soufan
Interesting stuff. Obviously he was big-noting himself but probably he had a right to. My god the CIA are morons.
Anyone remember the discussions about torturing people on this forum?
I think that makes book #53.
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You don't want to know what I've been reading but it's pure trash. Mildly amusing schlock.
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Torturing people is only bad when our enemies do it. When we do it it is because we have no other optionsDilbert_X wrote:
Don't start me on the miserable books I had to read at school.
Black Banners - Ali Soufan
Interesting stuff. Obviously he was big-noting himself but probably he had a right to. My god the CIA are morons.
Anyone remember the discussions about torturing people on this forum?
I think that makes book #53.
In /r/combatfootage somebody posted a video of the U.S. dropping a guided bomb into a building in the middle of a city. When Russia levels a city it is a war crime. When we level a city it is because we have no other options
Idk I hear plenty of ppl calling what we do war crimes
Ayn Rand was rejected for a high school book report once. I had proposed it for mine because the book was short, I already knew the gist, and I was being drowned in other work.Dilbert_X wrote:
Don't start me on the miserable books I had to read at school.
I think I was given Great Expectations instead, because of course it would be one of those. Probably just plagiarized my previous year's edition and put some 11th grade (or w/e) polish on it. Sometimes I could get out of it and be given another book, other times I was out of luck. I don't think anything prior or since has made me abhor a book more than the public school fixation on Dickens. Each time I had to skim through, the more actively my brain rejected the usual immersion I enjoy when reading a novel.
How many students were unable to compartmentalize, and so had their love of reading thoroughly stripped by dry and bland (a maybe unfair perception amplified by droll repetition) reading requirements?
This has maybe been my third time in the past 10 years posting about this. Pushing my luck, I know.