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Post by boxofscreaming on Jun 30, 2019 22:01:41 GMT
There is no "fish hook" on the political scale. Far-Left factions do not swing to resemble any "far-Right" Fascists. Fascist were always far-Left. The real political scale. Fascism and Nazism are far left ideologies, and always were. They were murderously hostile enemies with "Bolshevism"/Communism, just like Sunni and Shia, Catholics and Protestants were once. Doesn't make them "far-right". The manifests of both Fascism and Nazism clearly describes themselves as Socialists. Modified socialism. If Hitler was a lefty, why did right-wing politicians like Papen and Hindenburg put him in power? Socialism means social ownership of the economy. Nazis and fascists supported private ownership of the economy - that's why private businesses like Krupp and IG Farben were brought to account after the war. Fact is, you can call yourself anything you want - there's a far-right party in Russia called the Liberal Democratic Party, but they're not liberal or very democratic either.
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Post by Andraste_Reborn on Jun 30, 2019 23:17:27 GMT
Fact is, you can call yourself anything you want - there's a far-right party in Russia called the Liberal Democratic Party, but they're not liberal or very democratic either. In Australia, the leading conservatives are the Liberal Party, because we just need to be confusing that way.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Jul 1, 2019 5:58:01 GMT
There is no "fish hook" on the political scale. Far-Left factions do not swing to resemble any "far-Right" Fascists. Fascist were always far-Left. The real political scale. Fascism and Nazism are far left ideologies, and always were. They were murderously hostile enemies with "Bolshevism"/Communism, just like Sunni and Shia, Catholics and Protestants were once. Doesn't make them "far-right". The manifests of both Fascism and Nazism clearly describes themselves as Socialists. Modified socialism. If Hitler was a lefty, why did right-wing politicians like Papen and Hindenburg put him in power? Socialism means social ownership of the economy. Nazis and fascists supported private ownership of the economy - that's why private businesses like Krupp and IG Farben were brought to account after the war. Fact is, you can call yourself anything you want - there's a far-right party in Russia called the Liberal Democratic Party, but they're not liberal or very democratic either. Indeed, you can call yourself (and others) whatever. That is painfully obvious. Which is why I brought some order to the values with my table. We're not supposed to discuss politics in this forum, which is why I only laughed and put a like on DomeWing333's comment, ...plus that he actually didn't made any argument. As for your argument, even Nazis and Communists need someone to do the daily running of business. Is modern Communist China a "rightwing" state? I kinda feel it's not about the formal "ownership", but rather the relationship to the state and collective, that is maybe the distinction. And the owners of the more than 100,000 companies and business properties which the Nazis confiscated would have something to say about that "Nazis and fascists supported private ownership", ...if they could.
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Post by operationathena on Jul 1, 2019 23:16:54 GMT
Dark Phoenix is ten times better than Captain Marvel and even better than Avengers Endgame. You are trying to start a war, aren't you?!
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Post by masseffectfanforlife on Jul 3, 2019 6:44:40 GMT
I know the Joel Schumacher Batman movies are hated around the world (mostly towards Batman & Robin), but I can't help it. I don't like Batman & Robin (despite enjoying it when I was younger), but I like Batman: Forever. It has it's issues (some that would become worse in B&R), but it also has great moments, and a great soundtrack. Don't know if I'd call it a guilty pleasure, though...
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Post by ScumbagShepurd on Jul 3, 2019 7:58:34 GMT
Mass Effect 3 was, besides the end, really damn good, it also featured the best DLC ever (Leviathan).
I think that's the popular consensus.
The actual unpopular opinion (which is mine) is that it was a bad game all-around.
I also thought ME2 was meh.
ME2 is da best for me. Unpopular opinion: ME1 was quite boring and repetitive.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2019 8:28:57 GMT
I think that's the popular consensus.
The actual unpopular opinion (which is mine) is that it was a bad game all-around.
I also thought ME2 was meh.
ME2 is da best for me. Unpopular opinion: ME1 was quite boring and repetitive. ME1 was the weakest gameplay and level design-wise (sans the openness aspect), but the story, ambience, and the fact that it felt the most "hard sci fi" makes it the best imo.
It was also the only one that had non-laughable main antagonists
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Post by ScumbagShepurd on Jul 4, 2019 3:07:51 GMT
ME2 is da best for me. Unpopular opinion: ME1 was quite boring and repetitive. ME1 was the weakest gameplay and level design-wise (sans the openness aspect), but the story, ambience, and the fact that it felt the most "hard sci fi" makes it the best imo.
It was also the only one that had non-laughable main antagonists
hard sci-fi isn't better per se than some space opera or hero-centered fantasy, it's just a question of preferences. repetitiveness of ME1 gameplay, however, is a fact. I 'member DA2 was torn to pieces for their cloned dungeons. ME1 is DA2 when it comes to gameplay.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2019 3:26:57 GMT
ME1 was the weakest gameplay and level design-wise (sans the openness aspect), but the story, ambience, and the fact that it felt the most "hard sci fi" makes it the best imo.
It was also the only one that had non-laughable main antagonists
hard sci-fi isn't better per se than some space opera or hero-centered fantasy, it's just a question of preferences. repetitiveness of ME1 gameplay, however, is a fact. I 'member DA2 was torn to pieces for their cloned dungeons. ME1 is DA2 when it comes to gameplay.
I never denied the hard sci fi aspect being preference.
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Post by N7Pathfinder on Jul 4, 2019 15:41:51 GMT
hard sci-fi isn't better per se than some space opera or hero-centered fantasy, it's just a question of preferences. repetitiveness of ME1 gameplay, however, is a fact. I 'member DA2 was torn to pieces for their cloned dungeons. ME1 is DA2 when it comes to gameplay.
I never denied the hard sci fi aspect being preference.
Sue me, but I'm more of a Mass Effect 3 guy. It has the same (or at least mostly the same) great combat from the second game, but it involved the characters from Mass Effect 1 (who I honestly like better than the ones from 2) and I loved how the Normandy felt more alive with characters changing positions and even having conversations with each other.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2019 20:35:47 GMT
I never denied the hard sci fi aspect being preference.
Sue me, but I'm more of a Mass Effect 3 guy. It has the same (or at least mostly the same) great combat from the second game, but it involved the characters from Mass Effect 1 (who I honestly like better than the ones from 2) and I loved how the Normandy felt more alive with characters changing positions and even having conversations with each other. 3 had the best gameplay but the worst story.
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Post by N7Pathfinder on Jul 6, 2019 4:12:41 GMT
Sue me, but I'm more of a Mass Effect 3 guy. It has the same (or at least mostly the same) great combat from the second game, but it involved the characters from Mass Effect 1 (who I honestly like better than the ones from 2) and I loved how the Normandy felt more alive with characters changing positions and even having conversations with each other. 3 had the best gameplay but the worst story. Eh, even that's a little subjective. I kind of liked the whole "this-is-the-biggest-fight-of-our-lives" vibe from many of the story missions and character interactions. But I will admit the ending lacks a really significant payoff.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Jul 6, 2019 18:02:39 GMT
Unpopular opinion: George RR Martin is a mediocre writer at best and his world building skills are also very mediocre, maybe even unimaginative.
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Post by Son of Dorn on Jul 6, 2019 18:57:33 GMT
Unpopular opinion: George RR Martin is a mediocre writer at best and his world building skills are also very mediocre, maybe even unimaginative. Given how he has been sitting on his fat ass for years, not finishing the GoT books which led to the TV show suffering in quality, I would say that is quite accurate.
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Post by Lorn on Jul 7, 2019 1:29:27 GMT
Unpopular opinion: George RR Martin is a mediocre writer at best and his world building skills are also very mediocre, maybe even unimaginative. Given how he has been sitting on his fat ass for years, not finishing the GoT books which led to the TV show suffering in quality, I would say that is quite accurate. The TV show suffering in quality was hardly his fault; the show runners are only good at adapting pre-written story lines.
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Post by Son of Dorn on Jul 7, 2019 1:32:26 GMT
Given how he has been sitting on his fat ass for years, not finishing the GoT books which led to the TV show suffering in quality, I would say that is quite accurate. The TV show suffering in quality was hardly his fault; the show runners are only good at adapting pre-written story lines. Still, the books should have been finished before adapting them for the show. Otherwise, well you know...
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Post by Lorn on Jul 7, 2019 2:14:34 GMT
The TV show suffering in quality was hardly his fault; the show runners are only good at adapting pre-written story lines. Still, the books should have been finished before adapting them for the show. Otherwise, well you know... Perhaps, it's likely that it would have been finished had the show not been the success it was. Martin would be diluting the popularity of the show by releasing Winds of Winter while it was still ongoing. It also would not have helped the show if they diverged even further from that book since critics would just point to the books as "canon".
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Post by masseffectfanforlife on Jul 7, 2019 5:10:53 GMT
I'm not that interested in a film like Citizen Kane.
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Post by Lavochkin on Jul 7, 2019 7:48:34 GMT
I'm not that interested in a film like Citizen Kane. Why not? Every film needs a scene like this:
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Post by Ieldra on Jul 7, 2019 9:00:07 GMT
Unpopular opinion: George RR Martin is a mediocre writer at best and his world building skills are also very mediocre, maybe even unimaginative. Given how he has been sitting on his fat ass for years, not finishing the GoT books which led to the TV show suffering in quality, I would say that is quite accurate. That's more a matter of a lack of perseverance. I've read his works since way before he was cool, starting in 1978, and found him to be a reasonably good writer overall. Before "A Game of Thrones" (1996) he was, however, generally better in shorter fiction. I wasn't impressed by his novels before that. The first three ASoIaF novels, meanwhile, were very good, though his later entries began to suffer seriously from an overabundance of characters.
As for worldbuilding, I found Westeros to be quite appealing, but this is an outlier in his works in general. Elsewhere, since he mostly wrote shorter fiction there wasn't much need for extensive worldbuilding. I can say, however, that I highly appreciate that he doesn't tend to retcon at the drop of a hat. This tells me he takes his own worlds seriously.
As for not being inventive...here's a funny thing: my favorite story written by him, "A Song for Lya", written in 1974, features two characters named Rob and Lyanna... this was a little irritating for me when reading ASoIaF, though I guess the people who know that earlier story, and appreciate it as much as I do, are probably few. There's another common element in the two stories: Lyanna is dead. I sense a biographical element. Not that I mind.
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Post by DomeWing333 on Jul 7, 2019 10:13:47 GMT
I'm not that interested in a film like Citizen Kane. Why not? Every film needs a scene like this:
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Jul 7, 2019 11:22:46 GMT
I'm not that interested in a film like Citizen Kane. Why not? Every film needs a scene like this: Thats how I wake up every Monday.
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Post by Lavochkin on Jul 7, 2019 11:47:43 GMT
Why not? Every film needs a scene like this: Tommy Wisseau perfected what Orson Welles first started.
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Post by Lavochkin on Jul 7, 2019 11:48:47 GMT
Why not? Every film needs a scene like this: Thats how I wake up every Monday. That's how I rage in vidya.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Jul 7, 2019 12:07:36 GMT
Thats how I wake up every Monday. That's how I rage in vidya. When there is parts missing in an IKEA furniture kit.
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