New York Times: Is the "Awkward" Era of the "Diversity Blockbuster" Behind Us?

If even the Marxist New York Times is contemplating the end of DEI even in Hollywood, then the era of DEI must really be coming to an end.

Is the Awkward 'Diversity Era' of Hollywood Behind Us?

The past decade's clumsiest attempts to cram new faces into old stories now feel like a moment, and a genre, of their own.
Hollywood has its eras, often apparent only in retrospect. Think back several years: Do you remember packed theaters giving Black-power salutes at screenings of "Black Panther"? Do you remember when an all-female version of "Ghostbusters" was treated as a pioneering development? Do you remember when the writer of a "Star Wars" film described the Empire as a "white supremacist (human) organization" after Donald Trump's 2016 election? Has enough time now passed to say that was all a bit strange?
Looking back, you can see a period when identitarian politics were in cultural ascendancy; you can spot the moments when our media overlords -- on their back feet over rage at the crimes of Harvey Weinstein, the paucity of nonwhite nominees at the Oscars, the aftermath of George Floyd's death -- vowed to change their ways and atone for their past. But what was particular to the Hollywood of the 2010s was the way these politics fused with the industry's insatiable demand for sequels, spinoffs and reboots, giving us a curious and mercenary new invention: the inclusive multimillion-dollar blockbuster. (The BIPOCbuster, if you will.) It's the same old thing, but with a bold and visionary new twist: fewer white guys.
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The tropes of this passing era are as familiar and easily spotted as with older periods. There is, for one thing, the showy, self-satisfied gender-swapping, as with that 2016 election-year reboot of "Ghostbusters." That movie prompted enough openly misogynistic and racist backlash to make it look as if it must be a noble endeavor -- as if any Hollywood executives who got reactionaries frothing at the mouth must be accomplishing something important, even if all they did was tweak the balance of characters in a dusty franchise.
Then there are the paper-thin "diverse" characters parachuted into major films -- put front and center on every poster but given curiously little to do as the plot unfolds. Brie Larson's Captain Marvel was set up as the most powerful superhero in the Marvel universe but ended up playing no decisive role in its most important films. (She was later joined by a Black woman and a Muslim woman in the sequel "The Marvels," another in a series of firsts, but still a throwaway film.) Many attempts to diversify old intellectual property only emphasized how awkward and unwelcoming those worlds were to the kinds of people they wanted to include: The characters could do nothing to change the old logic of the stories they were dropped into.

I've wanted to discuss Dragon Age: The Veilguard for a while, but the election kept getting in the way. It's a good example of the Wages of DEI.

Dragon Age is -- or rather, was -- a long-running, much-liked, and highly profitable video game franchise. The newest release, The Veilguard, was anticipated to be a huge guaranteed hit.

Then... Wokeness Intensified.

The game showed off its new "inclusiveness" features. In the game, you could make your character trans. Transgender in a psuedo-Medieval fantasy game.

Not only could you make your character trans, but you could give her double masectomy scars as proof of her gender transition:

NEW: Video game Dragon Age Veilguard character customization options have just been released. They offer options for double mastectomy scars and gender neutral pronouns pic.twitter.com/rzQZigK3HP
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 19, 2024

Although the game claimed that they added this feature to make everyone feel "included" -- and they included Vitiligo and cellulite as cosmetic enhancements you could give your character to make it Just Like You (TM) so you can Feel Seen (TM) -- they also wanted to defeat the Male Gaze so they do not allow you to give your character breasts bigger than a B-cup.

Below, the character customization screen shows various "sliders" allowing you to change different aspects of the character's appearance from minimum to maximum. The "chest size" slider is set to absolute maximum, and look at the bountiful bosom that produces:

So Dragon Age wants to to Feel Seen (TM) if you've lopped off your breasts, but not if you're a C or D cup.

One of your companion characters is trans, because of course it is. If you don't choose to make your own character trans, they're going to force you to deal with a character who won't stop talking about being trans.

Below, the game lectures you on not "misgendering" this character. It's not just a warning about misgendering, it's an instructional video about not putting the burden of a Misgendering Error on the Misgendering Victim itself, but in taking it upon yourself to punish yourself on their behalf for the crime.

New video game 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' has an entire nearly 2-minute long cutscene on how to apologize if you use the "wrong" pronouns or misgender.

It also offers options to add double mastectomy scars and gender neutral pronouns to your character.pic.twitter.com/NXGwU3jVEu
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 30, 2024

Dragon Age Veilguard is the newest megabudget video game. It tasks you with saving the world, but there are multiple scenes where you must contend with being non-binary or trans because the lead designer is trans. Wokeness ruins everything it touches. pic.twitter.com/IyrvtVJxzW
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 2, 2024

This was a game created not to please an audience, but to win industry awards from a woke industry.

It certainly didn't please the audience: Sales are terrible, despite this being a long-established series.

Grummz
@Grummz
We're winning. DAV has fallen.
Dragon Age Veilguard has failed to recover it's costs. It has failed and no, holiday sales won't save it.
Bioware is so angry that Dragon Age Veilguard sales numbers have leaked, that they are launching an internal investigation to find the leakers.
Here's what we know from @EndymionYT, @SmashJT, @RealHypnotic1 and others:
- Concurrent players have dropped off the charts just 2 weeks in, sitting at a peak of 34,068 vs their launch weekend high of 89,418. A 62% drop before the month even closes.
- Returns are rumored to be 30,000 copies, and the game is being traded in at Gamestop so fast that used copies of the game are flooded and being discounted with a trade-in value of only $14 cash. By comparison, Stellar Blade, a much smaller IP and many months older than DAV is $16.10 cash, which shows you just how bad DAV's value has dropped. Fun fact: Star Wars Outlaws is even worse, at just $11.90 cash. Stellar Blade wins again.
- Total sales for DAV have only JUST crested 1 million copies in 2 weeks. Budget is rumored to be at 250-300M for the game, making it fall well short of breaking even. If you take most games sales profit at around 70-80% of list price (after store markups and digital platform fees), a 300M budget would need around 6-7 million copies sold. (this is where I differ from most other's estimates who say 4-5M).
Dragon Age Veilguard has failed. They will see a tiny surge in sales in Holidays but not much. Total copies will barely reach 2M by next year (unless they start just giving it away - expect heavy discounts and bundles to make this number seem bigger than it is).
Gamers have rejected the heavy handed woke, preachy politics for one, and DA fans have rejected the new graphics and action oriented gameplay, which feel very alien to the franchise. You can do diversity right, without preachy HR lectures disguised as a story, and you can do it very very wrong, like DAV.
We're winning.
Everybody fights, everybody builds, nobody quits!
Sources: Gamestop website, Steam DB, insider leak videos from Smash and Endymion and Hypnotic retail data and my own industry experience publishing, operating and developing AAA games.

The game even failed to win the industry awards it was built to accumulate like so many experience points.

At the last Game Awards, the game received a single nomination -- just one.

And this one wasn't for game play or design or writing or art direction or anything that has actual value for the customer.

The one award nomination it got was for... "accessibility."

Grummz says the snubbing was an attempt by the industry to warn woke game designers: stop doing this. It's killing the business and we're not going to just give you the Woke Awards you're craving. We can't afford to encourage this any longer.

Grummz
@Grummz
I think everyone was surprised that Dragon Age Veilguard did not get any nominations except for "accessibility."
It seems that even the corporate guard, represented by @TheGameAwards
is learning that gamers won't put up with this kind of thing anymore.
Just as the Oscars dumped politics and wokism after the election, the Game Awards seems to be following a similar trend.

All of the (dying) woke games "journalism" magazines of course gave this stinky dud huge praise:

Grummz
@Grummz

Dragon Age DUMPED by The Game Awards in contrast to Game Journalist RAVINGS of PRAISE about the game.
Game Journalists lied to you again. So many outlets touted Dragon Age Veilguard @dragonage as 9/10 and a "return to form" for @Bioware
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@eurogamer : 10/10
@GameRant : 10/10
@IGN: 9/10
@GamesRadar : 9/10
@screenrant : 9/10
@Forbes (@paultassi): 8.5/10
Jason Schreier @jasonschreier
posted "Go woke, go bro---err, top the charts" before deleting it after the failure was clear, claiming it was to "see Chuds get dunked on."
We now know sales were so bad that Bioware is in panic, and EA has yet to reveal any sales announcement since the game launched.
Why did Jason delete his post? He has inside access to the sales figures for sure. What did he know.
And what did The Game Awards know that made them scrub Dragon Age Veilguard from their award nominations?
This might be the end of the DAV team within Bioware, who will likely be folded into the Mass Effect team.
If Bioware even survives that long.

But those great reviews didn't even last. Once the games "journalism" magazines saw that the public hated this game and that their 9/10 ratings were destroying their own credibility, they began walking these ratings back and assigning new reviewers to re-review the game, giving it lower ratings.

This is how Real Journalism works!

Posted by: Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 St

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 13, 2024 04:32 PM (/6GbT)

2 Yes

Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2024 04:32 PM (Hkcdp)

3 Die, DEI, Die.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (krQz2)

4 Willowed:
Scalia was a flashier justice, but Clarence and Alito are more thoughtful. Scalia authored some truly bad decisions including his Smith v. Oregon I and II and the later City of Boerne v Flores. Raich v Gonzalez is another bad one.
Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 04:30 PM (ctrM5)

And I think his son is better...albeit, not a lawyer, and a priest, so double reason he's probably not an option.

Someone threw out DeSantis last week...I would not hate that choice either...

I'm VERY leery of any judge or real lawyer...did you see Luttig? Former allstar and now total leftwinger...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 13, 2024 04:33 PM (exHjb)

Posted by: Nova Local at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (exHjb)

5 Person of Interest is on Amazon, btw.

i'm rewatching it. I liked it the first time and I think I like it better the second time. Recommend!

Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

6 Witcher 4 is going to be Ciri instead of Geralt. Check out the trailer for more left wing shit(tbf that kind of stuff is in the books)

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (KQk9m)

7 "Dragon Age is -- or rather, was -- a long-running, much-liked, and highly profitable video game franchise. The newest release, The Veilguard, was anticipated to be a huge guaranteed hit."

The first one was awesome. The second was... muddled because it was rushed out the door. The third just clanged. Not horrible, just felt off.

The series is a microcosm of Bioware- even the most recent- from storied, no nonsense good story telling to shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (bss/y)

8 reposted from an earlier thread since it's on topic:

It's like the stupid choice to put a pink haired "cowboy" chick in the recent Yellowstone. No, you idiots. I know you're pushing your tranny agenda, but the cowboys who weren't banging her (I think there was only one) would be making fun of her, teasing her, laughing at her, etc.

She would be the laughing stock of the ranch anywhere she went. Not to mention I think they're setting her scrawny little butt up to be some sort of super badass cowboy-girl that can do all the things the 200 pound musclemen cowboys can do.

Pink hair. Ha.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 04:35 PM (/50FY)

9 We now know sales were so bad that Bioware is in panic, and EA has yet to reveal any sales announcement since the game launched.
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Why is gaslighting the first choice so often?

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2024 04:36 PM (krQz2)

10 "If Bioware even survives that long."

It's not Bioware any more. I have no desire to see what these retards do to Mass Effect.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 04:36 PM (bss/y)

11 Critical Drinker reviewed this about a month ago and was.... not impressed. The thumbnail description called it a $100M therapy session for its lead designer.

Posted by: Octochicken at December 13, 2024 04:36 PM (oCS0o)

12 To answer the headline question, no. There are many tax benefits tied to producing diverse movies.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 13, 2024 04:36 PM (wBaIH)

13 The NYT seems as shocked as anyone about this DEI thing, but they read it in the newspapers!

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2024 04:37 PM (iDNwP)

14 Yes the lead dev is ...a dude that thinks he's a chick and the game is full of it.

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2024 04:37 PM (KQk9m)

15 The one award nomination it got was for... "accessibility."
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Low-shelf placement. Proximity to the trashcan.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2024 04:38 PM (krQz2)

16 5 Person of Interest is on Amazon, btw.

i'm rewatching it. I liked it the first time and I think I like it better the second time. Recommend!
Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

Just started watching this for the first time b/c I found it on FreeVee last month. It left FreeVee at the end of November and I thought it was headed back under the Peacock paywall only for it to pop back up on Prime. Nice!

Posted by: Octochicken at December 13, 2024 04:38 PM (oCS0o)

17 AAA game studios are even more screwed than Hollywood.

They actually have competition from indie games studios and distribution platforms that get those games into the hands of the gamers. Gamers don't need to stop spending money on games altogether like movie-goers generally do. They can actively reward developers that produce content they enjoy.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 13, 2024 04:38 PM (B9Prs)

18 So Dragon Age wants to to Feel Seen (TM) if you've lopped off your breasts, but not if you're a C or D cup.

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I bet the secret is out that lots of dudes play as the female character and they're trying to avoid letting them have their fun.

The guys realized "Hey, I'm playing a third person video game. I'm not going to stare at some man's butt the entire time."

This is a way to try to thwart that.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 04:38 PM (/50FY)

19 Addictive face pretending, don't speak the word
Forbidden sin relenting, I barely heard
Screams of entry blur my vision
Wake my fear of divine intervention
Crawl away and bleed forever, if you dare

Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 04:38 PM (TN0g+)

20 "Boob Slider."

Posted by: davidt at December 13, 2024 04:38 PM (i0F8b)

21 Ugh, Barbie was an incoherent 4th wave feminist rant. In was stupid, contradictory and lame.

Have they figured out yet that Ken stole the show?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2024 04:39 PM (Hkcdp)

22 Does anyone even the NYT anymore.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 13, 2024 04:39 PM (sSrTS)

23 Do you remember when the writer of a "Star Wars" film described the Empire as a "white supremacist (human) organization

Keep in mind the Jedi were an authoritarian religious order that abducted children, attacked duly elected government officials they disagreed with, and worked with slavers.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 04:40 PM (oZhjI)

24 Read the NYT...

Brain problem.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 13, 2024 04:40 PM (sSrTS)

25 Why is gaslighting the first choice so often?

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The new fun thing is to attempt to convince liberals that the movie was named Gaslamp and they're remembering it wrong.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 04:40 PM (/50FY)

26 When Origins originally came out, I remember some criticism for the grand arc plot being too much like Mass Effect (with the Blights in place of the Reapers.) The thing that these critics did not take into account is that that kind of horrible inevitability is great for setting a story, be it Tolkien and Middle Earth or Science Fiction or whatever. It allows you to show the true mettle of the characters when they are faced with the long defeat. A hopeless cause.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 04:40 PM (bss/y)

27 you could give her double masectomy scars

Mental picture of tits with angel wings flying through heaven.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 13, 2024 04:40 PM (c+HYQ)

28 Person of Interest is great. Highly recommended. The lesbian crap in it is not over the top. Was not really needed but that’s the way it is anymore.

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 04:40 PM (PCK5/)

29 Pride goeth before a fall. Anyone making up the non-existent title of Speaker Emeriti for themselves is just oozing hubris.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 04:22 PM (ctrM5)
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What used to termed the "former Speaker."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:37 PM (YqDXo)
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AKA Congressperson.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2024 04:40 PM (krQz2)

30 Does this mean we can finally get a new Duke Nukem?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 13, 2024 04:40 PM (Dm8we)

31 Person of Interest is on Amazon, btw.

i'm rewatching it. I liked it the first time and I think I like it better the second time. Recommend!
Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

Just started watching this for the first time b/c I found it on FreeVee last month. It left FreeVee at the end of November and I thought it was headed back under the Peacock paywall only for it to pop back up on Prime. Nice!
Posted by: Octochicken at December 13, 2024 04:38 PM (oCS0o)
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Heh.
Cavizel gives a nod to my 'hood when he tells the dude in the bar his wife was from Puyallup.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2024 04:41 PM (W/lyH)

32 Newsflash: With the numbers these DEI/woke infested films did, they could not even remotely be considered "blockbusters".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2024 04:41 PM (O7YUW)

33 Does this mean we can finally get a new Duke Nukem?

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AAA level Leisure Suit Larry

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 04:41 PM (/50FY)

34 The newest game trailer from Naughty Dog...oof. This was shown at the game awards last night and it's getting roasted. But not on YouTube as comments are disabled.

"Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer"

https://tinyurl.com/2s4ft54t

I'm getting The Last of Us 2 "Abby" vibes seeing the "woman" at the beginning shave her head. Is this going to be a lesbian bounty hunter sim?

Posted by: Thrawn at December 13, 2024 04:41 PM (uGhsv)

35 16 5 Person of Interest is on Amazon, btw.

i'm rewatching it. I liked it the first time and I think I like it better the second time. Recommend!
Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

Just started watching this for the first time b/c I found it on FreeVee last month. It left FreeVee at the end of November and I thought it was headed back under the Peacock paywall only for it to pop back up on Prime. Nice!
Posted by: Octochicken at December 13, 2024 04:38 PM (oCS0o)

Guess I'll have to put Person of Interest on my list.

For those with Netflix, put A Man on the Inside on your list...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 13, 2024 04:41 PM (exHjb)

36 Further to my #32:

Budget-busters, maybe.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2024 04:42 PM (O7YUW)

37 30 Does this mean we can finally get a new Duke Nukem?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 13, 2024 04:40 PM (Dm8we)

I used to have balls of steel!

Posted by: Duke Nukem at December 13, 2024 04:42 PM (i0F8b)

38 >>>. The lesbian crap in it is not over the top. Was not really needed but that’s the way it is anymore.

yeah there's wokeness with most of the female characters. re: the lesbianism, that's just one character. Shaw never reciprocates (I don't think).

Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

39 Who believes gaming journalists after Gamergate????

Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2024 04:42 PM (Hkcdp)

40 8 reposted from an earlier thread since it's on topic:

It's like the stupid choice to put a pink haired "cowboy" chick in the recent Yellowstone. No, you idiots. I know you're pushing your tranny agenda, but the cowboys who weren't banging her (I think there was only one) would be making fun of her, teasing her, laughing at her, etc.

She would be the laughing stock of the ranch anywhere she went. Not to mention I think they're setting her scrawny little butt up to be some sort of super badass cowboy-girl that can do all the things the 200 pound musclemen cowboys can do.

Pink hair. Ha.

That's the character, Teeter, and she's Michael Landon's daughter.

Posted by: beckster at December 13, 2024 04:42 PM (NLtte)

41 The past decade's clumsiest attempts to cram new faces into old stories ~~now feel like a moment, and a genre, of their own~~ and in so doing generating some real stinkers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:42 PM (YqDXo)

42 Emeriti? Plural? As President Merkin Muffley sais about purity of essence, "There is nothing to figure out..."

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 04:42 PM (QSrLX)

43 Why is gaslighting the first choice so often?

GASSSSS?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 13, 2024 04:42 PM (c+HYQ)

44 Not unlike the Zoot Suit and the Flapper dress.

Posted by: But that's just me at December 13, 2024 04:43 PM (DobEs)

45 Any video of Nutzi's fall down the stairs come out yet?

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2024 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

46 yeah there's wokeness with most of the female characters. re: the lesbianism, that's just one character. Shaw never reciprocates (I don't think).
Posted by: ace

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(refrains from obvious real life lesbian joke)

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 04:43 PM (/50FY)

47 5 Person of Interest is on Amazon, btw.

i'm rewatching it. I liked it the first time and I think I like it better the second time. Recommend!
Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

It's well known in these parts that I'm a huge fan of the series. To be honest, I'd say it's in my personal top five series ever made. I loved the way that a standard police procedural with a tech gimmick morphed into a great science fiction series with a very prescient AI/Plandemic/Minority Report battle halfway through the series. The last couple of episodes in the series were some of the best I'd ever seen. Jonathan Nolan (Christopher's brother) is a real talent.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 13, 2024 04:43 PM (GCdjX)

48 “Office of the President Elect “

Remember that one? Lol

Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2024 04:43 PM (Hkcdp)

49 >>>Guess I'll have to put Person of Interest on my list.

I was going to do a review today but instead i'm just watching it.

The first 4-6 episodes are really polished. They set the standard of the whole show right off the bat. It doesn't take a lot of time to "find itself," it's in top form right out of the gate.

if you don't like the first ep or the first four, you can stop watching. There are better episodes later on, but the first four are a good example of the show operating in peak form.

Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

50 Any video of Nutzi's fall down the stairs come out yet?
Posted by: wth
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She didn't even spill her drink.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 13, 2024 04:44 PM (Dm8we)

51 Slowly the Japanese IP is getting more valuable in large measure because it isn't woke.

If a Hollywood Studio made a live action big budget Dragon Ball movie...true to the original story...they'd like earn more money then either Avatar.

Of course it would also make western feminists' heads explode.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 04:45 PM (oZhjI)

52 Push the glute size slider all the way to the left so the character looks like Brie Larsen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:45 PM (YqDXo)

53 Mental picture of tits with angel wings flying through heaven.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle
.......

I knew it was gonna be a great place!

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2024 04:45 PM (v0R5T)

54 Push the glute size slider all the way to the left so the character looks like Brie Larsen.

TBH she'd looked very good in Scott Pilgrim

Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 04:46 PM (oZhjI)

55 Smash JT says he interviewed a BioWare whistleblower to came forward and claimed they've only sold 1.5 million copies of Veilguard. They internally project 3 million copies. Their initial projection was 10 million.

http://tiny.cc/xm71001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 04:46 PM (Odg76)

56 >>>. I loved the way that a standard police procedural with a tech gimmick morphed into a great science fiction series with a very prescient AI/Plandemic/Minority Report battle halfway through the series. The last couple of episodes in the series were some of the best I'd ever seen. Jonathan Nolan (Christopher's brother) is a real talent.

yup. It's a good gimmicky police procedural -- what if we could solve the murder BEFORE it's committed? -- but it takes its espionage/surveillance/sci-fi premise seriously as well, and weaves that plotline in among the standalone solve-a-murder episodes.

Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:46 PM (KRtlO)

57 49 >>>Guess I'll have to put Person of Interest on my list.

I was going to do a review today but instead i'm just watching it.

The first 4-6 episodes are really polished. They set the standard of the whole show right off the bat. It doesn't take a lot of time to "find itself," it's in top form right out of the gate.

if you don't like the first ep or the first four, you can stop watching. There are better episodes later on, but the first four are a good example of the show operating in peak form.
Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

Excellent. I need a new series to start!

PS - There is NOTHING woke or sexually weird (unless old people wanting sex is weird) in A Man on the Inside. It seems Netflix got the "go woke, go broke" message fast enough to not ruin a show that does center on old people at a retirement home...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 13, 2024 04:46 PM (exHjb)

58 45 Any video of Nutzi's fall down the stairs come out yet?
Posted by: wth at December 13, 2024 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

Just imagine Eddie Murphy RAW talking about his aunt falling down the stairs

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 13, 2024 04:46 PM (/6GbT)

59 Emeriti? Plural? As President Merkin Muffley sais about purity of essence, "There is nothing to figure out..."

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at December 13, 2024 04:42 PM (QSrLX)
________________

I grit my teeth every time I see a license plate surround that says something like "San Quentin Alumni." It's "alumnUS" (or "alumNA") you pretentious nitwit.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

60 I bet the secret is out that lots of dudes play as the female character and they're trying to avoid letting them have their fun.

And the trannies don't understand why a normal man would do this while finding them unattractive.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (oIfNn)

61 You can't even escape reality without DEI getting force fed to you.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (+oR7L)

62 Wait. There's a glute size slider?

Posted by: Why wasn't I notified? at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (DobEs)

63 Any video of Nutzi's fall down the stairs come out yet? /i]

I'm guessing she walked in on her hubbie hammering another hobo and fell over in shock...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (oZhjI)

64 Another interesting movie on Prime/Tubi is Nefarious. A Christian psycho drama with ideological overtones.

Hated by critics and loved by audiences, it does a number on the malevolent origins of abortion; almost as a throwaway.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (wBaIH)

65 Clarification: Their 3 million projection is total lifetime of the game copies sold. They were initially projecting 10 million.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (Odg76)

66 53 Mental picture of tits with angel wings flying through heaven.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle
.......

I knew it was gonna be a great place!
Posted by: wth at December 13, 2024 04:45 PM (v0R5T)

https://tinyurl.com/2s3awdj4

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (bss/y)

67
I blame the girl Ghostbuster movie.

Posted by: Frank Barone at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (+oR7L)

68 I bet the secret is out that lots of dudes play as the female character and they're trying to avoid letting them have their fun.

I heard the Sims added a tranny setting.

Now...this is odd right? If you want your online avatar to be the opposite sex you can just...go make it male or female.

But no they made it so you can get the wrong voice on your character so it can be a female body with a male voice or vice versa...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 04:48 PM (oZhjI)

69 Any video of Nutzi's fall down the stairs come out yet?
Posted by: wth
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She didn't even spill her drink.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 13, 2024 04:44 PM (Dm8we)
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Because she'd already drained it. Hence the fall.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:48 PM (YqDXo)

70 Drunkards and Dragons @The_DrunkDragon Dec 12
Ok #TTRPGCommunity - just in time for #Christmas......Roll Initiative.

https://tinyurl.com/m96ujzfp
meme

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at December 13, 2024 04:48 PM (hovnC)

71 I've also seen numbers that say they have to hit 2 million just to break even. So 1.5 million copies to date, this late into the Christmas season, is a disaster.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 04:48 PM (Odg76)

72 commenters here recommended it to me. Someone called it "Daredevil but without a super-hero costume."

It's more like Batman without a superhero costume, with Batman split into two different people, the tech billionaire with infinite money, and the strongarm field agent.

Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:49 PM (KRtlO)

73 Notice in the game when that one character is forcing the others to use they them, but the nut job uses I and not we.

Yeah baby it's all about making normies bend a knee.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 13, 2024 04:49 PM (OA79/)

74 Wait. There's a glute size slider?

Posted by: Why wasn't I notified? at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (DobEs)
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Look at the bottom of the graphic.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

75 There's a scene in DAV where the "non-binary" character makes an aggressive pass at a female character. It makes me wonder if the trans developer does the same thing in real life.

In the game, the character's clumsy pass is not entirely rejected. I'd bet in real life, it is.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 13, 2024 04:50 PM (k9OZB)

76 I'd just like to point out that Dylan Mulvaney has appeared in precisely ZERO video games. Why, oh why, are they ignoring such an obviously appealing character?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 13, 2024 04:50 PM (xCA6C)

77 "you could give her double masectomy scars as proof of her gender transition:"

"A Man Called Horse" .... he also had scars on his chest, but don't think he became a tranny. And he didn't get anesthetics. A different kind of ritual.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 04:50 PM (Cus5s)

78 51 Slowly the Japanese IP is getting more valuable in large measure because it isn't woke.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 04:45 PM (oZhjI)

Pardon me if I express the following non-PC opinion:

YEAH! NO SHIT!

Wondering if part of that is the Japanese and Korean markets suddenly worrying about "replacement birthrates". Cue Elon Musk speech here...

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at December 13, 2024 04:50 PM (e/Osv)

79 Look at the bottom of the graphic.

Right above "bulge size".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 13, 2024 04:50 PM (xCA6C)

80 “Office of the President Elect “

Remember that one? Lol

Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2024 04:43 PM (Hkcdp)
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What else could they say? The "Office of the Magnificent Mulatto?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:51 PM (YqDXo)

81 75 Wait. There's a glute size slider?

Posted by: Why wasn't I notified? at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (DobEs)
_______________

Look at the bottom of the graphic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Oh.
I thought it was like a Tribe Weather Machine.

Posted by: Why wasn't I notified? at December 13, 2024 04:52 PM (DobEs)

82 63 Any video of Nutzi's fall down the stairs come out yet? /i]

I'm guessing she walked in on her hubbie hammering another hobo and fell over in shock...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (

I'm imagining Eddie Murphy doing that skit about his old aunt falling down the stairs. Oh lord I'm falling down the stairs.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 13, 2024 04:52 PM (OA79/)

83 81

What else could they say? The "Office of the Magnificent Mulatto?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:51 PM (YqDXo)

He’ll always be The Magic Negro…

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 04:52 PM (PCK5/)

84 All it takes to kill DEI is to stand jp to it and call bullsh*t!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2024 04:52 PM (W/lyH)

85 48 “Office of the President Elect “

Remember that one? Lol
Posted by: Lizzy at December 13, 2024 04:43 PM (Hkcdp)

In so many ways, Obama was the Dollar Tree version of Donald Trump. That noob had to trumpet the fact that he was asserting his God-given right to run the country in the weeks before he became POTUS, to the point where he had that stupid seal made to let the world know. In contrast, the whole world knows full well that Donald Trump is the boss right now. If Biden got as much done in the last four years than Trump has in the last four weeks, he would have been reelected handily.

I despise Obama. He's a real cancer in America's body politic. I can't wait until history knocks him off his lefty historian pedestal. If we're lucky, it will happen by Jan 2026.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 13, 2024 04:52 PM (GCdjX)

86 T-3 mins

https://www.youtube.com/live/UfOYar4WidI

Posted by: Ciampino - Indians are racyss at December 13, 2024 04:53 PM (i0xsb)

87 That's as big as her chest gets? Pffft.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2024 04:54 PM (v0R5T)

88 Just as the Oscars dumped politics and wokism after the election, the Game Awards seems to be following a similar trend.
-
The problem for the games industry, as many of the guys mentioned in the post have mentioned, is that games, particularly AAA, take longer to make than movies. So if the decision were made today across entretainment to end all the Marxist bullshit, we'd still be getting woke movie slop two years from now, and woke video game slop five years from now.

Grand Theft Auto VI has been in development since 2014 with a rumored development price tag of $2 Billion and there are rumblings that it's been infected as well.

Posted by: Methos at December 13, 2024 04:54 PM (Dnobf)

89 *I can't wait until history knocks him off his lefty historian pedestal. If we're lucky, it will happen by Jan 2026.*

We can start with his college transcripts.

Posted by: Too much to ask? at December 13, 2024 04:54 PM (DobEs)

90 64 Another interesting movie on Prime/Tubi is Nefarious. A Christian psycho drama with ideological overtones.

Hated by critics and loved by audiences, it does a number on the malevolent origins of abortion; almost as a throwaway.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (wBaIH)

“I didn’t know I was in a fight.”

“That’s why you’re losing.”

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at December 13, 2024 04:55 PM (FGFJD)

91 Newsflash: With the numbers these DEI/woke infested films did, they could not even remotely be considered "blockbusters".

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 13, 2024 04:41 PM (O7YUW)
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Toilet busters?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:55 PM (YqDXo)

92 78 "you could give her double masectomy scars as proof of her gender transition:"

"A Man Called Horse" .... he also had scars on his chest, but don't think he became a tranny. And he didn't get anesthetics. A different kind of ritual.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2024 04:50 PM (Cus5s)

This is where I get a little salty. Used to be REAALY FAT. Lost crapton of weight and had to have lots of skin removed. Got scars on my chest like those. Pisses me off that it looks all tranny.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 13, 2024 04:55 PM (OA79/)

93 Are they allowed to put attractive women in games again? Or do they still feel the need to "defeat the male gaze"?

Posted by: brak at December 13, 2024 04:56 PM (NGHTx)

94 I recall when Unreal Tournament first came out there were a number of female meshes that not only had teh boobies but they bounced. A huge achievement for a video game circa 1998.

Seems we're regressing...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2024 04:56 PM (Q4IgG)

95 Grand Theft Auto 6 is supposed to star a feisty Latina (Latinx?) going yas kween Slay all over Los Santos.

Posted by: brak at December 13, 2024 04:57 PM (NGHTx)

96 "*I can't wait until history knocks him off his lefty historian pedestal. If we're lucky, it will happen by Jan 2026.*

We can start with his college transcripts."

Do madrassas routinely provide transcripts?

Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 04:58 PM (TN0g+)

97 How do you feel included you ask? Well you take the
Schenectady Parkway to the Slawsen Cutoff. Exit the car and cut off your slawsen.
-Zombie Johnny Carson

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 13, 2024 04:58 PM (wDJaI)

98 There’s a series on Netflix about a boy in London during the Blitz.

He’s black.

To represent the 0.001% of the population that was black in London during WW2?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2024 04:58 PM (bYi+r)

99 Excellent. I need a new series to start!

PS - There is NOTHING woke or sexually weird (unless old people wanting sex is weird) in A Man on the Inside. It seems Netflix got the "go woke, go broke" message fast enough to not ruin a show that does center on old people at a retirement home...
Posted by: Nova Local
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I also liked Person of Interest. Seemed sci fi at the time of broadcast but with modern advances in computing, almost prescient now.

FWIW, I rarely watched TV series since the 00's other than what the wife watched.

This series is still a standout. But then again, I like Psych so what do I know.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 04:58 PM (ctrM5)

100 Can you believe the nerve of this Aussie kid? Cheeky git.

http://tiny.cc/ko71001

Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 04:58 PM (Odg76)

101 I heard the Sims added a tranny setting.

Now...this is odd right? If you want your online avatar to be the opposite sex you can just...go make it male or female.

But no they made it so you can get the wrong voice on your character so it can be a female body with a male voice or vice versa...
Posted by: 18-1

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Genitals don't determine your gender, but cutting off your genitals affirms your gender.

Because Science.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 04:59 PM (/50FY)

102 93 Are they allowed to put attractive women in games again? Or do they still feel the need to "defeat the male gaze"?
Posted by: brak at December 13, 2024 04:56 PM (NGHTx)

Well, I always see an ad over at Insty's featuring a trio of medievalish lovelies with shapely backsides lying on the grass with crossbows and shadowing an approaching army, so there's that.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2024 04:59 PM (LxER7)

103 It is working, of course Alyssa Mercante is suing Smash JT and others over the successful war on woketard.

Posted by: sven at December 13, 2024 04:59 PM (X0I7i)

104 "Has enough time now passed to say that was all a bit strange?"

No time was needed to come to this conclusion; we said it was strange at the time.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 13, 2024 05:00 PM (VGRuw)

105 *I can't wait until history knocks him off his lefty historian pedestal. If we're lucky, it will happen by Jan 2026.*

We can start with his college transcripts.
_______________

Publish his Man Country membership card.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 05:00 PM (YqDXo)

106 94 I recall when Unreal Tournament first came out there were a number of female meshes that not only had teh boobies but they bounced. A huge achievement for a video game circa 1998.

Seems we're regressing...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2024 04:56 PM (Q4IgG)

Yeah, Saint's Row IV (damn, have not played since 2013) had that kind of customization. Pretty much pre-gamer gate stuff. Once that happened it is like the entire industry changed in an eye blink and no beautiful female characters were allowed outside of something like Stellar Blade or pure Japanese stuff. Even then, sony still sanitized a lot of their releases for the US market.

One thing you can say about the Japanese: They like their gals to have big tits and they cannot lie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 05:00 PM (bss/y)

107 I want to see a black Hitler on screen. Come on Hollywood, do it. I dare ya. I double fucking dare ya.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2024 05:00 PM (bYi+r)

108 82 63 Any video of Nutzi's fall down the stairs come out yet? /i]

I'm guessing she walked in on her hubbie hammering another hobo and fell over in shock...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 04:47 PM (

I'm imagining Eddie Murphy doing that skit about his old aunt falling down the stairs. Oh lord I'm falling down the stairs.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 13, 2024 04:52 PM (OA79/)

High five- see my 58

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 13, 2024 05:01 PM (/6GbT)

109 I also liked Person of Interest. Seemed sci fi at the time of broadcast but with modern advances in computing, almost prescient now.

FWIW, I rarely watched TV series since the 00's other than what the wife watched.

This series is still a standout. But then again, I like Psych so what do I know.
Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 04:58 PM (ctrM5)

PoI didn't get a single Emmy during its entire run. It was cursed by coming out during the Golden Age of modern TV. Between Breaking Bad and other classics of that period, it didn't stand a chance.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 13, 2024 05:01 PM (GCdjX)

110 The hilarious thing about the DAV breast size thing was the joke when Origins was new that the setting clearly had a "rack rule" with no female at less than a C cup. It's like they're passed off at their own franchise.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at December 13, 2024 05:01 PM (A3wru)

111 Genitals don't determine your gender, but cutting off your genitals affirms your gender.

Because Science.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 04:59 PM (/50FY)
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Schrödinger's Genitalia? Cutting them cause the genitalia's wave function to collapse?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 05:02 PM (YqDXo)

112 Hated Breaking Bad, quickly tired of The Walking Dead… in the minority, no doubt.

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:02 PM (PCK5/)

113 Speaker Downstairita.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2024 05:02 PM (BI5O2)

114 See Skyrim mods for boobpalooza and also physics. Lotta time spent on those projects

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 13, 2024 05:02 PM (/6GbT)

115 I want to see a black Hitler on screen. Come on Hollywood, do it. I dare ya. I double fucking dare ya.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2024 05:00 PM (bYi+r)
__________________

I'm waiting for them to remake "Triumph of the Will" and "Birth of a Nation."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 05:03 PM (YqDXo)

116 110 The hilarious thing about the DAV breast size thing was the joke when Origins was new that the setting clearly had a "rack rule" with no female at less than a C cup. It's like they're passed off at their own franchise.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at December 13, 2024 05:01 PM (A3wru)

Well, remember in Mass Effect, Liara's boobs got progressively bigger and more emphasized by costume as the series went on.

Plus, just Miranda Lawson (who was just a straight body scan of Yvonne Strahovinski.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 05:03 PM (bss/y)

117 PoI didn't get a single Emmy during its entire run. It was cursed by coming out during the Golden Age of modern TV. Between Breaking Bad and other classics of that period, it didn't stand a chance.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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I think it hit too close to home to the Deep State and its acolytes. Burn Notice did that as well.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:04 PM (ctrM5)

118 Speaker Downstairita.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2024 05:02 PM (BI5O2)
_________________

Speaker Yaaaaaaah! thump! thump! thump!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

119 The original Bioware team that did Mass Effect left a while ago and are working on Exodus. It's the only game I'm looking forward to.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7vjeca

Posted by: ryukyu at December 13, 2024 05:04 PM (z/gEl)

120 Boise State University has shut down its equity centers.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at December 13, 2024 05:04 PM (HxXeC)

121 Bethesda (The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Starfield) is releasing (or has released) an Indiana Jones game...doesn't look horrible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkzeoNvYhSo

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 13, 2024 05:05 PM (fQmeC)

122 Pride goeth before a fall. Anyone making up the non-existent title of Speaker Emeriti for themselves is just oozing hubris.
Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

the true example of the emesis of fate

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2024 05:05 PM (D7oie)

123 >One thing you can say about the Japanese: They like their gals to have big tits and they cannot lie.

Stellar Blade wound up being a top seller this year. And they didn't back down on the characters appearance even when Sony America banned some of the outfits.

Just giving the people what they want.

Posted by: brak at December 13, 2024 05:05 PM (NGHTx)

124 Isn’t the star of person of interest a bigly big conservative? That’s why it didn’t win anything.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 13, 2024 05:05 PM (bYi+r)

125 The Game Witcher 4... yeah... only character you will be able to play is Siri... one of the Females who took over the TV series.

We are not done yet.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 13, 2024 05:05 PM (QAkQ3)

126 _________________

Speaker Yaaaaaaah! thump! thump! thump!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

That's Speaker EMERITUS Yaaaaaaah! thump! thump! thump! to YOU, buddy-boy!

Posted by: Nanzi at December 13, 2024 05:05 PM (LxER7)

127 I think the puritan guy just got banhammered.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 13, 2024 05:05 PM (Dm8we)

128 I'm waiting for them to remake "Triumph of the Will" and "Birth of a Nation."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Trans Triumph of Wiheminia and After Birth of a Nation.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:06 PM (ctrM5)

129 Anyone here seen the Tolkien anime that just came out? If so, is it any good?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 13, 2024 05:06 PM (BHrzb)

130 127 I think the puritan guy just got banhammered.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 13, 2024 05:05 PM (Dm8we)

Oh no!! Anyway

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:06 PM (PCK5/)

131 129 Anyone here seen the Tolkien anime that just came out? If so, is it any good?
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 13, 2024 05:06 PM (BHrzb)

Girl bossing on horses.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 13, 2024 05:07 PM (OA79/)

132 > One thing you can say about the Japanese: They like their gals to have big tits and they cannot lie.

That's why their birth rate is through the floor. There's like 100 Japanese girls with big boobs.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 05:07 PM (Odg76)

133 114 See Skyrim mods for boobpalooza and also physics. Lotta time spent on those projects
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 13, 2024 05:02 PM (/6GbT)

Yeah, but no one would make Sims mods like that... really...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 13, 2024 05:07 PM (QAkQ3)

134 NERDS!

Posted by: Ogre at December 13, 2024 05:07 PM (aD39U)

135 131 129 Anyone here seen the Tolkien anime that just came out? If so, is it any good?
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 13, 2024 05:06 PM (BHrzb)

Girl bossing on horses.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 13, 2024 05:07 PM (OA79/)

So.. shit.. got it.

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:07 PM (PCK5/)

136 Speaker Slipandfallata.

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 05:07 PM (QTCRF)

137 Pelosi sock is nasty sock. I need to go bathe.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2024 05:08 PM (LxER7)

138 129 Anyone here seen the Tolkien anime that just came out? If so, is it any good?
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 13, 2024 05:06 PM (BHrzb)

War of the Rohirrim? I have heard less than salutary things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 05:08 PM (bss/y)

139 127 I think the puritan guy just got banhammered.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
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I think it was the latest iteration of Scogg Dogg's endless change of nics.

Dude has a fascination with this place that borders on monomania.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:08 PM (ctrM5)

140 > I think the puritan guy just got banhammered.

Fake news. I'm still here and I'm not that much of a prude.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 05:08 PM (Odg76)

141 Since this seems to be an entertainment thread....

I saw a movie last night on MAX, a big budget, Hollywood holiday movie that was apparently made for no audience at all.

The movie was "Red One", a movie with the Rock in which Santa Claus was kidnapped.

Lots of money was spent on this one, big stars, top of the line special efx, strong action direction, but Wholley Kau! complete and utter story fail.

The movie wasn't quite "Die Hard" but it was definitely too violent, too mean-spirited, and too much cussing to be a family movie. If I'd dragged the kiddos when young to this one, I would've been very pissed off.

So, advertised as a family movie, who was this for? Not the main audience for action films, under 40 males. It was weirdly too silly, and too fuzzy good feelings and childish for well...anyone with testosterone cruising around their bloodstream.

Women? Nope it was a violent buddy movie like "Freebie and the Bean" with snowmen.

So, was it terrible? No. Not good but not horrible. Some good scenes but literally a flick with something for no one.

Strange waste of money.

Check it out or don't.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2024 05:09 PM (iJfKG)

142 140 > I think the puritan guy just got banhammered.

Fake news. I'm still here and I'm not that much of a prude.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 05:08 PM (Odg76)

You are Calvinist?? Huh..

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:09 PM (PCK5/)

143 I can't wait until history knocks him off his lefty historian pedestal. If we're lucky, it will happen by Jan 2026.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 13, 2024 04:52 PM (GCdjX)
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Did you mean 2025 ?
or what's going to happen in 2026?

Posted by: Ciampino - confused I am at December 13, 2024 05:09 PM (i0xsb)

144 Drone 'Fell Out of The Sky,' New Jersey 911 Caller Claims

https://tinyurl.com/bdhss6ez

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 13, 2024 05:10 PM (aD39U)

145 124 Isn’t the star of person of interest a bigly big conservative? That’s why it didn’t win anything.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Yes, Jim Cavaziel played Jesus in Mel Gibson's Passion (and I think is playing him again in the forthcoming sequel to it.). I think Cavaziel is pretty open about his Christianity and Mel's name is cursed in Hollyweird nowadays. Neither are popular in Hollyweird.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:10 PM (ctrM5)

146 That's why their birth rate is through the floor. There's like 100 Japanese girls with big boobs.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 05:07 PM (Odg76)

Valid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 05:10 PM (bss/y)

147 > You are Calvinist?? Huh..

Well, I did like Calvin and Hobbs when I was a kid. Not as much now, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 05:11 PM (Odg76)

148 5 Person of Interest is on Amazon, btw.

i'm rewatching it. I liked it the first time and I think I like it better the second time. Recommend!
Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 04:34 PM (KRtlO)

It's really good sra blaster and I watched it during Covid.

Well, it's good till it gets dumb.

Posted by: blaster at December 13, 2024 05:11 PM (786t+)

149 I powerwatched Season 2 of The Old Man this week. It was not bad though slightly but semiplausibly girlbossed.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 13, 2024 05:11 PM (aD39U)

150 DeWayne Johnson seems to be jumping the shark.

Getting love from nobody.

Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2024 05:11 PM (iziT8)

151 147 > You are Calvinist?? Huh..

Well, I did like Calvin and Hobbs when I was a kid. Not as much now, though.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 13, 2024 05:11 PM (Odg76)

Snort.. +1..

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:11 PM (PCK5/)

152 War of the Rohirrim? I have heard less than salutary things.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 05:08 PM (bss/y)

The trailer makes it look very girl-bossy.

I predict failure.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2024 05:11 PM (iJfKG)

153 Why is gaslighting the first choice so often?
Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2024 04:36 PM (krQz2)

In one of the Stanislav Lem stories, it turns out that a returning spaceman finds the modern Poland to be full of cars, people happily working, unrationed food, with all modern conveniences freely found and no illness everywhere. He then discovered from his main contact, who lives a slightly shabby and sedentary lifestyle that the modern wealth is actually due to a minor hallucinogenic that makes everyone think they are rich, and when he tries the antogonist to defeat it, he sees decrepit buildings, commuters in rags running madly ,pretending to drive on the streets, and eating foul food in wretched apartments.
Then he is told that there are actually two hallucinogenics used for the same purpose, and everyone with access to it is terrified to try the second antogonist to see just how horrible everything actually is.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2024 05:11 PM (D7oie)

154 You are Calvinist?? Huh..
Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:09 PM (PCK5/)
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The Lord alone determines the outcome of Calvinball.

Posted by: Axeman at December 13, 2024 05:12 PM (krQz2)

155 *nobody is talking about The Agency....

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 05:12 PM (QTCRF)

156 I agree that big boobs mean your femme (or trans) character can't fight or run well.
Spellcasting on the other hand should work. Probably work better if charm is in the spellbook; like that sorceress in Dragon's Crown whom AtC really liked.
You'd think a studio full of autists, because programmer, could raise comments like this to the designers.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2024 05:12 PM (gKWVE)

157 The Cultural Marxists won't give up

Posted by: Skip at December 13, 2024 05:12 PM (fwDg9)

158 But PoI doesnt get dumb until its almost over.

Posted by: blaster at December 13, 2024 05:13 PM (786t+)

159 Another excellent series is The Blacklist..

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:14 PM (PCK5/)

160 We already had "Die Hard" for Christmas. It was "Die Hard". Or "Violent Night" which was pretty good too. We don't need "Red One".

Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2024 05:14 PM (gKWVE)

161 Dude has a fascination with this place that borders on monomania.
Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:08 PM (ctrM5)

The nick keeps changing but he’s always easy to spot.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2024 05:14 PM (fIpti)

162 146 That's why their birth rate is through the floor. There's like 100 Japanese girls with big boobs.
Posted by: bonhomme
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Cost of living plus society directly affects fertility and marriage. You can even see the effects in a historical sense if you spend much time in genealogy.

Age of marriage goes up and number of kids decline in bad times plus more confirmed bachelors and maiden aunts. The reverse is true in good times, the age of marriage decreases and number of kids increase.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:14 PM (ctrM5)

163 Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2024 05:09 PM (iJfKG)

LOL, watched that last night as well... worth the couple of hour but definitely a popcorn movie.

Plus, the Witch when in Human from was the hotz...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 13, 2024 05:14 PM (QAkQ3)

164 "The Cultural Marxists won't give up
Posted by: Skip"

Of course not. They never have.

But they can be ignored.

Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2024 05:14 PM (iziT8)

165 Slowly the Japanese IP is getting more valuable in large measure because it isn't woke.

If a Hollywood Studio made a live action big budget Dragon Ball movie...true to the original story...they'd like earn more money then either Avatar.

Of course it would also make western feminists' heads explode.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 04:45 PM (oZhjI)

I've been rewatching DragonBall Z Abridged lately and it holds up, despite being 10-15 years old. (I find myself saying "Alright, Shenron, wakey wakey, eggs and dead people!" when I make eggs in the morning.) The only improvement on that one would be to take out the intros since it's a YouTube playlist, I don't think it'd transfer to live-action very well.

Posted by: pookysgirl with the Muffin Button at December 13, 2024 05:15 PM (dtlDP)

166 War of the Rohirrim? I have heard less than salutary things.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 05:08 PM (bss/y)
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It' supposedly about the war between Rohan and Dunland that centers on the siege of Helm's Deep, but they rewrote the lore to make Helm's daughter (so insignificant Tolkien never bothered to give her a name), the main character and a total girlboss.

The's very Stunning and Brave and this is groundbreaking, a triumph for women because there are no strong women in Tolkien's work other than Melian, Luthien, Galadriel, Arwen, Eowyn, Earwen, Idril, Celebrian...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)

167 The nick keeps changing but he’s always easy to spot.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I forget every now and again but generally do not rise to any bait anymore. Too tired and in ill health to care about arguing much.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:15 PM (ctrM5)

168 164 "The Cultural Marxists won't give up
Posted by: Skip"

Of course not. They never have.

But they can be ignored.
Posted by: eleven at December 13, 2024 05:14 PM (iziT

And mocked, relentlessly mocked.. they hate that.

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:15 PM (PCK5/)

169 There’s a series on Netflix about a boy in London during the Blitz.

He’s black.

To represent the 0.001% of the population that was black in London during WW2?

I vaguely recall a movie about a strip club set during the blitz. Since it was pre-woke all the British women were white which I guess is now hate speech or something

Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 05:16 PM (oZhjI)

170 The snowmen that Calvin built (there was a long series of drawings that accumulated over the years) were amazing. Calvin and Hobbes is under-appreciated.

Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 05:16 PM (TN0g+)

171 "Not only could you make your character trans, but you could give her double masectomy scars as proof of her gender transition"

Well...if these lunatics are going to celebrate body dysmorphia, why not allow players to build characters that are anorexic?

Are they not inclusive? Do they hate anorexics?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2024 05:16 PM (d9fT1)

172 166 War of the Rohirrim? I have heard less than salutary things.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 13, 2024 05:08 PM (bss/y)
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It' supposedly about the war between Rohan and Dunland that centers on the siege of Helm's Deep, but they rewrote the lore to make Helm's daughter (so insignificant Tolkien never bothered to give her a name), the main character and a total girlboss.

The's very Stunning and Brave and this is groundbreaking, a triumph for women because there are no strong women in Tolkien's work other than Melian, Luthien, Galadriel, Arwen, Eowyn, Earwen, Idril, Celebrian...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)

So… total shit…

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:16 PM (PCK5/)

173 159 Another excellent series is The Blacklist..
Posted by: tubal
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Never watched it but the lead actor of that, James Spader, I think, usually does a good job in what he is in.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:17 PM (ctrM5)

174 The only improvement on that one would be to take out the intros since it's a YouTube playlist, I don't think it'd transfer to live-action very well.

There was a previous live action movie. It didn't really follow the plot of the anime at all.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 05:17 PM (oZhjI)

175 Disney's Snow Woke disaster, in which we are to believe that Gal Gadot would be jealous of Rachel Zeglar's looks, oh please, talk about "believe our words, not your lying eyes!"

There is a funny on many levels Snow Woke AI video that lampoons Disney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp9cZqloyEM

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 13, 2024 05:17 PM (Da7Vv)

176 And in response to the original topic, I'm reminded of Captain Kirk's question he asked in one of the last Star Trek movies "Why would God need a starship?", with the pertinent question here being "Why would a video game creature need a bulg?".

Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 05:18 PM (TN0g+)

177 Here's my Dragon Age character. I don't know what all this nonsense is about having small hooters.

https://tinyurl.com/4vktjvms

Well, ok, I lied. That's some lunatic Canadian teacher who thinks it's ok to be a man, dressed up like a woman, and sporting a humongous pair of prosthetic boobs.

Posted by: Orson at December 13, 2024 05:18 PM (dIske)

178 170 The snowmen that Calvin built (there was a long series of drawings that accumulated over the years) were amazing. Calvin and Hobbes is under-appreciated.
Posted by: Crusader
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Favorite comic series ever.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:18 PM (ctrM5)

179 Speaker Downstairita.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2024 05:02 PM (BI5O2)
_________________

Speaker Yaaaaaaah! thump! thump! thump!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
......

I want to see the damage. It's like the old saying: pics or it didn't happen.

Posted by: wth at December 13, 2024 05:19 PM (v0R5T)

180 My gaming experience included Defender and Stargate. We were a bunch of carpenters that would hit a game room when it rained. I was pretty good.
Then the Plyler decision turned native carpenters out and invited Mexico in so I went to college.

Posted by: DanMan at December 13, 2024 05:19 PM (8uzBS)

181 And in response to the original topic, I'm reminded of Captain Kirk's question he asked in one of the last Star Trek movies "Why would God need a starship?", with the pertinent question here being "Why would a video game creature need a bulg?".
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 05:18 PM (TN0g+)
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In a world with magic healing, why would there be scars?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)

182 158 But PoI doesnt get dumb until its almost over.
Posted by: blaster
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Always tricky to stick the landing of a long running series.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:20 PM (ctrM5)

183 Games Journalism < Sports Journalism < Regular Ass Journalism < office drones in the break room chatting about what happened on that survivor show that somehow still seems to be on the air despite being older than the electroweak force

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 05:20 PM (y/ZMQ)

184 Watched Red One last night on Prime.. It was Meh

Posted by: It's me donna at December 13, 2024 05:20 PM (VE6XX)

185 I vaguely recall a movie about a strip club set during the blitz. Since it was pre-woke all the British women were white which I guess is now hate speech or something
Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 05:16 PM (oZhjI)
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What happened to the English and the Irish that caused them to look at our difficult history of race-relations and ethnic issues and say "YES! YES! I want that!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:21 PM (ZOv7s)

186 a triumph for women because there are no strong women in Tolkien's work other than Melian, Luthien, Galadriel, Arwen, Eowyn, Earwen, Idril, Celebrian...

... Morwen the Elvenfair . . .
Someone who sincerely prays the Rosary every day is probably not going to be a misogynist.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2024 05:21 PM (gKWVE)

187 And in response to the original topic, I'm reminded of Captain Kirk's question he asked in one of the last Star Trek movies "Why would God need a starship?", with the pertinent question here being "Why would a video game creature need a bulg?".
Posted by: Crusader at December 13, 2024 05:18 PM (TN0g+)
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Gawd, my wife and I wound up watching ST-V the first time we met. How I managed to get a second date, I'll never know.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2024 05:21 PM (LxER7)

188 In a world with magic healing, why would there be scars?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:19 PM (ZOv7s)

Scars happen when healing occurs too fast. Magic healing is effectively instantaneous.

They should all be riddled with scars, probably.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 05:22 PM (y/ZMQ)

189 Games Journalism
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 05:20 PM (y/ZMQ)
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Sorry, sports journalists are held to MUCH higher standards the the retards who do regular journalism.

The broadcast ones are hacks, but they actually have to know the rules of the games they report on, which is more than 99.9% of political reporters.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:23 PM (ZOv7s)

190 149 I powerwatched Season 2 of The Old Man this week. It was not bad though slightly but semiplausibly girlbossed.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 13, 2024 05:11 PM (aD39U)

Gave up on season one right at the moment that the woman bridges was tangled up with started blackmailing him for 50 percent of everything. Cause right in her character arch.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 13, 2024 05:23 PM (OA79/)

191 > Calvin and Hobbes is under-appreciated.
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I have the 3 volume set of all the cartoons. Every once in a while I'll pull one of the books out, have a couple Bourbons and giggle.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2024 05:23 PM (Q4IgG)

192 Uh, thanks Bioware. I'll just dust off my old copy of Icewind Dale and replay that. Thanks.

Idiots.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 13, 2024 05:23 PM (1Bqlg)

193 Seems we're regressing...

To me, regressing implies something not truly within our choice. Game studios made specific choices. Art design which prohibits attractive female characters. Story design which elevates cult preaching over enjoyment.

They chose to take their investors money and set it on fire. Now we can only hope that they'll reap the rewards for their efforts and never work in any position in any industry which impact anything that the public might, potentially, have to suffer through. The only downside is that since many of them are trannies, they'll likely shoot up some schools before they off themselves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 13, 2024 05:24 PM (ExV1e)

194 Prince Charming would turn into Emmanuel Macron in five seconds if he found out the Evil Queen was Gadot. Probably show up at her castle wearing a schoolboy uniform with knee-high shorts.
"Snow Who?! Never heard of that one"

Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2024 05:24 PM (gKWVE)

195 In a world with magic healing, why would there be scars?

Depends on how the magic works.

D&D? Probably no scars

Warhammer? Pretty sure the Emperor digs scars so they stay.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 05:24 PM (oZhjI)

196 184 Watched Red One last night on Prime.. It was Meh
Posted by: It's me donna

One that is not mentioned much anymore but excellent war movie is Battleground. Shot post war with several actual veterans as actors and in black and white.

Covers the Battle of the Bulge. Much better than the movie Battle of the Bulge.

Want a nicer film, Foreign Affair with Jean Arthur is a good study of occupied Germany postwar as is the funnier I was a War Bride with Cary Grant.

Both movies had scenes shot on location in devastated sections of Germany post war.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (ctrM5)

197 ot, I enjoyed the latest cutjib podcast quite a bit!

Posted by: runner at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (QTCRF)

198 The broadcast ones are hacks, but they actually have to know the rules of the games they report on, which is more than 99.9% of political reporters.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:23 PM (ZOv7s)

My entire exposure to sports journalism is ESPN on tvs in bars....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (y/ZMQ)

199 Someone who sincerely prays the Rosary every day is probably not going to be a misogynist.
Posted by: gKWVE at December 13, 2024 05:21 PM (gKWVE)
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And also inserted a recurring prayer to Elbereth, whose name was so holy, evil could not abide even hearing it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (ZOv7s)

200 79 Look at the bottom of the graphic.

Right above "bulge size".
Posted by: Archimedes at December 13, 2024 04:50 PM (xCA6C)

It would have been interesting to see how big that goes, compared to the boob slider. I can guess.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (lg881)

201 52 Push the glute size slider all the way to the left so the character looks like Brie Larsen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:45 PM (YqDXo)
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That's cheesy.

Posted by: Ciampino - cottage cheese at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (i0xsb)

202 One that is not mentioned much anymore but excellent war movie is Battleground. Shot post war with several actual veterans as actors and in black and white.

Covers the Battle of the Bulge. Much better than the movie Battle of the Bulge.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (ctrM5)
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Ricardo Montalban is one the GIs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:26 PM (ZOv7s)

203 I eagerly anticipate the wokesters becoming the most fashionable version of based and condemning us the OG based for being leftists.

Something children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine something sleight of men, and cunning craftiness something.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 13, 2024 05:27 PM (hB7mE)

204 One that is not mentioned much anymore but excellent war movie is Battleground. Shot post war with several actual veterans as actors and in black and white.

Covers the Battle of the Bulge. Much better than the movie Battle of the Bulge.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (ctrM5)

That's the one with Van Johnson and Ricardo Montalban, innit? Good film.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2024 05:27 PM (LxER7)

205 201 52 Push the glute size slider all the way to the left so the character looks like Brie Larsen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:45 PM (YqDXo)
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That's cheesy.
Posted by: Ciampino - cottage cheese at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (i0xsb)

Don't be so cheeky.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 13, 2024 05:28 PM (OA79/)

206 What happened to the English and the Irish that caused them to look at our difficult history of race-relations and ethnic issues and say "YES! YES! I want that!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Cheap labor to the globalists and weaponized empathy to destroy societies by the WEF and leftist religious types. Pope Francis shot his mouth off about it just the other day just when a lot of countries want their Syrian 'refugees' to go home now. You know, just like Jesus and his family did after being exiled in Egypt for a few years.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:28 PM (ctrM5)

207 Warhammer? Pretty sure the Emperor digs scars so they stay.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 13, 2024 05:24 PM (oZhjI)
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Fantasy would be like D&D, but 40k doesn't really have magic healing, just high-tech prosthetics and combat bandages.

I mean, the Emperor is a fricking corpse.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:28 PM (ZOv7s)

208 Before I moved to horror and slasher flicks, and I love foreign stuff, I liked having kids shows on because they were less woke.

But it's gotten crazy.

"I Woke Up a Vampire" is pretty cool. A chinese girl turns 13 and finds out she's a vampire. She has black adopted parents and 2 black siblings. Her white friend works for a middle eastern type guy.

'Popularity Papers' Wow! Mia Bello who was fantastic in 'Gabby Duran' is there. White girl. Chinese best friend with a Chinese father and a white, drag queen father. Mia's white sister makes very leftist comments. Gay kids at school. Pride episodes. And an episode where the drag queen father is at school for a week and they even had a boy dress up in drag.

It was pretty disgusting.

Asian movies and slasher flicks for the win.

Posted by: Stateless at December 13, 2024 05:29 PM (jvJvP)

209 That's the one with Van Johnson and Ricardo Montalban, innit? Good film.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
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Yep. Forgot the young Ricardo was in that film but he is. Great homage to the Battered Bastards of the 101st Airborne.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:29 PM (ctrM5)

210 If I were rich, I'd commission a painting for the Pelosis - "Nude Canadian Hammer Hobo Descending a Staircase."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 13, 2024 05:29 PM (BI5O2)

211 Push the glute size slider all the way to the left so the character looks like Brie Larsen.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 13, 2024 04:45 PM (YqDXo)
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That's cheesy.
Posted by: Ciampino - cottage cheese at December 13, 2024 05:25 PM (i0xsb)

Don't be so cheeky.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 13, 2024 05:28 PM (OA79/)

She's a dope!

.... wait, sorry, i think I'm doing it wrong....

... She's an ass!

yeah. There we are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 05:29 PM (y/ZMQ)

212 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at December 13, 2024 05:30 PM (DobEs)

213 Hell on Wheels a great series..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 13, 2024 05:30 PM (wDJaI)

214 Cheap labor to the globalists and weaponized empathy to destroy societies by the WEF and leftist religious types. Pope Francis shot his mouth off about it just the other day just when a lot of countries want their Syrian 'refugees' to go home now. You know, just like Jesus and his family did after being exiled in Egypt for a few years.
Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:28 PM (ctrM5)
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Once you understand how Francis operates, he's quite amusing to follow. He's not a pure Marxist/liberal Catholic. He's a 50/50 split between that and a seriously orthodox Catholic. Every time he goes one way, he immediately goes the other.

Today: we need to bless gay unions.
Tomorrow: Too many faggots in the seminaries. I'm sick of all this faggotry.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:31 PM (ZOv7s)

215 So Pelosi was LARPing Frosty the Snowman?
Thumpity thump thump look at old Frosty go!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 13, 2024 05:32 PM (7IOOv)

216 Fantasy would be like D&D, but 40k doesn't really have magic healing, just high-tech prosthetics and combat bandages.

I mean, the Emperor is a fricking corpse.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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At first thought, your Man of Destiny series deserves to be made into a game, but on second thought, what they might do with that property, you do not deserve as a writer.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:32 PM (ctrM5)

217 *My entire exposure to sports journalism is ESPN on tvs in bars.*

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Screamin' A. Smith at December 13, 2024 05:33 PM (DobEs)

218 Ricardo Montalban is one the GIs.

Boss! De planes!!!

Posted by: Zombie Tattoo at December 13, 2024 05:33 PM (mH6SG)

219 At first thought, your Man of Destiny series deserves to be made into a game, but on second thought, what they might do with that property, you do not deserve as a writer.
Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:32 PM (ctrM5)
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They'd turn Maxim Darius into a black lesbian.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:33 PM (ZOv7s)

220 you do not deserve as a writer.
Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:32 PM (ctrM5)

"... hey, you know what this project needs?"

"Lady bulge slider?"

"Lady bulge slider."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 05:34 PM (y/ZMQ)

221 I mean, God bless the pope, he literally made "faggot" acceptable language.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 13, 2024 05:34 PM (ZOv7s)

222 This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Screamin' A. Smith at December 13, 2024 05:33 PM (DobEs)

Not specifically, but you are funny as fuck to watch on mute.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2024 05:34 PM (y/ZMQ)

223 I'm enjoying following GamerGate 2. Big AAA companies are taking huge hits for going Woke. Quite a few gaming companies have been shut down, the financial flops were so huge.

Concord (cost around 400 million to make), just released in August, was a great example. Was so Woke and bad, it was removed from the market after only 10 days or so and customers were offered refunds. The development company shut down a month or so after the release.

Posted by: Biergood at December 13, 2024 05:35 PM (PwgSL)

224 Speaking of Dragon Age: The Veilguard: Ace, have you already covered "Dustborn," a new high-budget game so woke it makes Dragon Age: The Veilguard seem like Leave It to beaver by comparison?

In Dustborn, the lead characters (mostly gay females) have several "superpowers" they can call on to defeat enemies. Those superpowers, which bare presented as fantastic positive powerful weapons, are:

-- Gaslight
-- Cancel
-- Manipulation
-- Trigger
-- Trash Talk

It's beyond insane. The leftist game desginers literally see "gasligting" and "canceling" someone as POSITIVE skills.

That's how demented and inverted lhe Left's culture is.

Posted by: zombie at December 13, 2024 05:35 PM (pMi6S)

225 New Thread is Up, Vero Possumites

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2024 05:36 PM (17uwn)

226 Asian movies and slasher flicks for the win.
Posted by: Stateless at December 13, 2024 05:29 PM (jvJvP)

try Russian movies.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2024 05:36 PM (D7oie)

227 The power to gaslight? I just have the power to gas.

Posted by: fd at December 13, 2024 05:37 PM (vFG9F)

228 Teeter is great. She can act. She can ride. Her character is a real Cowboy. I live in NM. We have real cowboys and cowgirls. Cowboy up.

Posted by: Oso loco at December 13, 2024 05:37 PM (ILafk)

229 Got scars on my chest like those. Pisses me off that it looks all tranny.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

I saw a video of a guy in your situation, who'd had extra skin removed after losing a lot of weight.

Seriously made me wonder why the surgeons didn't take some cues from tailoring to take in the extra.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 13, 2024 05:37 PM (hB7mE)

230 Hell on Wheels a great series..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 13, 2024 05:30 PM (wDJaI)

Dominique McElligott is a total smokeshow.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2024 05:37 PM (d9fT1)

231 112 Hated Breaking Bad, quickly tired of The Walking Dead… in the minority, no doubt.

Posted by: tubal at December 13, 2024 05:02 PM (PCK5/)

+1

I had to "hate watch" Breaking Bad after the first two seasons. I just wanted to see how everyone was going to die. Sadly, not everyone did.

(Gaming related side topic comment):

I'm in the dwindling population that still blindly holds out hope that Valve discovers the number 3. Also, the Bungie somehow get the Halo franchise back and undoes the idiotic changes to the mythos — treat all of the books as fan fic!

Git offa my lawn

Posted by: goozer at December 13, 2024 05:38 PM (aWAkn)

232 Today: we need to bless gay unions.
Tomorrow: Too many faggots in the seminaries. I'm sick of all this faggotry.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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The Church has survived bad popes before and even several popes at the same time. They will muddle through somehow. Orthodox Church has had similar incidents in the past.

Right now, it is the Protestant denominations that are falling apart internally.

On another note, you might enjoy (as would others) Christopher Stasheff's work as he works religion into his stories but never hits you over the head with it. His Grammyre series is excellent for kids and adults.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:38 PM (ctrM5)

233 nood

Tulsi

Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2024 05:39 PM (Y6IkP)

234 224
Posted by: zombie at December 13, 2024 05:35 PM (pMi6S)

225 New Thread is Up, Vero Possumites

My willowing skills are second to none!

Posted by: zombie at December 13, 2024 05:40 PM (pMi6S)

235 Leisure Suit Larry, Mars Needs Supermodels or I walk!

Posted by: Richard McEnror at December 13, 2024 05:40 PM (m+t53)

236 226 Asian movies and slasher flicks for the win.
Posted by: Stateless at December 13, 2024 05:29 PM (jvJvP)

try Russian movies.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 13, 2024 0

Thanks. I'll have to look.

Posted by: Stateless at December 13, 2024 05:40 PM (jvJvP)

237 They'd turn Maxim Darius into a black lesbian.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd
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JRR and his son Christopher, have to be looking down on what their descendants did with Middle Earth and be absolutely livid.

Posted by: whig at December 13, 2024 05:40 PM (ctrM5)

238 Dragon Age Veil guard - just asking, is there any way to stab, punch, or otherwise murder your companions if they decide they want to discuss trans issues in the middle of the adventure story? Just asking about the quality of the play here.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 13, 2024 05:48 PM (nLFEI)

239 >>>182 158 But PoI doesnt get dumb until its almost over.

I remember it getting janky and repetitive more than dumb. I think the big threat of season 4 was just the big threat of season 3 again. Or maybe my memory's off. Sometimes the introduce a threat in the season before it becomes the main threat; maybe they just introduced the season 4 threat in season 3, and I'm wrongly thinking they just copied it in the fourth season.

Maybe on 2nd viewing it'll be better? I don't know. I do know that season 4 was a letdown and the final half-season was a little meh.

Posted by: ace at December 13, 2024 05:50 PM (KRtlO)

240 Black Panther was a very good movie. I don't know about the sequel, but the original deserved every kudo it received-or dollar it grossed.

Posted by: wferrin at December 13, 2024 05:54 PM (KXmng)

241 Yeah, Black Panther was hilarious. Imagine making royalty greet each other with elaborate hand-jive high five ceremonies, or determine change of leadership via violence and duels to the death. Or having world-changing technology and keeping every other black group surrounding them starving and barely surviving.

Liberal Hollywood white people sure know how to portray black people.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - There's no such thing as LGBTQ, only straight and not straight at December 13, 2024 06:09 PM (/50FY)

242 Erasing large-breasted women to spite normal male players. The nerve.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 13, 2024 06:19 PM (w6EFb)

243 Are the characters allowed to have junk in the trunk, or are they erasing black women as well?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 13, 2024 06:20 PM (w6EFb)

244 Both movies and AAA games have really long lead times. These woke projects were started years ago. They can't just stop and start making normal shit Much like they crew of the Titanic, they can see the iceberg but can't turn in time. I'm loving it.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at December 13, 2024 06:22 PM (25QY+)

245 If I were going to play this video game with a character representing me, I would need to put the "bulge size" slider to max.

:-)

Posted by: Ralph at December 13, 2024 06:49 PM (TysyT)

246 I really enjoyed Dragon Age Inquisition, even with a flamboyantly gay character and trans-male character. But this one you couldn't pay me to play. Who wants a gender lecture disguised as a video game?

Posted by: waelse1 at December 13, 2024 09:57 PM (7YTAg)

247 Re: Person of Interest, was really happy it's still on Prime, watched seasons 1-4 twice and haven't seen 5 yet. Great show.

Posted by: waelse1 at December 13, 2024 10:13 PM (7YTAg)

248 DEI is for the broke of mind and weak of spirit and depraved of soul.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at December 14, 2024 01:26 AM (bXvrr)

249 They KNOW there will be blowback from their fanbase. If they think there is a market for this, why not release a separate version?

The answer is that they want to shove it down people's throats. How else can they normalize perversions?

Posted by: Steve O at December 14, 2024 11:36 AM (iY2C2)

250 Sony and the Disney organization have been receptive to GLAAD's criticism. Thanks to digital technology, it takes only a few million dollars to turn old classics into celebrations of diversity. In July, Sony will release an updated Cool Hand Luke entitled Cool Hand Lulu, which takes place at an Alabama prison farm for drag queens. “Paul Newman looks adorable in his Daisy Dukes!” exclaimed project manager David Butler.
Another Sony project, scheduled for September, is a no-pants version of The Sound of Music.
In reworking Snow White (1937), Disney will change the name of Doc to “Renee” and have her make frequent references to the time “before my operation” but -except for adding breasts, keep her looking the same. Following GLAAD’s observation that Bashful is probably bashful because he is ashamed to be gay, the Disney animators keep his clean-shaven metrosexual looks, swap his elf robe for hot-pink satin tap pants and change his name to Swishy. “Test audiences are reported to love Swishy’s catch-phrase “Don’t fear to be queer,” said a Disney spokesperson. “All the pre-schoolers at the special screening walked out of the theater chanting it.”

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