[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 9 points 16 hours ago

Cybernetics is cool, especially cybersyn-related forms.

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 6 points 17 hours ago

matt-joker

Glad these matt emojis still work.

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 10 points 18 hours ago

Dead as of today minutes ago

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 19 points 19 hours ago

What's up, chapo.chat gang check in.

Mods/Admins, what's up? Do we need to pony up to buy the domain? I could chip in a few buckaroos if necessary.

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

100 Girlfriends

The manga is so peak. If you watched the first season of the anime, you aren't getting the full effect -- only after GF 10 does the series really start to pick up in its absurdity (of particular note for greatness are 13, 14, 18, 20-23 -- a run of really hilarious/absurd characters), and 29). The real joy of the series is actually the interactions between the members of Rentarou's family -- it is, fundamentally, a gag manga. It also helps the protagonist is like, the most wholesome guy to ever live and also decidedly NOT a piece of shit. Also, even tho there's a silly magic premise, the fact is, the reason he's great is just that he's made it his mission to better himself, so he's not some power fantasy/self-insert/cringe character.

This season will be a taste though, especially now that 9, 10, and 11 are joining. All three are great.

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I remember it being garbage but it was just such a pale imitation of the original.

The OG might be the epitome of this prozd sketch, but that's also why it rocks. Renton eventually quits being a totally insufferable shinji clone.

https://youtu.be/4ikGvLUbOuU

Finally, DONT SLEEP ON ANEMONE. Ami Koshimizu puts in a 10/10 performance, she'd go on to do Kallen right after this, and her only notable credit before this was Tenma in School Rumble. Anemone is amazing and it really is great work from the VA

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

Anime

Hyakkano - is there some cringe fanservice? Sure. Is it more wholesome than 99.999% of romcom stuff despite this? Also yes.

Villainess Ojisan - show is the least cringe isekai ever. G Gundam and JoJo references make this a really enjoyable watch. Also it helps it's not toxic power fantasy or cringe creepy shit.

Solo Leveling - continues to be incredibly well animated mids anime.

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

Eureka 7 is peak. The first third is 7/10, but get ready. The back half of that series is some of the best stuff out there.

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Yes but the history of the book is different. The text of Augustine's confessions is the same but the copy produced by penguin is DIFFERENT from a manuscript produced by a medieval scribe. They have different histories and are different things in the world.

You can't say that my book and your book are the same. The "text" may be the same, but they aren't the same thing.

Unless you discount the materiality of life entirely you will never be your clone.

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

I can't write a good post but yeah, the phenomenal character of being (like, existing, experiencing, etc) is more than mere data.

Your brain is not a computer, putting it in a robot body would be so far from the embodied experience of being you that I don't think even that would be "you".

[-] ChestRockwell@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There's a joke about the notorious M-M cable (aka the suicide cable) that I'm too lazy to make.

M-M in audio is crucial though, hooks my car to my Bluetooth

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I wish I had played this game sooner. Don't spoil anything, but is there something I should DEFINITELY do?

I love you all left-unity-4

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Are there cringe moments? Hell yes

Has it aged perfectly? No.

Is it still a banger

Hell yes. The ending remains truly sublime and while a perfect film would have potter in the gulag, the movie nevertheless, for a moment, imagined a socialism.

I cry every time.

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Luigi's Manifesto - Thanks Ken Klipz (www.kenklippenstein.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ChestRockwell@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Kenny Klipz has the goods. This is the real thing, most likely.

BTW it's not behind paywall so do our guy some good and give him some traffic for the scoop.

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I hate conceptual art (www.nytimes.com)

Normally I want to defend art and the role of the artist.

Conceptual art, however, is pretty much bullshit, and this artist's reaction to the vendors pathos is morally bankrupt

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Vanillaware gaming (hexbear.net)

Equal opportunity horniness from vanillaware.

And men, don't forget.

hentai-free panting

Unicorn overlord is so good.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ChestRockwell@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

Folks, You've Got Mail and When Harry met Sally are both amazing films for this time of year.

However, You've got mail has amazing sicko energy. The thinly veiled David Brooks insert. The male tendency to collect typewriters/keyboards. The fights between capital. Lesbians getting divorced settlements from evil capitalists. A pretty cute golden retriever. Two sickos finding each other in the crazy world of th internet. The gaslighting that Hanks subjects Meg Ryan to. The fact that despite it all you root for them. It's peak romcom and truly a great work. Get a couple drinks in you and enjoy an amazing little story set in this time between Halloween and New Year's. It's very cozy, and in many ways gives unique insights into liberalism.

The most unrealistic element:

spoilerThe David Brooks character getting mad that Meg Ryan's old lady friend fucked Franco

The least realistic element

spoilerThey break up because Meg Ryan didn't i-voted

Got less to say about Harry/Sally because I'm not watching it at the moment but Nora Ephron is the GOAT.

Edit

I'll slightly revoke my slander of Greg Kinnear, because he does have a great line about good people to fall in love with being socialists or anarchists left-unity-4, but even if his character is the "biggest expert on the Rosenbergs" I still firmly believe that he's basically David Brooks.

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No disrespect to the R's, I'm a firm believer that trump sweeping them is a huge fluke and robs the dems of truly accomplishing what their capable of. I've spent the last few days in pure disbelief and it just doesn't make sense to me. I've spent the entire election season watching the Dems play great centrist politics it's just not fair.

If the dems lose again I will face that the R's deserved the win, but I am just 100% sure it was a fluke and does a big disservice to the dems and america

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ChestRockwell@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/opinion/trump-elites-working-class.html

I'll give him this, at least he admits centrism is actually bad politics.

biden-leftist

I should have probably posted in the dunk tank but regret nothing.

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It's time for the marshmallow roast from the fires of die-motherfucker

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Also the outrage of the residents really shows the humanity scale of black and brown people in this country.

In summary, death to Amerikkka

doggo-matapacos

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Rebel Ridge is fun (hexbear.net)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ChestRockwell@hexbear.net to c/movies@hexbear.net

Ok so it's Netflix slop and it shows in the third act, but the journey is generally enjoyable and has a lot of good pigs being pathetic.

From the AV club review

spoiler

That’s really the genre Saulnier lands on here, complete with a moral clarity about its violence—Terry doesn’t kill, for reasons not precisely stated but perfectly in keeping with his background as well as his pragmatism—that might strike some as insufficiently radical, especially for a filmmaker who has knowingly flirted with exploitation-movie righteousness

Personally I wanted at least a few of the pigs to die, though there's definitely some fun wounding/injuring. I wonder if some of the tameness is due to the Netflix slop machine.

Still, I think even if the ending is a bit disappointing, the journey makes it clear how corrupt the pigs are and how irredeemable they are.

In short officer-down

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Caussidière for Danton, Louis Blanc for Robespierre, the Montagne of 1848 to 1851 for the Montagne of 1793 to 1795, the nephew for the uncle. And the same caricature occurs in the circumstances of the second edition of the Eighteenth Brumaire. marx-hi

We have again proof that Marx (and Hegel) are correct. curious-marx

The first instance of an indicted presidential candidate running is of course the GOD Eugene V. Debs, running from prison after interfering with military recruitment for World War I, one of the most pointless wars ever. marx-angry

We now might have a presidential candidate running from (the funniest version at least) prison for hush money to a porn star. marx-joker

This is proof of the eternal science of Historical Materialism, and I will not be taking any questions at this time. marx-goth

marx-guns-blazing

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