There will always be morons that just don’t get it. It is how Q Anon went from a 4chan joke to what it is now.
Also what happened to t_d on Reddit.
What happened? Who is t_d?
Reasonable question! It was a sub called “the_donald”. It started with a bunch of folks saying outrageous things that were satirizing Trump and his followers. Unfortunately it wasn’t outrageous enough because it was slowly taken over by true believers who spouted the same outrageous shit because they actually believed it.
“Mind bottling. You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle”
“It’s a moo point. Like a cow’s opinion, you know, it just doesn’t matter.”
It’s all water under the fridge
Don’t take things for granite.
I mean he’s right but god damn.
My first viewing I did mostly take it at face value. But in my defense, I was a dumb 11 year old kid. It wasn’t until Neil Patrick Haris came out in full SS uniform that I started asking questions.
Gam*rs
I’ve seen this a few times, ca you explain this to me? Is it a way of talking about people that consider themselves capital G gamers without having them come in and ruin the conversation with whining or gamergate bs?
It’s a joke about writing slurs and censoring them with an asterisk, implying Gamer is a slur
Ah gotcha, thanks. I will say, I don’t like being called a gamer because I don’t want to get lumped in with the whiny chuds so I get it
It’s just pretending Gamer is a slur, that’s it.
It’s not a slur, but I’m doing everything in my power to turn it into one
Godspeed o7
I support this movement
Gotcha, thanks!
I would just like to take this moment to suggest people find a comfortable place to sit with a stiff drink, spliff or whatever and listen to the first chapter of the audio book - and I mean really listen, actively visualize the story and everything being described, let yourself really emotionally connect with the events as much as possible - it’s a really powerful and well written bit of action sci-fi.
It’s on YouTube read by Christopher Hurt, first chapter is about 40 min, I’ve read a lot of sci-fi and it’s without a doubt in my mind the strongest and most thought provoking opening to a Sci fi. It gets you pulled into the characters, the world, and emotion without a break in the action - and for a book punished in 1959 the action is unbelievably believable, it’s hard to imagine better high energy action sci-fi combat – someone needs to make a real gritty anime of it.
Doesn’t appear to be on audible UK - is it on USA?
I don’t know, I just listen on YouTube, it’s not got the useful features but it works
Would you like to know more?
I don’t understand why people wouldn’t take it at face value without any further context offered to them beforehand. It’s a campy action film that’s a lot of fun but with just the faintest dusting of authoritarianism that could be easily disregarded as just part of the ambience of the filmmaker’s decisions. It ends on a hopeful scene implying better understanding of the Bugs in order to reach victory.
You’ve got to read the book to get it, but even then that doesn’t really shift the film out of being a Big Action Shooter that’s fun to watch.
Umm, I’m pretty sure Heinlein meant it as a system that could work. The book is definitely not the parody the movie is.
Sorry if it came across that way, but no…the book is not like the movie. No disagreement there.
All good. Maybe my reading comprehension was off.
I think what made it an obvious parody was the over the top PSA/commercials they broadcasted, and the fact that citizens are treated as a privileged class. I think at one point someone mentions that they have to become a citizen in order to be legally allowed to have children and that’s why they joined the army. It’s so far abstracted from our own reality, that I even picked up on the fact that it was a parody watching it for the first time at 12 years old.
TBF but a parody of what? Sure it has a satirical look and exaggerates aspects of modern society, however we are trying to balance that against the book.
We could even say that the movie is taking shots at Heinlein’s own personal beliefs because arguably Heinlein’s personal politics paint him as a rabid anti-communist, pro-nuclear and -projection of force.
Personally I viewed the commercials and over the top stratified society based using a trope of a somewhat Roman or Spartan militaristic society, but it’s been a long, long time since I read the book to remember enough to actually compare Heinlein’s politics to the book and then the film to that book and modern society.
Sorry, I meant satire.
I just watched the movie because there were boobies.
There were some nice ones.
Unrelated, but I met Casper at a convention last summer, and he was super cool. He seems like he’d be a fun guy to know.
I mean he’s pretty much been on board with it all along. I’m pretty sure he’s been involved in most of the sequels in some way.
I watched the trailer and thought to myself, 20 years ago me would be super excited for this game!
