The granddaddy of Poppy Truther videos: That Poppy Explained
TRIGGER WARNING: Eye jewelry, Illuminism, seriousness
Poppy Explained: Hidden Messages in the “Oh No!” Video
TRIGGER WARNING: Contains excessive clip art and stock images
That Poppy: OFF CAMERA Footage | EXPOSED!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DxhZ9eFAT4
TRIGGER WARNING: Features an interview with a crouton, refuses to embed
That Poppy old pictures
TRIGGER WARNING: Unsexy eyebrows, suggestions that Poppy might just be A CHARACTER that a person is MERELY PLAYING
I AM NOT A CULT LEADER
TRIGGER WARNING: Male Poppy transvestitism, Poppy denialism
By the way, my wife would like whoever first posted ThatPoppy videos on this site to know that you have her undying disdain. I have sat there and watched dozens of them with a sort of morbid curiosity and discussed them at length with her. She is not appreciative.
That was me.
It’s OK. I’m pretty used to being hated by wives.
If it’s any consolation, I have had some really good laughs because of these videos.
Read her some Warty Hugeman. She’ll be so turned on that we will both be in the clear.
Wives hate him for this 1 weird trick!
And husbands, and unmarried people.
There’s no way I’m showing my wife Poppy. I just sat here and laughed, and she said, ‘oh you’re on that site again with your crazy friends. Are you looking at the girls with big asses again?’. So I said ‘no, I think SugarFree caused Thicc Thursday to get cancelled, even though I thought his versions were the best’.
Is thicc Thursday officially over?!? But I was just developing a taste for tha thicc!
You’ll just have to wait until tomorrow to find out.
Aw! I want an oompa loompa now!
Would. James T. Kirk approves.
I’m going to study this, alone. NOBODY COME IN HERE!
Never figured you for an apple guy Heroic.
Oompah Ooh!
@Suthenboy
It’s all about the apple bottoms.
It’s all about the apple bottoms.
Here are the boots you requested sir. Yes, they have fur.
Tell them I hate them!
Developing? I’ve been to Florida (briefly) how would you get by without a taste for thiccness?
*starts to pull knife*
No! I’m not going to let you bate me… er bait me!
go ‘way. baitin?
*hides behind buxom Florida hausfrau*
Brazilians don’t get it until a soccer ball makes an appearance.
Then it’s all ‘aahhh!’
/checks calendar
Yup, Wednesday.
/reads post
Yup, weird.
that fourth video must have terrible reception cause it’s all static on my end.
It was working just a few hours ago. CONSPIRACY!
OK, I replaced it with another version of the same video. Let’s see how long they can evade the long arm of the Poppy.
Night Mind is a good online horror reviewer/explainer.
Linked is his Poppy explanation. #poppytruther
Grant us eyes, Poppy, eyes on the inside…
See, this is why I think Sugarfree’s been going downhill since he went mainstream, first his fiction went from R to PG-16, now he’s tailoring his weird Wednesdays to the Poppy cult.
I’m still running on my theory that Poppy is the earthly manifestation of an Elder God, and to pry too far into her business will bring nothing but madness and despair.
I’m sorry that I won’t stay in the tidy little box you put me in. Art grows by changing.
Kind of like a tumor.
I wouldn’t say it’s a tidy little box, more of a pervert corner. I just want you to achieve your full potential, it’s like watching Cronenberg direct children’s movies or Bukowski write an outboard motor manual.
Bukowski write an outboard motor manual.
I’d read that, I imagine it’d be like Tom Waits’ cookbook.
I was thinking Christopher Walken.
Or perhaps this Walken for stressed out parents?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4IrfObVzJo
Today’s episode of the Hat and Hair was G rated. I don’t even think there was a single curse word. I’m telling you, SF is warming up to write Children’s books.
Well, to be fair he did talk about doing things to his biological daughter that at least hint at low level felonies.
Gargoyle nutsack? Baby-shit tan? Ivanka perving?
Maybe I have just skewed your perceptions so much you can’t even see me anymore…
Oh, man… I broke my audience.
See. You were just so vile before that it makes Gargoyle nutsacks and Trump taking pics of his daughter breastfeeding, seem G rated. Honestly, that’s how it came off to me. It’s like watching hardcore fetish porn for years and then you see Janet Jackson showing a little nip. It’s like you don’t even notice it.
I don’t think JJ’s nips are “little”. I bet she has huge aerolas and large nipples.
They’re silver plated.
There’s still hope that he’s going to build back up to the horrendous terrors he’s known for.
But if he needs a little encouragement, I can link you to some infamously depraved fanfictions.
I’m still running on my theory that Poppy is the earthly manifestation of an Elder God, and to pry too far into her business will bring nothing but madness and despair.
Like Cabin in the woods? God that movie sucked.
wait, the newer one done by joss whedon? I LOVED THAT MOVIE!
I turned it off halfway through because I was sick of its preciousness.
Watching the CinemaSins episode on it, it was a correct decision.
I didn’t really see it as that pretentious, but I am definitely getting tired of Whedon’s writing style. He never changes or evolves, he’s the epitome of Hollywood stagnation.
Damn the timezone, now I am Hinhing the thread…
“Precious” is what I said – idea that he’s so clever with this shitty deconstruction of a shitty genre while pulling out a dialogue that would be discarded even on Season 7 of Buffy and then adding actors who played some of the most annoying characters in his shows and putting them into scenes together.
And not only is the genre shitty and easy to deconstruct, Scream did a better job 20 years ago, and the genre really doesn’t need two movies doing it.
I tend to only work threads late night, so you’re cool.
Whedon’s definitely has a problem whoring out his roles to friends and former employees, but I think Cabin in the Woods takes a different tact than Scream. Scream is more about the inherent contradictions and goofiness of the ‘slasher genre’, whereas Cabin in the Woods is more of a general and more broad take on the larger genre of “scary thing attacks people in isolated environment’.
I get that you’re old as fuck Pan, but Scream came out in 1996, and Cabin in the Woods offers a more modernized rip on the tropes. I don’t think the genre has a problem with two movies pushing that narrative, largely because the horror market has changed significantly since that time, and not for the better.
I didn’t see it as pretentious at all. It was a straight up mockery of the bog standard horror movie tropes they have been recycling unchanged for almost 40 years now.
The big reveal left me going, “WTF, why?”.
The Elder Gods=The audience. That’s basically the whole point of the movie, it’s a commentary riffing on both audience expectations for horror and how that genre of horror movies are generally made. The director ‘sacrifices’ unlikable teen characters to feed the bloodlust of the audience and what not.
Whoa…
Did you just have a starship troopers moment?
Was it insisting upon itself?
That’s The Godfather
I LOVED IT TOO!
More Nyarlathotep than anything else.
I think the whole poppy project is awesome.
It makes sense that she’s parodying popular cultures and pop stars . . . and calls herself “poppy”.
There’s a video out there of kids reacting to poppy ,
One of those little kids makes a comment about that’s how pop music icons really are–they just say the same things over and over again, and it amounts to “I’m poppy”.
You know who else said that if you say it enough times, people will believe it?
Oh, there’s also a video of poppy reacting to the video of kids reacting to poppy.
There’s also a video of kids reacting to poppy reacting to kids watching poppy.
Anyway, I think it’s all awesome. Gives me hope in millennials. Finally, some angst and irony!
If I were the Weinstein brothers, I’d be on the horn with that guy and ask him if he’s got any other projects sitting around he wants to write and direct.
Here’s poppy reacting to kids reacting to poppy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqH3KaW25AA
I take it you skipped last week‘s Weird Wednesday?
I don’t always remember where I’ve seen everything I’ve seen.
Sometimes I only remember that I’ve seen it.
I hear you, d00d. Some mornings when I wake up I’m just glad I’m indoors.
You never wake up with a tent?
I’m gonna be 59 in a few weeks. Do the math.
I’m gonna be 59 in a few weeks
D…daddy? Did you finally come home?
“I’m gonna be 59 in a few weeks. Do the math.”
Damn, can you tell me to get off your lawn? I’ll buy you a drink.
GET THE FUCK OFFA MY LAWN, YOU FUCKING FUCKITY-FUCK-FUCK-FUCKER!
FUCK!
(Good enough?)
John, my son, you know that for us time-travelers, There Is No True Home.
I’ll send you some flowers. Morning Glories ok?
I’ve discovered the secret.
She’s Suki.
Holy shit!
[wild cheering in the background] Yes, yes, even the East German judge is giving that a 10! [crowd spontaneously combusts]
Would anyone like to clue me into this reference?
Suki, is code for a massage therapist that will suck you off for an extra $20.
OmaSuki is the MILF version, amirite?
Yeah it is!
*high five*
Reason old-timers’ recognition signal. It was long enough ago that I hadn’t yet evolved into OMWC, and was still edna, a woman who couldn’t use upper case because she had lost both her thumbs.
LOL
In The Before Times, Johnny Longtorso ran an alter-handle named Suki who was his “girlfriend” and Asian. This was before the PUA stuff. And he had a different handle, but it eludes me at the moment.
John Tagliferro? Tagliferri?
Oh shit, I remember that. Wasn’t there also an erotic blog, or novel, or something like that she supposedly wrote? Or he wrote about her?
Blog he wanted to turn into a novel about her. And there was BDSM.
I remember both of those names from the way back when.
Yes it was indeed in the early days. Not so long ago coinage was still silver, but before Democratic Senators wanted to deify the demi-god Obama for his Nobel Peace Prize. (Sorry not that long ago.) But it was a few years back.
Sometimes I try to remember who all was around back when I first started lurking at the other site back in 2007. There are a few here I’m sure were around back then, but some that are still here may have changed their handles. I didn’t start posting until 2010, but I’ve never changed my handle. Except for the time after Brexit when I was Hyp’s Brexit Butthurt Lotion.
I started lurking at some point before 9/11. I occasionally commented with this handle, but with year long gaps when I was “working overseas.” I started commenting more often in 2013 but never as frequently as here.
One of those videos features Rare… Poppys?
This is truly the dankest timeline.
“Joe the UFO”? From Lowell?
I know this place is usually a free for all, but I think we should try to keep our comments in poppy threads poppy related . . . out of respect for poppy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c2OM7HEfrs
Wut? We don’t respect fucking nobody! Fuck Poppy! I bet she’s a fucking commie, I betcha!
Poppy doesn’t care what you think as long as it’s about poppy.
Poppy forgives you for your harsh words about Poppy. Though Poppy is not a cult. She is just Poppy.
She is just Poppy.
Always and forever, world without end, amen.
I first read that as Randy Travis lyrics.
Me too!
Blame OMWC – he caused me to flashback.
I couldn’t watch the first video. Boring girl kept saying boring things instead of repeating “Im Poppy” over and over as God intended.
I personally think the Eddie Munster look is unbecoming
Paul Ryan would like a word with you.
I think there’s a difference between people cursed with those features because their parents have recessive Moncheechee genes, and people who actually go out of their way to purposely look like that.
The former are merely untouchables who should be forced to live in ghettos and barred from normal society
the latter are offending basic standards of normalcy and should be punished by having their eyebrows set on fire
I’d support either of those options for Ryan.
I’d say both, just to be sure.
I must have missed the unsexy eyebrows. I think brunette Poppy looked better.
What, no PewDiePie Poppy?
TRIGGER WARNING: It’s PewDiePie
So… this is the ultra scary dude who’s so fucking scary that he needs to be banned? WTF? Is he stalking Poppy for real?
Nah. He didn’t do anything scary, just a tasteless prank that was blown way out of proportion by the usual idiots.
Hillary’s First 100 Days: An Alternate History
I’ll give them some credit, they did a good job lampooning the media and the weak-willed Republican Congress. Their fake Trump tweets actually sound like he could have written them. It’s at least funny enough that one can wave away the proggy smarm like a cloud of stink above so much rotting garbage.
Day 101: President Hillary Clinton sheds her skin, unhinges her jaw, and swallows a biracial baby whole during a press conference.
…and Paul Krugman applauds.
That’s a rather specific fetish.
Boring competence in the White House.
They are really going to endlessly push this stupidity, aren’t they?
At least there’s no mention of violent riots by Trump protesters in the first couple weeks.
Boring competence, punctuated by senseless fits of inchoate rage.
Day 98, President Clinton, in an incoherent blood-rage, attempts to remove a FOX News reporter’s head and spine with her bare hands at a press conference. Fortunately she only succeeds in bruising her own hands and fracturing a wrist.
Day 99, President Clinton falls and can’t get up. Due to unfortunate circumstances, what she believes is her Life Alert button is actually the nuclear launch activation button. The world is plunged into chaos and destruction, with the fate of all mankind in dire jeopardy. But at least Trump wasn’t elected, so that’s cool.
Boring competence assumes facts not in evidence from past performance.
Screaming bitch resembling the devil incarnate to the underlings can be stipulated.
I’m under the impression that the line was part of the gag. It made me gag, anyway.
One also notes that AntiFa never appears to block speakers at various campuses with violent riots in this alternate history. Without Trump in the White House, the proggies are in too much of a blissful daze of a cult of personality to give a shit about some tired old fools talking about things they don’t care about. One might call Pres. Hillary a pacifier if one were so inclined.
Also absent, all the “protesters” at Standing Rock immediately went home upon hearing the news of her impending coronation. Regardless of her actions (even if she permitted the pipeline to be built), they’d be the right ones.
Then there is the missing executive order to impose “common sense” gun legislation by executive fiat, but I’m guessing they forgot about that.
After the confirmation of Brooker, she immediately fishes for test cases to get rid of the dreaded Citizens United decision and the 9th Circus helpfully obliges.
In both timelines, the Attorney General chosen goes after Wikileaks, because everyone apparently still agrees that they hate Assange.
I just want to know which “Some Black Guy™” would have run the Department of Education.
Oh, I’m sure if she ran her finger down the donors list she’d be able to pick one she doesn’t completely hate or feel might be a threat to her admin.
Anyone else get a fever when they switch to a keto diet? Feel like this is the second time it’s happened to me. And literally just started about 30 minutes ago
30 minutes isn’t long enough for anything to happen. You might be coming down with something.
I meant the fever, not the diet
You need more cowbell
You gots the Keto flu.
That was awesome. The miscommunication, not the fever or the diet.
Oh. Yeah, what BP said. That can happen, and I wouldn’t worry as long as the fever isn’t too high and goes away soon. You might try easing into it instead of going cold turkey (if that’s what you did).
30 minutes isn’t long enough for anything to happen.
Wrong. That is about as long as some of my diets have lasted. I get hungry and make a sandwich.
You make your own sandwiches?
YES. I am woke as fuck. That, and I don’t have anyone under my patriarchy at the moment.
I haven’t done Atkins or anything close to that for about 20 years. I’ve done the Zone and LCHF diets, but not anything below 50 grams of carbs that will cause you to go into ketosis. The reason being that those diets are not sustainable, even though you can lose weight very quickly. But all that being said, no I’ve never gotten a fever from reduction of carbs, no matter how large the reduction.
I didn’t go keto, but I’ve dramatically reduced my carb intake and increased my protein intake, and now I swear I run like five degrees hotter. For the first week I’d drink milk with whey and greek yogurt in the morning to the tune of around 80 grams of protein and be bouncing off the walls for six hours, sweating like a whore in church. Now the hyperactivity is down, but I’m still like effin’ Firestarter. But I’ve also got visible cordage on my forearms for the first time since I was 24, so I’ll take it.
The original Poppy would like a word with this fake.
Haven’t checked in for awhile and decide to do so, tonight of all nights.
I….huh?….Goddamn you, NutraSweet.
Read last week’s WWed for more info.
So, this the inevitable devolution of western civilization…
*contemplates slamming head through a plate glass window and bleeding out*
…excuse me. I may or may not be posting in the future…
Now here is an interesting Democratic candidate.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/montana-democrat-rob-quist-regular-performer-nudist-resort/
It seems he is all for the right to bare arms, and a whole lot more.
Quist returned to the nudist resort for a 2011 concert with his daughter Halladay Quist, according to the American Association for Nude Recreation newsletters, and again in 2012 for the fifth annual Skin to the Wind Festival of Fun.
Did they perform “Daddy’s Got a Brand New Bag”?
‘Do your boys hang low?
Do they wobble to and fro?
Can you tie them in a knot?
Can you tie them in a bow?
Can you throw them on your shoulder,
Like a Continental Soldier?
Do your boys hang low?’
I think they performed this.
Or maybe this.
I think this must be in their song set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YiW5Z0fr-Q
So we’ve got articles for game and movie reviews, has anyone thought about starting something for book reviews (fiction and non-fiction) as well?
Write something and we will gladly publish it.
Challenge accepted. As soon as I finish what I’m reading. I’ve got a couple game review articles too with nowhere to put them.
What format do you except? I have word perfect on windows 95, is that okay?
as long as its in comic sans
Scratched into a bathroom partition with a key is our preferred document preparation format.
“For a good time, call jesse.in.mb.”
@ (555) 867-5309
jennie.in.mb?
I have a buck knife and some plywood I stole from a construction site. Good enough?
What I remember from latrines:
“…people who read
these words of wit
eat little
balls of shit…”
You’re gonna need bullets. It’s like this:
some bullshit
some more bullshit
even more bullshit
Fuck, my tags disappeared an no bullets. BAD!
Obligatory
Speaking of books, has anybody read Mort[e]? I’ve got it on hold at the library.
Awesome premise, right? Or is it just me?
The hell is a library? Is that like a place where old people go to read these things called newspapers?
Speaking of A Canticle for Leibowitz, that’s something I need to get on.
Canticle is indeed a good read. You will probably enjoy it.
I first read it about the same time as I read “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress”. Both could be good movies with the right directors.
I started The Moon is a Harsh Mistress a couple years ago but never got into it due to the irritating dialect. Should probably start it up again.
Have you read Joe Haldeman’s “The Forever War”? Was a great sci-fi war novel, also an attempt by the author (who was a Vietnam vet,) to get normal people to understand the sense of isolation that combat veterans face when they return home, through some pretty interesting plot points.
No, but it sounds interesting. Mahalo. I have added it to my library request list.
First one’s great. Don’t bother with the sequel. Like the sequel to “Canticle for Leibowitz” it has that unerring quality of being something that apparently the third generation of fans demanded (after perfectly serviceable standalone novels) – and the authors grudgingly responded to – with little or no real effort or consideration.
These days it’s more of a website where you download books for free to your tablet.
I have it, but haven’t started it yet. I really love the premise, though. (It’s a trilogy, by the way.)
Is it? I thought it was a standalone. Are they all by the same author?
Wait, ignore that, I thought you were referring to something else. Maximum derp.
God, Poppy reminds me of my sister way too much.
And, uh, she wouldn’t happen to be single would she?
*Slicks back hair*
That’s desperate, d00d.
The very definition of the libertarian breeding program.
I thought we just raped our way across the not-so-virgin-anymore prairie and let probability have its way with us.
The things I learn here.
They don’t let you do that no more, I tried to claim it as part of my cultural Mongolian heritage but they didn’t buy it.
Yes….but…
Today, i continued fixing sprinkler systems, because
it pays wellnobody else is stupid enough to do it.I discovered a leak in a main line, guess where?
If you said “4 feet down, right on top of another pipe, and under a retaining goddamned retaining wall“, then you won.
I guessed it was someplace where the government caused the leak. Am I right?
Is Poppy the new Nyan Cat? I’m only asking because I haven’t had much time to really dig into these new memes, what with the recent changes to MySpace.
Okay, in all seriousness, how does one go about submitting book reviews to this august gathering of intellectuals?
Wait until September.
{shrug} Sounds legit.
Like this.
Okay, got that covered. Stupid amounts of times, actually. And then?
Send us bitcoin.
Hmmmm. Tough audience.
Oh man, I love classical music, HM.
Did you obtain the proper permits?
Did you attend the required cocktail parties?
Have you filled out the proper forms and paid all the required fees?
No, no, and no.
What am I, gay?
(Retroactive apologies to jesse.in.mb, Whom I Fear Like a Banshee From Hell . . .)
This is fair, I am a harbinger of Death.
Wait, what? You’re a Hindu god?
Are you calling me a water buffalo?
He has many arms to hold you.
Ohhhhhhhh, baby.
1) Find dirty public restroom
2) scratch submission in partition
3)????
4) Profit!
For realsies though, there’s a Leads/Submissions button up at the top that gets you in touch with one of our very hard working and comely editor-coordinators or you can fire off an email to submit@glibertarians.com…which basically does the same thing.
“Exxxxxxxxxcellent, Smithers.” Plus I’m tired of figuring this stuff out for myself; you young ‘uns can youngsplain it to me . . .
Ya see that link at the top of the page that says “leads/submissions”. That’s the ticket.
OT, but congratulations to me.
I made the final payment on my house today. I now own my stuff, almost. I still have to pay rent to the government every year, YAY! The ST is evil. That is all.
Bitchin’! Kudos, congrats and felicitations!
The longest the Spousal Unit and I have ever taken to pay off a house was 4.5 years; the latest we paid off in just over a year.
Neither of us likes debt.
Damn, that’s pretty quick. We paid ours off in a little under 6 years.
Two MBAs. We really don’t like debt.
SLT
Damn your nimble fingers!
ST? Singleland Tax?
Sex Tax.
I decided to see what % of the fed gov budget in the US goes to transfer payments vs. a 3rd world country.
At least 60% of US spending goes to transfer payments. It’s probably closer to 70% when you factor in that most food spending is farm subsidies, most housing spending is housing subsidies, etc. About 7% goes to interest on the debt.
Egypt spends about 28% of its budget on food and fuel subsidies, and 32% on wages for govt employees. And about 24% on interest on its debt.
I didn’t count wages of govt workers of the US. That’s about $200 billion or 5% of the budget.
So about 75% of the US budget goes to transfer payments vs. about 60% for Egypt.
Well. That’s depressing.
2 quotes come to mind:
“Govt is the great fiction by which everyone attempts to live at the expense of everyone else.”
-Bastiat
“The art of govt consists in taking as much money as possible from one group of people and giving it another.”
-Voltaire
*giving it to another
“Fuck off, Slaver”
-JSub
A good live-action adaptation of an anime doesn’t exi….nevermind.
How the fuck is it that the number one anime we talk about here always ends up being bloody Evangelion. It’s been twenty years and it still haunts me.
So, confession time: I still haven’t seen it. NO WAIT! NOT THE FACE!
I’ve apparently forgotten critical details which for some reason get referenced in conversation regularly.
Meh. I’m not much of a fan. It’s got it’s moments, but then it gets bloody weird and pretentious (I seem to remember the director or writer was clinically depressed and unmedicated when they worked on it, and it shows), and then they ran out of money which doesn’t help things. I don’t strongly hate it like some people do but I don’t like the series’ up-their-own-asses fans that much.
For weird quasi-philosophical 90s animes that ran out of money I’m still the Berserk fanboy, which gets almost bloody Objectivist at times.
Don’t know anything about the anime, but I did play Sword of the Berserk on the Dreamcast, which is a game where you hack and slash thousands of enemies into raw meat and bloody mist with a gigantic black sword.
You mean this sword?
That would be the one. I don’t know what it’s supposed to be made of, but in the game the character could spin that thing around in a blur, like a helicopter blade.
Dreamcast was my first exposure to Berserk and then I watched the anime. I have only seen snippets of the manga.
Of course fucking Jesse would use this to post that picture he posts every time I mention Berserk. I shouldn’t be surprised really.
It’s the most wholesome Berserk related thing on the internet.
Also, I’m fighting the patriarchy by turning the male gaze upon itself. Everyone wins.
You turned a wholesome manga into your particular fetish?
What about the horse fuckers Jesse? What about them?
Here I am, trying to play Outlast 2, and I can’t tell if that’s more terrifying or these bizarre links.
Goddammit, RAPE HORSE is a person too Hammercorps!
He’s STEVE SMITH’s faithful stead as they cross America, looking for victims…I mean, totally consenting adults!
I prefer WHOREHORSE myself.
Don’t watch anime myself, but I’ve got a buddy who’s a fan, and there was one he was mentioning (can’t remember the name of,) about some kind of medieval fantasy world that’s really an in-depth study on economic policy.
oooooooh i know that one. I think its called “Quasar Bubblegum Dichotomy”. Something like that.
NGE is a profound work of literature.
Plain and simple.
You make me sad HM.
*moves HM’s portrait slightly lower on the ‘cool’ scale*
Some people like a witty deconstruction of the tropes of the mecha sub-genre paired with an insightful reflection on the differences between the Abrahamic and Dharmic worldviews combined with giant robots beating the shit out of daikaiju.
And some people are John Titor.
Some people recognize what the series was trying to do, and thought they did it rather poorly.
Though admittedly I didn’t watch any mecha before it, so its criticism of that is probably lost on me.
That is probably where we differ. I grew up on and loved the late 70s to late 80s mecha it referenced and turn on its head. Gundam, Orguss, Patlabor, Bubblegum Crisis, even Go-Lion/Voltron and super sentai series.
Might be part of the problem. Evangelion is now known as its own thing, rather than a deconstruction of a genre (that is far less popular than it used to be).
One plus one plus one plus one plus one GO LION!
Indeed. I remember we’ve talked about the rise and fall of the mecha genre before. It seems like Japan just shrugged its shoulders and collectively decided to stop making mecha series.
Except for the yearly Gundam series, which I think is a provision of the Japanese constitution. Other than Gundam, the only recent series I can think of off the top of my head is Captain Earth. And I only know about that because of Crunchyroll.
Thoughts on The Big O?
Very fun partly because it’s a joint venture between Cartoon Network and Bandai – same designers, voice actors, etc. Really has the Batman: TAS vibes going on at the same time as a giant mech show. Too bad they quit after the 2nd season because they were just beginning to dig into the real plotline – needs completion!
My inner eight year old busts a gut every time I hear someone yell “IT’S THE MEGA-DEUCE” followed by music that is Captain America on cocaine.
I remember liking it but that’s was…fuck almost 20 years ago!
This was a year or two after Cowboy Bebop aired on CN (I’ll admit I already had the DVDs) – but the carbon copies of Spike and Jet were crowd-pleasers at the time. The noir elements were truly well placed.
The series was really unpopular in Japan. Just goes to show the differences in the culture, cult classics here are forgotten over there.
Also, it’s the male going through puberty version of “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret.”
That you don’t appreciate it only adds to my theory that you are actually a hot chick.
I technically have mild sociopathic tendencies, so perhaps I can’t relate?
My puberty was certainly awkward, but it wasn’t ‘jack off to comatose girl’ awkward.
There are some interesting elements and the action scenes are excellent taking into account the size/scale of the mechs/angels – always a plus. (movie remake tetralogy is very entertaining too)
But then, you dig a tad deeper and figure out that Anno basically just stuck a bunch of pages of the Kaballa on the wall and threw darts at them till he had enough proper nouns to fill up 26 episodes.
(Of course, that seems to be a tendency of a great deal of anime – I have more respect for something like Gasaraki that does the pol/mil thing in a more strictly Japanese cultural construct).
Of course that doesn’t even take into account running out of money 3 episodes short – good gravy that original ending was an abortion.
I disagree. The entire series is both playing with and criticizing the Manichean world-view of the Abrahamic religions as seen through the eyes of someone from a Dharmic/Shintoist culture.
That’s also why Mother/Earthbound works. It’s being 12 years old in the United States, as Japanese people imagine it. And it’s fun to see.
I find this to be superior:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao7GS7uUDsw
I see you, and raise you 5 hot chicks.
HM, a fan of One Punch Man?
I can’t say I’ve gotten really into it.
Perhaps because I was such a fan of Fist of the North Star back in the day that I feel it’s taking the piss of me.
I was going to look into that one. A guilty pleasure I recently found is “Girls und Panzer”. Don’t judge me!
There’s already a couple Girls und Panzer fans here. And JB will watch any anime nonsense so you get a free pass.
There’s already a couple Girls und Panzer fans here
So this is what it feels like to come out of the closet and be accepted.
I think opm is one of the best animes going, and I also rather enjoy gup. One punch reminds me of kill la kill which is permanently part of my top 5.
I am a complete anime illiterate and i don’t care. None of it interests me. I’ve seen the movies Akira and Ghost in the Shell, and found them interesting narrative ideas (that left me feeling i was missing something in translation)… but otherwise the animation style gave me a slight headache.
not sure why it seems to have exploded in popularity among adults. I assumed at first everyone was just into it for the tentacle-rape porn bits, but then i hear grown men discussing the plotlines of decades-old anime and i just scratch my head.
A lot of the appeal for anime with me is that it’s a hell of a lot more willing to do weird or ‘out there’ concepts or ideas than a lot of Western media.
If you’re interested, try something more Westernized, like Cowboy Bebop or Black Lagoon. Not exactly ‘heady’ works like the stuff you’re citing, but they’re a lot more grounded for Western audiences. Also, the ‘tentacle rape porn bits’ don’t really exist.
And to think that two entire genres started from a Japanese localization of Spider-Man.
“He can climb walls? Boring! Give the man a giant fucking robot!”
Chicks dig giant robots.
Yes, and i thought things like Akira/GitS touched on things that seemed “interesting” if i’d been willing to try to figure out wtf they were on about. I still don’t know why there were those “very old children” in Akira… something about the govt experimenting with psychic people? sigh.
It just seemed like too much effort to try and grok the ‘deep’ stuff. Plus, the seizure-inducing animation isn’t always easy on the eyes.
I do like a lot of Japanese “stuff”. Literature (Kawabata, Mishima, are favorite writers of mine), art, design, etc. Food!! BEER!!! I think the Japanese are the coolest people on earth basically. Also = the *best* racists. But the anime for whatever reason… moves at the wrong speed for me.
uh. I’m pretty sure they do.
Hentai’s largely separate from anime. Admittedly I’m one of those ‘95% of modern anime is crap’ people but I haven’t seen large amount of tentacle based rape in more ‘mainstream’ productions.
I see your semantic distinction, and retort = THEYS ALL CARTOONS MOTHERFUCKER
“oh, you see there’s no porn in *anime*… why, heaven forbid!! Not at all!! No, you see, anime with porn in it is CALLED hentai, ergo….” (smacks head with giant cartoon hammer)
Of course they’re all cartoons, in the same way that all porn and movies are ‘live action’. I’m just saying that the stereotype of anime fans being into tentacle rape is largely based on a more broad look at the overall ‘Japanese animation market’ than an actual analysis of what people are actually into.
Can’t say why it’s popular among adults.
I was watching anime before I even knew it was anime. Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato, Voltron/Go-Lion, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31 were just cartoons I liked to watch.
With animes like those, who needs friends?
And speaking of Mysterious Cities of Gold, Ulysses 31, etc., French-ime was an interesting phenomenon of the 80s.
I used to watch Frenchime(?) quite a bit! I was born in Grasse, and my older brother introduced stuff like Ulysses 31 later when we moved back to the states.
I used to rent this on VHS from the video store every once and awhile.
I don’t know how well it plays now.
I was wondering if I was the only sane person.
I don’t remember who here first linked to this site, but it is proving to be a reliable derp mine:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/04/the-clinton-comedy-of-errors
Worse, Clinton was so sealed off from her own campaign that many senior team members had only met her briefly, and interacted with her only when she held conference calls to berate them for their failures.
….
Second, and worse, he appears to have been an idiot. Mook was a numbers nerd obsessed with data analytics, but had such blind confidence in his statistical calculations that he followed along when they told him to send Hillary to spend the last stretch of the campaign in Arizona rather than Wisconsin.
….
Clinton favored evidence-based decision-making, but often to the point of absurdity. Everything she said or did was focus grouped, calculated, and reworked by committee in order to be mathematically optimal. A vast speechwriting bureaucracy watered down every public utterance to the point of total vapidity (they even “deliberated over the content of tweets for hours on end,” an especially galling revelation when one considers the quality of the resulting tweets). Yet Clinton was somehow puzzled as to why the public found her robotic and inauthentic!
…
She insisted that one speech should retain a “sappy” reference to the $2400-a-ticket Broadway musical Hamilton, despite several suggestions from speechwriters that it “connected with her liberal donors and cosmopolitan millennial aides but perhaps not the rest of the country.”
There’s so much more. I need to skim some Clinton tweets.
My god. It’s full of derp.
https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/706670045410299904?lang=en
actual clinton tweet:
“We face a complex, intersectional set of challenges. We need solutions and real plans for all of them.”
The Rube Goldberg diagram is the cherry on top.
I don’t see ANYTHING in there about sexism, transphobia, homophobia, or Islamophobia, so how can it be intersectional?
‘Job programs for unemployed youth’
Hit ’em with quality public programming I say.
What is ‘multivariate’? Chopped liver?
Thankfully, Titanic Sinclair is a cat nerd. The Cult of Poppy was worryingly too doge-centric.
So that was you?
Yep.
No, not really. But I’d send her a cat calendar, if you know what I mean.
Anyone catch the cleavage behind the Predators bench in the Predators/Blues game?
Feels like Fiala broke his leg or fibula. Looked pretty serious.
Cleaved it right in two?!
From the article linked in post 26:
You remind me of the two mosquitos in the Far Side cartoon – one bloating and the other yelling “pull out, pull out – you hit an artery”.
It’s OK. Derp is my passion and profession.
Science marches on. It must march on.
I will face the derp.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the derp has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I’ve read Robinsons article there…
…and i’m not sure what you find so derp-tastic – him or the clinton campaign.
I think his analysis is generally pretty spot on in most respects. His one major flaw (imo) is when he claims (sans argument or evidence) that “had clinton picked sanders as a running mate, she would have won.”
this bit here i think is the most accurate and exposes the true nature of “centrist democrat politics” =
all Democrats really are is “not Republicans”. Hence their desperation to spit vituperation at Team Red, and constantly insist that they’re fascist nazis who don’t give a shit about people. Its zero “who are we” and 100% “who are we not”. because the assumption about “who we are'” is simply “the competent, normal, ethical, informed ones”.
Once people begin to doubt that, they’re fucked.
Man, they really threw off the mask set it on fire with this one:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/03/debate-versus-persuasion
*Locks and Loads*
You were saying?
If we’re past the point of level-headed discussion, then the only way forward for either “side” is bloodshed. I don’t think that’s going to end up the way they are hoping.
I have been saying this for awhile now. I don’t think we’re getting past this one without some bullets flying at some point.
Well, Romantics do believe in glorious martyrdom. Though you only are really a martyr if the cause ultimately succeeds – otherwise you are just a dead and forgotten fish.
Holy shit! That’s the kind of shit that is just 1 step away from the “gather people who wear glasses or speak French into the rice paddies and hack them to death with farming implements” stage of socialism.
Of course it’s written by a fuckhead who looks like this:
Well, one thing’s for sure. That guy isn’t gonna hack anyone to death with a farm implement.
Depends. Is that a euphemism for jerking off to hentai? Because I’m guessing he’ll totally do that.
He may want to rethink his strategy.
He thinks he’s Rakhmetov, but he is more like another character in Russian literature, Jerkov.
He looks like the kind of person that is first against the wall, come the revolution. That’s not a threat, just that he’s arguing for a revolution of the of the proletariat, he should make sure that the proletariat actually like him first, instead of hoping that the proles are stuck debating whether they should give him a swirlie or wedgie first. Or just beat him up, leave him for dead and take his wallet.
The point said author conveniently ignores is whether he and his ilk are willing to ‘debate’ or ‘negotiate’. And the reality is that they’re largely not, outside of a superficial position of political and cultural dominance. So why aren’t we throwing leftists from helicopters yet?
Because we’re better people, and believe in a better system.
For now.
Our mistake. Not being thrown from helicopters or shot by paramilitaries yet has only emboldened them.
Maybe this suggests we’re seeing the end of the “we’re starting a conversation!!” b.s. We can’t be the only ones who see through that as a b.s.
The excerpt you quoted was Robinson summarizing the argument being made by someone named Richard Seymour
That argument is the one that says, “TEAM RED IRRATIONAL = ERGO NO BOTHER ARGUE”
His argument is different. He says =
He’s actually disagreeing with Seymour but pretending he’s not by making a semantic pivot, simply saying that they disagree about what “debate” is.
He’s actually making a more generic appeal for leftists to return to “Debate”, but realize that debate requires compassion with the audience and the ability to persuade them; merely “destroying ones enemies” will not win elections if you do not convince anyone that you’re actually the good guys.
The left used to rely on Pathos alone (“for the children!”). He agrees Logos by itself is no good (and assumes they’re better at it, which they’re not). He doesn’t ever really touch on the point about Ethos, which i think would actually make for a good self-examination by lefties – to ask whether they really have the moral integrity they *pretend* they have.
Remember that windowlicker perfesser at Drexler? Here’s a sample of his work:
Brechtian Hip-Hop: Didactics and Self-Production in Post-Gangsta Political Mixtapes
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40027326?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Poppy?
Hi, I’m Poppy
What’s Poppin’ Poppy?
https://www.hulu.com/watch/606103
Here is a post-Gangsta political mixtape
ok its not political but its a good hh mixtape. no raps.
Somebody licked Clyde Drexler’s windows?
There is no bottom to this pit of derp.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/12/not-here-to-make-friends-a-statement-of-support-for-george-ciccariello-maher
That’s a fine sentiment.
I’ll bet every material possession I own or ever will own that this person would not defend, say, a conservative professor censured or fired for making what she would consider a racist or misogynistic joke.
You’re being way too kind. He wouldn’t even defend the dude that trolled huffpo recently and lost his job over it, which should be a textbook example of exactly what he’s talking about.
You made a great movie dude. RIP.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39724613
Frederik DeBoer: even more of a jackass than you might have thought
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/03/looking-where-the-light-is
“There is no potential for armed liberation here”
Yeap, so GTF home and STFU.
I was more disturbed that he referred to the French and Cuban revolutions as victories. At first, I thought he was just referring to the perspective of the communists. Ah, nope. He’s a communist too.
FdB reminds me a little of some libertarian advocates – so desperate to believe in the power of his beautiful ideals that he deludes himself into seeing groundswells that don’t exist.
Yes.
Some libertarians bug me in this way. Proper ideologues who have little sensitivity to how the world really works or how other people think.
deboer makes some good points as usual =
Imagine he actually applied that point (which was about Left-wing agita about “How white (or not) the Oscars are”) to something the Left simply ASSUMES everyone must care in equal amounts about…. like “Climate Change”
he might at first gasp and insist that AGW is a matter of existential importance.
but he might be eventually convinced that its hard to insist people take a hit to their wallets *NOW* because the temperature of the earth might be hotter 100 years from now.
oh god, just saw local news on the Tax Reform package. Talk about derp – the “USC Professor of Law” they interviewed just ran through all the talking points:
benefits only the Very Wealthiest, i.e Trump himself!!! and will cause 6 TRILLION IN LOST REVENUE!!!”
what a fucking maroon. glad I wasn’t at his school
Oh, how I wish I could put this on a billboard:
http://16004-presscdn-0-50.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/antifa-vs-kkk-575×290.jpg
On a t-shirt, it would be a nice response to the Che shirt.
That should just read “DEMOCRATS: 100 YEARS OF MASKS = 2017 vs. 1917.
But that’s different because the parties switched at some point.
Is that the argument? I sometimes can’t keep up.
That’s the argument, but if you look at it from another angle, it’s “When Southerners stopped being so racist, they started voting for Republicans.”
On a t-shirt, it would be a nice response to the Che shirt.
I, uh, have an Augusto Pinochet t-shirt in the “Che” style that I wear around every once in awhile.
Mostly people ask me if it’s Shia LeBeouf.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/08/deporting-criminal-immigrants-is-both-unwise-and-immoral
There’s a left-right consensus that immigrants who commit crimes should be deported. That consensus is a mistake.
…
Yet while deporting Espinoza seems instinctually smart and fair, it’s worth thinking twice about. Espinoza was briefly detained on an assault charge before he was released back into the community, at which point he encountered and murdered Shaw. The pro-deportation argument goes that, when Espinoza was first arrested and discovered to be undocumented, he should have been immediately shipped off to Mexico. But knowing for a certainty, as we do now, that Espinoza was capable of murder, we should consider whom he might he have abused or murdered in Mexico, had he been sent there. As Current Affairs has previously argued, deporting someone because we believe they might commit a crime means wishing that crime upon some victim in another country.
….
That doesn’t mitigate the suffering of Jamiel Shaw’s family. But it’s important to be aware that ejecting criminal offenders from our territory doesn’t actually reduce crime; it simply foists it onto people elsewhere.
Oh pop some popcorn – they just kicked the dead black guy down the victim stack.
We are morally bound to let him murder people here, in the good old US of A, and we are morally bound to pick up the tab for his trial and incarceration. Anyone who isn’t a Nazi can see that.
Incredibly (or predictably, if you’re me), they made the same argument in a separate article:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2015/10/the-case-against-deporting-criminal-aliens
Are you sure they’re not arguing for summary execution?
The thing is, he thinks this is somehow very clever.
because the answer is, “Of course.“
I have read every article you’ve linked to so far, and most have only been half as derpy as you have presented them.
This, however, is 100% completely derptastic bullshit from beginning to end.
And to round out Weird Wednesday, Beastmode is officially a Raider.
Just spent the morning at a school for the blind where I read stories to the kids. It’s a way to spend the day off. Anyways, before class one of the teachers asked me how to say, “Ochitsuite Kudasai” (don’t panic) in English. Evidently they are running drills in the event of a Nork missile attack.
“You’re all gonna die!” was how I’d translate that. A blind and autistic boy overheard that and is now walking around the halls repeating it. I may be getting called into the principal’s office this afternoon.
i laughed, especially imagining a young teacher running the exercise, smiling, herding kids around chanting, “Ur ar-ra garranto diiiiiiiie”
Creepy British children say it best.
The dorky looking prog in HM’s 9:01 post? Yeah. Here’s his bio:
http://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/nathan-robinson
Nathan J. Robinson
Doctoral Student in Sociology & Social Policy
Nathan Robinson is a PhD student in Sociology & Social Policy. Nathan is interested in criminal justice policy, particularly in Louisiana. His research focuses on adult education in U.S. prisons and on the politics of indigent legal defense. At Yale Law School, he co-directed the Green Haven Prison Project and worked for the New Orleans public defender and the ACLU’s National Prison Project. He is also the author of The Man Who Accidentally Wore His Cravat to a Gymnasium, a children’s book about fashion and conformity.
Previous degrees:
BA (African American Studies, Politics), MA (Politics), Brandeis University
JD, Yale Law School
You know we did go over all of this… like last week?
i pointed out that he had enough diplomas to wallpaper my bathroom, but that he’d never actually had a job (yet) doing anything other than the sort of stuff school-attached people do (research assistants, etc)
Oh. Well, it was new to me.
I was sure you were actually part of the discussion. I’m not busting on you for bringing it up again, i was just curious if you remembered or not. how did you first come across current affairs ?
I like Mars Argo better.
Mars Argo and Poppy connection explained by genius.
https://youtu.be/a9VqKqcLOp8
Gavin on Coulter and Berkeley
https://youtu.be/3_HG8650T4E
Now they just need to arrest everyone in Congress.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/26/another-irs-employee-charged-literally-robbing-taxpayers/
Some times it pays to be the Butt of some jokes.
http://nbc4i.com/2017/04/26/charmin-drops-off-load-of-toilet-paper-to-michigans-butt/
I hope the whole robot is a “victim” is a joke.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39725535
Well, I’d argue that Martin Luther King wasn’t nearly as famous as Martin Luther King, Jr.