Sam [none/use name]

These people should only be allowed to watch cartoons for toddlers which they might be able to keep up with.

Is that not what Superhero movies are?

The video format reminds me alot of another guy on youtube called Chongqing Punk. I understand why he is speaking so fast but tbh I had to read the transcript and watch it twice just to take the words in. The state of the left-wing in Ireland is only slightly better than in England and Scotland. Sinn Fein are a nationalist party that takes all comers and will never be forgiven by the Civil™ people down south for not having the good graces to lie down and die during the Troubles. People Before Profit are a tiny party of Trotskyists who are essentially a party of independents spending most of their time coming up with new names for their next eventual schism/reformation.

“High-Altitude” in this case means GEO. This would most likely be the first refuelling of a satellite in GEO.

There is a reason that Northern Ireland is the birthplace of the term “recreational rioting”. “Prominent Members of the Community” (read: paramilitary drug dealers) start them and then the recreational rioters roll in no matter the reason for the riot in the first place. Loyalists start these riots for the same reason they march through nationalist neighbourhoods every year, intimidation. Like all settler cultures the Unionist (with a big U) is now completely detached from the origins that they base their culture on. Ignored by the British, who just see them as Irish anyway, they have adopted a siege mentality that requires periodic shows of force to stop themselves from becoming completely irrelevant. Racism is a fundamental part of the culture because without it they would have to admit that they are, after 400+ years of living here, identical to the Nationalist cultures they discriminate against.

Children are far more likely to be killed by rubber and plastic bullets because of their height. Of the 17 people killed by them in Northern Ireland 8 of them were children, plastic bullets alone seriously wounded 615 people from 1988-98 in NI.

If you post a paywalled article please post a archive link: https://archive.ph/jAKpa Lot of people doing this with SCMP in particular.

Remmick is a metaphor for assimilation, like the protagonists he is part of a diaspora from an culture obliterated by colonial rule. Unlike the protagonists the Irish and other white settlers were afforded the opportunity to assimilate into white America at the cost of their individual ethnic cultures. This emptiness is what leads to the fetishization and desire to appropriate other cultures which remain distinct due to not being afforded the same opportunity to assimilate. The movie explicitly mentions the Filí, a type of Irish bard that played an equivalent role to Sammie in using music to connect people to their shared cultural history. The reason Remmick is so focused on getting Sammie to join his literal hive mind is that he is so desperate to feel that shared culture and ancestral connection that he doesnt care that it isnt his culture or his ancestors.

Ironically, as an Irish person, the scene that I resonated with the most was Sammie’s song. I thought it was the perfect visualisation of how folk music can allow a culture to survive and connect with their ancestral pasts even when they have been long forgotten. Irish trad music and contemporary music that evolves from it is one of the very few unbroken threads to our shared past remaining.

They will most likely be made to turn around like the last two ships before the one that was bombed.

I think this might be a miscalculation here. Dr Yueh is an extremely sympathetic character whose wife was being held hostage and helped Jessica and Paul escape while also providing Leto with the poison to potentially kill the Baron. If it was some yellow peril bullshit then why would they show Paul speaking mandarin too? Why use it to establish the protagonists close relationship with Dr Yueh. Dune has so many brainworms (I stopped halfway through God Emperor of Dune because of all the fucking Homosexual Suicidal Urges stuff that was clearly Herbert lashing out at his own gay son) but I do not think this is one of them.

Theres a set of (sadly unfinished) videos on youtube by a former SC Whale and community helper who actually went as far as providing like 40 grand of seed money at the very beginning that details Chris Roberts career, including the stuff he was doing for the years between wing commander and the SC Kickstarter and abunch of behind-the-scenes stuff that paints a pretty clear picture. Roberts was a guy who lucked out with wing commander at the right time and place but essentially bungled its further success by wanting to produce movies and trying to force that through wing commander 3. After that failed because he was actually quite bad at management and any sort of directing he failed at actually getting into directing and ending up also failing to run a car rental service in LA in the hopes that he would rent a car to a celebrity that would give him an in to direct again.

Then the SC kickstarter happened and blew up beyond his wildest dreams, and so CR very quickly went from flogging his last bit of goodwill and nostalgia for peanuts to suddenly being a multi-millionaire and, like most people suddenly incredibly wealthy, promptly realised he would much rather go off and spend his unearned money in a blissful rich man retirement and only occasionally pop in to fuck with developers and prevent the project from actually getting anywhere.

Just go and watch the SQ42 trailer they released last year with the first mission in it, it has the shitty hallmarks of Chris Roberts terrible directing all over it. Resulting in the most boring generic Sci-Fi slop you’ve ever seen.

Bandai Namco patented mini-games in loading screens. I always remember Baldurs Gate on the Gamecube had a neat little interactive flame you controlled with one of the joysticks. By the time it expired about 10 years ago loading screens were too short to justify them.

people always focus on the mormon thing, but really its Space Americans pretending to be Greek running away from mega-9/11 while West Wing LARPing who just happen to be space mormons.

You called it a week ago congrats : https://hexbear.net/comment/6106194

This was easy to see coming. I think alot of Kneecap’s international audience don’t understand that their personas, songs and whole aesthetic are making fun of the post-troubles west Belfast hoods. People who were (like Kneecap) born in or after the 90s and are aping an exaggerated form of surface level republicanism that lingered beyond the ceasefire especially in Nationalist strongholds like West Belfast. When talking about the influence of the Troubles on the post-GFA generations I am often reminded of a quote from Marx; “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living”. These hard lads who run around pretending they’re in the IRA because they sell drugs and spray slogans on walls are really just using the aesthetics of resistance to mask the fact that they are actively harming their own communities.

I believe Kneecap’s popularity abroad stems from this mask of resistance that they initially put on to mock destructive elements in their own community but that people missing the local context see as genuine and are using to LARP as revolutionaries. I don’t personally know them so I wont make judgements but sometimes it seems like the lads in Kneecap have also fallen for this trap themselves.

At the end of the day they are really just like any other successful band, and they will prioritise their income above their empty slogans any day.

Kneecap are Northern Irish, so they could definitely be prosecuted under those laws. This is also why there was all that stuff about them getting art grants from the UK and the south.

The complete inability of any Star Wars media to veer from the centre means its “revolution” much more resembles the multi-polar fights for national sovereignty, which inevitably end in the financial backers and middle class elements betraying the rest so that they can be the new landlords of their freed land. By aping so many real world examples Andor has brief flashes of realism but its completely aesthetic and surface level.

Interesting that he actually used the term townland. Many people out in the country still use the names of townlands from generational memory, but apart from local historians I’ve never heard of anyone actually calling them townlands.

Its pretty vital, alot of information about quests and locations won’t be divulged unless the NPC has a high opinion of you. But its also completely trivialised by being able to bribe everyone to achieve the same effect.

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