TheKingBombOmbKiller

joined 11 months ago

I have seen The Acolyte, as I have seen/read/played a majority of what has come out of Star Wars after Disney bought it, as well as plenty of the Extended Universe from the George Lucas days. And I wouldn't consider any "gender/race related things completely out of place" in The Acolyte.

If I had seen The Acolyte without interacting with the Internet, I wouldn't even have considered that people would have a major problem with it. And if The Acolyte had been released as a book or comic instead, I doubt it would've made any waves on the Internet.

In all honesty, I have a hard time believing that anyone accusing The Acolyte of having an agenda doesn't have an agenda themselves. Especially among the content creators who make a living by publicly hating on stuff.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 35 points 6 days ago (8 children)

That is what the culture war is. The effort to create an environment where publishers and artists have a harder time including aspects labeled "woke" because of a loud minority will harass the people involved, review bomb the products, dominate the discourse with bad faith arguments, and generally minimize the potential enjoyment of anyone who is the intended audience. This is what forcing an agenda upon artists looks like.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 47 points 6 days ago (10 children)

And when the artists chooses to include all genders, or races, or trans people; what would you call the effort to force the artists from removing this from their art?

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As you pointed out previously, nobody uses decimeters, so x10 errors are not that common.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I find it weird that when measuring height in metric, people using cm exclusively, i’ve noticed this a lot actually, people will use cm or mm in places where it arguably doesn’t make any sense. I could see the justification for doing math maybe, but like, that defeats the whole point of it being metric no?

Why is that defeating the whole point of being metric? If you know someone is 183 cm tall, you also know that they are 1.83 m tall. If its easier to say the length in cm, you do. No need for "one meter and eighty-three centimeters" or "one point eighty-three meters", just "a hundred and eighty-three centimeters". Often you just skip saying the "centimeters" part as well, because most people can see that you're not the size of a skyscraper without getting a ruler out.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 41 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Mass Effect yet. Or Dragon Age, even with a picture of a cosplay of Morrigan in the OP.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Everyone descends from Africans. That's where the human species originated.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If he doesn't end up as VP, he would be a good candidate for Mitch McConnell's senate seat when he retires in 2026.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (15 children)

Where did you find an overview of the racial makeup of the top 100 companies' employees?

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

Oh it is a democracy, but not “direct democracy”. We don’t choose what happens, we just choose who decides what happens.

Still not a democracy, you just described a Republic, which is what we’ve always officially been even if die hard patriots prefer to say democracy

What are you talking about? The people electing representatives that makes the final decisions is called "representative democracy". A republic is a form of representative democracy. A constitutional monarchy, like you find a lot of in Europe, is another form of representative democracy that fit the original description, without being republics.

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (8 children)

What did the founding fathers decide that made it impossible to have short election seasons in the US?

[–] TheKingBombOmbKiller@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Your point would hit harder if Snow White hadn't been adapted a stupid amount of times after Disney's movie.

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