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Game Of Thrones - trailer
12/02/10, 22:02
It's clear from what you're saying that you aren't actually criticizing the medium or themes, but simply grouping a number of books you've deemed to be bad and using it to dismiss all works in that genre. If you are trying to say "most popular fantasy books are unimpressive", I'd gladly agree. I personally don't read fantasy books outside Tolkein, Pratchett and Gaiman, although I'm sure that are other worthy authors I simply haven't discovered.
"Fantasy" describes nearly every piece of art or story during most of human history that wasn't a literal representation or instruction manual. We lived in a world that, until fairly recently, couldn't be conceived without magic, Gods, and a narrative used to define what constitutes a story since literally before civilization. While the field has diversified, those works are now less valid today, and there is no reason why modern fantasy speaks any less to the human condition. Fantasy is now primarily defined by the setting used to explore a story and its themes. But the setting is just a tool, with which authors use to impart a message. Often the only difference between fantasy and science fiction is time period and the language used to describe deviation from reality. You can look upon the dreck to dismiss all that is good in the field, but I really don't know why you would.
I don't know what it is in you that makes you so angry and dismissive at work that children enjoy, but I'm sorry that so much great work is closed off to you. Maybe you are right and I am wrong. But I don't think it was stupidity or immaturity that lead me to love The Hobbit or Watership Down as a child, and when I read them today nothing in my experience changes that joy. I've met many people who will vehemently dismiss science fiction, or philosophy, or fiction in general, or even reading. That's fine. I draw meaning and pleasure from this knowledge and art, and don't demand that you agree. |
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Game Of Thrones - trailer
12/02/10, 20:46
I know, its all the same old stories about magical spirits and heroes in epic quests against monsters using magic swords. And the sex and violence appeals to the most base and prurient of interests without adding anything to culture and art. Not to mention those lazy deus ex machina moments. I mean, what contributions have books like The Odyssey, Beowulf and Gilgamesh made to literature and art? None!
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Game Of Thrones - trailer
12/02/10, 20:10
I tried hard to think of a way to mock that statement, but honestly there's nothing I can think of that could make you look more foolish than suggesting an entire genre of literature is "retarded shit for gay babies". It's the sort of thing I'd expect to hear on an angry overweight Juggalo related submission. |
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Nearly 13 minutes of bad Expert village
12/02/10, 19:37
Hi, this is John. Thank goodness that happy whale(?) was around to cheer me up after the suicide.
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Worst Band Ever Butchers Pink Floyd
12/02/10, 14:22
The singer is not supposed to be the one keeping time for the band.
Actually for the worst band ever they need to swap the singer with this band:
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=14623 |
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Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - SAND
12/01/10, 16:58
A politician goes on vacation with a boytoy to the Riveria. The politician is disgusted with herself for dating someone young enough that she literally babysat him, risking a sandal. Even worse, the child is insecure and needy, trying to compensate for a lack of intellectual engagement with overwrought and petulant whining. But being around the forbidden fruit while wearing scandalous dresses in her expensive summer home makes her feel young and vibrant. She tries to recapture how she felt when she was actually in power and not just a seat-filler in Congress in a job that could be done by a mentally-deficient racial-stereotyped cartoon rabbit-thing.
So my take is that this is Lucas masterfully depicting Berlusconi and a sixteen year stripper named Ivanna at one of his pool parties. |
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Resisting the Green Dragon promo
12/01/10, 15:29
The tree is a symbol of pagan worship. If you ever see children placing druidic symbols and charms (stars, precious metals, lights, etc) on a pagan tree, especially if its near the time of a solstice, make sure to tear it down at all costs! You should instead replace it with a large wooden cross for Jesus, and light that to show children the true meaning of Christmas. |
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Atheists are sex perverts
12/01/10, 15:07
More likely its the "No True Scotsman" argument. If they are doing something not 'Christian', they must be a secret atheist. This can be applied retroactively.
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Resisting the Green Dragon promo
12/01/10, 14:50
I thought the same, then thought "Maybe its a video warning kids about the dangers of envy and avarice. You know, like the Bible actually teaches."
I really should know better by now. If there's a fundamentalist video titled "Loving Thy Neighbor", I should just assume its about cleansing your neighborhood of non-believers and minorities through harassment. I mean, I've already seen the non-ironic use of "Blessed are the peacemakers" to support military escalation and war against the middle east. |
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Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - SAND
12/01/10, 14:41
No its not. Even ignoring that I'm supposed to accept Hayden Christiansen turned into James Earl Jones, there's simply no logical or coherent connection of the character's personalities between the prequels and originals, beyond "he was a good guy who turned bad". They might as well have thrown C3PO in lava, say 20 years passed, put it in a black suit, and then claimed that was Darth Vader. |
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Banning Books About Banning Books
12/01/10, 12:49
There's no internal logic to this one. The book is about how burning the Bible (and other books) is a bad thing. Which is something the Bible itself also says.
This is just an another example of someone who fears what they don't understand. His philosophy is not to learn and grow, but to force the world to conform to his limited understanding. Because doing otherwise would admit that he's not always right, and people different from himself have value.
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Resisting the Green Dragon promo
12/01/10, 10:57
Secular charity and responsibility is a threat, because our faith is predicated on the idea that its impossible to be a good person unless you agree with everything we say. If you can be good or happy without God, we're screwed. Plus, we totally sold out to the moneylenders, so now Jesus is all about shielding toxic polluters from liability and CO2 is part of the Holy Trinity.
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Introducing Donny Pauling, former porn producer, now anti-porn morality officer!
12/01/10, 08:48
He decided rather than film two girls kissing for Playboy, he'd like to be a priest. Good for him for making a career change. But this isn't in any way an anti-porn message. Swap "filming lesbians" and "priesthood" with "auto repair" and "veterinary school" and the message is the same.
This is basically a longer and duller community college ad.
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Christopher Hitchens and Tony Blair debate
11/29/10, 14:01
Hitchens may be pro-war in some of his views, but unless he's in the military or has active control over them, I don't think you can possibly call him as a war criminal. |
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Secret Confessions Hotline
11/28/10, 11:50
Palace Communications Inc. is funded by the Divorce Investigator Association of America and the New Jersey State Police. |
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Secret Confessions Hotline
11/28/10, 11:48
For women who have given up on social interaction, but aren't ready yet to have conversations with their stuffed animals or cats.
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NMAtv calls out Conan
11/27/10, 13:49
So NMA is making a clip making fun of Conan, which looks like the clips Conan makes which look like NMA clips making fun of Conan. But really they're not, because NMA likes Conan making fun of NMA by showing Conan clips of NMA making fun of Conan..
Ow.
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ICP: Fuck the World at Woodstock 99
11/23/10, 21:28
Here's the real question: Did they come up with that line so they could rhyme it with "FUCK PRESCHOOLERS" or was it the other way around?
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Castle: ENHANCE!
11/22/10, 21:11
This is a clever satirical jab, undermined only slightly by the fact that the very next episode had Castle and Beckett using a magic laptop computer with instant real time video playback of all cameras in the US. Oh, and it could zoom and enhance.
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Slammers?
11/22/10, 19:52
"Boy, that's the second time I out of all people happened to randomly trip over a single rock in a giant field that contained a mystic super-powered immortal being that does my bidding!"
"Don't think about doing it, just do it!"
- The writer(s?) of Hawaiian Slammers |
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