Godammed SDN

[Veef]

man was TGWTG always a sea of unfunny white nerds in front of cameras

i feel betrayed

[Gands]

Sometime they're funny, but the odds aren't in one's favour.

[Veef]

is Elfdart really trying to argue the Trade dudes not being space asians

srsly

[adr-admin]

hey mike wong did

and he can do no wrong

[Veef]

well i'm half jewish so i'm gonna argue Watto is totally a space jew like Freddie Prinz Jr. in Wing Commander

[Bakustra]

The TF had about as much effort put into them as the typical henchman in a Bond movie: Non-retards can surmise that they do as their evil boss tells them to because of fear of their employer(s), personal gain or some combination of the two. Apparently, you would like to see job interviews where Goldfinger tells Odd Job exactly how he's going to be rewarded for doing his bidding.

[Veef]

hey isn't Oddjob an Asian guy too :d

[Bakustra]

hey isn't Oddjob an Asian guy too :d

yeah

goldfinger the book is so racist, homophobic and sexist that it becomes ridiculous

like oddjob is a Korean master of "karate, a form of judo" and literally eats cats. raw.

Bond concludes that the gay is caught from women's suffrage or some incoherent shit about women's rights.

basically Ian Fleming was an incredibly unpleasant person irl.

[Veef]

wow really. i had no idea

i read the old Iron Man comics a while back and boy are their asians pretty lulzy

but you know, even with his Fu Manchu looks, the Mandarin is a pretty cool villain. He's smart, feared by whole governments, a builder of orbital death lasers, and can KARATE chop Iron Man's armor through sheer strength.

[Bakustra]

wow really. i had no idea

i read the old Iron Man comics a while back and boy are their asians pretty lulzy

but you know, even with his Fu Manchu looks, the Mandarin is a pretty cool villain. He's smart, feared by whole governments, a builder of orbital death lasers, and can KARATE chop Iron Man's armor through sheer strength.

I kinda hope that Iron Man 3 manages to have him not be terrible. Their habit of avoiding naming supervillains outright ought to help, but still.

[starku]

way back when they tried to make xmen not terrible with the first movie

they set stuff up like a normal movie

they had bad things going on like a normal movie

and they have characters with names like a normal movie

and then there's this awful scene where captain picard introduces people by their amazingly stupid names and they put on their ridiculous outfits

it even has people say 'wow this is dumb' and 'whoa what a stupid name' but they have to do it because NERD SHOUT OUTS

because the best solution to distrust of mutants is to train them like soldiers and have them wear masks, right?

[Dooey Jo]

well yes soldiers should always be trusted

it is governments that are bad

governments should only be trusted when they are setting up extra-legal hit lists of bad guys

furthermore americomis are terrible

[Aaron]

Oh so their calling for Sharia law in newly liberated Libya?

What. A. Fucking. Shock.

Go, go NATO.

[Zod]

I guess this means we can expect to see another revolution in Libya in another 40 years.

[artemas]

calling for sharia law "as a base" in a muslim country is sort of like using english common law as a base in anglo and colonial countries

sharia is considered by the west in much the same way americans view SOCIALISM, generally ignorant with plenty of good examples of bad association

[Aaron]

Yeah, it might turn out ok.

Little shy of it after Afghanistan.

[artemas]

yeah, but they're different enough that quick n dirty analogies, as favoured at teo don't really work

indonesia and malaysia also have sharia law as a base

and plenty of countries have sharia as a system for family and civil mediation and stuff

tldr we wont know how it turns out till it turns out

[adr-admin]

but english common law is about using consistent precidents of justice and fairness. it's secular, ya know?

sharia law is about religious fundamentalists throwing acid in women's faces

[artemas]

in fact, thats the first tenant of sharia law

"when in doubt, throw acid at women"

[adr-admin]

indeed

just like how the first pillar of islam is america will always be your greatest enemy

[artemas]

it was written in the declaration of independence that mohammedans are terrorists

people were pretty confused by that line for the next couple centuries

[adr-admin]

JEFFERSON FORSAW THE MOOSLIM MENACE

[adr-admin]

whoa

moo slim

brand low fat milk

[Zod]

HURF HURF FUCK SUFFERING COUNTRIES PROBLEMS, WE'VE GOT TOO MUCH SHIT TO FIX AT HOME FOR ME TO DONATE TO THEM

[Aaron]

yeah, but they're different enough that quick n dirty analogies, as favoured at teo don't really work

indonesia and malaysia also have sharia law as a base

and plenty of countries have sharia as a system for family and civil mediation and stuff

tldr we wont know how it turns out till it turns out

Maybe it's just my kneejerk reaction to playing world cop. I mean, I'm going to be pretty bitter if we helped replace a terrible man with a set of equally or more terrible men.