Gaspar

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[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

To be fair,

spoilerHow else would you portray Lust if not hyper-sexualized?

+1 for FMA: Brotherhood though, that shit slaps and given the above commenter's statement I also think they'd like it

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

Scarlet Maiden is great too if you're a fan of Rogue Legacy.

...uh, I've heard.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Just as the founding fathers intended.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Deflection via humor would be my guess

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

"All that colonizing didn't amount to a hill of beans"

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

FunkFPV, is that you?

Kidding. Sounds like you're still mostly winning though, good on ya.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm only tangentially familiar with this, and more information may have come out lately, but I don't think the above comment was related to anything he's done in film lately.

Recently Tenacious D did a show (shortly after a shooting at a Trump rally) and Kyle Gass was presented with a birthday cake. He is reported to have said "Please don't miss next time" before blowing out the candles. Jack Black has stated that all plans and tours for Tenacious D have been put on hold indefinitely and that he was "completely blindsided" by this move from Kyle. Some fans have themselves claimed to be blindsided by Jack's response, arguing that he should have had Kyle's back.

I tried to relay that with as little bias as possible, but I am no journalist. For my part I understand cancelling tours - saying that kind of thing tends to put a target on your back for people with more guns than brain cells, but I think cancelling EVERYTHING Tenacious D related may have been a step too far. Also, again, more information may have come out since I read about this.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I have this one too and I love it. All it's really missing is a way to remap the back paddles to non-controller buttons and it'd be an easy 10/10. As it is, though, 8.5 or 9, still very very good.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Fair enough. I think it's safe to say that my reply was a little heated. You are, of course, correct. I will edit my comment.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had to look that up, but you are correct. He said it while out promoting 2049. Thank you for bringing that to my attention.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Of course they are! I never disagreed with that. They are "more human than human". That's not even a counter argument to what I said, which is "this one specific human, who has basically forgotten how to BE human, rediscovers the joy of humanity through his interactions with non-humans who are ironically more human than he is".

DECKARD👏 IS👏 NOT👏A👏 REPLICANT👏

I will bang this gong 'til the day I die.

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

The whole point of the movie, besides the cyberpunk dystopia that it created and popularized, is that Deckard is a HUMAN who acts like a ROBOT. He has no joy, no purpose, no meaning. And he rediscovers all of that, ironically, from his interactions with replicants - Roy Batty and Rachael most of all. It's the Sarah Connor, end of Terminator 2 thought that "if a machine - a Terminator - can learn the meaning of life, perhaps there's hope for the rest of us."

And that DOESN'T FUCKING WORK if Deckard is a replicant. Philip K Dick, Harrison Ford, EVERYONE on the production EXCEPT Ridley Scott either knew this or figured it out. But because Mr. Auteur decided to share his braindead take and even cut a scene from a whole-ass other movie into Blade Runner to make you think MAYBE the robot-killer cop is himself a robot because "whoa man how mind-blowing", now we have to get people saying that's how it is for the rest of humanity.

Deckard is not a replicant. END OF.

edit: it has been pointed out to me that Harrison has reversed his stance on whether Deckard is a replicant, and my last sentence was factually incorrect in that there IS, of course, ambiguity in the film about who's a replicant or not. Making Deckard into one, IMO, is still a braindead take that makes the movie subjectively worse, but I should still try to be accurate.

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