Can someone explain what "first generation American" means, and why does it have to deal with someone shooting up a club? I from Michigan, so I don't even know what certain media outlets are taking about.MCerberus said:
Moments where you go, "WAIT, WHAT IN THE FUCK!?"
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It means he's born smewhere else, and immigrated to the USA. Which makes him an immigrant, and as we all "know," immigrants are always evil, horrible, and not good. [/sarcasm]CoCage said:
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Thank you both for clearing that up. The media is so full of shit these days, that you just can't trust almost any of them. And even the ones you can trust can still get stuff wrong or are just throwing asinine speculations.Queen Michael said:
I suspect people who say that overlap with people who paid full price for that game. Seriously, screw that, it was even more of bullshit cliffhanger non-ending than what they put in Kane and Lynch 2.thewatergamer said:
Who, the guy who said he'd personally executed 700 criminals as part of his state-tolerated Death Squad, who gunned down about 6000 people in total, and promised that if he took power he'd kill 100,000 criminals and throw them in the [can't remember the name] Bay?Dragonlayer said:
Why I'd never!
By the way, that above is my "WTAF" moment
The news media has been full of shit for several decades now. They have a story in front of them and instead of giving the full facts, they sex it up a bit like a Hollywood movie script, making sure that there is always a hero and villain and these days anyone with brown skin and a foreign name automatically gets the "terrorist" sticker put on them. If it's some random teen who shoots up his or her school for the hundredths time, it's either "mentally disturbed with mental health issues" or just brushed off entirely. If an unarmed black teen gets shot by the police, or the police is heavy handed with them even though in the video evidence they were not resisting arrest, some fucking expert has to come on TV and say how the kid had on a hoody and looked "thuggish" and "threatening". Horse Fucking Shit!!CoCage said:
Okay, yeah I sound annoyed because I see the same damn pattern in the news every fucking day and more and more people are lapping it up and ignoring all sides of the actual story. When a news outlets main motivation are ratings, then don't explain much truth but more fabricated picks of juicy buzzwords to get viewers coming in like sheep to the shepard.
That is another one of my WHAT IN THE FUCK moments. Major News Outlets.
The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert (when he had his old show), and Larry Wilmore are practically the only ones I really trust. In addition of being funny, they show how much of a circus act the news really is. Especially if it's FOX news.Parasondox said:
Many moons ago, a few friends and I were walking home from high school when we heard a dull 'thump' behind us. Someone turned around then did a double take and stopped completely. We all turned to see an SUV had driven off the road, bounced off the curb, and was now 60? up a telephone pole. This was followed by the assistant principal toddling full speed (he was not a fit man) and several teens jumping out of the vehicle and running away full tilt.
What gets me isn't that it happened, but that it happened so damn quietly. That's all we need, idiots learned in ninjutsu.
What gets me isn't that it happened, but that it happened so damn quietly. That's all we need, idiots learned in ninjutsu.
I mean yeah, that's sensi---CoCage said:
AW HELL NAW
ack. I mean I get yours is a post of refutation, but I've got to refute these refutions before they refingle my rafucia.
On topic, an old Asian lady on the bus sat next to me, pulled out a very sharp knife, and peeled an apple. The thing was, she wasn't sitting soundly, bobbing about with every bump and turn. She even lost her center of gravity while standing up for her stop and stumbled towards another passenger, still gripping her knife. It was an odd spectacle.
I have this "game" with my skype group where we try to share the most shocking/grosses stuff we can find from the internet and i got this from them. Dashboard cam footage of a family that's taking a drive when suddenly a truck in front of them dislodges a brick and flings through their windshield killing their mother
damn I've seen my fair share of Isis execution videos but this is the one that broke me. The fucking crying man, pure undiluted despair. after this one I've never clicked a link from those guys ever again
damn I've seen my fair share of Isis execution videos but this is the one that broke me. The fucking crying man, pure undiluted despair. after this one I've never clicked a link from those guys ever again
I stand by what I said. I knows the 80s was the best when it came to action, sci-fi, and horror, but the 90s Say what you will about either decades, but at least people making films in that era knew how keep the fucking camera still. Which some movies are having a problem with now. Even Marvel films are guilty of this. also did great and knocked it out of the park was well. The latter decade was all about summer blockbusters, suspense thrillers, and some great sci-fi as well. Dark City ringing any bells? That goes for most Animated movies as well. Not all are perfect, but most have aged well regardless if there from Disney or not. And I have no trouble watching them at all. Oh, and don't forget the anime boom and influence from Asian cinema too. That really came in handy.Chanticoblues said:
The 90s did it the best when it came to animated TV shows, because that was the era networks realized you can make shows for kids when mature subject matter, and deep story lines without just making a 30 minute toy commercial. There were some shows that still advertised toys (especially if they were based off a comic book), but writers made sure to have a story first. The 80s were so guilty of doing that with shows like Transformers, GI Joe, TMNT, and most other cartoons from that era.
As for music, I'll keep it short. I was never a fan of the grungeoutside of Comix Zone, and I'm more talking about Hip-Hop, R & B, and Jazz. That's all I am going to say on the matter.
Related to a post above (assuming it's real, I don't want to click to find out) - my brain experiences breakage when people put up death videos online for everyone to see like people dying is a fucking sideshow to give you amusement. I can't wrap my mind around it and it goes into shutdown mode
Now I get wanting to appear tough on crime, but I fail to see how that explains the whole "This is APPALLING, but since it happened, where do I get in line?".PaulH said:
It just doesn't compute to me: hell, if anything I fully applaud the bloodthirsty approach to law and order, but publicly expressing, as a government representative, that it was a shame you didn't get to join in some good old fashioned gang-rape fun? Eh?JamesStone said:
Because often times political entities are put into power solely whether they're a member of various inner circles. People don't live long if they're publicly against various incarnations of the Prez. I can pretty much imagine the invisible bro-fist after they said it. Kind of like the; "Niiiiccceeee~" in South Park, when police respond to sexual abuse of a minor by a female teacher. I mean, the reaction should be shock and revulsion ... but the bar has been set so low and the lack of any real competition combine to create something infinitely gross and destructive.Dragonlayer said:
It's a different world, with totally different ideas about social justice. In a word, it's pretty Shadowrun. Without all the fun stuff.
(Edit) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-08/philippines-election-rodrigo-duterte-rivals-democracy/7393616
Duterte was a former mayor ... he ran death squads. That's the bar. Also that might actually be the person you're talking about as he said he wished he could rape the Australian missionary killed in one of his political prisons during a riot because she was pretty.
Can we not have that posted. As much as its a curious thing, many may find it displeasing and showing videos of death, in my opinion, is very distasteful. Facebook does it a lot and I left that site very quickly. Tumblr is getting there and really I doubt the Escapist tolerates that.SweetLemonTea said:
Either Spoil it and give it a warning or just dont show it.
And thats the sad bit. They are meant to be satire of the news. Making fun of it and stories produced. In the past decade, they have been on form and pushing stories that the big news outlet only touches for 5mins at 11:37 at night.CoCage said:
Not to distract from the point of the thread; the 90's were definitely better than the 80's when it comes to film. You're definitely right about the anime boom and Chinese film being really strong. Iranian cinema was also really great, and USA had a good wealth of independent stuff.CoCage said:
I don't know if the 90's are better than the 50's, 60's or 70's though. There was entirely too much going on in every corner of the globe in those days. Especially the 60's, my god.