Note though, that if you are not utterly appalled by the very existance of Overwatch, then you are probably a terrible terrible person for reasons that I don't quite get due to us terrible people not being self aware. However, some clue to the reason for our awfulness can possibly be gleaned from the following video that lays out the reason some are offended rather better than the people who say they are offended...which isn't saying much.
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The first video has a problem, not enough butt-shots of Tracer (Something that some SJWs found "Problematic" even though Widowmaker struck the same pose in the character preview screen).
:-)
Of course, they also complain about the female characters in skin tight outfits, but totally fail to notice that half of them are not (Armor and Parkas I guess negate femininity.)
The scenario and all the backstory makes for a great set of movies or something, but that all pretty much gets thrown away in the gameplay.
Posted by: Mauser at Mon Jun 27 21:03:21 2016 (5Ktpu)
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Steven, it's a new videogame from Blizzard, the folks that made World of Warcraft and all the various spinoffs. It's the current "Next Big Thing."
Tracer's cute.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Mon Jun 27 21:23:42 2016 (Hdexn)
Is it OK that I don't have the slightest idea what it is?
No Steven. It is not OK.
You have a responsibility to be offended by this and you can't be offended if you are unaware of the problem and ignorance is not only unacceptable as an excuse but actually demonstrates your callous insensitivity to the terrible injustices being perpetrated here. You should be ashamed that you are privilaged enough to be unaware of the problem.
Alternatively, while the game itself looks to be decent, the backstory characterizations and writing in the cinematic trailers at the link are quite compelling, and the character designs are...well...
(Note that out of consideration for our readers we did not use Roadhog as our example...because we care)
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Jun 27 21:48:32 2016 (/4jFR)
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@ Mauser....
We studied this issue rather intensely here.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Jun 27 21:58:25 2016 (/4jFR)
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I haven't played a pure FPS since Quake3Arena, but Overwatch has got me interested.
Posted by: Ben at Tue Jun 28 19:49:50 2016 (i6nDB)
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Before that, I saw someone mock the original complaint about Tracer's buttshot by substituting Winston. It was hilarious. And that was before I knew what it was about!
Although I must admit I find the purple-skinned assassin/sniper a little more intriguing. Plus she has a nice butt too.
Posted by: Mauser at Tue Jun 28 20:06:56 2016 (5Ktpu)
Two Middle Aged Women Sitting Down For an Hour Talking About Girl Stuff
No, we've not been hijacked or changed out format, despite the fact that the post title is mostly true..
As they were obviously something of a single issue party, the UKIP's days are almost certainly numbered...unless they can somehow diversify their message as has been proposed in some quarters....
...but they don't actually dislike Poles and advances in VR technology will soon take care of the rest, so it looks like they're done.
Well done!
Hannan and Farage have more extensive thoughts on why the EU was bad for the UK below the fold.
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Well, the Portuguese did a brisk trade in Japanese women in the 16th century, so "a waifu in every pot" isn't a completely absurd idea. But they should be sure to send the yanderes to Brussels.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Fri Jun 24 16:19:43 2016 (ZlYZd)
Well, maybe because Kuntzman is so easily bruised.... But I saw a video of a buy bracing his AR against his NOSE to fire it to prove how low the kick is.
(P.S. I believe it's Hopolophobic)
Posted by: Mauser at Fri Jun 24 22:46:04 2016 (5Ktpu)
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Posted by: Mauser at Fri Jun 24 22:47:38 2016 (5Ktpu)
Intermission
Well, the last post was a bummer, and I have an exam this week, so to keep something pleasant in the top post, here is a representation of a stonecrab by Jin Happiobi.
The Deterioration of Discourse
After a long day of work and school I dealt with an epic traffic jam by ducking into a pleasant Ramen shop in Norfolk.
The waitress, knows I'm a rightie and felt quite chuffed at the opportunity to needle me on the current Republican nominee, who, to avoid triggering any of our readers we will refer to as Whale Vomit for the remainder of this post.
Anyway, she was quite happy that his campaign seemed to be imploding and noted that since Whale Vomit was the Republican nominee, we on the right had no moral authority whatsoever.
Now...it had been a VERY long day, and I was really not in the mood to be thinking about Whale Vomit while attempting to appreciate my Miso Ramen, so I asked her what she thought of her party's nominee (who, in the interest of decency, we'll refer to as the She-Goat of The Forrest With A Thousand Foetid Young). The waitress got annoyed that I would even bring that up. Since nobody in the Democratic party actually likes that individual.
I'll leave the obvious inconsistency to the reader.
The conversation turned to the violence at the Whale Vomit events and the fellow who had tried to shoot the republican nominee...After looking that news tidbit up the waitress was overcome with the blue county giggles and finally broke into laughter, suggesting that the would-be assassin ought to get a medal, or should have done better and if he'd died doing that he'd be a martyr. She also said that any violence at the Republican campaign events was entirely the fault of those rotten enough to show up to support the nominee.
Absolutely no indication was given that she thought this was in any way unreasonable sentiment despite this being a representative republic as opposed to a recital of the Lord of the Flies.
My dismay at the results of the Republican primaries is Brobdingnagian, but I can say with considerable certainty that I hold anyone who is supportive of these thugs and would be assassins in even less esteem than I have for Whale Vomit.
This wasn't the faculty lounge or a meeting of the Weathermen, this was a Ramen shop and there was no hint of awareness that any line had been crossed.
You're not the only one who's worried--here's an American Interest article about a recent Pew Research Center survey; the survey shows the rise of what some commentators call "negative partisanship", i.e. voting for Party X not because you like Party X's policies, but because you hate Party Y's policies (and the people who vote for Party Y). The author of the American Interest article wonders if the term "nihilistic partisanship" might not be more appropriate.
Posted by: Peter the Not-so-Great at Thu Jun 23 20:58:20 2016 (iohoY)
Nearly every season there's a series that surprises me by being a lot better than it sounded like it would be, and this season it was Bakuon!
I thought sure it was going to be a complete disaster. But it's witty and clever and has enough fan service to spice things up without sinking into a swamp of pandering, and in general is surprisingly well done. The manga it's based on is likewise witty and clever and just echi enough to make it nice without sinking into a pattern of pandering.
One of the best things about it is that it doesn't pound its jokes into the ground. The anime is following the manga closely, and the mangaka doesn't feel the need to reach out and grab the reader by the ear and say, "See? SEE? I'm being funny here! Why aren't you laughing?" He's got enough material so he doesn't need to do that, and he's confident enough in his material so he isn't insecure about it all. That kind of restraint is a big part of why the series works so well.
Ep 11 may well have been the best episode in the series so far, because of the Rin-Onsa section in the middle. It was silly and ridiculous and overwrought and terrifically funny, and once they had done it they stopped and went on to something else.
"Kill me while I still have a human soul!" is one of the best comic lines (delivered extraordinarily well by the seiyuu) in recent memory.
The mangaka laughs at his characters (especially Rin) but he isn't cruel to them, and I like that. He loves them, and so do I.
My other accounts similarly needed attention, but not nearly as bad.
I learned two other things this weekend. One is that the vacuum cleaner has a seperate on-off switch on the handle. So if it won't start when one pushes the big on-off switch on the main body, the correct course of action is NOT to take the vacuum apart to see whats wrong with the switch.
Two of my upcoming courses have been cancelled by the University. I'm within 4 classes of graduation, so this is filling me with emotions that are not appropriate for a gentleman to express.
Fortunately I have in my employ, this imaginary young lady of low virtue, who is not so constrained.
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If I were you, I would call the university and find out what you can take for your degree. Sometimes they have freaky things like seminar classes or individual classes, for the benefit of folks like you who are close to graduation.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Mon Jun 20 07:06:30 2016 (Pcnjn)
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You may have to call around a lot, but your department people should either know what to do or who else to ask.
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Mon Jun 20 07:08:01 2016 (Pcnjn)
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Uni prof (biology) here. The university is pretty much required (at least, mine would be) to provide alternate arrangements so you can finish your degree in a timely fashion. Simplest scenario: there's a course in your department (or another department) that can substitute for the cancelled classes. Most complex option: someone does an "arranged" class for you, I've done that: I have taught "summer research" sections for people who needed a particular class that could not be offered because of lack of demand (1-2 people at most every few years). I was happy to do it to get the students finished (AND I did get a publication out of one of the rounds of it...) but it is a bit of a paperwork nightmare for the department.
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Posted by: jenypatel05 at Wed Apr 13 23:28:37 2022 (JlO7y)
Pinch Me When This is Over
In the latest episode of High School Fleet, our intrepid Captain Akeno has a complete nervous breakdown.
"SECURE THE STRAWBERRIES!"
What follows is not the XO relieving her and taking command, but some nonsense about everyone coming together to support the CO because she's the CO and that's what you do...and stuff...
OK that was a mess.
On to more important things....
With Sena Ingenoh having left the show, I think that Wonderduck is right, the stoic lookout is the secret star of this story.
To maintain modesty while doing this in a skirt requires great skill indeed.
She regularly sees ships well before they are noticed on that silly thing called radar, she does her job without drama and a few episodes ago she waltzed in and saved the day when....well...there were zombies and she had a couple of supersoakers filled with Zom-B-Gone. She certainly is the brightest flame in this dumpster fire of a series.
Meanwhile, Captain Catgirl returns. Actually, we find out that the catgirl is a commodore and is named Hiraga. There is still absolutely no explanation for why she has cat ears.
She leads an abortive attack on Musashi using a scratch force of fast but lightly armed vessels which she handles with considerable verve, despite being completely outgunned. If one took away the whiny whininess of Akeno's neurosis in this episode, there would be a very solid 7 minute or so episode revolving around Hiraga's hopeless action and the desperate efforts
of the six un-zombified crew members on the Musashi to alert the world to the threat their ship poses Alas, we had to sit through the other 23 minutes of Akeno sucking her toes.
Captain Akeno's funk is abruptly resolved via condiments and the episode ends with the crew gearing up for the climactic battle which will be next week...rather than this week, presumably because they contracted for 12 episodes and had put this weeks utter non-sequiter into the show to pad out the story.
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Posted by: Mauser at Sun Jun 19 01:57:05 2016 (5Ktpu)
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Yeah, I bailed on the show a few weeks back, but Lookout was, and is, my favorite.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Jun 19 16:18:55 2016 (Hdexn)
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In that shot of Lookout, and I can't help but notice that something is missing. Something kind of important to a warship. Say, the gun barrels? The lines are drawn if you look carefully, but the colorist put in background...
Posted by: David at Mon Jun 20 02:48:53 2016 (YHSti)
On the Usage of Elements Relating to the Socialist Realism, Surrealist and "Kawaii" Aesthetics to Facilitate Discussion of Worrisome Possible Outcomes of Sub Optimal Events and Whether Said Imagery Is Intended To Promote Awareness, Acceptance or Resistance
Look...
One does not have to omit half a quote to make an intolerant, hypocritical, sanctimonious SJW tool like Damian G Walters look bad, hell, he writes for Gawker and the post in question is a pretty target rich environment.
There is no reason to selectively edit a quote...ever.
Because of this post, I almost posted this...
The progressives are bringing 'topia to all of us! There are details to work out in committee of course, some are quibbling about what prefix should be used, but that's not something you should trouble yourselves with.
In any event, check dys out!
If you want to make the world a better place, you need a space to imagine what that place might look like. From George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984, way back to Thomas More’s Utopia and even further.
That quote is from here under the heading "Progressive Fantasists". Hat tip to Brad Torgersen who has thoughts.
The quoted text is not the full sentence, which is rather more nuanced.
Note that there is a claim in the comments that the post had been edited, with a link to the original article. However, in the last stage of posting I went to get a screencap of the damming screencap and discovered that unless the SJWs are hacking the Wayback Machine, the sentence as written apparently contained the same text it has now.
After this issue with the quoted sentence was pointed out, the commenters dismissed this factoid as irrelevant because a lot of good observations remain Torgersen's piece. This is true. However, misquoting someone does not reinforce one's argument, it undermines it.
As I've said before, ' When fighting monsters it is important to not become one yourself, for that rather defeats the purpose of the exercise'.
I came within about seven seconds of libeling a doofus...which assuming anyone noticed, would only empower the doofus. It further annoyed me because I almost had to reset the "days since last derp" counter to zero, and we here at Brickmuppet Blog have worked long and hard to live down that Atomic Car fiasco.
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I gave been having a debate over this issue with a cousin, whom I had previously considered a fairly insightful individual. The point discussed being the futility of repeating hyperbolic exaggerations and even outright lies about the President and former Secretary of State, as that only emboldens their defenders and further inflames an electorate that currently can't see straight. My entreaty was that the truth would suffice with anyone capable of being persuaded at all; everything else is rhetoric. He has, thankfully, started to approach me with apologetic actions regarding the tone he took in the ensuing argument.
Posted by: Ben at Mon Jun 13 16:09:48 2016 (tjpyX)
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Minor error, Damien writes, if you can call it that, for the Socialist/Communist rag the Guardian.
Posted by: Jcarlton at Mon Jun 13 17:19:20 2016 (M+Su8)
The U.S. gay community is cosmopolitan but it is also tightly knit. It is very likely that nearly everyone in that subculture knows someone who was touched by this atrocity. Counting the maimed, there are over a hundred victims of this malignant savage, who, it turns out, called 911 to boast of his deed and swore allegiance to ISIS.
NBC News reported that Mateen called the emergency services before the attack and swore allegiance to the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Well, this is a correction for the ages. Regarding the "other attack...narrowly averted"... it appears that the fellow who was arrested did not, contrary to initial reports, confess to wanting to do harm to the big Gay pride parade in LA.
"It was a misstatement," Rodriguez said. "Unfortunately, she was given incorrect information initially, which indicated that that statement was made; however, that statement never was made. He did indicate that he was planning on going to the Pride festival but beyond anything as far as motives or his intentions that statement was never made nor did any officer receive that statement."
He did mention that he was going to attend it. The fellow in question also happens to be gay. The explosives turned out to be, er, Tannerite. While it is likely that he will face criminal charges resulting from the intersection of a probation issue and California's crazy gun laws, this is looking more and more like a nothingburger. None of which is to minimise the horror visited upon the people of Orlando or to suggest that other similar attacks are any less likely.
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The response by the left to this atrocity (Bernie Sanders excepted) has been so mendacious that I'm close to becoming a Trump supporter.
The guy they picked up in Santa Monica seems to be a Sanders supporter. We don't know what his plans were, but he was already on probation for firearms chargers, so nothing good.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sun Jun 12 23:21:31 2016 (PiXy!)
A Test of Testable Things
Well there's been....TALK.
I walked into the cafeteria the other day and noted that all the cool kids were talking, presumably about cool things, so I walked over to say hi, but before i did I realized that they were actually venting about some dork...and then I realized, it was probably me so I hid behind the soda machine before they saw me and then skipped lunch and then I ran home and cut myself checked the blog in Epic, Opera, Vivaldi, Safari, Midori and Chrome and didn't see a problem but realized that the complaint was about IE...which I don't use because it tries to upgrade my Windows 7 into Windows 10...so I just gave up because the day was terrible since I'd already gotten a "D" in English because of something called a "run-on-sentence".
Ahem...
I noted that my page was set at 25 posts per page, I've cut it down to 5. As a stress test, since two other posts have embedded videos in lieu of content, I'll put this animated .gif of a girl passionately explaining why duodecimal is just better.
Let me know if cutting the the page count addressed the issues.
Did Mitsuki really have 6 fingers in the anime or is this some kind of fan-sourced joke?
Certainly she's not canonically asymmetrically polydactyl
A Google Search of the image seems to indicate that it's just an animatioj glitch, like the infamous cabbage.
However, it is entirely possible that it was an intentional gag.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sun Jun 5 20:12:29 2016 (/4jFR)
Posted by: Rick C at Mon Jun 6 09:59:29 2016 (ECH2/)
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I got one of those "helpful corrections" a while back, trying to replace a broken link to the ATF's site with a link to a commercial site filled with anti-gun "home safety" tips. When I pointed and laughed, he actually wrote back complaining about how I was cyber-bullying him because I'd included his name on the blog. It took four or five email exchanges for him to finally go away.
-j
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