libertarian is great its the one place where you will still find open magas and its pretty easy to get the sub to shit on them and watch them have a tantrum post about how the sub has no 'real libertarians'.
I think that that website stopped collecting data years ago and somehow became completely senile by now. It says that srdines' biggest overlap is with Ohio, LMAO.
Nah don't get it yet, it's exactly as broken and buggy as you'd expect a game that was made over 8 years by an inexperienced studio in a 2nd world country to be. It'll probably be good in a year or two when they release the modding tools and let the autists of America fix their game.
When people dis fantasyāmainstream readers and SF readers alikeāthey are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking aboutĀ Tolkien, and Tolkien's innumerable heirs. Call it 'epic', or 'high', or 'genre' fantasy, this is what fantasy has come to mean. Which is misleading as well as unfortunate.
That is a revolting idea, and one, thankfully, that plenty of fantasists have ignored. From the Surrealists through the pulpsāviaĀ Mervyn PeakeĀ andĀ Mikhael BulgakovĀ andĀ Stefan GrabiÅskiĀ andĀ Bruno SchulzĀ andĀ Michael MoorcockĀ andĀ M. John HarrisonĀ and I could go onāthe best writers have used the fantastic aesthetic precisely to challenge, to alienate, to subvert and undermine expectations.
Of course I'm not saying that any fan of Tolkien is no friend of mineāthat would cut my social circle considerably. Nor would I claim that it's impossible to write a good fantasy book with elves and dwarfs in itāMichael Swanwick's superbĀ Iron Dragon's DaughterĀ gives the lie to that. But given that the pleasure of fantasy is supposed to be in its limitless creativity, why not try to come up with some different themes, as well as unconventional monsters? Why not use fantasy to challenge social and aesthetic lies?
Thankfully, the alternative tradition of fantasy has never died. And it's getting stronger.Ā Chris Wooding,Ā Michael Swanwick,Ā Mary Gentle,Ā Paul di Filippo,Ā Jeff VanderMeer, and many others, are all producing works based on fantasy's radicalism. Where traditional fantasy has been rural and bucolic, this is often urban, and frequently brutal. Characters are more than cardboard cutouts, and they're not defined by race or sex. Things are gritty and tricky, just as in real life. This is fantasy not as comfort-food, but as challenge.
The critic Gabe Chouinard has said that we're entering a new period, a renaissance in the creative radicalism of fantasy that hasn't been seen since the New Wave of the sixties and seventies, and in echo of which he has christened the Next Wave. I don't know if he's right, but I'm excited. This is a radical literature. It's the literature we most deserve.
I don't necessarily agree with it all, but it's great for bootyblasting.
I know this is pasta, either repurposed for LOTR or some other arutists rant, but I've been reading LOTR recently and my god that book is great! Bought it Sunday, on Chapter 3 of Fellowship of the Ring. Last time I read it as a kid when the movies were coming out (on dvd? mid 2000s?), and I didn't understand half of what I was reading. But hey, I was reading near college level in 3rd grade XD!
Checkmate, illiterate-sells
I will bet my 5 BTCs that I bought in 2017 that I am more literate and educated on all matters of Western Civilization literature than Pizzashill. And this is a hill I am willing to die on. I bet I'm 5 years younger than him too, since he must be 30 (age wise, mentally, hes still 14 like all of us)
point proven dramatards are all closet nerds. Nothing to be ashamed of, it is ok to fanboy over a man who made up more languages than most people will ever come across in their life and fought in the trenches of Somme.
Way to go nerds. I'd be less disappointed if the overlap was r conservative and r sino. And why isn't analonlylifestyle on there. It should definitely be top 3.
I love hoi4 but never played MP, not sure if I'd be able to line up the schedules since a lot of g*mers do that shit at night and I have a life during the day and sleep at night.
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29 zhcyiDnein 2021-03-30
Glad to see each quadrant of the political compass is represented. aredrama maintains radical centrism as always.
9 Llamayoda 2021-03-30
I remember the days when arr dramaās top overlap was AFwithNJF šā
2 MoreSpikes 2021-03-30
Are we part of the 109 subs?
5 idio3 2021-03-30
Who are the neolibs? Show yourselves, I need to dunk on "y'all" and that sub banned me for quoting Lenin ššš
4 Kissingersbitch 2021-03-30
That sub actually banned me for being a real neolib and dunking on them on a post here lol.
1 DaySee 2021-03-30
I'm a neocentrist. Meaning I'm too awrasgg9nvAhVLqp4KHgjha1EQAUohsdfAnjsdoEdfCAEQkhjfxgvBAsfajkl;akljm leaning to be considered a real centrist.
5 allendrio 2021-03-30
libertarian is great its the one place where you will still find open magas and its pretty easy to get the sub to shit on them and watch them have a tantrum post about how the sub has no 'real libertarians'.
2 idio3 2021-03-30
Meh, you can do that in stupidpol, too š
1 DaySee 2021-03-30
Yeah but you know what they say, they're easily startled, but they always come back, and in greater numbers.
0 adminsare55IQ 2021-03-30
Nice to see the dumbest political sub on reddit is popular.
1 Apprehensive-Quote83 2021-03-30
Still mad about beeing banned after sperging out multiple times? š¤š
15 Apprehensive-Quote83 2021-03-30
Show yourself you Poortuguese scum.
17 Whaddaulookinat 2021-03-30
Could be Spaniards dunking on the only country they are allowed to...
11 pepperouchau 2021-03-30
Iberians OUT
4 Kissingersbitch 2021-03-30
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8 pepperouchau 2021-03-30
I did not consent to Far North Africans in my inbox š š š
2 [deleted] 2021-03-30
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8 Llamayoda 2021-03-30
Itās over for portugalcels
22 AnnArchist 2021-03-30
They can't even speak spanglish like an american
7 Minimum_T-Giraff 2021-03-30
Bruh i think they speak Brazilian.
9 ArachnoLibrarian 2021-03-30
I think that that website stopped collecting data years ago and somehow became completely senile by now. It says that srdines' biggest overlap is with Ohio, LMAO.
2 BroboxylicAcid 2021-03-30
It comes to more logical conclusions with smaller subs.
5 dankius_memeius 2021-03-30
Chad Mount&Bladers rise up!
3 not_yet_divorced-yet 2021-03-30
That sub is run by commies
2 BroboxylicAcid 2021-03-30
How are people still playing that game? Is it mods? Is everyone just a Florist now?
1 N0ahface 2021-03-30
Nobody plays Warband without mods, but I think most people are playing Bannerlord now, it's been in Early Access for like a year now
1 BroboxylicAcid 2021-03-30
Huh. Is it...
Is it good?
7 N0ahface 2021-03-30
Nah don't get it yet, it's exactly as broken and buggy as you'd expect a game that was made over 8 years by an inexperienced studio in a 2nd world country to be. It'll probably be good in a year or two when they release the modding tools and let the autists of America fix their game.
4 Bummunism 2021-03-30
Tolkien is the boil on the ass of fantasy literature. His oeuvre is massive and contagiousāyou can't ignore it, so don't even try. The best you can do is consciously try to lance the boil. And there's a lot to dislikeāhis cod-Wagnerian pomposity, his boys-own-adventure glorying in war, his small-minded and reactionary love for hierarchical status-quos, his belief in absolute morality that blurs moral and political complexity. Tolkien's clichĆ©sāelves 'n' dwarfs 'n' magic ringsāhave spread like viruses. He wrote that the function of fantasy was 'consolation', thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.
11 tHeSiD 2021-03-30
I thought you were snappy
10 UnheardIdentity 2021-03-30
Nice pasta, what's the source.
8 Bummunism 2021-03-30
China Mieville, the full pasta:
I don't necessarily agree with it all, but it's great for bootyblasting.
11 UnheardIdentity 2021-03-30
Man that's a lot of words. What a loser.
6 -Kite-Man- 2021-03-30
Yeah the guy who wrote Dial H for Hero and some JLA issues really got Tolkien there.
5 Whaddaulookinat 2021-03-30
This is amazing
1 preserved_fish 2021-03-30
China Mieville's super highbrow persona is not supported by the crappy prose in his books.
7 cassiorolex 2021-03-30
I know this is pasta, either repurposed for LOTR or some other a
rutists rant, but I've been reading LOTR recently and my god that book is great! Bought it Sunday, on Chapter 3 of Fellowship of the Ring. Last time I read it as a kid when the movies were coming out (on dvd? mid 2000s?), and I didn't understand half of what I was reading. But hey, I was reading near college level in 3rd grade XD!Checkmate, illiterate-sells
I will bet my 5 BTCs that I bought in 2017 that I am more literate and educated on all matters of Western Civilization literature than Pizzashill. And this is a hill I am willing to die on. I bet I'm 5 years younger than him too, since he must be 30 (age wise, mentally, hes still 14 like all of us)
7 -Kite-Man- 2021-03-30
it's best if read aloud, slowly, to yourself
delicious spoken word
2 Bummunism 2021-03-30
I always skip the the songs. I just can't enjoy poetry.
A line from The Name of Wind (great book) vibed for me
2 -Kite-Man- 2021-03-30
i used to as well, but that's what singing yourself is for!
its richer than it sounds
4 Bummunism 2021-03-30
If you're getting into Tolkien again, definitely check out The Silmarillion. It's much meatier book though.
And no this dude specifically went off on Tolkien. I don't think he has much of a point there, but he was right about copycats.
1 busslordlowkeybussin 2021-03-30
Silmarillion is sick. Seeing that war through like 3000 years of strugge is intense. Wish it was filmable, would make an insane trilogy.
4 __TIE_Guy 2021-03-30
bummunism based and bussy pilled
4 tiptopkitkat 2021-03-30
point proven dramatards are all closet nerds. Nothing to be ashamed of, it is ok to fanboy over a man who made up more languages than most people will ever come across in their life and fought in the trenches of Somme.
3 busslordlowkeybussin 2021-03-30
Way to go nerds. I'd be less disappointed if the overlap was r conservative and r sino. And why isn't analonlylifestyle on there. It should definitely be top 3.
4 BroboxylicAcid 2021-03-30
L4AO when?
4 busslordlowkeybussin 2021-03-30
Soon brother. First comes homocracy then bussupremacy.
3 strallweat 2021-03-30
Is that real? I've never even been to any of those subs
3 Kodiak_Hypes 2021-03-30
Lord of the Rings fucks, thatās why
1 canad1anbacon 2021-03-30
Mount and Blade is the shit too
Drama R-slurs have good taste confirmed
2 johannesalthusius 2021-03-30
arrr drama sits at the J line with deadeye, little pussies
2 SnappyIsMyWaifu 2021-03-30
It's the new meta bruh
2 __TIE_Guy 2021-03-30
I can proudly say I am a part of none of those.
2 PacificSpices 2021-03-30
Yo real talk DM me if you wanna get on some HOI4 multiplayer. Or hell even MOWAS 2.
1 not_yet_divorced-yet 2021-03-30
I love hoi4 but never played MP, not sure if I'd be able to line up the schedules since a lot of g*mers do that shit at night and I have a life during the day and sleep at night.
2 Alicesnakebae 2021-03-30
Gamers smh
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1 Doctor-Pavel 2021-03-30
it used to be worse
1 Bummunism 2021-03-30
Probably because it can only capture comments+posts and there's only certain people here who could do that for a while now.
2 Doctor-Pavel 2021-03-30
Iāll take been associated with gamer shit over SRDines every time
1 MoreSpikes 2021-03-30
I've been enjoying the hicks takeover of stupidpol immensely, keep up the good work
1 muffler_kek 2021-03-30
Bros, why was Bannerlord shit?
1 SJCards 2021-03-30
More of you dweebs need to watch the NFL and become pay pigs for fantasy football leagues.
1 911roofer 2021-03-30
You've earned yourself a wikiposting.
1 Llamayoda 2021-03-30
Whatās that?
1 911roofer 2021-03-30
You'll learn. Oh how you'll learn.
1 Llamayoda 2021-03-30
Iām legally r slurred I canāt learn shit
1 lol_te_gusto 2021-03-30
Isn't tolkien just a ripoff of the ring of the nibelung?
1 mugiamagi 2021-03-30
Who else warships?