Official R/P Chat Thread Version 5.0 - All your jimmies are belong to us...

[Fang2]

[Stizzel]

Whats good on netflix/prime these days? They are pumping out so much content I cant keep up. I like marco polo but it got cancelled

You don’t think that he mainly attracts a following of (for lack of a better word) disenfranchised young men? And most of these young men are socially awkward, probably not very attractive, probably not very successful, lost in life in general, and that’s a great recipe for them to get attracted to extreme philosophies or view points where everyone else is responsible for their failures (be it feminism, immigrants, political correctness, religion etc). I think there’s a massive overlap between JBP fans and this category of men.

Not to mention that many of his followers are like a fcking cult. Even Peter Hitchens thinks so.

FYI: I don’t think JBP is racist. I would’ve probably been part of the cult if he’d become famous 4-5 years ago or when I first joined this site.

At the end of the day, if he inspires you to be a better, more successful person - more power to ya. I just don’t see the appeal, but I guess I’m not the target demographic.

Also, I feel that he is so popular speaks volumes about parenting and how weak the family unit has become, especially in the West.

People are tired of the social justice warrior censorship, so people like Jordan who are not afraid to discuss these topics are popular. Especially in commie canada.

[Judge_Joe_Brown]

Whats good on netflix/prime these days? They are pumping out so much content I cant keep up. I like marco polo but it got cancelled



People are tired of the social justice warrior censorship, so people like Jordan who are not afraid to discuss these topics are popular. Especially in commie canada.

That makes more sense to me.

I just watched Designated Survivor, pretty decent. IDK if it's on Netflix, but if you can, watch "The Night Manager". One of the best shows I've seen.

[StoliFun]

Whats good on netflix/prime these days? They are pumping out so much content I cant keep up. I like marco polo but it got cancelled



People are tired of the social justice warrior censorship, so people like Jordan who are not afraid to discuss these topics are popular. Especially in commie canada.

Altered Carbon just dropped on Netflix. I haven't started watching it yet but holy **** did they pour money into it.

[Mr Beer]

Altered Carbon just dropped on Netflix. I haven't started watching it yet but holy **** did they pour money into it.

Loved the book, my fingers are crossed that the TV series is even half as good.

[StoliFun]

Loved the book, my fingers are crossed that the TV series is even half as good.

Amazon is making a Snow Crash tv series, too.

[Mr Beer]

Amazon is making a Snow Crash tv series, too.

:hng:

Sorry, just nerdgasm'd a bit.

Ep1 of Altered Carbon was pretty sweet, I see a bunch of minor things I'd do more like the book but I feel it's true to the aesthetic, also I can see they spent some cash. Give it 7.5/10 and I could see the series as whole doing 6.5 at worst and up to 9.0 at best.

[Bushmaster]

Lol no fuking way.

[StoliFun]

Lol no fuking way.

Danny McBride originally thought he'd just be a writer, not also an actor.

[Sebstan01]

Whats good on netflix/prime these days? They are pumping out so much content I cant keep up. I like marco polo but it got cancelled

Netflix (the Australian version) is pretty limited, to be honest. Check out Amazon Prime; they have some great new shows. There's a new one with Tom Hiddleston in it (forgot the name).

I'm currently watching Altered Carbon on Netflix. One of the few sci-fi shows on there. I haven't read the books so I have nothing to compare it to (a plus, in my book). Really enjoying it so far. It's a detective story against a futuristic, cyber punk-type background. Some good philosophical questions posed therein, too.

:hng:

Sorry, just nerdgasm'd a bit.

Ep1 of Altered Carbon was pretty sweet, I see a bunch of minor things I'd do more like the book but I feel it's true to the aesthetic, also I can see they spent some cash. Give it 7.5/10 and I could see the series as whole doing 6.5 at worst and up to 9.0 at best.

Hah, I only just saw your post. I'm on episode 4 atm, and it's still interesting to me. I like the fact that I haven't read any of the books because they'd make me lose interest in the show/critique it too much, in all honesty.

[Mr Beer]

Super enraging review here:

The idea that the protagonist is an Asian man hiding inside a white man’s body is a blatant form of whitewashing. The story is written that way in Morgan’s book and Kovacs isn’t necessarily the only character walking around in another racial or ethnic identity — one of the underlying points of Altered Carbon is that you should never make assumptions about someone based on what their skin looks like — but still, given all the conversations about Hollywood’s need for better representation, that part of the show feels especially off-putting.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/alter...ix-review.html

Yeah I guess if whitewashing is today's 'what Hollywood is doing wrong' story, someone should have gone back in time 15 years and told Richard Morgan to write the book differently. Except no, the conflict between the notion that the sleeve isn't you but the fact that the meat does have a profound influence upon your psyche is a constant and major theme of the book. The point that Kovacs lost his epicanthal folds in his latest re-sleeving was treated as perhaps the most trivial example of the kind of trauma re-sleeving can inflict, calling into question whether it's really worth obsessing over.

I'm guessing the reviewer didn't get to Episode 2 where Kovacs obtains information by pretending that he was a woman resleeved in a man's body. That kind of casual cis-male appropriation of the pain experienced by trans people throughout our evil patriarchal history would presumably have exploded her tiny mind.

[Tha big kahoona]

Syrian terrorists at it again in France

[gachase21]

Goodnight gents.

[AlwaysFocus]

fuark how long is a-game banned? He was quality poster...

[StoliFun]

fuark how long is a-game banned? He was quality poster...

I heard the ban is just a cover, and that he's really metamorphosing inside a gin- and vegemite-soaked mucus cocoon hanging from one of the shells of the Sydney Opera House.

He'll be unbanned when he reaches his final form.

[Judge_Joe_Brown]

Syrian terrorists at it again in France

Lmao


French Muslim singer quits TV show amid row over online posts
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43002832

I can bet you she probably thought Jews were really behind all those attacks in France too.

[gachase21]

[Fang2]

lol'd hard @ this thread

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showt...hp?t=175378231

[gachase21]

Yes I was a 80’s kid.....



1984 Epcot center


Admit it, you mirin the socks

[lasher]

Yes I was a 80’s kid.....



1984 Epcot center


Admit it, you mirin the socks


[img]https://i.imgur.com/8fyY432.jpg[/im.g]

omfg those shorts I can't even

[Chowboy]

Loved the book, my fingers are crossed that the TV series is even half as good.

Watched the first couple of episodes. Liked it a lot and you can tell that no expense was spared. Definitely worth a watch.


Of course, it helps that I did not read the book. Movies/series rarely equal a well written book.

[A-GAME]

fuark how long is a-game banned? He was quality poster...

u want sum fuk bby?

[RIKTER]

omfg those shorts I can't even

That was the chit back in the day. Those shorts forced me to do leg day. Now, mens shorts have gone full sharia and only 4 inches of ankles are seen lol

[Bushmaster]

Remember this? Turn the sound up.. (no sicko)

[RIKTER]

Chase, was your thread, I think it was your thread?? about opioids/pain management including your story/pics closed?
The fuk?

[gachase21]

Chase, was your thread, I think it was your thread?? about opioids/pain management including your story/pics closed?
The fuk?

That was nypat thread.


My guess is because of the botany discussion.

[Mr Beer]

Chase, was your thread, I think it was your thread?? about opioids/pain management including your story/pics closed?
The fuk?

That was nypat thread.


My guess is because of the botany discussion.

Of course, a thread with an interesting discussion, several informed posters and a minimum of partisan shillery...that's the one that gets closed off.

[gachase21]

Of course, a thread with an interesting discussion, several informed posters and a minimum of partisan shillery...that's the one that gets closed off.

I’m sure another one is bound to pop up at some point.

Fairly significant part of the budget and relevant popular issue.



As far as the other part of the discussion I wish the powers that be would modernize that forum rule with a specific exception given the laws changing and major political aspect of it.

[Mr Beer]

As far as the other part of the discussion I wish the powers that be would modernize that forum rule with a specific exception given the laws changing and major political aspect of it.

Yeah I get very bored with 'legalise it!' threads but I'd like to see peripheral discussions allowed, as I would in the same way that if a powerful psychedelic showed promise in certain kind of psychiatric treatment for example, it would be irritating to have that discussion closed because drugs are bad mkay.

[StoliFun]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hv1aczlrMsk