Posts made by Karmageddon

@Coin said in Dragon Age: Dread Wolf's Rise:

I notice there has yet to be any response from the OP. I wonder who's running this...

Preaching to the choir, @Kanye-Qwest. I haven't played any of the DA games, but I've been subjected to characterizations from other franchises that have nothing in common with the source material beyond character names and physical traits. I sadface and mourn the brain cells I've lost.

@TNP It should come as no surprise that Archive of Our Own, Tumblr, and YouTube don't seem to share your opinion.

I really dug S1 of Mr. Robot. I couldn't get through S2E1, though. I found it painfully boring. I came back in at episode 5 and was very pleased. Then went back to E2 and loved it, and I've enjoyed the subsequent episodes. Still can't bring myself to revisit E1.

I'm kind of wondering about the SPOILERS theories floating around. I'm boggled people were predicting such back in S1. I must really suck at subtext. On paper, it makes me feel a bit twitchy, but Esmail might be able to pull it off.

@Coin, I'm not sure. The horizontal line work gets lost when I Fit To Screen the larger version, so it's possible a t-shirt would have a similar problem. Perhaps someone on MSB has a better idea.

The dispersal of red this time around is more, for some reason. Trotsky's left eye also actually looks like an eye. It was done in GIMP because I don't have Photoshop, but there is an option to export the layered file as a .psd. I have no idea if it'll work, though.

Anyway, here is the higher res version.

@Coin, the original file size is 2850x3592 but I reduced it before Obama-izing it. If you want a larger version, just let me know.

I made this for you, @Coin. I couldn't decide if HOPE should be replaced with REVOLT or PROLE or, considering political subtext of the filter, WE CAN. I also was too lazy to add text, so knowing which word to use really is a moot point.

I feel a bit embarrassed to not have expected as much variety as that web search found -- and I'm very much a cynic.

@Autumn
Or you could just buy one already made.

@Coin said in Fanbase entitlement:

@Karmageddon said in Fanbase entitlement:

@Coin said in Fanbase entitlement:

At least get mad at actual idiots, like people who wear Che Guevara t-shirts but can't even revolt against their parents. "Viva la revolución, mom, now can you send me my allowance, my Twinky supply is low". Fuck.

Maybe Twinkie person does a lot of humanitarian work, or is politically engaged to champion the downtrodden, or is otherwise actively involved in ways to improve the conditions that initially radicalized Che in the first place. I'd say that person is truer to the spirit of Che than someone who doesn't have the luxury of asking for Twinkie money but who nonetheless is nothing more than an armchair radical who doesn't actually do anything to improve anything. (I realize this could very easily turn into a socioeconomic discussion about the psychological impact of long-standing oppression and why a person may or may not have the time/energy/ability to do more than gripe. An armchair radical is still and armchair radical, though, whatever the reasons.)

I thought it was clear I was hyperbolizing, and in general meant 'people who have no idea who he was or whose lifestyle and opinions don't mesh with what his message was, but still wear his face'.

Judging by my reply, no. Not for me, anyway. No worries.

Or maybe that person just likes the artistry of the photo. (It's a great photo.)

I suppose. And if that's the case, sure. But then again, they most likely bought the shirt, which means it was the product of a capitalist action, which Che would have probably at least sneered at.

Agreed.

Then again, if they printed the shirt out themselves, I wouldn't have a thing to say.

But my POINT is, even if I DID run into someone with a Che shirt, I probably wouldn't try to quiz them on him.

Again, agreed. I still might have a negative opinion about it, whatever its intensity, if I knew they were coming from a place I felt was questionable or missing the point, but I don't care enough to find out. Or to give them shit about it. I also wouldn't linger on it or get bent out of shape or whatever. Once upon a time, though, that bartender would've looked tame in comparison to the frothing, righteously indignant teenager and young adult I was.

They'd lose anyway. And also feel inadequate when I revealed I was wearing a Trotsky shirt.

You're assuming they'd recognize him and know who he was/what he did. (I'm also assuming you're not being hyperbolic.)

As an aside, Biblia sounds awesome. May he still be rocking wherever the departed may rock.

He's probably sitting in the corner smoking a joint going, 'yeah, man, yeah'. He was super mellow.

Word.

@Coin said in Fanbase entitlement:

I like to think that if Cobain were alive now, and someone said "You should only be able to wear Nirvana t-shirts if you can name some of their songs" near him, they would be the immediate recipient of his saliva smacking their forehead.

Regardless of whether or not a still-alive Cobain would take action about it, I'm confident that he would think that t-shirt shaming bartender was behaving like an asshole. I could definitely see Courtney Love doing something about it. Something that probably resulted in her being arrested.

Further, talking about posers, I know a ton of people who can name every Nirvana song, own every album, know all the lyrics, and still fail to see the forest for the trees when it comes to the messages that Cobain was expressing. People who treat others like fucking crap, people who have told others to "killy ourself", pressured them to drug use, used them, abused them, turned around and blamed Courtney Love for driving Cobain to suicide and then actually gaslit their S.O., and many, many other things that, if you actually listen to Nirvana, consider their social commentary, you would know are pretty fucking incongruent with the band's general message.

Cobain was a bundle of contradictions. He opted not to tour for most of 1992, even though Nirvana was arguably the most in-demand band at that time. It's been heavily documented that fame squicked him out and that he hated the cult of celebrity idolatry, so it's possible that people wearing Nirvana t-shirts would weird him out. He'd still take the merchandising revenue, though, because he also had an intense fear of being impoverished.

I'm still confident that he'd think that bartender was behaving like an asshole.

How dare you tell people how to live their lives when they aren't doing shit to you? And how fucking lame is it to have to insult people for shit that is innocuous as fuck?
Have some perspective.

Going back to the image that prompted my initial comment, that bartender comes across, to me, like a condescending ass, which, frankly, I think is far worse than someone wearing a t-shirt. Even some Twinkie allowance needing person wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt.

At least get mad at actual idiots, like people who wear Che Guevara t-shirts but can't even revolt against their parents. "Viva la revolución, mom, now can you send me my allowance, my Twinky supply is low". Fuck.

Maybe Twinkie person does a lot of humanitarian work, or is politically engaged to champion the downtrodden, or is otherwise actively involved in ways to improve the conditions that initially radicalized Che in the first place. I'd say that person is truer to the spirit of Che than someone who doesn't have the luxury of asking for Twinkie money but who nonetheless is nothing more than an armchair radical who doesn't actually do anything to improve anything. (I realize this could very easily turn into a socioeconomic discussion about the psychological impact of long-standing oppression and why a person may or may not have the time/energy/ability to do more than gripe. An armchair radical is still and armchair radical, though, whatever the reasons.)

Or maybe that person just likes the artistry of the photo. (It's a great photo.)

As an aside, Biblia sounds awesome. May he still be rocking wherever the departed may rock.

@Thenomain
You asked me to clarify my dipshit comment. I did. I can (and do) think certain behavior is dipshit behavior without making a Big Deal about it. I stopped being bent out of shape about that crap back in my 20s.

I actually wrote a whole reply about the history of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and why anyone liking Nirvana enough to advertise that like by wearing a t-shirt would know what the song is called, but then I realized it was too much effort to reply to what was presented, to me, as your cherry-picking, mouthfrothing butthurt.

I don't know if you're just having a bad night. I don't know if someone was super mean to you, once upon a time, because you wore a certain t-shirt. I don't know if you're just spoiling for a fight in some attempt to win points to feel better about life or yourself or whatever. I don't know if you get off on arguing semantics. What I do know is that you come across, to me, as missing the point of what I've said, as well as more interested in winning what seems to be a one-sided argument that I have zero interest in participating.

Also, that song is called Come As You Are. DUH.

As an aside, I have no idea what you mean by that statement. Are you trying to tell me it's supposed to be Come As You Are and not "Come As You Are"? To run the risk of being "obtusely pedantic," as you put it, I will point out that songs titles are, at least by American standards, always in quotation marks. Or maybe you're trying to tell me "All Apologies" isn't called "All Apologies" but is actually called "Come As You Are." Which is also wrong.

You can call me Fun Police. I don't care. Just like I long stopped caring if some poser was wearing [insert whatever here]. I can think poser behavior is dipshit behavior before I move on and give it no further thought. Just like I can think your response to the clarification I gave you (that you snarkily requested) comes across as willfully obtuse, mouthfrothing butthurt. Or maybe you're just bored and bellicose.

Still don't care, and still won't be arsed to engage with you any further once I've hit the submit button. (I'm so anti-fun, I know.)

@surreality
Perhaps there were fewer-to-no quizzes back then because it took much more effort to acquire certain things. I remember importing cds from the UK and paying beaucoup bucks every week to get copies of NME and Melody Maker. My brother had to order anime from fans who would do their own English subtitles of what they got from Japan.

@Thenomain
If someone can't name three Nirvana songs -- they don't even need to be the singles I listed (well, maybe "Smells Like Teen Spirit" because how the hell can anyone claiming to be a Nirvana fan not know that one?) that still play on many rock and alt-rock radio stations to this day -- I think that person is a dipshit for wearing a Nirvana t-shirt. I will extend that Three Song Rule to anyone wearing a t-shirt of any band, especially if said band minimally was as popular as Nirvana was in their heyday.

TL;DR: I believe if someone can't name three songs from a band that still gets a fair amount of airplay 20+ years later, that person is a poser, and I believe posers are dipshits.

ETA: Forgot a word. I also forgot "All Apologies" in my initial list of singles a few posts back, it looks like. Bring on the shaming!

I still believe that if someone can't name, at the very least, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Come As You Are," and player's choice of "In Bloom," "Lithium," "Polly," or "Heart-Shaped Box," they are dipshits for wearing a Nirvana t-shirt.

@Insomnia
Eh. If a person wearing a Nirvana t-shirt can't even name one Nirvana song, I will negatively judge them. I am past the stage of being a dick about it, though.

Now, if the girl's "..." was in response to the guy escalating his questions (and no doubt behaving like a condescending ass), I'll give her a pass.

@Auspice, you can look it up via the Wikidot account you used to make a character page -- provided you made one.

Effin' Troops SO MUCH.