JAMES GUNN FIRED FROM MCU

[Craig H]

1 hour ago, Betsy Zeidler said:

Blocking people on twitter is exactly like founding a new darts team.  I, uh, singled Banky out because he always defends the worst thing (Hardwick, LaCroix, Louis C.K., comedians being assholes, etc. etc.) I welcome the exchange of ideas online.  I'm always trying to get idiots to support socialist ideas, and the only people I block (yes, the thousands are "only a few") have made death threats, or outed themselves as people who want me or those like me dead, in jail, or have made a targeted campaign of harassment against myself or friends.

I do kinda love that Banky can't even take a modicum of ribbing on a message board from someone he's known for almost 20 damn years, yet continues to bang on about echo chambers.

You singled me out because you constantly troll me or talk shit to me. You've been doing it for awhile. I like ribbing and can recognize ribbing. You're just being an asshole because it's this constant bullshit out of you. There's no wink wink with your bullshit. More than that, you didn't even have the integrity to submit a new comment and instead just edited your post without even mentioning what was changed or that anything was edited. You pointed out that I defended something on here, which I didn't, and then when you get called out on it you take the cutesy stance of saying "I singled Banky out because he always defends the worst thing," but that's not remotely the same thing. 

All of this fucking bums me out because at one point you were fine. You were just another knucklehead on here and at some point, for some reason you decided to jump in threads to specifically talk shit to me and no one else. That ain't ribbing, it's trolling and if I'm going to push back against something or if I won't stand for something, it's that. Look at the use of the name "Banky," a fucking name I haven't used on here in forever. Why? Because you think it will get under my skin?

Also, how much have I "banged on" about echo chambers? That's exactly what I'm talking about. You read shit from others and conflate that with me droning on about it, which I haven't done. Heaven forbid I also like someone you don't. That doesn't make that the worst thing, it just makes you getting militant about an asshole.

Talk about echo chambers or why Twitter is fine because you can block the assholes, yet when I do it to you, I'm the one who is wrong? Yeah, really, REALLY makes sense.

You know, everything you say on here wouldn't be so completely toothless if you had a modicum of sincerity. And now here I am wasting minutes on a reply to someone I should just ignore so I guess you won.

[Eivion]

4 hours ago, OSJ said:

 

Good! Here are some other worthy topics that should prolong the life of this thread:

Durian is very tasty and doesn't really smell all that bad.

Cats are better than dogs, and they don't eat their own shit.

The original lineup of GOTG was superior to the new version. 

I have never eaten a durian itself, but I refuse to believe this based on anything durian based I have eaten. I just fidn the flavor terrible and regret it every time my dumb elf decides to try it again.

Cats are sociopaths. They are smarter than dogs but are also probably evil.

Which versions of GOTG are we talking about?

[MarcosLoura]

3 hours ago, Betsy Zeidler said:

We had a manifesto, Craig defending a terrible opinion, someone posting an hour of YouTube videos rather than attempting to post the revelvant arguments made in them, me dunking on white guys, and white guys going #notallmen.

All we need is someone objectifying women and someone coming in to "protect feelings" and we have DVDVR (and all social media, really) in a nutshell.

[Drag Race gif]

I only posted the videos instead of summarizing them, because English is not my main language and it would be very time consuming to do it (also I'm lazy), plus if lurker guy had the time to write that wall of text rant he sure has the time to watch a couple of videos that are pretty much aimed at him and are made by someone that can connect to him better that I.

Shaun (the guy from the videos) talks about his experience as angry white dude 10 or so years ago and how he grew up from that, how he would be a prime target back in those days for the Cernovich's, Molyneux's, etc from current day internet and his plans to attempt to connect and dissuade other angry white dudes to turn to the dark side.

Since I'm shilling for one lefty youtuber, I'll also shill other favourites of mine:

CONTRAPOINTS - I would highlight her video on Jordan Peterson

Philosophy Tube - I would highlight Olly's video series on Liberalism

Lindsay Ellis - The ever expanding series The Whole Plate: Film Studies through a Lens of Transformers

 

Also if this is veering into "too much politics" territory feel free to edit my posts friendly mods and admins.

[Victator]

4 hours ago, Betsy Zeidler said:

All we need is someone objectifying women

I would, but I am not feeling well. 
 

6 hours ago, Player One said:

(I'm not even sure what Gunn is supposed to have said).

I have looked around and I can't find the tweets either.  Which makes it look more sinister. 

A lot of this comes down to people having no common sense or being intentionally obtuse. This should not need to be said. But a real pedophile would never make jokes about it. In fact I think they would be the ones acting most offended. 

There is an old saying I think applies in cases like this. "The guilty dog barks the loudest." 

[John from Cincinnati]

5 minutes ago, MarcosLoura said:

CONTRAPOINTS - I would highlight her video on Jordan Peterson

Her Peterson video is fantastic. But some may find nearly thirty (dense, well-reasoned) minutes to be bit too much. To wit, here's Jordan Peterson in a nutshell in just over five minutes!

 

[Bustronaut]

Gunn went through and deleted all his objectionable tweets.  It was a mixture of calling out others for bad behavior (accusing Leto of underage leanings) and dumb jokes like "This hotel shower pressure feels like a three year old peeing on your head."

Victor's old saying is something I live with all the time, because it often comes true.  It's why I cast a suspicious eye toward anyone condemning women who come forward with #metoo accusations.

[John from Cincinnati]

In my experience, the dog that barks the loudest is the one who heard a scary noise at the front door.

Cats? The front door generally isn't important enough for them to acknowledge.

Point: Cats.

[Raziel]

7 minutes ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said:

In my experience, the dog that barks the loudest is the one who heard a scary noise at the front door.

Cats? The front door generally isn't important enough for them to acknowledge.

Point: Cats.

Unless you're my cat, who may think he's a dog, but will run to the front door to greet whoever walks through it.

[John from Cincinnati]

I don't have a friendly cat. If there is such a thing. 

[Raziel]

2 minutes ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said:

I don't have a friendly cat. If there is such a thing. 

My kitten is, now.  He's been friendly since we got him.  He's the first actual friendly cat I've ever had.

 

The 13 year old, everyone but my wife could disappear and she wouldn't even be bothered, and probably wouldn't notice.

[Craig H]

Cats are great. Both of our cats are really nice. Well, the one has brain damage, but he's still a sweetie.

[Contentious C]

I also own an absurdly friendly cat, but apparently only when I'm around. When I'm not in attendance, she's anxious around other people.  

When I'm there, she will literally choke herself purring so hard at any hand that will pet her. When my mother and stepfather visited for my PhD defense, there were twice-daily sessions of petting Squeaker until she got too close to "full-choke" (typically assessed similar to the Muta gusher scale - "oops, she's up to about a 0.8 choke, we better slow it down"). 

[Victator]

21 minutes ago, West Newbury Bad Boy said:

In my experience, the dog that barks the loudest is the one who heard a scary noise at the front door.

Cats? The front door generally isn't important enough for them to acknowledge.

Point: Cats.

Yes but the dog does not go in my bag and piss on my action figures. Twenty years and the cat has been dead eighteen years and I am still mad. 

[OSJ]

1 hour ago, Eivion said:

I have never eaten a durian itself, but I refuse to believe this based on anything durian based I have eaten. I just fidn the flavor terrible and regret it every time my dumb elf decides to try it again.

Cats are sociopaths. They are smarter than dogs but are also probably evil.

Which versions of GOTG are we talking about?

Durian tastes sort of like Galliano, not a bad thing on occasion. 

Nice kitties!

As appeared in Marvel Super Heroes issues #18 (IIRC): Charlie-27, Vance Astro, Martinex, & Yondu.

[OSJ]

17 minutes ago, Victator said:

Yes but the dog does not go in my bag and piss on my action figures. Twenty years and the cat has been dead eighteen years and I am still mad. 

None of our ten have ever peed inappropriately, back in Seattle, the late, lamented Spike once pissed on a Katherine Kurtz book, a form of literary criticism that I was forced to concur with as being particularly insightful if a bit overly dramatic.

[Matt D]

My cat's a jerk but that's why I relate to her. It's a feature, not a bug.

[Eivion]

37 minutes ago, OSJ said:

Durian tastes sort of like Galliano, not a bad thing on occasion.

As appeared in Marvel Super Heroes issues #18 (IIRC): Charlie-27, Vance Astro, Martinex, & Yondu.

I have never heard of a Galliano. Looking it up it sounds potentially decent, but I'm not an alcohol drinker.

I liked the original team. I liked them more when they added Starhawk & Nikki. All that said, I'm pretty partial to the DnA team as well. Not sure which I like more though I do know there is not enough of either incarnation.

[The Unholy Dragon]

What the fuck has this thread become?

I left it alone for like four days and it turned into a goddamned nightmare zone full of insane cranky old man hot takes on social media, whatever the hell that lurker dropped was, and Betsy speaking to some valuable points. 
 

I kind of get why we lost the Politics forum now damn.

 

EDIT: ALSO Durian is disgusting. It tastes like a compost heap smells.

[SorceressKnight]

3 hours ago, OSJ said:

Hard for me to address this... When I did work for others, (quite a long time ago), without bragging, I was pretty highly in demand by various competitors, so the idea of walking away if someone pissed me off enough was never a problem. Generally speaking, if I became irritated I'd just go to the local and play pinball for an hour or so, or go into the gym and kick fuck out of the heavy bag. 

Back in my youth as a bartender I had a big sign behind the bar:

House Rules: #1 The bartender is always right!

#2 If you think the bartender is wrong, please refer to Rule #1.

That is a good point.

Ultimately, it goes to the biggest problem.

Society right now is getting to one of its most tolerant societies possible And people realize that a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance, or the intolerant people will take over and destroy the tolerance of society.

The biggest problem comes since everyone has a different level of "what, exactly, constitutes intolerance."

[John from Cincinnati]

7 minutes ago, The Unholy Dragon said:

What the fuck has this thread become?

A valuable discussion about Cats.

 

[Victator]

1 hour ago, OSJ said:

None of our ten have ever peed inappropriately, back in Seattle, the late, lamented Spike once pissed on a Katherine Kurtz book, a form of literary criticism that I was forced to concur with as being particularly insightful if a bit overly dramatic.

My last cat was really sweet and hugable. I named him Ace because his fur looked like that of Ace Frehley. 

He did ruin my blinds but it was hard to stay mad at him. Then my sister let him out and somebody stole him. Who steals a cat?

[OSJ]

53 minutes ago, Victator said:

My last cat was really sweet and hugable. I named him Ace because his fur looked like that of Ace Frehley. 

He did ruin my blinds but it was hard to stay mad at him. Then my sister let him out and somebody stole him. Who steals a cat?

We lost Raffles to a cat thief, he had a collar with license tag and an additional tag with both land line and cell numbers on it. We did the posters and daily calls  to the humane society and he just seemingly vanished. He was our only cat who would go up to strangers, all the rest of the gang run from people unless they are in the house, in that case said people are obviously okay and a potential source of attention.

They all get pretty friendly, once someone is in the house;  (with the exception of Sumuru, who is just a total bitch to everyone except me.)  I'm the only one who can handle her without getting scratched/bitten. I don't know where the nasty attitude comes from, we've had her since she was 7-8 weeks old and she's been a total psycho from the get-go. The rest of the gang all get their dinner in the kitchen, we have to feed her on the other side of the living room or she'll lash out at whoever happens to be closest, oddly enough, she's the smallest of all ten but thinks nothing of attacking any of the others, even Jackpot who weighs over twenty lbs. 

Ah, speaking of which, she just chased Tyrion under the bed for no particular reason... I believe it was Zimbra who observed that some cats are just total jerkasses, and this is certainly the case with Sumuru, and now she's rubbing my leg and purring up a storm... Daddy's little psycho...  

[AxB]

My useless co-worker is a terrible person. Just the other night, he was for some reason going off on how Brad Pitt was an idiot for leaving Jennifer Aniston to go with Angelina Jolie, when Aniston is so much better looking. So obviously I pointed out that most people think Jolie is the more smashing bit of crumpet, and he just comes out with "I don't like girls with n****r lips" like that's the sort of thing people just say.

What a twat. But hey, I'm management now, I could probably get him fired. Not the best idea to be openly racist and work at an Asian-owned business.

[Johnny Sorrow]

[Kuetsar]

I stole this from Deadspin, but I think its apt here as well. . . . .