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It's very sad. Hell, I have a hard time sorting out Kirk, the cocky, humanizing, improvisational cowboy with a heart of gold and the right, if old-fashioned, morals from Shatner's worst excesses. It's ways to protect yourself from the reality these are just people. And those who are trashing Mark o...

Tides of War, book by Steven Pressfield....


Setting Ancient Greece.

The main character casually mentioning that rape of the new guys was part of the initiation for the mercenary forces he was part off.

First book i read with a rapist protagonist.

I think intent should play a role. Robert Downey Jr. was in blackface for "Tropic Thunder" but the intent obviously wasn't to make fun of black people. If you're in an Arabian Nights party and looking more swarthy than usual, it's not necessarily to make fun of arabs. Though among certain people th...

I think intent should play a role. Robert Downey Jr. was in blackface for "Tropic Thunder" but the intent obviously wasn't to make fun of black people. If you're in an Arabian Nights party and looking more swarthy than usual, it's not necessarily to make fun of arabs. Though among certain people th...

Was blackface acceptable 20 years ago? Did you watch David Simon's Treme? Personally (as a Canadian who follows politics a little) I always found it strange that Trudeau was considered the king of wokeness, he always struck me as a lightweight with some savy but without much depth of principle or a...

Also, General Discussion should mean everything. I did not consider this prior, but yeah that's totally correct. The News section gets the most political talk because that's just a big topic for news in general. This becomes the parent subforum of the Off-topic forum section for speculative threads...

The streaming bubble "bursting" assumes that human beings are that chaotic. That they can't make smart decisions. And while that might be true, I think most people are aware that they can't pay for multiple services. So really, why would something like Amazon Prime or Hulu, which are the most pract...

clearspira wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 6:53 pm In fairness I think we talk politics a lot because Chuck is a fair man who encourages every point of view even if he disagrees with them. A rare thing nowadays.

Politics flooded everything. He has no choice.

Netflix is shedding too much older licensed content. It lost King of the Hill (Hulu picked that up), and Everybody Loves Raymond, and so much else. The usual me and Discord friends. Could you stop with the me me me on subjects that don't really require it? The first sentence is good enough but i fa...

Which do you think will be the companies to survive it? Personally, I'm betting on Amazon and Hulu. Netflix already seems like a dinosaur. It's changed in the time since we first got it, eight years ago. Why is Netflix a dinosaur exactly? Nobody Amazons and Hulus movies yet... Amazon can run into m...