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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
Replicant Sasquatch said:
ST is one of the most scathing anti-fascist movies ever made and Verhouvan will forever be called a jackboot because idiots don't understand obvious satire. What a fucking joke.
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Yeah but I was told that the book I never read was all about fascism and that must mean that the movie I never saw was too and therefore the review I didn't watch by some hack frauds is also fascist and that means that everyone that associates with them is also fascist. Rich Evans is super mega Hitler!
 
Burned Man said:
Yeah but I was told that the book I never read was all about fascism and that must mean that the movie I never saw was too and therefore the review I didn't watch by some hack frauds is also fascist and that means that everyone that associates with them is also fascist. Rich Evans is super mega Hitler!
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Well, the original novel is actually pretty fascist, just not in a deliberate way. Regardless, most people who say the movie is Nazi propaganda don't even know there is a book. They just see clips from the movie and think because it presents a comically militant society of jingoistic thugs then it endorses that kind of behavior. We aren't dealing with smart people here.
 
Starship Troopers is where the mecha genre originated from it's also where Warhammer 40k took it's influence.

So Gundam with it's Zeon guys like Char and Warhammer with it's Space marines and God Emperor are both directly inspired by Starship Troopers as well as stuff like Starcraft. In Warhammer's universe this makes perfect sense to be at endless war and to have humanity be entirely weaponized just like it was in the Starship Troopers book. The whole line of thinking in the book is that the individual does not matter and it's only the mission, and it matters not who achieves the mission only that it simply gets done. Everyone is replaceable and temporary so it matters not who gets thrown at what and what the death count is, thousands came before you and failed and thousands will come after until someone succeeds at the objective, the government commands the whole of humanity from cradle to grave like a well oiled machine. There's also all the details about the giant robots they pilot to do battle with the bugs. It's supposed it about the loss of humanity and the individual so that's why giant robots are there, the machines have become the real body.

Mind you Starship troopers was written in the 1950's, that's how long ago this was.
 
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I wonder with all the changes with YT that if RLM even cares about the algorithm and all that nonsense? For context:


How the fuck can any small channel survive on YT without Patreon? I assume that the majority of their videos are demonetized for cursing, violence, and this:

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Last I checked they were making over $20K a month on Patreon so I wonder if they give a fuck any more about YT?
 
Replicant Sasquatch said:
Well, the original novel is actually pretty fascist, just not in a deliberate way. Regardless, most people who say the movie is Nazi propaganda don't even know there is a book. They just see clips from the movie and think because it presents a comically militant society of jingoistic thugs then it endorses that kind of behavior. We aren't dealing with smart people here.
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Some one explained it this way: R.A. H. Set up a society where Fascism could be ok and Justifiable

note everyone who wasnt a citizen had the rights of a modern citizen in a modern state
 
BrunoMattei said:
I wonder with all the changes with YT that if RLM even cares about the algorithm and all that nonsense? For context:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2s7CqTSJiZM
How the fuck can any small channel survive on YT without Patreon? I assume that the majority of their videos are demonetized for cursing, violence, and this:

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Last I checked they were making over $20K a month on Patreon so I wonder if they give a fuck any more about YT?
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Not counting expenses, $20K a month split three ways while in Wisconsin seems more than enough to live off of if you're smart about it.
 
Gordon Cole said:
Not counting expenses, $20K a month split three ways while in Wisconsin seems more than enough to live off of if you're smart about it.
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True. They'd have to split it three ways because Rich used to live in Chicago during the early days of Half in the Bag and then moved to Wisconsin. Then you factor in merch sales and whatever they get from YT and it's probably closer to $25-30K a month.

Mola Ram said:
Their expenses seem pretty considerable, though. Professional studio space and equipment ain't cheap even in Green Bay Packer country.
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Maybe not, they had the studio since the start of Half in the Bag. So they had some money saved up. It's supposedly a tiny studio so I can't imagine it costing more than 1-2K a month to rent.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Maybe not, they had the studio since the start of Half in the Bag. So they had some money saved up. It's supposedly a tiny studio so I can't imagine it costing more than 1-2K a month to rent.
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My experiences with rent are limited to big East and West Coast cities, so I can't wrap my head around that. If it's a tiny studio, they really know how to make it work.
 
Mola Ram said:
My experiences with rent are limited to big East and West Coast cities, so I can't wrap my head around that. If it's a tiny studio, they really know how to make it work.
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Technically a warehouse. East or West Coast sure, that would be fucking expensive like you said. But in Wisconsin I doubt it's that expensive.
 
BrunoMattei said:
True. They'd have to split it three ways because Rich used to live in Chicago during the early days of Half in the Bag and then moved to Wisconsin. Then you factor in merch sales and whatever they get from YT and it's probably closer to $25-30K a month.
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Well they're getting rent now from Caulkin who's staying with Rich there in the studio.
 
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