This dollop on nim the chimp is something fuckin else
how the fuck did that experiment get approved in the first place
just aggressively lacking in rigor
Stephanie is a god damn monster
Herb is too but holy shit
the worst part is that during the brief period where they were actually treating it like a science experiment instead of a contest to see who could emotionally damage a chimp the most they were getting some really interesting results
seriously how does an ethics board or whatever not pump the breaks the second it comes out that the woman in charge of teaching the chimp sign language doesn't know sign language
I wrote stuff down from this week's Totally Reprise now:
"It's me, the least popular guest." No you're good, I'm glad you're on here again
"I'm feeling pretty good, you know, all things considered. Can't complain." "You can, I just gave you the platform to complain."
"Alright listen, I don't want to get lewd on this podcast." "Are you sure?" "That seems like a change in direction."
"You did your self-deprecating bit, said that you're the least favorite guest, and I stood up for you, but now I'm wondering. Bringing this smut on."
"At least Luke had the decency to lay himself all the way out and say, here's all my porn. Here's all of it."
"I can't believe neither of you called me out on having seen Dogma and nothing else."
"I have seen Bad News Bears Go To Japan but not Bad News Bears."
I haven't seen any Die Hards, I plan to soon
I think I've played that Ocean Hunter game
"Of course, like any good game from Japan, it ends with you killing God."
"You love Sonic, don't you?" "Yeah." "You okay?"
I have played Persona 1 and 2, so for all intents and purposes I haven't played any Persona
I didn't notice that there was a clock that contradicted the time on the screen, what the fuck
"Millenials are killing drowning!"
I didn't expect David to be a recurring character
I love how David just got really mad and smashed his painting
"Dare I say it, this is a good Clover episode." She's always good with the burns, in my opinion
"Alex being bad at geography is consistent canon, I can't believe it." this show picks the weirdest times to be consistent
I also thought that Bob sounded like Inspector Gadget, it's weird
"Gotta get those dudes, gotta get that D."
Sunny Day is a pretty good villain, also she reminds me a lot of Whitney Frost from Agent Carter
"It's not the gayest show anymore. Might still be the horniest."
"I know we dealt with the nachos, but where did the steaks come from?" "They're pork chops. They just started calling them steaks to make themselves feel better."
I always think of WOOHP as just being the supervillains (specifically Wily) who actually managed to take over the world, and now they need to keep other supervillains from taking over the world from them
"They take the helicopter back towards the boats after they realize there's a laser they need to deflect back at itself." "OF FUCKING COURSE. OF FUCKING COURSE."
"He is, like so many of us, inspired by Clover's suffering."
"For hating Homestuck, Maxie sends us a lot of shit about Homestuck."
Jade is pretty pure, but yeah I think Alex is purer
"So that when people go, oh you talk about Totally Spies for two hours? I'm like, no. An hour and forty." "Not quite! Not quite."
The next episode sounds like it's going to be a fucking episode
Ashley's Karkat voice is pretty much Strong Bad, isn't it?
realizing that alex would love john cena was one of my all-time favorite moments recording podcasts
I never write down wrestling stuff because I don't know anything about wrestling, but I laughed at some of it anyway.
my favorite part is how it turns out a lot of what we think chimps do, like throw shit, is actually only stuff they do in captivity because it turns out captivity is psychologically damaging
there is probably an argument to be made for being rocketed to an echelon of fame you never imagined before you're mature enough to deal with the consequences of your actions
i was thinking on this and how leftist shitposting is often tied up in fandoms, because marginalized people often need escapes and emotionally invest themselves in that
whereas the privilieged shitposters of the right are much more comfortable using their weight to lash out
The idea, true or not, that you are unaware of the injoke led to me thinking of how you would explain this joke to someone and oh my god there are so many layers of injoke involved in that stupid 3 word phrase
The demographic of parents who are super into Cthulhu shit and have kids and want them to like the same stuff they do
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I remember getting a book of like all of Lovecraft's stories when I was in my mid teens. And boy did it start with like "huh some of this sub-text is troubling" and lean very quickly into "oh there is no sub about this text"
I've known parent's who try desperately to get their kids into Nightmare Before Christmas only to have it backfire hilariously in that their kid's tell them they hate the movie and would rather watch something else.
There are loads of people who just like Cthulhu shit and haven't actually read any Lovecraft outside of maybe Call of Cthulhu and Mountains of Madness and have no idea he was a mega racist asshole
I went to high school with like 3 of them
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There are loads of people who just like Cthulhu shit and haven't actually read any Lovecraft outside of maybe Call of Cthulhu and Mountains of Madness and have no idea he was a mega racist asshole
I went to high school with like 3 of them
Yeah I think a good lot of the folks that are all about Cthulhu have read mostly just the stuff with the monsters. Which even Call of Cthulhu and especially Shadow Over Innsmouth have gross stuff in em,but it's not like the actually written out literal hissing dismissals of foreigners and immigrants and what not that is in a lot of his other stuff.
The demographic of parents who are super into Cthulhu shit and have kids and want them to like the same stuff they do
Kids like monsters. I bet kids like Cthluhu as a design. But the actual stories of HP Lovecraft are not for kids. Kids aren't into existential horror, they're into things that bite and slash.
I think Rats in the Walls is the first one where I went WHOA WAIT A MINUTE
Yup. That was the one. That was like oh. Yeah. This guy is actually an explicit and openly racist dude.
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The demographic of parents who are super into Cthulhu shit and have kids and want them to like the same stuff they do
Kids like monsters. I bet kids like Cthluhu as a design. But the actual stories of HP Lovecraft are not for kids. Kids aren't into existential horror, they're into things that bite and slash.
yeah when I was in middle school I had a dang treasure trove of barakaXreptile
It's entirely possible to separate Lovecraft's work and his horrifically racist personal beliefs. He's functionally a fictional character now anyway. They're still enormously creative and unsettling works of fiction. You only start noticing how his bigotry may have influenced his work in a couple stories and only then if you know about that beforehand.
It's entirely possible to separate Lovecraft's work and his horrifically racist personal beliefs. He's functionally a fictional character now anyway. They're still enormously creative and unsettling works of fiction. You only start noticing how his bigotry may have influenced his work in a couple stories and only then if you know about that beforehand.
To many its just 'spooky monsters!'
I think you can do that with some of his monsters. But I don't think you can do it with his stories tbh. And I think it's a bad call to do that with him as a person as well. Like his racism and fear of the other are central points to a good lot of his stories. Even Cthulhu and Innsmouth are on quite a few levels.
Like, I enjoy a lot of his work from a sort of skewed view. Especially his dreadfully nihilistic views of the cosmos, and the idea of higher powers wouldn't even be all that aware of us. But I think completely ironing it out and ignoring his really troubling aspects is a bit of a disservice.
I also think that turning him (or any actual historical figure) into a sort of cartoon version of himself is always a bad idea. Like analogues are one thing, but using the actual historical figure ends up close to hagiography and what have you in ways that I find deeply troubling.
It's entirely possible to separate Lovecraft's work and his horrifically racist personal beliefs. He's functionally a fictional character now anyway. They're still enormously creative and unsettling works of fiction. You only start noticing how his bigotry may have influenced his work in a couple stories and only then if you know about that beforehand.
To many its just 'spooky monsters!'
I think you can do that with some of his monsters. But I don't think you can do it with his stories tbh. And I think it's a bad call to do that with him as a person as well. Like his racism and fear of the other are central points to a good lot of his stories. Even Cthulhu and Innsmouth are on quite a few levels.
Like, I enjoy a lot of his work from a sort of skewed view. Especially his dreadfully nihilistic views of the cosmos, and the idea of higher powers wouldn't even be all that aware of us. But I think completely ironing it out and ignoring his really troubling aspects is a bit of a disservice.
I also think that turning him (or any actual historical figure) into a sort of cartoon version of himself is always a bad idea. Like analogues are one thing, but using the actual historical figure ends up close to hagiography and what have you in ways that I find deeply troubling.
Well it's less "should you?" and more the fact that a lot of this stuff exists as popular culture now, so a lot of the people only know of it indirectly. Like they're aware of some of the Cthulu and elder god stuff but have never read the stories and only know HP Lovecraft as a name, if at all.
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i have not stopped perking up and then feeling vaguely disappointed every time i see a link to Reductress
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Herb is too but holy shit
It's clearly Zack
No Ranger threads, please
the worst part is that during the brief period where they were actually treating it like a science experiment instead of a contest to see who could emotionally damage a chimp the most they were getting some really interesting results
http://www.audioentropy.com/
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I never write down wrestling stuff because I don't know anything about wrestling, but I laughed at some of it anyway.
It's zack
Jeff bakalar sure is defending palmer lucky as "just young and naive" huh
Also Dan
Vinny coming down hard and explicitly against all Shitposters
whereas the privilieged shitposters of the right are much more comfortable using their weight to lash out
https://howl-rss.128.io/
You login with your Howl credentials and it spits out RSS urls for every show that you can put into Pocket Casts or whatever.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
The idea, true or not, that you are unaware of the injoke led to me thinking of how you would explain this joke to someone and oh my god there are so many layers of injoke involved in that stupid 3 word phrase
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I know where it came from now at least
But the joke
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Ah! So that why Vinny secretly hated Austin!
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I went to high school with like 3 of them
Yeah I think a good lot of the folks that are all about Cthulhu have read mostly just the stuff with the monsters. Which even Call of Cthulhu and especially Shadow Over Innsmouth have gross stuff in em,but it's not like the actually written out literal hissing dismissals of foreigners and immigrants and what not that is in a lot of his other stuff.
Kids like monsters. I bet kids like Cthluhu as a design. But the actual stories of HP Lovecraft are not for kids. Kids aren't into existential horror, they're into things that bite and slash.
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Yup. That was the one. That was like oh. Yeah. This guy is actually an explicit and openly racist dude.
yeah when I was in middle school I had a dang treasure trove of barakaXreptile
To many its just 'spooky monsters!'
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I think you can do that with some of his monsters. But I don't think you can do it with his stories tbh. And I think it's a bad call to do that with him as a person as well. Like his racism and fear of the other are central points to a good lot of his stories. Even Cthulhu and Innsmouth are on quite a few levels.
Like, I enjoy a lot of his work from a sort of skewed view. Especially his dreadfully nihilistic views of the cosmos, and the idea of higher powers wouldn't even be all that aware of us. But I think completely ironing it out and ignoring his really troubling aspects is a bit of a disservice.
I also think that turning him (or any actual historical figure) into a sort of cartoon version of himself is always a bad idea. Like analogues are one thing, but using the actual historical figure ends up close to hagiography and what have you in ways that I find deeply troubling.
"The Erotic Fissures of Leng"
Yeah, for sure
It's also one of his best stories
It's kind of a perfect encapsulation of HP Lovecraft
Well it's less "should you?" and more the fact that a lot of this stuff exists as popular culture now, so a lot of the people only know of it indirectly. Like they're aware of some of the Cthulu and elder god stuff but have never read the stories and only know HP Lovecraft as a name, if at all.