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Penny Arcade - Comic - Ride Or Die
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Ride Or Die
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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"People are being stupid trying to be defense force for the fucking indefensible" has always been a common PA strip theme.
It's just that now the indefensible is individual assholes, instead of, like, Sony.
Only if you decide that this issue is politics which it isn't
"...your politics consist of those things which you consider outside the realm of politics."
Anyway. I probably wouldn't call this a political cartoon, but I don't care if it is?
Yeah. It’s sad that there are people defending his actions, contextualizing the act of condemning him for doing what he did into a partisan statement instead of common sense.
But such is the world we live in.
I mean what an idiot for streaming in a bathroom which is illegal, but to go as far as calling him some pedophile? Or is there something I'm missing?
And by "jokes", I mean only subjects that I personally find amusing and worthy of satire.Otherwise it's "political", especially if I disagree with it.
They're not calling him a pedophile, just that he basically accidentally* produced something not entirely dissimilar to child pornography. Kind of like how teens sexting each other are not pedophiles, but they are doing something that is, unwise to say the least, and can sometimes get them hit with charges depending on what later happens with them.
*Which is to say, extremely negligently at best. Repeatedly filming stuff in a public bathroom is colossally stupid.
Oh you'd know if it was actually a political cartoon. It would be festooned with labels.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/04/01/the-way-of-all-flesh
I looked it up and yeah, 4 times it seems? And multiple people from his crew. I guess they're just really really dumb.
But it really seems like they're really going after this because of "what about the childreeen". There's this viral video of some 3 year old kid pulling down his pants and peeing right next to a proposing couple, and it got shared millions of times. I just find the internet reacting to stuff just weird.
The difference is context.
I mean... You can grasp the difference between some idiot barging into a bathroom four times while filming and someone else filming a proposal in a not bathroom where a kid with no awareness does his thing right?
The common factor - a kid peeing - isn't the most important aspect here. Rather, it's the how, where, and why this was put on film.
I think it's more that this idiot unintentionally created something which that audience would enjoy. It's mostly a "What did you think you'd see in there?" critique.
It's because for a lot of people they can't put themselves into another's shoes.
If it were people who support this clown, they'd be thrilled with the 5 minutes of fame that being recorded peeing brought them.
To people who don't give a shit about this guy, someone just recorded them in the bathroom, potentially in a compromising way and a lot of people don't like their privacy invaded like that.
The fact that people will come to their defense is baffling to me. If you change the aggressor to someone they don't like, suddenly it's the worst thing that's ever happened.
Fandom of almost literally anything now is like sport teams, and if you are for something they can do no wrong, if you are against it everything they do is the worst thing ever. Though there isn't a whole lot of wiggle room in "went into a restroom 4 times recording people against their will". I mean its illegal, its unethical, and its just flat out dumb.
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One films himself walking into a bathroom 4 times and out unscathed; a miracle he wasn't wearing his camera as a permanent fixture, lodged somewhere between his mouth and sinus cavity (new concept for next Terminator movie maybe?).
Another films himself walking into a Synagogue, cosplaying as Hitler. Memory doesn't serve so well but methinks he did not exit post haste, unscathed.
My favorite part of this strip is the Fruit Fscker. I love it so much! ♡
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How? I mean I am not a fan of Trump, but his crimes are less obvious than DrDisrespect behavior.
I mean what part of don't take pictures of random people in a bathroom taking a piss and stream it on the internet without their express knowledge and consent is hard for people to understand? And I am not talking about legally, but basic human behavior.
Oh please God yes. I need to hear Ice T explaining this one to his coworkers.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I mean, we have actual concentration camps with children dying in them and people are trying to defend them.
I actually recently saw an episode that was somewhat similar. Some dude had toilet cams going to record people peeing and then one of them happened to record an assault. But hey, that show has been going forever so of course they've done pretty much everything by now. lol
-Tycho Brahe
Given how much people are defending this guy apparently, we need more. We need to make this a very special episode of SVU featuring a song from Body Count. Complete with music video where his guitarist is staring extremely angrily at the camera* while Ice T sings about how messed up this is
*(This is a thing that happens in Body Count videos. He's like the angriest guitarist ever.)
SVU did it is the new simpsons did it
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https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/penal-code/penal-sect-21-15.html
As far as I'm aware, "it's just a joke, mang" isn't a successful defense in a US court.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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Side note I forgot to mention about this guy - though I'm working to keep the details low for legal reasons - but some of the stuff the police investigated about this guy after the camera was discovered was his porn history. Voyeur-type videos, including videos of people on the toilet, were at the top of his porn searches and history. So yeah, this type of thing is totally porn for some people. Not saying that DrDisrespect is one of those people, but that he inadvertently created video for those kinds of people, and he included a child in it.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Then they hit somebody.
And they were like 'yeah, I hit them, but that was an accident. I wasn't trying to hit them.'
Sex offender laws are seriously shitty, and when a minor is involved things go straight up nuts. There are people who are effectively forced to live in the middle of nowhere and are borderline unemployable for less than what this guy did.
Hell, a Catholic priest in Michigan just in the last month was literally *only* convicted for an accidental picture of a minor in a bathroom (taken from outside of a different subject) because his victim was over 18 when they actually did anything physical and juries have a hard time wrapping their head around the idea of grooming.
What he did is, legally, serious fucking business and in so many cases the law overreaches beyond any fair and equitable punishment.
Man, if I really have to start listing the ways the government has been breaking basic rules of civility... ... Like, does your mom spoon your breakfast cereal into your mouth?
I'm not even saying this to make a political point, it's blatant enough these days that it's like calling the sky blue. Just lamenting the general state of affairs.
This isn't a breach of civility, this a straight up breach of the law. Its not a violation of unspoken rules and norms, but a direct violation of the written code of law. Its taking pictures inside a public bathroom and then disseminating said pictures. DrD not only broke the law, he broadcast himself live actually breaking the law multiple times across the internet. WITH the broadcast itself being the point of the crime!
Trump has committed a lot of breaches of what we consider the norms, he has undermined the rule of law with his public utterances, he has ignored long held established rules of how/what should/can do. He has yet to actually break the law on live camera. He has yet to do something like punching a report or smoke a crack pipe, where there is no ambiguity as to if he committed a crime or not.
Seriously, DrD was way more stupid then Trump.
you know how many titty streamers have had ahhhh "wardrobe malfunctions" live streaming and just got a 2-3 day suspension?
You're likely not wrong but the fact that illegally filming minors without their consent is being treated as the same gravitas as someone flashing their own camera in the privacy of their own home is kind of the opposite of punishment fitting the crime.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Stupid, yes. If you haven't noticed, we're busy fabricating another war in the Middle East.