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I think 1980 is going to be the best age to have been born.
At 1980 there isn't too much interesting stuff, but being a children you don't mind anyways. Also you get to watch some nice cartoons. It's a very nice decade to chill! And with a bit of luck you might even get your hands on an Atari 2600/5200 or a Commodore 64.
By the time you age 10, the 90's start. And you are conscious enough to start enjoying the best gaming era and the begining of the modern internet.
At 2000 you are already 20, and you can start earning money with a job. Still difficult to get a job, but not as bad as it is today. And with that money you can buy a decent PIII gamer PC and take it to a LAN party so you can play UT and Quake Arena.
By 2010 you reach 30. You probably lost your job, but you have enough experience to apply for another one. By this time you are a married man and have children, which sucks because this means you don't have enough time for games and tech. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy fiddling with a Linux distro, that are now easier to deal with. And maybe play some DOTA or fortnite with your old guild pals in your RGB-lighted gaymer laptop.
2020, honestly, is going to suck terribly bad and everything that comes afterwards is also going to suck terribly bad. So you get to 40 and you start to notice you are starting to lose your gamer touch. But it doesn't matter anymore. You can still enjoy the classics on an emulator! And whatever comes from now on sucks anyways. So you won't miss anything! -
MULATTO BUTTS! #mulattobutts
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I signed the contract for my apartment. 62m² for my own.
about 15 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Not sure if any of you have tried Dragalia Lost yet. Quite fun if you're into mobile games, it's basically Fate: Grand Order but with actual gameplay and passable dialogues you don't want to skip.
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Apparently they're gonna be writing Apu out of The Simpsons starting this season. I know that these days he's sort of a controversial character and a lot of people don't like him, and I'm not really one to complain about PC culture, but Apu's character goes beyond his ethnicity, and I think the people who called for his removal ignored that. With that being said, I’m not going to pretend this is a tragedy. Ultimately, whatever they choose to do with the character on The Simpsons is up to them. Apu's been out of focus for several years now, so I can't say that his absence would be a huge deal, because that would be disingenuous. The Simpsons is also a much different show now than it was thirty years ago. Almost none of the original writers are still on the show, and a few of them are even younger than the show itself. If their vision of the show doesn't include Apu, I can't really fault them.
about 21 days ago from web-
@mrmattimation Didn't Fox discredit the rumor of Apu being removed?
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I can count the amount of Hispanic-American cartoon characters on mainstream TV on one hand, none of them are Puerto Rican, and one of them is this lady (voiced by Mike Henry, a white actor). In fact, I’m struggling to think of a single Hispanic character in ANY animated media, save for my namesake in My Little Brony (whose Hispanic heritage is touched on lightly, if at all), to actually be voiced by a Hispanic actor (and I’m guilty of vocal blackface, whiteface, orangeface...) Hispanic characters in media are often portrayed as illegal immigrants or drug dealers. Or both. On The Simpsons, we have a whopping TWO Hispanic characters—one of them is batcaveing Bumblebee Man, and the other one is Dr. Nick maybe. I don’t sound like cherryin’ Dr. Nick. I don’t know a SINGLE Hispanic person that sounds like Dr. Nick. AND he’s incompetent! But APU, the hard-working ladies man with a DOCTORATE in COMPUTER SCIENCE, is the problem? http://rainbowdash.net/url/872979
about 19 days ago from web-
@mrmattimation Huh, I always thought you were mulatto, not hispanic. What part of Iberia? Andaluz here.
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Let's make that TV, not YV...
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I watched 3 episodes of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and I think it's a good series so far.
about 20 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan I ended up watching the whole thing in three sittings on Saturday. Dug it. But it did leave me with a hankering to go back to the 90s sitcom with Melissa Joan Hart... And the CAOS comic (which doesn't seem to have published in a year or more).
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@scribus I threw out my previous experiences about the old Sabrina series straight away when watching this one. They are totally different but also similar in many aspects. I'd have a bad time if I clinged to the old series. All I knew was that there was a dark comic series that this one was adapting and I heard it was good, so I gave it a chance to stand on its own. Well... I missed a snarky Salem to be honest.
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@adiwan Yeah, I tried and did pretty well at keeping things separate. I had read about the first 6 comics, so I had an idea what to expect instead, but live-action YV comparisons are kind of inevitable. And saw some sweet messages from the old cast to the new, too. :)
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Hollow Wiener
about 16 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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My wife and I have left our church this week. It has been both liberating and depressing at the same time.
about 16 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Fallout 76 is really fun! Like Fallout 4 except now my idiotic, borderline suicidal battle tactics are a detriment to myself AND those around me.
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@firestormdangerdash Like Christmas on the 4th of July?
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I hope twitter removes the 'post' feature as well
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Holy banana IDLES were absolutely papayaing incredible live. I left the show feeling like I made new friends their music is so good at bringing people together
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And I have a feeling Mormons ain’t too happy that South Park and Mitt Romney are the only reasons that people know Mormons still exist. African Americans PROBABLY aren’t thrilled that Cleveland Brown and Madea are the two most popular black characters in the 21st century. And how do you think Italians feel about MARIO?
about 19 days ago from web-
@mrmattimation Eh, my half-Italian roommate has no known beef with Mario, and my Mexican grandpa loves Speedy Gonzalez.
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@scribus I don’t have any actual beefs with any Hispanic characters either, even though most of them are crazy outdated stereotypes. My point was that, REGARDLESS of how anybody felt about them, and despite how outdated and misrepresentative those characters ARE, NOBODY is calling for the removal of ANY of them. Like I said last night I’ve just grown increasingly frustrated with the Apu discourse over the last week and it kind of boiled over.
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@mrmattimation Yeah, I get that; I was posting in agreement.
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (Netflix) was sweeeeet
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Every Scottish character wears a kilt, except characters played by David Tennant, but he fakes an English accent in everything he does!
about 19 days ago from web-
@mrmattimation I think that's "OK" because Scots are "white."
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seeing the best punk band of the decade tonight wish me luck
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And that’s gonna be my last thought on the matter. Like I said before, if it wasn’t announced that Apu would be written out, I wouldn’t have noticed, because he hasn’t been a major character on the show in years. I’m just growing increasingly frustrated with the discourse.
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I’ve been bullied about my race before, and I’ve been called “Speedy Gonzalez”, and I’m not even Mexican. But those people were not taught by Speedy Gonzalez to be racist. They’d have found a different name to call me. Apu didn’t inspire racism, racists used Apu’s name to justify their already-present beliefs.
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Do you know why I like animation so much? It’s because I don’t have to be me. I’m lanky, pasty, terrifyingly skinny, and taller than Bigfoot. I have huge, puffy lips and an ungodly forehead. My facial hair grows like pubic hair, and my regular hair looks like if Shaggy Rogers did meth. I don’t have to be... any of those things. I can make a cartoon where I play a buff black guy on Mars. I can be a hairless dwarf who’s just escaped from a government lab. I can be the President of the United States of America, and I don’t even have to win Ohio. I can make whatever I want and I can be whoever I want. And nobody can tell me I’m not that person. Because they can’t see my face. That’s why, despite everything I’ve said tonight, I don’t despise Bumblebee Man. Or Consuela. Or Dr. Nick, or Speedy Gonzalez, or Sheen Estevez. Because they’re cartoons. They can do and be ANYTHING. And I think that’s magical. And I’d like to think if I were Indian, I’d feel the same way about Apu.
about 19 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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So what makes Apu special? Why does Hari Kondabolu think he deserves special treatment, when the rest of us have to deal with the same kind of treatment by the media, if not worse?
about 19 days ago from web
