Skeletor
6mo ago
I don't think I fully understand what you're getting at here. I mean I get the idea that record companies always had the option of hiring studio musicians to churn out whatever, but the effective cost to produce and distribute that kind of thing was never zero, the way it is now.
Get some random band together, put them in a studio, let them work for weeks, and if it sucks you're out "only" low five figures? What kind of Stone Age shit is that? Your competition is a guy with a laptop, his product is basically indistinguishably as good as yours at this point, and oh yeah he has no expenses, can never go out of business, and there are endless thousands of him.
Skeletor
6mo ago
If you can't acknowledge that pizza isn't very expensive but still tastes good then you have some kind of mutant snobbery gene that disqualifies you from commenting on the diets of normal human beings.
Skeletor
6mo ago
and the new agent takes on the code name "James Bond"
Yeah giving a bunch of your spies the exact same name over the course of decades is a great way to maintain secrecy. They should just go one better and name him British Spy. He can just go around introducing himself as "Spy, British Spy" while performing all the patented British Spy Mannerisms they carefully instruct every one of these guys to indulge in as publicly as possible.
Skeletor
6mo ago
This is just my own experience talking and probably doesn't generalize, but I've learned to interpret it as womanspeak for "I am letting you know that I am leaving something unsaid but I'm doing it in a plausibly deniable way."
"I'll buy some milk on Monday" means she's going to buy some milk on Monday.
"I'll buy some milk on Monday..." means I'm going to stop and think really hard about whether I forgot to buy milk.
Skeletor
6mo ago
bigoted JAQing off
The fuck are you actually talking about? None of the quotes in the OP are even phrased as questions.
Skeletor
6mo ago
Not really. This kind of thing just seems really trifling across the board, and we'd be better off if nobody cared. You can't even articulate a reason to care other than the long since dead "dignity of the academy."
Skeletor
6mo ago
This list is incredibly paltry compared to a list of naughty things my family and I have said in the last week. As the result of one of these tedious "look at what no-no words this bad man said" fishing expeditions, one with a public figure's entire lifetime to muck-rake, it's positively pathetic in how anodyne it actually is.
As for the academy, it's been so thoroughly disgraced at this point that concerns about its dignity are beneath comment.
Skeletor
6mo ago
a moral responsibility to not casually sling such inflammatory shit
Nah, fuck off with that. We're talking about like six sentences of random jokes from across a guy's entire life, and at least four of them are complete and total nothingburgers. Maybe everyone else has a moral responsibility to not be a motherfucking baby about it.
Skeletor
6mo ago
You think "sunlight exposure is the reason behind 'Latin lovers'" is defensible under any reasonable interpretation?
Defensible to whom and in what way? He didn't put this theory in a paper and try to publish it, did he? You can't possibly imagine that people here would give a shit about such a comment unto itself.
Skeletor
6mo ago
Glad to see you support the idea that too much book larnin' drives women insane because it sucks all the phosphates that they need for whelpin' babbies!
Your argument-free emotional crashout isn't really helping them beat the rap.
Skeletor
6mo ago
Besides, "local woman goes to debate forum and ignores the rules to engage in theatrics because she is too outraged by some of the positions" is not the compelling advertisement for women's participation in intellectual life that you seem to believe it is.
God damn.
Okay well it worked out for everyone else. lol
But man there is this constant urge all across society to avoid the conclusion that black people just Are That Way and that there's nothing anyone can really do about it. (That's what this kind of thing always comes down to.) So people are always inventing these bespoke sociological theories where historical trauma or visible differences send an ethnic group spiraling off into dysfunction for centuries, but the proposed effects just never fuckin' ever replicate across history the way they supposedly should.
Skeletor
6mo ago
That is, if we took a million Polish people in 1900 and modified their genes to have blue hair or skin, without changing any of their other genes (so they have the same IQ and personalities), would that have caused them to become a permanent ethnic minority who doesn't get along with or act like all of the white people?
Chinese immigrants looked different, had a native language no one else knew, and were about as culturally alien to the US as anyone you were going to find in real life. They worked out fine.
Skeletor
6mo ago
It banks heavily on the shock value of obscenity as well, and that aspect obviously doesn't hold up for modern viewers.
Skeletor
6mo ago
I just mean that every time I see one of those neocon boomers actually expose themselves to public commentary they're always being torn to shreds by hordes of feral /pol/ zoomers.
Skeletor
6mo ago
Who mugs somebody by punching them?
Literally everyone if you had your way.
Skeletor
6mo ago
A SYG standard that allows you to kill someone for punching is antithetical to the cowboy code.
"So get back in there and keep boxing with that mugger, and don't worry, I'll make sure your health insurance provider knows you were just upholding the cowboy code."
Skeletor
6mo ago
If not Fuentes then someone else of his ilk, sooner or later. As far as I can tell, "normie" Republicans under 40 are extinct.
Skeletor
6mo ago
I don't want to just post a big smiley face holding a sign that says "THIS" but I do want to say that this strongly aligns with my perception of the situation. Fuentes could gobble a dong live on the air and it wouldn't pull respectable Zionist conservatism out of its graybeard death spiral.
Skeletor
6mo ago
And it's still not to the level where one can take claims that an objective person would have been in reasonable apprehension of death or serious bodily harm at face value.Why not let a jury decide?
Pardon my French, but this is stupid as shit. Like do I have to actually wait for the fractures to open up in my skull before it becomes self-defense? Have you ever been in a fight outside of a video game? You know it's not like fists deal stun damage and guns deal health damage, right?
Skeletor
6mo ago
My completely arbitrary vibe as just another post-liberal shitlord floating around the internet is that boomers and dorks love Reagan but based chuds think he was a cuck on guns and immigration, if they think of him at all.
Skeletor
6mo ago
In my personal opinion, I think that’s stupid. If you could wave some Polaroids around and coerce Congress, why would you bother spending all the money?
Regardless of anything else having to do with this conversation, there is absolutely no reason that anyone should have to explain to you that these options aren't mutually exclusive.
I don't claim to know how it's all going to shake out, but Joe Blow on his laptop doesn't really need to create the next Taylor Swift, does he? He just needs to capture a non-zero amount of the Music Dollars that exist in exchange for his investment of literally nothing. Once that's possible, and it seems like we're there already and only getting better, the fact that an endless supply of Joe Blows exist pretty much guarantees serious disruption in the long term.
Or maybe not, who knows, right? But when I see someone post something that sounds a lot like "sure this technology makes (thing) for free but it doesn't really suit how the (thing) industry works" my gut says that's it's the industry that's going to have to cope.
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