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Resources From The Leftist Feminist Philosopher
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Keep a list of sites you never heard of!
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
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www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.
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mercaque · 2 days ago
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The Old Guard 2 Thoughts
I liked quite a few elements and didn’t completely hate the lore changes, but I hate the poor communication trope that powered a significant subplot.
I liked:
QUYNH. Veronica Ngo’s performance alone was worth seeing the movie for. Her chemistry with Charlize Theron is flawless.
Henry Golding’s performance was also good. The “remember the new guy” trope often annoys me, but I liked him enough that it didn’t here.
The “memory lane” sequence was transcendent. A beautiful bit of storytelling and a sense of Andy’s headspace.
The fights. Excellent choreography particularly in all of Andy’s fights.
Joe and Nicky’s tiff about Booker. For me their different stances made sense with their characters. Joe’s anger burns hotter but also burns out more quickly, while Nicky is quieter but more immovable.
I have problems with Booker’s subplot, but Matthias Schoenarts gave a fantastic performance. I also thought the “expiration date” conversation was excellent. That was the sort of philosophical question I enjoyed about the first movie.
Joe kicking that guy onto Nicky’s sword.
I didn’t hate:
The concept of an “immortal killer” or the ability to “transfer” immortality. I did not love HOW this was implemented in the story (see below) or the blatant retconning. But if they were going to go further into the “how” of immortality, I can live with these ideas.
The idea of Booker finally getting his wish to die. As with the above, I do not love HOW this was done, to put it mildly. But as a concept, it makes sense. Booker wanting to lose his immortality is a consistent element of his character. He does not want this. No matter how much meaning others may find in their immortal lives, he simply does not. I think it’s valid storytelling that at least one of the immortals is just never going to be on board with it. That said…
I hated:
…HOW Booker went about losing his immortality. What.
That he did it by deception was so fucking cruel to Nile and Andy, and showed that he hadn’t learned a damn thing in his exile. I came away thinking “y’all should have listened to Nicky.”
Given his actions in the last movie, I can accept that Booker would be selfish enough to do it the way he did (even if I think it was a missed chance for some character growth). But why didn’t Tuah step in to inform Nile? Why not tell her first? If his character was intended to be the sort of person who would allow her to unwittingly kill fellow immortals, the set-up was incredibly poor. Booker asked him to promise not to tell, but I see no reason why Tuah should have agreed to that promise.
It ended up as the classic “the story would be over in 5 minutes if characters sensibly shared information with each other” trope. Lazy and unsatisfying storytelling, when it didn’t need to be.
Not telling Nile deprived her of a good story. Let Booker ASK and make his case for surrendering his immortality! Give us that scene, let Nile navigate that moral dilemma, give her some actual conflict within the immortal family. Follow up on the connection their characters established in the first film! Instead of skirting around that to power the plot, they should have leaned in and HAD that conversation. I think the storyline would have been much more forgivable.
Aside from the matter of Booker, not telling Nile basically cut her out of her own story. She was never given the chance to grapple with what she had unknowingly done to Andy or what she had the potential to do to her other family members. Imagine how much more tense that fight with Quynh might have been if she were desperately trying NOT to permanently harm her?
On a different and lesser note, Joe and Nicky were pretty relegated to the background/kidnapping victim. There were some decent moments with them, but they felt pretty disconnected from everything else going on. Would have loved to see more of their reactions re: Quynh.
All in all, the 30% or whatever it is now on RT is a much lower score than I would give this movie. The stuff I liked was worth seeing it for. But the contrivances that undercut Nile’s story were REALLY bad and unnecessarily so.
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mercaque · 4 days ago
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person in fandom: eeeyikes!!! i hope im writing this character in this short little fanfic right >_< eeekkk what if my takes on my meta are all wrong and everyone will Kill me!!
guy in professional comic industry: okay lets mischaracterize every single character that appears in this comic for 50 or so issues
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mercaque · 6 days ago
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mercaque · 7 days ago
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it’s insane how things continue to happen
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mercaque · 7 days ago
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Please forgive me for ranting, but...I am so tired of AI. Just so tired. I don't want Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini, or Meta AI, or whatever other energy-sucking, water-wasting, mediocrity-spewing LLM is currently being thrust upon me. I just want to be left alone to create in peace.
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mercaque · 7 days ago
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Woodhouse 2.0 | Marchi Architectes Location: Long Island, New York, USA Visuals: Filippo Bolognese
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mercaque · 7 days ago
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Embrace your divine feminine energy by taking part in traditional women's hobbies & interests like experimenting with radioactive materials, developing mathematics, programming computers, piloting aircraft and practicing marksmanship.
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mercaque · 8 days ago
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Hey man, ahead of this heatwave I'm gonna go ahead and rip the veil off of something for you:
The reason American Southerners have the luxury of saying that 90 ain't that bad and it's not unbearable until it's 100 is 1) prolonged exposure to high temperatures over multiple decades 2) our mindset for these living conditions.
You don't have number 1, and you can't just acquire it, so I need you to adopt number 2 immediately. How do you live like a Southerner in the heat?
Don't be a hero.
Stay inside. Buy a box fan, put it next to a bucket of ice, and wrap your arms around it like a lover. Do not leave the shade under any circumstances. If a dude makes fun of you for getting out of the sun, don't get mad, just think of a funnier insult to call him while you flip him off and go stand under a tree.
Southerners love nothing more than to exaggerate and lie to each other. Like I think we got off on the wrong foot when you walked in on us saying things like "It was only 110, I didn't even take my damn jacket off" when really, last week it was 95 at 10 PM and we were on the bed buck nekkid in front of the fan moaning incoherently and praying to die. So yeah, we can take extreme heat. We also want you to think we can take ludicrous heat. You must learn to talk shit and then be a hypocrite and a coward in your actions, because this will serve you best.
It sounds like I am joking but I cannot express to you how much I am not. Do not fuck with Mother Nature, because that bitch will kill you. Take every opportunity to lower your body temperature and drink water, because that is what all of us in hot climates are doing all the time, and that is why we are not dead, even when it seems like we should be.
(And yeah, we do go through like two and a half ugly weeks in April every year where everyone wants to absolutely just goddamn drop dead because none of us have our heat tolerance back, but we must go to work anyway, which must be a crime. And yes, when it gets below 70 we really all do short circuit and cover ourselves in seven jackets, except for Shorts Guy.)
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mercaque · 8 days ago
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mercaque · 9 days ago
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mercaque · 10 days ago
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mercaque · 11 days ago
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Haven't figured out a politic way to word this but before saying someone/thing "makes you uncomfortable" please ask yourself this important question: is it any of your fucking business
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mercaque · 12 days ago
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John Kasyn (1926-2008) - Old Houses In Winter (East End), Toronto
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mercaque · 12 days ago
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I think being autistic has made me realize how extremely hostile the environments we have designed are. And I don't mean "this environment is uniquely hostile to me because I am autistic" I mean that even normies are just existing in brutal, stagnant spaces, they have just internalized them as normal. We could have it all, we could live in such a beautiful and fascinating world, designed by humans and for humans who actually enjoy life and it's complexity and wonder. but even now it's like, seen as kinda hippy-dippy bullshit to have "excessive" indoor plants in a workspace or something
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mercaque · 12 days ago
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