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MONKEY MAN 2024, dir. Dev Patel

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Dev Patel on Monkey Man

“The action genre has been abused by the system. You know, a quick buck. Mindless shit. I wanted to give it soul. Real trauma. Real pain. You guys deserve that. I wanted to infuse it with a little bit of culture.”

“I really wanted to touch on the caste system in India. You have the poor at the bottom, slaving away in the kitchens. Then you go up to the land of the kings. Above them is God — a manmade God that’s polluting and corrupting religion.”

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They're talking about horse riding

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those of you who haven't seen zona zamfirova are missing out on the most beautiful song ever made

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bedouin mother from saudi arabia (1948)

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Need groceries

Running out of food again, Please help.

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there are still people in the notes of that thread failing to grasp that this isn't a hypothetical for me. I know trans people up here who had their front door covered with 'I ❤️ JKR' and 'adult human female' stickers. there are active terf groups who harrass queer cafés and bookshops and use her name as an in-group identifier on signs and t-shirts at protests and at pride. she actually personally funded a trans exclusionary women's crisis centre in edinburgh, after her followers hounded and harrassed an inclusive service into shutting down. she is a tangible threat to trans people here.

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Why do people need subtitles to watch a show in English? I don't get it. What is wrong with the ears of young people?

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Living in the islamic regime is like waking up every morning to the news of one more innocent person getting the death penalty because they just wanted to live and be free.

Toomaj Salehi 🕊️

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Fallout: New Vegas + Locations

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My Fallout 3 OC Arc Angelica and her faithful companion, Dogmeat

Illustration by the super-talented Crystal Fae

I’ve blogged pictures of Angelica before; here are some new one:

Angelica also got a vignette in the book I wrote about my Fallout 4 OC Arcadia Mako:

Everyone knows how much I love Dogmeat, and stories of a lone woman and her favorite dog wandering the wasteland are well known across the Commonwealth. So when — last week, while I was out in Bradberton — a strange woman and her dog appeared at the Dugout Inn in Diamond City, everyone naturally thought of me. Vadim described her face as soft and almost cherubic, and curiously free of scars and marks. Ellie told me her hair was pink, “like something out of a fairy tale”, but spoiled with mange. She’d arrived in power armor — a variant not even Arturo recognized, studded with the same Tesla coils I saw on that customized T-60 in the hangar in Fort Hagen. She bristled with weapons: slung on her back was an engraved antique level-action rifle, on her hip was a 10mm pistol, and across her chest was a bandolier of grenades made from Nuka-Cola. For dinner, she changed into a matching pre-War sundress and bonnet — she looked elegant, according to Miss Edna, refusing to drink anything but Purified Water straight from the can. Her lovely companion was an Australian cattle dog, which Dr. Sun noticed exhibited heterochromia — one blue eye and one brown one, something I saw from time to time at the office before the War. Despite all the attention she commanded, however, she was quiet and spoke little. When she did speak, it was to ask about me: a “fellow survivor of Vault-Tec’s disturbing housing practices” and someone else “always on the radio”. She stayed two nights, and was gone.

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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has anybody seen my pet piece of paper. his name is walter he is very fragile but very adventurous. i should never have left the window open in my tenth story apartment

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just saw a single piece of paper drift past 50 feet in the air over buildings like a beautiful white bird