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  • Jojo’s is already a work of comedy, but take what it already is and now imagine Joseph and Jotaro with thick cockney accents, Avdol as Bob Marley, Polnareff gains +6000% “HON HON BAGUETTE” style and Kakyoin is a drunk Australian half-assing his lines

    Edit: in this hypothetical dub where every character is a caricature of themselves, Hol Horse remains entirely unchanged from original





  • Message at the bottom sounds like someone trying to distance themselves from reddit and Twitter. It’s an excellent move that I support completely. It’s free, the content gets delivered to you directly upon it being uploaded, and a newsletter doesn’t want any extra data out of you other than an email address to send your letters to.

    Also the comics will probably end up posted here anyway, since it doesn’t ask you not to repost them, so why does it matter?



  • I actually really appreciate the thought and effort put into your reply here. I will admit freely that my original comment was coming from a place of frustration, no small amount of depression, and desperation. And I think you’re absolutely correct that for the average person it’s probably more important to worry about your own immediate health and surroundings. It’s healthier that way.

    The part I disagree with, though, is the idea that just putting on your blinders and ignoring the things you can’t change is a fine way to live your life. We, as citizens, have a duty and a responsibility to keep our country in line. We, as human beings, have a duty and a responsibility to be good shepherds of our planet. We, as parents, have a duty and a responsibility to leave a better world behind for our children than the one we inherited. And I can’t, and won’t, just ignore all that. The universe is not malevolent but it also is not benevolent. It is vast and uncaring far beyond our ability to comprehend it as such, and it is up to us, the thinking, feeling creatures, to forge our future. If we do not act, there will be no action.

    Our situation was caused by thinking, feeling human beings, and it will be solved by thinking, feeling human beings and no one else. Or else we will die, and find ourselves as an evolutionary dead-end that tried real hard but didn’t quite make it.

    So my question then becomes, at the end of the day - if not you or I, then who? If we do not rage against the night, if we do not reach to the sky to pull ourselves out of the hole we’ve been dug into - then who is going to do it for us? Not God, that’s for sure. Not politicians, or soldiers, or celebrities. So who?


  • The parts of life I’m not satisfied with are the facts that my country is rapidly sliding into becoming a fascist ethnostate, our tax code is fucked six ways to Sunday, corporations are unaccountable to the law, I can barely afford food anymore because of corporations being unaccountable to the law and our tax code being fucked, my society is being actively destroyed by religious fanatics and schools can no longer be trusted to educate anyone.

    So, yeah. Any ideas? I’m all ears.


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    8 months ago

    If I fought and killed over the right to own and abuse another human being, I would hope people would show up to piss on my grave. This is more respect than they deserve.

    And don’t try to say they were a product of their time, either, because so was Cassius Clay and that man landed on the right side of history after being born to the richest slave owner in America. If he could buck that trend then so could all these other assholes.




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    9 months ago

    Well… Yeah. Otherwise they wouldn’t ask me for a credit card for a free trial of a service. It’s always been obvious that that’s their aim, refusing a single use credit card isn’t some big “gotcha” moment here. Free trials only exist anymore in order to steal money at the end of the trial period, counting on the user forgetting to cancel. This is a known quantity.


  • No, that’s just what the political right tells you they are all about. Inspect their actual actions over the last several centuries and they tell a very different story.

    Make no mistake, conservatives desire an oppressive government. They want the state to be able to tell you you can’t be gay or Muslim. They yearn for the boot on their neck, so long as it steps harder on their neighbors than it does on them personally.


  • Maybe I’m just missing something here but I can’t think of what part of discord’s UI could be considered convoluted. It’s a list of servers with a list of channels in them. You also have a list of DMs. End of story. Everything you need is right there in front of you.

    It’s miles better than any IRC client I ever used, which is the most direct comparison between Discord and “the good old days” of the internet. And I liked IRC a lot.

    I understand having issues with Discord’s corporate backing or having issues with how it’s difficult to find files or specific posts. Because it isn’t a forum, it was never really intended for that. But I think it’s a bit disingenuous to say the UI is complex, convoluted and impractical, because it’s actually none of those things. Discord has done its best to keep up with people misusing their platform as a forum, as they should, because that’s what the userbase wants (even if they’re using the product “wrong”). But the core functionality of what it’s supposed to do is wide open right in front of you and is highly intuitive.

    Do correct me if I’m wrong though, I’m curious to hear what people have to say about this. There’s always a possibility that I’m some savant who is the only person in the world to intuitively grok Discord. But I very much doubt that.