How the Far-Right Weaponizes Nostalgia

[@SonofSethoitae]

It's amusing that Dennis Prager uses "The Thinker" as an example of the height of traditional art, considering it was sculpted by Auguste Rodin; a man who was initially thouroughly rejected by the art elite of his day for not adhering closely enough to tradition. A man who believed so thoroughly in his newer, more modern vision that he forced them to accept change.

[@Disentropic1]

Knowing things seems unfair, though. I bet you learned that in some educational institution. (Q.E.D.)

[@Desourouez]

It's just what people like Prager do, they take something and completely ignore all context and try and claim something that doesn't agree with them and say it does.

[@hughg.rection7111]

Speaking of traditional art the statue of david has a penis, so why is Dennis complaining about modern art when the great Michelangelo made a sculpture with a penis

[@seanhenderson5996]

Its amusing the first few times you notice it, but eventually you realize that a lot of people think that progress which predates them isn't the same thing as progress in their lifetime. Douglas Adams had a great quote about this (just change "technology" to "art" or "social rules" or anything else that changes over time): “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

[@rawjawbone]

Hell, the Thinker wasn't even its own sculpture at first, it was part of a larger sculpture and he was commissioned to do. He plucked it out and made it its own figure, he definitely reused a lot of his own work.

[@GentrifiedPotato]

REJECT MODERNITY [Image of a nostalgic 50's WASP couple] EMBRACE TRADITION [Image of Greco-Roman men naked wrestling]

[@CharonsNightmare]

Why stop there? EMBRACE TRADITION [Image of caveperson sniffing their own poo]

[@alanritchie7850]

Or a polygamous marriage

[@WraithMagus]

Unfortunately, that only works if they buy into the implicit "gay stuff is bad" message. What about having "TRADITION" be pre-agricultural revolution women chiefs ordering the castration of fallen male soldiers or something?

[@chrisfarmer6893]

I dunno, the choice of a McDonald's in that meme was already like, late capitalist self parody. I don't see how you could improve on that.

[@Skiz0id]

'Wrestling"

[@FirionLeFleur]

The transition to Prager was so smooth I thought I got another ad I had to skip. I also can never hear his voice without it being a KZbinPoop

[@RoyalFusilier]

"The baby fucking dies!"

[@bigfloppa9006]

@@RoyalFusilier a classic

[@madisonstoner7405]

"Socialism is based"

[@keygenrosie]

“So why do Liberals love sending waves of suicide bombers into my house?”

[@Deadshotya]

"If you're black,sorry you don't live on!"

[@babewynbabewyn6962]

"Diverse representation in mass media is not a huge win for marginalized people. It is an extremely small win. It does not fundamentally alter the power structures that have marginalized them. It simply allows them to exist within those power structures. Even that, the most minor concession imaginable, is enough to inspire frenzied contempt among the man-baby industrial complex." - beautifully summed up!

[@jefferyjones8399]

That's a hell of a quote

[@TheDrLeviathan]

One of the truest things ever said.

[@gallanonim3328]

Far lefties must realize that you have to make a decision: either you want to have a genuine "society" with common stories and ties, or you want to have an atomized collection of tribes fighting for spoils, constantly interrogating "power structures" and trying to take control of them. In the first case, marginalized people are expected to assimilate or find a different genuine "society" they can assimilate to. This is the nationalist solution. In the second case, no society exists but marginalized people (or rather tribes) still exist. There is no solution, only eternal conflict.

[@jonnysac77]

Gall Anonim dude, I can do both, asserting the idea that insert-marginalized group deserves to exist and challenging abusive power structures are not mutually exclusive

[@marcello7781]

Indeed. Unfortunately superficial people will only grasp the surface and make a fuss out of it adding some good old conspiracy theory behind everything.

[@thor30013]

So, fun fact about "Fountain" by Duchamp (the literal urinal work of art): it was made in 1917. Meaning it's probably older than Dennis Prager. It's almost certainly older than the "idealized" past he most likely wishes to return to. But I doubt guys like Prager actually care about little details like that.

[@kwarra-an]

"*probably* older than Dennis Prager", absolute gold

[@seanforrest1106]

I think someone showed him 2 girls one cup and told him it was modern art

[@NMahon]

@@seanforrest1106 it totally was though

[@grahamkristensen9301]

Not to mention its creation was just Duchamp being a troll. It was entered into an exhibit whose only bar of entry was that you were an independent artist and you paid a fee, and Duchamp wanted to test those limits.

[@videogamenostalgia]

"I would trade Boogerman to get rid of racism" The hardest choices require the strongest wills.

[@TheBonkleFox]

"I'm sorry, little one." *Throws my bakugan collection off a cliff*

[@AriOrSomething]

*kisses my beyblades goodbye as I throw them off a cliff to end racism*

[@mouthshovel]

Yeah I don't know if I would have done the same. I hate racism, but Boogerman: a Pick and Flick Adventure is the greatest cultural and social aspect of our world

[@sunyavadin]

"In conclusion, scatological art exists to trigger Dennis Prager"

[@nerveagent1905]

I read a thing about piss christ in a book when I was a kid, thought "gross" for a second, and then got super into Bauhaus.

[@pascalsmit8739]

Wasn't Prager's favourite president really into the scatological?

[@ToxPhy]

Everybody poops don’t @ me

[@atortarr]

sunyavadin “trigger”?

[@jonigazeboize_ziri6737]

urine and feces.

[@foeller13]

The Quartering has always fascinated me, he was banned from covering magic by WOTC around the same time I started playing MTG (magic the gathering) and watching MTG content, it was kinda fascinating because even the more "anti-SJW's" were calling him out for being a neonazi shit head, so I kinda dodged a bullet when having to deal with him

[@unnamedenemy9]

I didn't know about that bit of backstory until this video and your comment. Literally every time I learn more about this guy the more I want to see news that he got run over by a bus.

[@jemolk8945]

Not just kinda. You definitely dodged a major bullet there. Take it from someone who's been playing since 2012 -- that man is the most toxic figure the MtG community has ever had the displeasure of dealing with, and we've had more than our share of shitheads to deal with.

[@Eibarwoman]

@@jemolk8945When Alex Bertoncini, a perennial cheater is overshadowed by Jeremy the Quivering you know that either Bertoncini isn't toxic or Jeremy is very toxic. The Quartering channel shows how toxic Jeremy is. In the opposite direction, the ban led to positive change in the community with the likes of Ashlizzle, Bloody, AutumnLily, etc in MtG Twitch and Player's Tour. A lot more women, LGBTQ representation, etc than when I made my first appearances in the lower end tournament circuits in 2014-16. I didn't really show promise until Arena was introduced and my sabbatical ended over 4 years later.

[@csmead209]

The kind of guy that Chandra would set on fire, got it.

[@DrZuluGaming]

I will always remember him as "that guy who gets his panties in a twist because they use the word They instead of He or She in Magic cards because something something Trans Mafia." I am not kidding about it. He even bitched about how it's few words in the cards.

[@52flyingbicycles]

The best “reject modernity embrace tradition” meme I’ve seen was a rally of people waving confederate flags under “reject modernity” and Sherman burning Atlanta under “embrace tradition”

[@defox5019]

Union Dixie

[@emperorgameling5064]

Okay

[@pragon1173]

Please don't burn Atlanta, it's the gayest city in the US and largely seen as a black mecca

[@keygenrosie]

*you hear “Bring the good old bugle boys we’ll sing another song, sing it as we used to sing it 50,000 strong, while we were marching through Georgia” faintly being sung in the distance*

[@geoffreysorkin5774]

@@pragon1173 The problem is that when Sherman burned Atlanta, he forgot to finish the job and burn the rest of the South down.

[@lydiafayre9806]

In the vintage community we have an expression. "Vintage style, not vintage values." We can celebrate nostalgic aesthetics without wallowing in toxic values.

[@nikacassaro2345]

I thought of exactly the same thing while watching this video! Historical costume/clothing enthusiasts are the only nostalgia-oriented subculture I know of that have their own catchphrase specifically rejecting the idea of longing for "the good old days" (though there may be other groups that do this, idk).

[@814790]

What is the vintage community?

[@lydiafayre9806]

​@@814790 Historical clothing & decor enthusiasts.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@Ryan Wieber 20s-60s, but yes

[@gallanonim3328]

The obvious problem with this statement is that this style existed *precisely* because society held the values they held. You can of course separate the wheat from the chaff, but the point stands. I think people who are into vintage style secretly understand something is missing in their lives but they're not willing to trade it for the comfort and hedonism.

[@johannes4123]

“Look, I get that politics is some people’s thing, but I just want to read good stories about people whose position outside society makes them easy prey for tests run by amoral government scientists-without a heavy-handed allegory for the Tuskegee Study thrown in. Why can’t comics be like they used to and just present worlds where superheroes and villains, who were clearly avatars for the values of capitalism, communism, or fascism, battle each other in narratives that explicitly mirrored the complex geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War?” -The Onion

[@DavidMyrmidon]

Love The Onion

[@chunkypencil]

I’m now feeling nostalgic for 8 minutes ago, when I didn’t know what the Tuskegee study was. It really was a simpler time.

[@ediodimacaroni]

@@chunkypencil i feel nostalgic 2 minutes ago before I finished my coffee. It was simpler back then

[@Knightmessenger]

Which Onion article is this from?

[@noeltrimm7216]

@@Knightmessenger “Man Prefers Comic Books That Don’t Insert Politics into Stories about Government-Engineered Agents of War” (2018, February 1, The Onion) Found it, cheers :]

[@selwynr]

"Man-baby industrial complex". A touch of genius, that.

[@squidcultist0022]

And the accuracy is astounding

[@allnaturalfigjam310]

I wouldn't be surprised if big companies' board rooms considered 'man-baby' a specific demographic - it's certainly profitable

[@ThatCrazyDotty]

Shakespeare's art was created to elevate the beauty and tragedy of the human condition. /flashback to Shakespeare toiling away on a play script in 1590s London: hurrrhurrr I bet I can make every line of this monologue a dick joke

[@ThatCrazyDotty]

@White-Van Helsing I'd love to see The Quartering read Thomas Nashe's The Choice of Valentines. Feel it might blow his mind.

[@grahamkristensen9301]

Hi, I'm Shakespeare. Here's my play where a guy murders the men who raped and mutilated his daughter, chops them up, bakes them into a pie and feeds them to their mother. Oh, and I think I may haven't invented the yo mama joke.

[@jaojao1768]

Also he wrote "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" for a man

[@Vingul]

"haha shakespeare is just dick jokes bro"

[@blixer8384]

Thou hath undone our mother! Villain I hath done thine mother!

[@PhilosophyTube]

hee hee, you seemed like you really had fun with this one

[@jello6640]

I know! As much as I love the glamorous sexuality-bending theatrics of that one Philosophy Tube guy, I can’t not love this guy’s funny charisma

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Do me a favor Phili tube and stop being so damn sexy.

[@grmpEqweer]

@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 He is so sexy it cracked my phone screen. Now I have to live with this cracked screen...Damn you, sexy British person!😐

[@panfilolivia]

the kings here!!!! The kings here!!!!!!!

[@joshadamson6874]

Love ya! Philosophy Tube saved me from new atheism and ayn randian objectivism

[@brutusmagnuson315]

These people realize a lot of Shakespeare’s jokes would be racy and vulgar even by today’s standard, right? Shakespeare also was unusual in that he wrote for common people and made fun of royalty.

[@someonerandom8552]

There’s nothing bawdier than the classics.

[@gaiusjuliuspleaser]

Same with Ben Shapiro whining about vulgar rap music when Mozart wrote a song called "Lick my ass".

[@FinallyAlone]

@@gaiusjuliuspleaser Was he talking about his backside or the animal?

[@navonmyhand7999]

@Sacha Daenems I had to look that up and I'm in shock I never knew he was a troll.

[@georgeparkins777]

@@FinallyAlone backside. They're different words in German (both insults, though) and it was definitely the one for the former. It was literally "lick my ass good and clean."

[@HarrowingEnd]

I perfed the modern cookie monster that bakes weed into his cookies to explain why he is so hungry all the time.

[@seto749]

At least that's still cookies - changing out cookies for vegetables does seem to be going too far.

[@rollinnollin546]

About the Elmer Fudd thing: Guns haven’t been allowed in cartoons since, like, the 90’s. So the SJW-ification of media had apparently been happening even in the imagined utopia these nerds love. If anything, cartoons have actually been letting up on censorship in past years. 90’s cartoons weren’t even allowed to show someone getting punched in the face, but know they can (in the US at least, I think the UK still has face punching restrictions).

[@burner1303]

Right, Bruce Timm once drew an image with all the censored things cartoonists couldn't draw at the time (the Joker is shooting batman out of a window while the joker drank and did drugs next to a naked Catwoman iirc). That's why the guns in Batman TAS were weird looking, and most similar cartoons used laser guns.

[@missZoey5387]

Hence why GI Joe gave them laser guns *though, I like to think they lived in alternate world where instead of bullet based tech, their weapons evolved to be lasers but thats just me*

[@rainehappy7097]

Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs did a pretty good job at making cartoons funny without needing a gun.

[@75aces97]

Actually it was stricter earlier than that. There was a crackdown on cartoon violence in the 1970s, so if you look at most North American cartoons (almost all Saturday morning regulated network stuff) from that era, guns, explosions, and depictions of injuries were pretty much eliminated. Firearms and explosions (probably could air quote that term) were reintroduced in some 1980s toy commercial cartoons that were mostly on syndicated shows where producers could get away with a little bit more, but they stretched plausibility to emphasize lack of death toll.

[@dokisenate66]

*Seth Macfarlane wants to know your location*

[@Arlborn]

"I hate nostalgia, it tries too hard to remember only the easy parts"

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I always love when they bring up Duchamp's Fountain, it's literally over 100 years old, it's older than most of the people complainings Grandparents. How far do we have to go back before it was ruined by the "left".

[@nerveagent1905]

For people saying that they are rebels, even the barest departure from the establishment is frightening.

[@luddlowvertakaclydecowley5905]

Holy shit, I always assumed that it was from the 50s or 60s, probably because that better fits their narrative of modern art

[@UDLXXL]

Duchamp was trolling the art world at the time... The point of the work was meant to be that anything can be art depending on the context

[@Descanlin]

@@luddlowvertakaclydecowley5905 Admittedly that may be because a number of replicas were commissioned in the 50s and 60s - so most existing photographs and discussions (such as artists talking about seeing it in person) are of those. The original has been lost. The fact that we can say "replicas" and "the original" about a randomly selected piece of plumbing is hilarious to me, btw. Just shows the transformative effect culture has on physical objects.

[@Arrakiz666]

@@Descanlin It also serves as something of a middle-finger to Duchamp himself, because I'm sure he'd be angry about the art historians considering his work a unique piece of art.

[@crazywoollady9325]

"Man baby industrial complex" lmao I love it and I'm stealing it. That is all.

[@sudocatsda1guy390]

Changing the old thing isn't even needed. One guy got utterly pissed when he heard that a leaf doesn't turn Mario into a raccoon, but a raccoon dog (something that should be obvious from the fact that it's a japanese brand and Japan doesn't have american animals) I'm not sure if he even was a gamer

[@AceAttorny]

Yeah, Quartering. That's what people might think is kinda iffy about Pepe La Pew nowadays. It's that he smells. And that's like chemical warfare. Hit the nail right on the head, there.

[@Sn00gans]

Are ya sure? Are ya sure that's it, Quartering? Are ya sure there's not... something else that people kinda cringe at Pepe about? Maybe?

[@URFTBOUND4LIFE]

Nevermind how he's sexually harassed poor Penelope cat in those shorts. I think that's a bigger problem

[@greenhowie]

Well to be fair from what I've heard he probably cares more about smelling bad than treating a woman like a human being.

[@PassiveNights]

Yeah I remember people calling him creepy...20 years ago?

[@sofieselene]

I think Quartering is basing it off how own BO, which is indeed banned by the Geneva conventions

[@astralcamisado648]

'Piss culture' That sounds like a good name for a band honestly.

[@jamesshepard3]

Dibs

[@saschar.8736]

Maybe a Grindcore band. That'd be cool.

[@vegan.atheist.weirdo]

Or something I'm waiting for my doctor's office to call me with the results about.

[@DavySolaris]

One of my bands has a song called that, haha.

[@redherronrecords]

@@DavySolaris there is also the Amen song Piss Virus.

[@sideways5153]

I’m neurodivergent with lots of hangups about foods like veggies, which made Cookie Monster a legitimate role model for me in that he would actually eat when he felt the need to do so, and he would eat food he actually liked. Seeing Cookie Monster seemingly co-opted into the widespread conspiracy of keeping me on the edge of starvation by having him advocate for vegetable eating was legitimately distressing. I was pretty young at the time, and definitely did not have the kinds of problems Cookie Monster was written to help kids with, but y’know. I felt a need to get that off my chest.

[@chebghobbi]

I just noticed that Prager U's Beethoven's Fifth Symphony graphic is just a collection of random notes that aren't even laid out right on the page.

[@RoseThePhoenix]

"Manbaby industrial complex" SENT me 😂

[@SlaughterHouseEducation]

The accuracy

[@adamgreene187]

"Which means I'm always kinda mad" Never has there been a more honest depiction of being a DC fan

[@buranflakes]

Funny how Denis Planger uses Fountain as an example of "contemporary art" when it was first exhibited over 100 years ago

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Callback to PJW, another dufus

[@rolfs2165]

Well, to him anything younger than 1800 is "modern", I guess.

[@paulludwigewaldvonkleist4039]

@@rolfs2165 well he is old

[@keygenrosie]

U R I N E A N D F E C E S

[@antiskill2012]

"Everyone's just gonna be PISSIN' on each other all the time! We're gonna live in a PISS culture!" I like to imagine this line motivated at least one person to escape the alt-right pipeline.

[@chrisjones5949]

Well, who wants to be in a sewer pipeline?

[@Gimodon]

I always find it hilarious how conservatives seem to think toilet humor is a recent invention, considering the oldest known joke is a fart joke (seriously, look it up.)

[@alfsmith4936]

Toilet humour has always annoyed cleverer people, because it's jokes for people who can't be bothered to think.. Todays Conservatives just like to appeal to non thinkers because it's easy to con them,

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

@@alfsmith4936 Clever people can appreciate toilet humour too, even if it's one of the easiest things to make funny. Toilet humour annoys people who lack the wit to even make a funny poop joke.

[@someonerandom8552]

@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 You know there are entire books dedicated to translating all the dick and poop jokes Shakespeare for a modern audience. I have one called “Filthy Shakespeare” which I highly recommend

[@turnipopolis]

@@alfsmith4936 you got it. Clever people could never enjoy toilet humor. I mean, after all, all you're going to get is shit and giggles.

[@pepearown4968]

Shakespeare did those a lot too, right? I remember seeing one in The Comedy of Errors.

[@vincentwoodhead6411]

You don't make "garbage" You make *s* *l* *i* *m* *e*

[@m0thdm]

God damn Im jelly I didnt think of this.

[@nicholastosoni707]

As long as it's not psychomagnaetheric slime...

[@rainehappy7097]

Well since it's TMNT, wouldn't it be O O Z E ?

[@ethansmall581]

"I get mad when DC Comics makes a bad editorial decision, which mean I'm always a little bit mad." Far too true.

[@rainehappy7097]

Like cancelling good shows because they didn't sell enough toys? XD

[@DrZuluGaming]

@@rainehappy7097 Or the New 52. AKA 5 years of bad editorial decisions.

[@Kropothead]

@@DrZuluGaming New 52 had some issues, but also a lot of really solid stuff. Death of the Family was a lot of fun.

[@Kropothead]

@Caleb Irizarry RHATO slapped. Roy and Jaybird, BFFs forever.

[@steveharrison76]

Someone probably funnier and better and more handsome or beautiful than me once said: tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. I don’t know if that’s a good thought, but it made me go “huh, yeah” and smile.

[@kimifw58]

No, that's exactly it. You're trying to please people who don't even care what you do because they're _dead._ That's even more pathetic than following current trends.

[@PurpleFlush]

The username “The Quartering” sounds like a horror movie; in the same category as The Village.

[@hanchiman]

Quartering is a hack who jump on the bandwagon of current news and pretend he is an expert from Politics, Race, Social norms and entertainment business

[@bluerose5071]

What's even funnier is that he changed his name to that after getting run out of the Magic The Gathering community for attempting to enlist people to harass women in the community.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

Imagine losing your mind overwether someone dislikes Brie Larson or some subpar reboot

[@JoshuaRellick]

@@bluerose5071 It was all based on one video, which unfortunately I never got to watch so I never got to see whether he really told people to harass women or not. Though, to be honest, him deleting it doesn't make him look good. Though, on the other hand, that may be the reaction of anyone who comes under massive social pressure from a group of people.

[@OdaSwifteye]

Makes me think of a renn fair which would be really nice to visit right about now. Kind of weird that you think of a horror movie though. The Village isn't a horror movie by the way. It's more like a thriller mystery until the end where you realize that you were one mystery machine away from defusing all the value in the film.

[@FionaOfMountLawley]

The Quartering was also kicked out of the Warhammer tournament community.

[@zach7482]

I'll be honest. That's a special kind of person to get kicked out of Warhammer. I immediately assume someone is a fascist if they like Warhammer.

[@atreides213]

Zachary Reed There are plenty of leftist Warhammer fans. If you’re interested in the hobby at all the sigmarxism subreddit is specifically for leftist fans of the franchise.

[@jackcoleman1784]

@@zach7482 Yeah honestly I enjoy Warhammer as a satire of fascism personally. Granted it doesn't take long to see someone in the community who actually drinks that shit.

[@johnnyscifi]

@@zach7482 im left, and have a huge fondness for 40k lore...its possible

[@FinallyAlone]

"The emperor protects"

[@noalowenstein6741]

"modern leftist art is obsessed w feces" *mozart has entered the chat*

[@MegaManXPoweredUp]

Oh shit

[@Sonichero151]

@@MegaManXPoweredUp *EXACTLY*

[@S.D.323]

I love how Mozart put it in the film Amadeus that he may be vulgar but his music is certainly not

[@spacechemsol4288]

@@S.D.323 You probably never heard of his piece "Leck mich im Arsch" then (lick me in the ass)

[@benjaminpeters6729]

Surprised you didn't mention how even in power rangers (a show produced in the early 1990s), the rangers were explicitly told not to escalate conflicts beyond what was necessary to solve them.

[@jamescampbell39]

that's why I pefer the original Japanese versions of the whole Power Rangers run Tokusatsu is what it is called here in Japan.

[@morgansearle3912]

11:24 "When was America greater? When it was criminal for women to vote? When was America greater? When slaves were bought and sold? When was America greater? Before the natives lost control?" - Otep, Halt Right

[@Strife40k]

Pre 9/11 ?

[@nunyabisness7055]

Spartans: Gay Romans: Also pretty gay Vikings: Literally the epitome of the adoption of other cultures in Europe Crusaders: Genocidal Which one of these are you, kids?

[@Thebee211]

hussars

[@Demiglitch]

gay

[@Thebee211]

@@Demiglitch You talking to me?

[@davidrafferty2491]

Eh...not sure about your point on the Vikings. If you wanna knock em in this context the better point is most of their activities revolved around kidnapping other Europeans and selling them to the Arabs and Moors as slaves.

[@emperorgameling5064]

Being a sexual partner with another Roman citizen would incur infamia in ancient Rome, and the Spartan mentorship method is still disputed over how close the relationship was, so calling that gay too is misleading. Vikings were members of an activity not a people, and most crusading orders were founded to protect christian pilgrims against bandits, thieves, and muslim raiders.

[@michaelpalin8953]

"I could be playing video games more productively" There is so much of our age condensed in that single sentence...

[@JJRasta97]

I currently am playing video games more productively these days 🤣

[@pferreira1983]

How can you play video games more productively. Do I have to be an SJW like this guy for that to happen? Ha, ha!

[@JJRasta97]

@@pferreira1983 lol SJW ok boomer go storm the capitol 🤣

[@roguepsykerhaaker4813]

@@pferreira1983 if I were to bring up an example playing another run of into the breach (despite the fact that I've finished it so many times) would be less productive than finishing my current minecraft project because the latter would leave me with something sort of tangible at the end and the other wouldn't

[@pferreira1983]

@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 If you like a game and have time to devote to it why not play it again? Why should you ignore what you've already experienced?

[@kindle9597]

Fun fact about the comic at 8:27: the artist has me blocked on twitter for posting about how all four of the people in it would have considered themselves to be different races

[@goobertron9099]

oh boy not only is he literally a neo Nazi in some of his earlier stuff he kinda steals Toriyama’s art (creator of dragon ball, dr slump arale Chan and stuff) (´༎ຶོρ༎ຶོ`)

[@blixer8384]

Also the Spartans are punks. The Sacred Band of Thebes is where it’s at.

[@threethousandbees7260]

You know what? I'm sick of this and i'm tired of keeping my opinions to myself for fear of being attacked. I think McDonald's used to look better. I agree with everything else though.

[@sph3re]

...I didn't know The Eyeball Zone was a reference to The Zone until now and I think I might just love you Y'all remember Snit? Snit was the shit

[@jordanetherington1922]

Fuck yeah I remember Snik and PJ Phil

[@joeyj6808]

Snit's Revenge and Chitin (along with Melee and Car Wars) were among my favorite mini games. Ever. Paper, pencil, 3d6 = many funs.

[@clutchclutch13]

No one tell them how Mozart felt about the scatological...

[@hannahv7303]

Okay but do tell me

[@pauulkubasek1815]

Hannah V he was into it

[@darkmiserythechao]

Hannah V he literally wrote a song that translates to “lick me in the ass” or something similar I believe

[@beastcrown9481]

@@darkmiserythechao He actually had a bunch of rather... crude songs. The one you mentioned does exist, though it's not the most famous one. There's another one, it's called "Bona nox! Bist a rechta Ox" that's a little more well known, at least here in Austria. As in, we actually sang it in Music class. It's also one of his pieces that do have edited text xP And in general, Mozart was known for being kind of crass sometimes. Bit of a brat, really.

[@SeanStrife]

And Shakespeare was a very scatological writer, too. The man literally wrote a line in a play that boils down to "I fucked your mom."

[@clargonaut6015]

The Alt Right "Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition" Memers: "Reject Humanity, Return To Monke"

[@DarkEyeCreator]

"memers" you don't know what that is, and your memes are irrelevant garbage.

[@festethephule7553]

@@DarkEyeCreator Irrelevant to what?

[@operationd--msday]

@@DarkEyeCreator jesus are you just perpetually upset?

[@WannabeWa1fu]

@@DarkEyeCreator Trumper alert

[@danboru_bakooo1966]

I would love to be a monkey... That tail is just so useful

[@SlaughterHouseEducation]

We (white millennials who grew up middle- upperclass) remember the time before war, and that time was our childhood. We link the two to an unhealthy level, especially to cope with the nihilism.

[@mgroesbeck4503]

...except there were still wars, it just wasn't polite to mention all the death squads and the like. That was true since before I was born into the gap between Gen X and Millenials. Sometimes the only way out is just to accept that everything is screwed up and there's no unifying meaning to everything...so if we want to make things a bit less screwed up, we'd better get to work. Because the Zoomers will definitely remind us if we do a bad job.

[@grmpEqweer]

My childhood sucked really bad. Maybe that's why I'm not into toys and nostalgia. ...Hmm. Most of my life has sucked, but I'm just not wired for happiness. So I was never going to be happy.

[@terminaldeity]

Eh? I remember the Gulf War. I remember the start of the second Iraq War and the war in Afghanistan a decade later. And that war is still going on. Maybe it's because I'm an older millennial, but we've been at war literally for the majority of my life.

[@disappointedidealist1989]

The worst ones are the people who are like "When did Star Trek become SJW!!!" ...ummm...got some bad news for you bro.

[@billybobferguson3946]

"What?? Since when was a space opera about rebelling against an oppressive empire and their aptly named 'stormtroopers' political?" These people just don't like seeing women and PoCs in spaces where white men typically reign. They're completely brainwashed into seeing white western men as humanity's default. Sad.

[@Mantafirefly]

@The Sight of Sound It was *always* full SJW. You just grew up with the earlier stuff and accepted it because you were younger. Even back then there were plenty of reactionaries getting upset about a black woman kissing a white man on screen, or that DS9 was captained by a black guy, or that Voyager was captained by a woman. If you disagree, then consider finding a TOS episode called "Let that be your last battlefield", aired in 1969. Watch it and tell me that it's not a "Woke" anti-racist message.

[@rpl1318]

@@Mantafirefly so, I just went and watched that episode. pretty damn good and way ahead of its time. though it does avoid to pass any overt judgement onto either of the two antagonizing characters, it sends a clear anti-war and anti-racism message thanks for the tip, dude or dudess

[@Mantafirefly]

@@rpl1318 I'd argue that it does judge them pretty harshly as they're clearly marked by the enterprise crew as being irrational and the two antagonists are perhaps a bit strawman in how they act. But that's besides the point. Can you imagine if that script was used in one of the most recent Trek's outings? The Anti-SJW people would throw a fit.

[@Mantafirefly]

@The Sight of Sound Good question. It's honestly down to what was even possible to produce today compared to then. Back then imagine going to a completely white male TV Producer's board and pitching the idea of a Sci-Fi show with a black female lead, a trans second in command, an openly and acceptably gay helm operator etc etc... For starters, where would you even find decent actors with those traits that were willing to do that and go through the harrassment that would follow? This was the sixties. The Jim Crow era had barely even ended. Now imagine doing it today. Slightly easier no?

[@HoundofOdin]

As a practicing Norse Pagan who adores all things Viking, I can understand the frustration and rage that comes from a bunch of bigots trying to rub their stink all over what you love. The best anyone can do is be active in their chosen community and tell the bigots that it is actually they who have no place there.

[@AceAttorny]

You guys have the mental faculties to remember stuff? Must be nice.

[@JanetStarChild]

What are you; a goldfish?

[@tyjoy6111]

you guys didn't have traumatic childhoods??

[@Bokatisha1234]

@@JanetStarChild Depression and trauma causes memory problems.

[@seanaustin714]

Yes of course I do but most of the facilities are off site which makes organization tough

[@cryptid-king]

@@JanetStarChild goldfish have memories up to multiple years long actually. Goldfish have a better memory than I do

[@JoshNotJohn0]

Elmer Fudd's gun being removed is a good thing you see how many times that thing got used AGAINST him? good video, friend.

[@foolishmuleth6757]

Man finally learned

[@diogenesofseattle2344]

I would trade D&D to get rid of racism.

[@connorbanepoop]

Woah woah woah let’s not get hasty here

[@sabotabby3372]

@@connorbanepoop we can make our own D&D, with decolonialism and guillotines

[@sobaankhan7094]

We will have to make great sacrifices but for a beautiful ending

[@joshhorley2116]

Fuck it, I'd trade in the entire Wizards company and everything they ever did to be done with that shit

[@jeice13]

Because fantasy tropes that dont directly relate to any specific culture are the last bastion of discrimination?

[@CybernetCatgirl]

You are not garbage, and what you make is not garbage. You are valid. Never forget that, Brain Think.

[@thatyoutubechannel9953]

He's STEAMING hot garbage outside of KZbin but the content he makes here is pretty good

[@accaliawolf2903]

@@thatyoutubechannel9953 huh?

[@thatyoutubechannel9953]

@@accaliawolf2903 Everything I've seen of him has indicated to me that I would entirely dislike him as a person. I like his content though.

[@etenby699]

@@thatyoutubechannel9953 Please explain. I'm curious.

[@MilknPopcorn]

it's called TRASH CAN not TRASH CANNOT

[@rhysperegrine5100]

I just realised that Jordan Peterson is like the modern version of parallax scrolling and the Super FX chip: it's all very impressive to your average teenager, even if they don't quite understand what any of it means.

[@URFTBOUND4LIFE]

I love this analogy

[@10thletter40]

Then listen for once, dont just hear. I can understand what hes saying just fine

[@alfsmith4936]

@@10thletter40 Same.. He says "Tidy yourself up, spend all your money on crap, follow the rules, do as you're told, work harder, act like a romanticised T.V view of a 1950s person and blame others for anything you don't like about yourself."

[@darylallen2485]

@@alfsmith4936 eh, i guess we're all entitled to our own interpretation of JP. I agree with what you said minus the follow the rules thing. I see his admonition as a sophisticated stoicism. Set goals for yourself and move toward those goals in a manner that your highest ideal self can be proud of. Thats different than following the rules. Nazi soldiers were following the rules of their society, but i doubt they are proud of themselves having done it.

[@benlunch7618]

The problem might be you. I actually understand everything Jordan Peterson says except possibly his most complex arguments in the debate about religion with Sam Harris.

[@fabianne6284]

I sent in my master's thesis TODAY that makes a lot of those arguments with a lot more words. Now I feel like I should just forward this video to my prof

[@jamesshepard3]

What was your degree in? I just finished my master’s thesis in linguistics, and I love seeing how diverse fields intersect.

[@renrants]

As someone who makes similar content I feel this to my CORE. I used to have a featured spot on the channel Midnight's Edge, I would do occasional appearances and a regular slot for Ladies Night before I identified as GNC. My channel would be way larger now if I had catered to these vibes when they kept going in that direction, but I wouldn't. At first I was so uncomfortable I wouldn't know what to say, but then I started to speak up. Eventually they stopped featuring me, but I don't regret it at all. Watching the person who called me an idiot during an argument where I refused to let her claim that the harassment Kelly Marie Tran dealt with after Star Wars was only committed by a tiny handful of fans be more successful than me is kind of frustrating, but like... I'd rather have no subscribers than be that person.

[@Matter-Dark]

Ren Rants I’m still sad Midnight’a Edge went to hell.

[@grandsome1]

Midnight Edge are a bunch of hypocrites, they complain about liberal politics, but they keep pushing their alt-right crap whenever they can.

[@PapaSmurf11182nd]

Forgive me but I'm not aware of Midnights Edge, what was happening, happened?

[@Matter-Dark]

PapaSmurf11182nd He was a channel who talked about films, especially comic book films. He started to pander to reactionaries.

[@rodney2x48]

You dodged a bullet. Midnight’s Edge is garbage and has been garbage since they started pandering to right wing shit nuggets. They’re no different from The Quartering.

[@terraformthesun2896]

When someone says, “I don’t like politics”, what they really mean is, “I don’t like politics I disagree with”.

[@ridiculouslyoverpoweredsup4421]

I don't like politics one bit! I just see both side as dirty power hungry lying race baiting dick heads! I honestly like reading the peoples crazy KZbin comments about it, but would never get involved in it myself.

[@therealivydawg]

@@ridiculouslyoverpoweredsup4421 maybe you should get in it. And use your politics to care about people.

[@ridiculouslyoverpoweredsup4421]

@The Four Horsemen I'd rather just help people, without making it political.

[@claynorth964]

@@ridiculouslyoverpoweredsup4421 its funny you think you can seperate the two. its absurdly naive.

[@ridiculouslyoverpoweredsup4421]

@@claynorth964 not really lol

[@alfred8936]

I remember when the Chudening got kicked out of the MTG community. One of the most depressing aspects of it was all of the various chudlings that crawled out of the woodwork to defend his "freedom of speech" As if having the freedom to say whatever you want exempts you from the consequences of whatever you say. Or, in their terms: you can't tell a Skyrim guard that you're going to fight them to the death and then expect them to just let you go

[@brendanmccabe8373]

Pewdiepie literally spent a video defending being allowed to say death to all Jews and ignoring the criticism just defending being allowed to say it

[@marcello7781]

@@brendanmccabe8373 really? I thought he apologized for that. I wonder when will people remember that rights come with their own responsibilities.

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

I think it's because for a long time there wasn't much consequence for saying derogatory things in certain spaces so I'd guess to chuds "free speech" is *them* being able to say whatever without major pushback. They don't get that the 1st amendment is a Gov't issue not a private one as they've been pampered to for so long they don't actually know what a violation of a right is.

[@Eibarwoman]

And now, what does MTG have? Multiple women in the Player's Tour with a trans woman as the 7th largest streamer of Magic the Gathering on Twitch. Think about that, even with The Chuddening's culture his removal has resulted in a space where the women have definitely grown in number in competitive play now that Jeremy and his Chudening chudlings fled off. I don't see Bloody, AutumnLily, Ashlizzle, or others who play MtG and use the LGBTQ+ tag on Twitch being able to be successful without Hambly being banned.

[@JoshuaRellick]

@@Eibarwoman The Quartering has grown a lot since the time he was banned, though.

[@dinosaysrawr]

People like the Quartering also act like this is the first time in history when a special interest group has exercised influence over the media and has wanted to censor things they didn't like. If you're mad about cartoon characters not being able to wield guns or say "kill" in the present day, don't blame the people who were seven years old when the Moral Majority and people like Jack Thompson and Tipper Gore pushed various policies and practices designed to "protect the children."

[@OdaSwifteye]

The Quartering acts like that about everything. it's probably an act done up to make the video more watchable.

[@nocctea]

Recently on Twitter a lot of black artists I follow have started drawing princess peach as black. Just a fun way to empower black people and stuff, and bring representation to the Mario franchise. Almost every single post had comments about how "uncomfortable and unnatural" she looked, people were so angry about changing characters races to make something more diverse. As a geeky black person this rejection of any change or different perspectives applied to existing characters is so demoralizing, it's not changing the cannon, we just wanna try to uplift ourselves. I hope these ideals end soon, it's very exclusionist to women and minorities interested in this stuff. Also, really glad I found your videos! They're really funny and informative

[@ThePsychoRenegade]

Ahh the good ol' days. Back when us lords hid in our castles as the plebeians struggled to live off of their meager amount of farmland.

[@antifascistamerican3782]

“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.” ~Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

[@FinallyAlone]

In some parts of the world it's still like that.

[@CERTAIND00M]

THOUGHT SLIME: "Jedis are cops." ME: [Tim and Eric mind blown GIF]

[@MiloKuroshiro]

I mean, the prequels and Clone Wars puts it pretty clear how shitty they were and how they failed for being Bootlickers stuck on self serving traditions

[@jemolk8945]

@@MiloKuroshiro Damn straight. That's why the prequels are unironically great. (For Star Wars movies, at least. Still relied way too damn heavily on flashy effects to make them seem better than they were, but at least they had a competent and interesting and thoughtful story.)

[@Nagoragama]

@@jemolk8945 I would argue they have good ideas, but mediocre to bad execution.

[@McHobotheBobo]

By the late Republic absolutely, but post-purge and in the earlier eras there is much greater diversity of thought, doctrine, and action among the Jedi. Sometimes liberators, better than the Sith, but often become blind to the brosder truth

[@brittanybecker170]

Pass the ysalamiri, I have a solution! Relax, I promise its just given everybody a ysalamiri to cuddle while we take about healthier ways to deal with conflict, internally and externally.

[@olipolygon]

"We're gonna live in a piss culture where everyone pisses on each other all the time!" isn't that the SnapCube's Realtime Fandub Games on Sonic Adventure 2

[@Johnson-br2lw]

No, it's postal 2

[@glitchedoom]

@@Johnson-br2lw Buttsauce

[@DarkwyndPT]

Scatological humour was actually quite common in post-renaissance comedy. Go read the original Gulliver's Travels if you don't believe me!

[@burner1303]

Also common in ancient mythology. Beer is Odin's piss in Norse mythology IIRC.

[@just_radical]

The very second story in the Canterbury Tales's climax centers around a man farting in a priest's face and having a hot poker shoved up his ass in response.

[@Yingyanglord1]

@@just_radical *que that escalated quickly like real quickly

[@someonerandom8552]

Thank you! Idiots who whine about the sanctity of “traditional art” out themselves as having never read the actual canon.

[@guldmattbb473]

@@just_radical There’s also another story in Canterbury Tales where a friar comes to see a sickly man about donations to the church, and the man, annoyed by the friar’s greed, tells him he will give him something but only if he shares it with the rest of his people. The friar agrees, and the man farts in his face. But then it gets BETTER! They end up having to create this huge contraption so that the guy can fart into every friar’s face, since he technically promised he would share what he was given by the man to the rest of the friars.

[@YetAnotherGeorgeth]

Ughh, KZbin recommended me The Quartering once. I never heard of him. I clicked on a video. I then clicked back and clicked the "STOP RECOMMENDING ME ARSEHOLES" button!

[@JimmyNails27]

I can't tell you how much I wish that button actually existed.

[@kloggmonkey]

@@JimmyNails27 "don't recommend this channel" works just fine for me

[@distaffpope2603]

Where is that button?

[@YetAnotherGeorgeth]

@@distaffpope2603 when you are recommended a video you don't like, click/tap the 3 dots next to the video name and click do not recommend. Then click "tell me why" and click "I don't like this channel" Edit: looks like you can just click "don't recommend this channel." Now granted, this relies on the all knowing KZbin/Google to actually care and do their job but the algorithm is a strange beast...

[@exeortegarubio]

Better known as the Quivering.

[@frankenfurterr3432]

it was the grown men worried abot the little mermaid being black that really made everything crystal clear 💀

[@moonagemayqueen7156]

I never understood the uproar about the new Looney Tunes because when it comes to TV, Elmer and Yosemite Sam hasn't used a gun in years. They even did an episode that had an in universe explanation for why Sam doesn't use guns anymore

[@MiloKuroshiro]

Yep. He doesn't use a gun since two reboots ago when it turned into more of a sitcom.

[@HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

Yeah, but to know this they would need to have actually watched the stuff they're critiquing, which they obviously haven't. And since their audience isn't familiar with it either (how many reactionary adult male nerds watch Looney Tunes cartoons?) this is no obstacle to their success as long as they pander to their audience's prejudices.

[@jb_lofi]

@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs Yeah, most of the things they're talking about they haven't cared about in decades, if at all. I've probably watched more original She-Ra cartoons in the last five years than the people who raged incoherently about her costume change. And that's only because I'd never seen them before and wanted to just see why so many people liked it.

[@aquadragondavanin6745]

honestly using dynamite is funnier, and also easier to draw

[@FinallyAlone]

He isn't allowed to use his guns after a stray bullet hit and killed a park ranger.

[@diablominero]

I got a very different message from the Luke-in-a-cave scene. I thought Darth Vader had Luke's face because choosing to kill is the choice a Sith would make, and so if Luke kills Vader he becomes no different from Vader.

[@rainehappy7097]

EXACTLY.

[@InvaderNaj]

sure is a good thing the force didnt count those million people he blew up before that

[@diablominero]

@@InvaderNaj To be more specific, because apparently people didn't get Star Wars: choosing to kill out of fear or anger is a Sith choice, while killing out of necessity is permissible for Jedi.

[@InvaderNaj]

​@@diablominero I mean i get that but one could argue killing an evil genocidal dictator and a far too powerful mass murderer could both be seen as neccesary. especialy if they wanna kill you and your friends

[@diablominero]

@@InvaderNaj I don't think that any Force user, regardless of context, killing Vader would have become Sith. It's just that Luke has a personality such that if he did it, it would be out of fear and anger. "Is it necessary?" is a very different question from "If you did it, would you be acting because it's necessary?"

[@WikiSorcerer]

Not liking Modern Art is one thing. Gatekeeping art is another.

[@Bababaaaa]

I find that the quartering is the perfect representation of what I hate about reactionaries among the hobbies I care about. He's just the worst.

[@gec-tree8035]

Hah hah hah have you heard of arch warhmmer and comasar gamza. They are arguably worse.

[@scrapinator8910]

Liquid Lillee Worse, but still more niche.

[@Vingul]

@@gec-tree8035 Arch Warhammer is a reactionary? Lol. He's a liberal.

[@manjackson2772]

@@Vingul lmao no he ain't. check out vaush's video on him

[@rogergarcia7651]

But why tho? I haven't seen all the video but quartering never really seemed like this far-right reactionary I believe he's said in videos before 2020 he's a liberal guy and I don't doubt it I'm Republican and he doesnt seem to fit in with my type of group yet I can agree with him?

[@ryanofottawa]

Without subscribing to too much nostalgia, I miss the 8-bit sewer days (appreciation for the 3D artist's work notwithstanding)

[@Laurell_Silentshade]

So according to PragerU instead of an artistic golden age we are having an artistic golden shower. Okay.

[@JediMB]

In my experience with them, people who rant about SJWs are almost guaranteed to have antisemitic attitudes.

[@marcello7781]

I used to watch a lot of those "anti-SJW pop culture channels" (until a year ago), just because I used to enjoy mocking SJWs, until I started noticing how most of their views seemed to always involve some sort of conspiracy from "the Left" or "Cultural Marxism" (not to mention the comments). Antisemitism has its roots in conspiracy theories since the Middle Ages, and particularly in" modern" days (over a century ago) with the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the forgery that inspired Nazi propaganda's "Judeobolshevism" concept, which is the precursor of all the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy unironically believed by that crowd.

[@82Jaster]

Yeah, it's more or less a cover for their own hatred. The same crowd was recently losing their shit because of all the companies coming out in support of Black Lives Matter. And they're particular hostile toward women becoming more involved in gaming/featured in games. Unless those women are specifically catered toward them in design (like 2B or PSone-era Lara). Otherwise they lose their shit. You can see that with how they reacted to Tifa's breasts size in the FF7R remake, or the fact that Jill's classic RE3 outside is now designed as shorts so they can't get upskirts of her when she's crawling. Really tells you everything you need to know about that crowd.

[@jackgarcia5926]

@@82Jaster to be fair, I wasn't a fan of either of those redesigns either and my beliefs don't even remotely align with theirs. I just really dislike their 3D models.

[@Sl1mch1ckens]

And they are always the exact same sensitive snowflakes they complain about. Like how your gonna call other people overly sensitive when you cry about things being taken out of tv shows you dont watch...sounds pretty over sensitive to me.

[@JediMB]

@@jackgarcia5926 As far as aesthetics go, I'm personally a big fan of Lara's redesign, and I loved seeing how much of an archeology nerd she is. BUT, as of the end of the second game, I'm pretty disappointed with how the reboot had both handled her as a character and the focus on gunning down paramilitary religious zealots. I'd much prefer globetrotting adventures and interesting puzzles.

[@muffininorbit]

The thing I find silliest about the outrage towards some of these examples (Looney Tunes, Sesame Street) is that the people mad about these changes seem to have entirely lost sight of that these editorial decisions are being made with child audiences in mind. It seems to have entirely slipped their notice that they are no longer the target demo and their enjoyment of them is irrelevant in every possible sense. Like I have fond memories of cookie-monster too but if you ever actually spend any time caretaking a child, it's pretty obvious why adults would choose a character less prone to whipping-up unhinged cookie-lust in children. I thought the same thing about when they cast a black Ariel in the LM remake. All these adults in an absolute dither about their memories being "betrayed," but this movie is literally NOT FOR THEM. Like some of the kids seeing the new LM will be seeing that version first, and it will be their definitive version. Whereas people who first saw the Japanese Animation Disney ripped-off in the first place, will certainly see that as the definitive or original version. Children now are having their own unique childhood different from our own, that they will grow-up to be nostalgic about.

[@righteouself9928]

I agree with you completely but I hope your nor refering to the kimba "controversey" there when you talk about disney ripping of japanese animation. If you do might I direct you to YMS video about it? I know this comment is a year old and you might have already changed your mind about but on the off chance rhat you didnt...... Just hate missinformation is all

[@rcengineer]

I have nostalgia, although I can't imagine how wanting Windows XP back could be used to justify bigotry.

[@upsidedownmussolini6832]

I prefer MS-DOS :D

[@doozy5184]

True.

[@ayawazzaa]

"I get mad if DC comics makes a bad editorial decision, which means I'm always kinda mad" Jfc Matt I've never related to something so much as a Green Lantern fan

[@JimmyNails27]

Yeah, I laughed out loud as DC fan myself.

[@calumhouston3308]

Can you fill me in on why you didn't like doomsday clock? Curious cause i really enjoyed it, but I've only heard people criticizing it who haven't finished it. Big gl fan too :)

[@ayawazzaa]

@@calumhouston3308 Oh it's not doomsday clock I have beef with, I remember some of it but not much. It's just for all I enjoy Green Lantern I have to sift through so many plotlines involving HAL JORDAN, ULTIMATE LANTERN to get to fun stories about an inter-galactic organisation trying to operate literally everywhere. Like, one of my pet peeves when I talk to friends about GL is that the first few human Lanterns that come to mind for me are always North American, which is getting better with representation in Baz and Cruz etc, but I just want them to take more advantage of their premise

[@mphylo2296]

As a Nightwing fan I know the pain too well

[@rodney2x48]

*cries in Superman fan* Being a DC reader is suffering.

[@harrynac6017]

Booktitle by Simone Signoret "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be" 😁

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

My favorite thing is when these neckbeards talk about how people should stop inserting politics in like Fallout New Vegas or Metal Gear Solid.

[@evanbradley6169]

My favorite is when they say it about Star Trek, because that has always been a series of political/moral allegory.

[@someonerandom8552]

These guys are the walking definition of r/whoosh!

[@rogergarcia7651]

What's wrong about keeping politics out of video games?

[@aitor.online]

@@rogergarcia7651 because video games are art and art is inherently political even when not delivering an overt political message. unless you're only playing tetris its pretty much impossible to "keep politics out of games"

[@rogergarcia7651]

@@aitor.online your right its art but I disagree in it being inherently political super Mario isnt political plants vs zombies isnt political it became political because people wanted to send out a message granted they are well with in their rights to do so subnautica has a anti gun message very beginning of the computer tells u about the knife and how guns were banned after a mass murder and it's a good game but my issue is when it's not just a subtle message or scene my issue is people wanting to inject overt politics in video games games are meant to be fun and relaxing heck maybe even educational but its frustrating when things like warhammer or battlefield break the lore or history to be woke

[@steezbuscemi]

I call this the member berry effect Edit: to be serious as a self identified gaymer and a leftist i find myself to be in a constant juxtaposition

[@lydiafayre9806]

Similar for me. I was obsessed with Dragon Age in the phase right before the rise of gamergate. I was active on the bioware forums, which soon between a battle zone in the culture war. It was kind of surreal. Posters I'd been acquainted and friendly with steadily became more and more radicalized.

[@CERTAIND00M]

My buddy's twitter handle is: @Gaymer I think you two would get along.

[@brendanmccabe8373]

There’s a difference between a gamer and a gaymer one is for cool people the other doesn’t have a y

[@vesuvanprincess]

You're not alone, Gaymers unite! 😝

[@a.n.l.aantineoliberalismas4504]

@@vesuvanprincess ok you do that

[@gaminggaming6845]

"everyones going to piss on each other" Sounds like a Saturday night for me tbh

[@shaddupjunge9852]

do you wanna be piss bros

[@WannabeMarysue]

you can piss on somebody while social distancing 😊

[@robbaldwin2402]

Utmost decadence

[@quedielzy8579]

@Flux Incapacitator You took it too far man

[@WannabeMarysue]

@Flux Incapacitator What beautiful aim! So romantic! I envy what you two have!

[@rayafoxr3]

Honestly I'm happy to be corrected about the meaning of nostalgia? "The pain of homesickness" just hits way closer to home and honestly sounds cooler, in my opinion

[@cpl.geckell6355]

The second he even said Scatalogical I could hear "Urine and Feces" in my head

[@thevioletbee5879]

I remember that phase I had where I unironically watched The Quartering... I lost life privileges.

[@Protomanbeawsome]

whats that anime from?

[@thevioletbee5879]

@@Protomanbeawsome I have no idea.

[@nathanaelwaters2509]

I watched two of there videos and then saw them rant at magic the gathering for making amminatu a black kid. I immediately dropped that bull shit

[@naikigutierrez4279]

Protomanbeawsome Show by Rock.

[@dm7626]

@brandon roberts I liked kalvin, the poor boy's reverse Blaire, so solidarity

[@OmegaGuess]

Confederate Statues go down: BUT HOW WILL THE CHIDRENS LEARN TEH HISTORIES?! CRT being proposed: NO, NOT LIKE THAT!!!

[@DamonXWind]

Them: 'member the good ol' days Me: no :)

[@steezbuscemi]

Member berries

[@granudisimo]

@@steezbuscemi "Member stormtroopers?" "Yeah I member!!" "I mean, the reeeeeal, stormtroopers"

[@aneutralopinion1712]

Legit a ton of stuff milenials feel nostalgia for gen z does too

[@steezbuscemi]

granudisimo nazi berries

[@granudisimo]

@@steezbuscemi member simpler times??

[@DarkChaoticGamer]

"Too toxic for the MTG community" I looked at that for a minute, because I can not find the words to express how impossible that sounds.

[@Jerjare]

His table flipping power... It's over 9000!

[@JoshuaRellick]

He wasn't banned by the community. He was banned by the company that makes the game, which is very left wing.

[@DK-zl5gb]

Joshua Rellick you seem to be jumping on every comment here pushing bad lies. Are you actually Quartering? Lol that would be pathetic and 100% believable

[@DhaniNMarie]

The Quartering is Matt Walsh if Matt Walsh wore exclusively Rick and Morty and/or deathcore band tees, ate an extensive amount of Taco Bell, and frequented Gamestop and comic book stores on the sole purpose of being a gatekeeping asshole.

[@CreeperKiller666]

"Jedi's are cops!" Eh, I think they're more like historical Roman Catholic Inquisitors, given their open and overt ties to the religious establishment of their setting. Not that that makes them any better, in fact quite the opposite!

[@Reverse_Hood]

Better than the Sith, straght up edgelord nazis

[@CarrotConsumer]

@@Reverse_Hood Yeah, maybe using the Jedi as an example of a bad authority isn't the right move when they literally fight the most evil people in the universe.

[@Schnokers]

@@CarrotConsumer Not counting any expanded universe stuff, If a Jedi is born then they either get recruited into the space fascist or status quo bootlickers.

[@sofieselene]

I mean, the Jedi definitely have problems, but they at least seemed to generally act to stop evil. Same can't be said for the inquisition

[@StainlessHelena]

The prequels do show but not exactly highlight the flaws of the Jedi. The Jedi are in some sense complicit in the Anakin's turn to the dark side. He is told time and time again that emotions are bad and that he needs to suppress them. As somebody who has had a number of emotions in my life, I know that that doesn't work even if they weren't as severe as grieving over your dead mother, having to suppress your affection for some you love and fearing for the life of that person. You need a way to address, express and work through them that isn't hurtful to you or others. If that is denied to you, you may not be able to bottle it up forever and options outside of what is acceptable become more and more appealing, if they promise a release from the suffering. Palpatine listened to Anakin's worries, made him feel like he cared about him, and promised him a way to save his wife. Emotional distress makes you open to be manipulated by those that have your trust. Palpatine exploited the flaws of the Jedi to turn Anakin to the dark side. Popculture Detective has a good video on this.

[@TheBlarggle]

I genuinely don't understand how so many of them claim to "Love the old Star Treks" but constantly rail against the social politics of the old Star Treks. And it sucks that the new ST series both suck. Because it gives them ammunition to attack it for being "SJW" even though Star Trek has always been.

[@Knightmessenger]

Sometimes a new show does "sjw" values poorly or badly written. The star wars sequels were an example of this, they werent well thought out and I think they actualy did a disservice to feminism. The Last Jedi seems more like it was written by a men's rights activist as a warning about what feminism will really lead to. If you like Star Trek but think the current shows dont hold up, try The Orville.

[@wetroomba6563]

I love disco, personally. and that gets used against me in many "normal" trekkie groups. They also don't want to talk about the problems that old trek had, like how Klingons in TOS were often put in dark face paint. Or god forbid you criticise anything about TNG 😑 but they're more than willing to dunk on Sisko and Burnham. Really dinks your dink I guess.

[@valenluca3253]

knightmessenger Isn't that assuming?

[@Eronicavel]

The current people behind the new Star Trek shows are under the belief they are actually writing for Warhammer 40K. Star Trek has always been progressive (though often rocky) but it was always ultimately the strive for a better future. Not so with the new shows...

[@blixer8384]

The old star trek does have its problems. The Federation can come off as imperialists and militaristic at times due to the fact that Federation had a tendency to employ gunboat diplomacy because well Star Trek was in part based on the Horatio Hornblower series which follows the British Royal Navy in the early to mid 19th century. And the Royal Navy was the main enforcer of British Imperial and Colonial Power. Which honestly I’m fine with, it’s fine to consume media that doesn’t perfectly align with our political views because there’s no such thing as perfect media. Just so long as we know what we’re consuming and the effects it could have on us.

[@vito]

That Chrono Trigger battle music is a bit too intense for that one section. I'd use it only for brief punctuation, not long stretches

[@trevler]

Right! Chrono Trigger. I couln't place the fight music but it was suuuper familiar. Thank you!

[@ChavvyCommunist]

What CT battle music? You mean the Yoshi's Island final boss music?

[@michakozowski6026]

Nice. I am really into vikings, among other things, but I rarely wear my Thor's Hammer necklace, because I don't want people to think that I am a nazi.

[@Vingul]

Mjöllnir has nothing to do with nazism, moron

[@MaRtiDom21]

The symbol ITSELF is not a hate symbol. However, many white supremacist have appropriated the symbol for its "link" to their proud "heritage". Though the symbol is prevalent in pagan circles of the sort (especially those lowlife NS Black Metal scum), the Mjollnir is being adapted by all sorts of White Supremacists, such as losers from the American National Front and the Heathen Front. Hell, cross-burning Klansmen are starting to adapt that shit.

[@coldfrost3]

@GazB WS grabbed it as part of their claim that all the "greats" of the past are part of their heritage.

[@someonerandom8552]

Try being a Hindu in the West mate. One of my cousin’s is actually called Swastika (for the Sanskrit meaning of “conductive of good fortune”) and it is an auspicious and very sacred symbol to us. For obvious reasons we always refer to my cousin with a different nickname when in public. Thankfully the Nazi scum who stole it, turned it on an angle. So at least we can have plausible deniability when displayed at a house of worship. Seriously though, fuck Hitler and his Nazi thugs. Ruined all sorts of perfectly good symbols if you ask me.

[@michakozowski6026]

@@Vingul well, sure it doesn't. The issue is that far right racist extremists appropriated this symbol and thus many members of the public make this false association. I wish it wasn't the case.

[@Tacklepig]

I love this video so much. Being a far left guy who loves nostalgia in video games and art, is very much into ancient cultures and mythology and also big into lots of nerd culture things can be quite hard sometimes, especially because there's so many douchenozzles out there using these exact things I love as ammunition for the exact fucking opposite of my politics. For example, I actually remember first hearing about The Quartering as a Magic the Gathering youtuber, and I watched his content for quite a while because Magic the Gathering is pretty much my favorite game in the world...until the whole harassment thing happened and kinda showed how horrible he was. I also remember getting into some anti-sjw youtubers back when gamergate happened, because I actually thought that "ethics in games journalism" was a good thing to fight for, and since I stay off social media a lot, I didn't notice the harassment campaigns behind this shit (yes, I'm being serious, it's quite possible to not hear about these things). I feel like it's way past time that there's more GOOD political takes on nerd culture stuff. And not the "thing X is problematic because of Y" kind of takes (because those imo give too much ammunition to the right, and they make us seem like obnoxious spoilsports), but rather the kind like you delivered in your Batman video, or the Bioshock thing you did with the Serfs recently - the positive takes on how some pop culture stuff can be inspiring to us ideologically.

[@82Jaster]

I think the issue with nostalgia in gaming is that people are nostalgic for things that never existed in the first place. In particular the people that talk about how they miss the days when games weren't political. Like the original Sonic the Hedgehog was political. Yuji Naka has talked about how he wasn't comfortable about talking about his political views in real life, but games gave him an opportunity to do that. So he puts his beliefs about environmentalism into the game. It's not even really subtle about it given that Sonic is saving animals from cages and the main villain is a guy ruining environments with all the machinery he's obsessed with. And that's a 2D platformer from the 16-bit era that really doesn't even have an in your face story. Politics have always been part of gaming, just like it's part of any other medium. It's only natural for people to pull from their own views when crafting something.

[@antifascistamerican3782]

82Jaster Sonic CD is an even greater example, with it’s Good and Bad futures.

[@lloroshastar6347]

I'm a white cis-hetero British guy who has been driven to become more left wing over time (especially recently) due to how horrifying and dreadful the centre right and far right have been in recent years and most importantly in recent months. The other reason I am turning this way is because I escaped my tiny bubble of a small Conservative town full of white people and actually started to meet people who were demonised by the right and discovered they were just regular people and not crazy radicalists like the MSM told me.

[@targaghjj]

"This whole rant is just a knee-jerk impulse" describes the right's position on anything you can possibly think of.

[@motorcitymangababe]

As a norse pagan this hits in a probably unintended way. Great video.

[@rampantmutt9119]

Er du fra Skandinavien eller Island?

[@taylordinney1484]

Genuine question here. Why even be a norse pagan and what parts do you believe? Do you believe the earth is made from Ymir's corpse? Was there ever a serpent that circled the earth? do you think there is a wolf that will one day eat the sun? Are you going to force someone to kill you in combat so you can get to heaven? The ancient pagan religions also miss out on the whole moral and societal conduct aspects of the codified faiths that wiped them out, so i am extremely curious as to what a modern person gets out of them.

[@papermach2332]

Hot take Being a norse pagan is the ultimate cringe nostalgia.

[@motorcitymangababe]

@@papermach2332 it can be. Ive seen a few people where i def wanna tell them to calm themselves- we arent modern day vikings from the capital one commercial.

[@PeterG00000]

@transylvanian Gotta toss those catholics on the fire during the blots, gives you strong street cred

[@MILCHMONSTER3D]

from the little i know of the mtg community, getting banned for being too toxic is an achievement to behold

[@JoshuaRellick]

Not really. The people who make the game are very left wing. They regularly ban people.

[@valenluca3253]

@Joshua Rellick You think anyone on MTG banning someone regularly is a leftist? That's ridiculous. There has to be more nuance to it than a lite context your making out off.

[@Speaknspell]

@@valenluca3253 Oh there is. Yeah, Jeremy stirred up trouble within the MTG community. He got a bunch of official tournament judges fired. These specific judges also happened to be convicted sex offenders, many of which were convicted of crimes involving kids. There's your context to the situation. Though he brought this to the attention of WotC, my understanding is that they didn't want to do anything about it as to not be embarrassed by the fact that they didn't even vet these... people... that would be working around minors at tournaments with their name and logo slapped all over it. Jeremy, rightfully, didn't let it go, and they ended up banning him, trying to sandbag him with whatever malarkey they could drum up from from anecdotal "evidence" from someone's friend's uncle's sister's next door neighbor. I know he had beef with some cosplayer where he was acting like an ass but he owned up to it and squashed it long ago. Terrible guy.

[@iantaylor3359]

He got zero judges fired. He was suspended for sexual harassment.

[@leXie1337_chan]

4:30 or so... I relate to that feeling so hard. I'm not just a leftist, but also a trans woman. Despite a setting like Battletech embracing the likes of me in the lore, the chuds, grognards, and nerdlords do not.

[@jamesshepard3]

I would trade Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Lord of the Rings to get rid of racism.

[@universalperson]

I'd trade Madoka Magica. It's what the character herself would do.

[@52flyingbicycles]

Thankfully, we don’t have to!

[@terpsidance.]

Aang graciously accepts his fate, Tolkien, not so much...

[@itzpatrick2450]

@@universalperson Nah I would like my favorite magical anime girl in here please.

[@sandearcubus9299]

I mean, I'd too, but maybe the other Avatar (the blue people one) and the Hobbit movies would do it as well? We can still bring the bigger guns if that doesn't work.

[@blackbox8490]

Side track: I love pixel art so much and I am too young to have ever played the snes and genesis. I just love history. I think your pixel art was really nice :) I love especially pc98 art but just a warning, a lot of it is NSFW. I particularly like the work of data erase. Speaking of nostalgia, I kind of have some soviet aesthetic nostalgia due to the leftovers of the USSR in my country. I use it as a way of building solidarity with my eastern European comrades, instead of as a way of saying that this was ok. My primary school was a former military base and while I think the regime was abhorrent, I just like the aesthetics due to my upbringing in a soviet era building, with an old military base as my school. It really is weird how our childhoods shape our views of things so much.

[@BdR76]

I bet the Far-Right nostalgia dude liked the original *GhostBusters movie* better, but just because the movie is very pro-private-sector and the bad guy is the EPA.

[@mattshaw5179]

I'm over the moon that they've removed guns from loony tunes, anything that upsets arseholes is ok by me!! Great video, keep up the good work!

[@Azraleee]

Don't stoop to their level. They get off on anything that "triggers" "Lefties". Be sad for them, that they are unable to feel joy from anything that doesn't distress other people.

[@alexwalters7719]

When that prager u clip played, I reflexively broke out into a rendition of Leck Mich im Arsch by Mozart.