Alas. If NATO ever tries to take these things in to a shooting war the logistics train is going to collapse in a week.

Eew. A story about how evil and cruel America is doing a collab with a story justifying all of america’s evil and cruelty.

This is absolutely omnicidal insanity. The American regime is signing a writ of execution for humanity. Wet bulb events that can potentially cause mass casualty events, death at a level inconceivable even after Covid, are a reality right now and they’re doing trade protectionism to stop more efficient power generation. Madness. Unbelievable, inhuman madness.

Stephen King wrote “On Writing” about his process, might be worth looking up.

Grammar is iffy. English has so many contradictory rules, trying to approach it from a formal rules based prospective is very difficult.

King and I both agree on “just write whatever”. You might try picking a writer you like and re-writing part of their work. Try out different word choices, try to mix it up. Let their writing be a framework for you to play in and see what you can come up with.

You’re already making coherent posts that clearly communicate your question and the context in which you’re asking that question. You’re starting from a good place.

I like that analysis, thank you.

You love to see it. It’s wild how outright piracy has become a normal tool of international diplomacy.

It’s not not cyberpunk.

It’s close enough and shares enough of the same things to be analyzed as part of the genre.

I do think that to a large extent the big evil bowling ball of doom is supposed to abstractly represent capital or something adjacent.

Things like the depiction of the indigenous resistance movement as unsophisticated dupes and terrorists merits analysis; why did the French director depict them this way? How can this be a reflection of French colonial history? Same with the depiction of the white Archeologists and the presumably middle easter kid subjected to colonialism in the beggining though I think there’s less there.

Leelu can be analyzed through the “born sexy yesterday” trope and there’s a lot of questions to ask from a Feminist slant.

The movie actually acknowledges some of the harms and contradictions of capitalism, while underplaying others. Showing the relationship between Corben as a cabby working for Zorg and ultimately being one of the people who thwarts Zorg is nice.

The decision to never have the protagonists and the antagonists directly interact is a neat one and opens up some very good questions about narrative norms - turns out the hero doesn’t actually need to confront the villain!

It does have a lot of cyberpunk themes; mighty and powerful corporations and governments can’t save themselves so they need a working class guy and his weird buddies to save the world. The upper classes are depicted as a gaggle of decadent idiots who have no idea what’s happening, while the corporate leader is a hyper-competent bastard who completely understands all the harm his sytem causes and loves it.

And it’s also just a silly adventure film with lots of style and cool visuals and a sappy power of love resolution.

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Fucking collapsing under the weight of it’s own grotesque hunger.

Studying Democratic Party politics, huh?

Watch some videos of people visiting. You can literally travel there, and they have a semi-open border with China. Just gotta step out of your bubble.

The US is still at war with the DPRK. We’ve been in an armistice, a stalemate, for 70 years.

Is writing bots hard? We need this bot and the sartre antisemitism quote bot over on Hexbear.

I am three liberals in a trench coat and I’m ready to vote right now.

We’re a Citations Needed fan forum.

It’s true. I am the only true leftist in this miserable sea of liberalism.

We’re like Bane “The Venom is the only thing keeping him alive” levels of irony poisoned here. Add almost 7 years of in-jokes, memes, obscure conspiracy theories, and thousands of emojis and I can only imagine this place is a nightmare to navigate for visitors.

The 500-1k active Hexabarbearians are a plot to… uh… shit let me get back to you.

Check the lower right of this authentic vintage Frank terror meme. So many people just cannot accept how embarassingly sincere most of us are.

That’s awesome I didn’t know htat.