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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by NIGHTBRINGER, Feb 10, 2019.

  1. Paradoxical Pacifism
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    Disney owns the rights to Wolverine now. Do you think they can handle it?

     
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    Doubtful.
     
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    Haven't they owned Marvel for several years now? I always thought that included the X-Men stuff.
     
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    In the 1990s, maybe the 1980s Marvel hit financial hard times Stan Lee parsed out Marvel's Intellectual Property. Sony bought Spiderman (and the Spiderman rogue's gallery which includes Venom), Fox bought the X-Men (and by extension Deadpool but they didn't use that IP till they saw Disney spinning C-list supers into blockbusters), and Disney got most everything else.

    EDIT: Fox bought the Fantastic Four too. I forgot about that because, like many others I've blocked out the memories of the Fantastic Four movies. My prediction is that Disney is not going to bother resurrecting the Fantastic Four in a live action format. I expect the Fantastic Four to pop up in some low budget animated form (it will probably be a pan-Marvel animated kid's show) if Disney+ survives long enough.

    Now Disney purchased all of Fox's assets lock, stock and barrel. Sony still has rights to Spiderman. They put Spiderman in the Disney Marvel EU as the result of lots of negotiations between Disney and Sony under terms that were very generous to Sony.

    There was a hiccup as Disney was like "You know how we are giving you most of the Spiderman money, we want most of the money!" and Sony was like "No, we want most of the money."

    They managed to reach a compromise because Disney needs to keep Spiderman as a mascot character, so fans don't walk away en masse from post-End Game MCU. Sony needs Disney because Sony's in house movie team has been creating flop after flop.

    Isn't it fun when giant corporations try to monetize the American mythos?
     
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    Sony did a great job with Into the Spider Verse at least. Probably the best Spiderman movie to come out of their studio.
     
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    Man, I'd love to see a box with Seraphon against Bonesplitterz...

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    YES PLEASE!
     
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    Seconded. I'd buy that.
     
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    Guys @NIGHTBRINGER has been gone for to long. His relationship to us is now similar to the old ones and the lizardmen. So likely to summon him back we need to invoke a bloody ritual involving the deaths of hundreds.

    anyone want to help me find the sacrifices?
     
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    Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed; courage to change that which can be changed, and wisdom to know the one from the other.

    The system isn't so bad, why fight it? The video is a good summary of that, if a bit over the top.

    I noticed that Taiwan's recent election took the CCP's crackdown on Hong Kong as a warning sign. Any politician that endorsed cooperation with mainland China got beaten down metaphorically speaking by their voters.

    There is another problem that seems to hit every political faction in every democracy and republic, if not every nation. Ideological purists.

    I tend to identify with Libertarians more than other political groups but purist Libertarian bother me a lot.

    "All taxation is theft. Therefore any government will lead to tyranny."

    Then they go into their little corner of the Internet and talk about how ideologically pure they are. They don't want to get into politics in any real measure because it would taint them. The idea is that if you don't pay your taxes, armed men will throw you in general. They don't see that as any different from mafia dons sending armed men to shake you down for money.

    I would be delighted to here your plan for a government without taxes. Google "Republic of Minerva."

    This is not unique to Libertarians. I've seen it among feminists, anti-feminists, animal rights activists, free speech activists, traditional conservatives, socialists, etc.

    "My perfect world is impossible to achieve, so I'm going to sit here and whine about it."

    The two biggest motivators to do nothing politically.

    "It's good enough as it is," and "Perfectionism is impossible don't bother."

    The other problem is this large problem is really hard to fight, so I'm going to focus on something much smaller. Like say banning plastic drinking straws.

    Nightbringer said he'd take a sabbatical after reaching 30,000 posts.
     
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    I hope he isn’t gone for to long, the meme supply is drying up!
     
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    A lot of the puritanical elements are prone to enforcing No True Scotsman fallacies to not only single out non-compliant associates but also to deflect fingers pointed at their own ideology's closet skeletons. This largely stems from people not liking the prospect of being proven wrong or fallible, especially when the thing that's being proven wrong is something that they believe to be an integral part of their identity.
     
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    What? Why? :cyclops: Have you no idea how useful those are for terrain building?
    :nailbiting:
     
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    Where did he say that?
     
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    Can't say I blame him for that I guess, I'll just have to rely on everyone else for my daily dose of vitamin Meme
     
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    Does anyone know where ^ this artwork was originally used?
     
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