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Vietnam won

My mistake

I get how you can make it but “not playing the game” isn’t something that you or I may do.

I agree. I don’t think any of us have an honest choice in the matter because there’s a large level of coercion behind social expectations. I should have used a different word than “choose,” but I actually think your insight makes my reading stronger.

Even if he did “choose” not to play, the movie doesn’t present a positive outcome for doing this.

Also, I love Tolkien, but his writing is full of analogies lol.

It’s a critique of masculinity, and it uses the knightly code as a way to explore the way that men enforce that code.

Gawain enters the fight against the green knight in order to build his name and get out from under the shadow of his father. Logically, he should strike the green knight non-fatally so that will be returned to him, but he knows that if he does that, the other knights will call him a coward. So he is pressured into entering this arrangement that he knows will kill him.

He’s then led around by a few female characters as represented by his mother’s green belt. He could accept the help of the women which will ensure he lives, but this would feminize him-- implying he cannot fulfill the role of his father.

The ending is critical because it calls into question what exactly honor is in this context. Yeah, he chooses not to live a life without “honor,” but he is not rewarded for it. He gets beheaded anyway because he was damned the moment he wanted to play the game.

In this case, I find it very important that the king outright told Gawain that it was all a game. He was pressured into playing it and following the rules. The movie is telling us that strict adherence to masculinity and patriarchy is self destructive.

Shit like this keeps happening and Iran just shows incredible amounts of restraint.

Meanwhile, the “only democracy in the Middle East” is allowed to act like a rabid dog.

I’ll give you Venusaur but Charizard is a dyed in the wool fascist.

The liberal model not working for a developing country?

“we’re gonna elect a conservative and then push him left by defending his every action tooth and nail and promising to vote for him in the future”

Incredible gullibility

They’ve reverted to a feudal mindset. The democrats have no obligation to their voters. Only the voters are obliged to swear fealty to the Dem candidate regardless of who it is and what they do.

“Well, we’re gonna lose the left vote because we love genocide, so we should start courting right wingers who are just going to vote republican anyway”

It’s normal.

Especially if you’re writing in a popular style, tons of musicians just use the same chord progressions over and over .

Once you start layering things on the melody, it’s pretty unlikely that it will resemble anything too closely.

As long long as you’re just using your own creativity, I think it’s very unlikely you’ll just clone a song.

If you’re really worried about it, you can just change a few notes in the melody on the page in a way that you wouldn’t think to sing “naturally”

Most of the lore is written about the Horus Heresy. From the point of view of humanity, it’s the worse thing to happen to the imperium, as it has not and will never recover from it.

There’s another human civilization called the interex that was basically the anti-imperium in that they were pluralist, secular, and sought peace within the galaxy. The imperium destroyed them, so it pretty much crushed any alternative system or hope in the universe, so that was pretty bad.

As far as actual body counts and gorey details? I don’t know, the eldaar, dark eldaar, old ones, and necrons are all pretty fucked up.

No, political is things that make me personally uncomfortable

China: we’re going to become a manufacturing machine for the world, but we’re going to use your investment, technology, and infrastructure to build up our country and eventually overtake you.

US capitalists: hah, yeah, sure. Would you look at these profit margins!?

In a lot of religious areas, you’re not allowed to buy religious iconography.

But if you make a set-price donation, they’ll give you religious iconography as a completely unrelated gift to recognize your piety.

I’ve been passively boycotting AAA games for years now because they all suck* and I don’t want to play them anyway

*Exceptions may apply

Final Fantasy Tactics posting, eh?

“Oh, you don’t want us to collectivize your land? Sorry, you can blame yourself or blame God.”

“So you’ve made your choice. Die in obscurity!”

When you understand Marxism and Stoicism

“because of the Suez situation, we have a lot extra shipping containers lying around. How can we sell them in a way that makes the world worse?”

My beautiful hexbears