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A tense retrofuturistic survival-horror-esque game where you are a government agent sent to the moon to take control of a hippy-controlled moonbase that sits on some valuable mcguffin.

Basically Alien:Isolation or Routine but with hippies.

I want a survival horror game where you play as a hippie, and the combination of weed-induced paranoia and LSD-induced hallucinations adds to the scariness.

I don't see what is so hardcore feminist either...

It is the same old "Turning women into mothers and mothers only" thing.

After walking around the house for an hour and thinking, I do see why it's feminist in a way. The main reason I missed it the first time is because feminism itself, as a deeply fragmented and nebulous movement, is divided on the point I'm making: Fury Road is feminist because it lets women be uberviolent action heroes, and while this isn't exactly revolutionary it's done incredibly well.

First, I don't understand the analysis of the movie as "blaming toxic masculinity for the apocalypse", in particular. Immortan Joe, the other warlords, and their goons are all in it for resources and power, and the fact that they're all men basically seems like a reflection of the "survival of the fittest" nature of the wasteland ("biotroofs", as some people ignorantly call it) more than a deliberate effort to show the ebul paytreearkey.

There's never a hint that they do it because they're "manly", since the only "manly" trait I have ever seen attributed to "toxic masculinity" seems to be a propensity for violence and virtually all the good characters, male and female, are violent as well (Max, Nux, Furiosa, the battle grannies).

I now understand Anita's comment about women committing "masculine violence" but I disagree with it. She has some weird gender essentialist tendencies, which seems to be in conflict with common feminist thought, including among her own fans, that the key to gender equality is to stop arc-welding traits to genders. To me it seems regressive to assume violence is a "male" trait and I enjoyed it the same in this movie regardless of the gender of the person dishing it out, which is why I think it's done so well.

As for the question of violence itself: Obviously we don't want brutally violent road warriors in reality, but in the context of a fictional dystopia where violence is the norm it seems hard to criticize violence done for good reasons against people who are violent for evil reasons. And save for maybe the first film, Mad Max as a franchise, despite not falling into standard conceptions of science fiction or fantasy, is so clearly divorced from our own reality that anyone who seriously intends to go road warrior against the "bad guys" of 2015 Earth after seeing it probably is well.

Example question for our exam: explain what the letters in NMR stand for and discuss in sufficient detail what concepts lie behind them.

Gee thanks General vague, I'll get right on that, just gotta call a psychic first.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance? What class is this?

Good, the lower-res image will be easier to modify in MSPaint for ScanFad II.

I dunno Sergarr... This might be the kind of DM people write stories about for a good laugh.

I wonder if he is tolerable if you just kind of treat the game like a joke.

Agreed. Take copious notes so you can write a good greentext story later.

>He's probably too dumb to notice
>Hey Blackflyme what are those notes
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Not all SJWs are conspiracy theorists. Fundamentally, they mean different things.

However, some SJWs are conspiracy theorists, ranging from blaming every negative thing in their lives to cishet white patriarchy to claiming whitey fabricated the Bering Land Bridge Hypothesis to justify the genocide of Native Americans (even though this would imply Native Americans are a different species from the rest of humanity... hoo boy, it's 19th century scientific racism all over again)

Quote from: SealyStar on May 19, 2015, 04:11:39 pm

One more thought about 'punk types: what would one call a 'punk genre based on the period from the mid-60s (after atompunk) through the mid-80s (before cyberpunk)? Transistorpunk? For a less technologically-based name, rockpunk?

You know, what do you call the vacuum tube based?

To my understanding it's not really a separate type because the vacuum tube age was simultaneous with the "atomic age", so I'd call it atompunk.

Quote from: SealyStar on May 19, 2015, 03:13:23 pm

I expect people on this very forum will do the same,

Very unlikely, unless there's more to this than what we can tell from that imgur post.

I meant a few certain people, not the forum's members at large.
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