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FakeGreekGirl

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She/they. Greek-American. Trying something new.

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FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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I mean, EA has sucked for a very long time. They bought a bunch of game studios back in the day, gutted them, and shut them down, including Origin, the studio responsible for the Ultima series, whose name EA then used for their Steam wannabe. And they ended the era of competing sports franchises by convincing multiple leagues to give them exclusive licenses.

FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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Me too. He was one of a kind.

FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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Not really sure. I did a reverse image search on it, but couldn't find results that showed someone I could credit. Mostly I turned up the comic being shared around social media (which makes sense, since that's how I came across it).

I did find something that credits Matthew Wisner, but I couldn't find a site for him or anything. If someone can link me to a page for his work or something, I'd love that.

EDIT: Should have looked a little longer, I suppose

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    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Fair warning, they don't take kindly to AI content around these parts, so I wouldn't expect this to stay up for long.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Fair, but I posted a thread with an AI picture that was actually making news (a diagram from a scientific paper that actually got published in a peer reviewed journal somehow despite the diagrams being bizarre nonsense), with a link to the news story in question, and that still ended up getting deleted. So, you know, don't get too attached.

    FakeGreekGirl , (edited )
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    I take it you don't know what Alvin and the Chipmunks was, and dear God, I'm old.

    EDIT: I suppose I should explain the premise then. It was a cartoon about these singing chipmunks that formed a band, and the episodes would often feature them performing pop songs. And their voices were pitched way up.

    Here's an example.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Who can tell with him?

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    It could be.

    It could be...

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Truth is, I'm likely going to end up voting for Biden in the fall, because for all his faults, he is infinitely better than Trump. But I want him to fucking sweat in the meantime. Because if he sweats, if he realizes he can't simply take the votes from the left for granted even as he gives nothing to us, maybe he'll fucking start giving something to us.

    I have no illusions that he'll do the right thing out of the goodness of his heart, but perhaps he'll do the right thing out of fear of losing.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Don't catch you slippin' now

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Who said Bee Movie was OK?

    Because that shit was very not OK.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    Apparently it's a real thing. The ad agency even won awards for it.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    I wish. This can is from the 90s

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    Indeed he did. The perfect ending to a legendary career.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    I mean, it's the best deez nuts joke possible.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    The Luddites weren't against technology. They were against technology taking their jobs.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    Isn't that why office chairs have wheels?

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    They are a real thing. I had one at a previous job

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    Indeed they are

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Or display ads on the screen to eke out a little extra cash?

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    One of my local markets (a Kroger brand) has these. They're even more unpleasant in person.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    IME, you don't get any more toxic elitists in Linux communities than in any other.

    The internet just kinda sucks.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    I mean, I do that.

    But I have these little chewable pills that help with that.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Honestly, it seems like Assistant was way better at this stuff before the AI craze.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    It used to support it though. I could tell it to remind me of something when I got home or something like that, and it'd pop up the reminder when the GPS coordinates matched up.

    No idea if they removed that functionality (you never know with Google), or if Assistant is just being shitty here. Either way, something changed somewhere along the line.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Tommy and Tawny come immediately to mind.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Hitting that Canadian kush, I see.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    Not just Marvel properties either. Jews pretty much invented superheroes, going back to Siegel and Shuster making Superman.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    There's been a lot of... discourse... around the fact that, in the new Disney+ X-Men cartoon, Morph is going to be portrayed as nonbinary.

    You can see a bunch of chuds raging about it if you go to YouTube and search for X-Men Woke

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    Yeah, of course, which is why this is all so baffling. Or would be, if anyone still expected the Culture Warriors™ to have a single clue what they're talking about.

    Also, in the comics, Mystique has been in a lesbian relationship with Destiny since the 80s, and Chris Claremont even planned at one point to have it revealed that Mystique had shapeshifted into a man and fathered Nightcrawler, with Destiny being his mom. That got nixed by the higher ups, but IIRC, the comics actually went back to that idea and made it canon recently.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    I think they're talking about the anti-"woke" chuds being antisemitic in this context. Which, they are; a lot of these fuckers believe trash like the Great Replacement Theory and even manage to tie in queerphobia into it (LGBTQ+ acceptance is a Jew plot to stop white people from breeding, don't you know).

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    Oh yeah, I've been on the receiving end of that myself. But I don't think that's what's going on here.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    She and Destiny were definitely an item as far back as I was reading (late 80s). I don't think they had officially tied the knot though.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    I think you misunderstand... God Loves, Man Kills is the title of an X-Men story from the 80s which centers on the X-Men fighting against a church that preaches anti-mutant bigotry.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    I saw that was a thing now, that Mystique and Destiny are now canonically Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, respectively. That's the kind of awesome weird shit that makes me want to get back into comics.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    Their backgrounds are very different, of course, but their ideologies were (loosely) modeled on those two, yes.

    Magneto tends to waver between mutant separatist and mutant supremacist, but he's very militant in his methods either way.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    They did manage a few good movies out of it. The first two X-Men movies were pretty good, as was First Class.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    He wasn't the son of Holocaust survivors, he was a Holocaust survivor himself. The comics back in the 60s even made him be a late bloomer so his magnetic powers could manifest in his captivity; most mutants get their powers during puberty, but his didn't show up until his 30s. The 2000s movies, of course, just had his powers manifest at the normal time, since they could manage that.

    I'm sure the MCU version will have to adjust that somewhat, since the timelines no longer quite match (unless they make him immortal or something).

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    I think that's it really. These people didn't understand the metaphors at play as children, and lack the capacity to reflect on what they enjoyed as children and realize that they grew up to be the villains.

    And, of course, there are plenty of bad faith actors who never watched or read X-Men in the first place and/or don't care about the messages it tries to convey, and just want something to be outraged about for attention.

    FakeGreekGirl OP ,
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    I mean, even those are political at times. There's a famous segment from an old episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood where Mr. Rogers washed the feet of his black mailman. That was intended as a pro-civil rights message; Fred Rogers wanted to communicate to the kids watching that nobody is superior to anybody else and we should all serve each other.

    Politics is a natural part of art, because art is about communicating our perspectives and politics are born from perspectives. Asking art to not be political is asking art to not communicate, which is basically asking art to not be art.

    FakeGreekGirl ,
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    Lots of wine comes with screw caps these days. The very high end ones don't, but in the low-to-mid range, it's not uncommon.

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