I’d actually hang that Thanos poster up. It’s so stupid I love it
Yikes. It’s only missing a Rick and Morty poster.
Great. I’m totally going to get criticized for my Gundam models.
If my Gundam models make me an incel, no one tell my kid*.
* (joke explained)
…since my child exists because of a time I was not celibate, and because my kid also loves Gundam models.
Joking aside, I’ve heard of a great toy collection on display getting someone laid, before. People like what they like.
I was joking a bit but I think they’re great in more than one way. It’s like once you start putting together MG or higher then it’s not just a toy anymore, especially if you start doing the modifications or lights. It helped me with mobility when I broke a couple fingers last year. The funny thing about gunpla is I was shopping in Akihabara and there were Japanese businessmen buying them, and I mean with grey hair. Even the clerk, who also was older, was like ‘oh Gundam’ heh
Next time I go, I will get as many special editions as possible.
Hey at least there’s posters on the wall and an attempt to make the space livable! And he offered her a cold drink!
I loved hanging out with the single bachelors in my slut phase, but good lord, most of those guys were very content with a single chair and a TV in their apartment and only those things.
Have to admit, before I wanted a partner, I needed to build a proper “nest” to impress any potential mates. Got a home theater setup. All the right accoutrements and candles. Nice dishes, furniture, the works. I had designs to slay so much after I was done with the place. The only person I ever brought home ended up marrying me.
Before that? Mattress on the floor. One desk and chair for the computer. Didn’t even have a TV.
This is the advice men need to hear. Cleanliness and a hand towel go a long way, too. Also no one wants to fuck in a smelly apartment, clean your damn cat box.
A trashcan in the bathroom let me know my husband was the one.
That’s kinda bleak
How do people both simultaneously shame men for understanding and not understanding women’s needs?
I think this more of a bar in hell thing. Who wouldn’t have a trashcan in the bathroom? A demon.
I mean I dunno but I’ve had a trashcan in every room rule since I left home so maybe I am the problem. The bathroom ones got a removable sleeve so I can empty it into the big trash can to make it slightly easier to clean but that’s more a recent thing it’s not rocket science.
Sorry I meant it as a comment on the state of men not the person I replied to
I did not take it as a comment on me! Or him, as he had the trashcan. And other qualities! It was mostly silly on my part, but it did inform me he thought about guests.
What was in it?
19 years later, I don’t fuckin remember. He probably had emptied it and put in a clean bag before I came over, statistically!
Before that? Mattress on the floor. One desk and chair for the computer. Didn’t even have a TV.
It can be very practical to live like that when you’re on your own! I get it haha.
The only person I ever brought home ended up marrying me.
Damn, maybe you found your alternative career if the current one fails!
Damn, maybe you found your alternative career if the current one fails!
Maybe it is genetic. My uncle did interior design for a living. To be honest, it was both difficult and easy at the same time because I knew what kinda colors I liked but needed to pick a scheme that said “responsible adult you want to fuck”. What’s hilarious is that my partner and I am not home decorator people. Current home is definitely not something you’d see in a magazine. It was easy to spruce up a little studio apartment, more effort when the space is a lot bigger lol
If they didn’t care about home décor and just wanted to get laid, and the lack of home décor didn’t prevent them from getting laid, it sounds like they had things figured out pretty well.
Two way street - I wanted to get laid and the lack of home decor didn’t prevent me from riding that dick hahaha. Win win!
At least the lack of decorations helped hide any concerning fandoms!
Indeed, and it’s a good reminder that trying to improve myself based on the things that women complain about in their sexual partners is like armoring up combat aircraft based on the bullet holes in the ones that come back. It took me way too long to figure that out.
My mother filled my apartment with furniture and nice pictures. Made me look normal. I never understood why until my eventual wife came over and then moved in. The space is very important
My partner is rather autistic and part of that is not caring about how his surroundings look. Very practical person. He doesn’t understand why I like having our house decorated, but he does understand that it makes me happy and he likes when I’m happy. It works out nicely sometimes!
Sounds like you got free reign on decorating the house, win win
An unexpected, but pleasant surprise!
My ex had very strong opinions about how our house should look - strong enough to push all of my wants out of the way - so this is a nice soft place to be in the aftermath :)
Furniture-wise, what are we even looking at, though?
I think I see a dresser on the left and a green couch on the bottom right that appears to be pointed at a randomly placed refrigerator. Maybe it’s a bed, but I think the shape is more like a couch. So, that’s furniture from a bedroom, a living room, and a kitchen, all in one room.
Even for a studio apartment, this would be a very weird arrangement of furniture.
“Come, sit on this couch so we can stare at my refrigerator.”
The couch could be pointing the opposite way to face something on the left side of the door past the key holder, like a wall mounted sword
LOL wall mounted sword. Too accurate.
It’s not that we were content, it’s simply what we could afford.
That’s the reality of late stage capitalism, it can take years until you can save enough money for the basics. I couldn’t afford a couch until I was 30! Until then I had to put up with lawn chairs and bean bags. My credit card limit was only $500 when I was young, and we didn’t have Affirm yet because it was the early 2010s; if I didn’t have the cash, I couldn’t buy it! So needless to say, decorations aren’t exactly the priority when you can’t even afford furniture!
It’s not that we were content, it’s simply what we could afford.
Nah, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m not separate from these bachelors that I was seeing, I’m not independently wealthy because I kept more than 1 towel in my apartment, and I’m the same age as them.
These were deliberate choices to keep things very minimal without any thoughts to having guests over.
As much as I loved Heath Ledger’s Joker on screen, seeing it on anything else is so cringe. I know at least 2 people with Joker tattoos and they are exactly the kind of person you would assume.
I remember going to a convention the year after The Dark Knight came out and there were so many dudes dressed up as Nurse Joker and I can’t help but think that many of them were just aching for the opportunity to do a little cross-dressing.
Wanna know how I got these scars? Top surgery.
Which is just extra ironic
“Fight” and then take all his beer. Simpow as.
And that sweet joker poster
Can’t tell if this is worse or better than my shit. How much worse are flags compared to this, most of them are fallout related none of them are WW1 or 2 related though I do want a Ukrainian anarchist flag.
I had an ex-girlfriend who had grown up in her father’s antique shop and inherited all his shit when he died. Watching Antiques Roadshow with her was a trip because she knew the value of everything almost to the exact dollar. However, this had greatly distorted her perception of the acceptability of some things. She had an authentic “Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer” poster from the 1930s and I had to convince her that she couldn’t just put that shit up over her mantelpiece and expect to have friends.
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Fun fact I been using some variant of vaultdweller 13 as a username since I was 12 since I played NV fell in love and then played 1 and 2 and got an isometric rpg addiction. Sadly unlike other classic Fallout fans I am neither a Slavic millennial or trans so I have little to distract from the isometric rpg withdrawal symptoms.
Atom RPG, wasteland 3, etc. Not as old school isometric, but the vibe is almost there. I do miss the quirky humor, though. It is a shame the TV show is as campy as it is. Fallout 4 was all the dumb mechanics that weren’t the game. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll ever get a NV2 or the vibe of NV set in a different location.
Too late played through those games, I require more. I’ve also played through Wasteland 1 in a deluded fevor state when I got covid.
Also yeah I doubt we’ll ever get a NV again especially with how Bethesda seems dead set on doubling down on the camp, which is honestly a shame because for all its flaws Fallout 3 has a pretty good balance of goof and grimness. Maybe we could get something akin to that if Owlcat were to make a post apocalyptic game since they do 40k pretty well without too much grimderp encroachment. Also play Roguetrader and Wrath of the Righteous if you haven’t, real fucken solid games and don’t worry about the devs being Russian they fucked off to Cyprus early in the war.
Also play Roguetrader and Wrath of the Righteous if you haven’t, real fucken solid games and don’t worry about the devs being Russian they fucked off to Cyprus early in the war.
See, this is why I love fedi. Thanks for the recommendations!
No problem, frankly speaking they are not given nearly as much credit despite being really solid devs since their games are relatively linear at least compared to what they are inspired by. Honestly I don’t really mind since too many CRPGs have a bit too much openness resulting in a confusing experience like their first major game Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Also they are making a Dark Herasy game which is neat, hope it has an All Guardsman Party reference.
Also another recommendation I forgot about, Arcanum it was made by the same devs as Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines who also happened to be Interplay alumni meaning it’s got the same weird crackhead energy as Fallout 2 but instead of the Enclave being obviously based off of the Nazis you get literal 19th century steampunk eugenics. Games great 10/10 will shoot wizard with elephant gun again.
Ukrainian anarchist flag?
“Death • to all, who stand in the way of freedom for working people.”
“Смерть • всiм, хто на пиришкодi добутья вильностi трудовому люду.”Oh, yeah. Seems like Ukrainian did changed slightly from this times, hehe. But this one is not that highly known or popular, I would say. You here can much often hear about УПА and Правий Сектор.
Why write it in Cyrillic if majority of people can’t read it, and even those that know Cyrillic struggle to read it effortlessly. You could just say UPA and Right Sector, both are recognized English translations that have a Wikipedia page. No meaning is lost by translating them from Ukrainian to English.
I don’t know how they are known in English speaking world, sorry! Also I think majority of people not interested in any of that, so we probably did not lose much in this case.
Ideology of УПА is atrocious, but i should give the respect for fighting both Nazis and Tankies. Wolyn massacre is also a really bad incident that shouldnt have happened. But to be fair, forceful assimilation, violance, hate, and even concentration camps for ukrainians in wolyn at the time are obviously going to spark a rage in ultranationalists, but at the same time doesnt justify massacre.
Specifically a rather famous design used by the Ukrainians during the Russian Civil War and more specifically their war of independence, while obviously not official because y’know anarchists it was wide spread enough to be a known variant. Though they also just sometimes flew a straight up black flag, though the one I want is the one with a skull and crossbones with words in Cyrillic that I cant read.
Can you perhaps send a picture it? I maybe remember seeing it somewhere.
Here it is.Ahh, okay, yeah.
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Fight. Gonna be a glass chin.
Are we sure there’s even gonna be a chin?
Fuck. They’ve evolved a natural immunity where instead of a chin it’s a ski slope .
But that just turns a chin punch into a throat punch…not a very good defense mechanism.
Armored vehicle designers learned this decades ago
Punch them in the neck.
Maybe he could borrow him his chin? What do you think Ash?
Poster child for the horrible dangers of inbreeding right there
I’ll bite. Clueless. What is the joke?
It’s the guy version of “Live Laugh Love” and stuff. Run.
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It’s bad to like marvel movies?
No, and the Joker movies were also good. They have just become associated with the “red pill” corner of internet subcultures.
Depicting Thanos as a role model is part of liking Marvel movies?
That does look more like a shitpost than something people who actually believe in that nonsense would put up.
While I agree, characters in one frame comics like this aren’t usually trying to be subtle or fly under the radar when demonstrating their values.
Outside of memes I genuinely don’t know anything about Thanos. Is he good or bad? What does him being on a poster mean
In a recent Marvel movie arc, he tries to “save” the universe from suffering and conflict and insufficient space/resources by indiscriminately deleting half of all life in the universe with a snap of his fingers using a super powerful artifact.
Never understood if you could snap half the life away, why not just double the resources or improve the efficiency of existing resource utilization? What a stupid, small brained solution to reach for when you’re tapping omnipotence. Especially because it doesn’t solve the problem because life fucks and makes more life! Fuck I hate what comic book movies became.
It’s even dumber because most life on earth (and presumably in the universe) is single-celled. They generally reproduce so quickly that you’d make up that 50% culling in less time than the fucking movie takes.
Never understood if you could snap half the life away, why not just double the resources or improve the efficiency of existing resource utilization?
Because he doesn’t actually care about any of that, he just wants to prove that his original plan would have worked.
So when Thanos was younger, his planet was faced with overpopulation. He proposed that half the population should be killed at random, so that the other half could have all the resources. Of course, he was called crazy, but the planet ended up dying of overpopulation anyway, which convinced Thanos that he was right all along.
So his whole reason for comitting mass genocide is all so he can point and say, “See, I was right!”
Thanos is called “The Mad Titan” after all.
I’m sure I’ll be easily shown to be wrong, but I assumed that it’s because the universe’s mass is finite and that the all-powerful infinity stones only freely manipulate the substance of the universe, and therefore work with limited material. In that case, doubling resources in one place means repurposing equivalent mass from other areas.
The other problem is how you implement this solution across the universe: do you re-engineering biological systems to be twice as efficient? Do you double the input energy? What about non-biological resources: do you speed up geologic processes? Do you simply increase the size and mass of each world and assume twice the resources are available and accessible? How deep of an understanding of each ecosystem is needed to account for all potential target populations, and can a single mind hold all that information in place while giving the infinity stones such a command?
Most pertinently, Thanos was a cynic. He didn’t trust any higher lifeform to not ultimately be shortsighted and selfish, and so his brute force solution was a culling.
Or simply make all life half the size.
Could you imagine Earth if everything alive were like, 10% of its size? There would be so much space, so much room for resources to flourish.
So much distance between one country on one side of the planet and a country on the other side that wars between the two would be completely unfeasible.
And in the comic books he tried to do it to get laid. He’s really not a role model in any form
“Recent” is doing a lot of work here…
I uh… don’t think I’ve seen anything Marvel since then so I guess it feels more recent than it is lol.
Look at the text behind the dude
imo after a certain age, you should have better role models than thanos and joker
and better taste in decor
Approximately 6 yo
Not my cup of tea, but damn that just seems really judgemental.
Sometimes being judgemental is okay. Calling someone out for idolizing mentally unstable murderers is justified.
Feel like if it was mussolini or Trump this would be the message. It’s a cartoon character. Anyway, this thread is starting to feel silly. Thought I was missing the joke, I guess it just isn’t resonating.
While the Thanos bit might be artistic hyperbole, picking the Joker as a role model is more common irl than it should be, and is a legitimate red flag, considering that Joker stans tend to romanticize his relationship with Harley Quinn, which is very much an abusive, manipulative one.
When looking for a mature, emotional healthy & safe partner, Joker fans should be avoided at a costs.
Iirc, that particular Thanos poster was an incel talking point for a bit. Don’t think it’s just Thanos, it’s that particular image of Thanos
Dating is all about being judgmental - you’re looking for someone that’s compatible with you. A lot of people find idolizing the Joker and Thanos not compatible with them.
Some more context (I dunno if Thanos really fits this, but all those words on his poster do…)
They put Guts and Joker together and called it redeemable quality. This thing is rigged.
I think it’s bucking the trend of idolizing villains. Not to mention the sheer size of the posters, making them far too much of their identity. Also buying a gold KAWS figure for some ungodly price was a choice…
People are attracted to these characters because they are well written tortured souls not petty misanthropes. Joker suffers from untreated mental illness and an unrequited quest for acceptance that is relatable but something that most simply internalize and suffer with. Like Thanos there is an element of relatable humanity there but with which he reacts in the most horrible of ways.
Thanos seems almost doomed to exist. Someone or something keyed the universe to have an option to partially destruct. That this is possible via a specific programmed sequence of events implies that it was meant to happen at some point. Thanos feels the time is now - that survival requires this destruction and that he is called to enact it. Its intentionally unclear whether he is acting through evil or that his innate power calls upon him to bear a cross of necessity that serves a greater good through a horrible act.Also it’s just fun because they are make-believe, they aren’t hurting anyone or actively encouraging anyone to do harm. It’s like being repulsed by someone playing violent videogames - such a superficial empty judgment to pass.
Pretty sure you mean mocking, not bucking.
A gamer and a marvel fan? Get out as quickly as possible.
This comment came in at the same time as yours and answers your question lol
Does it though? What indicates gamer? I think it’s more about edginess and cringiness than marvel/gamer.
Oh ok, you’re purposefully being obtuse about this then lol
Yeah the implication is that it’s cringy.
what, it really does not indicate gamer
what, it really does not indicate gamer
What is wrong about gaming and marvel? I don’t really know much about marvel, gaming is surely such a wide thing how can that be a problem at all?
I married a man who likes Dragon Ball Z enough to have several of the mangas, so don’t get me wrong here. Some of this stuff doesn’t necessarily bother me personally, but there’s a certain reputation that fans of the Joker get and picking Thanos of all the Marvel characters is a choice.
Gaming is hit or miss - if someone is into gaming so much that all of their decorations are gaming related, it begs the question if they are willing to make enough time in their life for you around their hobby. And I say this as a gamer myself. It’s known to be a hobby that people dedicate a lot of time toward.
At least gamers have a hobby. I know a few people that just don’t have anything.
Oh I totally agree! I’m a gamer as well. It can be a deal breaker for some though. That’s all.
Almost bought a house from a guy but decided the prominently displayed oil painting of The Joker indicated he would not hesitate to fuck me over somehow.
Did he?
Leave.
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Who is the gold statuette with the Krusty hair?
Artist is named KAWS. The artist is a contemporary artist that uses brand icons, like the Mickey Mouse looking statue on the desk. It’s all very cheap and empty art that I guess some people eat up. He basically just slaps the stupid skull on everything and calls it “art”. Tons of merchandising, very capitalistic.
Ah, so I’m guessing he’s an Alpha artist because he’s commercially successful despite being artistically bankrupt, and that’s appealing to the chuds?
Pretty much.
It’s a reference to the artist KAWS, and this specific Mickey Mouse with X instead of each eye, is called Companion.
Thanks!
I read the Wikipedia article and it doesn’t mention social politics or why a chud would be into KAWS.
Anyone?
I updated my response to you, but the artist is very notoriously apolitical and really has no message behind their art. Their art basically only exists to sell collectibles and merchandise while appearing trendy. It’s all empty capitalistic garbage.
I didn’t recognize it but that’s because I forgot I read an article on this guy. Probably because he is forgettable. In fact I think this is at least the third time I’m reading about him and then forgetting he existed. Pop artist 60 years late to the pop art party, seem trying to get Beeple level attention but only willing to put Jeff Koons level effort into it. Annoyingly, with much success.
So now knowing who it is, that’s the third strike that sells the comic. He only has one figurine on display, and he probably wants to make an impression, so he thinks this one by a ‘cool subversive contemporary artist’ makes him look grown-up and a man of culture.
it could be worse. it could be jared leto’s joker and a funko pop underneath it.
Fire.
The irony of the Joker next to that Thanos poster. That poster is everything the Joker tries to burn to the ground.
Don’t worry - those who ascribe to alpha/beta/sigma mentality don’t know what cognitive dissonance is.
