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One missing E can make a big difference...

Pretty funny analysis of Batman:

I don't get the joke the poster is trying to make.

If anything, naming a kit-kat knockoff Take-it sounds like it would encourage shoplifting.

I don't know why I find this so funny, but the sound it makes is just hilarious! 

This sums up most teachers I've had.

Funny or terrifying?

This is so accurate! 

In loving memory of Benoit Sokal

He's dead and this is how I find out?!   

[killed real people]

I find it hard to laugh at any of that knowing that Alec Minassian is a real mass murderer who's killed real people, and I find it in poor taste posting this as some funny anecdote on par with cartoon memes.

It's not a funny video either, it's not some comedy sketch, from what I've seen of it, it's a serious documentary/analysis on murderous incels, and their too real fantasies of murdering women, minorities, and LGBTQ people,
and I can't believe I'm the only one to get a knot in my stomach when seeing that presented as just some silly goof we're meant to laugh at.

This might be a bit presumptuous but I think the only reason you're the only one to get a knot in your stomach over it so far, is because no one else knows who he is, and didn't bother to click on the video. 

To clarify, I meant to say that I believed others, like me, would find this disturbing and distasteful, not that I think I'm the only one getting a knot in my stomach at seeing a real life murderer quoted in what's meant to be a joke thread.

And it's worth remembering that a big reason many incel mass killers and neo-nazis are able to go undetetcted until the moment they start murdering is exactly because people don't take them as a real threat and dismiss their words as just stupid and edgy jokes.

Funny pictures. Y'know...a rabbit eating a watermelon...a dog jumping rope.

Less of the mass murderers, please.

Didn't find any rabbits, but here's a few Capybaras digging into one:

[killed real people]

Til that Alec Minassian sounds exactly like Ali G.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q14MBeQk0Kc

I also like this ridiculous quote (at around 15.00) : "basically [...] to overthrow the chads, which would force the stacys to be forced to reproduce with the incels".



Force to be forced is a rather nice phrase. It's not guaranteed to work if they are casually forced; but if they are forced to be forced, there is no way around it.

Also, "convert the life status of individuals to death status", sounds rather sinister 

I find it hard to laugh at any of that knowing that Alec Minassian is a real mass murderer who's killed real people, and I find it in poor taste posting this as some funny anecdote on par with cartoon memes.

It's not a funny video either, it's not some comedy sketch, from what I've seen of it, it's a serious documentary/analysis on murderous incels, and their too real fantasies of murdering women, minorities, and LGBTQ people,
and I can't believe I'm the only one to get a knot in my stomach when seeing that presented as just some silly goof we're meant to laugh at.

Well, at least elves also got to be associated with beautiful yet badass Tolkien/DnD style characters. Legolas, anyone? 

It seems that with most folklore creatures, like dragons, trolls, vampires, and ghosts, you have bowdlerized defanged kiddie versions,
but you also still have serious high fantasy depictions of them in lots of media, whereas with unicorns, it's like someone in the
the late 80s saw the legends saying that they could only be bested and tamed by maidens and decided "EeeeEwww Cooties!" and that
unicorns should be exclusively relegated to baby girl stuff ever since.

It grinds my gears that the popular depiction of unicorns has moved away from beautiful imaginative creatures, with a plethora of strange and fantastic traits like this;

to tacky rainbow my little pony style creatures like this:

It's even gotten to the point some people even use the word "unicorn" as a synonym for "garish rainbow stuff".

It's just so frustrating to see what is a legit cool fantasy creature full of exciting potential basically be reduced to an ugly design that would look absolutely idiotic and out of place outside a pastel kids cartoon.
For comparison, imagine everyone just phased out all forms of cool dinosaurs from pop culture, until they were no longer associated with the majestic and impressive animals we'd see in works like Jurassic Park,
but instead, the only type of dinosaur known and spread among people who weren't huge paleontology nerds was this:


And just FYI, I thought rainbow unicorns with big cartoon cow snouts were tacky and ugly even when I used to be a little girl in the intended target demographic.

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The video in the link below show’s some douche bag recreating a scene where someone first compliments their art and then asks them for their rate for commissions. The artist first refuses to give him the rate (?), and then when the interested party is predictably shocked by the rate, makes the other person out to be a right asshole.

Seeing the video, no, the artist doesn't refuse to give the client his rate, he says that it depends on the project, and yeah, it kinda does. It's one thing if he's only asking for a small thing that could be done in an hour, another if there is a huge art piece that requires tons of expensive materials and takes weeks to make. I really can't fault the artist for being frustrated.

Sure, it's kind of bad the video doesn't specify what kind of work the artist does or what the client is asking from him, but as someone who's been selling stuff on Etsy for a while now, I can say that it is incredibly frustrating to see people with the mindset that creative people and artists
just love every single step in the process of their work, and can just magically conjure up fantastic stuff with zero effort or cost to themselves. I've tried many different crafts, resin, sewing, miniature making, and not only do the materials cost a lot if you want good quality, but pretty much all those things take several hours or even days to complete, and if you do it full time for a living, I'd say it's pretty understandable that an artist would want a day's wage for a day's work.

And not to mention that being able to find stuff for free online or buy incredibly cheap things made in china has warped people's idea of what things would actually cost in comparison to the work put in, good craftsmanship has always been expensive.

So true

Indeed!
Anyways, just found this gem  :