SRK Lounge: The Search for Ronin

Tekno_Virus · April 29, 2016, 2:59am

http://www.beautifulkoreanwomen.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2101D747546B3181103477.jpe

Korean thighs and calves

NickRocks · April 29, 2016, 3:00am

doesnt keep weight back
doesnt keep hands in
doesnt torque hips during the plant phase
swings with back and forearms, wasting all the torque she didnt properly generate, not using hip/leg power

result: foul ball

2/10 for not swinging like a typical girl, would not barry

http://cdn.niketalk.com/1/19/1908c83a_628x471.jpeg

why is barry best waifu tho

damb he can do it all!

Blindknagg · April 29, 2016, 3:01am

NickRocks · April 29, 2016, 3:02am

part 1.5

show em how its done barry

crotchpuncha · April 29, 2016, 3:22am

No catch in Uncharted 2, badguy became a super human from drinking the sap and Drake was unable to kill him. Had to leave it to the Guardians while the whole World Tree exploded around him.

Just let your days run out and it will cycle you back. Then you do better leveling, or make a better party build. I cycled back like 3 times on my first play through of P4 Golden.

There was a scene where Dredd was supposed to take his Helmet off and Urban refused to do it.

Amazing_Funbags · April 29, 2016, 3:25am

Yeah. Some shit happened that definitely makes what I planned yesterday something that I NEED to do cause people around me have rubbed off on me and made me appear to be some kind of “always bitching negative asshole” when I’m really not. Just need to slowly cut people off of my life or/and just be a totally different person in general.

Sorry for thinking out loud, have some hotness:

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/T2dHtwc.jpg

Joshkaz · April 29, 2016, 3:27am

I just need to cut my entire family out besides like 2 people.

Family is full of toxic people.

The_Damned · April 29, 2016, 4:05am

(If only murder was legal, right guys?)

Ugh. I definitely have weirder dreams than normal if I allow myself to fall back asleep. It was more vivid than usual too, though that may just be because it was one of those times where I was more vaguely aware than usual that I was dreaming.

I still had my first cell phone until early last year (or maybe it was 2014 already) given all of my cell phones have been hand-me downs since I don’t care enough to actually get one for various reasons. I don’t remember what it actually was though though at this point. I think it was some relatively “ancient” Toshiba flip-phone.

Amusingly, my father just asked me to randomly look up when cellular phones first started to be mass produced. I vaguely remembered it was sometime in the early 80s and I happened to be correct since it seems like they technically first appeared in 1983: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/the-evolution-of-cell-phone-design-between-1983-2009/.

I literally posted this just yesterday and four pages back, but at least people saw it when you posted it. Regardless, I’ll just quote myself in response to it again:

The_Damned:

(I guess that confirms that Zeus is indeed her father post-New 52. Lame.)

Huh. I was led to believe otherwise about the Amazons by this lengthy two-page article, @RockBogart: http://www.themarysue.com/wonder-woman-paternal-narrative/. I mean, I remember Paradise Island having restrictions about men setting foot on the island in most instances and quite a few Amazonian women being uncomfortable, unsure, or outright untrusting and hostile towards men, but, again, outside of Amazons Attack’s stupidity and the straight-up “evil” Amazons of Flashpoint, that doesn’t reach the level of what I read here:

Spoiler

When Diana first travels to Paradise Island, with an injured Hermes in tow, we hear a voice: “Can you smell it, sisters? Our air be putrid with musk. Aye, what hangs between the shanks now fouls my nose. Perhaps I shall take my blade and separate the offense from the offender. Leave them to shrink and wither on the sand.” When Wonder Woman speaks against this, the voice asks “Who dares?”, as if no one would.

The word balloons are distorted and not associated with any character. When I first read it, I thought it was the spirit of Paradise Island itself, which would have been somewhat damning. Reading on, I guessed it was Aleka. But in any case it is the first words we hear from any Amazon, and none of her sisters contradict her in any way. Even her queen doesn’t chastise her for threatening castration against a male guest (and a god, at that). I don’t think we ever hear an Amazon speak a contrary opinion; Aleka’s floating voice is the only one the writer gives us on the subject. If it’s not the common Amazon view, why not let us hear from someone else? As it is, this depiction of the Amazons has enough editorial support to spread to other series and writers: in her first appearance, in Demon Knights #1, Exoristos, an exiled Amazon, says “I come from an island where men are castrated and women are pleased.” This seems to pass for casual conversation among the New 52 Amazons.

(When I speak of “the Amazons,” I am excepting Diana, who seems different from them and not representative in her opinions.)

This happens to be a common sexist stereotype of independent or feminist women: that they hate all men to the point of wanting to castrate them. It brings to mind Rush Limbaugh’s “man-hating feminazis.”

But Azzarello’s depiction of the Amazons as man-haters goes much further. Later we learn that, to replenish their ranks, they go to sea, board boats crewed by human men, and seduce them. Then we see an image of the Amazons holding their swords to the necks of these men: “Their lives… are drained from them,” and they are thrown overboard, dead. (The most reasonable interpretation is that the Amazons kill them; they don’t actually look “drained,” by sex or magic, when they’re being threatened by swords.)

Nine months later the Amazons give birth. The girls they keep; the boys… apparently, the Amazons are willing to kill them too. Fortunately, the (male) god Hephaestus rescues them, trading weapons for the infants, and raising them to work in his smithy, where they say they are not slaves; they are artists, and happy. One says that without Hephaestus, they would have been “thrown in the tide — to drown, unloved.” Hephaestus proves to have the empathy that the Amazons entirely lack; he mentions that his mother (Hera) cast him out to die, and because of that experience he could “never allow” that to happen to the unwanted male children of the Amazons. He’s a good guy. They’re murderers. And Hippolyta is the queen of the murderers.

(The murders seem completely gratuitous. Perhaps the Amazons are worried that sailors, left alive, might follow them back to Themyscira. If so, there’s an easier way to do all this. Take a boat to an island or the shore of a continent. Liberate some local clothes. Have sex with a man. Go home. Is this beyond them, or do they just like killing men?)

These goes beyond sexist stereotypes, and begins the echo the views of paranoid misogynists. I am reminded of Pat Robertson’s quote: “Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” (I am not suggesting Azzarello shares these views, only that he finds them useful, and somehow appropriate, in a Wonder Woman story.)

And so one of the core themes of Marston’s Wonder Woman—that of the value of independent (dare I say feminist?) women, their relationships, and what they can accomplish together—is entirely repudiated. Independent women, rather than creating a healthy and loving community that the world (and Diana) can learn something good from, in fact become man-hating, castration-loving malefactors who murder the men they use to impregnate them and would likewise murder their own male infants if a kind (male) god didn’t offer them a better deal. They are essentially supervillains. Wonder Woman and the rest of the JLA should capture them and lock them up.

Admittedly, Azzarello does not directly tell us that all communities of independent women would turn out this way. He simply takes away the one example we had of a good community of such women, and replaces it with a horrific one. Just as Aleka’s voice seems to represent all Amazons, because none of them contradict her, so too do these vicious Amazons seem to represent all communities of independent women—because there are no alternatives within the world of the narrative. The change he has made to the Amazons of Paradise Island—who have always had an extremely significant symbolic and thematic role in the Wonder Woman saga—is so enormous, and so ugly, that one looks for some suggestion that they do not symbolize a theme opposite to Marston’s: that a community of independent women would be evil and murderous. In vain. The only thing to compare them to is Hephaestus and his assistants, a community of happy artists brought together by the compassionate god who saved them from the evil women. And that community is all male.

Completely unrelated, but linked to on another article from the same website:

Spoiler

https://youtu.be/9tU-D-m2JY8

While the comments are definitely atrocious, that’s exactly why watching the awkward silence and squirming is even more delicious and hilarious than it might otherwise be.

Also, I never understood why or when “read mean Tweets” became a thing like Twitter actually ever meant shit.

BREAKING NEWS: people are assholes, especially on the Internet and especially if they’re the type of sports fans who are losers living vicariously through their teams to make up for their otherwise shitty existences.

Million · April 29, 2016, 4:07am

whoah I am surprised Dr. Drew’s show brought up this point…thanks to someone writing in on social media though but it was there---- the story is 3 girls beat up another 16 year old…and the beating was so severe she died. A guy wrote in saying that if it was 3 boys that beat another teen to death, they would’ve been charged and sitting somewhere in jail… immediately, etc. etc.

Really, just watch how light the punishment is for these stupid neanderthal bitches… it really would be nice if we could go back in time and swap out female criminals for males in the exact same crimes…just to prove beyond all doubt how lopsided things are. That’s one of those things in this society that will always disgust me----the fact that a man and a woman could commit literally the exact same crime…but you know there will most likely be different results.

regulate · April 29, 2016, 4:08am

No limits with her and only her. None.

Slurmz · April 29, 2016, 4:22am

Dems be some weak-ass calves.

Raz0r · April 29, 2016, 4:24am

She could do butt stuff to me.

Amazing_Funbags · April 29, 2016, 4:25am

We still talking about our first cell phones? I’m like 90% sure this one was mine:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VLQzslGgL.jpg

Starhammer · April 29, 2016, 4:29am

There is NO safe space for those poor fools. I don’t know if people can die from rustled jimmies, but I’ll check the news, waiting for the tears of the butthurt.

-Starhammer-

Exodus_1 · April 29, 2016, 4:42am

Foul ball.

Try again.

crotchpuncha · April 29, 2016, 4:44am

Fucking ether’d yo loool.

Raz0r · April 29, 2016, 4:53am

You try taking a swing in a tight mini skirt. She was solid.

WTF-AKUMA-HAX · April 29, 2016, 4:55am

Spoiler

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http://i.somethingawful.com/u/garbageday/2012/awful_links/gamerfoodlogo.jpg

SNAKE SELLING…

https://i.imgur.com/x0ZtQvl.jpg

SNAKE ABDOMINALLING RYU HEADBANDING

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Starhammer · April 29, 2016, 5:01am

Million:

whoah I am surprised Dr. Drew’s show brought up this point…thanks to someone writing in on social media though but it was there---- the story is 3 girls beat up another 16 year old…and the beating was so severe she died. A guy wrote in saying that if it was 3 boys that beat another teen to death, they would’ve been charged and sitting somewhere in jail… immediately, etc. etc.

Really, just watch how light the punishment is for these stupid neanderthal bitches… it really would be nice if we could go back in time and swap out female criminals for males in the exact same crimes…just to prove beyond all doubt how lopsided things are. That’s one of those things in this society that will always disgust me----the fact that a man and a woman could commit literally the exact same crime…but you know there will most likely be different results.

This might brighten things up for ya.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-committee-votes-to-require-women-to-register-for-draft/ar-BBsno56?

http://www.newsoxy.com/world/india-laser-walls-12-191571.html

NK stay fuckin up.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/south-korea-suspected-midrange-north-korean-missile-crashes/ar-BBsmwqH?

Hey @RockBogart, can I get that,“Shit just got real” gif over here?

-Starhammer-

Million · April 29, 2016, 5:05am

I know this is “old” in internet terms but it’s hilarious to me… that closet-case Birdman is pissed off for some reason…

yep

Spoiler

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

Then of course that led to this… I saw making the rounds on facebook a few days ago…

yep

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzTaRK9ntFE

sheeeit, there is no end to the entertainment value that can be found on the internet. :tup:

*edit–haha the dude sounded like a little boy that’s trying not to cry for some reason. “STOP PLAYIN’ WITH MY NAME”