@skywake You're replying to a more off handed retort to someone who calling me a liberal (oh what a sick burn that was, I'm still in A&E about it) but yeah fair enough left wing parties fighting over how left wing they should be is the cliche.
It's a different to UK politics though, the right wing government have been mucking things up for the last few years so the UK's growth is either in decline of rising at a snails pace compared to other countries largely because their ideology of not investing and throwing out existing international trade agreements in favour of ones they hope to get which hasn't worked out at all.
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You may have missed my joke there. The Liberal Party of Australia is socially and, on paper, economically conservative. I was leaning into the "Liberals" bit by calling them "Left" for their opposition to renewables, subsidies for coal/gas and their blind opposition to investment in things like rail and broadband infrastructure
Then I threw in Republican for good measure. Because here a Republican is someone who wants Australia to become a republic. Which is again a very different crowd using that word than there is in certain other countries
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Actually that is a good shout @Dpullam, and maybe befitting for this thread, but I actually also went down to just following WWE as well, after spending a few years trying to stay on top of AEW, NJPW and the indies, along with WWE.
I actually think WWE wrestling (not just talking about the whole product, the actual wrestling) is the best out there right now. New Japan is too stiff, I think it is pointless to have a wrestling match where you are actually hurting your opponent and I know this is pure old man yelling at clouds thinking but I think AEW is everything all the wrestling old guard criticised indie wrestling for being.
Don't get me wrong, AEW does have story, but I dunno, I just think WWE understands that giving the audience everything all the time actually hurts the overall experience (still talking specifically just of the wrestling style, not the whole product).
AEW has basically no TV matches, everything feels like a big PPV match. That seems great at first, but after a while it became exhausting to me, because every match felt the same. They also really do heavily commit the sin of structuring matches where it is more about dudes hitting big moves, rather than working through sequences that tell a story. I'd rather have just one high spot in a match, you spend the whole match building anticipation for, than seeing someone kip up from an avalanche Canadian destroyer and then take 20 Superkicks to the chin in a row and still kick out at 2. And you could say I am being reductive here and generalising, and who knows what the product is like nowadays, I bounced around mid 2020, but for that first year or so, this is genuinely how most cards were structured.
Not to mention, WWE gives you a few more flavours both within its main shows, but also with its NXT branding which did kinda take a hit when it became 2.0, but since it has rebranded back to the original branding has really been on the rise. With the NXT branding offering a nice middle ground between the WWE style and the indie style, and I think that middle ground is the real sweet spot for me.
@Pizzamorg Very much agreed on your points. Do you prefer NXT 2.0 or the older black and yellow NXT format?
Outside of the wrestling I grew up with as a kid, NXT from like 2014 through 2018 (thought it kinda went downhill a bit around 2019) is some of my favourite wrestling. Thanks to the Network I sometimes just go back and watch stretches from that run of NXT, as the matches and stories still really hold up.
I'm 50/50 on the AEW and WWE debate. I've found myself enjoying the Women's division so much more than the Men's in WWE (but the Men's has gotten alot better since Trips took over) which is the complete opposite in AEW where the Women's division is so poor aside from the odd moment whilst I really enjoy their strong cards every week with the Men. Brian Cage not being pushed is mad though.
Also there is a wrestling thread but it normally turns into people complaining about WWE and AEW is better so I often lose interest in posting in it.
@Pizzamorg Very cool! I always watch either WWE Raw or WWE Smackdown first before watching WWE NXT 2.0 but I do enjoy the different feel it has compared to the main shows. It is nice having so many different options to watch.
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I'll happily remember Woz for his work on the Apple 1 and 2 computers but the reality is that he didn't do a lot beyond that. Most of the products Apple is renowned for these days had nothing to do with him.
Jobs though... Yeah, he's a guy who didn't really design anything that was successful without a heck of a lot of work from other people to fix his mistakes, but he made a very marketable personality. I can see why a lot of people would think that the devices he presented with such enthusiasm were his own creations though. You just had to scratch a little beneath the surface to see that he was basically just a front man though. On the plus side though, he's at least the guy who gave us Pixar.
On this topic, you may want to give Halt & Catch Fire a watch, it’s a fictionalised winky insider look of the 80s PC boom. It has Mackenzie Davis and Lee Pace who act the fudge out of it.
I really do not like the cartoon community that hangs out on Twitter and YouTube. They always put down animated shows and movies more than actually enjoy them, and they seem to care too much about the reputation of animated shows and movies, rather than enjoy the medium they claim to like.
Not to mention as a Trolls fan, I find the community unwelcoming as Trolls is a "no no" movie to them and I've seen them attack fans just for simply being excited for the upcoming movie.
FWIW, I love animated shows and movies, but I find this community too toxic.
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I really do not like the trend of using fictional anime female characters as the VTube characters.
In my opinion, it started to sexualize the female characters.
I never understand that crazy world.
I only use social media comments to talk about sports, some of the good ones go semi-viral if I'm sane enough writing them. Sports is the topic I have the mosy die-on-hill opinions on, and nobody gets hurt during any reasonable, well-intended sports talk.
I also disagree with the common sentiment that Elon Musk ruined Twitter. Twitter has always been awful. In that sense, Musk and Twitter are perfect for each other.
Honestly, I consider Trolls to be one of the best series DreamWorks has made. Trolls is popular, but the cartoon community on YouTube and Twitter tends to consider it to be one of the worst. I feel the series has a lot of heart to it. The first movie is silly at first, a bunch of trolls having fun and throwing a party, but as the adventure to save Poppy's friends goes on, it does show a lot of heart and a really imaginative world. The two other movies expand on the world and families of the characters. Plus, I love the musical numbers.
Also, I remember being a part of a DreamWorks related community, where I got bullied for having Poppy as my favorite DreamWorks character, and not the status quo of Shrek and Po (of Kung Fu Panda) that the cartoon community pushes. I don't go there anymore.
Yes, popular series, but going to put my opinion down as "unpopular" given how people tend to treat Trolls online at other places I've been to.
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