Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Zuljaras Well I wouldn't expect anything super natural anyway. Is this part of a larger DC universe? Or did they give up on that?

@Heavyarms55 I have not seen any other characters beside the Joker.
Actually I hope there is no Batman etc.
But De Niro will play some kind of bad guy mocking the Joker. It will be interesting for sure.

Yesss can start astral chain today!!!!

Since making my previous post about social media and societies yadayada... I realised I hadn't made my ultimate point.

It seems so many people have fallen into the trap of putting way, way, WAY too much significance on words.

No-one's ever taken me up on this before when I've tried to make this point on other forums:

I invite anyone here to try and insult/offend me. Send your submissions to [email protected], or @gcunit10 on twitter, if you're worried about site rules here. Use a throwaway email address and a VPN if you like. Nothing you write or say can hurt me or offend me. I've heard most words going and guess what... I can cope with them. Try a death threat if you want. Whatever, go wild. Call me a fanboy if you're hard enough.

'Toxicity' on the internet is, to borrow a word from our lovely UK government, phoney. Anyone that says they're offended by any words is just **** stirring. Doesn't matter if the words are supposedly 'racist', 'homophobic', 'sexist', or anything else. The only people words 'hurt' are the people who don't have the sense to differentiate between words and actions. They're not hurt, they're just stupid.

@gcunit Only if more people could think like that.

It is really tiring to hear the same stuff over and over again how people are OFFENDED by words.
It actually come to extremes most of the time because people start using phrases like "hate speech" and "verbal violence". And those people do not understand the right of free speech.

The Joker trailer is just incredible. It doesn’t appear there’s any reason to worry that they messed it up. Very much looking forward to this one. It may drag me to the theater for the first time since The Force Awakens.

@Heavyarms55 - I don’t think it was fully intentional, but Aquaman was a hilarious movie. Loved it, and I kind of want to watch it again. It seems like about halfway through filming, they understood what they were actually making and just went with it. I thought the action scenes were good too.

expletive, expletive expletive, EXPLETIVE!!

Tomorrow at morning, i have to attend a training to make Batik with "Gulijat" technique at other school with other teachers from different school (Geez... What the heck was Gulijat technique? That word didn't even exist on Google )

@gcunit Unfortunately the post-internet society has been split into two camps: Those trained to parse every word and search for some slight against some group (often not their own) and to become activists to act on behalf of those who might be offended, without actually finding out if said group is actually offended (in the absence of profit/attention-motive); and the camp that has learned it's easy to offend everyone and create a poop storm by doing so, and all sense of ethics and decency has gone the way of the mullet.

It's like the lite financially neutral version of the litigious society, where you used to be able to have a flower bed, water feature, and fountain in a public place, and now they've all been roped off, filled in, and walled over because everyone might "accidentally" fall in, drown, break bones, and sue for a few hundred million in damages, despite that not having been a problem for the previous hundred years. On the internet it's the same process, but without the money and backhoes, but the same overall psych process.

@gcunit - Friendly insults are an art form. I spent last weekend out of town with college friends, it’s what we did the entire time. I have to know someone to really insult them properly though. If we were sitting around having beers, we could slay each other, and it would be hilarious. I can’t just e-mail you a proper insult though. There’s no context. It wouldn’t be insulting or funny.

You're all ugly. I mean that in the friendliest way possible ♥️

@Heavyarms55, Joker (as well as the Superman & Batman reboots being helmed by JJ Abrams) aren't part of the DCEU, but any new movies featuring characters/actors already established in the DCEU (the new Wonder Woman & the Harley Quinn movie, Birds of Prey) will be. So it's still alive, but on a movie by movie basis.

It'll be interesting to see how Joker turns out, as rather than a typical blockbuster type film, it's being primed for Oscar considerations (it's currently doing the rounds at all of the film festivals, like Cannes & Venice, before it's public theatrical release).

If it does well they'll probably try to glue it and its follow ups to the dceu

So enjoy it while it is its own thing.

@Tyranexx Haha, yeah, sounds like something I can largely relate to. All I can say to that is: parents and modern technology, right?

@NEStalgia Ok, even I think that's going a little too far.

I don't know why, but I just now figured out what big gift I want for xmas this year: a hifi system.

One that can do AM/FM radio (I live in the states do no such thing as DAB or anything digital like that), CD changer, vinyl records, maybe a cassette deck but the quality of cassette decks these days is terrible.

I don't know why, but I suddenly want something like this....

@Andrew_R_2000 Vinyl and cassettes? Hifi? Booy, is that going to cost you..... Time to sell a Lamborghini or two.....

@NEStalgia No, no! Nothing fancy, just something with good enough sound quality and that plays in stereo. I actually found some system in a catalog that has all those features (3-CD changer, AM/FM radio, 33/45/78 vinyl player, dual cassette deck) for about $200. I wouldn't bet on the cassette deck being any good tho...

Also, I've NEVER played with vinyl yet and kinda want to.

@Andrew_R_2000 You don't "play" with vinyl, you cherish, treasure and enjoy it...

P.S.

Just kidding, obviously...