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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #210 on: March 19, 2010, 12:21:52 am »
Those are all good examples of journalistic bias, and there are more still. My personal pet peeve is headline-writing, which was in the background of several of those complaints in the Cracked article. Bogus headlines are incredibly deceptive, and very common.
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #211 on: March 22, 2010, 01:31:03 pm »

Heheheh... Ain't it the truth?

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #212 on: March 22, 2010, 11:26:55 pm »
Often under extremely high pressure.
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #213 on: March 23, 2010, 02:28:21 am »
Quote from: GenesisOne on March 22, 2010, 01:31:03 pm

Heheheh... Ain't it the truth?



Ooof, I don't think I get it.  Sorry.  :/
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #214 on: March 23, 2010, 02:34:13 am »
In anime, characters sometimes bleed a great deal more than is humanly possible. Some artists are more notorious for this than others, but it's a pretty common hyperbole to one degree or another.
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #215 on: March 23, 2010, 02:36:18 am »
Ah, gotcha.  Thanks for explaining.  That makes a lot more sense now!  :D
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #216 on: March 26, 2010, 05:18:28 pm »
Hah, never thought of it like that before.

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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #217 on: April 02, 2010, 05:24:58 pm »
I saw this advertisement on a letter board at McDonald's during the train ride home yesterday:

"Try Our New Chipotle BBQ Bacon Angus"

Okay, now they're just throwing words together. It gets more and more amusing to imagine what these product development meetings must look like.
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #218 on: April 02, 2010, 05:29:05 pm »
Quote from: Lord J Esq on April 02, 2010, 05:24:58 pm
"Try Our New Chipotle BBQ Bacon Angus"

I completely misread "Angus" as something else.  :picardno
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #219 on: April 02, 2010, 05:41:40 pm »
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I foresee a number of McDonald's quality jokes coming. We must flee to higher ground, Sajainta! They will flood this thread without delay!
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #220 on: April 02, 2010, 08:25:36 pm »
Aha! The truth behind Masato Kato and Yasunori Mitsuda is finally revealed. When they combine their powers, they merge to become none other than...!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasunori_Kato
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #221 on: April 02, 2010, 08:51:12 pm »
In that Wikipedia article, Faust, mention is made of a series called Doomed Megalopolis. More of the typical dystopian self-righteousness that pervades our art! I think it would be incredibly amusing to create a series of that name, set in a dystopian megalopolis, where the action and story consists entirely of dark plots and angst, and yet, despite the best efforts of practically everybody, every single plot ends up backfiring and slowly transforming the doomed megalopolis into a utopian paradise.
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #222 on: April 02, 2010, 09:10:32 pm »
Quote from: Lord J Esq on April 02, 2010, 05:41:40 pm
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I foresee a number of McDonald's quality jokes coming. We must flee to higher ground, Sajainta! They will flood this thread without delay!
Jack-in-the-Box already beat you to it.


I just spent 45 seconds figuring out how to spell "beat" and I still not sure if I used the right one.
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #223 on: April 02, 2010, 10:01:40 pm »

Picture links to article.
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Re: Park Your Amusements Here
« Reply #224 on: April 02, 2010, 10:04:15 pm »
J, I'm curious about your reasoning as to why a dystopian work should be described as "self-righteous." I'm not familiar with the Doomed Megalopolis series, but I suspect the answer lies not in specifics, but rather in general motifs. Do works like 1984 and Brave New World share any of the characteristics you're critiquing?

The ensuing discussion could be amusing to me, and should be parked here when you have the time.
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