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[kurosagi01]

It seems my good sir that the world has gone finally bat ^%$" crazy.... I can't understand it myself....

I do wonder sometimes if the media is just there to stir crap up and then for everything else just to make it even more stupid than ever.. I'll have to find a picture that I saw on Facebook a little while ago, was brilliant for what spreads ^%" the most......

It certainly has, I mean in terms of media representation i'm all for casting the race ethics background and giving equal opportunity to the right people if the character fits them, but changing the original concept character to like gender swapping, changing the ethnicity of character or making them LGBT just seem wrong to me.
The other issue is with the whole female lead roles all sudden seems to be a huge thing, i'm all for female leads in other types of genre and not just romance/comedy but the whole force "empowering" female character seem to be a thing and not good writing. A good writing for character is good but the way it get portrays just seemed way too forced.

I mean look at the new Terminator film...they built up Sarah Connors which is good story writing and they made out John Connor to be important in the lore but this new film seem to wipe out that part of the lore and somehow these 2 new female lead characters seemed a bit forced IF they were interpreted that way.

The new CW Batwoman show..my god some of the dialogues just gives me face palm and does not represent strong female at all.

That is true Gorbaz..that is true indeed and it is messing up the ordinary people like us...

 

[GorbazTheDragon]

I can't say specifically for the example you posed, but I agree there are going to be a lot of screw ups when it comes to actually presenting characters equally. At the moment there is a bit of a frenzy to push women into the limelight and it's often not going to be executed correctly at all, sort of trial and error at the end of the day.

Story writing as a whole is quite difficult though, as an author you will be attached to certain characters more than others, be it you working on your own characters or inheriting characters from someone else. You will naturally end up with some characters being more dominant than others, in some cases it will end up being the man and others the woman. But you can bet your bottom dollar people are going to give you flak for being sexist in both cases. Add social media and you have a nice flame war going because most people aren't bothered to moderate what they say.

I think that kind of behaviour by the public is one of the big things that drives writers and other people who make media to try too hard on these aspects, it makes them scared of "unfairly representing" X, Y or Z group of people.

 

[kurosagi01]

Pretty much it really, particularly the western media writers seem to be trying way too hard in promoting strong female lead roles.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I blame the stories making good clickbait...

Obama making stuff like the affordable care act is boring... Brexit=Drama Trump=Drama Climate change=Drama

Good clickbait drama gets the normies interested

100%

With the massive growth of social media, the political biases of the mainstream media and how the masses consume it, the public in general have become easy to brainwash and indoctrinated into whatever their screens and monitors show them.


Call it a mass psychological brainwashing..... If you see 'blue man = bad!' on your screens/monitors everyday, day in day out. you'll end up believing it. Thats how the media has turned the UK into a hostile environment as far as race is concerned. The same exact thing was done for immigration. It turned people against each other just like Brexit has turned the people against each other.

Some people join in to fight the good fight without actually knowing why or what they are fighting for but see other people fighting so they must fight too.

 

[phill]

When will things get back to normal is all I'd like to know....??

 

[kurosagi01]

When will things get back to normal is all I'd like to know....??

Probably won't, whoever is the next president will face criticism in general in the US, regardless if brexit happens or delayed or cancelled people will not be happy with the result regardless. People will shout out democracy isn't there and so on and so on etc.
Feminist and LGBT culture is all-time high now with many celebrity with like minded alike and many businesses seem to want to tick that box all the sudden(looking at you Disney).
Climate talk will forever be on subject.
The protest/riot in HK will hopefully calms down eventually.

 

[GorbazTheDragon]

Just get yourself somewhere comfortable with qualifications/education and keep your bags ready to pack up and go somewhere new IMO

There's a lot of different places to go if you need a change in scenery (political or otherwise)

 

[phill]

There's no escaping it that's for sure, which is a shame.. I think the world has gone bonkers.... I can understand climate issues but then rather than having a load of meetings about meetings, just do something right there and then about it.. What's the point otherwise? Doing things gradually won't make a big enough impact and by then would possibly be too late for ever man woman and child and everything else on this planet of ours..

But hey, I don't know nothing..... I'll just go sit somewhere quiet

 

[FreedomEclipse]

If only we had a strong and stable government. The US arent fairing that much better in that regard.

 

[GorbazTheDragon]

Strong and stable

Good luck getting the latter with Brexit meme train coming through

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Proud day. Ive lost enough weight to take a link off my watch strap. I think i'll need to puch a few new holes in my belt next

 

[phill]

Congrats @FreedomEclipse I need to get back on my bike to work but it's just not the weather for it of late sadly

 

[kurosagi01]

Always a good day when that happens, I weighed myself on a new digital scale last month which gives "body fat percentage", surprised to see it at 13% really.
Anyway I bought tickets to see the Nier Orchestra next year at the royal festival hall next year in feb..not been to that part of london where the venue is before in my whole life.
But should be good event,all tickets are sold out and me being cheap missed out on front seatings but I got some seats in back seats..so not too bad.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Always a good day when that happens, I weighed myself on a new digital scale last month which gives "body fat percentage", surprised to see it at 13% really.
Anyway I bought tickets to see the Nier Orchestra next year at the royal festival hall next year in feb..not been to that part of london where the venue is before in my whole life.
But should be good event,all tickets are sold out and me being cheap missed out on front seatings but I got some seats in back seats..so not too bad.

If youre still around. Id be happy to come out for beer when youre done

 

[kurosagi01]

If youre still around. Id be happy to come out for beer when youre done

Depends who i'm going with and how late id want stay in London, the event starts at 3pm and ends around 5pm. It take about hour in underground from waterloo to get to one of the outskirt undergrounds(stanmore or edgeware) and then another hour and half to drive home from one of them stations.
I'll let you know closer date though.

 

[Tatty_Two]

A brief message to all you Brits and any other invited guests that frequent around these parts, I have been browsing through the last few pages, mainly because I don't come in here as often as I should but I am seeing some politics creeping back into discussions, please do not discuss politics here, although a clubhouse you remain an integral part of this forum where political discussion is against the guidelines, if you feel strongly that you want to discuss political current affairs then that is fine however if you do we will need to move the clubhouse to the Lounge to be consistent with the main forum guidelines.
Some of you may remember back a few years ago when the clubhouse very nearly got moved because of mainly political discussion, personally as I don't frequent the clubhouse it does not matter either way to me so as a Mod team we thought it prudent to give you a say in it's future.

Rather than filling this thread up of responses to this post, if you feel strongly either way, drop me a PM, I will share them with the Mod team, hopefully between us all we can reach a workable solution.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

A brief message to all you Brits and any other invited guests that frequent around these parts, I have been browsing through the last few pages, mainly because I don't come in here as often as I should but I am seeing some politics creeping back into discussions, please do not discuss politics here, although a clubhouse you remain an integral part of this forum where political discussion is against the guidelines, if you feel strongly that you want to discuss political current affairs then that is fine however if you do we will need to move the clubhouse to the Lounge to be consistent with the main forum guidelines.
Some of you may remember back a few years ago when the clubhouse very nearly got moved because of mainly political discussion, personally as I don't frequent the clubhouse it does not matter either way to me so as a Mod team we thought it prudent to give you a say in it's future.

Rather than filling this thread up of responses to this post, if you feel strongly either way, drop me a PM, I will share them with the Mod team, hopefully between us all we can reach a workable solution.

Miss you bud.

 

[dorsetknob]

Guess Winter is here
ThunderStorm last night cira11pm
and just had a hailstorm (been raining all day ) Sound of thunder in the distance.
Visibility is about 300ft.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Nice and sunny here currently. Rain expected later

 

[phill]

Hey guys, how's everyone's Fridays??

Got the same weather here as well, rain lol I'm hoping it'll be dry later since I've a little 4 hour drive to go pick up my daughter but still, what's the betting it won't be lol

 

[kurosagi01]

Same here, part of me want it to rain on Sunday so I don't need to go drag racing(trying reserve money for MCM next sunday) and the other part of me don't want it to rain so I can try and beat another MPS.

 

[phill]

Well after my 4 hour trip with my daughter and a very fun experience (I'm not sure what else I could call it ) I've had enough of today so I'm very glad it's a new day already!! Jesus what an evening... Even aside from the rainy crap drive, man I've just had enough

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Me and my dad went for a long walk down to a few food markets in the shoreditch area - had some greek style chicken with rice then shared a nice salf beef sandwich. I thought the greek chicken was a little overcooked but the salt beef was nice as hell.

 

[phill]

Now that sounds like a much better evening than mine @FreedomEclipse !!

 

[kurosagi01]

The Pokemon Center in Westfield london officially opened to the public yesterday..the line had a 7 hour waiting time apparently and the queue was stretched to outside of the centre.
I hope its died down by the time I plan my trip in 2 weeks time...