Morden Man

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You're a real trooper, you Scottish bastard. If I had ten of you, this game would last four years and never a day would go by without a post. I want you to know I appreciate your steady, consistent presence in the IC thread and even your sometimes overly generous contributions to the OOC thread. Now seriously, go and get smashed or I'll come to Scotland myself and force you to wear a half and half Celtics-Rangers top and walk through Glasgow at night. @Sep

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@Ace of Hearts Only things you have the right to do because you live in a Western society where we have these "overrated" freedoms.

I think a large part of the reason people hold SJWs in contempt is because they appear to espouse an unending miserablism. Trump's "Make America Great Again" resonates with some people exactly because SJWs spend a disproportionate amount of their time talking about how sexist, racist, and transphobic the West is. The truth of the matter is that the West is the least sexist, least racist, and least transphobic place in the world and we ought to celebrate that rather than constantly denigrating ourselves to the point it appears we take our freedoms for granted.

Maybe if we spent more time celebrating those freedoms, rather than wishing them away, the divide between Left and Right wouldn't be so stark.

Let's B!tch. I feel it's a healthy release for our roleplay annoyances 2.0

@Ace of Hearts You go to a country where freedom of speech isn't considered an unalienable right and see whether you're still saying that.

Christ. I don't know why everything needs to be so polarised all of the time. It's like you people enjoy it. There's no reason to be a dick - saying sexist, racist, or transphobic things is not cool. Calling people out for doing those things is fine but unless they incite violence there's no need to lock people up or arrest people for saying things. At the same time, branding anyone that has a social conscience or takes exception to your use of inappropriate language a "SJW" is a dick move too.

There is a path between being a red pill men's rights activists that hates women and a SJW that wants to show the world they're so progressive they take away our freedoms. So let's stop pretending it's one or the other, can we? Because it's not.

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@Sep Don't worry about it. Have a good time and drink (fairly) responsibly.

And happy (early) birthday.

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@Lord Wraith Always, my friend. Always.

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@HenryJonesJr Tell us how you really feel, Henry.

For anyone that saw BvS and thought it was a dumpster fire, I'd suggest (if you haven't already) signing up for this game and/or throwing your energy into writing something better here. For anyone that thought BvS was great, I'd again suggest throwing all of your energy into trying to top it in New Frontier's pages.

Basically whatever it is you're doing, even if you haven't seen BvS, write the bombest shit anyone has ever read and help us get to 200 IC posts.

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@Lord Wraith

More BvS spoilers, still.

Just because Superman was equally poorly characterised doesn't excuse the fact that Batman was too. If anything, it speaks to how badly Snyder and the writers misinterpreted what people like about Superman and Batman. I wasn't a huge fan of Man of Steel but it struck me as a "serious" (or "realistic) interpretation of Superman, not a particularly grim of dystopian one, whereas I feel like Snyder has flitted away from serious towards grim to excuse making a "Dark Knight Returns"-esque film. The problem being for me that it's not enough to simply say: "Hey! Batman are Superman are dicks now because... bad things happen!" You have to actually convince me that these bad things happening would make Bruce depart from the man he was. Does a poorly-written two minute conversation with Alfred and a shot of a Robin costume convince me Batman would suddenly start killing? No. If Jason and Barbara didn't send Bruce off the edge in the comics, you're going to have a Herculean task to convince me that anything would.

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@Lord Wraith I'll err on the side of caution and put this in spoilers:

Even more BvS spoilers!

Neither Keaton nor Bale took anywhere near as much glee in breaking the rules as Dawn of Justice's Batman. Branding people? Branding people? There's literally nothing less Batman than that. Affleck's Batman is cruel and sadistic, he searches Clark out to combat him without so much as conducting a proper conversation with him, and he seems to enjoy brutalising people in a way other interpretations have not up to this point. I felt like I was watching Rorschach or Deathstroke instead of Batman.

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People saying they enjoyed BvS have me concerned about joining the game. :-p

Seriously tho, that movie was straight trash.

@HenryJonesJr

So this is how New Frontier "Civil War" starts.

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@GreenGrenade I guess it boils down to how film-breaking you think those things are. Some people can still sit and enjoy it for what it is whereas other people sit there the entire time shaking their head about it. I was probably in the latter of the two camps. I know @HenryJonesJr is in the same camp too.

So far it's 3-2 in BvS's favour amongst Frontiersmen. (Frontierspeople?)

Oh, and welcome back. I was worried you might not be with us anymore but that Thanos post swooped in and swept my concerns aside. @Hexaflexagon