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Previous incarnations of Cleveland/P&C/D&D have had an image thread, to handle political cartoons and other image-based stuff that doesn't belong in the general post-a-picture threads.

If any of them spawn an extended discussion, please spawn it off into its own thread. Replies to non-picture replies should take the form of a link pointing to a post on a different discussion thread.

And I shouldn't have to say it, but the images still need to abide by the rules.

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Ouch. Perspective! (in the political cartoon)

Ads that make you go hmmmm...

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Honestly I'm not sure there's a way to present this advertising message (only in VR could a black woman be powerful enough to take down a jacked boxer) that is not somehow problematic. Maybe they should have gone another way. Or maybe it's intentional because it is likely to generate controversy between some "it's just a game" blowhards and cuck SJWs like me.

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An amusing story making the rounds out of Moby’s new book.

The amusing part being Lana Del Rey’s wit.

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BadKen wrote:

Ads that make you go hmmmm...

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Honestly I'm not sure there's a way to present this advertising message (only in VR could a black woman be powerful enough to take down a jacked boxer) that is not somehow problematic. Maybe they should have gone another way. Or maybe it's intentional because it is likely to generate controversy between some "it's just a game" blowhards and cuck SJWs like me.

What bothers me (or maybe amazes me) is that this VR headset can generate objects that exist in the real world.

BadKen wrote:

Ads that make you go hmmmm...

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Honestly I'm not sure there's a way to present this advertising message (only in VR could a black woman be powerful enough to take down a jacked boxer) that is not somehow problematic. Maybe they should have gone another way. Or maybe it's intentional because it is likely to generate controversy between some "it's just a game" blowhards and cuck SJWs like me.

While problematic, I imagine the thinking may have been more in mind with cross promoting the Creed game by invoking someone vaguely akin to Tessa Thompson.

Ok, honestly Ken, I feel like you're over-reaching and/or your SJW spidey-sense is overly sensitive and you need to back up the angry bus.

Cos the flip side of the pearl-clutchy "only in VR could a black woman knock out a white guy" is our old friend "REPRESENTATION MATTERS".

We should be applauding that ad. It shows a strong, victorious, black woman engaging in an activity that's heavily skews white and/or male. She's not pouting for the camera (thought to be fair, that hip-tilt is a bit over the top), she's dressed more modestly than most women you'd see in a franchise gym, and she looks badass.

I stand by my clutchy pearls. The big bold title of the ad is DEFY REALITY. I read that as "you could never do this in real life, so buy our virtual empowerment device." If not for that, I might be more inclined to agree with you. I mean, if it showed someone riding a T-rex or blasting Starship Trooper bug aliens with lasers, then yeah. But I guess they have to sell Creed as a launch title or something.

They get points for not over-sexualizing the woman. Still, bare middriff.

Could be much worse. Could still be better.

The wheels on my angry bus go round and F—K YOU FACEBOOK.

BadKen wrote:

I stand by my clutchy pearls. The big bold title of the ad is DEFY REALITY. I read that as "you could never do this in real life, so buy our virtual empowerment device." If not for that, I might be more inclined to agree with you. I mean, if it showed someone riding a T-rex or blasting Starship Trooper bug aliens with lasers, then yeah. But I guess they have to sell Creed as a launch title or something.

From where I'm sitting, "DEFY REALITY: should be read as "WE MADE A PUN ON VIRTUAL REALITY, YOU GUYS, AREN'T WE CLEVER".

And lets be honest, neither you nor I could knock that dude out either (unless I missed the bit where the Bad in Badken is short for 'badass' ). That's not a race or gender issue, that's a not-being-someone-who-is-a-professional-hardnut issue. And, as you point out, a "we don't have many launch games, so we'd best show one of them, kind of".

BadKen wrote:

The wheels on my angry bus go round and F—K YOU FACEBOOK.

Thuuuuuuurrrrrrrr middle-aged gamers on the bus go clakety on the keyboard, clakety on the keyboard, clakety on the keyboard....

I don't think there's anything in the world one can't look at and think up a scenario whereby it's problematic. Surely the question is whether the thing is likely to hurt someone or distress them, or whether it's reasonable to think it was meant to. Is that the case here? It looks to me like the ad is saying "do a thing in VR that you couldn't normally do", and the art is a black woman because why not?

As a lefty progressive inclusive/etc. kind of guy, I feel like much of modern leftism is people with the same goal attacking each other for pursuing it slightly different ways. E.g. one person tries in good faith to make diversity a priority and another attacks them for considering the wrong group "diverse".

BadKen wrote:

I stand by my clutchy pearls. The big bold title of the ad is DEFY REALITY. I read that as "you could never do this in real life, so buy our virtual empowerment device."

I mean, most people can't really defeat a professional boxer. They COULD have run this exact ad, but with the usual white guy in it.

Valmorian wrote:
BadKen wrote:

I stand by my clutchy pearls. The big bold title of the ad is DEFY REALITY. I read that as "you could never do this in real life, so buy our virtual empowerment device."

I mean, most people can't really defeat a professional boxer. They COULD have run this exact ad, but with the usual white guy in it.

Hey, I'll have you know that I'm easily the physical equal of Mr. Muscles there!

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Seriously, we elected a f*cking moron.

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BadKen wrote:

Ads that make you go hmmmm...

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Honestly I'm not sure there's a way to present this advertising message (only in VR could a black woman be powerful enough to take down a jacked boxer) that is not somehow problematic. Maybe they should have gone another way. Or maybe it's intentional because it is likely to generate controversy between some "it's just a game" blowhards and cuck SJWs like me.

Hope I'm not opening a can of worms, but...
either my white privilege makes me completely oblivious to the black-woman v white boxer, or my brain has rewired itself to just glance at ads without really registering what it sees. Either way, my brain just went "hey, a VR headset ad starring a woman".

#I'llSeeMyselfOut

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That may be the most Scottish thing I've heard of in a while.

Same woman, 40 years later.

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(It looks photoshopped because the signs are identical, but the second sign was created by tracing a projection of the first!)

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Some judges like beer.

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When you need three guns to get groceries.

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OG_slinger wrote:

When you need three guns to get groceries.

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"economic anxiety"

Note the 'Smoking Prohibited' sign.
Chance of killing you in a few decades, NO!
Chance of killing you right here, right now, YES! THE MORE THE BETTER!

I'm reminded, for some reason, of the extreme panic in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 to secure everything--every park, mall, parade, minor league baseball game. While there were a couple of plots that got stopped, realistically no terrorists were going to target a mall in middle-of-nowhere Indiana or a parade in Boise, Idaho. Even the airport security is way overblown versus the actual threat model.

(And the threat you should really be looking for is white supremacists, who have really ramped up their terrorist efforts over the past several years. This dude is more likely to be a terrorist than to stop a terrorist.)

Of course, paranoia about Things You Can Solve With Guns has a long history, so I shouldn't be surprised. It mostly doesn't work, of course: the "shooting home invaders" scenario is less likely than "accidentally shoot a member of your own family" or "use the gun to commit suicide" scenarios.

If I was there, all I know is I wouldn’t have taken the photo because what’s to stop this “good guy with a (3) gun(s)” from noticing me and using one of those guns to demand I hand over my phone because it had a photo he didn’t like on it?

Also if I had the photo I wouldn’t post it online because the guy and the picture taker probably live close and what’s to stop the guy from tracking someone down from their social media and going over to “discuss” why he’s upset that the photo went viral.

But, its owning Libtards!
I have a thought that I cannot get out of my head. That if this were a "stand your ground" state in the picture, the shirt is a threat so someone can grab one of his guns and shoot him dead with it. And I would be within my legal rights...
On a snarky note: he only has two hands so obviously the other gun is open to use by any passerby...