Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "Overly Sarcastic Productions" channel.

  1. Beats Ashley & Tyler. I'm looking at you, parents of millennials.
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  2. What's to know. Mary Sue gets all the virtue signalling and all the plot armor. That's Main Character Franchise Craft 101
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  3. Looks at Los Angeles. Laughs in Riverside Ha. We're just one giant, contiguous strip mall and an endless bumper-to-bumper stream of cars looking for a place to park
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  4.  @MaxArturo  Don't waste perfectly good sympathy feeling bad for things you weren't there for. It's a virtue to remember history so you aren't doomed to repeat it, but you're literally repeating history if you pretend you're living it now. Tis' fine to look in the rear view mirror at where you came from and what might come from behind, but keep your eyes on the road ahead, please.
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  5. Weren't you in Super Mario Bros II ?
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  6. They have different concepts of noblebright on Kreig
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  7. Oddly enough, that was exactly what I did with the salary from my last damn deployment (also OIF/OND) too. Paid off those debts and put $25k down for my first house. I was 36. In the modern economy, there was no other way I would have had that much money saved at once. Ever. Much less at a more useful, younger age. Of course, most of our younger joes take everything they saved and blow it as quick as they can when they get home because they lost their marbles while waiting to live a real life again. Usually on some vehicle. Which they tend to wreck. You only come home one of two ways: Either your Fucks Meter has hit zero, and you become a reclusive Buddha, or you dial yourself up to 11, and need a scrip for serious chill pills and C.P.T. classes with the VA. Basically, you either come home more intense or more numb. But you never come home the same.
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  8. If you think 40k is Grimdark, you gotta get a load of Vampire Knight Requiem Or rather, GrimSnark
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  9. Narrator sounds threatened... Matriarchy does not tolerate workarounds or competition
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  10. Or the dynastic harem-succession murder olympics. May the odds be ever in your favor.
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  11. The slam-dunk way to sell your Killer Robot script to Hollywood: Cut out the cost of special effects Cylons: OMG, they look just like people! Terminators: OMG, they look just like people! Replicants: OMG, they look just like people! Hosts: OMG, they look just like people! Aaaaand, at the opposite end of the spectrum, the less exploited Cyberpunk trope of cybernetics diminishing a person's humanity. How much of yourself can you replace before you are no longer human? Not the clumsy "I uploaded my personality to computer and decided to take over the world" writers fall-back plot, but the more gradual one found in Cyberpunk RPGs, where you chip away at it with gradual "upgrades"
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  12. This sounds like a Prison Pen Pal romance
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  13. Pretty sure thats called a bus
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  14. FTD Flowers has joined the chat
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  15. So Philadelphia is really named after some ancient, Egyptian, Olympic Gold Medalist-level incest. City of brotherly love, indeed.
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  16. So my son just got back from HK, and he said the most interesting things he learned were: 1. China has more English speakers than the United States. Yet, perversely, speaking English is some kind of social Taboo whether across the river or in HK. It's like using vulgar/insulting/foul language to the Han mindset. 2. It apparently takes 4 days to get your Visa upgraded just so you can cross the river into Shenzhen. Which, to everyone in HK, is like saying you're taking a vacation in Detroit. 3. Nobody speaks Spanish. Damn few speak Tagalog. So if you have someone who only speaks Spanish, you're going to have a miserable time trying to order a meal. 4. Never heard in the United States: That's a rough part of town. It's full of Indian Hindus. Frequently Heard in HK: That's a rough part of town. It's full of Indian Hindus. 5. Cantonese in HK and Mandarin as you go up north into the Mainland won't translate when spoken to each other. So write everything down. Because apparently it's the same written language. WTF.
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  18. Skipped: The Guerrero Decree abolished Mexican slavery in 1829, which pissed off the Texans, who refused to free their slaves, probably the biggest real motivator for that whole "independence for Tejas" thing in 1836. Andrew Jackson, being a fanboi of Sam Houston, a slaver, then violated US neutrality laws to supply the Texas slaver insurrection with weapons & men because of their shared love of a slave economy.
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  19. British conquer disparate swaths of the world through brutal Naval power, force political & economic changes that echo through history: OMG how awful, what a bankrupt culture Mongols conquer huge swathes of the world through brutal Cavalry power, force political & economic changes that echo through history: OMG how influential, what a rich culture And this, ladies and gentleman, is moralizing history as it's done today if you want to earn that degree, publish that book, or monetize your channel
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  20. "No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die!" Trope villains are at their most compelling when they run into their own kind and do not form a Legion of Doom, but rather start competing in such a way that the protagonists either don't matter anymore, or are so woefully outclassed in the titanic struggle that it's laughably comic. Adds either real underdog value to the titular hero, or opens that "I had to do what I had to do" moral doorway to have to make the dark choices to come out on top. Either that, or you have to step into the trap of supporting an irredeemable villain by forcing the viewer themselves to decide on what they think might be the lesser evil. So...if you take the Mary Sues out of the equation, who do you want to win? Cirsei or the Night King? Make your choice, and just know you're probably gonna have to own it. /cue Jeopardy music
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  21. The laying of colonialism at every Brit's feet isn't what earns them such ire abroad. That's more of a topical American white man's burden complex that they like to spread hither and dither as if they were trying to run over the entire western world with a green Subaru Forester. It's that sarcasm is the only spice on the English shelf, and anyone who's traveled will get that 99% of the hairless primates on planet earth are sarcasm deaf, and are more likely to pick a fight with you over casual employment of such idiomatic arcana than to chuckle at self deprecation or irony laced observance. It is the great perversity of our time that the cultures that delight in pointing out their own contemporary and historical flaws are the targets of those cultures that are incapable of recognizing their own. Heard any great Chinese proverbs about the sillier aspects of life in the PRC lately? Me neither.
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  22. Ottoman Election: Have 100 wives, who have 100 sons. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE !! Cue Queen soundtrack
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