tastefullyoffensive:

Video game store makes the most of their broken shutters. [x]

South Korea's most wanted man, whose heavily decomposed body was found in an orchard last month, had evaded arrest by hiding behind an upstairs wall of a wooden cabin, with suitcases of cash at hand, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The body of Yoo Byung-un, 73, wanted in connection with the sinking of a ferry in April, was only identified this week, more than a month after he was found lying next to a copy of a book he had written, empty bottles of alcohol nearby, ending the country's biggest and most dramatic manhunt.

vgjunk:

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon R, Super Famicom.

i see lucy as a racist film that plays on negative stereotypes while hiding behind the cover of (white) feminism. 

all this film has done is switch out the white man for a white woman. it’s still a film about a white person getting violated by the evil poc, then gaining power and wiping them out. 

here’s 2 of my favourite scenes from the trailer: 

from top to left to right:

KEEP CLEAN 保持清潔，APPLE 蘋果，ONION 洋蔥，GRAPE 葡萄，CHAIR 椅子，TOMATO 番茄

traditional chinese is an actual written language used by millions of people, not symbols to be thrown around at the whim of set designers because they look cool and idk, serves to create a menacing asian atmosphere. this is so disrespectful, and made even worse by the fact that this film in set it taipei, taiwan where the official written language is traditional chinese.

it doesn’t matter that this film caters to a primarily “white” audience who won’t be able to read it, the language and culture of taiwan isn’t something for you to twist and use as you deem fit because it’s “exotic.” 

lucy shoots a guy for not being able to speak english. 

she l i t e r a l l y shoots this taiwanese taxi driver, in taiwan for not being able to speak english. she’s in taipei and she’s shooting people as they are of no use to her because they don’t speak english. 

just think about the sort of message that’s sending out. she’s not being “bad-ass strong female character who takes no shit,” she’s saying that english is useful and better. this is the type of harmful ideology that stretches all the way back from when western countries were colonising and forcing their language and customs on other countries. 

let me explain with a real life example. i was born in new zealand to two taiwanese parents. i am fluent in english, but mandarin is conversational at best. my friends in taiwan say that i am “so lucky” to speak fluent english, when they are fluent in mandarin and their english level is no worse than my mandarin. they tell me that they want to perfect their english but in the same breath tell me that mandarin isn’t worth perfecting because i have english and that’s “enough”. they also tell me how pretty my white friends are when they see pictures.

this is the type of neo imperialism ideology that they’ve grown up buying into. it honestly hurts and frustrates me that they belittle their own culture like this, honestly believing that the western world is superior. this is the type of neo imperialism ideology that this film (hopefully unintentionally) promotes: white people are better and will save the day. 

if they wanted to film a movie about a white women getting back at those who had violated her, why not film it in a western country? if they wanted to film it in taiwan, why not find an asian lead actress?

i do agree that we need more women protagonists in action/superhero movies, but not like this. its not okay that the female lead needs to be kidnapped and have her body cut open without her consent in order to gain her powers, and those said those powers do not make any of this racist bullshit okay. 

i am just so tired and angry of poc always being brushed off to the side as either props or villains in mainstream media. 

as a poc, it’s so frustrating to see that the of the standard of beauty still white women when we live in multi-cultural societies and a diverse world. 

feminism is about equality. a film in which poc are presented as evil and inferior before being killed off by a superior white woman does not promote equality. 

vgjunk:

Bionic Commando, NES.

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vamosvideo:

“True character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure - the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature. But this? Using scissors to cut off the tip of a slice of pizza? I don’t know what this is. ”

― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting

vgjunk:

Crazy Fight, arcade.

turdqu0ize:

keep fuckin walkin you postman piece of shit

theartofanimation:

Yuta Onoda

invisiblelad:

mostingeniusparadox:

Legends of the Dark Knight #49

I’ve always felt this way too, Harley. 

sailoruranus:

thank u for saving bi lions

youcanfuckingbiteme:

Playing a Bethesda game like

hannakdraws:

twitter doodle-comic inspired by the new Zelda trailer

vgjunk:

Commercial for the AV Famicom.

jump-gate:

Macross Plus

According to the investigation, the rituals included students marching in their underwear, being addressed by explicit nicknames and performing sexually-charged skits.

jessicalprice:

agrownupgeekgirl:

Female Blacksmith by *thomaswievegg

Oooh, I hadn’t remembered this piece, but I love it. From Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Castles of the Inner Sea.

"Janelle has performed at the White House, like, 15 times," he told the audience. "There's going to be an official Janelle Monae room in the White House. We love her. Michelle and I love Janelle. We love her energy. We love her talent. But we most of all love her character. And anybody who gets a chance to talk to her, this is just a remarkable, strong, smart young lady." "And I have to say nice things about her because she may be the only person in possession of a video in which I try to keep up with her and Usher on the dance floor," he jokingly qualified. "Now, this is top secret. She has promised that this will never be released. But she can blackmail me at any time." The president urged Monae to "testify" to his skills after she confirmed she has the video.

As Foreign Policy magazine pointed out on Friday, the freshman Republican lawmaker mistook State Department official Nisha Biswal and Commerce Department official Arun Kumar to be Indian government officials during a House Foreign Affairs committee yesterday. “I’m familiar with your country,” he told them, despite the chairman introducing them both as senior American officials. “I love your country. And I understand the complications of so many languages and so many cultures and so many histories all rolled up in one.” He added, as the two officials sat staring at him: “Anything I can do to make the relationship with India better, I’m willing and enthusiastic about doing so.” When he asked the pair for cooperation from “your government,” an awkward pause ensued before Biswal took the mic and told the Republican: “I think your question is to the Indian government. And we certainly share your sentiments and we certainly will advocate that on behalf of the U.S. government.”

lolmythesis:

Library and Information Science

Read excerpt: www.academia.edu/7757239/Controlled_Vocabulary_Standards_for_Anthropological_Datasets

nolifejustanime:

jayymars:

gogoatt:

Pokemon Spectrum | by gogoatt

This is beautiful *wipes away tear*

Squad

al-grave:

hkirkh:

Corgi and Shiba Inu cross

COGE?!?!

such cute

wow

Glenn Raymond Thomas, a Geneva-based spokesman for World Health Organization was also aboard the flight, WHO confirmed. -- Aram Barra: "Jacqueline van Tongeren from AMC and Lucie van Mens from the Female Health Company were also on the plane. Pim de Kuijer (Stop Aids now) and Martine de Schutter (Aids fonds) were also on the plane."

The cake is a lie!

This is just evil pic.twitter.com/mlGOVLtpPa

— Fabio Resende (@faresende) July 15, 2014

Cake makes everything better. Unless that cake represents Argentinian pride and houses a dark secret: A delicious German flag interior.

We can only imagine how this whole thing went down:

German friend: It was a good game. Your team played it's heart out. Look, I made you a cake to show how much I appreciate Argentina!

Argentinian friend: It still hurts, but Germany played well. Congratulations and thank you. This means a lot.

*cuts cake*

German friend: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Argentinian friend: ...

It could be worse. You could pretend you send your friend a photo of Mario Götze when you actually sent goatse.

Studio Ghibli's beautiful new film The Tale of Princess Kaguya will come to America on October 17th, with the voice of Chloe Moretz as Kaguya. Based on the classic Japanese folk tale of the bamboo cutter, Kaguya was directed by Isao Takahata and will be released by Gkids, likely just in time for awards consideration.

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