twovests

twovests wrote

Reply to Controversial Opinion: The Pickle Rick episode is actually good by Moonside

I actually agree 100%. This episode is a lot better than the meme status it has. You're in good company here, as others have expressed a similar sentiment: https://jstpst.net/f/GoldenAgeOfTV/2221/-/comment/4943

Around the time of season 3 coming out, Dan Harmon had pissed off a lot of the manosphere parts of his fanbase. First, they hired more female writers to explicitly address the gender disparity in the writers room. This made a lot of chuds angry, and Dan Harmon ended up having to publicly denounce fans who were harassing their new female writers.

During Season 3's airing, Harmon later went on a drunken rant on his podcast, saying that fascism is a cancer and you have to kill it. This angered a good chunk of their fans too.

Now, the thing about Pickle Rick? It wasn't just controversial for the "don't idolize Rick, therapy is good" message. A full year before Season 3 came out, we saw part of Pickle Rick as an early preview. It was the part where Rick, inexplicably a pickle, lures a rat to a trap to complete the last part of his rat-mecha contraption, before launching into a lengthy action-scene and power-fantasy.

It was released intentionally to stick in the mind. Pickle Rick was one of the most anticipated episodes of that season. And it really stuck the landing! A therapy named u/Akimble1 on the red site breaks down the final scene of that episode in a way that I appreciate: https://old.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/9vndo8/as_a_therapist_i_have_always_loved_the_shows/e9dk84z/

Welcome to the club of Pickle Rick Is Good true believers

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by astroaron in This is cool, how do I do this? by astroaron

Hi, are you in the Postmill directory?

git clone git@codeberg.org:Postmill/Postmill.git
cd Postmill
docker build -t registry.postmill.xyz/postmill/postmill:php-latest --target postmill_php .
docker build -t registry.postmill.xyz/postmill/postmill:web-latest --target postmill_web .

IIRC, these docker build commands look inside the current directory for a matching Dockerfile. It's strange, but the url registry.postmill.xyz/postmill/postmill:php-latest is an identifier.

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to by twovests

is this just because i'm in my late 20s or does it feel like wwIII is a bit closer than usual

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by neku in unposted posts by twovests

well i also wanted it to be a coherent argument for why i think christmas is fascist, told as a series of short narratives each with a lesson, analyzing a facet of fascism through christmas

but i am not a good writer and dont know a lot about things. and joe biden dropped out so a lot of the humor was lost

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in i loooove having millions of liquid crystals, coerced by captured lightning, to obscure this pane of pure light. each shadow is a sigil, and baby, i'm crafting incantations of a millions of these runes. by twovests

there is nothing to apologize for at all. all posts are good posts, but yours i particularly liked

you took the bit and ran with it. i am simply bowing

i welcome you to continue to express it. one could even say, just post,

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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by neku in unposted posts by twovests

tldr:

  • "christmas is fascist" series of posts with the homestuck act structure, responding to another thread on christmas. bit off too much, never to be seen

  • "everyone is plural" - thinking of ones identity as a system is useful for everyone

  • "bad intersection" - angrily worded letter to my city

  • "suicide subforum idea" - increasingly few good places to talk about it.

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