DigiDemiFiend

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This guy doesn't know about stackies

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Eventually, first two seasons of DBZ aired on syndicated TV. Cartoon Network picked it up in 98

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's a scene in the netflix show, Daybreak, where RZA as a narrator explains how eastern warrior culture became popular in the black community. Which is what i thought of reading your question. I couldn't find a clip but here's an article about it, and the relevant quote:

"It's not your fault you want to be a samurai," says RZA. "See, that's the economical pressure being expressed as warrior code. It started when young black men couldn't afford to go to the movies, so we watched kung fu reruns. We found beauty in things that had been neglected." He explains the socioeconomic forces that raised a whole generation of "blerds," spinning out into everything from Jim Kelly to The Last Dragon to Kendrick Lamar's "Kung Fu Kenny" to The Boondocks to Wu-Tang Clan itself.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 month ago (3 children)

For a serious answer, as someone who grew up in a family that couldn't afford cable television. DBZ, Sailor Moon, and Pokémon all aired on network, antenna, televison in the morning before school or after school throughout the 90's.

So it's probably a function of income more than race. All the poor white kids I grew up with worshiped those three shows too.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Bitch I'm a lycanthrope

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is fucking wild to me that, that's all it took to create backlash. That is so incredibly tame.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I had the same thought initially. I haven't read the article, but assuming this picture isn't fake they might be including artists from his last two campaigns. Rogers did in 2020, Bowie and Prince died in 2016

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for validating my scifi reference. I feel seen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

It's a reference to a book. But essentially yes you would manipulate the curvature of the universe to put something similar to a black hole around the solar system so that nothing could escape. A Black Domain, or a Light Tomb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Our solar system would have a greatly reduced speed of light so as to avoid being attacked by other sentient life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Usually I avoid internet arguments, these arguments were so bad though that I couldn't resist

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