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Trump is imposing tariffs on Canada for, among other things;

- refusing to give the US the authority to decide what country Canada gets to trade with, as if we're not a sovereign nation

- refusing to to give the US first right of purchase on certain goods with prices set by the US, as if we're not allowed to sell to the highest bidder

- refusing to abolish protection laws for the french language, cause Quebec having those is a problem to Trump for some reason???

Trump tried to sneak these demands last minute into the latest negotiations, and when we obviously said no, he cancelled all negotiations, declared tariffs, and also that Lake Ontario is now Lake America, something so profoundly stupid everyone at work thought it was an AI bit until mainstraim news talked about it.

I cannot overstate this, no nation on earth can even entertain any remotely stupid demand from Trump. He needs to be put in his place, to be told shut up and piss off. No appeasement, no concessions, just a brick wall.

The Iranian regime, for all its many flaws, declared recently they wouldnt re-enter peace talks until Trump is out of office and someone else replaced him, and they might just be ahead of the curve on that one.

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Hey everyone, I know I haven't been making much content on this channel lately, but I've just been busy with other things, namely my main channel.

I have one last big project planned for this year, another experiment that may hit or miss, and I'm hoping to get started on it soon.

In the meantime, I've had a few spontaneous livestreams here and there and have enjoyed doing them, but I'm not actively looking for stuff to react to or comment on. If you have suggestions for me, things you'd like me to opine on, just let me know :)

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Anybody else now instincively checking when a video was made to confirm it's not AI slop?

Every time I see something too goofy to seem real, I'm like "oh well it was published 3 years ago so it aint AI."

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Just saw this while browsing reddit. Bruh what?

Metatron 10 years ago: "Hello Noble Ones! Today we're looking at Samurai armor and how to pronounce each piece correctly."

Metatron now: "If you ask me, a white guy, what country I'm from when in the West, then not only are you a traitor, you likely support terrorism."

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So I haven't paid much attention to The Odyssey at all, but yesterday I watched all the trailers and this really feels like one of those movies that you have to see in theater to really immerse yourself in the cinematography. So imma go see it this weekend, I'm pretty hyped.

On a side-note, this movie really is the fakest outrage coming from the chuds this year. If you've seen those two still images circulating, I realized for the first time last night that together they barely make up 1 second in the last of several movie trailers.

It's unironically the only and most extensive sample we have of Lupita Nyong'o and Elliot Page in the movie, and the chuds have been spreading those images online as if they're any actual indicators of the movie itself or the actors' roles in it, even though again, it's barely a ONE SECOND glimpse in total. What a bunch of sad losers.

We'll see how the movie is but I feel like once you've accepted there's nothing historical about it, it might actually be pretty awesome, at least based on the reviews so far.

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Just launched The Long Dark again yesterday and got this message on the loading screen. If y'all looking to support some based devs, Hinterland rocks.

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I would like to take a moment to remind my comrades in the PC master race that while Sony killing physical discs doesn't really affect you, the day Lord Gaben dies is the day Steam will become the worst gaming platform imaginable.

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If you were to guess, do you think the US as it currently exists can survive another 250 years?

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One can dream

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Some of the response videos I've made over the years had me talking extensively about representation/diversity in the media, especially when it comes to historical movies.

And it's no secret what I think; diversity is good. It should hardly be an issue when it comes to fiction (unless the character's skin color matters in some way), whereas for historical fiction, well this implies that liberties are being taken with the historical part of the story.

So if people are fine with characters speaking modern English in Ancient Egypt, the events being out of order or oversimplified, and the armors and all sorts of things being slightly off, well "inaccurate" skin color shouldn't be any different. Although if you're a chud, obviously I wouldn't expect you to be capable of this kind of nuance.

Regardless, the reason I'm bringing it up is because lately I've been noticing more strongly another sort of poor representation in the media; language representation.

And I don't mean the lack of non-English content in the US since clearly the average American can't be bothered to read subtitles, I mean the very depiction of other languages. As a French Canadian myself, the number of times I've seen characters described as French, even though they are not played by French actors, their accent is overly exaggerated, and then they do speak French for just a few words or short sentences and you can instantly tell it's not actual French, this has happened A LOT.

The more recent prominent example is obviously Frenchie in The Boys, played by an Israeli actor. His accent is borderline cartoonish, and the one time in the first season I heard him argue in French with another guy, it was so off I could barely make out the words.

I recall in one of the conjuring movies I saw in theater years ago (the one with the demon nun I think), they have this one character who describes himself as French Canadian, but when he speaks French, it's not our accent at all; the actor was Belgian.

There's also countless instances of scenes from various movies and shows depicting French minor characters having dialogues in French, but if you listen, none of it sounds natural.

Why is it so hard for production companies to just think "Hey, if this character is French, maybe the actor should be as well for authenticity's sake?" And of course I only speak for the French language, I can only assume anyone else whose first language is not English has a similar experience of watching American movies with poor depiction of other languages.

Surprisingly, one of the best movies for depicting language that I've seen, is Inglorious Basterds by Tarantino. Say what you will about the guy, I have quite a low opinion of the person myself, but the depiction of language in this movie is amazing. Lapadite, Shoshana, Marcel, they're French, they speak French accurately, and of course Landa shifting from French to German to Italian is flawless, Fassbender's british accent when speaking German being caught up by the officer who can tell different regional accents apart, this is actually how it should be done.

Anyone else notice this a lot?

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