But I mean, I will take a pot shit and say Captain America doesn’t represent anything good
what do you mean, I’m not saying you’re wrong I’m just curious?
okay, so, a few years ago a lot of comic book fans got their batman undies all twisted up in a knot during the Civil War even when one of it’s tie-in miniseries, Frontline, featured this exchange between Captain America and reporter Sally Floyd
and this scene made a lot of fans really fucking mad, really fucking mad
what none of them could realize is that Sally Floyd for right and they mostly just had a problem with a woman telling their precious sentinel of liberty how he was wrong.
Captain America, as a character, has always skirted this line where he claims to represent what is best for the American people (and there have been times where he’s opposed the government because what they were doing was wrong)
And during the Civil War event, Captain America goes on the fucking offensive as if the right to put on a mask and run around shooting lasers out of your cock is a civil liberty
He claims he’s doing it for the American people, but he doesn’t know shit about the American people. While Sally’s exact phrasing pissed people off, it’s like, Cap doesn’t understand why people are afraid of Spider-man, he doesn’t understand that there are college students who think he’s a fascist, he doesn’t understand why a mutant teenager would wear a Magneto Was Right shirt, he doesn’t know anything about America to the point that he can’t understand why people don’t want a registration act enacted
And we see the flip of this, post Dark Reign, where Cap is put in charge of America’s national security/The Avengers and he basically becomes a jackbooted thug. He storms his covert team into sovereign nations, he polices superheroes whose activities he doesn’t agree with, he puts members of an entire species on lockdown because Wolverine is beefing with Cyclops and he can’t be bothered to understand anything about the Phoenix Force.
Captain America is what happens when you give someone who has absolutely no desire to understand the world the power to police it.
The bolded is basically … why in essence he’s almost the perfect Captain America. Because that’s what it is.
The big happy one is always making comments that border on witty, but don’t quite make it, but nonetheless he considers them “zingers”. The littler one knows better and bears the burden of perpetual secondhand embarrassment.
Shit you not, it actually says that on the Workshop page now. Fkn srs. Last paragraph.
“…these are not hard and fast rules. They are guidelines.”
Well, that explains a lot.
Show of hands for everyone who wants a throwback/vintage/period-appropriate update? It’d be a nice start.
I think reskinning all all the promo items to be aesthetically consistent with TF2’s graphical style and releasing the pack as a mod would be a fine use of Facepunch’s time.
Next time someone tells you to eat more veggies, get down on of these tiny motherfuckers. These low fat, high fiber sons of bitches are healthy as shit without sacrificing flavor. Trying to eat better? START WITH A FUCKING BURGER.
SMOKEY BEAN AND SPINACH SLIDERS
2 cups chopped fresh spinach
1 cup chopped onion
3 cups cooked kidney beans or 2-15 ounce can
1/2 cup cooked brown rice (use leftovers)
4 cloves of garlic, chopped all small and shit
1 tablespoon liquid smoke (like I said, it is near the BBQ sauce at the store I swear. You haven’t even looked yet so stop complaining. It is there)
2 teaspoon soy sauce or tamari
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
2 teaspoons oregano
1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin
black pepper to taste
1/2 cup whole wheat breadcrumbs (any breadcrumbs you have are fine. Got nothing? Just toast up some bread until it is almost burnt looking and real dry then grate them shits or put them in a food processor to get some tiny fucking crumbs. They help soak up all the liquid so don’t leave this shit out)
Warm the oven to 375 degrees and lightly grease a large baking sheet. You can throw down some foil and then grease it if you are a lazy fuck like me and hate doing dishes.
Add the spinach and onion to a food processor and pulse until they are in tiny-ass pieces. Add the kidney beans, rice, garlic, liquid smoke, soy sauce, and seasonings and pulse until everything is all mixed up. It’s fine if a few larger pieces of the beans hang around but you want this looking like kinda paste-like. Place the bean-spinach mixture into a medium bowl and add in the fucking breadcrumbs. This should be slightly sticky and hold nicely when you form it into a ball. If it is too wet, add more breadcrumbs. Taste it and add more spices and whatever until it tastes good to you. Can’t do that shit with ground beef.
No food processor? It’s all good. Just cut up the spinach and the onion extra tiny and add everything but breadcrumbs to a big bowl. Now pound on that shit until it looks like chunky mash potatoes. Then add the breadcrumbs and do all the other shit I say above.
Divide the mixture into 16 patties if you are making sliders or 8 patties if you are making regular burgers. Whateverthefuck you want to do. Place them on the baking sheet, spray them lightly with oil (slow your roll, I said LIGHTLY) and bake for 15 minutes or until the bottom is a crispy golden brown. Flip the patties and bake for 15 or until both sides look awesome. If you are doing full size burgers you might need to let the sides go 5 extra minutes. Let them cool for a few minutes before serving. Pile them high with red onion, avocado, whatever additional deliciousness you’ve got and chow the fuck down.
Makes 16 sliders or 8 regular patties
Thug Kitchen with special guest Soldier.
Beautiful.
Lily Liqueur’s “Lily and The Swan”
Photo taken at Byrlesque At The Byrd: Byrds of Paradise
Photo credit: Barbara Shore
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Ooh!
okay since some of you are still interpreting my post wrong, i thought some picture mights help. please note in my original post that i said that the futuristic technology didn’t bother me, but the style did (actually the post was more about pop cultures references that don’t fit the era, like one to siegfried and roy, which can’t be called anything but a careless mistake, but w/e)
let’s take team fortress 2’s sentry and portal’s turret
technology-wise, they have the same exact function: detect thing and shoot thing. the only real technological difference is that one can talk. but obviously, the two are not the same. one is clunky and rough, the other is sleek and clean. the sentry fits the decade’s style. the turret does not. the turret would look absolutely ridiculous and out-of-place on the battle fields of sawmill/thunder mountain/whatever your favorite tf2 map is. all because of its style
another example (one that i used in the original post): the dr. grordbort promotional items and the deus ex promotional items
both are futuristic. you’d have a pretty hard time arguing that ray guns existed in 1968 along with nano helmets. but once again, their styles are drastically different. the cow mangler 5000 is something that you’d see in a 1950s/1960s sci-fi comic book. it’s wonderful; i just love the look of this weapon. it’s retro-futuristic, which works so well because tf2 is retro. the nanobalaclava however… yikes. the style of it clashes pretty badly with the style of tf2. hell, if you painted it white, it would looks like it came out of aperture laboriousness.
i hope i’ve made my point clear. thank you
OPINION TIME: I’m in agreement with weenie on this one. At least as far as the items go (whatever historical inaccuracies that happen in the comics and such fly over me because I don’t pay enough attention).
One thing that really bugs me about this though is that 90% of the items that are guilty of this crime are all items that come from game preorders. Like with the Deus items and some of the new Poker Night items, they look really out of place in the game. Again this doesn’t so much bother me like in a way that keeps me from liking the game but more in a way that it’s like that could have been handled so much better. I mean, you look at the promotional items and you can see that a lot of them have been worked to keep them true to the game’s universe…but then there are some that just…eh.
I know Valve gets a lot of their TF2 revenue from doing these kinds of promotions, but I think that they can make the items work just a smidgen better. They hold the items they accept from the community to such standards that if someone submitted something like the Deus Specs or Nanobaclava (and Valve had no intention of doing a Deus promotion) then they would have turned them down because they don’t fit the game’s universe very well. Then you have items like the Quadwrangler and Triad Trinket and even the Sydney Straw Boat that work fully well with the TF2 world.
I’m just being nitpicky and it boils down to I don’t like ___ item so I won’t get it but it still makes me sigh at the missed opportunities.
I would really like to see more items in the style of the Pomson and Cow Mangler tho. That Sci-Fi 1960’s look is something I really love. Maybe in the future we’ll get like a “world of tomorrow” update with more items like these in it.
/opinion
YES THESE PEOPLE ARE RIGHT AS HELL
Shit you not, it actually says that on the Workshop page now. Fkn srs. Last paragraph.
“…these are not hard and fast rules. They are guidelines.”
Forms in Nature by Hilden Diaz is a light sculpture that casts shadows resembling tree branches on the surrounding walls.
