The MEGASHOCK Saloon Thread 3: Chinder Chagger Edition

[Reticently]

 

 

[Dayaan]

1 hour ago, J-ride said:

I really think SNL fell off a cliff after they fired Norm MacDonald.

Yes.

[iStu X]

 

[iStu X]

2 hours ago, J-ride said:

I really think SNL fell off a cliff after they fired Norm MacDonald.

 

 

[IcyBlackDeep]

1 hour ago, Reticently said:

 

 

Farmers would dearly love immigration reform, W. Bush almost got there, but not much hope these days.

[AriesWarlock]

WATCH: Handcuffed Andrew Tate Claims ‘There is No Justice in Romania’ — Despite Moving There to Avoid the Law

 

Responding to a journalist's questions as he arrived at the offices, British-US citizen Andrew Tate, 36, said "the case file is completely empty" and "there is no justice in Romania".

He also said: "They know we have done nothing wrong."

 

 

Tate denied hurting any girls.

Tristan Tate, 34, was heard saying: "For my money. That is why I am in jail. I have money that they are trying to steal."

 

 

https://news.sky.com/story/andrew-tate-self-proclaimed-misogynist-influencer-hits-out-in-romania-saying-there-is-no-justice-12795003

Edited January 26, 2023 by AriesWarlock

[axeman61]

I'd have to scan my memory banks, but I don't think I've EVER seen someone self-snitch to the level Tate has. The only one close would be Mr. Dog Food (AKA Rolo). Trap Lore Ross has a video on him if you want to laugh at that pile of stupidity.

[J-ride]

I think the Tate brothers underestimated the need to bribe government officials in a country like Romania.  They clearly didn't grease the right palms.

[axeman61]

I don't know much, but I think even if you DO bribe govt, there are limits. Unless you're connected to organized crime or are in the millionaire+ bracket, they aren't going to let serious stuff like sex trafficking slide. I doubt these clowns have that level of money or connections.

Edited January 26, 2023 by axeman61

[VirginDefiler]

 

 

speaking of corruption and not greasing the right wheels.

 

[RSG3]

3 hours ago, IcyBlackDeep said:

Farmers would dearly love immigration reform, W. Bush almost got there, but not much hope these days.

I don't think they do, many of them thrive off the cheap labor illegals provide, unless I'm misunderstanding you. 

[MillionX]

Oh yeah, I was waiting on A&P taking a shot at this latest ridiculousness:

Oh no, oh dear, someone finds her attractive enough to stare and try a half-ass approach, oh how dreadful....what ever will we do about these tragic situations?!

 

She's an "underage 21 year old", btw 🤣

[RSG3]

1 hour ago, J-ride said:

I think the Tate brothers underestimated the need to bribe government officials in a country like Romania.  They clearly didn't grease the right palms.

No they literally made themselves a target when they want on podcasts broadcast internationally and said they moved to Romania specifically because the government is corrupt and you can do anything there. 

 

I can't think of a faster way to get a corrupt government on your ass then to call them corrupt on a national platform. 

 

If Romania isn't corrupt well you just pissed em off by saying they are, and if they are corrupt then you just REALLY pissed them off by drawing attention to it. 

 

Andrew Tate is a fucking retard. He's probably going to jail for a long time, and he better fucking hope Romania isn't as corrupt as he said they ate or else he's going away for a very very very very long time...or perhaps a very short time and we won't ever see him or his bro again...no one will. 

 

Either way probably a fucking stupid idea to call Don Corleoni a mobster on national TV when you live in the dudes fucking bungalo. 

Edited January 26, 2023 by RSG3

[VirginDefiler]

 

i warn you. brace yourelf tosee a sad story of domestic abuse of a man.

theres a fine line between diva drama and just plain crazy. either way avoid both.

[TheInfernoman]

Two things can be true. Tate can be fleecing/hurting girls AND Romania is blatantly going to take everything justice or not. 

[Reticently]

 

 

 

[J-ride]

3 hours ago, MillionX said:

Oh yeah, I was waiting on A&P taking a shot at this latest ridiculousness....

Oh no, oh dear, someone finds her attractive enough to stare and try a half-ass approach, oh how dreadful....what ever will we do about these tragic situations?!

 

She's an "underage 21 year old", btw 🤣

I really do wish they had an option for a male only gym, I'd be the first to sign up.  My current gym is fine at night-time, I only go at the hours it would be "scary" in the parking lot for a woman coming or going. 

 

I mostly started doing that because during the day the gym is filled with THOTS in sports bras and leggings who want but also don't want attention.  I find interacting with them to be annoying, which is why I do everything I can to avoid interacting with them.

[MillionX]

Fortunately, none at my gym have been an "issue" like the girl in that video...then again the one where I go typically has very small classes; it's often just me and 7 or so other people in there on a "crowded" day.... most of the regulars are also a bit older so they likely have a more reasonable mindset as well anyway.  I definitely enjoy the eye-candy.  

 

There was some really hot ones that showed up this past Fall, but I only saw them the one time... one girl looked like a more attractive version of Julia Stiles, and the other one was a bit like Torrie Wilson, but they never came back, unless they just go at other times.

[DoctaMario]

13 hours ago, AriesWarlock said:

Good to see she's one of us 🤘

White Lotus Actor Aubrey Plaza Rocks Megadeth T-Shirt On Saturday Night Live

 

There was this trend of girl singers and actresses wearing metal band tshirts a year or so ago. I remember seeing pictures of like, Rihanna and a couple others wearing Slayer shirts. I'm not saying it's impossible that Aubrey Plaza likes Megadeth or that Rihanna jukes to some Slayer, but I'm definitely skeptical.

[RSG3]

Im not, peoples tastes are pretty eclectic in reality, I always think back to how one of Kurt Cobain's favorite bands was The Beetles.

 

But they could be posing, who knows, who cares really lol.

[Reticently]

2 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

I'm not saying it's impossible that Aubrey Plaza likes Megadeth

Aubrey Plaza's personality is kind of dark.  Which isn't a guarantee of anything, of course, but of all celebrities I'm at least open to the idea that she's listening to some metal in her free time.

[Maxx]

3 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

There was this trend of girl singers and actresses wearing metal band tshirts a year or so ago. I remember seeing pictures of like, Rihanna and a couple others wearing Slayer shirts. I'm not saying it's impossible that Aubrey Plaza likes Megadeth or that Rihanna jukes to some Slayer, but I'm definitely skeptical.

its been going on longer than that. it started when thrasher started selling their shirts in like random big retail stores, there was a trend of dudes going up to girls with thrasher shirts and asking random gatekeeping skateboard questions. kardashians rocked a metallica shirt which made that shit blow the fuck up.

[HD-Man]

Honestly, I just buy shirts cuz they look cool. I know fuck all about Nirvana but that shirt was like $10 and it matched the kicks so I got it😂

[axeman61]

Yeah, people read too much into shirts. There are some shirts I WOULDN'T wear under certain circumstances, but aside from that, I only go by how nice a shirt looks.

Edited January 27, 2023 by axeman61

[MillionX]

heh, sheeeeitt, I'm in the same boat.  As a kid I just bought a few shirts like that because the art and subject matter (Hellish imagery, demons, skeletons, horrific fantasy creatures, etc) looked cool...I had a Slayer shirt and had never heard even 1 song by them.  

[RSG3]

4 hours ago, Maxx said:

its been going on longer than that. it started when thrasher started selling their shirts in like random big retail stores, there was a trend of dudes going up to girls with thrasher shirts and asking random gatekeeping skateboard questions. kardashians rocked a metallica shirt which made that shit blow the fuck up.

Thrashers fault for saying if you dont read Thrasher, dont wear their shirts.

[DangerousJ]

I have a few T-shirts with AC/DC, x-men, and spidey.

The X-men ones are from the Jim Lee -men vol.2 era and a Todd McFarlane one. 

I usually dont see those around until recently in physical stores.

Before you ask, I actually don't have any Transformers T-shirts lol

 

I usually only wear T-shirts at home now, not outside.

 

One reason I don't really buy printed T-shirts anymore is that the modern printing process for most of these shirts is so poor that the image deteriorates so quickly that it becomes blank after a few months.

[Sonichuman]

1 minute ago, DangerousJ said:

I have a few T-shirts with AC/DC, x-men, and spidey.

The X-men ones are from the Jim Lee -men vol.2 era and a Todd McFarlane one. 

I usually dont see those around until recently in physical stores.

Before you ask, I actually don't have any Transformers T-shirts lol

 

I usually only wear T-shirts at home now, not outside.

 

One reason I don't really buy printed T-shirts anymore is that the modern printing process for most of these shirts is so poor that the image deteriorates so quickly that it becomes blank after a few months.

Shirt prints definitely don't last as long anymore and its pretty annoying.  I've been trying to preserve mine as best I can buy letting the air dry instead of putting them in the dryer.

[Lantis]

I just REALLY hate those assholes who see you wearing a band T-shirt and starts with that whole "Tell me the name of 5 songs of *insert band here*" nonsense like fuck off you butthurt nerds LOL

[RSG3]

46 minutes ago, Lantis said:

I just REALLY hate those assholes who see you wearing a band T-shirt and starts with that whole "Tell me the name of 5 songs of *insert band here*" nonsense like fuck off you butthurt nerds LOL

I love doing this to my gfs teenager. Your annoyance at it is half the fun. 

Edited January 27, 2023 by RSG3

[VirginDefiler]

i wonder how much these bands make from merchandised t shirts..prob more than they made frm music record sales

[Chadouken]

I'll usually say something if I see somebody wearing a shirt with a band I like on it. Usually just a quick compliment. Unless it's a white dude with dreads rocking a Phish or Dead t-shirt. Then I'm staying the fuck away.

Edited January 27, 2023 by Chadouken

[Reticently]

You guys know cultural appropriation?  Well let me coin a phrase for people wearing merch for bands they've never listened to: subcultural appropriation.

 

Like, we all hate weird gatekeeping purity test dudes.  But at the same time, it is disconcerting to see someone in a Skinny Puppy tee shirt and then find out they've never heard of industrial music.  Or an MF Doom tee shirt and find out they thought he was a comic book character.

[HD-Man]

Slowly but surely all the girls making an OnlyFans. That "I don't fuck with broke men" to the "Im selling pics of my butthole to strangers" pipeline is undefeated. lol

Edited January 27, 2023 by HD-Man

[RSG3]

Unpopular opinion but I think a certain level of gate keeping is healthy. If i where an artist i would be really frustrated to see someone wearing my art (Movie, music, show, game whatever) and it turns out its nothing more then a fashion accessory to them. They know nothing about it at all and just wear it because its trendy or something. Vapid consumption.

 

In some ways it falls into the same kind of critique to me that Rian Johnson made of rich douchebags with Miles Bron. Dudes got a really big expensive bold piece of art on his wall and its fucking upside down because he doesn't give a shit about the art, just the status it gives him. I dont give a shit about art either, the internet had to point it out to me, and that's kind of the point. That's what it feels like to me when i see a 15 year old in a shirt with an NES controller on it that say "Vintage 1985."

 

It also sucks to look like a gatekeeping douchebag when you just thought the shirt or whatever indicated the chance at an actual mutual interest lol. Thats like a double whammy. You look like a jerk AND you didnt meet a mutual interest friend like you hoped. Bummer lol.

Edited January 27, 2023 by RSG3

[AriesWarlock]

10 hours ago, DoctaMario said:

There was this trend of girl singers and actresses wearing metal band tshirts a year or so ago. I remember seeing pictures of like, Rihanna and a couple others wearing Slayer shirts. I'm not saying it's impossible that Aubrey Plaza likes Megadeth or that Rihanna jukes to some Slayer, but I'm definitely skeptical.

 

Like said above, Aubrey's dark and sardonic personality gives credence in my mind that she could like Megadeth. More than I believe one of the Kardashians liking Slayer

 

 

2 hours ago, MillionX said:

heh, sheeeeitt, I'm in the same boat.  As a kid I just bought a few shirts like that because the art and subject matter (Hellish imagery, demons, skeletons, horrific fantasy creatures, etc) looked cool...I had a Slayer shirt and had never heard even 1 song by them.  

 

Well I hope you have corrected that by now

 

[Chadouken]

Yeah Aubrey being into metal totally checks out based on her personality. When I first saw her with the Megadeth shirt I didn't even think twice. I was too busy picturing what she looked like without any shirt on at all.

[DoctaMario]

24 minutes ago, Reticently said:

You guys know cultural appropriation?  Well let me coin a phrase for people wearing merch for bands they've never listened to: subcultural appropriation.

 

Like, we all hate weird gatekeeping purity test dudes.  But at the same time, it is disconcerting to see someone in a Skinny Puppy tee shirt and then find out they've never heard of industrial music.  Or an MF Doom tee shirt and find out they thought he was a comic book character.

I read a piece a couple months back about the life and death cycle of a subculture, and gist of it was that once you have enough people within a culture that don't really shit or that are only interested in the most popular aspects of it, it starts to die off.

 

Like @RSG3aaid, some gatekeeping is healthy, and I think seeing how the fgc has developed is living proof that letting anyone and everyone in the door is a bad idea if you care about the core of your subculture.

[Chadouken]

3 minutes ago, DoctaMario said:

Like @RSG3aaid, some gatekeeping is healthy, and I think seeing how the fgc has developed is living proof that letting anyone and everyone in the door is a bad idea if you care about the core of your subculture.

Exactly. That's why we have these dready wooks on Phish tour selling bunk acid and grilled cheese. Fucking lot rats 😡

[RSG3]

4 minutes ago, Chadouken said:

Exactly. That's why we have these dready wooks on Phish tour selling bunk acid and grilled cheese. Fucking lot rats 😡

I'm so annoyed I understood this lol. 

[Darc_Requiem]

1 hour ago, VirginDefiler said:

i wonder how much these bands make from merchandised t shirts..prob more than they made frm music record sales

Given how the record companies screwed over so many artists, I bet you are right. 

[Sonichuman]

40 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

Unpopular opinion but I think a certain level of gate keeping is healthy. If i where an artist i would be really frustrated to see someone wearing my art (Movie, music, show, game whatever) and it turns out its nothing more then a fashion accessory to them. They know nothing about it at all and just wear it because its trendy or something. Vapid consumption.

 

In some ways it falls into the same kind of critique to me that Rian Johnson made of rich douchebags with Miles Bron. Dudes got a really big expensive bold piece of art on his wall and its fucking upside down because he doesn't give a shit about the art, just the status it gives him. I dont give a shit about art either, the internet had to point it out to me, and that's kind of the point. That's what it feels like to me when i see a 15 year old in a shirt with an NES controller on it that say "Vintage 1985."

 

It also sucks to look like a gatekeeping douchebag when you just thought the shirt or whatever indicated the chance at an actual mutual interest lol. Thats like a double whammy. You look like a jerk AND you didnt meet a mutual interest friend like you hoped. Bummer lol.

I've had the reverse of this happen to me and it crushed me.  I was wearing a metroid shirt with this on it and I got complimented on it.  I thanked her and then she asked what anime was it from and I had to keep my face from showing the amount of disappointment I was feeling.

 

 

[AriesWarlock]

 

[Sonichuman]

I can't speak for everyone but I personally feel weird if I'm wearing something that's a reference to anything or represents a brand and I know next to jack shit about it or I don't care about it at all.  It's sort of a weird thing to do cause you may not even know what it is that you're representing when you're wearing it.  It's almost like getting a tattoo of some japanese katakana but not knowing at all what it means.  Sure it looks cool...but for all you know it could be saying "cum dumpster".

[Sonichuman]

3 minutes ago, AriesWarlock said:

"Why don't we liberate Canada"

[J-ride]

Sepeaking of gatekeeping, one thing I noticed is that I grew up training in dirty boxing gyms and now that most of those have closed or become MMA gyms you have the up and coming fighters have groupie girls standing around watching training sessions.  It's really bizarre to me because there were NO girls around when I was in my teens and early twenties in those places.

 

Edit: I can't say I like the dynamic because young guys need to "show off" for the girls and that's how people get injured.

Edited January 27, 2023 by J-ride

[Reticently]

16 minutes ago, Darc_Requiem said:

Given how the record companies screwed over so many artists, I bet you are right. 

Many, many acts have stated they make far more off of merch sales than they do from recording.

 

46 minutes ago, DoctaMario said:

Like @RSG3aaid, some gatekeeping is healthy, and I think seeing how the fgc has developed is living proof that letting anyone and everyone in the door is a bad idea if you care about the core of your subculture

Oh, I'm not talking about baseline trying to strike up a conversation about a shirt.  I'm talking about THAT GUY, the one whose self esteem is so fragile he goes all aggro when it looks like someone he perceives as outside his social tier might be into the one thing he feels gives him an identity.

 

Like the Simpsons Comic Book Guy.

[Maxx]

2 hours ago, VirginDefiler said:

i wonder how much these bands make from merchandised t shirts..prob more than they made frm music record sales

I have a feeling the bands dont make shit. Alot of these deals are run by record companies from what i can tell. Unless you actually have a good contract..metallica i def believe they own a part of it. but slayer shirts being sold in forever 21/urban outfitters..nah thats def the record company.

 

 

[axeman61]

You know shit is bad when they put out promo for it. They might as well be begging to the camera "PLEASE don't riot".

Edited January 27, 2023 by axeman61

[AriesWarlock]

Cowboy Bebop Creator Said Live-Action Version ‘Clearly Not Cowboy Bebop’

 

When Netflix announced its Cowboy Bebop live-action adaptation, it also noted creator Shinichiro Watanabe would be involved as a consultant. Now in an interview with Forbes, Watanabe revealed his exact thoughts on the adaptation. He said that after watching the first episode’s opening scene set in a casino, that “It was clearly not Cowboy Bebop…” [Thanks, Forbes!]

Here is the full statement Watanabe gave to Forbes regarding the Cowboy Bebop live-action adaptation.

 

Quote

For the new Netflix live-action adaptation, they sent me a video to review and check. It started with a scene in a casino, which made it very tough for me to continue. I stopped there and so only saw that opening scene. It was clearly not Cowboy Bebop and I realized at that point that if I wasn’t involved, it would not be Cowboy Bebop. I felt that maybe I should have done this. Although the value of the original anime is somehow far higher now.

 

The Netflix take on the show only lasted for a single season. Back in December 2021, the company confirmed it was canceled. The adaptation adjusted or changed various elements, for example the nature of Ein. It ended on a cliffhanger, which saw Spike Spiegel, played by John Cho, meeting Ed, portrayed by Eden Perkins.

It is still possible to watch the Cowboy Bebop live-action first season on Netflix. You can see the anime on streaming services like Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Netflix.