doublepepperoni [none/use name] @ doublepepperoni @hexbear.net

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I just find this sort of performative corporate fanboy culture really cringy

If this were a convention, video game tournament or other community-driven event I wouldn't bat an eye, but dressing up and camping out for the launch of a piece of consumer electonics is just so lame

The war was widely considered a holy crusade against the antichrist among politically powerful spiritual and military leaders in Finland. The holiness of the war was also a central reason why the alliance with the [Third Reich] was accepted among the Finnish intelligentsia

Maybe the wrong side won the civil war

I did notice that the listing has been up for over a month, so maybe he's getting anxious to get it sold by now and would be open to lowering the price. I arranged to go take a look at the bike at the seller's home tomorrow, we'll see how it goes🤔 The bike in question is basically everything I'm looking for in a bike and looks to be in pretty nice condition from the photos despite being 20 years old.

There's definitely material for a leftist podcast, but since the comics have only ever been popular in some European countries and it's probably really hard to get hold of most of the comics, there's probably not that much interest in doing that.

Hard to get hold of? These comics have been reprinted again and again for decades in Europe and they litter every library, attic and used bookstore. Barks' and Rosa's stuff in particular is very easy to find scans of thanks to modern reprints and the same should go for every other big name classic Disney artist. The Italian Donald Duck/Mickey Mouse comics universe is also a fascinating rabbit hole. Those old Italian stories were wild, with Donald being a horrible lazy asshole that was always physically abusing his nephews

it's a story about how a rich guy became rich because he's super special, works harder and is tougher than everyone else, which is cringe

You're telling me this character originated in comics published by the Walt Disney corporation in the 1940s and 50s????

I wish there was a leftist podcast that examined the fucked up politics of old Donald Duck comics- lord knows there'd be plenty of material. Some European leftist nerds should get on that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Financial_Fable

"Barks himself called "A Financial Fable" a "story of easy riches" and said that the message of the story surely would get him "in a cell in a Siberian gulag someday.""

also

https://scrooge-mcduck.fandom.com/wiki/Brutopia

"Brutopia is a country aiming for world domination. It is lead by a dictator named Bruto Castrova of Ironheelia. Brutopia specializes in placing spies in non-aligned nations."

Those banned stories are super racist too.

Are you talking about older Barks stories that are also banned or just these two Rosa ones? One has the zombie character appear for like 4 panels in a dream sequence and the other one is the one whose Wikipedia article I linked in an earlier reply

Guess I'm about to buy a bicycle off a guy on a local marketplace. Hope I'm not getting a piece of scrap metal

Should I try negotiating the price? Or is that a horrible faux pas

A Europe moment

I looked it up and the character was completely reworked for that show, losing any trace of his "voodoo as imagined by a white guy born in 1901 whose only experience of people and countries outside of the US was through issues of National Geographic" origins so it's not that surprising

Oh, he wasn't being paid- Disney has always treated their comic artists like shit. They're paid a flat sum per story to which they relinquish all rights and they can't collect royalties despite artists like Don Rosa being hot commodities in places like Europe where their names alone move tons of reprinted collections. It's still an improvement over the old days where the writers and artists weren't even allowed to be credited and no one knew who they were and all their work was just credited to Disney®

While the character of Bombie the Zombie and the story he originated in was created by Carl Barks in the 1940s and has aged poorly to say the least, Don Rosa tried to recontextualise the events when he was making The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck in the 1990s. How successful he was or how wise this was is up for debate but it wasn't exactly Tintin in the Congo

I found the entire Don Rosa Library posted on several online comic reader websites with a single google search so they shouldn't be hard to find.

The email from the publisher to Don Rosa quotes Disney's commitment to diversity and inclusion as the reason why they're no longer going to allow the publication of two of his stories

The way they bring up NASA like it's supposed to elicit the same reaction as NAMBLA or something is very funny

In 1973, a coup d'état, secretly supported by the United States, brought in power the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. During Pinochet's regime, How to Read Donald Duck was banned and subject to book burning; its authors were forced into exile.

It's a concept album based on the 12-part comic series. Tuomas Holopainen even got Don Rosa to do the cover art for it

Kinda surprised Disney didn't nuke it from orbit

Not sure what you're referring to but it sounds interesting 🤔

Though in this case it'd be the opposite since it's the pedophiles shooting kids into space intentionally

It's the same model as those fake restoration videos except much worse

There was already an entire cottage industry of channels just reposting other people's animal content for views, I don't see why they need to add AI narration on top of the clips

I wonder what's happening with those remakes now that James McAffrey is dead.