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Parody of Power Rangers. No one is mistaking this for an actual official Power Rangers movie. (Compare with Hustler v. Falwell.) The difference in fan fiction is that when looking at an excerpt of text, there is the potential that a reader might mistake a piece with officially sanctioned/published material. Non-commercial work faces a lower bar for being judged as fair use. (Thus firms are more likely to obtain permission/licensing when making a product or film.)

Satire of grimdark and remakes/reboots. "In the grim future of Hello Kitty, there is only war". http://onastick.net/sitz/image...

The video was interesting in spots; this article wasn't.

but honestly, this is to be some form of a dark game, this is not hello kitty meets diablo.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

As Sinistar put it best... RUN, COWARD!

There you go! :D

To hell with the Skaven, this is the only race I'm really concerned about.

Don't underestimate the power of Hello Kitty!

IN THE GRIM FUTURE...

Well... that explains this pic:

in the grim future of hello kitty, there is only war ;)

... there is only war.

'nuff said.

Oh no! Do you people have any idea what this will lead to?!

H2K2? Is that like HK40K?

in the grim world of hello kitty there is only war

That reminds me of this.

Nobody needs to be taught about philosophy. By roughly age 12, just about everybody has already had most if not all the "great thoughts": "I think therefore I am (but how do I really know anything else 'is'?)", "why would it be evil to send people to eternal bliss, but good to send people to eternal damnation?", "does a consciousness exist after death?", "do I really exercise free will, or just experience intention as I experience a sight or a smell?", "if I'm going to die anyway, why bother living even another day?", et cetera, ad nauseum.

Philosophy classes are about labels. They're about communicating meaningfully about these questions which every mind produces. How efficient to just say "solipsism" and express the great uncertainty of whether anything exists outside of your own mind!

The Matrix doesn't contain any of those labels, and really doesn't cover many ideas. Let's face it, it doesn't even make sense. What, was he supposed to have had some sort of psychic power over the computer? He wasn't hacking into the system in any way we'd recognize; the fact that the world was computer simulated in no way explained Neo's ability to break the rules at will. It has about as much philosophical value as Star Wars' mystical babble about the force: the purpose is not to inspire deep thought, but to produce a momentary awe to enhance the entertainment through deeper emotional involvement, and promote the suspension of disbelief in a representation of the eternal struggle of good against evil as primitive hand-to-hand combat (no really, this isn't pro-wrestling! they have strange psychic powers that will determine the fate of the universe!).

Of course, every once in while, exceptional pop culture can provide us with deep philosophical insights. ^_^

In all seriousness, you could cover all this stuff with dozens of different popular movies and such, but just singling one out for the focus of an entire course is silly.

I know it's been mentioned before, long ago, but while on the subject of the depth and breadth of the O'Reilly library, here's another one that's sure to be useful to most of us.

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