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Why Thanos Changed – Wisecrack Edition - Duration: 12:17.
Hey, Wisecrack.
Jared here.
As you probably know, the internet is obsessed with Thanos.
Why Thanos was wrong, Why Thanos was right, the philosophy of Thanos...hey, wait a second.
He even showed up in Fortnite.
But aside from Infinity War grossing more money than some country's entire GDP and
Josh Brolin being a badass, why is this villain the most ubiquitous since this dude.
After all, not all diabolic plans get this much internet debate, "Oh hell, let's just
do what we always do - hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage, yeah?"
Well after a classic Wisecrack brainstorm session (ie: unsafe amounts of caffeine),
we've come up with a possible answer.
It all has to do with the transition from this Thanos to this Thanos.
Welcome to this Wisecrack Edition on this very distinguished chin, and spoilers for
Infinity War and the comics ahead.
It's important to note that the 2018 Thanos isn't who Thanos has always been.
Comic Book Thanos was created by Jim Starlin in 1973 in Issue #55 of The Invincible Iron
Man and he immediately became a hit with readers, in part due to...well...the outright weirdness
of his cause.
You see, everything Comic Book Thanos did, he did to impress the object of his affection,
Marvel's personification of Death, who appears as a robed female skeleton that walks softly
and carries a big scythe.
And wouldn't you know it, she's just not into him, but maybe if he defeats one more
Avenger or conquers one more planet…
"So you're telling me there's a chance.
YEAH!"
Like his later counterpart, Comic Book Thanos is definitely a product of his era.
America in the late 60s and early 70s seemed to be infused with death.
Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were slain in '68.
Between 1968 and 1972, over 130 American commercial airplanes were hijacked, with many of these
hijackings ending in fatalities.
By 1973, over 58,000 American soldiers had died in Vietnam.
Death had infested our culture.
Why not have a supervillain lust after her?
It's not the first time art has lusted after Death.
In many ways, Comic Book Thanos, with his obsessive form of necrophilia, harkened back
to an even earlier time, when obsessions like his were all the rage.
He fits right in with the capital-R Romantics of the 19th century.
To poets like Lord Byron, John Keats and Percy Shelley, Death was nature at its most glorious
and triumphant.
Keats himself mused of being "half in love with Death."
And It's no surprise that the greatest American poet from this era is Edgar Allan Poe, the
man who invented the spirit of Hot Topic hundreds of years before it manifested itself in every
mall across America.
And in this vein, Comic Book Thanos is a romantic; 100% angsty passion.
Thanos wants the whole universe to feel his pain.
But if Comic Book Thanos -- living this passion-driven emo life -- dovetailed nicely with the soulful,
sleeve-hearted 70s, how would he fare now?
while today's America certainly has its own boogeymen, Death isn't really one of
them.
Sure, there's terrorism, but the fears of the Information Age are more analytical, more
driven by endless streams of data, be it 24-hour news cycles or 24-hour social media feeds
or...ugh, just talking about it gives me a panic attack.
So Marvel had to augment Thanos Specifically, they had to tinker with primary motivation.
Keep him an obsessive lunatic, but change his obsession from Death, which is so retro,
to data.
Retain his distinctive costume and appearance, sure, even keep the tire tracks on his chin,
but lobotomize all the feels.
Cinematic Thanos, in contrast to his four-color antecedent, is not impulsive at all.
He rarely even raises his voice.
As befitting our era, Cinematic Thanos is a rationalist.
Historically, rationalism first rose to prominence during the 17th and 18th centuries.
This is Galileo pushing back at the Church about the movement of the Earth around the
sun.
This is Newton deducing the three laws of classical mechanics, Pascal furthering our
understanding of geometry, Vesalius furthering our understanding of human anatomy.
It's Descartes proclaiming, "I think, therefore I am."
Not I feel, but I think.
These are the men and women who pushed back against all emotional distraction in order
to achieve a higher truth.
So Brolin Thanos goes about his business with the detachment of a rationalist.
It explains how he is able to murder his own daughter for the sake of achieving his utilitarian
solution to overpopulation.
He erases every other men, woman, and child from existence and justifies it through cold
logic.
why this change?
Is it just a sign of the times?
Well, maybe, but there's also a second reason - to highlight the flaws of Tony Stark.
In his seminal work on literary criticism "poetics", Aristotle claims that effective
antagonists act not only in opposition to the hero but also reflect a vital, flawed
aspect of the hero.
This is the literary theory of foils.
Hamlet's self-righteousness is so complete that it compels him to deceive and kill.
But the same could be said of his enemy, Claudius.
Absent Father Syndrome leads both Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader to make some very bad decisions,
and Saruman is little more than Gandalf fallen from grace.
And so when we apply Poetics to Avengers: Infinity War, we discover why Big Bad Thanos
has to be a rationalist.
Our protagonist, Tony Stark, is one too.
Granted, Tony Stark has his moments of being overtaken with emotion..
He begins his first movie as carefree rich-boy arms-dealer.
Later events shake him out of this comfort zone, so much so that, by Iron Man 3, he is
so overcome with the emotional aftermath of a near-death experience that he is more or
less crippled.
From here, he ping-pongs back to the security of stubborn rational thinking, and it is in
this headspace that he creates Ultron and advocates for the Sokovia Accords.
Documents like that, documents which exist solely to enforce order, are a rationalist's
best friend.
Which brings us to Infinity War.
Remember Tony's solution to defeating Thanos?
He is going to secure Doctor Strange.
If he can keep Thanos from acquiring the Time Stone the Infinity Gauntlet can't be completed.
It is so mathematical that Sheldon Cooper would appro- NO Jared, no more Big Bang Theory
jokes.
It is an elegant, logical strategy; it is rational; and it fails utterly.
Of course it does.
A need for rational solutions is the vital, flawed characteristic Tony has in common with
Thanos.
Aristotelian storytelling demands that Tony fail.
But hold on.
It's not as if Tony Stark is the only character in the movie.
In fact, one could argue that the true beating heart of the MCU belongs instead to Captain
America himself, Steve Rogers.
It's Steve's emotional fortitude which finally brings the Avengers together,rescues
the Winter Soldier from darkness, and denies the confines of the Sokovia Accords.
Steve Rogers is Marvel's capital-R Romantic hero - he's driven by loyalty, honor, and
his own principals.
Romanticism versus Rationalism.
It is this age-old duality which forms the core of the Tony Stark/Steve Rogers antagonism
from the moment they meet.
It forms the foundation of their separate attempts to stop Thanos.
Stark the Rationalist tries to out-strategize him.
Rogers the Romantic tries to beat him up with an army.
And both fail.
It's not just that they both fail that's important, but that the only way they can
come up with to solve a complicated problem is two diametrically opposed worldviews: Rationality
or Romanticism.
Having to choose between two extremes is a defining characteristic of infinity war.
The avengers can either A) Let vision live and risk Thanos getting the Mind Stone or
B)
Kill their best friend, and stop Thanos.
Or look at Doctor Strange's dilemma.
He can either let Tony Stark die, and perhaps defeat Thanos, or give it up to save his Tony,
and let half the world die.
He uses the Time Stone to see a way to defeat Thanos and, after exploring fourteen million
options, only finds success once.
One in fourteen million.
Doctor Strange then gives up the Time Stone and saves Stark.
We can assume that this rational choice that Strange makes is necessary toward that one
in fourteen million success, but right now, it sure looks awful because it allows our
villain to win.
Beings stuck between shitty option A and shitty option B is Thanos' whole schtick.
A man who literally controls space and time can somehow only think of 2 outcomes in response
to dwindling resources: Let overpopulation run its course through war, famine and misery,
or kill half the world.
He couldn't just snap his fingers to make more food, resources, or even planets to live
on?
But, as a reflection of modern society, this is exactly the point, and perhaps why Thanos
resonates so much in 2018.
As Maggie Astor recently observed in The New York Times: "our life expectancy has declined,
suicide rates have risen, the opioid crisis has worsened, inequality has grown, and confidence
in government has fallen."
When confronted with enormous problems of our modern world, it seems like every choice
is damned if you do, or damned if you don't.
Work a job that pays - be miserable - work a job you love- be poor, and miserable.
Vote for a douche, or vote for a turd sandwich.
it seems like, in many facets of life, we're given the option of pepsi and coke, but no
RC Cola, Faygo, Boylan, Foxon Park, or Moxy.
And that's the problem with Thanos.
When your political imagination is so limited, and you only have a choice between two shitty
things, all the rationality in the world isn't going to help you make progress.
In order to do that, we need more imagination.
When our political imagination is so limited, we'll never experience the joy of faygo.Is
there any escape?
Hegel wrote that oftentimes in history, the way forward comes when we take the two diametrically
opposed things and synthesize them into a fresh approach.
This is probably what lays before us in Avengers 4.
This is probably how our heroes will ultimately defeat Thanos and save the universe.
As they say, when the old tricks fail, come up with new tricks.
As always, thanks
for watching.
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There's good news this week for all of those struggling millionaires, and billionaires,
and corporate CEOs who are fighting to keep their head above water.
Donald Trump mentioned this past weekend that he and House Republicans were already considering
another round of corporate tax breaks because they don't feel like the initial round passed
just six months ago was generous enough for these poor, struggling billionaires in the
United States.
So their plan, after already knocking the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, is to
go ahead and knock that corporate tax rate down to about 20%, if they can't go ahead
and put it all the way down to 15% which is what they wanted in the initial package but
didn't get it so that's still on the table, but nonetheless what they want to do is make
sure that these poor, poor millionaires and billionaires get a little bit more money back.
You know, not just so that they can do better and contribute more money to Republican campaigns
but because this is going to benefit most of the people, not only in the House but also
Donald Trump himself.
They want that money.
Trump is using the office of the Presidency to give himself more money by pressuring the
Republicans in Congress to pass this additional tax cut.
Another reason is because Republicans understand they've got a massive uphill battle ahead
of them, as we approach the midterms a lot of them in danger of losing their seats, so
they think that maybe if we give corporations a little bit more money maybe they can throw
some more at us and we can win and not lose the House this November, even though corporate
money is not everything.
Yes, in the past the person who spends the most money typically wins the election, not
always the case but it is the most of the time, but American workers in this country
understand that they didn't get anything from this tax cut.
The corporation that they're working for did not give them a raise.
It did not give them a bonus.
It didn't give them better benefits.
They know that now.
Approval for this tax cut that was passed back at the end of December is already falling,
it's plummeting.
About a third of the country at this point supports it, and again that number continues
to go down, two months ago it was half the country supported it.
Imagine how far that's going to plummet once we hit November.
And now here are these idiot, brain dead Republicans saying "You know what would be great?
Let's give corporations another tax cut, continue to screw over American workers, because that's
certainly going to win us the midterms this year."
These people are so painfully ignorant that it terrifies me that they're the ones running
this country and making the policies.
They don't know what they're doing, they don't know how to do it, all they know is that they
want to try to do everything possible to hand over everything they can to corporations,
because for some reason they think that while screwing over the people these corporations
will eventually be able to bail them out.
In the past that may have worked, but with the anger growing in this country today if
you cut taxes again for corporations after doing it six months ago, I can promise you
that is not enough to save you at the ballot box this year.
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Japanese Dubbing on Steam.
By default, the Steam version does not have Japanese dubbing.
But with a simple modified file it is possible to release the dubbing.
Download the file that is in the description and enter the game folder shown in the video.
Copy the downloaded file, paste in this folder and replace the original.
Done! Now the dubbing will be available in the game.
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How to Set Any iPhone Song as a Ringtone [New Method] - 2018 - Duration: 4:55.
Hello Friends!
Welcome back to AppleFrendly.
Today I'm gonna show you how to set any iPhone song as a ringtone.
Literally any song.
It can be a song from any music streaming service out there or It can be any online video song.
Once you understand the concept, you can set any song as your ringtone right on your iPhone.
So, without any further ado, let's get started!
So, supposedly, this is one of the song you're streaming from a Music Streaming Service.
And you want to set it as a your ringtone.
So, just scroll the Control Centre up.
Put the screen recording ON.
Now 3D touch and make sure that the Microphone Audio is OFF.
So that we don't get any surrounding noise.
Now Play your song.
Record the complete song or a part of it so as to set it as your ringtone.
Once you're happy with the music recording, stop the screen recording.
Now this screen recording is already saved into your camera roll.
So now you have launch the App Store and download this free app.
Media & Video to MP3 Converter.
And one more free app, GarageBand.
Both these apps are absolutely free.
I'll put the App Store links down in the description below.
You can simply tap on the links and download these apps.
Now you have to launch the first app, Media & Video to MP3 Converter.
Now select Device Gallery.
Select Videos.
And select your latest screen recording.
And hit Choose on the bottom right corner.
Now rename your song.
And tap Save.
Now tap on the Audio section in the bottom.
Tap on your ringtone.
Select Share Using.
And tap on Save To Files.
Now select the destination.
I'm gonna save it to On My iPhone, GarageBand, And GarageBand File Transfer.
Now let's hit ADD on the top right corner.
And close this app.
Now let's launch our second free app, GarageBand.
Now here, tap on the PLUS icon on the top right corner.
Select Audio Recorder.
Tap these 3 broken lines on the top left corner.
Now tap on this little PLUS icon on the top right corner.
Tap on Section A.
And tap and make this number 30
Now tap outside anywhere to close the menu.
Now on the top right hand corner, tap on this circular Apple Loop icon.
Select Audio Files.
And now you should find your song here.
In case if you don't find it here, you can always browse and import your song
from the FILES app.
And once you find the song, you just have to tap, hold and drag it over this empty area.
Now use the handles to adjust the length of the song.
And you can also tap on the song to reveal more editing options.
So, when you're happy with the editing, go ahead and tap this little
inverted triangle on the top left corner.
And hit MY SONGS.
Now here, you've got two sections.
Recents & Browse.
When you're on RECENTS section, locate your song, Long press,
And select Share option.
And proceed for making a ringtone.
And on the other hand, when you're on the BROWSE section,
you need to tap on SELECT option on the top right corner,
Select your song
And tap Share sheet button on the bottom of the screen.
Now select Ringtone.
Here, rename your ringtone.
And hit Export.
Now select Use Sound As...
And hit Standard Ringtone.
That's all!
You're done setting up your new ringtone.
Now when you launch Settings, Sounds and Ringtone,
you should find that your latest ringtone is already set as your preferred ringtone.
So, that's how you can set any iPhone song as your ringtone.
You can make ringtone out of anything.
So, I hope this video helps.
If you want see more videos, please subscribe to the channel, if you haven't already
and please put the bell notifications ON.
I'll soon in my next video.
Till then take good care of yourself.
This is Vikas, signing off,
Thank you so much for watching!
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We add a fist of tears.
We leave on fire for 30 seconds.
We remove from the fire. We place on absorbent paper.
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