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[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Put a spoiler on this. What the fuck guys?

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what is it spoiling? I don't know the reference...

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Of course you don’t that’s why it’s a spoiler

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

A spoiler to what? If you can't answer this, then it's not a spoiler.

[–] Venat0r@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I guess I need a research collaborator?

[–] Zuriz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

If a meme falls in the forest but nobody gets the reference does it spoiler?

[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

It doesnt make any sense or spoil anything. The scene requires fucking context to understand.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, now I imagined Rocky with perky titts.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now he's not the only one deserving that name

[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Nooooooooo. Anything but that!!

[–] shweddy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Only on chapter 9 and I'm not sure what I should interpret from this

[+] Deceptichum@quokk.au -17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fuck Project Hail Mary and Andy Weir, he’s an “anti-woke” piece of shit. I’ll never read or watch anything tied to his name.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never heard anything about that, got some info/links?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/saltierthankrayt/comments/1s39w4z/andy_weir_author_of_project_hail_mary_does_an/

He’s a “fiscal conservative” who criticises new Star Trek saying it’s “shit” and says his movies do good because he doesn’t do politics.

[–] Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's quite a different thing than being anti-woke, though. It is fair to criticize entertainment media for putting a political message before entertainment (not that I find only shooting and explosions very entertaining, but that is a different matter). It is not like he criticizes left political views themselves. Of course, it is also unreflected of him not to notice politics that persist in his own books, but if I boycott all media with someone involved who voiced an opinion different than my own, I will run out of books and suffocate in a bubble.

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 16 points 3 months ago

Right, I suspect this is voicing a much older consensus about effective storytelling and good art:

If you want to send a message, use Western Union. — Frank Capra (director of message-heavy films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life)

Given his filmography, it’s pretty clear Capra didn’t mean that politics should be avoided when telling a story, just that the story should come first. The idea is that any “message” a writer might convey will naturally be embedded in the stories they tell, whereas writers who attempt to construct a story around a particular message tend to fail at delivering either.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Anti-woke is a bold claim for doing a podcast during a press tour and saying he doesn’t do politics.

[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

I know I'm days late to this, but thanks for the heads-up, D.
Here are some other links I found on the matter, in case anyone else is late like me:

https://vocal.media/futurism/in-the-author-s-universe-interview-with-sci-fi-author-andy-weir

https://gizmodo.com/andy-weir-star-trek-pitch-backlash-paramount-2000739724

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

But most of me Star Trek is shit. I'm a Trek fan, but the post JJ era has been mostly bad.

[–] PolarPirate@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not reading the whole article but that pic makes me like him more... SciFi is fiction. An escape from reality. Maybe his books are successful because they help the readers do exactly that.

[–] stickly@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Disagree pretty hard. SciFi has always been a medium for exploring the philosophical and political. Every description of a future dystopia/utopia is social commentary; every alien race is a commentary on xenophobia or cultural exchange. Hell even his own books explore...

Tap for spoiler

themes of ecosystem collapse and humanity's response, which can't be anything but a political take in 2026.

If you don't want politics in your books SciFi is probably the worst place to look. Someone should tell him to stick to... idk... character driven romance novels or something.

[–] PolarPirate@lemmy.zip -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh dear god not the book tok crap

[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Book tok?

Do you think thats where studying and caring about stories was invented?

[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thats like saying food is just calories and huel is the best food. This is deeply offensive to me.

[–] PolarPirate@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

👍

[–] dansemacabreingalone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Im on team scurvy.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

says his movies do good because he doesn’t do politics.

He's almost certainly right. I haven't encountered any significant our side/their side political mud slinging in his works. His two biggest hits, The Martian and Project Hail Mary, both feature nature itself as the antagonist, and all of society, everyone everywhere, setting aside their differences to work on solving the problem using the most powerful, righteous tools available: Science and Engineering.

Now, what cohort would you expect to try to cancel the author of books like that? The dogmatic, anti-science, fascist right wing? Nope! It's the assigned-gendergaseous-at-tumblr crowd, because he does something other than recite the colors of the pride flag.

Which of those two groups did you expect to be the most insular and shunning? Was it the skinheads or the bluehairs?

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You sound like a transphobic alt-right dickhead.

Checks out you’d be on the Nazi instance spewing shit like that.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I knew someone was going to make my point for me better than I ever could have.

I have voted Democrat in every election since 2006. That was a mid-term. I voted for Obama twice, Clinton once, Biden once, and Harris once. I voted no on North Carolina's bathroom bill in 2016. Is this the behavior of a "transphobic alt-right nazi?"

No. Voting Republican is, like 13% of LGBTQ voters did. I've done more for LGBTQ rights than 1 out of every 8 American queers. Actually, probably more than that, probably closer to 1 in 6 or 5, because that 13% is out of those who bothered to cast a ballot at all.

So you get to miss me with that slander.

"Wokeness." Allow me to reiterate: Andy Weir writes stories about the peoples of the world setting their differences aside to work together to solve problems using science. Stories of mankind's greatest triumphs, our finest hours, are those of cooperation and evidence-based understanding of reality. Anyone who is actually woke, actually enlightened, would be overjoyed at seeing folks on the right embrace those stories. An actual enlightened person would be trying to think of more ways to get more stories like that in front of the right's eyes.

What I see out of the self-styled "Woke" is absolute language policing. To the same or even greater degree than The Right, The Left, particularly the "inclusivity" enclave, demands obedient conformity to in-group norms. You will be declared an outsider and most heinous enemy if you say the wrong things, say things the wrong way, or talk to the wrong people. I am not your ally, not because I hate you, but because you make it impossible.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don’t give a fuck if you voted for the right wing Democrat party.

I give a fuck that in your head you perceive the left as blue haired people wanting basic respect for their gender and see that as a negative to slur them with. It’s 100% telling the sort of shitty person you are.

You are 100% a right wing chud, your words here have proved that beyond a doubt.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

he did a stupid thing and should be called out for it.

Far from being anti woke, though

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What stupid thing?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

did an interview in the ccritical drinker podcast and gave them the perfect soundbites when he shat on the current generation star trek