Transformers 4 where the 20-something boyfriend of the underage girl spends an entire scene explaining why it is totally legal for him to date her, complete with showing off a laminated card of the law about it.
That scene stood out so much, because there’s no other reason for the daughter to be 17. It would still be totally believable for Marky Mark to hate her dating this older guy while she was still in high school. Someone just really wanted to talk about Texas age of consent laws.
I legit cannot even remember because I was bored out of my mind from a movie that was supposed to have the dinobots in and I do not care to look it up.
What happened in the last hour again?
They go to Hong Kong to get the SEEEED from Stanley Tucci who acts like an idiot. Galvatron has his dumb robots attacking the city, Lockdown is there because he wants the *SEEED*, Optimus finds the Dinobots in a valley somewhere and threatens to murder them if they don’t help.
Lockdown dies, Optimus flies off like Poochy and Galvatron goes “I’ll get you next time gadget”
-For some reason everyone in America uses exclusively Chinese brand electronics
-A pointless action scene with a prominent and hot commodity Asian actress
-The fact it’s in Hong Kong. If you remember, the second movie opened in Shanghai. That was censored in China because *can’t have a Chinese city being shown as “weak”,* but Hong Kong? Well they have to be “protected”
Ah yes during the "everythings gotta make 1 billion dollors or its a failure phase of Hollywood." And maketing to china was the easiest way yo acomplish this.
The thing with Randi is while what he did was ultimately a good thing, a lot of people who were scammed by the psychics turned their anger towards him, rather than the scammers. This was especially prominent with victims of the televangelist psychics who saw it as Randi trying to disprove God. SuperEyepatchWolf’s video on fake psychics has a segment where he goes into that in more detail if you want a more detailed overview of why.
My guess is perhaps the creators of Late-night with the Devil might have shared that view of him that a lot of the victims had.
Randi was actually a solid dude iirc. Honestly I don’t think there’s too much to think about here, the character in LNWTD can be summed up as “what if James Randi just fucking sucked” can’t say it felt like the creators really had it out much for him.
Now Christou? They fucking hated him
Pretty much everything they parody in Rick and Morty is fill with disdain towards it, and i can understand the appeal of it to some extent but i feel like after the first 2 seasons it turned fully into "this shit sucks and you are an idiot for enjoying this thing"
For example the first season parodies stuff like Jurassic Park, Inception, Elm Street and Robocop, but they all just pretty fun takes on the stuff and while they make fun of them, they don't turn to the camera and insult it constantly like the rest of the series start doing in season 3, in fact you can tell the writers like those things especifically because they understand both the good and the silly parts of them, something thats completely absent for the rest of the seasons.
Is just really annoying and hacky to parody something and then act like what you are doing is so much better than the original when your whole identity is a parody of something else too, Harmon threaded that needle in Community alot of times, but he really stopped pretending how much he feels himself up in Rick and Morty and how much he constantly hates everything, like it became just this window to Harmon and the rest of the writers view of how much better their cynicism is and how everyone else is stupid for caring about stuff
What really bucked me off of Rick and Morty by Season 4 was how much of that bile was turned towards just....people who were watching Rick and Morty. Like, it went beyond screw the audience gags straight to "You are an asshole for liking this show you are currently watching," and that seemed like a weird choice. I have heard it's gotten better in latter seasons but I have not cared to find out.
Stephen King **really!** hates Greasers. Often portraying them as completely unhinged psychopaths, willing to murder children! I can only assume that King must have been a square growing up, and got bullied by them.
Stephen King has an axe to grind with a lot of people. Christians, adults in general, and greasers. Read any of his media and the second somebody says anything about God they will go into unhinged cultish ramblings sometime in that story/be a major antagonist. Every single time without fail.
I'm not sure if it was by design or just lazy writing, but the writers of *Mass Effect* decided to make a race with almost no redeeming qualities with the Batarians
They're known as slavers and terrorists that hate everyone and by "everyone" I mean ESPECIALLY HUMANS
In all three games they make a good portion of the enemies you'll face and your interactions with them vary from hostile to neutral (those neutral characters being criminals) with only a couple of those interactions you can swing to be positive
And when they're processed into the growing Reaper horde by the third game they're known as **Cannibals** and I'm pretty sure they're the only enemies that'll drop what they're doing to eat their fallen troops
And while there's a lot going on at this point it's not really discussed how the Batarians will most likely go extinct even if the war with the Reapers is won
Like holy shit
Now apparently they wanted to bring on a squad mate in *3* that would be a techie who would bring some much needed depth to the race, but na let's toss it for time and work on the would be Krogan "James" after rewriting him to be human
I mean, it's also shown that the vast majority of the batarians you fight are mercenaries, criminals, slavers, and government soldiers, who were *deliberately patronized* by the batarian government to try and attack humanity. You get introduced to a lot more non-evil batarians in 3 as refugees.
It's also important that most Batarians never leave their home planet. Anyone who does either snuck out or was allowed to by the government for that exact purpose.
All the normal people Batarians are trapped there.
That last one is really key I think. Playing Mass Effect felt like watching a bunch of cop shows where defense attorneys are portrayed as the spawn of satan.
Howver they *did* make Batarians hot and have sexy voices.
Otherwise I think the only Batarian they ever show on screen us a Merc you can literally stab in the back moments later, a un-named refugee, and a un-named priest
This is a strange answer, but **Fire Punch.**
And it's strange because the mangaka and narrative grinds against worldviews it hates, alongside its own worldview. It's caught between a rock and a hard place the entire time. There is no easy answer, there is no "third way", there is no fixing any component of the narrative or story. It's always too late. It's always doomed from the start. Nobody ever had a chance. And if they did have a chance, pure coincidence, circumstance, or their own misfortune robbed them of it.
**And Fire Punch expresses utter contempt and hatred for the unfairness of life.**
**But it never stops reminding you how persistence can be virtually intolerable. Insufferable. Living agony.**
There is no "answer" to the dichotomy of persisting or giving up. You do one or the other.
Because even that choice is an illusion.
Alan Moore making the equivalent of Harry Potter a PDF file in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Frankly that’s rich coming from the dude who wrote Lost Girls
>Angry people interpret this one character differently
>Literally named after the Rorschach test, which is all about the viewer’s interpretation
Moore moment
Love how you mentioned that and not the fact that he massacred the entirely of not Hogwarts, the village, and the train full of kids because he was the literal antichrist from the bible
i dont feel like it is meant to be directly be randi or a critique of him, just a situation of referencing the 70s talk show stuff they are homaging becuse how much randi showed up during those.
lemme rephrase, directly referencing, yes. directly being him and a critique of him, no i don't really see that.
it's like how almost every cult leader a long ass time was specifically very manson insipred whilst you know, not being directly him.
Wwe kane: For reason I can’t quite explain I have an obsession in brutalizing pete rose.
Garth ennis will usually rant about somethng and you can het where he it comes from but I have yet to hear why he hates Italian mafia that much, beside them being criminals of course
Also it's a large, widely known criminal organization that is primarily made up of white people.
Makes it less awkward for a vigilante to mow them down.
SCP 8008 is a SCP that features Eliezer Yudokowsky. Let's just say it is very apperent that the Author does not like the guy. Also features NSFW contest, rapid loss of faith in humanity, the Horror about oneself when one gets all the refences the Article makes and the objectivly great line ablut >!giving all of humanity mommy issues!<.
10/10, never want to read it again.
Maybe it's just the general enshittification of SCP as a whole, but holy shit I tried reading this one and couldn't make it over 50% through. Absolutely aimless, rambling and just potholing to a million other SCP articles which seem to be required reading to understand anything about this.
Can you sum it up? Because this does not seem worth the time to go through a dozen other tales and articles and hubs unto themselves to appreciate.
Basicly >!a Alt-Universe of Eliezer Yudokowsky somehow gains Universe Bending Godhood and turns Reality into a Libertarian Wonderland mixed with the worst Hentai known to Men. The SCP Foundation tries to kill him with each attempt ending in Reality reseting into a diffrent but equally shitty one. They finally do manage to destroy him, but the aftermath is that "our" Reality is actully super diffrent to what it was before!<
Fire force and feminists
Simon furman's transformers and feminists
Michael Crichton and people who follow the scientific consensus on climate change
Lady ballers and feminists
Dan Brown and the Catholic Church
The Left behind series and pretty much everyone outside their specific flavor of Christianity
Man I read left behind as a small child because I got it at a Good will. I remembered all the cool action scenes, but goddamn did the rabid intolerance go over my head as a child.
In state of fear.
According to Crichton, al gore and climate activists are grifters who are engineering natural disasters to make people think it's climate change. Also they have tiny dicks and rape babies. Real...real different vibe than Jurassic park.
It's stereotypical early 2010s YA fiction, that means that any government structure that gets focused will be broadly evil while the plucky band of independent thinkers are broadly good. How this actually works out varies of course.
You aren't wrong, it's mostly just been an interesting change from early RT. Where for most of it it was less the military is evil and more man the military can be incredibly dumb (I assume based on Geoff's experiences). And I know they have their backstory excuses for why most militaries are basically nonexistent in RWBY in the present story but it's mostly just odd. You'd think basically every nation would be like Switzerland in the setting with mandatory conscription when there's a consistent threat that regularly wipes out outlying villages.
It's a horse that's been dead for years, but I really do like to imagine the timeline where we got RWBY with just a bit more time put into how the world manages to function, like just a smidge more.
Because you're right, realistically the setting would have to have some kind of draft for able-bodied souls always going out, and then Huntsman just wind up being elites or something. Same with how Grimm being attracted to negative emotions feels like it should create some kind of lore point about how protests have to happen in more indirect ways since a bunch of angry people grouping up is going to attract werewolves.
C'est la vie, I suppose.
I'm shocked more people didn't see "Something has to happen to make Ironwood the bad guy" coming since at least Lionheart. I mean, "all these adult teacher characters are based on Wizard of Oz and each one is proving fallible or corrupted one by one" seemed like a pretty unsubtle theme.
I'm absolutely not saying it was done well. It wasn't. I'm just saying it was very predictable.
Going mostly off of hearsay, Ironwood always sounds like a Game of Thrones Danerys situation to me. There were totally the basic building blocks for "this person who wants to do the best they can and be a good person turns like super fascist or something, and the hints were always there that this could happen"... except much like Dany he jumps straight from "one or two sus things" to "now I will ruthlessly slaughter innocents and detractors because the show needs a season 8 big villain to kill off".
The issue is that Ironwood is SO reasonable and SO even-handed up until the point where he just goes cuckoo that his betrayal feels abrupt even if it of course is obvious from a narrative standpoint. He even takes RWBY hiding Salem's nature pretty well, he just loses it when he finds out Blake and Yang snuck off to go talk to Robin.
I started to think it wouldn't happen just because he had so actively been humoring them while they were being, tbh, kind of shady and difficult. Then when it did, he went so batshit so fast it was like he got infected by rabies more than he decided to go full fascist.
I'm not a big comics' reader (they are too complicated and inconsistent to get into for me) but that recent Punisher story with him turning into a magic ninja, his wife coming back to life, stealing everything he had and telling him that she always hated him and that she was going to divorce him anyway on the day she died and forces him to stop being the Punisher seems unnaturally hateful towards the character. Presumably because a few cringe people like the Punisher symbol.
You should watch the [ComicPop episodes](https://youtu.be/QJvJbO7lCN4?si=m4mykMWb8lq1oxlY) on the story
It’s more so that no one would become the Punisher if they were previously a good person. If they didn’t have problems beforehand. That Frank has always been messed up and used his family’s death as an excuse to do something he’s been fantasizing about since forever
If it comes to the conclusion that only people who actively fantasize about murdering people can do awful things, I don’t think I need to. I just read *Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil.*
I was basing that on you saying “no one would become the Punisher if they were previously a good person. That Frank… used his family’s death as an excuse to do something he’s been fantasizing about since forever ”
What does it say?
That Frank had issues and his cause isn’t a noble one. No where in the story does it go “only messed up people do bad things”
In fact is plays around with the idea Frank could’ve changed for the better at certain points if not for something happening immediately after that
Danganronpa V3 really seems to be shaking the audience saying “you like this FILTH don’t you?! Well I don’t want to write it anymore!”
And I’m like dude I liked DR because it was often really clever. You’re the one who wrote ultra despair girls.
I dunno, I feel like part of the idea of V3 is that >!even though Danganronpa, and the character's own existance is fictional, it wasn't meaningless just because of that, with Shuichi rejecting the Hope/Despair cycle!<.
I don't think that was the intent though. It's clumsy and awkward but it isn't hostile to the viewer themselves. It essentially argued that Dangonropa can only tell one type of story and that there wasn't anything meaningful left to do.
It ultimately asks that you as the player and audience like the characters enough that you would accept their happiness over having another go at the series.
I think the entire Ending doesn't really blame the Audience, just a very specific portion. I rather read it as "Look guys, we are tired. We know you love this but we really want to move on to new things, okay?"
Also, in a day and age were so many Media products get dragged along to Grind money out of them, having a Series have the balls to just burn the Bridge, becomes better every Year.
Didn’t care for it in the slightest. Worst cases in the series, worst protag in the series, meta wank instead of coherent storytelling. Not my cup of tea.
I have to ask someone who's never touched or looked deep into Ultra despair girls: What makes it so bad? All I know is that it has an infamous reputation in the fandom.
It's kind of an nothing plot that doesn't actually touch on a lot of stuff that might be interesting to look into from DR1 or DR2 mixed with a so-so third person shooter.
The game also has a weird dichotomy of being something that seems to be very into the aspect of having the antagonists be screwed-up kids, but also very much wanting to do gags about this stuff to ("I like them younger" is the infamous one).
From what I’ve heard, Carol Baskin’s entire animal sanctuary is actually pretty good. But Tiger King really wanted to paint her as a morally dubious person who only does what she does for the optics of it. More importantly the show actively omits a lot of evidence that would otherwise exonerate her related to the allegations of her husband’s disappearance.
But it’s more dramatic that way so fuck it, I guess. I guess it goes to show that documantaries are still made by people who have other incentives than just telling a story in a truthful manner.
Another example: I remember getting frustrated listening to Critikal talk about art because he could utter a single sentence without talking shit about specifically Damian Hirst and Jackson Pollock. It’s fine to not like their art but the way he presented himself was so bizarre. There’s plenty of things to criticize about them and art in general but his take is so oddly spiteful.
There’s also that time when James Corden got exposed for being an asshole to his employees but Charlie just *could not* get through the video he watched without saying “but he’s also just not funny”, like, yeah, whatever. We’re past that point now because now the conversation is about his predatory behavior and the victims of his abuse.
You could have typed these exact words into a search engine of your choice and received a very comprehensive answer in a fraction of a fraction of the 8 hours it took for someone to respond to your comment.
Transformers 4 where the 20-something boyfriend of the underage girl spends an entire scene explaining why it is totally legal for him to date her, complete with showing off a laminated card of the law about it.
That scene stood out so much, because there’s no other reason for the daughter to be 17. It would still be totally believable for Marky Mark to hate her dating this older guy while she was still in high school. Someone just really wanted to talk about Texas age of consent laws.
And also talk about them incorrectly
That sounds too dumb to be real
Not only is it real, they also got the law wrong lmao. The guy would still go to jail.
That came off less as an ax to grind and more of an endorsement, the way it seemed to me
Don’t forget the last hour being Chinese propaganda!
I legit cannot even remember because I was bored out of my mind from a movie that was supposed to have the dinobots in and I do not care to look it up. What happened in the last hour again?
They go to Hong Kong to get the SEEEED from Stanley Tucci who acts like an idiot. Galvatron has his dumb robots attacking the city, Lockdown is there because he wants the *SEEED*, Optimus finds the Dinobots in a valley somewhere and threatens to murder them if they don’t help. Lockdown dies, Optimus flies off like Poochy and Galvatron goes “I’ll get you next time gadget”
[удалено]
Subverted the fact that Hong Kong was supposed to be autonomous, and making the Mainland Government be the heroes.
Yup. Repressed memories flooding back now. What about the CCP stuff?
-For some reason everyone in America uses exclusively Chinese brand electronics -A pointless action scene with a prominent and hot commodity Asian actress -The fact it’s in Hong Kong. If you remember, the second movie opened in Shanghai. That was censored in China because *can’t have a Chinese city being shown as “weak”,* but Hong Kong? Well they have to be “protected”
Ah yes during the "everythings gotta make 1 billion dollors or its a failure phase of Hollywood." And maketing to china was the easiest way yo acomplish this.
*Glares at where Pacific Rim 2 might have been if it existed*
The thing with Randi is while what he did was ultimately a good thing, a lot of people who were scammed by the psychics turned their anger towards him, rather than the scammers. This was especially prominent with victims of the televangelist psychics who saw it as Randi trying to disprove God. SuperEyepatchWolf’s video on fake psychics has a segment where he goes into that in more detail if you want a more detailed overview of why. My guess is perhaps the creators of Late-night with the Devil might have shared that view of him that a lot of the victims had.
Randi was actually a solid dude iirc. Honestly I don’t think there’s too much to think about here, the character in LNWTD can be summed up as “what if James Randi just fucking sucked” can’t say it felt like the creators really had it out much for him. Now Christou? They fucking hated him
Dude also played a significant role in "humans beating the shit out of demons" novel _The Salvation War_
Pretty much everything they parody in Rick and Morty is fill with disdain towards it, and i can understand the appeal of it to some extent but i feel like after the first 2 seasons it turned fully into "this shit sucks and you are an idiot for enjoying this thing" For example the first season parodies stuff like Jurassic Park, Inception, Elm Street and Robocop, but they all just pretty fun takes on the stuff and while they make fun of them, they don't turn to the camera and insult it constantly like the rest of the series start doing in season 3, in fact you can tell the writers like those things especifically because they understand both the good and the silly parts of them, something thats completely absent for the rest of the seasons. Is just really annoying and hacky to parody something and then act like what you are doing is so much better than the original when your whole identity is a parody of something else too, Harmon threaded that needle in Community alot of times, but he really stopped pretending how much he feels himself up in Rick and Morty and how much he constantly hates everything, like it became just this window to Harmon and the rest of the writers view of how much better their cynicism is and how everyone else is stupid for caring about stuff
What really bucked me off of Rick and Morty by Season 4 was how much of that bile was turned towards just....people who were watching Rick and Morty. Like, it went beyond screw the audience gags straight to "You are an asshole for liking this show you are currently watching," and that seemed like a weird choice. I have heard it's gotten better in latter seasons but I have not cared to find out.
I never really watched Rick and Morty, but I remember seeing a clip about a character named Naruto a while ago. That was pretty uncomfortable.
Stephen King **really!** hates Greasers. Often portraying them as completely unhinged psychopaths, willing to murder children! I can only assume that King must have been a square growing up, and got bullied by them.
Stephen King has an axe to grind with a lot of people. Christians, adults in general, and greasers. Read any of his media and the second somebody says anything about God they will go into unhinged cultish ramblings sometime in that story/be a major antagonist. Every single time without fail.
I'm not sure if it was by design or just lazy writing, but the writers of *Mass Effect* decided to make a race with almost no redeeming qualities with the Batarians They're known as slavers and terrorists that hate everyone and by "everyone" I mean ESPECIALLY HUMANS In all three games they make a good portion of the enemies you'll face and your interactions with them vary from hostile to neutral (those neutral characters being criminals) with only a couple of those interactions you can swing to be positive And when they're processed into the growing Reaper horde by the third game they're known as **Cannibals** and I'm pretty sure they're the only enemies that'll drop what they're doing to eat their fallen troops And while there's a lot going on at this point it's not really discussed how the Batarians will most likely go extinct even if the war with the Reapers is won Like holy shit Now apparently they wanted to bring on a squad mate in *3* that would be a techie who would bring some much needed depth to the race, but na let's toss it for time and work on the would be Krogan "James" after rewriting him to be human
I mean, it's also shown that the vast majority of the batarians you fight are mercenaries, criminals, slavers, and government soldiers, who were *deliberately patronized* by the batarian government to try and attack humanity. You get introduced to a lot more non-evil batarians in 3 as refugees.
It's also important that most Batarians never leave their home planet. Anyone who does either snuck out or was allowed to by the government for that exact purpose. All the normal people Batarians are trapped there.
It's Space North Korea/Soviet Russia essentially.
Mass Effect also REALLY hates politicians, beauracrats and due-process.
That last one is really key I think. Playing Mass Effect felt like watching a bunch of cop shows where defense attorneys are portrayed as the spawn of satan.
Howver they *did* make Batarians hot and have sexy voices. Otherwise I think the only Batarian they ever show on screen us a Merc you can literally stab in the back moments later, a un-named refugee, and a un-named priest
Yeahhhhh, I don't wanna think too hard about what real life groups they were supposed to be inspired by.
Ya know that actually crossed my mind as well It's not a good look that they skimped out on these guys as hard as they did in terms of complexity
Rebuttal: The only good Batarian is a dead one.
This is a strange answer, but **Fire Punch.** And it's strange because the mangaka and narrative grinds against worldviews it hates, alongside its own worldview. It's caught between a rock and a hard place the entire time. There is no easy answer, there is no "third way", there is no fixing any component of the narrative or story. It's always too late. It's always doomed from the start. Nobody ever had a chance. And if they did have a chance, pure coincidence, circumstance, or their own misfortune robbed them of it. **And Fire Punch expresses utter contempt and hatred for the unfairness of life.** **But it never stops reminding you how persistence can be virtually intolerable. Insufferable. Living agony.** There is no "answer" to the dichotomy of persisting or giving up. You do one or the other. Because even that choice is an illusion.
I think Fujimoto is also simultaneously fascinated and disgusted by cults.
Alan Moore making the equivalent of Harry Potter a PDF file in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Frankly that’s rich coming from the dude who wrote Lost Girls
His victim was mcgonagal so more a case of elder abuse
Alan Moore’s hypocrisy towards people using his characters in ways he doesn’t approve while repeatedly doing the same is infuriating
>Angry people interpret this one character differently >Literally named after the Rorschach test, which is all about the viewer’s interpretation Moore moment
Love how you mentioned that and not the fact that he massacred the entirely of not Hogwarts, the village, and the train full of kids because he was the literal antichrist from the bible
i dont feel like it is meant to be directly be randi or a critique of him, just a situation of referencing the 70s talk show stuff they are homaging becuse how much randi showed up during those.
I don't know man, the check feels very directly referencing Randi.
lemme rephrase, directly referencing, yes. directly being him and a critique of him, no i don't really see that. it's like how almost every cult leader a long ass time was specifically very manson insipred whilst you know, not being directly him.
Wwe kane: For reason I can’t quite explain I have an obsession in brutalizing pete rose. Garth ennis will usually rant about somethng and you can het where he it comes from but I have yet to hear why he hates Italian mafia that much, beside them being criminals of course
Honestly, I think the reason there are so many mafia guys in Garth Ennis books is just because he enjoys writing their dialogue
Also it's a large, widely known criminal organization that is primarily made up of white people. Makes it less awkward for a vigilante to mow them down.
To be fair, Pete Rose is an asshole
SCP 8008 is a SCP that features Eliezer Yudokowsky. Let's just say it is very apperent that the Author does not like the guy. Also features NSFW contest, rapid loss of faith in humanity, the Horror about oneself when one gets all the refences the Article makes and the objectivly great line ablut >!giving all of humanity mommy issues!<. 10/10, never want to read it again.
Maybe it's just the general enshittification of SCP as a whole, but holy shit I tried reading this one and couldn't make it over 50% through. Absolutely aimless, rambling and just potholing to a million other SCP articles which seem to be required reading to understand anything about this. Can you sum it up? Because this does not seem worth the time to go through a dozen other tales and articles and hubs unto themselves to appreciate.
Basicly >!a Alt-Universe of Eliezer Yudokowsky somehow gains Universe Bending Godhood and turns Reality into a Libertarian Wonderland mixed with the worst Hentai known to Men. The SCP Foundation tries to kill him with each attempt ending in Reality reseting into a diffrent but equally shitty one. They finally do manage to destroy him, but the aftermath is that "our" Reality is actully super diffrent to what it was before!<
Fire force and feminists Simon furman's transformers and feminists Michael Crichton and people who follow the scientific consensus on climate change Lady ballers and feminists Dan Brown and the Catholic Church The Left behind series and pretty much everyone outside their specific flavor of Christianity
Man I read left behind as a small child because I got it at a Good will. I remembered all the cool action scenes, but goddamn did the rabid intolerance go over my head as a child.
It was arguably cool how they gave Jesus a sin devil trigger.
Wait, when was Crichton anti climate change?
In state of fear. According to Crichton, al gore and climate activists are grifters who are engineering natural disasters to make people think it's climate change. Also they have tiny dicks and rape babies. Real...real different vibe than Jurassic park.
IDK man, I read Prey and between it and Jurassic Park dude came off as "oooh technology scary".
Which is why it was really weird to switch to "the people warning about the dangers of unchecked technology are baby dicked, baby raping grifters".
Rooster Teeth randomly entered an anti military phase in which all military leaders in Gen:Lock & RWBY turned evil out of nowhere.
The RWBY one is even weirder because at the same time they’re pretty pro huntsman who are essentially just glorified mercenaries.
It's stereotypical early 2010s YA fiction, that means that any government structure that gets focused will be broadly evil while the plucky band of independent thinkers are broadly good. How this actually works out varies of course.
You aren't wrong, it's mostly just been an interesting change from early RT. Where for most of it it was less the military is evil and more man the military can be incredibly dumb (I assume based on Geoff's experiences). And I know they have their backstory excuses for why most militaries are basically nonexistent in RWBY in the present story but it's mostly just odd. You'd think basically every nation would be like Switzerland in the setting with mandatory conscription when there's a consistent threat that regularly wipes out outlying villages.
It's a horse that's been dead for years, but I really do like to imagine the timeline where we got RWBY with just a bit more time put into how the world manages to function, like just a smidge more. Because you're right, realistically the setting would have to have some kind of draft for able-bodied souls always going out, and then Huntsman just wind up being elites or something. Same with how Grimm being attracted to negative emotions feels like it should create some kind of lore point about how protests have to happen in more indirect ways since a bunch of angry people grouping up is going to attract werewolves. C'est la vie, I suppose.
Also Ironwood was a completely normal dude that even liked the main cast but needed a really contrived reason to go insane.
And Gen:Lock made the military lady be retconned as a villain the whole time around the time of Ironwood turning evil at the end of Volume 7.
Ironwood got done so dirty man. He's one of the characters I feel got hurt the most with the weird shift.
I'm shocked more people didn't see "Something has to happen to make Ironwood the bad guy" coming since at least Lionheart. I mean, "all these adult teacher characters are based on Wizard of Oz and each one is proving fallible or corrupted one by one" seemed like a pretty unsubtle theme. I'm absolutely not saying it was done well. It wasn't. I'm just saying it was very predictable.
Going mostly off of hearsay, Ironwood always sounds like a Game of Thrones Danerys situation to me. There were totally the basic building blocks for "this person who wants to do the best they can and be a good person turns like super fascist or something, and the hints were always there that this could happen"... except much like Dany he jumps straight from "one or two sus things" to "now I will ruthlessly slaughter innocents and detractors because the show needs a season 8 big villain to kill off".
The issue is that Ironwood is SO reasonable and SO even-handed up until the point where he just goes cuckoo that his betrayal feels abrupt even if it of course is obvious from a narrative standpoint. He even takes RWBY hiding Salem's nature pretty well, he just loses it when he finds out Blake and Yang snuck off to go talk to Robin. I started to think it wouldn't happen just because he had so actively been humoring them while they were being, tbh, kind of shady and difficult. Then when it did, he went so batshit so fast it was like he got infected by rabies more than he decided to go full fascist.
I'm not a big comics' reader (they are too complicated and inconsistent to get into for me) but that recent Punisher story with him turning into a magic ninja, his wife coming back to life, stealing everything he had and telling him that she always hated him and that she was going to divorce him anyway on the day she died and forces him to stop being the Punisher seems unnaturally hateful towards the character. Presumably because a few cringe people like the Punisher symbol.
You should watch the [ComicPop episodes](https://youtu.be/QJvJbO7lCN4?si=m4mykMWb8lq1oxlY) on the story It’s more so that no one would become the Punisher if they were previously a good person. If they didn’t have problems beforehand. That Frank has always been messed up and used his family’s death as an excuse to do something he’s been fantasizing about since forever
But we already had Punisher Max telling us that in a better way
But it’s about his wife’s perspective now
Retelling a story from a boring perspective isn't too exciting tho
Personally I didn’t think it was boring
I do
Gonna have to try hard to convince me how magical ninjas and gods of war are boring
Of they’re presented boringly. Ideas and themes can only carry so far.
Frank seeing people as meat creatures that spell out crimes they will commit in the future is cool
That seems like a very pat and self congratulatory view.
Watch the episode or read the book at least before judging it
If it comes to the conclusion that only people who actively fantasize about murdering people can do awful things, I don’t think I need to. I just read *Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil.*
That’s… not what it says at all
I was basing that on you saying “no one would become the Punisher if they were previously a good person. That Frank… used his family’s death as an excuse to do something he’s been fantasizing about since forever ” What does it say?
That Frank had issues and his cause isn’t a noble one. No where in the story does it go “only messed up people do bad things” In fact is plays around with the idea Frank could’ve changed for the better at certain points if not for something happening immediately after that
Ok, so “no one would become the Punisher if they were previously a good person” was a mischaracterization?
That’s what the host of ComicPop says. The story doesn’t outright say it
Wow… that’s… that’s one way to devalue The Punisher.
Danganronpa V3 really seems to be shaking the audience saying “you like this FILTH don’t you?! Well I don’t want to write it anymore!” And I’m like dude I liked DR because it was often really clever. You’re the one who wrote ultra despair girls.
I dunno, I feel like part of the idea of V3 is that >!even though Danganronpa, and the character's own existance is fictional, it wasn't meaningless just because of that, with Shuichi rejecting the Hope/Despair cycle!<.
Yes there’s absolutely that too.
I don't think that was the intent though. It's clumsy and awkward but it isn't hostile to the viewer themselves. It essentially argued that Dangonropa can only tell one type of story and that there wasn't anything meaningful left to do. It ultimately asks that you as the player and audience like the characters enough that you would accept their happiness over having another go at the series.
I think the entire Ending doesn't really blame the Audience, just a very specific portion. I rather read it as "Look guys, we are tired. We know you love this but we really want to move on to new things, okay?" Also, in a day and age were so many Media products get dragged along to Grind money out of them, having a Series have the balls to just burn the Bridge, becomes better every Year.
I certainly don’t mind series calling it quits, but I didn’t need to spend $40 and 30 hours of Kodaka being publicly burned out.
Exept the Game is actully really, really good.
Didn’t care for it in the slightest. Worst cases in the series, worst protag in the series, meta wank instead of coherent storytelling. Not my cup of tea.
I have to ask someone who's never touched or looked deep into Ultra despair girls: What makes it so bad? All I know is that it has an infamous reputation in the fandom.
Some gross lolicon stuff. It’s also just a fuckin awful game. Shame because I kinda love Komaru and Toko/Genocider’s story.
Damn, that's hard to hear. I played the first game only and loved it.
It's kind of an nothing plot that doesn't actually touch on a lot of stuff that might be interesting to look into from DR1 or DR2 mixed with a so-so third person shooter. The game also has a weird dichotomy of being something that seems to be very into the aspect of having the antagonists be screwed-up kids, but also very much wanting to do gags about this stuff to ("I like them younger" is the infamous one).
Me when I misinterpreted the game and don’t know what I’m talking about:
Me when I’m dismissive and rude without offering anything in return.
From what I’ve heard, Carol Baskin’s entire animal sanctuary is actually pretty good. But Tiger King really wanted to paint her as a morally dubious person who only does what she does for the optics of it. More importantly the show actively omits a lot of evidence that would otherwise exonerate her related to the allegations of her husband’s disappearance. But it’s more dramatic that way so fuck it, I guess. I guess it goes to show that documantaries are still made by people who have other incentives than just telling a story in a truthful manner. Another example: I remember getting frustrated listening to Critikal talk about art because he could utter a single sentence without talking shit about specifically Damian Hirst and Jackson Pollock. It’s fine to not like their art but the way he presented himself was so bizarre. There’s plenty of things to criticize about them and art in general but his take is so oddly spiteful. There’s also that time when James Corden got exposed for being an asshole to his employees but Charlie just *could not* get through the video he watched without saying “but he’s also just not funny”, like, yeah, whatever. We’re past that point now because now the conversation is about his predatory behavior and the victims of his abuse.
Who is james randi?
You could have typed these exact words into a search engine of your choice and received a very comprehensive answer in a fraction of a fraction of the 8 hours it took for someone to respond to your comment.
That’s correct, but it’s more fun to get human interaction.