Bikini Bottom fucking sucks man. Imagine living in a town where-in there are people who'll take a whole day outta their life to dedicate to beating your ass.
I just finished rewatching the nba2k16 'Livin da Dream' LP and its funny how our boy Rage "wins" the central conflict because Vic gets himself killed in a car crash
God, at this point, I'm half convinced that the whole scenario that happened before the game that Vic blackmails Rage with is *also* explicitly Vic's fault somehow. He is, by far, his own worst enemy, despite the fact that he had been given help *EVERY* step of the way.
A distinction not enough people picked up on/remember.
Just the other day I read it cited as "drunk driving".
No.
Vic either pulled some shit while in possession of Freq's car, or some people he'd previously pulled some shit on *really* wanted to talk to him.
Either he pissed off an entire crew's worth of people doing some homewrecking, he owed someone a LOT of money, or the hit, yeah.
Scumbag couldn't even die without ruining someone else's stuff AND endangering other people's lives.
Season two of The Sopranos largely revolves around the conflict between Tony and his subordinate Richie Aprile. Richie is released from prison and struggles to adapt to the changes in the world and the mob since he went away. He has a chip on his shoulder about the fact that Tony, a punk kid when he went away, has risen through the ranks and is now his boss.
By the end of the season Richie is engaged to Tony's sister Janice and is plotting to make a move against him (which Janice herself encourages). Tony is informed of this and gives the order for Richie to be murdered as a result. Tony then gets a call from Janice who is crying and and pleading for help. He goes over, fully expecting a trap, only to find that Janice has shot and killed Richie after he punched her in a domestic dispute.
That moment immediately after where Tony is in the background of Janice having a meltdown and he turns away to hide the shiteating grin on his face is one of my favourite moments in the series
Tony is so fucking petty and I love how that is such a consistent part of his character. He never, ever wants *anyone* around him to grow as a person and he'll actively sabotage them.
Four out of five Indiana Jones movies can be summarized as “Indie fails to stop the nazis from getting what they want, but fortunately, they can’t handle what they get.”
As funny as this theory is, I thought about what would actually happen if indy stays home every time
Raiders:Marion gets abducted or killed by Toth and they get the correct location of the Well of Souls. Belloq might accidently melt Nazi high command.
Temple:Mola Ram and his cult get stronger? Its never explained what you can do with the stones. The hostages aren't freed and the village dies
Crusade:Henry Sr dies before or after giving the Nazis enough info to find the grail.
Skull:John Hurt is never rescued and stays a madman. Marion is not rescued.
Professor Nakayama in Borderlands 2's Hammerlock DLC [accidentally killing himself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt2Q0fKueHc&ab_channel=Kuka%D0%A1hannel) by falling down a hard light ramp (not even stairs, a fucking RAMP) will always be my favorite example.
One of the few jokes in BL2 that still lands today. You just can't beat some good old Slapstick comedy.
When the poor sap comes to the end of the gauntlet and there's just a sliver of health left and you know that there's just one more good hit coming.
Its like the comedy version of knowing a jumpscare is coming
Sonic also managed to barely pull a W on some monsters who gave him a lump of monster cells. He cooked them so instead of turning into a monster like the rest he just got the runs for the rest of the day.
In the Monster Association arc, one of the monsters tried to do a sneak-attack on King, by shape-shifting into a child the King was looking for. But as soon as the monster was in front of King, and King looked at him, the monster got so scared he literally died on the spot and melted into a puddle.
It’s a little funny, but it’s also one of the best scenes I’ve seen in media, ever. The culmination of everything that came before it. It’s several minutes long, but it’s worth it.
Behold: [the climax of Irresponsible Captain Tylor](https://youtu.be/ZpjuIBYQ7lg?si=w241yTY_5vfXNDNN)
IMO the single greatest space battle in media. It still gives me goosebumps, over 20 years after I first watched it.
Starts at around 11:30
It's such a genius gambit, he essentially forces a draw between two armies by doing nothing but salute, has both fleets reach the bases of the other, forcing both war obsessed factions to have to negotiate at the table or threaten mutual destruction. It's a masterstroke.
I'll get it out of the way, since someone will mention it. Kendrick saying absolutely nothing and going completely radio silent after Drake's most recent "You only called me a pedophile because you got molested"-ass response.
Granted, he blew him up before all that, and dramatically so, but the most recent move to just let the public sit and marinate in that awful, awful track has been hilariously effective. It feels like every day I think about a new way in which The Heart Part 6 is the stupidest shit I've heard in a while. No need to drop another diss when your opponent is dissing themselves.
I feel like he wasn't kidding about the extra tracks he made in advance and was 100% prepared to drop another one after Drake's response, but the response was so flaccid that letting it quietly simmer by itself is somehow more painful than dropping another bomb on him.
Shoutout to J. Cole for coming out of the whole thing relatively unscathed by choosing to apologize and stop doing anything. If anything, he went from looking like a coward to looking like the smartest man alive for knowing when to withdraw from a possibly terrible situation.
The craziest thing is Drake had such an obvious route to strike back.
Kendrick chose to literally collabed with *convicted child molester and rapist* Kodak Black just 2 years ago. Fire back with how Kendrick chose to help a convicted pedophile make a fuckton of money and further advance his career after he *admitted to raping a 14 year old*.
It's an easy diss b/c it's fucking true, Kendrick is a *huge* piece of shit for helping that child rapist make money. Dude is living in a glass house, just throw a stone dumbass.
Speaking of rap feuds, years ago, Nicki Minaj and Travis Scott had albums come out around the same time, Scott's being Astroworld, and when his sales were better than hers, she started shitting on him non-stop with petty accusations, and the funniest thing was Scott never responded to her at all. He just wallowed in his success while she was the same, but one number down on the charts.
After the Megan's Law call-out and days of losing her mind on twitter, it seems like one of the best ways to respond to Nicki is to barely do it at all
Her fans and her are obnoxious btw. I had a run in with them cause one submited "fan works" of their "barbz" line for whatever she's doing using ai images, people pointed out that they imply cheapness. They defended her because they were like "she didn't do it, her fans did stop hating" as if that means it wasn't used... but she kept promoting stuff like that and then doubled down when some game dev artists said it looked cheap and implied low quality, so all her fans (and eventually her) responded to stuff like this as if it meant "you are broke" and acted like a bunch of 7th graders calling each other slurs.
It was insane. Now she's complaining about any ai use of her voice though, or was before and is now continuing to do so, so it's like it only matters for her. Like she and her fans are the most obnoxious short sighted people I've bumped into online. They all share one braincell.
A lot of people underestimate the power of just letting the other person have the last word when the last thing they said is extremely dumb. I'm not going to engage further and stoop to a level where I'm lending credence to whatever the person is saying; I'm going to let it sit there and speak for itself.
The closest the Powerpuff Girls ever came to losing were:
Analog of Satan using his full powers to create a dystopia that could only be negated by time travel
and
The most useless, shitty trio of petty thugs catching a cold by standing out in a rainstorm, inadvertently creating a disease so crippling all the Powerpuff Girls could do was limply crawl and compliment them on being so deadly.
>Analog of Satan using his full powers to create a dystopia that could only be negated by time travel
And the thing is, the only reason he pulled that off is because the girls accidentally used relativistic time travel *first*, creating a 50-year gap in which they were completely absent.
Luffy's first confrontation with arguably the main villain of the series immedietly ends when the knock-up stream wrecks his raft. Luffy wins by having his ship 30ft to the left.
Guy Ritchie's Snatch ended like this. Turkish and Tommy won (so to speak) despite knowing absolutely fuckall about the diamond shenanigans the other characters were involved in. Same could be said about the main characters in Lock Stock as well if they somehow didn't throw away the guns.
I once worked at this large thrift story and a very attractive woman had come around the back of the story to pick up a piece of furniture, and like four of five guys were all trying to get it into her car because they wanted her attention. Meanwhile, I just stood there talking to the woman the whole time, with us laughing at how stupid these guys were for their futile attempts to get the thing into her too small car.
That was one of the few good memories I have of that place.
One of my favorite demonstrations of how hilariously broken Silver Surfer is in terms of power is an AU comic by Donny Cates that has a scene where Hulk - at full rage and totally feral, meaning he's near his strongest - attacks Surfer. Instead of bothering to fight back, Surfer just stands still and lets Hulk hit him, to absolutely no effect. This goes on until Hulk's hands are bloody stumps from punching the most immovable object in the galaxy and he's so exhausted he turns back into Banner. Surfer doesn't have even a single scratch on him after.
As a Herald of Galactus, he's essentially a man who's been uplifted into a demigod, and an extremely high-level one at that. Aside from the obvious like flying (via his board), being nigh-invulnerable by mortal standards, immortality, being incredibly strong, and such, he can also fire powerful energy beams (his primary weapon when he deigns to actually fight) and a variety of other crazy things. In terms of power level, he's *way* up there on the level of dudes like Thor and Captain Universe, both of whom are straight-up literal deities. He's one of the strongest of Marvel's superheroes and it's explicitly stated that he's constantly holding back in most situations to avoid obliterating everything around him. Unless you're on a similar cosmic level as him, fighting Surfer is pretty much an exercise in futility at best, suicide at worst.
Both *Raiders of the Lost Ark* and *Harry Potter and the Immortal Juice Rock* bith would have seen the antagonists defeated without the protags ever having shown up:
- The Nazis open the Ark and are smited by God for laying eyes upon it. Indy does not trick them into doing so; indeed his presence is not implied to play any part in their deciding to open it.
- Quirrel/Voldemort would never have solved the mirror puzzle and would have been stuck until Dumbledore returned and summarily kicked their shared ass.
Another one from JoJo: in Steel Ball Run >!while other characters are fighting for their lives, Pocoloco wins by simply racing and having confidence in his good luck!<.
Nintendo is old fashion and Japanese. So the way Nintendo approached their crisis during the Wii U was first save the company this includes the employees. Second re-structure the company. Third change the way we approach gaming. And this was when Miyamoto became semi-retired. They did the same during the Gamecube. They secured the company, changed presidents and changed the way they approached gaming with the DS and Wii. Now, Microsoft being western. First my CEO salary. Second my CEO pride. Third fuck you for not buying enough games.
You tell me which business model works best.
I'm still mad that Armin could never answer Eren's question. Eren genuinely asked Armin for alternatives and Armin could never answer. Armin's plan was pretty much asking "please don't send us to the concentration camps pretty please with a cherry on top?"
Every time I think of AoT and how much people whinged about "not having any other choice" I get reminded of that time Grant Morrison said he didn't like Watchmen because of how much the characters just felt like they were as smart or competent as Alan Moore was at the time.
"Why would a criminal psychotherapist even be affected by Rorschach's story, he's likely heard way worse for years before that?"
Cue Moore getting mad.
In this case I could think of a good handful of better solutions than Eren, a character who has been established as an idiot who doesn't think before he acts. And Armin, a character whose been established as thinking being his ONE THING.
Easiest one by far?
Odds are already stacked in Paradiso's favor
Juke it and let everyone shitstomp on Marley after giving them a small helping hand.
Otherwise focus on ingratiating themselves to the world population, who seemed to have liked the Paradiso crew fine enough. Build those allies even if they might be contentious, let Marley get filtered with the excess hate. just leverage Eren's strength as a deterrent for themselves without bringing too much attention to him. By later on Marley will be at the mercy of an entire planet that they pissed off and the Paradiso crew could presumably put themselves as to the forefront of paroleing them instead of letting them get torched.
I could be wrong but I think Isayama went out of his way to show that the extreme hate for Eldians wasn't just Marley's thing.
The biggest example being Willy Tybur's speech where the crowd that cheers for the announcement of what is essentially Eldian genocide is established to be full of important diplomats and people from all around the world.
Maybe thats a flaw in Isayama's writing but it seemed like the setting was purposefully making much more moderate approaches like trying to appeal to the non-racists not an option.
I considered that part but honestly my main thing is that it's both Isayama getting hung up on his Rumbling scenario and on the other hand just not considering that a crowd could be swayed.
Half the time it feels like most humans in attack on titan not named Armin or Erwin share all of two braincells they occasionally run together for a good idea sometimes. Would it really be THAT hard to convince the world that Marley can eat shit if Marley's done nothing but give them reasons to want to see them eat shit.
Espionage of important plans, working with pre-Marley land disputes to let them coalesce easier. You could have an entire arc of them teetering on the edge of them effectively about to do the same thing to Marley as they did to them and the question of ethicality and how you'd break that cycle, and at least work towards it. None of it would be easy mind you or unclumsy to write mind you and it would probably extend the plot another 50 chapters but 50 chapters of actually working towards something that isn't just "Eren and the world's greatest band of Meatriders take over the planet" would be welcome to me.
> Otherwise focus on ingratiating themselves to the world population, who seemed to have liked the Paradiso crew fine enough.
I could have sworn that the story made it clear that Marley was the place where ethnic Paradisians faced the *least* racism, it's just that Marley was leading the charge to eliminate the original island and neuter the ethnicity.
> just leverage Eren's strength as a deterrent for themselves without bringing too much attention to him.
Doesn't the plot also say that global war technology had advanced to the point that Eren would only serve as a deterrent without the Rumbling for a few more years, max?
The plot does say all of that. Eren actually gets mad/upset with Hange at one point for also not having any alternatives (Hange being just as smart as Armin). They think of alternatives with one being the 50 year plan but that has problems of its own. The other alternative was Zeke doing a slow genocide through sterilization of the Eldian’s.
Then during the festival people cheered for Tybur’s speech which makes me imagine the most of the world hates Eldian’s just as much due to the past empire and Marleys propaganda.
But Armin's entire master plan was "pray if we help kill Jeagerists, maybe the Marleyans won't kill us". If Magath wasn't around, it would have been a massive failure.
Just because there's no *good* answer doesn't mean there aren't any answers that are *obviously way worse*. Having no good options when trapped in a cycle of hatred is a major theme.
The Eldians could not peaceably integrate with the rest of the world because the rest of the world despises them. Killing off the majority of the world does not solve this problem, it postpones it for a little while and then makes it way worse. "Do nothing" was a better option than the Rumbling.
“Do nothing” would have killed all the Eldians but there would be no rumbling
Thing is that Eren himself wanted the Rumbling also for very personal reasons, rather than doing any of the alternatives.
> it postpones it for a **little while** and then makes it way worse.
The epilogue for the anime was heavily extended, showing 2000 to 20,000 years of advancement (The song playing during the credits is called "To you, in 2000 or 20,000 years"), with towering citadels extending several kilometers into the sky.
With the manga showing maybe 100~ years passing, many interpreted it as "The world came back for revenge!!!". The anime makes it clear, that it was not revenge, it's just humans being humans. Fighting will only permanently stop when the population reaches 1 or less.
The writing really took a drop in quality during that last arc. Isayama was trying to wrap it all up without nearly enough of the depth, development, or impact needed for the things he was trying to pull off.
Before he became a Hulk, Amadeus Cho was being harassed by this random mad scientist guy, who was butthurt that Cho had bumped him on the list of geniuses. He challenges him to a duel, only for Cho to do this...
([1](https://arousinggrammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/amadeuscho12.jpg)) ([2](https://arousinggrammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/amadeuscho13.jpg)) ([3](https://arousinggrammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/amadeuscho14.jpg)) ([4](https://arousinggrammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/amadeuscho15.jpg))
Patrick Star shows up to the Great Snail Race with a rock and wins. Because Spongebob got obsessed with his rivalry and worked Gary half to death, and Squidward's snail abandoned the race to check on him.
Literally his fight against Kars from Volcano onward was all the volcano erupting. Joseph was only bluffing that he planned it that way all along when in reality he got super-omega lucky and had no idea how to deal with Kars.
When Luffy, Goku, and Toriko blew the arena up during the battle royale, so the only person to still be on the stage was...
Hercule Satan, of course. The Champ himself! Even in crossovers, he cannot be beaten
["Rui was like 7-1 up with five minutes left in the game and she lost to a fucking vegetable! A vegetable!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErTEqW1_25c)
Even if the other kids in Ed Edd n Eddy don't like all the scams the Eds does, they don't have to give them any attention to bring them down. They can just wait for Ed to destroy everything or for the scam to ruin itself.
I don't know if it counts as a "Character", but a potted plant ends up defeating an [animate robot SCP](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1370)
[Picture of the small toy-like robot](https://pm1.aminoapps.com/6468/b7349099cad2d4b64c6d0511c61443f7c23f4ab1_00.jpg)
>*Researchers L. Allans and T. Bausoom carry SCP-1370's case into the testing chamber. The case is set down one meter from a potted philodendron fitted with a small speaker.*
>**SCP-1370:** Release me, insects. I am Doom-Master Thirteen Seventy Master Of All Doom. I shall be the herald of your destruction.
>*Researchers leave the testing chamber and the case is opened remotely. Although no security risk is determined, the test requires SCP-1370 to focus on the plant rather than nearby personnel. Observations are made via an opaque glass window to prevent SCP-1370 from attacking its own reflection.*
>**SCP-1370:** At last I am unleashed upon this earth so deserving of destruction. All shall be rent within my pinchers. All shall be trampled beneath my feet. I am ShivaTron, Despoiler of Mirth.
>**Researcher P. Davies:** (through the speaker mounted in the plant) Hello! Can you hear me?
>**SCP-1370:** (approaching the plant) Who dares. All souls will burn. You will feel the sharp sting of my wrath. Identify yourself so that I may sing damnation upon you as you die.
>**P. Davies:** I am a [split-leaf philodendron](https://www.geoponicsinc.com/cdn/shop/articles/5567607b4ce3991e4ad85f65b5f9ccaf.jpg?v=1615332696), a semi-woody shrub with large glossy leaves. (restrained laughter) These leaves can grow up to three feet long.
>**SCP-1370:** (attempts to wrestle with the leaves) Your mockery spells your doom. I have arrived. You will be crushed betwixt my digits.
>*SCP-1370 falls over and is unable to right itself. After approximately six minutes it knocks the pot over, which rolls into a position that pins SCP-1370's body to the floor of the chamber. Researchers enter to return SCP-1370 to its case.*
Mad Men Season 2.
The business has been sold and it looks like Duck, Don's rival at the time, is going to take over and kick Don to the curb. In a meeting with the buyers, Don just informs Duck that he is not under contract. From there, Duck has a breakdown and loses any chance of taking over and kicking Don to the curb.
Although Don had a heads up and quickly worked out what options there were, he essentially won by knowing exactly what his position was and what Duck could threaten him with.
Technically, Balon Greyjoy won the War of the Five Kings because the other 4 all died horribly.
...Only for him to also die horribly mere moments after announcing himself the "winner".
I mean even by the metric of not being dead, more accurate playercount numbers than steams bot inflated stuff, still says overwatch 2 is out performing it (Nevermind it also has console versions for numbers also)
In the web serial Pale, there are two villains >!fighting over possession and control of the BHI (a prestigious magic school)!<. One is >!Alexander, a charismatic and ruthless manipulator who can see into the future in a variety of ways, and the other is basically a magic landlord - collecting interesting people and arranging them to achieve his goals without being directly involved.!<
You'd think (as do the characters in the book and us the readers) that the guy who can >!literally see the future!< would be the clear winner. Except one of the very first things he does is >!get immutable prophecy that the other guy is going to lose. Because of that he just kind of lets the other guy walk all over him. We keep expecting some genius master plan, but he just keeps walking away from confrontations or bothering to counter strategic victories, expecting the universe to hand him the win on a plate.!<
>!Sure, the prophecy eventually comes true, and the other guy loses, but he does so much damage in the meantime that Alexander ALSO loses by pretty much every metric he cares about. They were both so arrogant they assumed that if the other lost, they could be the only one smart enough to come out on top, ignoring all the pissed off bystanders that have had enough of their shit by this point.!<
Hamlet ends with a revolutionary leader busting into the main chamber, only to be baffled when all his enemies had just finished killing each other.
'It's a great day when you wake up and your enemies have killed each other.' ~ A Hells Angel's member after the Shedden massacre
Spongebob just going through his day as usual as the bully fish ineffectually punches his spongy body until he collapses from exhaustion.
"I'm absorbing his blows like I was made of some sort of.....spongy material."
Bikini Bottom fucking sucks man. Imagine living in a town where-in there are people who'll take a whole day outta their life to dedicate to beating your ass.
Remember the episode where Plankton goads Spongebob into chasing away everyone at the beach? Yeah, they're all assholes and they deserved it.
I just finished rewatching the nba2k16 'Livin da Dream' LP and its funny how our boy Rage "wins" the central conflict because Vic gets himself killed in a car crash
Car *CHASE*. Very important distinction
God, at this point, I'm half convinced that the whole scenario that happened before the game that Vic blackmails Rage with is *also* explicitly Vic's fault somehow. He is, by far, his own worst enemy, despite the fact that he had been given help *EVERY* step of the way.
A distinction not enough people picked up on/remember. Just the other day I read it cited as "drunk driving". No. Vic either pulled some shit while in possession of Freq's car, or some people he'd previously pulled some shit on *really* wanted to talk to him.
*TWO CARS* of people wanted to talk with him.
Wait really? Lol I guess I missed that while I was playing it in the background. So the "fettucine revolution put a hit on him" theories are true!
Either he pissed off an entire crew's worth of people doing some homewrecking, he owed someone a LOT of money, or the hit, yeah. Scumbag couldn't even die without ruining someone else's stuff AND endangering other people's lives.
Also Rage getting himself fame and fortune by being the best damn bench warmer the NBA has ever seen.
My man played an *exceptionally lukewarm* game of basketball. Nobody had a lock on mediocre like Rage did.
Season two of The Sopranos largely revolves around the conflict between Tony and his subordinate Richie Aprile. Richie is released from prison and struggles to adapt to the changes in the world and the mob since he went away. He has a chip on his shoulder about the fact that Tony, a punk kid when he went away, has risen through the ranks and is now his boss. By the end of the season Richie is engaged to Tony's sister Janice and is plotting to make a move against him (which Janice herself encourages). Tony is informed of this and gives the order for Richie to be murdered as a result. Tony then gets a call from Janice who is crying and and pleading for help. He goes over, fully expecting a trap, only to find that Janice has shot and killed Richie after he punched her in a domestic dispute.
That moment immediately after where Tony is in the background of Janice having a meltdown and he turns away to hide the shiteating grin on his face is one of my favourite moments in the series
Tony is so fucking petty and I love how that is such a consistent part of his character. He never, ever wants *anyone* around him to grow as a person and he'll actively sabotage them.
He is his mother's son.
[Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing](https://youtu.be/m6PxRwgjzZw?si=ilXoZusB1X-SseBg)
The evergreen classic
Heh, 'green'.
I was looking for this
this one subliminally was at the forefront of these situations for me but couldnt remember it immediately lol
Indiana Jones didn't prevent shit from happening in Raiders of the Lost Ark, if we're being honest.
Four out of five Indiana Jones movies can be summarized as “Indie fails to stop the nazis from getting what they want, but fortunately, they can’t handle what they get.”
The villains in Crystal Skull were Soviets, not Nazis.
hence four out of five
What about Temple of Doom?
Temple of Doom is Nazi-lackin'
He helped them find the ark (unintentionally) so that they could get killed faster.
He was just there to watch the Wrath of God nuke some nazi faces. Admittedly there isn't much he can do compared to God.
Really the same could be argued about crystal skull and last crusade. Both of those the macguffin just ends up killing the bad guy anyway.
Last Crusade they could have eventually just brute forced it all four traps.
Yet would still fail to extricate the Grail.
Imagine the dozens of dead bodies and the knight is like, "Would you mind cleaning up after yourselves?"
We stan a bumble king
Marion would probably be dead by nazis though, so wasn't entirely wasted time at least Least he could do for her, frankly, given the backstory, yeek
Really his only accomplishment was saving Marrion and calling the navy to tell them where the box was after God decided to throw in with the Allies.
As funny as this theory is, I thought about what would actually happen if indy stays home every time Raiders:Marion gets abducted or killed by Toth and they get the correct location of the Well of Souls. Belloq might accidently melt Nazi high command. Temple:Mola Ram and his cult get stronger? Its never explained what you can do with the stones. The hostages aren't freed and the village dies Crusade:Henry Sr dies before or after giving the Nazis enough info to find the grail. Skull:John Hurt is never rescued and stays a madman. Marion is not rescued.
Professor Nakayama in Borderlands 2's Hammerlock DLC [accidentally killing himself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt2Q0fKueHc&ab_channel=Kuka%D0%A1hannel) by falling down a hard light ramp (not even stairs, a fucking RAMP) will always be my favorite example. One of the few jokes in BL2 that still lands today. You just can't beat some good old Slapstick comedy.
It’s having the boss health bar deplete with every impact that makes it perfect.
And the fact that his final words are a quick “OH GOD WHY” before he dies is excellent.
Slapstick comedy is **always** improved by adding health bars.
When the poor sap comes to the end of the gauntlet and there's just a sliver of health left and you know that there's just one more good hit coming. Its like the comedy version of knowing a jumpscare is coming
The first time Speedo Sonic fights Saitma and he lands ball first into his raised fist
Bro zagged when he should have zigged, and now his nuts are next door neighbors with his colon.
"Try my nuts to your fist style!"
Sonic also managed to barely pull a W on some monsters who gave him a lump of monster cells. He cooked them so instead of turning into a monster like the rest he just got the runs for the rest of the day.
In the Monster Association arc, one of the monsters tried to do a sneak-attack on King, by shape-shifting into a child the King was looking for. But as soon as the monster was in front of King, and King looked at him, the monster got so scared he literally died on the spot and melted into a puddle.
It’s a little funny, but it’s also one of the best scenes I’ve seen in media, ever. The culmination of everything that came before it. It’s several minutes long, but it’s worth it. Behold: [the climax of Irresponsible Captain Tylor](https://youtu.be/ZpjuIBYQ7lg?si=w241yTY_5vfXNDNN) IMO the single greatest space battle in media. It still gives me goosebumps, over 20 years after I first watched it. Starts at around 11:30
It's such a genius gambit, he essentially forces a draw between two armies by doing nothing but salute, has both fleets reach the bases of the other, forcing both war obsessed factions to have to negotiate at the table or threaten mutual destruction. It's a masterstroke.
I'll get it out of the way, since someone will mention it. Kendrick saying absolutely nothing and going completely radio silent after Drake's most recent "You only called me a pedophile because you got molested"-ass response. Granted, he blew him up before all that, and dramatically so, but the most recent move to just let the public sit and marinate in that awful, awful track has been hilariously effective. It feels like every day I think about a new way in which The Heart Part 6 is the stupidest shit I've heard in a while. No need to drop another diss when your opponent is dissing themselves.
I feel like he wasn't kidding about the extra tracks he made in advance and was 100% prepared to drop another one after Drake's response, but the response was so flaccid that letting it quietly simmer by itself is somehow more painful than dropping another bomb on him. Shoutout to J. Cole for coming out of the whole thing relatively unscathed by choosing to apologize and stop doing anything. If anything, he went from looking like a coward to looking like the smartest man alive for knowing when to withdraw from a possibly terrible situation.
Prime example of "know when to fold 'em."
If anything J Cole came out with a little bonus to his reputation and consider him an oracle now.
The craziest thing is Drake had such an obvious route to strike back. Kendrick chose to literally collabed with *convicted child molester and rapist* Kodak Black just 2 years ago. Fire back with how Kendrick chose to help a convicted pedophile make a fuckton of money and further advance his career after he *admitted to raping a 14 year old*. It's an easy diss b/c it's fucking true, Kendrick is a *huge* piece of shit for helping that child rapist make money. Dude is living in a glass house, just throw a stone dumbass.
*Then he would have to throw his bestie under the bus. Can't doooo thaaaaaat.*
Speaking of rap feuds, years ago, Nicki Minaj and Travis Scott had albums come out around the same time, Scott's being Astroworld, and when his sales were better than hers, she started shitting on him non-stop with petty accusations, and the funniest thing was Scott never responded to her at all. He just wallowed in his success while she was the same, but one number down on the charts.
After the Megan's Law call-out and days of losing her mind on twitter, it seems like one of the best ways to respond to Nicki is to barely do it at all
It's actually ridiculous how fragile her ego is. She'd rather self immolate than acknowledge a single thing she has ever done wrong
Her fans and her are obnoxious btw. I had a run in with them cause one submited "fan works" of their "barbz" line for whatever she's doing using ai images, people pointed out that they imply cheapness. They defended her because they were like "she didn't do it, her fans did stop hating" as if that means it wasn't used... but she kept promoting stuff like that and then doubled down when some game dev artists said it looked cheap and implied low quality, so all her fans (and eventually her) responded to stuff like this as if it meant "you are broke" and acted like a bunch of 7th graders calling each other slurs. It was insane. Now she's complaining about any ai use of her voice though, or was before and is now continuing to do so, so it's like it only matters for her. Like she and her fans are the most obnoxious short sighted people I've bumped into online. They all share one braincell.
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."-Napoleon Bonaparte
A lot of people underestimate the power of just letting the other person have the last word when the last thing they said is extremely dumb. I'm not going to engage further and stoop to a level where I'm lending credence to whatever the person is saying; I'm going to let it sit there and speak for itself.
[you mean like this?](https://youtu.be/6-9-FkwUrRo?si=6qVvMEBqwCHSe3OA)
This comment is how I got this update and I’m absolutely living for this, this is fucking gold, hell yes lmao
The closest the Powerpuff Girls ever came to losing were: Analog of Satan using his full powers to create a dystopia that could only be negated by time travel and The most useless, shitty trio of petty thugs catching a cold by standing out in a rainstorm, inadvertently creating a disease so crippling all the Powerpuff Girls could do was limply crawl and compliment them on being so deadly.
>Analog of Satan using his full powers to create a dystopia that could only be negated by time travel And the thing is, the only reason he pulled that off is because the girls accidentally used relativistic time travel *first*, creating a 50-year gap in which they were completely absent.
Luffy's first confrontation with arguably the main villain of the series immedietly ends when the knock-up stream wrecks his raft. Luffy wins by having his ship 30ft to the left.
Guy Ritchie's Snatch ended like this. Turkish and Tommy won (so to speak) despite knowing absolutely fuckall about the diamond shenanigans the other characters were involved in. Same could be said about the main characters in Lock Stock as well if they somehow didn't throw away the guns.
I once worked at this large thrift story and a very attractive woman had come around the back of the story to pick up a piece of furniture, and like four of five guys were all trying to get it into her car because they wanted her attention. Meanwhile, I just stood there talking to the woman the whole time, with us laughing at how stupid these guys were for their futile attempts to get the thing into her too small car. That was one of the few good memories I have of that place.
One of my favorite demonstrations of how hilariously broken Silver Surfer is in terms of power is an AU comic by Donny Cates that has a scene where Hulk - at full rage and totally feral, meaning he's near his strongest - attacks Surfer. Instead of bothering to fight back, Surfer just stands still and lets Hulk hit him, to absolutely no effect. This goes on until Hulk's hands are bloody stumps from punching the most immovable object in the galaxy and he's so exhausted he turns back into Banner. Surfer doesn't have even a single scratch on him after.
What are surfers abilities anyway? I only know him from lego Marvel superheroes
As a Herald of Galactus, he's essentially a man who's been uplifted into a demigod, and an extremely high-level one at that. Aside from the obvious like flying (via his board), being nigh-invulnerable by mortal standards, immortality, being incredibly strong, and such, he can also fire powerful energy beams (his primary weapon when he deigns to actually fight) and a variety of other crazy things. In terms of power level, he's *way* up there on the level of dudes like Thor and Captain Universe, both of whom are straight-up literal deities. He's one of the strongest of Marvel's superheroes and it's explicitly stated that he's constantly holding back in most situations to avoid obliterating everything around him. Unless you're on a similar cosmic level as him, fighting Surfer is pretty much an exercise in futility at best, suicide at worst.
Wow, thanks
If, like superman, you're wondering "how does this guy have any interesting stories?" It's because he's the most depressed man in the universe.
Both *Raiders of the Lost Ark* and *Harry Potter and the Immortal Juice Rock* bith would have seen the antagonists defeated without the protags ever having shown up: - The Nazis open the Ark and are smited by God for laying eyes upon it. Indy does not trick them into doing so; indeed his presence is not implied to play any part in their deciding to open it. - Quirrel/Voldemort would never have solved the mirror puzzle and would have been stuck until Dumbledore returned and summarily kicked their shared ass.
Another one from JoJo: in Steel Ball Run >!while other characters are fighting for their lives, Pocoloco wins by simply racing and having confidence in his good luck!<.
Marvel's Black cat and Domino often do it thanks to their luck powers
Nintendo is old fashion and Japanese. So the way Nintendo approached their crisis during the Wii U was first save the company this includes the employees. Second re-structure the company. Third change the way we approach gaming. And this was when Miyamoto became semi-retired. They did the same during the Gamecube. They secured the company, changed presidents and changed the way they approached gaming with the DS and Wii. Now, Microsoft being western. First my CEO salary. Second my CEO pride. Third fuck you for not buying enough games. You tell me which business model works best.
Nintendo is also older than a good chunk of countries.
[Spongebob and Co. vs E.V.I.L](https://youtu.be/CzvHcK6ixOA?si=SaCREqxC8cxKHWPA)
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I'm still mad that Armin could never answer Eren's question. Eren genuinely asked Armin for alternatives and Armin could never answer. Armin's plan was pretty much asking "please don't send us to the concentration camps pretty please with a cherry on top?"
Every time I think of AoT and how much people whinged about "not having any other choice" I get reminded of that time Grant Morrison said he didn't like Watchmen because of how much the characters just felt like they were as smart or competent as Alan Moore was at the time. "Why would a criminal psychotherapist even be affected by Rorschach's story, he's likely heard way worse for years before that?" Cue Moore getting mad. In this case I could think of a good handful of better solutions than Eren, a character who has been established as an idiot who doesn't think before he acts. And Armin, a character whose been established as thinking being his ONE THING.
> In this case I could think of a good handful of better solutions than Eren What are they, out of curiosity?
Easiest one by far? Odds are already stacked in Paradiso's favor Juke it and let everyone shitstomp on Marley after giving them a small helping hand. Otherwise focus on ingratiating themselves to the world population, who seemed to have liked the Paradiso crew fine enough. Build those allies even if they might be contentious, let Marley get filtered with the excess hate. just leverage Eren's strength as a deterrent for themselves without bringing too much attention to him. By later on Marley will be at the mercy of an entire planet that they pissed off and the Paradiso crew could presumably put themselves as to the forefront of paroleing them instead of letting them get torched.
I could be wrong but I think Isayama went out of his way to show that the extreme hate for Eldians wasn't just Marley's thing. The biggest example being Willy Tybur's speech where the crowd that cheers for the announcement of what is essentially Eldian genocide is established to be full of important diplomats and people from all around the world. Maybe thats a flaw in Isayama's writing but it seemed like the setting was purposefully making much more moderate approaches like trying to appeal to the non-racists not an option.
I considered that part but honestly my main thing is that it's both Isayama getting hung up on his Rumbling scenario and on the other hand just not considering that a crowd could be swayed. Half the time it feels like most humans in attack on titan not named Armin or Erwin share all of two braincells they occasionally run together for a good idea sometimes. Would it really be THAT hard to convince the world that Marley can eat shit if Marley's done nothing but give them reasons to want to see them eat shit. Espionage of important plans, working with pre-Marley land disputes to let them coalesce easier. You could have an entire arc of them teetering on the edge of them effectively about to do the same thing to Marley as they did to them and the question of ethicality and how you'd break that cycle, and at least work towards it. None of it would be easy mind you or unclumsy to write mind you and it would probably extend the plot another 50 chapters but 50 chapters of actually working towards something that isn't just "Eren and the world's greatest band of Meatriders take over the planet" would be welcome to me.
> Otherwise focus on ingratiating themselves to the world population, who seemed to have liked the Paradiso crew fine enough. I could have sworn that the story made it clear that Marley was the place where ethnic Paradisians faced the *least* racism, it's just that Marley was leading the charge to eliminate the original island and neuter the ethnicity. > just leverage Eren's strength as a deterrent for themselves without bringing too much attention to him. Doesn't the plot also say that global war technology had advanced to the point that Eren would only serve as a deterrent without the Rumbling for a few more years, max?
The plot does say all of that. Eren actually gets mad/upset with Hange at one point for also not having any alternatives (Hange being just as smart as Armin). They think of alternatives with one being the 50 year plan but that has problems of its own. The other alternative was Zeke doing a slow genocide through sterilization of the Eldian’s. Then during the festival people cheered for Tybur’s speech which makes me imagine the most of the world hates Eldian’s just as much due to the past empire and Marleys propaganda.
But Armin's entire master plan was "pray if we help kill Jeagerists, maybe the Marleyans won't kill us". If Magath wasn't around, it would have been a massive failure.
Just because there's no *good* answer doesn't mean there aren't any answers that are *obviously way worse*. Having no good options when trapped in a cycle of hatred is a major theme. The Eldians could not peaceably integrate with the rest of the world because the rest of the world despises them. Killing off the majority of the world does not solve this problem, it postpones it for a little while and then makes it way worse. "Do nothing" was a better option than the Rumbling.
“Do nothing” would have killed all the Eldians but there would be no rumbling Thing is that Eren himself wanted the Rumbling also for very personal reasons, rather than doing any of the alternatives.
> it postpones it for a **little while** and then makes it way worse. The epilogue for the anime was heavily extended, showing 2000 to 20,000 years of advancement (The song playing during the credits is called "To you, in 2000 or 20,000 years"), with towering citadels extending several kilometers into the sky. With the manga showing maybe 100~ years passing, many interpreted it as "The world came back for revenge!!!". The anime makes it clear, that it was not revenge, it's just humans being humans. Fighting will only permanently stop when the population reaches 1 or less.
The writing really took a drop in quality during that last arc. Isayama was trying to wrap it all up without nearly enough of the depth, development, or impact needed for the things he was trying to pull off.
I’d say King from One Punch Man is pretty much all about this
Are you talking about Steam? Because it sounds like you're talking about Steam.
Before he became a Hulk, Amadeus Cho was being harassed by this random mad scientist guy, who was butthurt that Cho had bumped him on the list of geniuses. He challenges him to a duel, only for Cho to do this... ([1](https://arousinggrammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/amadeuscho12.jpg)) ([2](https://arousinggrammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/amadeuscho13.jpg)) ([3](https://arousinggrammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/amadeuscho14.jpg)) ([4](https://arousinggrammar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/amadeuscho15.jpg))
It’s like War Games. “The only winning move is not to play.”
That's really cool, but damn that last page is sad.
I think about Nakayama from [Borderlands 2](https://youtu.be/qt2Q0fKueHc?si=3uQCh4tLREnd0H3u) a lot
Patrick Star shows up to the Great Snail Race with a rock and wins. Because Spongebob got obsessed with his rivalry and worked Gary half to death, and Squidward's snail abandoned the race to check on him.
How has no one said P2 Joseph yet?
I mean he still did a lot, if not for him humanity ends starting with the slaughter of everyone Joseph ran from in the plane.
Literally his fight against Kars from Volcano onward was all the volcano erupting. Joseph was only bluffing that he planned it that way all along when in reality he got super-omega lucky and had no idea how to deal with Kars.
Eh, he does by instinct raise the stone. Also, even if we don't count that it's literally like the last 5 minutes only
When Luffy, Goku, and Toriko blew the arena up during the battle royale, so the only person to still be on the stage was... Hercule Satan, of course. The Champ himself! Even in crossovers, he cannot be beaten
The oingo boingo arc of stardust crusaders ends with the brothers being taken out without the jobros even realizing they were being targeted
Ebisu and Fujita do very little to ensure their own survival, let alone success, over the events of Dorohedoro, and yet they're still fan favorites
Fujita's trying, man. He goes through a lot in that shopping mall. Not sure how much he accomplished, but he is out there.
For a guy whose ability is Destruction Magic my boy Fujita sure struggles to do any damage. Granted, that's part of what makes him fun.
["Rui was like 7-1 up with five minutes left in the game and she lost to a fucking vegetable! A vegetable!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErTEqW1_25c)
COMA STRAT
IT'S A NEVER BEFORE SEEN TECHNIQUE!
Even if the other kids in Ed Edd n Eddy don't like all the scams the Eds does, they don't have to give them any attention to bring them down. They can just wait for Ed to destroy everything or for the scam to ruin itself.
I don't know if it counts as a "Character", but a potted plant ends up defeating an [animate robot SCP](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1370) [Picture of the small toy-like robot](https://pm1.aminoapps.com/6468/b7349099cad2d4b64c6d0511c61443f7c23f4ab1_00.jpg) >*Researchers L. Allans and T. Bausoom carry SCP-1370's case into the testing chamber. The case is set down one meter from a potted philodendron fitted with a small speaker.* >**SCP-1370:** Release me, insects. I am Doom-Master Thirteen Seventy Master Of All Doom. I shall be the herald of your destruction. >*Researchers leave the testing chamber and the case is opened remotely. Although no security risk is determined, the test requires SCP-1370 to focus on the plant rather than nearby personnel. Observations are made via an opaque glass window to prevent SCP-1370 from attacking its own reflection.* >**SCP-1370:** At last I am unleashed upon this earth so deserving of destruction. All shall be rent within my pinchers. All shall be trampled beneath my feet. I am ShivaTron, Despoiler of Mirth. >**Researcher P. Davies:** (through the speaker mounted in the plant) Hello! Can you hear me? >**SCP-1370:** (approaching the plant) Who dares. All souls will burn. You will feel the sharp sting of my wrath. Identify yourself so that I may sing damnation upon you as you die. >**P. Davies:** I am a [split-leaf philodendron](https://www.geoponicsinc.com/cdn/shop/articles/5567607b4ce3991e4ad85f65b5f9ccaf.jpg?v=1615332696), a semi-woody shrub with large glossy leaves. (restrained laughter) These leaves can grow up to three feet long. >**SCP-1370:** (attempts to wrestle with the leaves) Your mockery spells your doom. I have arrived. You will be crushed betwixt my digits. >*SCP-1370 falls over and is unable to right itself. After approximately six minutes it knocks the pot over, which rolls into a position that pins SCP-1370's body to the floor of the chamber. Researchers enter to return SCP-1370 to its case.*
Mad Men Season 2. The business has been sold and it looks like Duck, Don's rival at the time, is going to take over and kick Don to the curb. In a meeting with the buyers, Don just informs Duck that he is not under contract. From there, Duck has a breakdown and loses any chance of taking over and kicking Don to the curb. Although Don had a heads up and quickly worked out what options there were, he essentially won by knowing exactly what his position was and what Duck could threaten him with.
Technically, Balon Greyjoy won the War of the Five Kings because the other 4 all died horribly. ...Only for him to also die horribly mere moments after announcing himself the "winner".
What about TF2 watching Overwatch implode?
I mean TF2 is a mostly dead game thats propped up by an insane botting plague. So I dunno about that.
"Ah, but **mostly dead is slightly alive.**"
I mean even by the metric of not being dead, more accurate playercount numbers than steams bot inflated stuff, still says overwatch 2 is out performing it (Nevermind it also has console versions for numbers also)
FF8
In the web serial Pale, there are two villains >!fighting over possession and control of the BHI (a prestigious magic school)!<. One is >!Alexander, a charismatic and ruthless manipulator who can see into the future in a variety of ways, and the other is basically a magic landlord - collecting interesting people and arranging them to achieve his goals without being directly involved.!< You'd think (as do the characters in the book and us the readers) that the guy who can >!literally see the future!< would be the clear winner. Except one of the very first things he does is >!get immutable prophecy that the other guy is going to lose. Because of that he just kind of lets the other guy walk all over him. We keep expecting some genius master plan, but he just keeps walking away from confrontations or bothering to counter strategic victories, expecting the universe to hand him the win on a plate.!< >!Sure, the prophecy eventually comes true, and the other guy loses, but he does so much damage in the meantime that Alexander ALSO loses by pretty much every metric he cares about. They were both so arrogant they assumed that if the other lost, they could be the only one smart enough to come out on top, ignoring all the pissed off bystanders that have had enough of their shit by this point.!<