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Vagabundo posted:Honestly, his character was one that spent his entire life making sacrifices, and I felt that him bowing out by choosing the life he wished he had when he has the opportunity to do so was a nice way to bring his arc full circle. yeah, i liked that whole thing. its not deep but who cares. Antifa Turkeesian posted:That kid rules. like yeah that kid probably shouldn't watch poo poo but lol at these weirdos getting this loving upset about violence (and monarchy existing in future setting) because some little kid de nero kicks some dude in a suit are loving dumb and should be mocked. morons like him and others would go full tipper gore in a loving second if they had actual pull. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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Feb 27, 2021 01:38
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Also, it's not like it's new. I'm pretty sure I've heard Disney costume people say that the poor souls in the villain costumes get kicked in the ankles by kids who don't know better/are just little shits all the time.
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Feb 27, 2021 01:54
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Ghostlight posted:he even starts the movie running therapy sessions for people on how to accept the loss of their loved ones. I'll admit I'm biased because I've been in sessions like that that have included lots of people, yes including 'I'm an old man who watched my friends die of old age and now am left feeling empty and bafflingly ashamed of outliving the people I love', so that opener actually made me incredibly optimistic for the movie as a whole maybe earning the 'THIS IS MORE THAN AN ACTION HERO MOVIE' hype around it. And then *gestures broadly to the entire rest of that loving movie*
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Feb 27, 2021 02:09
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To be fair I do respect the stance of 'the whole point is he and Tony swapped roles and that was their reward for growing as people' but man not everything needs to be a swerve, especially if we're gonna have to deal with luke warm takes of 'hero movies are modern myth' every other month. You can just have the tragic hero be a tragic hero in your story and give mr drunk billionare playboy the 'settle down and learn his real wealth is his family' cliche ending.
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Feb 27, 2021 02:12
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lol, super eyepatch wolf's new Things I Like video(not public yet) ends with him dancing to Komm Susser Tod. I hope he keeps it in the public version. It's very appropriate for how things have felt the last year+
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Feb 27, 2021 02:13
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Endgame and infinity war also did a total 180 on Thors arc too. From Thor one to Ragnarok his arc was to learn to stop being a boorish spoiled child prince and through humility and wisdom grow mature enough to be worthy of becoming king of Asgard, culmanating in Ragnarok where he stops relying on his hammer and finally embraces his role as not only god of ligthning but God King (symbolically sacrificing an eye and everything), leading his people. And in IW it all gets flushed down the toilet. He gets a new eye, a new hammer, he is no longer ruler or king of a people and then he gets a pep talk from his mom about how heroic it is to shirk responsibility. In fact the whole time travel thing felt weirdly indulgent and unnecessary, like they needed to pad the run time so they decided to go with a time heist so Captain America can compliment his own rear end.
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Feb 27, 2021 02:54
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McCloud posted:they decided to go with a time heist so Captain America can compliment his own rear end. It was a good decision.
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Feb 27, 2021 03:28
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yea I enjoyed the time heist. It was stupid and they spent too long trying to avoid nerds whining about time travel plot holes (spoiler, didn't work) but the actual concept of 'the stones are gone...but we can go back in time and steal them from ourselves' is some primo comic book stupid bullshit. Also yea Captain America complementing 'America's rear end' was cute, Chris Evans is a charming guy with a good rear end so I'm not gonna complain there.
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Feb 27, 2021 03:31
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Cap staying back in time to be with Peggy was hilarious to me because it was 100% exactly what the CD poster Rhyno kept saying should happen.
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Feb 27, 2021 03:40
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achillesforever6 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlyFebMZ14 Maybe if I had a string of office jobs it wouldn’t be so bad, but because it’s my first it feels like it’s do-or-die. Get fired from this, and the resumé is going to a spotty patch of retail jobs followed by the one “real” job spent loving up. It’s just a real lovely mentality that I don’t think I’ll be able to shake for a long time. ...still better than working retail though.
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Feb 27, 2021 04:07
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Also, it's not like it's new. I'm pretty sure I've heard Disney costume people say that the poor souls in the villain costumes get kicked in the ankles by kids who don't know better/are just little shits all the time. its an irresistible instinct baked into the heart of every child and adult child and adult https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_55jpuZonM&t=14s Violen fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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Feb 27, 2021 04:13
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Pants Donkey posted:...still better than working retail though. I worked over eight years in retail to work my way through college and have now been in the same white collar job for almost as long and JUST got a raise yet am still worried about the day they boot me since 90 percent of my days is spent posting here, watching YouTube, or tweeting and my retail job was 10x harder. Glad I’d become a socialist at the retail job so I was aware of how lucky I am but I definitely felt ThoughtSlime’s video as I’d feel the same way if I made my living producing content.
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Feb 27, 2021 04:22
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I actually have to work at my job. I have like triple the clients I should because a lot of people left for various reasons and it takes like six months to really train people.
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Feb 27, 2021 04:36
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Fun story, or rather 'fun' story. I spent a good deal of time working a white collar job, financial analyst, then that business got bought out by another which fired everyone and staffed it with their own people, but I at least got a foot in the door at a new place a state away. I drove back and forth for a year, and was doing fine enough (if wracked with massive imposter syndrome), until they asked me to push insurance harder onto some low income clients we had because we were gonna be partnering with an insurance firm. I said 'hey i don't feel comfortable with this' and they let me go on the spot. Half a decade of sporadic homelessness, debt, and suicide attempts later i at least have a consistent place to live across the country but christ it can really all go to hell in a handbasket for basically nothing at all. And yet despite it all I still have dreams that they call me back and I immediately jump at it. Being basically nonfunctional from a working standpoint due to all sorts of brain and physical poo poo really fucks you up.
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Feb 27, 2021 06:20
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i liked the cap ending. its dumb but it fits the arc he was going for, He had his happy ending finally. plus they will make him young again as a cameo at some point. I guess that kid took Thanos' advice. He went for the head.
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Feb 27, 2021 06:41
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Also, it's not like it's new. I'm pretty sure I've heard Disney costume people say that the poor souls in the villain costumes get kicked in the ankles by kids who don't know better/are just little shits all the time. I was at a convention and we did a promo shoot wearing mascots - even with us bringing them to the spot and suiting up in front of kids, as soon as they took form these kids ran up and started punching us while the parents thought it was the greatest thing ever. We were doing the shoot where the public wasn't supposed to go and the kids were climbing up rocks to attack us. It was unreal that "must punch this" instinct they had. Groovelord Neato posted:I worked over eight years in retail to work my way through college and have now been in the same white collar job for almost as long and JUST got a raise yet am still worried about the day they boot me since 90 percent of my days is spent posting here, watching YouTube, or tweeting and my retail job was 10x harder. Glad I’d become a socialist at the retail job so I was aware of how lucky I am but I definitely felt ThoughtSlime’s video as I’d feel the same way if I made my living producing content. Pants Donkey posted:I actually have to work at my job. I have like triple the clients I should because a lot of people left for various reasons and it takes like six months to really train people.
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Feb 27, 2021 06:47
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stillvisions posted:Kids punch mascots. It's a rule. Mascots are just sort of inherently punchable. Like you go to a sports game, or watch some ad on TV with somebody dressed up in a mascot suit, your first thought is probably, "Christ, that thing is loving stupid looking, and I want to see it injured." stillvisions posted:Yeah, lockdown hasn't slowed anything down, and my biggest worry for all the work-from-home people is once this is all over there's still going to be the casual assumption that you're always 20 yards away from your work computer. Imagine someone getting fired from your job because you were away from your computer for like 15 minutes because you had to check your mail or take a dump, and didn't immediately respond to the IMs your boss sent you. Well I mean, imagine it happening nowadays and from an actual company ran by people who had some clue to run a business.
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Feb 27, 2021 07:10
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stillvisions posted:Yeah, lockdown hasn't slowed anything down, and my biggest worry for all the work-from-home people is once this is all over there's still going to be the casual assumption that you're always 20 yards away from your work computer. And yeah, the assumption you’re always there sucks. I feel compelled to each lunch at my laptop in case someone needs me when at the office I felt no problem going to the cafeteria or a quiet room to eat. Also I have definitely been asked to log back in to fix something after quitting time.
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Feb 27, 2021 07:48
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That Thanos costume's head just jelly jiggling after that kid punts him is hilarious
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Feb 27, 2021 08:26
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Max Wilco posted:I guess that kid took Thanos' advice. He went for the head.  Max Wilco posted:Mascots are just sort of inherently punchable. Like you go to a sports game, or watch some ad on TV with somebody dressed up in a mascot suit, your first thought is probably, "Christ, that thing is loving stupid looking, and I want to see it injured." I admit, I've felt the compulsion more than one to irrationally take a swing at one or more of my local sports mascots, but then I remember there's a person inside that doofy suit and sense and sanity prevail and I feel like an absolute shithead for even contemplating it. That said, my cousin, and alleged adult at the time, once powerkicked a Disneyland costumed character because he was a dumb drunken shithead and the loving Disney Security Directorate descended upon us and threatened to call OCPD on him, kick my entire family out of the park and ban him for life, so yeah Disney does not gently caress around when it comes to protecting their costumed employees from jagoffs who get funny ideas.
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Feb 27, 2021 09:10
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Is it still depressing retail talk time? Last retail job I had nearly killed me, literally. The floor manager of my department, who exclusively hired young highschool or freshly graduated girls, decided he was too important to show up for job interviews so someone else was doing it and hired me on the spot. He was pissed and made it his personal goal to just make me miserable. Outright yelling at me in front of customers for minor mistakes, or even non-mistakes. Like how I walked, apparently that was a crime that needed vicious mockery. Anyway, the important thing is that I was given near constant back to back twelve hour shifts but no overtime because they never gave me enough hours to actually qualify for overtime because they were real good at finding excuse to not give you overtime. And if they were ever forced into a situation where they had to admit they would give you overtime they'd just stop giving you hours then fire you for not working. So anyway point was, I'd spend most of the week working non-stop because it was an hour or more bus ride in either direction from my place of work to home depending on traffic, and by the time I got home I'd often have to just scarf down something to eat and pop my meds then just turn around and leave so I could get on the bus and make it for my next twelve hour shift; because if you got caught sleeping in the break room you were fired. So I got to sleep on the bus, how fun. Anyway I started getting pretty sick after a few weeks of this because people kind of need to eat and sleep, and because exhaustion and stress trigger my seizures real well, it inevitably happened and I'm just glad it happened at home. I tried calling in to work but no one would answer the phones, then I just slept on the floor because everything hurt too much to bother getting into bed. I was fired because I missed a single day of work and didn't let them know two weeks in advance. I had tried asking them for some time off a while back, but it was denied. At least that was the excuse given; because every single person who was hired the same time I was, was also let go. Right around the time we'd all worked enough hours to qualify for benefits and medical, funny enough. Incidentally target was sued for that exact behavior and I got ten dollars for it.
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Feb 27, 2021 09:53
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Max Wilco posted:Mascots are just sort of inherently punchable. Like you go to a sports game, or watch some ad on TV with somebody dressed up in a mascot suit, your first thought is probably, "Christ, that thing is loving stupid looking, and I want to see it injured." Except Gritty. I don't think anyone's stupid enough to try and take a swing at the chaotic embodiment of "gently caress Around and Find Out".
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Feb 27, 2021 10:06
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Nuebot posted:Is it still depressing retail talk time? Last retail job I had nearly killed me, literally. The floor manager of my department, who exclusively hired young highschool or freshly graduated girls, decided he was too important to show up for job interviews so someone else was doing it and hired me on the spot. He was pissed and made it his personal goal to just make me miserable. Outright yelling at me in front of customers for minor mistakes, or even non-mistakes. Like how I walked, apparently that was a crime that needed vicious mockery. Anyway, the important thing is that I was given near constant back to back twelve hour shifts but no overtime because they never gave me enough hours to actually qualify for overtime because they were real good at finding excuse to not give you overtime. And if they were ever forced into a situation where they had to admit they would give you overtime they'd just stop giving you hours then fire you for not working. So anyway point was, I'd spend most of the week working non-stop because it was an hour or more bus ride in either direction from my place of work to home depending on traffic, and by the time I got home I'd often have to just scarf down something to eat and pop my meds then just turn around and leave so I could get on the bus and make it for my next twelve hour shift; because if you got caught sleeping in the break room you were fired. So I got to sleep on the bus, how fun. Anyway I started getting pretty sick after a few weeks of this because people kind of need to eat and sleep, and because exhaustion and stress trigger my seizures real well, it inevitably happened and I'm just glad it happened at home. I tried calling in to work but no one would answer the phones, then I just slept on the floor because everything hurt too much to bother getting into bed. jeeeeezus man....I'm so sorry =( I hope you have a decent non soul destroying method of income now.
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Feb 27, 2021 10:11
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Except Gritty. Normal children, maybe, but philly kids are a different breed and gritty has had to engage in honorable combat with several children on the ice at this point
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Feb 27, 2021 10:17
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Nuebot posted:The floor manager of my department, who exclusively hired young highschool or freshly graduated girls, decided he was too important to show up for job interviews so someone else was doing it and hired me on the spot. Hope you've got somewhere better now.
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Feb 27, 2021 10:38
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The Thanos in Endgame didn't work for me at all. Bringing in younger Thanos, who has zero character development from IW and is basically a different character and then having him be the final boss, like it doesn't really work from a story-telling perspective.
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Feb 27, 2021 10:54
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Jamie Faith posted:jeeeeezus man....I'm so sorry =( I hope you have a decent non soul destroying method of income now. I write porn for internet weirds while trying to work up the confidence to get something I give a poo poo about published. I manage to live. Terrible Opinions posted:Does every single town have like half a dozen of these creeps in charge of hiring somewhere? I swear it is a constant no matter where you move. In my experience they get into power because of a combination of the upper management and poo poo being just as bad, and them being creepy, lovely fucks pushing everyone else away so once all of their co-workers quit after ages of harassment complaints going ignored or punished: surprise, they're the only person left, better promote them! Archer666 posted:The Thanos in Endgame didn't work for me at all. Bringing in younger Thanos, who has zero character development from IW and is basically a different character and then having him be the final boss, like it doesn't really work from a story-telling perspective.
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Feb 27, 2021 11:06
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Archer666 posted:The Thanos in Endgame didn't work for me at all. Bringing in younger Thanos, who has zero character development from IW and is basically a different character and then having him be the final boss, like it doesn't really work from a story-telling perspective. When it happened I just said to myself "Okay, pretend this is just Actual Thanos, gently caress it." ...And then they had the balls to lampshade it with the Scarlet Witch "I don't even know who you are!" moment 
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Feb 27, 2021 11:15
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Nuebot posted:In my experience they get into power because of a combination of the upper management and poo poo being just as bad, and them being creepy, lovely fucks pushing everyone else away so once all of their co-workers quit after ages of harassment complaints going ignored or punished: surprise, they're the only person left, better promote them! Yeah, an unwritten fact of organizational norms is that unaddressed toxic workplace behavior is self-reinforcing. Long-term it drives away everyone who doesn't either accept or partake in it, increasing its prevalence over time. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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Feb 27, 2021 11:17
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Archer666 posted:The Thanos in Endgame didn't work for me at all. Bringing in younger Thanos, who has zero character development from IW and is basically a different character and then having him be the final boss, like it doesn't really work from a story-telling perspective. They had the exact same amount of character development, because they're the same character. The only difference is that IW Thanos acts like a magnanimous warrior-poet because he's certain that he will win, whereas Endgame Thanos is pissed off that his carefully cultivated lie about the people of the universe being grateful after he genocides them is torn away. Endgame Thanos is the true Thanos, in all of his murderous and spiteful glory.
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Feb 27, 2021 13:25
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Andrew Verse posted:They had the exact same amount of character development, because they're the same character. The only difference is that IW Thanos acts like a magnanimous warrior-poet because he's certain that he will win, whereas Endgame Thanos is pissed off that his carefully cultivated lie about the people of the universe being grateful after he genocides them is torn away. Endgame Thanos is the true Thanos, in all of his murderous and spiteful glory. Well this sells the Endgame Thanos to me a lot better than the movie did. It always bothered me that the big character shift for him was like, 4 years. Endgame just being him going mask off certainly helps that work a bit better.
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Feb 27, 2021 13:35
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Andrew Verse posted:They had the exact same amount of character development, because they're the same character. The only difference is that IW Thanos acts like a magnanimous warrior-poet because he's certain that he will win, whereas Endgame Thanos is pissed off that his carefully cultivated lie about the people of the universe being grateful after he genocides them is torn away. Endgame Thanos is the true Thanos, in all of his murderous and spiteful glory. Absolutely. In IW Thanos repeatedly makes it about himself. It's not that he wants to save the universe, it's that he wants to be viewed as the saviour of the universe and for everyone to admit he was right. quote:Thanos: I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately that you're right... yet to fail, nonetheless quote:Thanos: Little one, it's a simple calculus. This universe is finite, its resources finite. If life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correction. quote:Thanos: I ignored my destiny once. I cannot do that again. quote:Stephen Strange: And then what?
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Feb 27, 2021 14:09
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Dapper_Swindler posted:i liked the cap ending. its dumb but it fits the arc he was going for, He had his happy ending finally. plus they will make him young again as a cameo at some point. https://twitter.com/UpToTASK/status/1365019678863593472 Honestly, poor guy. People are awful to people in costumes.
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Feb 27, 2021 16:03
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That tweet should stfu. that’s an alien who’s blood is purple. So PG13 appropriate. You can decap all day if blood doesn’t shoot out. Blade should be R
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Feb 27, 2021 16:07
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You might get lovely techno in a PG-13 film, but you won't get any blood raves. That person's gonna have to take the L on their bad take. Edit: I just had a horrific realization that Blade is probably older than that person. Now I'm slowly turning to ash. Jimbot fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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Feb 27, 2021 16:16
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CelticPredator posted:That tweet should stfu. that’s an alien who’s blood is purple. So PG13 appropriate. CelticPredator posted:That tweet should stfu. that’s an alien who’s blood is purple. So PG13 appropriate. Yeah, that was a clean rear end decap on a big alien with little grape juice blood, some movies genuinely need the R to allow the grievous injury, nasty stuff and kills that are what make a lot of their cool moments, Blade, Spawn, Punisher (Though Punisher doesn't entirely NEED it, but it helps). Spawn especially too, like we already tried a neutered PG-13 Spawn and it was disappointing as hell, just let him tear people up like he always has otherwise. Yardbomb fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Feb 27, 2021 |
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Feb 27, 2021 16:48
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Jimbot posted:You might get lovely techno in a PG-13 film, but you won't get any blood raves. That person's gonna have to take the L on their bad take. Ehh it’s the weird “media violence is bad crowd” on twitter. some of them have points but it always comes back to some weird moral prude poo poo like tipper gore and Jack Thompson cept no real power.
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Feb 27, 2021 16:52
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Yardbomb posted:Yeah, that was a clean rear end decap on a big alien with little grape juice blood, some movies genuinely need the R to allow the grievous injury, nasty stuff and kills that are what make a lot of their cool moments, Blade, Spawn, Punisher (Though Punisher doesn't entirely NEED it, but it helps). Spawn especially too, like we already tried a neutered PG-13 Spawn and it was disappointing as hell, just let him tear people up like he always has otherwise. Yeah exactly. I’d like to see another spawn show or maybe a movie. Have Keith David voice him again.
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Feb 27, 2021 16:55
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McCloud posted:Endgame and infinity war also did a total 180 on Thors arc too. Thor's complete personality shift from Ragnarok to Endgame was definitely the most bizarre thing about the movie. Especially when Ragnarok's whole end premise was way more interesting and satisfying. Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Also, it's not like it's new. I'm pretty sure I've heard Disney costume people say that the poor souls in the villain costumes get kicked in the ankles by kids who don't know better/are just little shits all the time. It's either that or adults who are hornt up on the villain characters and get all cloying with them and want lots of touchy pictures, iirc.
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Feb 27, 2021 16:57
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Dapper_Swindler posted:Ehh it’s the weird “media violence is bad crowd” on twitter. some of them have points but it always comes back to some weird moral prude poo poo like tipper gore and Jack Thompson cept no real power. It’s funny to me that someone named tipper gore doesn’t enjoy seeing guts explode outta someone
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