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Ghost Leviathan posted:Is he trying to do the 'act so ridiculous no one will believe your victims' thing or I learned something in that article I didn't know. That the early KKK dressed in polka dot colors so that black victims wouldn't have anyone believing them when they were assaulted or killed. History is full of super hosed facts I guess
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Something like that might have inspired the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo from Metal Gear Solid, where if you try to say the true name of the villains then your mouth just blurts out nonsense syllables to make you sound like a dumbass
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Shageletic posted:I learned something in that article I didn't know. That the early KKK dressed in polka dot colors so that black victims wouldn't have anyone believing them when they were assaulted or killed. History is full of super hosed facts I guess IIRC one reason for early gun control laws was to keep black people from having them so they couldn't shoot back when the KKK came calling.
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Jun 18, 2022 15:34
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Everyone posted:He's been playing the role of Barry Allen for eight seasons and isn't a fugitive who grooms 12 year olds? On a show that regularly trends for some new embarrassingly bad moment in it, yes.
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Jun 18, 2022 20:50
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The Flash TV show sucks because the cast became too bloated and it’s gone on too long - but Grant G was awesome as the flash
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Jun 18, 2022 22:38
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Pillowpants posted:The Flash TV show sucks because the cast became too bloated and it’s gone on too long - but Grant G was awesome as the flash Everyone got powers except for Dad Cop
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Jun 18, 2022 23:04
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Sounds like a long-running comic book to me.
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Jun 19, 2022 00:19
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I find it's best to avoid taking the role of either judge, jury, or executioner in my day to day life
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Jun 19, 2022 06:34
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The flash tv show sucks because it is awful
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Everyone posted:He's been playing the role of Barry Allen for eight seasons and isn't a fugitive who grooms 12 year olds? Sure. Or, hear me out, this massive studio has more options than an unstable fugitive who grooms children or the television actor from a nearly decade-old CW series.
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It's just an appealing idea, right? The non-prodigal child getting a reward for their long service.
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Jun 19, 2022 09:47
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BiggestBatman posted:I find it's best to avoid taking the role of either judge, jury, or executioner in my day to day life And that is why you will never be Judge Dredd.
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Finally got around to watching Spider-man: No Way Home. I really liked it but the pacing sure falls off a cliff once the other Spider-men are revealed. Also turns out it's impossible to mention Electro's origin without it sounding silly RatHat fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Jun 19, 2022 |
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Jun 19, 2022 11:48
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Grendels Dad posted:And that is why you will never be Judge Dredd. Dredd risked his life to put the entire concept of policing in the hands of a public vote. As often happens with satire over time, we would now be so lucky as to have Judge Dredd.
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There is a scene in the newest Ms. Marvel where a kid gets himself in danger and Ms. Marvel has to save him. There is no supervillain involved, it is not part of some military adventure, and there is no violence. It’s just a situation where someone needs help and the good guy comes to help them. And I’m genuinely not sure that that the MCU has ever depicted one of their heroes doing that before?
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I guess the Washington Monument scene in Spider-Man Honecoming but that was also Peter's fault
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Mulva posted:Dredd risked his life to put the entire concept of policing in the hands of a public vote. As often happens with satire over time, we would now be so lucky as to have Judge Dredd. Dredd was much more extreme in the proof of concept strip. Originally he was meant to be a literal judge, jury and executioner doing mini trials on captured criminals. It was toned down after someone rightly pointed out that no criminal would ever actually surrender if that was a possibility, and they certainly wouldn't stand around awaiting sentence. The other fun fact about Dredd is that strictly speaking it wasn't John Wagner who made him a hit. The first story was written by Peter Harris, an accountant who had had a couple of rejected submissions to war comics but had never been published before and never was again. It went straight to the top of the reader ratings and Dredd has almost never left it since. It's a mark of how strong the character design is that with a script written by a novice and art that had to be sexed up at the last minute because Mike McMahon's original splash was so boring, it was still an instant hit.
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Dredd is a funny one since he tends to be a lot more humanised and even reasonable in his starring stories while when in spinoff stories from other characters' perspectives he's full-blown authoritarian hardass. Though am reminded of the strip where he's an in-universe gay icon in MC1 and seems only slightly embarrassed about it. (Of course, impersonating a judge for theatrical purposes is still a crime, if a relatively light one)
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Roth posted:I guess the Washington Monument scene in Spider-Man Honecoming but that was also Peter's fault Peter spends part of Homecoming doing street level good work to prove himself to Tony, getting back stolen bikes and so on. The Eternals also helped people in a day to day fashion in the flashbacks to the past in their film, rigging up irrigation, catching thieves etc.
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Having now finished the "Invincible" comic between seasons of the show I really don't like the themes Kirkman enshews 2 for 2 Kirk!
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tsob posted:The Eternals also helped people in a day to day fashion in the flashbacks to the past in their film, rigging up irrigation, catching thieves etc. And then in the present they lead a Deviant away from an empty riverside path to a crowded street for no discernable reason.
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Aren’t all of the Netflix shows basically about helping regular people?
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Upsidads posted:Having now finished the "Invincible" comic between seasons of the show I really don't like the themes Kirkman enshews I really did not like Invincible the comic I have never seen the animated series but it's been weird hearing it praised so much
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Burkion posted:I really did not like Invincible the comic The animated series has J.K. Simmons The animated series has memes 
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I never understood that Thanos argument. In Endgame when the past Thanos finds out about the Snap he seems to imply that he thought the people of the universe would keep itself stable afterwards(probably out of fear of a 2nd snap) and since that didn’t happen he just decides to wipe everything. It makes sense, halving the population doesn’t mean it won’t just grow again.
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It's almost like Thanos is unreasonable.
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RatHat posted:I never understood that Thanos argument. In Endgame when the past Thanos finds out about the Snap he seems to imply that he thought the people of the universe would keep itself stable afterwards(probably out of fear of a 2nd snap) and since that didn’t happen he just decides to wipe everything. It makes sense, halving the population doesn’t mean it won’t just grow again.
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RatHat posted:I never understood that Thanos argument. In Endgame when the past Thanos finds out about the Snap he seems to imply that he thought the people of the universe would keep itself stable afterwards(probably out of fear of a 2nd snap) and since that didn’t happen he just decides to wipe everything. It makes sense, halving the population doesn’t mean it won’t just grow again. You have to understand that the context for 'make more' comes from strictly the first movie. The first movie is where Thanos is being presented as 'reasonable.' So the reasonable argument is make more resources, not kill more people Endgame then reveals the lie that it was never about belief, that he's just a psycho who wants to kill people. He has no interest in fixing anything.
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Burkion posted:You have to understand that the context for 'make more' comes from strictly the first movie. I mean if you understand the Infinity Stones as granting one "wish" it would of been infinite resources for everyone. But Thanos is a crazy genocidal dictator trying to justify his actions and picks genocide.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I mean if you understand the Infinity Stones as granting one "wish" it would of been infinite resources for everyone. Right but the whole conceit of Infinity War was that Thanos was a HARD MAN MAKING HARD CHOICES Which is where the counter of 'infinite resources tho' came from. Then Endgame reveals that he's just a blunt psycho who really wants to kill people and that's about the end of it. You'll notice that his popularity with Certain Circles pretty much died after Endgame where he was shown to be a moron.
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Thanos is an idiot. When do evil villains need to have a fool proof logical plan for their nonsense. All that matters is it matters to them. This very forum had someone try and bomb cows to save the world lol.
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All this shows is that we really lost something without Death-worshipping Thanos who was in love with the skeleton lady who never gave him the time of day
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Thanos's plan makes no sense in the MCU because: --Half of the human population now is more than the world population in the 1960s which according to my records is not some beacon for environmentalism and peace --If animals count, halving the amount of bees in the world doesn't really help things
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Valve Steam Deck posted:All this shows is that we really lost something without Death-worshipping Thanos who was in love with the skeleton lady who never gave him the time of day Yea this would have been insanely dope I wouldn’t mind insane idiot Thanos but it would help if literally any of the heroes pointed out the dumbness in one of his several monologues, then he just gets all petulant and lashes out. Instead they all seem to concede the point then go “but it’s too big a sacrifice!” or whatever. I really hate how it seems to want to have its cake and eat it too, where there was a ton of people praising his characterization as a villain with an understandable motivation but then when questioned would go “it doesn’t matter lol he’s obviously the bad guy and wrong”. Actually another great alternative would be a villain who earnestly believes something even dumber that the heroes also don’t really react to like “yea I want to destroy the sun to get the sweet lemonade inside” and Thor is like “but at what cost!?”
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I like when he's talking to Gamora about it and he says "you have to have exactly 50% of the number of people currently alive, and then there will be paradise" and the best response she can come up with is "you don't know that!"
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That's a bit undermined by the fact that he has been at this genociding business for a while, so he does, in fact, know if this approach works or not, and indeed Endgame seems to bear his theory out, considering nature is healing and all
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Oh he loves killin
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CelticPredator posted:Oh he loves killin Oh boy here he goes killin again
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McCloud posted:That's a bit undermined by the fact that he has been at this genociding business for a while, so he does, in fact, know if this approach works or not, and indeed Endgame seems to bear his theory out, considering nature is healing and all Yeah it's real, real lovely. Endgame basically takes the have its cake and eat it too thing to its logical extreme by having Thanos be presented as correct, and then also show that he's a gibbering madman.
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Oh yeah, I'd actually forgotten about the Endgame "nature is healing" stuff. Thanos was right, but it's depressing that he's right!
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