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umalt posted:Man, nerd society as a whole is overdue for a subversive anything in which the hero is a 'boy-scout'-esque hero who's antagonists are edgy 'intellectuals' who try to do the whole shades-of-grey heroism but fail at staying out of the black. Gurren Lagann has a pretty funny arc where that exact thing happens. The protagonist's close friend and long-time ally betrays him because things are really grim and he needs to make the hard choices for the good of humanity! Needless to say it blows up in his face, he ends up endangers humanity even more and the protagonist bails everyone, including him, out by doing the right thing and refusing to give in to nihilism even when the world is baying for his blood. But yeah the ideology behind the whole grimdark trend in nerd fiction is really gross, I've seen a few things recently which have started to buck the trend, like X Men:DoFP, which paints a really lovely grim scenario but has the protagonists pull out a win (and a better future!) through pain, sacrifice and faith in each other so maybe there's there's hope yet.
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If you guys start helldumping you know it's gonna end in tears
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Tiggum posted:Is the theory there that if child pornography already exists and is easy to get, no one will need to make more of it? If so, how do they explain regular porn continuing to be produced? A man who already has some ivory is less likely to want more of it
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Tiberius Thyben posted:"Stung by accusations that they are spending their lives doing for words what Bitcoin does for electricity" That's a pretty sick burn
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