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IShallRiseAgain posted:I mean yes, but Arisia is also a different species. (FYI, humans don't have elf ears. They also don't have yellow skin unless they have Jaundice.) Yes, but her species explicitly aged the exact same way humans do. This was a literal plot point. Geoff Johns later tried to retcon it to "uh but actually she was totally legal in space years" because Geoff Johns made it his career goal to 'fix' Hal Jordan, despite the fact that not bringing it up would make more sense.
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credburn posted:In terms of gross cartoon tropes, is Arisa being a sexualized grown-up 13 year-old better or worse than a sexualized 7,000 year old child? Here is a simple primer: If you ever have to go "Well, LEGALLY, it's.." then it is gross and you should stop doing it. Anything past that is just arguing for the sake of arguing.
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PhazonLink posted:why does earth have so many GL's seems like a problem for galactic power balance Basically: There was one Green Lantern, Hal. Hal was a poo poo. The second choice, social worker/teacher Guy Gardner, was only chosen because he wasn't close enough. Hal found out about that and recruited him to help out until he got hit by a bus saving children. (And then Hal's power battery exploded in his face, throwing him into the Phantom Zone where General Zod tortured him, and in the real world Hal Jordan hooked up with his girlfriend in her grief because Hal is a poo poo.) He basically stays in a coma until Crisis on Infinite Earths where he's recruited but now he has the brain damage/Hal made his life hell so now he's an rear end in a top hat. However he's an effective rear end in a top hat so he's made the Green Lantern of Earth while Hal is off doing Protagonist Stuff. With Guy out of action they recruited the architect John Stewart as Hal's new backup. John did a good job until his life went to poo poo and he basically left Earth to become a new hero named the Master Builder. This lasted until Hal Jordan went evil, murdered the Guardians and most of the Green Lanterns, and became a new crazed villain named Parallax. This destroyed everything John had built and killed his wife. Hal, as mentioned, went fuckin' evil after his home town was nuked during Return of Superman. The surviving Guardian found a new kid, artist Kyle Rayner, and recruited him to be the last ever Green Lantern. Guy had been kicked out of the GL corps earlier but got a Yellow Power Ring and kept heroing for a while, turned out he was descended from a space alien, yada yada. For the most part that's it, Kyle is The Green Lantern. Hal Jordan eventually 'redeemed' himself by sacrificing his life and was made the new Spectre as reward/punishment. Geoff Johns gets a hard on for Hal Jordan as he remembers him from Wikipedia Summaries and brings him back from the dead and blames everything on an evil fear bug living in his head. This also gets all the previous GLs their rings back as well and Guy kind of just stops being an alien. This is obviously to minimize backlash and Geoff Johns clearly doesn't care about any of the characters besides Hal, so he forgets things like "John was an architect" and makes him into an ex marine instead because that is what the cartoon does. During an event, Hal's ring fuses with Sinestro's and goes to find a new host, Simon Baz, who because Geoff Johns was a Lebanese-America accused of being a terrorist who carries a gun. Geoff Johns pretends like he cares about Simon Baz but he doesn't and Baz just kind of languishes. Also Batman takes away his gun because guns are bad. Jessica Cruz is a traumatized woman who gets chosen not by a Green Lantern ring but by the EVIL Green Lantern Ring from the parallel Earth 3. She eventually overcomes the evil ring and they give her a good ring as reward. She does a bit better than Simon Baz because DC gave her a stronger push but she's still stuck in "We have HOW many Green Lanterns" territory. " There's also Alan Scott who is the original Green Lantern but magical and from another dimension except when he isn't. He's gay now because they erased his son, who was also gay, from existence and didn't want backlash. (Obsidian also came back eventually.) ImpAtom has a new favorite as of 00:00 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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The thing with Hal Jordan is that when he was well written his entire thing is that he was "a man without fear and with incredible willpower' which it turns out also translated into him being kind of an idiot and an rear end in a top hat, but that was like the intentional reading. He has the world's most powerful weapon and the conflict was that it was in the hands of a man with a good heart but who was honestly kind of a shitbird. And that was interesting and him being flawed and failing and doing poo poo like "accidentally slips in the shower during an emergency, forcing John Stewart to take over for him" was part of the appeal of the character. And then Geoff Johns came along and spent entirely too long making him the coolest smartest and best in a way that devalued every aspect of the character. And it isn't the only character he did that to. Barry Allen, the original Flash, was kind of dull. He wasn't awful but he wasn't super great either and his death in Infinite Crisis meant they could open up the path for Wally West, who is the Flash most people think of now in personality if not in name. He was kind of arrogant and goofy and a bit of a dumbass and his immense power was tempered by his flaws and he was genuinely popular. Except Geoff Johns went "He isn't the same generic white man I read about as a child" and wrote a terrible story bringing him back as the FOR REAL FLASH while crapping over all the replacement Flashes. Only it turned out nobody gave a shiiiiit about Barry Allen or had any ideas for him so what they gradually did was just graft Wally West's traits onto Barry, to the point where a good chunk of Barry Allen stuff outside of the comics itself is just someone writing Wally West and calling him Barry Allen. And I'll stand by "replace all the new characters with their older, more boring, and whiter counterparts" being a dumb marketing move that stopped any sense of progression in the DC universe dead in the water.
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Phanatic posted:Well, in fairness they can't reach any higher. They mentioned specifically 'things getting cheaper during slow periods of the day.' It was 100% what they intended, they just didn't expect the backlash.
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Feb 28, 2024 21:52
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CJacobs posted:Also the thing about the food getting cheaper is bullshit. It's going to get $5 more expensive, 15 cents cheaper. Don't let them do any version of this idea Yeah, the "food gets cheaper" thing comes with an unsaid "but also more expensive at busier times." Even if the more expensive is the 'base price', that just means they'll jack up the base price and then use the lower pricing as a "see, it's on sale" It's just the food version of "This cost $50 last weel, but this week is costs $100 and is on a 50% discount so it's $50, what a bargain"
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So Marvel put out a solicitation about one of their upcoming variant ""Marvel Comics will be celebrating Pride Month this year by looking beyond those of us in the LGBTQIA+ community and focusing on those who support them: the allies." They have since reworded it "Marvel Comics will be celebrating Pride Month this year by looking at its LGBTQIA+ characters as well as their straight allies." But... yeah. "For pride month, we're going to look at the straights."
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credburn posted:I don't get it. Your character in Fallout 4 is a person who got put in cryo-stasis in a vault as the bombs were dropping.
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