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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
What we see there is actually a network of youtuber which feed each other their talking points and draw young youtubers which don't know better into their circles.
I feel like that evolution was as inevitable as anarchy turning into feudalism.
The "Umm, ACTUALLY" crowd is built on a simple premise: I understand the topic of discussion better than you do, and I want my turn to speak so that I can explain why your stupid opinions are stupid and you suck. It's a habit built on a feeling of intellectual superiority.
That a lot of people who insist that they're smarter than everyone else wind up being assholes is. Like. It's not a new thing. In other news, the sky is blue.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Mar 11th 2019 at 12:26:28 PM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I'm no stranger to feeling intellectually superior. In fact, I've gotten in trouble for it, and one of the ways I've learned to converse politely is to cleanly separate facts from my opinions about the facts, and things I know from things I believe. I can't say I'm perfect at it, but I don't make YT videos so I can act smugly condescending to everyone on the Internet.
I also would never make a "review" of a work without having actually seen it.
Speaking from my perspective, people who feign intellectual superiority in order to talk down to people that they disagree with are the lowest scum in the sewage pond.
Edited by Fighteer on Mar 11th 2019 at 3:44:43 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Saw it yesterday. It's alright, pretty much right down the middle for an MCU movie.
Three gripes, though:
1) The 90s references were beyond shallow. Oh look, there's SFII, hey anyone remember the Pumpkins and Nirvana? All pop culture references that could be picked up by people born in 2005, nothing that actually makes anyone who was alive then remember anything and smile. For the most part you could completely forget that it was in the 90s, except...
2) That soundtrack. Did this feel like a grungy movie to anyone? It didn't to me, but the soundtrack is grungy as fuck. There were plenty of scenes where 90s rap or metal or industrial would have been much more appropriate, but they largely skipped those genres. To top that off, they let the lyrics play right over the movie; this worked really well in Got G and fell flat on its face here, sometimes deflating scenes entirely. Possibly because the music never matches the scene.
3) I'll just say it: Carol Danvers has a weak character arc. She starts off strong but undisciplined, continues to be strong but undisciplined, hit a tiny speed bump when she's temporarily detained by an extremely unthreatening AI which she overcomes with ease and never feels especially imperiled by, unlocks some true power without particularly developing as a character and kicks everyone's ass, unlocks MORE true power and kicks eye-rolling amounts of ass, and that's it, roll credits.
This movie is easily the most blatant power fantasy of any MCU film, giving it a rather juvenile tone more like Ant Man & the Wasp or Spiderman Homecoming.
On the upside, that cat! What a sweet little kitty! I would buy tickets to Goose: the Cuddliest Avenger.
Edited by lvthn13 on Mar 11th 2019 at 1:24:13 AM
Okay sorry for bringing this back to a topic from a couple threads ago (I just woke up) but figured the current topic is sad enough to warrant some change.
The current Mortal Kombat games have a great story. Their basically multi-hour cinematic high-budget movies with a lot of cool & touching moments like Scorpion & Sub-Zero finally ending their rivalry in an extremely heartwarming & touching moment.
Plus most of the characters are playable in the story mode. Sure the same can't be said for the villains barring Kotal Khan, at least most of the cast does something compared to Tekken 7 (where out of 20+ characters it just focuses entirely on the 3 Mishimas) or from what I heard Dead or Alive (where its just the ninjas that do stuff the important stuff).
Mortal Kombat has like the best story in fighting games now & that's not a Damned by a Faint Praise compliment, its a genuine compliment.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Humor me, I'm sorta still in a daze from waking up in the middle of that day.
....... Jesus I gotta finish that non-fiction portfolio before tomorrow.
I am writing a 2,000 word paper about me wanting to be a crocodile to escape from the difficulties of human life BTW.
Random detail I just became aware of through re-watching Civil War.
During the big fight where they all run at each other (I thought we had a trope for that; Not quite Mirrored Confrontation Shot, but the actual running bit), we see Spiderman start a few steps behind Black Widow, but slowly start pulling ahead of her before the scene cuts out: a subtle reminder of the fact that he's flat out super human. It's very easy to miss too.
One Strip! One Strip!Back from seeing Captain Marvel...and I loved it. But oh boy, I can see the Anti-SJW losing their sh... over it. Oddly some men seem to have trouble to pick up on it (at least the ones with whom I watched the movie didn't really notice), but the meta text of the movie IS unashamedly feminist.
I also now get why the reviews are all over the place. The movie wasn't really what I expected and if I were bothered by something like this, I might have been disappointed. But then, I like the unexpected.
Can't wait to see more of Carol. (I think the aspect I loved the most is how much agency she had).
Edited by Swanpride on Mar 11th 2019 at 4:40:42 AM
The metatext is definitely feminist, but it's subtle enough that if these people weren't looking for reasons to be upset, they would never notice it. Again, it's definitely there, but this isn't anywhere near as explicitly feminist as Wonder Woman (2017), which had many male characters looking down on Diana for being female only to be quickly proven wrong.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.No, the biggest problem with the internet is that the rest of the world feels obligated to respond to it. Stupid people with stupid opinions always existed and always will, but nobody felt any need to listen to their garbage.
Just my two cents, but this movie created a feedback loop. Assholes with bad opinions screamed loudly, and the people involved with the movie actually played into it. You know what they say about wrestling with pigs.
But it was by ignoring these people that they grew this large and loud.
If you leave a big cut alone, it tends to fester and rot, same deal: if we had bothered to shut down stuff like 4chan early, perhaps they wouldn't have the reach they have now.
Or maybe they would, after all, maybe they were always there but didn't have an outlet for their venomous opinions, and more to the point couldn't get in touch with each other and organize.
Regardless, ignoring them isn't gonna make them go away.

It's unlocked.
@Swanpride: Which pushback against Cinemasin? I don't think I have followed this.
Edited by Theokal3 on Mar 11th 2019 at 7:08:25 PM