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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The kneeling scene was a nice idea, but it doesn't quite work the way it should because of a number of factors. One is that it's hard to get a real sense of scale when you're only seeing 3-4 people in any given shot, but there seems to be incomplete effects and there may have been more people in the outskirts. A criticism I had of Age of Ultron was an obsession with giving each Avenger equal screen time, which killed the pacing of scenes like Tony's vision of all of them dead (everyone had a "death" shot, which didn't get more shocking with each person). It is also positioned as something of a roll call, but a simpler and more effective one was at the funeral with more people included. To compare it to the extra roll call endings of Return of the King, that was the culmination of everything we were going to get out of that universe, and after 10-13 hours of this story it was definitely earned. So it could have been akin to "You Bow to No One
" but nowhere near as satisfying.
<Looks at the shitshow due to a fake quote and an obvious joke from Joe Russo>
...See, this is why I don't use Twitter. Every time I've gone against my better judgement and looked up a Twitter post, I've come to regret it. As far as I'm concerned, the less Twitter in my life, the better.
Disgusted, but not surprised![]()
Smart.
I don't know a single thing that Twitter does, as a platform, that is actually good. There are a couple decent communities there, but not very many, and they'd likely exist on a different site if Twitter didn't exist.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Well I do have one but that was made a while ago, does not use my real name, & it only has 1 post of which I have not used since.
I’m embarrassed to say I do have a Tumblr account but that’s primarily so I can reach the NSW stuff.
Edited by slimcoder on Jul 29th 2019 at 7:55:33 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."The only thing I do on social media is post two sentence movie reviews, and maybe pass along relevant posts. It's actually a fun mental exercise (try and encapsulate everything right and wrong with a movie while also explaining what to expect and make it clear if you recommend it or not) and I've gotten a number of friends and family expressing how much they enjoy them. I really couldn't imagine trying to get into any sort of arguments in that manner, though. The toxicity in certain corners is why I avoid it for the most part.
I have no association with social media whatsoever!
Or anybody to associate with, anyway!
I am basically a hermit! Except I have no turtle or island of my own!
I have made good choices with my life!
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The term "Act of God" typically has an actual legal definition that varies a bit between jurisdictions.
In general it's an unforeseeable catastrophe, something neither the insurance company nor the enrollee could of reasonably predicted was a risk. In some cases it explicitly requires no "human" involvement, which could be read as applying to any damage whatsoever caused by aliens. However in this precise case because the time stone was surrendered by Doctor Strange, that might be enough for the Snap to have "human involvement" and thus not be an act of god, legally speaking.
Of course ever since the events of the first Avengers movie, it likely became routine for all insurance policies in the MCU to explicitly cover or exclude damage caused by extraterrestrial attack, which the Snap would likely be classified as.
Edited by Falrinn on Jul 30th 2019 at 9:59:59 AM
That only counts if everyone knows the details of what happened, and since the Time Stone event occurred on an alien world with only a few witnesses, none of whom are likely keen to advertise it to all and sundry, the chances of an insurance claim being rejected on those specific grounds are infinitesimal.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Certainly.
Although like I said, I think the real problem is that contract law would of certainly been rewritten significantly in the wake of the Battle of New York to account for the existence of sentient aliens, some of which are remembered as gods in human mythology.
Really a whole bunch of laws would have to be passed just to make sentient aliens legal persons in the eyes of the law. Otherwise it would technically be legal for any human to murder Thor and cook up some Asgardian steaks.
And to be clear, "technically legal" not "remotely plausible to accomplish".

Officially declaring the Chitauri to be the shittiest army in the galaxy creates a bit of a narrative disconnect. Because the Chitauri are Thanos's army, and we've been told repeatedly that Thanos is, like, the scariest asshole in the universe.
It's hard to reconcile the scariest asshole in the universe being in command of the shittiest garbage-mooks ever made. Once again, this undermines important elements of the franchise. We can criticize the Chitauri all we want as fans, but within the context of the work, we're supposed to be afraid of the Chitauri.
We're supposed to be impressed by the Avengers' miraculous victory against the Chitauri.
Because the Chitauri are Thanos's forces, and their performance reflects directly on him. And we're supposed to be afraid of Thanos.
Well, to be fair we spent years criticizing Thanos for just sitting on his ass doing nothing, until he finally decided to do it himself.
And even then, we still mocked him as a joke. Then he really went and did it, and tunes changed.
As an extension of that attitude towards Thanos, I can see people acting like the Chitauri ain't that big a deal.
But yeah, it being cut is a good thing.
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