Are you aware that sending things like this on anon with an accusatory tone and no proof except source: trust me bro does nothing except make you sound like a 13 year old who is about to write a callout post because they don’t like someone
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I'm only halfway though Hbomberguy's new video and I dont know if this is a universal experience but my main horrified takeaway from hbomb's plagiarism video so far is that one of my highschools TAUGHT AN ENTIRE CLASS OF 13 YEAR OLDS TO PLAGIARISE. LIKE, ON PURPOSE.
I ended up moving to a much better highschool, but my first highschool essentially taught us to "write" essays by reading what someone else had written and then write what they said again but putting it "into your own words". Which in practice was teaching us to change, for example, "the works of Shakespeare were regarded by many as the first popular art form" to "Shakespeare's plays have been said by some to be the first example of popular media". One teacher actually told us that the process of writing an essay was "saying what the people you've researched have said, in a way where it sounds like you said it".
Like. The tactics that actual plagiarists use to hide the fact that they were stealing. An actual teacher tried to teach me to do that.
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The show expresses El's and Will's main arc and desires through their art in s4.
On the one hand, we have Will, who creates a painting for Mike that portrays them and the party together again, as their dnd characters. Of course, it displays Will's desire of belonging again in that friend group, of having what was taken away from him last summer. But, after all, the main focus of the painting is Mike. Because 1, the painting is for Mike after all, and 2, Will himself is telling where his priorities are, by painting a heart on top of him. Mike's the heart, his heart.
On the other hand, with her art (the figures she makes), El portrays Hopper and his cabin, the first place she actually considered a home. This creation is, in a way, for Hopper. Since she obviously can't give it to him directly, it's a tribute to his sacrifice, therefore, it's made for him. That's where her priorities lie: family.
Will's arc, his biggest hopes and desires, are primarily about love, just how he expresses in his art. El's arc, her biggest hopes and desires, are primarily about family, just how she expresses in her art.
So, narratively, who would make more sense to end up in a relationship? The one whose focus is love and belonging (being who he loves one of the reasons he feels as if he doesn't belong) or the one whose focus is family and finding herself?
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MGSV really is *so* misogynistic it is honestly hard to believe. It has ONE named female character, just one. And holy shit, the things they make that single woman do.
I don't know what happened. Or how Kojima thought what we was doing was defensible.
I could just link to the introduction of the SKULL snipers from Mission 28 Code Talker but even that I feel is so unbelievable to see with your own eyes that it would exit the mind as soon as it stopped playing.
Literally every criticism made during that era toward's this game is accurate. Every single one.
It might legit be the WORST example of "male gaze," literally literally ever. Out of everything.
If MGSV had outright no women in it whatsoever it would be better than what this is.
The cutscene for when Big Boss comes to Mother Base after not showering was what sealed it for me.
And the fact that there were people back then who thought they could defend this perhaps makes it even more deranged.
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the only byler proof i need is that mike only said 'i love you' to el when she was dying.
you could argue that mike didn't have a chance to before that point, but that's not really true. he could have said it as soon as they saved el from the desert (this would have actually been the best time to say it, romantically speaking, because it would show that his argument with el was all that they were thinking about during the ride to the desert, but that's not what happened, and thus it isn't true), or even in SBP. again, you could argue that he was going to say it in SBP but he was interrupted by argyle, but that kind of sucks because he made the same mistake again, which was hesitating to say 'i love you'.
and even if he did say it in SBP, that doesn't immediately fix their relationship. the reason their relationship is failing is because el doesn't feel loved by mike romantically, and she only figures out that saying 'i love you' does not fix all relationship problems after mike did eventually say 'i love you' to her when she was dying.
if mike and el were friends, el wouldn't feel the need to hear mike saying 'i love you' to her, nor the feeling of romantic attraction from him. it would allow them to become even closer, in fact, because they wouldn't be fake around each other or have arguments about their romantic relationship. since they're already friends that don't feel romantic attraction towards each other, by ditching the labels of girlfriend and boyfriend, they wouldn't be bounds to the things that they do just because they are together (e.g. being fake, not being able to tell each other things, demanding signs of romantic love from each other, etc.).
you can call mike saying 'i love you' to el when she was dying romantic, but i'll call it bullshit and a sad relationship.
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Not the st*ddies bringing up the “if Chrissy wasn’t a conventionally attractive skinny white girl no one would ship her with Eddie” argument, when we literally got Jonathan and Argyle who already had an established friendship and tons of chemistry vs the two white male characters who y’all are most attracted to who talked to each other three times and which one did y’all end up shipping? Oh yeah the one with the two white guys that y’all are most attracted to.
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