i've seen a lot of people complaining about how pokemon fans just hate palworld and want it fail bc they're nintendo bootlickers but haven't actually seen many examples of that...? maybe im just on the wrong part of the internet
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I don’t remember where it was but I read a review that said something like “all Sam Reid has to do to improve on Cruise’s Lestat is tone it down, which he does.”
And I cannot stop thinking about it. I mean can you imagine
Thinking Tom Cruise needed to tone it down
Thinking Sam Reid’s performance is toned down
Thinking “tone it down” is good advice for someone playing Lestat
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So the biphobia is already rearing its ugly head.
I feel this needs to be said. Ryan is not queerbaiting in The Quarry, Dylan is not queerbaiting in the Quarry. We got two guys that are very blatantly bi and gay and not played for laughs or as stereotypes, this is a good thing.
Yes I’m disappointed (and it’s odd writing) that Ryan decides basically he isn’t interested in Dylan OR Kaitlyn, (I've heard you can get slightly different dialogue? But idk how.) And he does have this instant connection with Laura (can you blame him? She’s wife af.) But he is no less bisexual because he’s more interested in a girl than a guy.
I’ve not seen a single person say Dylan isn’t “really gay” or “queerbaiting” cause he ends the game single. It’s very telling.
I’m not saying this representation was perfect (yes they censored the kiss between him and Ryan, and yes that can be criticized, but it can be done without implying Ryan’s somehow less legit of rep because of one camera angle), but I thought it was overall well done and impressive. We get two blatantly queer guys who never make it a secret nor is it ever made weird. And instead of acknowledging it we’re complaining cause we didn’t get to see em make out? Let’s be real, how much of this is anger that more jerk off material wasn’t put in the game? Queer people are here whether we’re dating someone or not. If Max and Laura had swapped spots and Ryan ended up majorly falling for him and rejecting Kaitlyn and Dylan, no one would complain. Again, a bi person dating someone who is not the dame gender does not make them less bi.
All of the romances in this game just...get dropped for some bizarre reason, not just Ryan’s. The ending is very rushed and I think there was some trouble with the development. But when people decide to lash out every time we get lgbt+ rep, calling the devs phobic and being generally hostile, you encourage companies to put less representation, not more. Whether it’s right or not, it is something that happens and has been happening.
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Hot take that I've almost certainly posted before, but I don't think Johnny is stupid. I think he just lacks a lot of semantic knowledge and is out of touch. When we see him learn things he picks them up very quickly and mostly without help.
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the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.
capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.
now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.
and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.
and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.
and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".
it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"
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the taylor swift ai porn issue is such a bleak reminder of how inescapable the horrors of misogyny are. like obviously there's the talk of sort of "celebrity problems" like treatment by the tabloids etc, but beyond that there's just the constant heinous shit that women seemingly cannot escape no matter what. it doesn't matter that she (as well as other female celebrities) is extremely rich and famous and successful and has basically as much privilege and power as it is possible for any person to have, ultimately that's still not enough to escape the revenge porn and sexual assault and stalking and harassment. like there is literally no level of power a woman can have that puts her out of reach of all the men who hate women and want to control and humiliate and subjugate us in any way they can.
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you wanted zoro to be on whole cake island to fulfil your weird desire to see zoro punish sanji. I wanted zoro on whole cake island because I think he's stupid enough to right place wrong time the plan and accidentally marry Sanji in full view of the whole wedding party in what becomes the most elaborately constructed comedy of errors ever written. we are NOT the same.
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Ah mmmm well
You know how in mermaid stories, the mermaid is typically the dumber one? I present to you the "and they were both scientists" plot.
Basically the concept is that mermechs and regular mechs can't talk to each other. But luckily even if they speak different languages they still use the same math~
I discovered a bunch of simpatico mer-fics. So. I wanted to do something with this concept too haha. If some physicist happens to read this - feel free to laugh at me. I know nothing about science👍
I don’t know if I’ll continue this thing. Should I. Idk. It’s midnight I might be going crazy lol. I made that cover anyway bc I love making covers hehe
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Thank you for defending Nazis. They're just little guys. Just misunderstood, with genuine grievances. I noticed you accidentally forgot to defend child rapists. Dumb commies like you are all the same 🙄
Piss on the poor! Also I'm not a commie and never claimed to be one.
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once again thinking about jason as duke’s robin. he’s ~4 years younger than jason, and that’s puts him at 8-12 during Jason’s time as robin. that’s prime time to get attached to your local kid vigilante before your own life goes downhill.
and if we try to keep duke’s meeting with bruce in zero year + duke’s age (so he can remember the meeting and hold that conversation with bruce), he has to be around 8. if he starts following batman through the news at that time because of the mess that just happened, the robin he sees is probably jason. I’ve literally connected the dots
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