What I mean is like, what do you think is unironically awesome, even if people now think its cringe or stupid?
I saw this tread when it was just posted and I remember thinking “there is no way this is going to be still relevant tomorrow”
Gun Control lol
Charlie Kirk would approve… Well, he would now I mean. SCNR
Too soon?
Charlie Kirk getting fucking holed
Brave and contrary.
The ends of a loaf of bread are the best slices
Especially toasted. So much crunch.
Vlogging is not vanity. It’s a special way to capture memories to share with others currently. And to view yourself and others in a time capsule, a stasis where you can view the old world
I want to view my vlogs as an elder and appreciate my memories, even more than I thought I did when I filmed them
Superman
A lot of people dismiss Superman as being “too powerful” or “unrelatable.” They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers. But seriously, how many of us can actually relate to being a billionaire playboy with unlimited resources? In contrast, Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America. He is as much Clark Kent as he is Superman.
People call him a “boy scout,” as if that’s a flaw. But that misses the point. The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary. He sets an ideal for people to strive for.
Yes, in the hands of a bad writer he can become a walking deus ex machina. But in the hands of a good writer, Superman becomes the core of some of the most powerful and iconic stories in comics. His greatness doesn’t come from what he can do, it comes from the choices he makes.
Superman probably pays more in taxes than Batman.
That is probably because Batman doesn’t pay taxes, Bruce Wayne does.
And Bruce Wayne is known for spending tons of the Wayne foundation on helping the poor and criminalized. Tons of charities, schools, orphanages, homeless shelters, … are funded by them.
And if Bruce gets tax breaks because of that, it is because that is how the law works, not because he wants them.
Bruce is far from the average Billionaire you get in our dimension.
Bruce Wayne doesn’t exist, it’s merely a disguise Batman sometimes wears.
Overly Sarcastic Productions has done a number of videos they call detail diatribes that have focused on Superman. The summary of many of them is that Superman is his most interesting when saving people and not when punching villains. Even in larger team fights, he could save everyone or hold off the threat, but he can’t do both so he needs the help of others.
I actually love superman being a normal dude who saves people with a smile. He should be a good person in stories, because his strength isnt the point, his willpower to help everyone is.
They’ll say Batman is more relatable because he doesn’t have superpowers.
Okay, but he’s a billionaire super-scientist who occasionally uses occult magicks. How does none of this qualify?
Superman grew up in small-town, working-class America
Sure, but how many modern day Americans could relate to growing up on a farm? Or getting a job in journalism?
The fact that he has the power to rule the world and chooses not to, is what makes him extraordinary.
I think superheroes are largely defined by their villains. And Lex Luthor - as an individual who regularly does struggle to dominate the world (and periodically succeeds with mixed results) - makes an excellent foil for this exact reason. Superman is, at his heart, just a guy trying to do the right thing. Luthor is an ego-maniacal fascist who cannot conceive of having less than total control.
The best Superman stories are ones that illustrate the practical limits of a seemingly omnipotent individual. It’s Superman’s struggles - his poor choices, his desire for human affection, his naive optimism, his inability to be everywhere at once - that make him relatable. The idea of Superman as a maximal human who still can’t do everything has a way of taking the load of us, comparably weak and vulnerable people, who strive for just as much as a fictional demigod.
Have you ever read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman%3A_Red_Son ?
I’m not a big fan of Superman stuff, but I found that one to be pretty interesting.
It’s a good one. That one and All-Star Superman are the two I always recommend to people.
I was gonna ask, thank you!
I’ve not read All-Star yet, but I keep getting it recommended to me. Thanks!
Speed Racer (2008)
Uniquely colorful, silly, wholesome, every single one of its frames oozes style and creativity. It’s exactly what an animated adaption should aim to be and will forever stand out against the blue and orange, brown and bloom palettes that plagued that era of media.
It’s simply so visually exciting and fun.
This was the video essay that won me over to that film.
Also this video (much shorter) is just funny: https://youtu.be/WC0YAJR6xQQ
AMD > Nvidia
A little ketamine just as the lsd or shrooms kick in.
what does it feel like
It’s difficult to describe if you haven’t tried drugs. Maybe a lessening of your ego and a different perspective on your life. The combo of psychedelic and dissociative gives a powerful experience. Best approached with a definite question or two about life for when the psychedelic bit calms down and the introspective bit starts.
But also like Alan Watts says, once you get the message, hang up the phone.
Just a little ket as a treat
I was an early adopter of No Man’s Sky (long before the shift in public perception), and I fucking loved it back then, and love it now as well. But admitting that in public a few years back was tantamount to saying that stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
stapling your child to a rabid badger was a great alternative to hiring a babysitter.
lololololololololol
I actually preferred the early days, I don’t like most of the recent updates and I haven’t played in probably a year. I can’t really explain why except now it feels too busy.
Dude, next time use a healthy badger and you’ll only have to deal with blowback from NMS.
What is no man’s sky
A space exploration video game. It had a famously bad launch, because the director had over-promised on basically every single feature. It was massively anticipated because the director had hyped it up so much. And when it launched, players quickly discovered that many of the promised features were only half finished, or were missing entirely. The backlash was swift, but the company said they planned to keep working on the game.
And now many years later, the game is actually fairly solid, and basically meets the original promises. But at launch, it definitely didn’t.
Modern magic. We tricked crystals into thinking by drugging them and zapping them with electricity. Then we used those crystals to trick matricies into hallucinating by forcing them to guess the answer to math questions and smacking them when they get it wrong and kept doing that until they get it right. Ethics and hype aside, it’s pretty fucking wild.
At first I thought you would talk about Magic the Gathering. My confusion increased with every sentence.
What?
They’re talking about computer chips. We dug up rocks, melted them down, and extracted the parts we wanted. Then we engraved arcane and imperceptible runes on and inside of them, using an extremely expensive and delicate process. Then we trapped lightning inside of them, and told them to show us videos of cats.
You missed the bit before engraving them where we grow the rocks into crystals and “drug” (using the OP’s term) them by infusing them with the essence of different rocks, to turn them into slightly different kinds of rocks, which need to be very precisely combined for the engraving to produce the intended result.
Okay, when you put it like that lol
Computer silicon and transformer models
transformer models
Surely, more than meets the eye!
Steven Universe. The online fandom was insane. The actual show was incredible.
I think the fandom is so crappy about it because the show had to cut out most of the redemption arc of the big bads because it was prematurely cancelled. If so that’s pretty silly because it came about after the creator stuck up for a lesbian wedding being included.
Yeah, the fandom is… Not great. It’s basically just an American anime, but the online fans are rabid.
It honestly reminds me of the fandom for Undertale. If you only ever play the game, you’ll have a wonderful time. But if you ever do some online searches to try to dig into it further or find people to discuss it with, you’ll quickly discover that the online fandom is extremely toxic.
My daughter introduced me to that show. I enjoyed watching it with her.
Greg fucking rules.
I tried so hard but it just didn’t click with me.
That’s OK. No piece of art or media is gonna be everyone’s Thing.
The Force AwakensThe Last Jedi was the freshest and most creative star wars movie since Empire and Rian Johnson is a hero for trying to take the franchise in a new directionI like scenes, many scenes in the movie; the whole movie? Nah, it’s not as horrendous as people make it out to be, but still…
I love the whole scene in the throne room. Nice supversion of expectation, great execution.
One of my main gripes with TLJ is that subversion of expectation kind of stops working when you do it like 5-7 times in one movie.
The other main issue is that Cantonica should have had a 15 minute podrace scene instead of the giraffythingies.
This right here is the way. Yeah they had some singular scenes that were very nice. They also had a Casino heist in the middle of a Chase sequence. It was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen. That’s that movie in a nutshell some really cool scenes right next to some of the stupidest shit you’ve ever seen.
Ooh that is one I vehemently disagree with lol. It was a ok movie if it was its own thing, but it wasn’t a good star wars movie, it was worse for being in the sequel trilogy as opposed to a stand alone star wars movie, and it was even worse for being the middle of that trilogy. The more context you add the worse it is imo
I’ve read that it could have been something if the third sequel didn’t change direction again. I tend to agree with that, the lack of consistency hurt the sequels a lot - why make a trilogy of narratively connected movies if you can’t even manage to get all the directors on the same page? Other than “I like money”, of course.
My main gripe with TLJ is that the editing is a total mess. Multiple scenes lose continuity between shots. The most egregious example is the milk scene, which in addition to being gross and unnecessary, was clearly jammed in between two shots meant to be continuous. Rey and Luke start walking down a skinny peninsula, no space cow in sight, then hard cut to space cow and Luke milking it, then hard cut back to the end of the peninsula and Luke setting down his stuff.
You know we drink milk from COWS right?
Yeah but not raw milk straight from the udder (unless you enjoy salmonella), letting it dribble down your chin and get in your beard (unless that’s what does it for you I guess, you do you)
LOL. RFK.
Do you mean The Last Jedi? Force awakens was the first of the new trilogy and was directed by JJ Abrams. If so, agreed.
Ooops, fixed!
I didn’t hate the movie, but it shouldn’t have been the middle part of a trilogy that he didn’t have control over.
I agree that TLJ was the best in the sequel trilogy. I still have very mixed feelings about it, but I do like a lot of it. And at least it was something different and unique, and I appreciate that.
Alien, zombie, monster, catastrophe, etc movies and shows. Obviously not all of them, but the genre in general.
Many people complain these shows only work because the characters act stupid, and it’s true.
BUT: a) what’s the alternative? Not having these shows at all? b) People are stupid even without a catastrophe. What makes you think we suddenly all develop a brain when there’s an alien invasion, or zombie outbreak? If Covid showed us anything, than that there’s a very large part of the population who’d go out of their way to act against everyone’s best interest.
Yes, once we saw how people behaved during the height of the pandemic I knew these people would be throwing themselves at the zombies.
I worked in science, pre-clinical pharma, for 11 years before switching careers. I can fucking assure you that scientists and people really are THAT stupid about shit. Complacency from routines or experience is real as fuck.
The argument that these people act too stupid has become irrelevant since we had a pandemic.
I used to be one of those people, that good and bad movies were black and white. I was stupid for thinking so.
Movies can be good for different moods and audiences. Sometimes I want to watch a heart wrenching drama, Oscar style, and I can get up after it and think wow that moved me. That is a good movie.
Sometimes I’m feeling in a funk and I don’t know what to watch, o I want to watch giant robots punch aliens with minimal plot. That movie is also good, just for a different mood.
Have the characters act smart, and come up with better plot points so that there is still drama?
Yeah, Im actually a big fan of Michael Bay’s Transformers. Are they good? Ehhhh. But man i have so much fun with them, and Im glad they exist.
While there were some truly awful moments in the last season of game of thrones, danaerys’ arc was not one of them. Her going nuts was hinted at from the beginning and I wouldn’t have had it any other way.
The problem isn’t the heel turn, the problem was that it happened on like 4 episodes. Rushed and lacked the time to show motive.
Of course a Targaryen would go insane in their lust for power. The game of thrones consumes everyone.
It just sucks that the show runners were like “and then she goes nuts and loses it all ok? The end. We’re gonna fuck off and make Stsr Wars now.” and it was so bad they even lost from Star Wars lol
But she didn’t suddenly lose it.
She wiped out cities full of people before. But it took her doing it in Westeros for people to see that it was because she was insane.
See here’s the controversial take. I don’t agree with you at all. It was literally built up for the entire series and was the only natural conclusion. She was literally saying “I plan to break the wheel” from the start. That is not language a peaceful person uses. Her goals to begin with were those of a conqueror, and what we got was the natural end of that ambition when it crashes into reality.
I think it was done beautifully, and the fact so many people bought into her side of things and felt betrayed is evidence of how well done it was.
Everytime a Targaryen is born, the gods throw a dice
If she didn’t like a system that existed, she wanted to burn it to the ground, a person, burn them alive.
Surely putting that person in charge couldn’t go wrong.
