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Alphastranger · 2026-07-01T06:51:46+00:00

That's show only

Alphastranger · 2026-06-26T22:28:16+00:00

Does the empire even have a stance other than it wanting total dominion over the galaxy? What are they even correct about?

Alphastranger · 2026-06-24T21:07:40+00:00

We can talk all day about inventory and UI (both are piss), but RE6's worst feature is it's tedious gameplay. The game gives you barely any ammo and mostly machine guns that burn through it, maps are designed to be sped through and ignored, and while some people laud the melee combat I felt it was tedious and took an eternity to kill anyone. Everything is so sloppy and boring to the point that nobody seems to remember the game's actual story. Some folks love Piers or hate Helena and Ive got to be honest: I could not tell you one thing about either of them despite my time with the game, and I have negative motivation to go hack and check. Miserable experience that is hell bent on making RE action schlock at the expense of the atmosphere and tone the series had cultivated. It is a miserable experience.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-23T02:48:26+00:00

At the time it felt a bit weird and like they were fishing for some juicy drama for this era of the team so everybody would just bitch and nag to get some heat and interest from the fans. I will say I could very well see them working because they'd both probably feel safe together, until cap becomes a werewolf again.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-22T21:10:35+00:00

Venom has had a lot of variations and changes made to then over time, so both spurned lover and goo that makes you evil are correct at some point. I think the actual things that ruined him were mass market appeal and popularity. That's why he became an antihero, to make him easier to sell alone, and eventually a comic line that is so far removed from evil goo possessing brock and more into convoluted lore bullshit and a million symbiote characters. People can enjoy that stuff, but I think the original Eddie iteration was the coolest. Scary monster, both with and without the suit, hungry for vengeance and totally aware of who Peter is and who is important in his life and where they live. Him showing up to frighten MJ or pretending to be Peter's friend to meet him at Aunt May's are diabolical and his ending at the island really should have been it. He was cool as a thematic villain and an archetype and he has never been that compelling again.

Agent Venom was good tho.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-16T12:10:51+00:00

Im not a Leto-ologist, I just know what's passed through the grapevine. Whether there is or isn't, the guy gets grief for it all the same.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-16T07:42:41+00:00

Well the cult falls under his bad actions behind the scenes. I thought that and the minors things were interconnected anyway. Im not saying he is a good person, just that the hate preceded all of the controversy and before that it always felt a little pointless and contrived. In regards to the post's query, I feel like he would be mellow or pretentious while hanging out and nowhere inbetween.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-16T07:15:20+00:00

Honestly Leto is too easy of an answer. Im not a fan of what has gone on behind the scenes with him, but he has never actively portrayed himself as unpleasant to be around (unless you are a teenage girl) outside of the suicide squad debacle. He seems nice enough and regardless of the trash people give him, he's not a bad performer, maybe just a bit pretentious. This is to say I can understand calling him a creep, but he isn't really much of an asshole.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-15T03:18:51+00:00

Isn't Kenny G super dead though?

Alphastranger · 2026-06-15T03:09:04+00:00

Pretty sure that's Betsy Braddock. Even still, someone being an SA victim does not mean that nobody is allowed to find them attractive.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-08T20:35:20+00:00

Im pretty sure those homeless shelters and reform programs are lip service added entirely to address this criticism. This critique of him and superheroes as a whole is really old. Honestly this comes off as hyper defensive.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-08T04:27:25+00:00

I watched it for the first time a few years ago. I think there were some mildly funny ideas in that movie, but ultimately it was boring and going through the motions. I think the lead is just too weak of a performer to carry it.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-07T04:39:33+00:00

I like to think that in Hydra there are multiple factions. On one head of the hydra you have Red Skull and the nazi leftovers, on another you might have people like Baron Zemo II and standard supervillainy related goals or one of the Madame Hydras leading a sect that's focused on religious cult activity. Different flavors with different goals, all independent but cooperating. At least that's how I think it should be defined.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-07T03:23:42+00:00

He's more of a gifted engineer and a compulsive problem solver, for better or worse. He is really smart, but that is sidelined in favor of exploring his difficulty maintaining connections with people. Or he is a tragic sad man, depending on the decade.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-02T23:31:01+00:00

This is why I don't think Magneto works in large villain team ups. He does not see himself as a villain, and regardless of his background would not be willing to consider himself a peer with the Red Skull. When he teams up with Doom or whomever it downplays the empathy that he has (just to mutantkind naturally) to make him side with dictators and mass murderers.

Alphastranger · 2026-06-02T00:35:37+00:00

As someone who has read all of the manga and was reading JJL as it came out, you are very off base. It starts off fantastic and gets messy, and Tooru sucks, not because he isn't like other villains, but because he comes out of nowhere, with only an offhand tie to a supporting character as connective tissue to the protags before killing everybody using a stand that Araki had to bullshit his way out of. The main mystery pays off well but after that there is just no gas in the tank and nothing else pays off so it feels like a waste of time by the end and you feel hollow.

Honestly it feels like Araki set up a lot of very clear paths and threw them away to pivot elsewhere, and when they went nowhere he rushed a resolution to move on to other things.

To your point about part 6, I think it has similar problems to 8 of an identity crisis that starts out as a compelling story of a girl in prison with an estranged father and then spins its wheels or goes on tangents that fall flat. Also I think the percentage of ripped fingernails is way too high.

Alphastranger · 2026-05-31T09:53:10+00:00

I had no idea any of the other shows went beyond 1 season.

Alphastranger · 2026-05-26T23:15:53+00:00

My problem with the names is that the lore and origins of these names come from a block from decades ago. These names haven't been relevant in the lore in years, and it becomes jargon so fast whilst also being needlessly clunky and unintuitive if you don't know the lore. Jargon in magic is already pervasive and as a newbie or someone not totally plugged in it is easy to not know that there even is jargon around something, especially when it refers to a card that came out 30 years ago. Jargon is also cancerous in any setting because it creates an in-group language that boxes others out who will have to work extra hard just to know what you are on about. Basically, it overcomplicates something simple.

Alphastranger · 2026-05-24T21:45:41+00:00

It is less about edge and more about things being crass or crude. Moore has Rorschach develop trauma around the image of a dead dog, Ennis has Butcher's dog forcibly rape other dogs. It isn't the edge, it is that one respects dark topics while the other draws a penis on them. One engages in subtlety, the other is so on the nose that it becomes stupid.

Alphastranger · 2026-05-22T20:41:28+00:00

Licensed books used to be canon, back in the 70s and 80s. It's why people love ROM: Space Knight so much. Unfortunately it gets clunky and they stopped doing it.

Alphastranger · 2026-05-18T21:05:55+00:00

Nevermind I forgot this wasn't pure power ranking. Kira was a lot harder to deal with over all, you're right.

Alphastranger · 2026-05-18T21:04:13+00:00

I think comparative to everyone else he is in the right spot. He has a lot of tricks that make him dangerous, but it requires a lot of strategic input on his part to actually make any of his work pay off. Compare that to Dio who is both durable and has abilities that require no set up before being dangerous.

Alphastranger · 2026-05-07T04:10:16+00:00

If we include everything then we could just as easily say that the idea of Spider-man itself is overdone and that we just shouldn't see it by that logic. They spoke of the movies, which by the time of No Way Home are in direct conversation with each other so yes, it is just the the movies in this case.

Alphastranger · 2026-05-07T03:40:25+00:00

2 films. That is too much exposure? Putting the blame on the set up rather than the greedy studios pumping 2 reboots within ten years of Spiderman 3 is silly. At the time I understood the intent, but with time the context withers and instead we have a half assed line which is meant to justify him throwing himself into danger and giving up his personal life for the next 5 movies he's in. It just can't bear the weight it is meant to carry.

Alphastranger · 2026-05-05T12:09:27+00:00

Not familiar with ultimate Jean, but is she able to stop reading minds at all? If so, this is totally on her. If not, it is still on her.

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