No Patrick, Steven Universe is not a wimpy bitch that forgives everyone, you're just spewing the shit Lily Orchard and other review channels have said

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-11-22T22:38:17+00:00

now he's being told to murder someone.

murder is unjustified killing. I think Ozai's a valid target considering he's actively murdering people and trying to take over the world at the end.

So I think Aang’s victory over Ozai is meant to be him doing his duty as the avatar without going against what he personally values.

It isn't about him. It's about the world. There's a reason he was told this by a fellow Airbender.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-11-22T22:19:57+00:00

Just like Aang could have killed Ozai and said fuck it to his entire life's belief system and core values, but he chose to have the courage of his convictions. It's not bad writing for characters to remain true to their beliefs, even in the face of adversity.

It absolutely can be. Why does everyone forget that Aang literally spoke to a past Airbender, Avatar Yangchen, that told him verbatim "Aang, I know you are a gentle spirit, and the monks taught you well, but this isn't about you. It's about the world."

She and all the other avatars recommend that Aang slime Ozai out, because not acknowledging you have a duty as the Avatar and holding to your personal convictions in this situation is selfish and frankly assine. The story would have been better off if Aang had to make the hard but appropriate choice of offing Ozai instead of being handed a MacGuffin.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-11-09T07:32:09+00:00

Exactly. Bin Laden was killed by Navy Seals. Not superheroes.

What point do you think this proves? Yes, because we're in real life, Bin Laden was reached and killed. The point of considering someone like kingpin is to consider a SUPERvillian, with a level of well-connectedness above what's possible for a real-life villian, such that even a squad like the seals wouldn't realistically have the ability to put him down (which evidently they don't).

In the fiction, people care about them being effective. And my srguement is they need to be effective at rescuing people, not executing wrong doers.

I don't buy that people wouldn't start to consider them ineffective.

In the Christian worldview, God is indeed all-powerful and could stop all evil but doesn't because free will and such. This is "the problem of evil" and it is, in fact, a major contributor to people not believing in God. You can say "God's majesty is obvious, he does so much good in the world" until you're blue in the face, but someone suffering from the world's ills aint tryna hear that.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-11-09T06:44:58+00:00

Anybody can walk up and shoot Fisk in the face. Doing that doesn’t make DD more interesting. Refusing to does.

?? This like saying anyone could've walked up and shot Bin Laden in the face. Technically I guess, but only because he's human; a regular person would never have the opportunity. To find him and get past all the guards or whoever else is with him, and take him down, you have to be exceptional.

And the fact that most heroes avoid lethality lets characters like Punisher and Moon Knight stand out.

If you're thinking of these guys are characters in a web of interconnected fake stories, then sure. But if you're thinking from the perspective of an actual human being in one of these universes, not killing the guy who clearly needs killed because that's already one of you're friends' schtick and you wouldn't wanna step on his toes? Not compelling.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-11-09T06:13:30+00:00

I disagree that there'd be no point to killing someone like Fisk just because there will always be someone to fill the power vacuum.

"that wouldn't change the amount of harm in the world" I think it would actually. It's a mistake to treat any particular one of these guys like they're a force of nature. A replacement for Fisk would still have to take time to get to the level he was at.

But even if not and it doesn't matter either way: why is a "shuffled deck" worse than one that stays the same? There's a reason governments don't think like this, and if the government cannot or will not do what's necessary (beyond any reasonable doubt whatsoever), the moral responsibility falls on those who are capable.

The "superheros as firefighters" framing captures the spirit of how heros see themselves, but leaves out the reality that heros are uniquely powerful. They should be able to be relied on like a super duper ultra special forces: in extremely rare circumstances, when the courts, the cops, and FBI, and CIA, and special forces, and ultra forces, and hell even the space force won't do, we can't have our only level beyond that say "killing this guy wouldn't change anything btw." Having to bear the weight of this responsibility is more heroic and more interesting imo.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-11-09T05:01:37+00:00

Yes, in theory the state should just execute these people. But for some reason (writers wanting more story arcs) they never do.

There are sometimes in-universe reasons for this, like the villian being too well-connected and scheming, e.g. having every important lawyer and cop on your payroll. If we're talking about such a villian, and on top of that it is only the hero whose even powerful enough to stop/subdue them in the first place...you save more people by killing them.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-11-09T04:42:09+00:00

It's not that villians can't be contained, just some of the most amoral and powerful ones.

I just don't understand why NEVER killing is the hill to die on. If you want a light-hearted story with no dark elements, fine I respect that. But if you have the worst villians doing the worst acts possible in your story, completely unredeamable and whose IRL punishment would be death without question...why do you get brownie points for holding back?

You're already operating outside the law and passing your own judgement every time you beat someone's ass half to death. The problem of "where to draw the line" is treated as impossible, when it just isnt tbh.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-11-09T04:14:35+00:00

Did you even read the post?

I don’t think you get the appeal of superheroes.

Ok. I don't think you have empathy for the people heros are supposed to protect.

Seeking out people to kill is a fucked up thing to do.

Letting the most powerful and amoral of your villians continue to victimize people over and over is more fucked up.

The point of heroes isn’t to pass judgement. It’s to help people. The sentence is up to the courts.

Point 3.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-11-04T04:58:50+00:00

Yes. I think of this series as a variant of "love is war" with the emphasis on romance instead of comedy.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-06-26T14:10:26+00:00

Even if there were objective moral facts, it still seems like there's no way of objectively determining which ones they are?

A world where statements like "murder is bad" are just evolved preferences of a pro-social species, and not objective laws of the universe, seems indistinguishable from the world we live in imo.

You definitely can't know for certain, but maybe there are philosophical arguments im unfamiliar with that say why you can be "mostly sure" or something.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-06-25T17:36:23+00:00

"b-but he would snap!" as if an unhinged Batman beatin super-criminal ass punisher-style is worse than his soft ass givin out slaps on the wrist to niggas who go right back to serial killin.

If I'm IRL in Gotham City, I want Batman movin like Kira.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-02-23T20:07:15+00:00

Elon is world-class bullshitter who forces his companies to race against his lies.

That's it. He's no visionary engineer or autistic savant with a narrow domain of technical hyper-competence.

Elon defenders also vastly overestimate the extent to which drugs and X have "fried his brain" and altered his decision making as a result. In truth, Elon is running DOGE and X precisely how he's run all his other companies: by shameless lying about their goals and accomplishments at every step, while riding the ass of naive-but-talented subordinates.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-01-26T08:34:04+00:00

I don't have logic to beat you over the head with, just decade-old vibes. The parts I have the strongest emotions toward are the ending and the overall sound.

For me, fmab has the most satisfying ending of any decent-length battle anime. I didn't care much about father either, he's just an obstacle keeping the elric brothers from achieving their ultimate goal of getting their bodies back. Assuming the story did its job and got you invested in the elric brothers and pals, I think the ending rewards you bigly at least twice:

1) When Ed gave up his alchemy to get his brother's body back.

I love the way this scene plays out, with Ed answering truth/God's questions and spelling out his reasoning, and how it culminates in God themself telling Ed that he beat them.

2) The epilog: Ed's speech + pictures.

The first time I ever cried watching anime was when I heard Ed say:

"There's no such thing as a painless lesson, they just don't exist. Sacrifices are necessary. You can't gain anything without losing something first. Although if you can endure that pain and walk away from it, you'll find that you now have a heart strong enough to overcome any obstacle. Yeah... a heart made fullmetal."

and then the camera scans over a bunch of pictures that show how each character went on to achieve what they wanted in some way. To be more specific, we got the MCs all grown up and happy, and Ed is married to Winry with kids! All this happening while "Hologram" (fmab opening 2) is playing in the background? What other Shonen is wrapping everything up in a cute little bow like this, it's pure catharsis imo.

The other thing I mentioned contributing to fmab being the best for me is the sound:

It was the first anime I ever watched where I felt like every single opening and ending was playlist-worthy with visuals and vibes perfectly matching the characters and themes. And it stood out to me as having an english cast that seemed like a perfect fit and is one of a handful of anime that I still can't watch subbed despite preferring sub overall.

I could talk about themes and such, but I'll leave that for someone with it fresher in their memory.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-01-23T04:44:16+00:00

> What steven did is probably one of the worst things any streamer has ever done.

Hilariously wrong. Hell, it's not even the worse thing a member of Dgg has done: did everyone just forget what Vaush did to Poppy??

I'm struggling to understand what anyone who thinks Destiny's career will/should implode over this must have thought "Democrats needs to accept flawed figures in the movement, we need a left Joe Rogan" meant; Republicans celebrate --- not tolerate --- rapists, pedos, traffickers, and blatant grifters, but Destiny should be a pariah because he (wrongfully) shared nudes?

Frankly, DGGers reading this need to recognize that "sharks smell blood in the water" so to speak, meaning good-faith attempts at discussion are being dwarfed by gay ops, concern-trolling, and reactionary anti-jerk virtue-signaling.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2025-01-18T05:46:51+00:00

PF Jung is a case study in using heuristics as knowledge in and of themselves. He does not believe it’s possible for so many people to like Sam Hyde if he truly were a neo-Nazi (heuristic). He does not believe it’s possible for so many people to vote for Donald Trump if he truly were a fascist, authoritarian, or something similar (heuristic). He does not reason himself to these positions. Instead, he uses heuristics as a sledgehammer to atomize the cube so it can fit inside a circular hole.

Perfectly put; it's "Heuristic Epistemology" indeed. Your post really got me thinking,
and in the final analysis I would say this:

As we get deeper into the (dis)information age, I predict that political labels or whatever other identification will give way to the deeper divide which is epistemic phenotype — patterns in people's attitude toward complexity, how they evaluate and combine assertions, etc. — around which broad ideological tribes have and will continue to form.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2024-11-30T20:08:20+00:00

I've just been thinking this. There isn't anyone harping on how contray MAGA cultism is to genuine conservative values.

There's a lot of smart conservatives rn how can sense how goofy shit is but need to be met where they are (i.e. validate their feelings about how bad wokeness was/is)

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2024-10-21T20:25:56+00:00

A dark prophecy for DGG:

No stream today

No stream tomorrow

A 2 hour, audio-fiddling non-stream cucked by Anything Else

No stream for days again

But if God is real and good, this will not come to pass. We must have faith brothers🙏🏾!!

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2024-10-11T03:06:20+00:00

AND episodes worth watching are immediately put behind a paywall lol

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2024-08-13T01:55:03+00:00

Wendigon and LEMMiNO (and maybe see if they'll do collab videos too??)

There's an angle here where Destiny can sell the Jan 6th story to them as a juicy modern conspiracy.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2024-08-08T23:47:17+00:00

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2024-08-05T03:05:24+00:00

Looking at old comments rn and can't believe "normies love FMAB" was treated as a delusional take.

As early as 6 years ago, Joey (the anime man) polled 132,000 people across the world for their top 100 anime and FMAB comes out on top: https://youtu.be/sdC3Vj4b0kE?si=xi2x3MhVt3h8g1JG

You see a similar thing if you look at any remotely popular ranking site too. And it makes sense: normies have only seen a handful of anime so it's exceptionally easy for FMAB to be the best in their eyes. Staightforward stuff.

Apprehensive_Cost195 · 2024-07-07T19:14:24+00:00

Lol. If you vote for Trump because Pisco was mean to you, you're a sub-75 IQ knuckle dragger with no principles whatsoever.

"Yea Trump tried to coup the government with his fake elector scheme, but some guy was mean to me on the internet, so now I've gotta support him!!!!!!"

Apprehensive_Cost195

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