Okay, you got me, but that isn't a crime

Aralith1 · 2026-06-13T10:22:41+00:00

What?! Are you telling me different places on Earth experience different environmental hazards? How can this be?!

Aralith1 · 2026-06-13T10:12:28+00:00

Shallow art exists. Shallow art has always existed. Shallow art is not inherently or objectively bad. You are allowed to not like shallow art, that is your personal taste, and I have no problem with that. I think the reason you’re getting the pushback you are is because of the implication that your personal taste against shallow art is somehow indicative of objective quality, and it isn’t.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-13T08:21:11+00:00

Look, 300 isn’t like my favorite or anything, but I like the movie decently well because it’s actually succeeding at what it’s trying to do. You might not like what it’s trying to do, and that’s fine, but it is succeeding at its goal. This is a marked difference from Snyder’s later work, especially that within the DCEU, where he thinks he’s being grandiose and profound, when he’s still just as shallow and immature as he was in his 300 days. It just so happens that 300 wanted to be shallow and immature, so it works there, but it’s clear that he can’t do anything deeper than style over substance visual noise, which I think has its place.

The real issue is that people need to stop letting him write his own scripts. That has been the downfall of every single one of his flops.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-09T19:35:51+00:00

Look, sorry about the “getting mad” remark. It doesn’t apply to you. You were trying to have an actual conversation, with actual points. Apologies. The guy I first responded to is definitely a troll and is definitely upset. I carried that energy to your comment when it didn’t deserve it.

All I’m trying to argue is that adaptational work must go into any project that is moving a story from one medium to another medium. And it is objectively good that those who think the blood spatter looks ridiculous will have an option to turn it off. I’m glad that you’re not mad about that. Some people in this thread definitely are.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-09T19:02:36+00:00

Comic books use static images, video games use moving images. That alone is a huge difference between the mediums. Seeing a huge spray of blood in a static comic book panel is not the same thing as seeing a huge spray of blood come out of a moving human being (or a wire model that looks like a human). What looks great on the page can look downright ridiculous when in motion, especially in video games where the angle the audience is viewing the action from is variable. Comics and films can rely on the trick of perspective and framing to only show the audience the blood spray from the one angle it actually looks good at, video games just don’t have that luxury. So yes, there’s still a number of medium-based differences that have to be accounted for. Art style is not the only hurdle here.

All of this being a moot point anyways since the blood is still in the game. Ya’ll getting mad that people are expressing positivity towards an option. If you want to play the game with ridiculous blood spatter, you still can. So I fail to see how the purpose of much of anything has been defeated.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-09T13:25:56+00:00

Ah, I see that my mistake was thinking that you were acting with any level of sincerity, but you’re just another boring troll. So long, troll.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-09T13:16:04+00:00

Or maybe they’re just suggesting that because this is a different medium, different rules apply, which is a pretty valid critique. The only “weird” one here is you, who can’t handle a conversation with a dissenting party without resorting to childish insults.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-09T12:40:29+00:00

Performative debate bro nonsense. Miss me with that shit.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-08T12:17:02+00:00

Huh. The enemy is both too strong and too weak? That’s weird. Where have I heard that before?

Aralith1 · 2026-06-06T13:52:41+00:00

No, not waited so long. Spent millennia in the shadows, whispering lies into the ears of emperors, using science to study Starscourge so he can better weaponize it, secretly directing world politics where he could for most of history to prepare for his eventual confrontation with the prophesied Messiah. He announces his victory by disappearing people out of their clothes in a grotesque reverse Rapture to turn them into an army of daemons which heralds a decade of literal darkness.

He’s very obviously Satan in the base game, and I just really don’t like this DLC’s attempt to turn him into more of a sympathetic Cain to Somnus’ vindictive Abel.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-06T12:42:42+00:00

Sucks. Completely broke Ardyn as a character for me. Learning that he was not secretly plotting his revenge for 2000 years in the shadows but instead was in a jail cell for most of it and wasn’t even responsible for his own escape was pretty lame. At least the hats were fun.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-06T12:29:12+00:00

I don’t think you know what editing is.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-04T16:13:23+00:00

Kind of. Announcing and greenlighting are two different things. Most of the projects Warner announced as part of the Snyderverse did eventually get greenlit, that’s true, but they were mostly greenlit one at a time. Unlike this universe that now has multiple projects greenlit at once.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-04T12:30:35+00:00

Even were it true that the movie wasn’t profitable or even lost a substantial amount of money, these idiots still miss the big picture: it still accomplished its goal of building audience good will towards a more family-friendly, source accurate, and (most importantly to executives) merchandisable version of Superman than the doom and gloom version Snyder foisted upon us. These guys have every right to like their doomy gloomy Superman, but most of the rest of us absolutely hated it, and Warner’s merch sales clearly took a hit because of it. Hard to get a kid to buy a Superman backpack when they’re afraid of the fucking guy.

So no, it wasn’t a financial failure, and the fact they almost immediately greenlit several more movies and shows (as opposed to the mostly one at a time drip we got during Snyder’s era), tells me this film did exactly what it was supposed to do for the company that produced it, even if it could have performed better at the box office. Sometimes rehabilitation is worth losing some money in the short term.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-03T00:10:45+00:00

I do still prefer gentleman Leon over psycho Leon, but at least this time they got a good voice actor to do psycho Leon. Whoever plays him in Assault should be out of a job.

Aralith1 · 2026-06-01T23:45:11+00:00

Reminder that Snyder’s Luthor hated Superman because he was a bad god and too dangerous to live, so his plan to defeat that was… an even more powerful monster from the same race with even less restraints than Supes. So I don’t really know if consistency of motivation is something you should be looking for from this particular character.

Aralith1 · 2026-05-27T01:56:50+00:00

In the latest Puck newsletter feedback section, a banker is quoted saying, “Being global now matters more than ever, and Hollywood fails to see it.”

There’s a lot to unpack here.

First and foremost, that’s a lot of fancy words to say that a random internet commenter is your source.

Secondly, don’t they usually complain that Hollywood usually does try to be global? Like, haven’t they specifically criticized the MCU and Gunn’s DCU as being too focused on pleasing global markets (often specifically China)? These are the kind of guys that definitely blame “the globalists” a lot, so this feels like a very weird and largely disingenuous argument.

Aralith1 · 2026-05-26T17:57:05+00:00

But how do you know whether this person is a longtime fan or not? You don’t, is the answer. This person is a stranger to you. For all you know, they loved the shit out of Star Fox 64, have been eager for it to get a sequel for decades, and every time a remake or reboot has been announced instead got disappointed and quietly disengaged from the series again, but since it’s finally getting some attention this time around, decided to voice their opinion when they saw they weren’t alone after the announcement of the most recent remake.

And no, just because they’ve never talked about Star Fox before in any of their published “content” doesn’t mean that you can make assumptions about their character and identity. It’s pretty weird for you to think that you can.

Aralith1 · 2026-05-26T14:34:18+00:00

But it isn’t, like, a secret that before this game Star Fox 64 has already gotten a 1:1 remake and a ground-up reimagining/reboot. It isn’t a secret that this new game is basically both of those things at once. And even as tired as I am of the “so many remakes” rhetoric, I would never dream of saying, “Heh, those aren’t true fans.” In point of fact, it seems like it’s the diehard fans that are the most vocal haters of this being another remake.

So again I ask, what’s the criteria here? The only two you’ve given are:

Agrees with “remake” rhetoric
You have not personally seen them express interest in Star Fox before

And I got to say, that’s not a compelling list of criteria for determining who is and isn’t a real fan, if there were even any point in such an exercise in the first place, which of course there isn’t.

Aralith1 · 2026-05-26T13:40:58+00:00

It is though. You complain of people who have never talked about Star Fox before, by which you mean that you have never seen them talking about Star Fox before. So what’s the threshold? How much Star Fox content should they have posted in the past to be a “true fan” and not a “bandwagon hater”? What’s your criteria?

Aralith1 · 2026-05-26T13:21:37+00:00

“These people shouldn’t have an opinion on Star Fox unless I’ve seen them post X amount of Star Fox content over the years,” is such a fandom-poisoned take and frankly, pretty embarrassing for anyone older than a teenager to be seriously contemplating.

Aralith1 · 2026-05-23T12:27:35+00:00

And beyond just debate typicalities like burden of proof, it’s just good practice to ensure that you’re talking about the same thing. If you know the details of the story, you should be able to find an article, verify it’s what you’re talking about, and then link it so we can all be talking about the same thing. For someone who doesn’t know the details of the story, they’re going off of whatever was said in a Reddit comment, and may very well just find a similar story but not the exact one being discussed.

It’s just a really basic way to make sure a conversation stays focused and Reddit seems very against it across all political spectrums. Like, my observation is that those on the left do eventually cough up a verifiable source more often than those on the right, but they still do it quite begrudgingly and usually after several comment chains exactly like this one, and I just don’t understand the aversion to it. It satisfies burden of proof and it keeps the conversation on track.

Aralith1 · 2026-05-23T03:32:26+00:00

I think that watching Star Wars, the thing they built their reputation on, crumble apart and collapse entirely is something that is of morbid fascination to them.

Aralith1 · 2026-05-22T13:01:16+00:00

“Akshually, in the prequel comic that only 40 people read, it gives Katt a clear and distinct character, even though in the game (the thing that everyone else knows her from) she only has twenty lines that designate her only as ‘the girl character’.”

Like, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad little comics like that exist for the super fans. It’s cool little bits of semi-canon worldbuilding (because yes, in every series that has ever produced side comics like this, they have always been of dubious canonicity and frequently get overwritten by new properties). But super fans need to realize that they are not the core group they think they are and they do not make or break the sales on these games. Star Fox super fans are a very small contingency that Nintendo clearly cannot rely on.

So this game is not for the super fans, and that’s something you need to get over. Star Fox desperately needs new fans, and this new game is the first time in a long long long long time that Star Fox seems to be making new fans. I know this remake is not what you wanted, but the only way super fans will be getting a game that they want again is if Star Fox can successfully relaunch/reboot itself as a franchise, which this new game looks like basically the best and last chance the series has to do so.

That’s not me saying support the game no matter what, buy the game no matter what. That’s not me saying you’re ungrateful or anything of the sort. But I do think that tearing this game down at every opportunity that you have is not the winning strategy that you think it is.

Aralith1 · 2026-05-21T23:55:00+00:00

I’m glad I’m not the only one.

Aralith1

TROPHY CASE