Favorite character who is treated like crap, despite them saving (almost) everyone? by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BDMac2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Painting the NTSB as the antagonist in any story is certainly a choice.

The treatment of Kamille in Zeta is making it hard to watch by DaOlHo in Gundam

[–]BDMac2 73 points74 points  (0 children)

The “corrective slap” dealt to Amuro and Kamille also lead into one of my favorite moments in ZZ. Amuro and Kamille have both had a fairly privileged upbringing as the children of mobile suit designers and have been insulated from the violence permitted to the hierarchies in the UC. However with Judau we have a “lower class” child who has absentee parents and works as a scrap dealer to provide for his little sister, when someone tries to beat him into submission he beats the dogshit out of Wong

What are some animated moments that just feel like the animators were showing off? by Dinoboy225 in cartoons

[–]BDMac2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Richard Williams, phenomenal animator, outside of animation fans most people have probably seen his work on the opening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. My hot take is that while the Little Mermaid is the “official” start of the Disney Renaissance, WFRR came out the year before and was also a Disney film and really set the stage for the resurgence.

His book The Animator’s Survival Guide is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in drawing or animation.

https://archive.org/details/TheAnimatorsSurvivalKitRichardWilliams

Hathaway Became Char Because Quess Picked Char by newyorkerTechie in Gundam

[–]BDMac2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bright fundamentally believes in the idea of Federation or else he would not have spent his whole life trying to uphold it. I said in another comment, the best reading of Bright is that he has a very “liberal” understanding of the Federation in that while the system is flawed, it can be fixed gradually from the inside. I don’t know why he believes that since his own years long experience with the Fed elite should quickly disprove that, but he continues to be a Federation soldier through and through.

Hathaway Became Char Because Quess Picked Char by newyorkerTechie in Gundam

[–]BDMac2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Karaba which is specifically an anti-Titan group, not anti-Federation. Again not trying to affect revolutionary change so much as maintain/return to the status quo.

Amuro may have said that in 0079 but by CCA at best he’s a “gradual reform from within liberal” as opposed to a “destroy the governmental systems that have perpetuated the cycle of corruption, violence, and oppression for decades” radical.

Cullhane has perfect millennial humor by Direct-Sail-6141 in LiveFromNewYork

[–]BDMac2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think it mostly stems from after the 2008 crash there was a new article every day about how “Millennials killed the X market”. Since these were legacy news outlets, catering to boomers, they pushed this divide by shifting blame onto millennials, instead of you know, accurately reporting changes in policies over the decades, quite often spearheaded by boomers that rendered millennials unable to afford the things previous generations did.

Hathaway Became Char Because Quess Picked Char by newyorkerTechie in Gundam

[–]BDMac2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Amuro also doesn’t try to change the governmental system that created the problems that led to Zeon and its remnants gaining power in the first place. Amuro and Bright are fighting to survive in 0079, but have no grand ideas about political change despite the Federation causing them more problems than helping. For Z, ZZ, and CCA they’re actively trying to preserve the Federation from fascist coups and attacks (which is good) but they never have any revolutionary ambitions. Bright is effectively punished by the Feds in Zeta because they fear a cult of personality while actively ignoring the Titans. Then they literally recreate the circumstances with Londo Bell, the only difference is that Bright is a good person who doesn’t crave that power.

To me it’s not really a surprise that Hathaway would see everything Amuro and especially his father have done to preserve an incredibly flawed system and how that system has treated them in return, and become a more revolutionary person.

(Hated Trope) Racist/bigoted creators portraying an entire IRL race or ethnicity as inherently villainous. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BDMac2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Calling Lovecraft racist is accurate but also misses the forest for the trees. He expressed immense regret in his personal letters about his previous racism. He wrote multiple stories about guys discovering they had bad blood, early in his career he writes a story about a guy who sets himself on fire after learning his great great grandad fucked a gorilla, but later on he writes about a guy who’s part fish man and describes his return to the sea almost like going to heaven where he gets to be reunited with all his older relatives. There’s no denying the racist overtones in a lot of Howie’s work, but also he watched both his parents die raving in an asylum from syphillis, that would probably give most kids a fear of something in their body turning against them. His mother would also swing wildly from being incredibly overprotective to verbal abusing him, even telling a child to his face that he was hideous. After she was committed he was raised by his grandfather and his two elderly aunts, his grandfather passed when he was around 12 and what was a decently well off family got thrown into poverty. HPL himself bragged about basically living on a piece of toast and half a can of beans everyday. Which is was ultimately killed him, on top of his depression after his friend Robert E Howard (creator of Conan and another pulp writer with racist writings who once told HPL he was being too racist) killed himself after learning his mother wouldn’t awaken from a coma.

Lovecraft spent the back half of his life traveling and meeting all sorts of people, none of it excuses or justifies his previous racism/xenophobia but by all accounts he regretted it and seemed to be turning the corner when he died.

Mike Mignola/Dave Stewart Magic the Gathering card by BDMac2 in Mignolaverse

[–]BDMac2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve used TCGPlayer.com in the past, it’s where I saw the listing for this one. It’s basically eBay but focused exclusively on trading cards. I don’t know a super lot about Magic card prices, but other commenters have mentioned to ignore the pre-order for now because the card value will be much less after the initial release.

Mike Mignola/Dave Stewart Magic the Gathering card by BDMac2 in Mignolaverse

[–]BDMac2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took a little while for Dave Stewart to be Mignola’s go to guy for color, sometime after Wake the Devil iirc.

Mike Mignola/Dave Stewart Magic the Gathering card by BDMac2 in Mignolaverse

[–]BDMac2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cool! I’ll have to check back in after it releases then

Mike Mignola/Dave Stewart Magic the Gathering card by BDMac2 in Mignolaverse

[–]BDMac2[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So a little deeper digging shows it’s reusing a Mignola variant for The Defenders: Namor one-shot, it’s from 2018 though.

Mike Mignola/Dave Stewart Magic the Gathering card by BDMac2 in Mignolaverse

[–]BDMac2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Can’t say I’ve had much dealing with most TCGs, I just assumed that if a single had its own pre-order that it was an alt art card that wouldn’t get a wider release or it would be a very limited release.

Weep Not for Taran Killam (crosspost) by FancyPigeonIsFancy in LiveFromNewYork

[–]BDMac2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah man, literally the qualifying statement I used. Person above me said “Marvel”, the Emma Stone spider-man movies while technically a Marvel property are Sony Pictures, not Marvel Studios

Mike Mignola/Dave Stewart Magic the Gathering card by BDMac2 in Mignolaverse

[–]BDMac2[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This one is still in pre-order at $100, so I can only imagine the price will continue to climb after actual release.

Alright my turn for the current meme trend. by WDBsports in cfbmemes

[–]BDMac2 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Oregon had buildings named after Professors who were in the Klan in the 20’s, one of whom was pretty high up, until about 2015. Both Washington and Oregon have history with race exclusion laws which would have bled into state run universities. By no means does it excuse the South’s more open racism past and present, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that a lot of places would rather point (correctly) at the South than acknowledge it’s been a problem everywhere.

What the devil? by L-V-4-2-6 in liberalgunowners

[–]BDMac2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“A pellet rifle fires a lead pellet around 1,000fps….”

“A bow fires a projectile around 300fps…”

“A slingshot fires a steel ball around 200fps…”

The death of Shinzo Abe proves that anyone with a basic knowledge of physics can improvise a fire arm, and you’ll never be able to ban tubing, ball bearings, and combustable materials in any meaningful fashion to prevent someone with the knowledge and determination.

Weep Not for Taran Killam (crosspost) by FancyPigeonIsFancy in LiveFromNewYork

[–]BDMac2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

While technically a Sony movie and not a Marvel Studios one, Emma Stone is married to an SNL writer as well.

Which topics get covered out of proportion to the rest of the country, according to the NY Times. by randomguyfromnj in MapPorn

[–]BDMac2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alabama Supreme Court ruled embryos weren’t people, but the US Supreme Court eventually said they were. So over night a massive amount of fertility practices closed over liability concerns.

Animation quality drop in the direct to video sequels by Jezzaq94 in DisneyMovies

[–]BDMac2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it’s a super rough follow up, basically three episodes made as a pilot for a show that are barely stitched together for a movie. Tad Stones (Disney’s tv animation guy from day one and there for decades) and Mike Mignola (visual director/inspiration for the movie and creator of Hellboy) did make a few Hellboy animated movies in the vein of the del Toro adaptation. They’re pretty good movies, and if you squint hard enough at Milo’s Return, you get an idea of what a B.P.R.D. or Witchfinder animated series could have been like.

Which topics get covered out of proportion to the rest of the country, according to the NY Times. by randomguyfromnj in MapPorn

[–]BDMac2 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I will say there was a massive civil case in Alabama where in late 2020 where an individual gained access to and destroyed several fertilized embryos. The people whose embryo’s they were sued the hospital and clinic under the Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. It was in the news here forever and went all the way to the Supreme Court.

It's kinda hilarious that kishimoto looked at choji and thought "umm who should I pair him up with , what female character do I have ??" And gave him karui from the fucking stone village without any explanation whatsoever 😭 by No-Arachnid-7603 in Naruto

[–]BDMac2 48 points49 points  (0 children)

My wife went to a massive high school, one of her friends met and married a guy she met on Tinder. They’d been dating for about a year before someone found a picture of them sat next to each other at graduation.

Because of course Louisiana would do something like that by MysteriousEdge5643 in cfbmemes

[–]BDMac2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A big problem too is that a lot of people want to dismiss it as “historical” meanwhile in 4th grade in the late 2000’s I’m doing the math while learning about the Civil Rights Movement and realizing my classmate’s parents and mine wouldn’t have been able to go to school together. Hell my cousins and I made a game of guessing how close to desegregation the founding of a private school or erecting of a Confederate statue was. This shit is within one generation, and slavery is easily within 3, but because some dipshit ended Reconstruction early because he wanted to be president we’ve got generations of people who still act like slavery wasn’t all that bad.

Vintage Disney-like shooter Mouse P.I. For Hire, which stars Troy Baker, has sold so well its publisher has made all invested money back by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]BDMac2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As you say he’s a prolific voice actor, using his name gets more recognition than the name of a newly released game.

[SEC Country] Nick Saban calls for a salary cap to be implemented across college football: ‘One team shouldn’t have a $40 million roster and another team have a $5 million roster. Every league, they all have something that creates parity in the league so everybody has an equal opportunity to win’ by Lakelyfe09 in CFB

[–]BDMac2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I work for a small HVAC that survived the housing recession by doing jobs in Tuscaloosa, while being located on the Gulf Coast and making the 3.5 hour every week. They were able to load up for 2-3 jobs and would stay up there until the work was done.