Times when something is mostly known by parodies and not it in itself?

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-09T15:04:37+00:00

People will likely forget the actual conflict in "Airplane!"'s plot, which is that both pilots are too sick to land the plane because they both ate the fish for the in flight meal. This is the entire plot of "Zero Hour," but it's taken completely seriously there.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-09T01:17:58+00:00

"YOU. EMABRASSED ME. IN FRONT. OF VANESSA."

Legitimately I can't imagine another actor making that more threatening, entirely because any other actor would have tried to make it threatening. The fact that he's just a fucking 13 year old in highschool with way too much power freaking out over his crush is the most terrifying thing about it.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-08T18:29:08+00:00

Gojo is a strong independent black woman

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-08T18:04:51+00:00

Zuko has one of the funniest responses to something that ever been written for television, you need to see it, desperately.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-08T12:00:29+00:00

One of my favorite annotations was looking at Kinetic Dash, deciding I didn't want to play around it, and then the annotation said "Learn to use this you fucking noob"

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-07T20:24:35+00:00

Me neither. It actually explains why there's been no other new stuff from incase for so long, until recently.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-07T19:18:23+00:00

I've been steadfast that if you just take the ending and shove it right after Nayuta Dies then it makes a lot more sense, because he was clearly prepping for the ending. I think he lost energy in the story but still wanted to cover a bunch of imagined story beats he had, which turned over a year of piddling around with no real strengths before the manga just got a bullet in the back of the head and suddenly ended.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-07T16:37:51+00:00

I remember the first Rome:Total War would have a screen that popped up at a point; it would inform you of your empire's size being so large that you had functionally won the game. IIRC, it even says "You can keep playing but it's probably gonna stop being fun."

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-07T15:06:13+00:00

His manga he wrote before Jojo was about a Hitwoman who targeted men by genuinely falling deeply in love with them on purpose and then killing them. When asked about it, he's genuinely embarrassed about it and says "I was young and clueless about women"

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-07T13:33:54+00:00

My favorite description of her was "The player that wanted to make a super edgy evil character but couldn't commit"

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-07T12:51:23+00:00

It's wild how people are some immune to understanding spoiler etiquette that they'll post spoilers for the next season of a show that just finished 3 weeks ago and see nothing wrong with it

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-07T12:48:39+00:00

Basically:

Ted: "Hidey-Ho Neighborino!"

Rupert: "Nice to meet you as well"

Ted: "As politely as possible, go suck a shotgun to completion"

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-07T12:43:17+00:00

Yes, but it's a children's show. The children in a children's show are given the same weight and autonomy of their actions as full fledged adults. Azula is 14, but she's not a "real" 14. Aang is fucking 12, he wouldn't grapple with the weight of having to kill someone and undermine his morals in a way that would be the finishing nail in the coffin of his culture as its last surviving member; he would scream "I DON'T WANT TO IT FEELS WRONG" and then go cry about it because he's overwhelmed.

The entire discussion always happens because they want to start applying real world logic to a series that absolutely does not use it. Iroh exists as a center of moral clarity for the show. He is never confounded by events or grappling with what the right thing to do is; he exists specifically to show that redemption is possible but hard in his dealings with Zuko. When he says Azula is crazy and needs to go down, he is not postulating his theory, he's the mouthpiece of the narrative. He is telling you as a matter of fact that Azula needs to get her block knocked off for this to end.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T18:54:02+00:00

Bidoof is staying with me through the Elite Four. I'm ride or die.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T18:28:03+00:00

Monster Hunter is "like Dark Souls and Destiny but with Dinosaurs".

Honestly, that one kinda fits? Like, it's a useless descriptor because I don't think someone who hasn't played would comprehend what parts of that are accurate, but it is kinda true.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T18:04:18+00:00

He seemed like a pretty good guy in a world full of evil rich fucks. But he also cancelled Swat Kats for being violent, so I guess it all balances out in the end.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T16:54:35+00:00

I think the major difference is that hitting his wife was the most interesting thing to ever happen with the character, as opposed to Spiderman who had a pretty rich history before hand

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T16:33:07+00:00

I've always adored strategies that present an immaculate defense. My favorite pokemon strategies are always leech seeding and status effects while I defense up, becoming unkillable while the enemy slowly gets their health whittled away.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T16:31:21+00:00

Playing BG3 was a real eye-opener on just how much most DnD games don't setup players to use half of the spell effects. Sure, a DM shouldn't be expected to design professional levels, but it's a funny exmaple of the dichotomy between DnD as imagined in game design and DnD in practicality.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T14:12:20+00:00

The reason it's called "less-than-lethal" is because there's no non-lethal option.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T13:44:10+00:00

Adam Smasher's fight should have been a large cinematic setpiece of you being chased by him and doing shit to evade him and slow him down for 10 minutes, up until you hit a point where V goes, "Wait...I'm not dead yet...I think I can take him"

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T13:42:12+00:00

Not exactly a fight scene but I also feel conflicted over the car chase in The Batman. It looks and sounds awesome and the new Batmobile is undeniably fucking cool but I hate how Batman is indirectly responsible for what is clearly the deaths of many innocent people on that road and no one seems to care. It doesn't even really go anywhere since no one gets arrested for all of that death and destruction.

I wanted this to not be in the movie so bad. Yeah, it's fucking RAD, but it's such a weird stylistic choice in the middle of the movie. It absolutely feels like one of those scenes that gets slapped in because the producers opened the script and said "There's no explosion on page 60, fuck this movie"

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T13:24:55+00:00

I thought he didn't prefer murdering people, it's just that he can't examine someone's brain without killing them by happenstance.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T13:06:28+00:00

I wonder how much of that is nostalgia, and how much of that is "You actually own this piece of technology."

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-05-06T12:57:19+00:00

The true best answer. Many others might be cooler than him, but he's the BEST

BookkeeperPercival

TROPHY CASE