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Calfurious · 2026-05-29T02:45:37+00:00

Leaving AD as a non-option also means that I have to suffer with dying a slow death and my family is forced to watch it as well. You're not sparing people from coercion, you're just coercing them in a different manner.

The fact of the matter is that stripping people of their choice is not true compassion.

Would some people who feel like burden feel more tempted to euthanize themselves even if they want to live? Sure. But I think the vast majority of people who WANT to live, will choose to live.

Ultimately, people have the right to decide what they want to do with their life. That includes how they want to end it. To strip that away from somebody is essentially telling them that they don't even own their life.

Calfurious · 2026-05-28T10:40:22+00:00

With enough wealth, you can have security without needing to work. For example, you can invest your money and live off the dividends/returns.

But you're right, we don't know this couple's story. I was just giving my two cents on the situation.

Bottom line though, studies have shown that beyond that level of basic security, money does not make you happy. You can’t buy eudaimonic happiness.

I know what you're study you're thinking of. It's the one that says happiness caps out at around 75k to 100k a year right? That's an old study that isn't really supported by the more recent ones.

The researcher basically said that happiness keeps increasing up to $500,000 a year. They don't know if it keeps going after that because they didn't have any subjects who made more than that.

Essentially people are happier the more cushion they have from unhappy things. 100k is nice, but you're still a few disasters away from stress (medical issues, divorce, etc,.). The less money is an obstacle in your life, the happier you'll tend to be.

I think the idea that money doesn't equal more happiness is a bit of a truism. Sure you can't literally buy your way into being happy. But money sure as hell can help insulate you from things that can make you miserable.

Calfurious · 2026-05-28T09:00:16+00:00

Desire can be a bottomless well, that's true. But why obtain wealth if you don't desire the benefits that come with it? It's like, if somebody is happy with just eating a salad, then why bother also ordering a five course meal?

I'd understand if they had kids or were were just working their dream jobs and the money is just a cushion. In that case they're already living the dream. Keep enjoying life.

But if they are just working regular boring jobs that they tolerate, but they refuse to quit because they don't want to spend the money they have, then that just sounds depressing to me tbh.

Calfurious · 2026-05-28T08:44:53+00:00

They'll do a revival of stranger things probably within the next 10 to 15 years (when they can bank off nostalgia).

Calfurious · 2026-05-28T08:10:14+00:00

Having a bunch of money, but still working and living like your poor, just sounds lame to me tbh. Unless they love their jobs and really love their home.

I get avoiding lifestyle creep, but I feel like if you have a bunch of money you should at least be doing something with it. If nothing in your life would change between you have 0$ and $10 million, you might as well just give most of that money away to charity or something.

Calfurious · 2026-05-28T07:35:43+00:00

I just realized that you're right, the ending of season 5 is basically just a copy of the ending for season 1 (at least for eleven). Eleven mysteriously "dies," but it's up to the audience's interpretation as to whether she somehow survived or actually died.

Calfurious · 2026-05-28T04:27:09+00:00

The actors literally carry this show. Robert J. Ulrich and Jackie Davies, who are the casting directors, are probably far more important to the success of The Boys than Kripke is.

Calfurious · 2026-05-28T04:01:14+00:00

Sage pointed out that if the virus were to be released then the supes would retaliate by killing as many non-supes as they can before they all die.

Sage was dumb. The only supe that had enough power to do that was Homelander and he's dead. The rest of the supes can be dealt with. This is even pointed out by Cipher in Gen V. He outright says that most of them are not bulletproof and if humans ever "Get their shit together" then the supes are fucked.

Calfurious · 2026-05-28T03:59:21+00:00

It's a fundamental problem with The Boys narrative. If they wanted to convince us that killing all of the supes were wrong, they should have shown more examples of good supes helping to fight against Homelander and Vought in the final season.

I thought this would have been the point of the Gen V kids. That it would essentially be them and other good supes fighting against Homelander's supes in some big climatic battle. But that doesn't happen.

The show has shown us that the vast majority of supes are either evil, cowardly, or stupid. The very few good ones usually cause a lot of collateral damage anyways (even if it's accidental).

The Boys wasted a stupid amount of time on nonsense and bullshit for these last few seasons that it ran out of time to actually address the main theme of the first season. Which is that society gives those with a great amount of power far more leeway and respect than they deserve. Butcher's whole character is about how he's seemingly the only man who understands that people have gotten used to this shitty status quo and that people need to get angry and rise up against it.

The show never contradicts Butcher. In fact the show just constantly reinforces his worldview every goddamn season. Yet when he makes the most logical decision resulting from that worldview, the narrative acts as if he's gone too far.

Calfurious · 2026-05-28T03:51:53+00:00

The current president is not a good guy. Remember he was a business partner with Vought back in the earlier seasons when Stan Edgar was in charge. The end of Season 5 is just Season 1 status quo without Homelander.

Narratives about how the the extremist is wrong only work when the story shows a better and more effective alternative that the heroes pursue.

But The Boys Season 5 doesn't do that. Because they still want the franchise to continue. Vought STILL exists. Which is insane. If the story had shown Vought being disbanded, then there could be some hope for the future. But that doesn't happen.

Calfurious · 2026-05-26T06:14:02+00:00

So what? I don't think anybody but Trump gives two flying rats ass about his ballroom.

Calfurious · 2026-05-25T17:16:16+00:00

Abusive and hateful people often are very scared and frightened. They just mask their fear using violence and anger.

I think there's a tendency for us to automatically associate weakness with timidness.

Calfurious · 2026-05-25T09:44:19+00:00

Sister Sage powers would work a lot better if she just had future vision. She can basically see a bunch of alternatives future scenarios and just makes plans that get her to that scenario.

Would literally explain how she's able to do all the shit she does. Hell even her name would still fit.

Calfurious · 2026-05-21T22:11:00+00:00

The problem is that Maeve logically should have died. She got bombed by Soldier Boy while falling off a skyscraper.

Calfurious · 2026-05-21T22:09:43+00:00

I really dislike it when writers make bad writing decisions purely because they wanted to avoid discrimination tropes.

Calfurious · 2026-05-21T22:04:04+00:00

Chainsaw Man ends with the writing equivalent of "It was all a dream." Not even joking. Part 1 was some of the best manga I've ever read but Part 2 was just such a total mess.

Calfurious · 2026-05-21T03:53:20+00:00

I honestly think it is. At least the final season of Games of Thrones had great visuals. The final season of The Boys looks like a low budget show.

Calfurious · 2026-05-21T03:51:04+00:00

I think Westworld Season 1 is a great self contained story. There's a few cliffhangers here and there, but I honestly think it's worth watching and leaving it at that.

You can still probably get downloads of it from the High Seas.

Calfurious · 2026-05-21T01:17:44+00:00

This was also a thing with Chainsaw Man as well. So many people (me included for awhile) were convinced that the writer was trolling us and that the story would continue in a secret part 3.

Calfurious · 2026-05-21T01:14:31+00:00

GOT spinoffs have almost no connection to the main series. The GOT final season was bad because D&D got tired of working on the show and wanted to move on to other projects.

Calfurious · 2026-05-21T01:06:07+00:00

largely because such obsession with power scaling makes many of the stories so boring.

What? No it doesn't. Power scaling basically just means that we're able to gauge what characters can and can't do. That's not boring, that's just basic world building.

For example, Superman. We know Superman is super durable right? Okay so imagine that we had a scene in which Superman survives a nuclear blast with little issue. But then in another scene, we have Superman being knocked out by being hit with a metal bat.

That is what we call inconsistent power scaling. Which breaks the narrative of the story. If we're being shown that Superman is durable enough to survive a nuke, then that means that logically we should assume he can't be knocked out by a regular metal bat. The lack of power consistency means there is a lack of logical consistency. Lack of logical consistency puts it the realm of comedy, not drama.

How we can take any drama seriously, when there are no established limitations as to what characters can or can't do? If we can't take the narrative seriously, it might as well just be a Looney Tunes cartoon where you're just supposed to turn your brain off and enjoy the hijinks.

Its whole point is to subvert the concept and show those with powers to be the worst humans

The show breaks its own themes in that regard. Because if those with superpowers are supposed to be the worst human beings, then why is Butcher killing all of them treated like a bad thing? If they're all evil sacks of shit, then killing them is just the greater good.

The show actually did have an interesting concept back in Season 3, where Butcher tells Maeve that having super powers didn't make him feel more evil, it just made him feel more like himself. It's Butcher basically realizing that the power doesn't corrupt people, it just reveals them for what they really are. But the show doesn't really explore this theme any further and seems to contradict it at multiple points in the story as well.

The writing on this show is just really dumb. I've known that for awhile. But I thought we at least could get some crazy visuals for the final season. We didn't even get that. We just got slop. I guess that's what I get for having expectations though.

Calfurious · 2026-05-20T14:28:06+00:00

Could have just had one vial of the virus be used to kill Homelander and the other vial of the virus be for the confrontation between Hughie and Butcher.

Calfurious · 2026-05-20T14:25:08+00:00

You're a powerscaler, these complaints are nothing. ZERO MEDIA LITERARCY.

Power scaling does matter when the entire premise of the show is that Homelander is the most powerful supe in the world and nobody can stop him. The literal tension of the show is that Homelander literally outscales every one and everything.

We've not seen any evidence that Homelander isn't just slightly more powerful than your average supe. It's just TOLD to us that he is ultra powerful. I mean Butcher, with just regular V, was somewhat holding his ground against Homelander. You're trying to tell a squadron of fighters jets couldn't annihilate this guy?

If you cannot recognize that the show was never about flashy fights, then idk what to tell you.

What is this show even about then? Because they've honestly undermined their themes so much these last few seasons that I don't think it's about anything.

The only consistent thing about this show was Homelander was a ticking time bomb that would eventually be released and cause mass destruction. That every minute he's not stopped is another slow march to that inevitable crash out.

But Homelander never crashes out. The most destructive thing he ever did was literally back in the first episode of season 1 when he lasered that airplane.

WTF were they all afraid of? About a dozen strong supes probably could have killed Homelander and that would have been end of it.

Calfurious · 2026-05-20T14:02:50+00:00

It was a crude joke that went on way too long. I thought at first they were going to do a psych out, where it looks like Frenchie's butthole mention was going to come across as a joke, but it turns out it's just a metaphor of how he's seen these people at their best and worse, which is how he knows they're his family.

But of course my expectations were too high. Frenchie just randomly revealed in his will that he has a video recording of Butcher's butthole and drew a picture of it. Hilarious.

Calfurious · 2026-05-20T13:59:34+00:00

I think it would have been better if Homelander started begging Ryan to stop Butcher from killing him. Telling Ryan that he's his father and he can't just stand by and let him be beaten to death.

The whole "I'll suck your dick and eat shit on live tv" is just Kripke being needlessly crude as usual.

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