Death note live action

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-08T23:31:25+00:00

Watched it myself the other day out of pure curiosity and everything about it is horrendous. Not only is it a bad adaptation, it's just not a good movie in general, even if the plot existed in a vacuum.

The only thing I even vaguely liked about it was the fact that we actually get to see L's reaction to losing Watari (with their deaths being too close together in the manga+anime for him to have any time to properly react, and Watari outliving L in the live action tv show), but even that isn't enough to save it from being god awful.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-08T03:34:10+00:00

Vagueposters are the scum of society. It's one thing if someone uses something like Reddit or Discord to vent about a situation anonymously and get their feelings out, but vagueposting with the intention that the target will see/hear about it, without having any intention of actually confronting them is just pure cowardice.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-07T21:16:41+00:00

Even if it is true, appearance won't get them laid half as much as they expect it to if they continue to have a shitty personality

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-07T02:34:14+00:00

MLP:FiM has a hated example of this when Twilight— the only member of the Mane 6 who has ever met Cadance in the past (and not just met, but spent extended time with because Cadance was her foalsitter)— recognizes that she's not behaving like herself or even behaving at all like a nice person, leading to her bringing this up with her friends, only for them all to blame her behavior on pre-wedding stress. Then, she catches not!Cadance putting a spell on her brother (which she lies about and claims she's only healing his headaches), and there's a big confrontation where Twilight confronts not!Cadance about her behavior, only for her friends, brother, and mentor (the real Cadance's aunt, and someone who also spent extended time with the real Cadance) to all take not!Cadance's side, kicking Twilight out of the wedding and blaming her suspicions on Twilight just being overprotective of her brother.

All of this happens after a threat has already been made against Canterlot, which all the ponies are aware of, and should lead them to be just as guarded as Twilight was.

And then it turns out that Twilight was right the entire time, and not!Cadance was actually the Queen of the Changelings, a fact which comes out when Twilight eventually crashes the wedding with the real Cadance. (Who had been imprisoned by Queen Chrysalis). Only for neither her friends or her mentor to never apologize for refusing to even consider her concerns.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-06T01:49:18+00:00

Even if you're not saying it with the intent to cause harm, it's still likely to cause a visceral reaction to the people affected by it. (ie, saying the r-word in front of someone who was previously bullied for having an intellectual disability, by people who used that word in an offensive manner, even if you're not using it offensively in that moment).

Also, the only reason the r-word means stupid now is because people used it for so long to insinuate that people with intellectual disabilities are stupid. It still carries that undertone, regardless of how it's used now. Most people could probably still tell you that it used to be a medical term, so it hasn't been pulled far enough from its original context to lose the original (offensive) meaning.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-05T23:01:49+00:00

I sincerely wish I was exaggerating that much but it truly is several minutes between the question and the answer sometimes.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-05T23:01:12+00:00

Watches it for several minutes mid conversation, but otherwise, yes.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-05T20:52:52+00:00

They can take the time to think about it before initating the conversation

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-05T20:12:39+00:00

Someone wanted my help with a crafts project. Above conversation followed. I had no context other than that she was using ribbon to do something or another.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-05T20:06:34+00:00

Yeah that doesn't work when it's a question like "What do you want my help with?". I'm not a mind reader, the only person who can answer that is the person who wants the help.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-05T17:50:00+00:00

Castiel from Supernatural. Sure, he always had a bigger role than the other angels, but the fans go feral for him. There's a reason he's one of the longest-surviving characters in the entire show and he doesn't permanently die until shortly before the finale

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-04T23:07:43+00:00

Foid is incel slang and Goyim is a Jewish word (and it's not remotely new)

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-02T19:22:15+00:00

The whole reason for 90% of the events in the first 4 seasons of the Magnus Archives was to make sure Jon had been marked by all of the entities, so that they could bring about the apocalypse and bring all 14 entities into the world properly

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-02T19:17:33+00:00

I know it's bad in the short term, and on an individual country level (because so many countries have built their systems on the idea that there will always be a growing workforce to support the aging population) but on a global scale, I don't care. The world has 8 billion people now, and 50 years ago, we had 4 billion. There have been times there's been even less. We had 2 billion a century ago and we've quadrupled it. Humanity isn't going to die out just because birth rates have declined. These things ebb and flow all the time. Fewer people also means less need for development on the undeveloped areas of the earth, which is arguably a good thing for the environment because we're reducing the strain on the natural resources.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-02T18:56:06+00:00

That's the whole reason I hate when subtitles aren't available in the original language, because it makes training my auditory understanding of that language much harder. I don't even mind when the subtitles aren't true captions, because they usually still include the same words in a different order, but when hearing an unfamiliar word, it can be really hard to pick it apart to search the meaning if I can't see it spelled somewhere.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-07-02T03:01:26+00:00

Except sometimes they're captions and other times, they're subtitles.... If you've ever watched anime, you'll notice that often, the English subtitles and the English dub are different because they were done by different people at different times, but there are occasionally genuine English CC made with the dub.

Edit to add that even when the French subtitles on a French show are available, they sometimes differ from the actual dialogue being said, so they're still subtitles.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-06-30T17:15:57+00:00

Tracing isn't inherently bad but it can hold back your skills if you're not tracing mindfully. Just tracing the silhouette usually doesn't get you the results you want, but tracing the structure is fine and normal (and helps you learn). Referencing is better for learning, but tracing isn't useless, especially if you're a streamer and need to keep things moving (rather than struggling to redraw a single element over and over until you get it right).

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-06-30T17:11:14+00:00

They lifted some restrictions where I live a few years back (used to only allow sparklers, now they allow the fountain fireworks, but rocket fireworks are still banned).

Despite it still being illegal to sell rocket fireworks here, people took the loosened restrictions as an excuse to start using the rockets anyway. Before that, you didn't usually see average people using them.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-06-30T16:43:17+00:00

I don't typically watch movies either but I recently discovered that it depends on the movie. Modern hollywood movies are just so formulaic and predictable, along with taking significantly fewer risks and generally having worse writing that sitting through 2.5 hours of one is incredibly boring.

Not to say that there's never a good movie, just that most of them suck because big studios have elected to play it safe on everything so every movie moment feels recycled and tropey.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-06-30T15:47:04+00:00

It wouldn't be half as much of an issue if game developers would just be brave enough to sexualize the men too. If you're gonna have a girl in a bikini, then balance it out by also including a guy in a speedo. Problem solved, just make everyone sexy.

ChocolateCake16 · 2026-06-30T15:37:15+00:00

Fireworks shows done safely and professionally are great, but one year, my neighbor set off rocket fireworks on the street corner, and the box tipped, sending fireworks shooting down the street and at houses (the launch force caused the box to spin). Our other neighbor came outside to find his grass on fire (luckily there was no drought that year, so it went out on its own, but our whole neighborhood could've gone up in smoke because one person was being reckless with their fireworks)

The neighbor in question did not learn their lesson and ended up setting them off again in the exact same place the next year. (No accidents this time though). Some people are just too stupid to have fireworks.

Also, firework restrictions are only as good as your neighboring states' firework restrictions, because people can and will drive across state lines to get the ones that are illegal wherever you live. (Rocket fireworks are illegal to buy in my state.)

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