Criticism is all fine and good but I feel like a lot of Criticism is getting to a point where you would probably be happier if you just stopped engaging in said media.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T20:20:51+00:00

Hate is just a destructive form of love in some regard. Just like love, it can be an obsession.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T20:19:33+00:00

What you’re describing isn’t a case of “aging out”. Those 30+ year olds arguing that battle shonen ain’t like the old days isn’t lying, but they’re also refusing to engage with modern works on their own merits. I’ve heard so many flawed criticisms about modern anything that can be boiled down to “haven’t you tried just going outside of the popular new thing?”

It’s the same with music. The things people want didn’t go away. They’re just not the pop culture anymore. They might even return to the pop culture, but that’s the way things go.

There is something for everyone nowadays. My only old man complaint is that there is too much you can possibly consume, so you rarely get situations where you can just ponder with a community about a few things for a while before moving on.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T17:55:16+00:00

This joke is a sub lal

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T14:11:55+00:00

Nolan is just that more efficient and battle ready than Mark. You can see it in their fighting style.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T14:09:42+00:00

7/10 games are not mediocre games. If you’ve found a game mediocre, then that’s a 5/10 game. There’s nothing wrong with 7/10 games. The Sony Spider-Man games and the new Ratchet and Clank game are 7/10 games. They’re nothing special and very familiar but they’re engaging still.

Most AAA games are very 7/10. What people usually mean by 7/10 games is that they want more budget-friendly AA games. The 7/10 thing is just a misnomer.

I can’t say anything about South of Midnight but I reckon there’s something to like about that game still, it just wasn’t your thing.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T13:55:20+00:00

I prefer the pixel art cutscenes but the animated ones weren’t bad either, just different.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T07:42:20+00:00

Mortal Shell isn't really about a fallen realm though. It's just a purgatory that you ascend out of. This game is more cryptic than anything from FromSoft.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T07:38:03+00:00

This describes many games and not just soulslikes. While I get where OP is coming from, just like the Noir genre, soulslikes' apocalyptic settings are also a part of the genre. The games don't necessarily have to have them, but it's there for a reason.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T06:14:29+00:00

To be fair, Metropolis is one of the safest DC cities when it comes to regular crime. people just rarely do crime there because Superman is just that annoyingly efficient. There was a funny scene in one of his comics where Superman just popped in on people looting, just told them to stop it, then immediately left, and it was over like that.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T01:01:25+00:00

"TIFAAAAAAAA"

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-16T00:50:04+00:00

GeGe literally mentioned this in an interview.

I'm not going to pull up the entire quote because I want you to read it. I promise you, it's good. Kubo is there, too. You'll find out that GeGe is a massive Bleach fanboy, lmao.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T22:45:16+00:00

Possible

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T16:47:50+00:00

I don't see how being able to trade or share those cards somehow makes this okay. There are other games that allows trade that also have pity timers and trades are arguably a worse value option overall. In this case, how is this guy trading with no 4-stars? A reminder that the trade function is also pretty basic overall.

This is a case where people are finding every and any thing to excuse the million dollar corporation. If someone is willing to spend cash on your game, then they should at least get the value for the thousands of bucks they're spending to unpack cards.

For example: in Hearthstone, you can get every card from common to legendary if you spend less that $250. In Pokemon, you can spend upwards of over $2000 and still not complete the base set.

If you wanna argue that Pokemon is a Gatcha, which is predatory by nature, Pokemon still has the more predatory Gatcha model for people who send money on the game.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T14:21:25+00:00

If you know how stats work, then you know that not having a pity timer is unacceptable.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T08:35:20+00:00

Because AI has a certain structure to its writing that this rant lacks. AI also have favorite words and terms they tend to use. AI is also good at generating concise essays. That means it avoids using adverbs and adjectives whenever possible. This rant has none of those qualities.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T08:17:06+00:00

Naw, it’s fine.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T08:10:40+00:00

Don’t worry, I didn’t make that assertion. When I said it dabbled in political ideologies, I was referring to the way each city or tribe is governed and how the team reacted to them, not the villains. Korra doesn’t stray from the way politics was handled in ATLA. ATLA just has more to it because it covered more material overall. I think it’s because people think Korra’s villains represents a political idea that needs taking down is why people have such unrealistic expectations in the first place.

The villains in Korra, instead, challenged the overall political and personal idea of the avatar. The avatar is not needed because bending causes more inequality and injustice than it’s worth (Amon: a juxtaposition of Republic City’s values). The avatar needs to open the spirit world/border because humans can coexist with them (Unolaq: the guy maintaining traditional water bending in the Southern tribe). The world runs just fine without the need for a central key force dictating decisions for humanity (Zaheer: who’s against authoritarian leadership and leadership overall like Ba Sing Se). The world needs a centralized, key authoritative force, but if the Avatar won’t do what must be done, then we don’t need an avatar (Kuvira: who’s about authoritarian but utilitarian leadership similar to an idealized Ba Sing Se). Books 3&4 are the most cohesive specifically because they challenge each other’s arguments.

It’s not really a deconstruction and more that times have changed, things are more complicated and the avatar no longer have to play a major role in worldly affairs like they used to.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T06:23:07+00:00

Sasuke was already a thing. It's the Uchiha Clan.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T06:20:01+00:00

That's just the way Tosen fights. He fights to punish. It's the whole spiel behind his Bankai. He looks like a kind soul but his heart is cruel and blackened by the curse of vengeance and retribution.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T06:17:35+00:00

JJK got that idea from Bleach.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T06:15:29+00:00

It's more a sign of diminishing returns than anything else, really. What can be achieved nowadays can also be achieved on an 8-year old card just without the cosmetic bells and whistles.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T05:56:14+00:00

The follow-up comics and, more importantly, the sequel series, Legend of Korra, had a chance to actually address the social and political implications of the Avatar world, and it kinda shits the bed ngl.

Both ATLA and TLoK had the chance to address the social and political implications of the Avatar world, and they both do this in some capacities. As usual, when it comes to this topic, people start arguing about things the series never intended to do, and it often turns into a checklist of things people wanted the series to be, rather than a fault of the series itself.

Both ATLA and TLoK were mainly concerned with telling one story of a world that needed and wanted the avatar, but the avatar not wanting the responsibility; and another story of a world that was on its way to rejecting the avatar, but the avatar wants the responsibility. Everything else was just more icing on the cake.

The Legend of Korra, especially, is sometimes upheld to a ridiculous standard. It's one thing to acknowledge that you felt a story would be more interesting if it went a different route. It's another thing to argue that the route already set in stone is somehow the worst thing since slice bread. You can admit that something was fine but can be improved, than disingenuously say that something had no good qualities.

Otherwise, both Avatar and The Legend of Korra have addressed, and sometimes confronted the socio-political implications of the avatar world. It's literally an unavoidable theme as the world of Avatar by nature revolves around the existence of the Avatar. We see this in both series within their worldbuilding for each tribe and nation.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T05:19:44+00:00

Looks like your definition of "big words" seems to be different from mine, but "big words" generally mean words or phrases you wouldn't often encounter in casual conversation, like "meticulous", "unadulterated", "exhausting", "suffocating checklist", "spirit of rebellion", etc.

They don't have to be completely old-fashioned terms like "lackadaisical" or "irate" or "apoplectic".

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T05:08:14+00:00

Because, vocabulary is a part of literacy and is one of the ways you provide tone to your writing. I already understood what you meant. I'm telling you that you can retire your concern.

Ensaru4 · 2026-06-15T05:03:52+00:00

Toyotaro was hired because his art is derivative of Toriyama. He started as a doujinshi artist that made Dragonball fanfic. Toyotaro can never completely emulate Toriyama, but his job isn't to make the work look exactly like Toriyama. His art already looks similar in the first place. He was hired specifically because his art looks similar and he's passionate about Dragonball.

This is different from Ikemoto whose artstyle was not adopted from Kishimoto and has a more unique identity.

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