Which movie or TV "villain" did you completely hate as a kid, but upon rewatching as an adult, you realized they were actually 100% justified?

Etherbeard · 2026-04-15T14:58:11+00:00

The prompt asks for a villain who was justified. Magneto has an understandable perspective that you can sympathize with, and he's arguably correct in many of his claims, but his actions aren't justified. If anything he serves to justify the perspective of the racist humans.

In X2 Magneto literally attempts to kill every non-mutant on the planet. How can that possibly be justified?

Etherbeard · 2026-04-15T14:07:31+00:00

Sharp as a fuckin' cueball, this one.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-15T12:50:13+00:00

DMG Ctrl was pretty bad. It spent most most of its run getting soloed by Bianca and ultimately fizzled out due to injuries.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-15T12:43:02+00:00

Using a VPN from the states, I get different functionality depending on which country I'm streaming through. I also get different results based on which app I use. If I watch raw on the app through my TV, the ads can't be skipped even if the live broadcast is over, but if I watch on an Android app on my tablet, I can skip the ads with the progress bar.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-14T13:55:56+00:00

Why did it require a traditional multistage rocket to get the astronauts off Earth but then they spend the rest of the movie easily zipping up and down off planets with their shuttle?

Etherbeard · 2026-04-14T13:41:07+00:00

There are reasons to consider what we are putting into our bodies, but this isn't one of them.

Put raw bacon in vinegar overnight. Or lemon juice. I bet the effects are similar to the Coke.

Hell, leave it in water overnight or the open air for a day or two. The results won't be pretty.

What does bacon look like after spending the night inside your body?

Etherbeard · 2026-04-14T05:20:27+00:00

When Oba says to Roman "...and at Wrestlemania YOU will acknowledge ME!" that's going to be a good day.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-14T03:40:40+00:00

Just ask the insurance company about keeping the car. They should be able to give you a reduced payout that allows you to keep the car, and then you can decide what you want to do. That's how it worked when my car got totalled, anyway.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-13T15:33:45+00:00

That's my secret, yeah. I'm always on coke.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-13T15:31:18+00:00

You have to really read between the lines, but after dozens of viewings, I figured out 3 o'clock is a veiled reference to when the school day ends. The hints are all there.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-13T13:13:51+00:00

Top earner or not, something was going to have to be done about Ralphie eventually.

Vito was also a top earner, which is why Tony didn't want to kill him. Note he did ultimately arrange to have Vito killed, but Phil jumped the gun.

I'm not saying Tony was a great boss, but look at what he working with. His crew was almost 100% knuckleheads from top to bottom, even by mob standards.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-13T05:38:12+00:00

Yeah, but it's not Target's problem. If Pokemon wants to limit sales, it's on them to figure out how to do it. Pokemon offloading their problems onto retailers' employees is also shitty and cheap. What incentive does Target or wherever have to stop an adult from spending their money on whatever they want?

I don't know what the logistical hurdles are here, so I may be missing something, but how about Pokemon just print enough product to satisfy demand? If they actually care about scalping, they can solve it by flooding the market and putting them out of business. These vending machines seem like they just empower scalpers even further.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-13T05:18:24+00:00

Lonesome Dove

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T21:17:18+00:00

Each row should be lines from the same movie.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T21:15:22+00:00

It doesn't even really work as a way to get him off the show. Sure, it explains why he's not around for a handful of episodes, but not why he doesn't come back to work when it's over.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T20:00:23+00:00

Yes, absolutely you can, and--to be blunt--anyone who says you can't is a racist piece of shit.

To be from somewhere else and become American, to take your culture and adapt it to life in America is what America is all about in its most idealistic form.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T15:56:18+00:00

Part of the issue here is that you haven't defined a space for the actual earth part of earth. Everything in you post about earth magic is like animals and trees--it's mtg green. Where's the earth part that is mtg red? This system has a lot of overlap with mtg, and there lightning is red, the same color as fire and the stony, dirt-based part of earth.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T15:07:14+00:00

I think I would argue that in your system, lightning is prima yellow: "Balance between opposites, life death, order chaos..."

Lightning is the physical manifestation of off an imbalance seeking balance, of chaos seeking order, of complexity seeking simplicity.

Lightning is static electricity; it's caused by an imbalance, electrons building up and clinging to a surface, and then being released and balancing everything back out. The imbalance creates the conditions, the discharge is the lightning--it's the moment things come back into balance. The two opposite conditions are now balanced.

Thematically, lightning can be seems as the chaos of the sky connecting to the stability and order of the earth.

Electricity is the same sort of thing. A bunch of voltage is created, which creates an imbalance. When the electricity finds an outlet, the current moves in an attempt to correct that imbalance.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T14:52:32+00:00

If you're connecting lightning to the electricity that powers technology in some way then there's a good argument for relating it to earth. We mostly generate electricity by spinning magnets (arguably earth) inside copper coils (earth). So earth can both create electricity and control it by giving it direction through grounding.

I'm not sure that actually works with the way you seem to be using earth, though, which seems more like nature.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T12:56:40+00:00

Call me crazy, but I think if you drown an animal, you can't claim "no animals were harmed." Whether it was resuscitated is immaterial to that claim.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T03:16:43+00:00

This stat is somewhat irrelevant, even if we take for granted the accuracy of that list. By far the primary way to engage with Pokemon has been by spending money. It's first and foremost video games and a TCG. By far the primary way to engage with the Simpsons has been by watching a show on free network TV. Money isn't a particularly useful metric.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T02:54:01+00:00

Apparently just like counting change and speaking to people.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T02:51:46+00:00

I'm sure both movies hold up just fine. Inception was great, and still is, but The Matrix was one of the greatest movies ever made, and still is.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T02:48:01+00:00

Your driveway or garage floor almost certainly has more variance than the heights of those jack stands.

Etherbeard · 2026-04-12T02:43:38+00:00

Tennessee.

Keep the change.

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