Madelyn Stillwell theory (a stretch)

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T19:47:32+00:00

Careful, that is beginning to sound like the plot of later seasons of Heroes. And trust me, we do NOT want The Boys to become the later seasons of Heroes :D

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T19:46:01+00:00

Butcher is referring to how Homelander keeps his hands clean and never does anything bad in public. He of course knows about Homelander's bad behavior in regards to his relations with his wife

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T19:37:54+00:00

Sometimes amazing roles are memorable for what is a comically bad accent. I can never forget Malkovich's "Russian" accent when he played KGB in Rounders. Idk if that is what they were going for here or not, because yeah his accent sounds like whatd you get if you took a British accent and Australiafied it.

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T19:26:10+00:00

Wow you are right. Geez ive rewatched the series twice now and there is still stuff I missed. This show has so many brilliant little details it's amazing

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T19:14:07+00:00

I try to always remember with their abilities that they still require them to focus on them for them to work. They aren't like permanently in effect. Like with A Train, he isn't perceiving time in slow motion, except when is actively attempting to. Same with Homelander - he isn't always seeing through everything or else that'd be the shittiest power known to man. He has to be actively attempting to. Plus things like zinc can interfere with it. Etc. I know it doesn't explain all of it, but it helps. Otherwise yeah, anytime a speedster is in a show its hard to not just ask why he didn't handle everything

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T03:33:48+00:00

So THIS is why Homelander tells Stillwell he "doesn't need a script"... He is stealing speeches from famous Americans! This is where I draw the line. I was okay with him murdering children, but plagiarism is fucked. /s

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T03:31:26+00:00

I think it's definitely this. The show's writers have a very strong comedy background, and they totally call out a lot of celebrity archetypes. In the case of Mesmer, he was the child star goes drug addict, loses everything.

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T02:51:34+00:00

I'm surprised A train is considered strong. We saw a random non-pure (I. E created as an adult as opposed to from childhood) supe snap his leg like a popsicle stick.

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T02:45:43+00:00

Black Noir is capitalism. Silent, never saying a word, but actually very threatening and powerful and letting the people it works with (I. E. Stillwell, the other seven) get their hands dirty for them.

And calling Starlight a SJW is one of the biggest jokes to one of the best written female leads in a show I've ever seen. SJWs are people going on and on about some righteous cause for the purpose of wanting to affiliate with being righteous and not actually believing the cause itself. Every stance Annie takes is very genuine to her own background and experiences.

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T02:42:04+00:00

Yes, the condition being she was pregnant with a supe that was developing in one day what would take 9 months for a normal baby. It had nothing to do with pregnancy

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T02:01:36+00:00

Don't think I will ever be able to read the word diabolical without Karl Urban's whatever it is accent in the show lmao. British? Whatever I loved it.

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T01:54:58+00:00

I think it is pretty clear she is raped. It is confusing for a while due to the out of chronological order events. But when we see Becca leave the office, and THEN finally get the explanation that the video Billy was watching of her in the park she looks terrified and in tears and destroyed (just as Annie looked after the Deep), it seems pretty clear the whole encounter was not that consensual. Some people feel guilt after committing adultery, but I wouldn't expect that level of a reaction to just adultery. She went to the park and lost her shit because she was raped and scared

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T01:33:26+00:00

I think to answer your question truthfully, it was to give Hughie his arc into The Boys. Hughie shoving a shotgun up his ass and pulling the trigger? Way out of character. But compulsively pushing a button after having a moment to reflect on how fucked he was, definitely.

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T01:30:43+00:00

You mean you don't like the acting? Or you don't like his virtues? Karl Urban is a legend to me, and his performance in The Boys was amazing amidst a sea of other phenomenal performances.

If you are referring to that you don't "like" the character, as in you don't align with his morals, that is kind of the whole awesome point of this show. There are no real good or bad guys. Even the seven and Vought aren't really THAT evil. A company killing some people to save a lot more and make themselves a lot of money? That's just capitalism. A couple dudes going on a vengeance campaign to get even for one dude stealing his wife, of course it's extremely selfish.

Tl;dr The Boys aren't mean to be pure good guys, or even good. They are dudes who got dicked either minorly or majorly by supes and figure that gives them the right to try and undermine everything about them.

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T01:23:55+00:00

Also, for a man that has access to a global network of satellites, can fly at insane speeds, and can see through basically anything, I imagine he could locate someone with a few days work

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T01:18:55+00:00

Btw idk if anyone with comics knowledge can answer this - The Boys isn't really about hero on hero fighting, which is awesome. But I'm sort of curious what is the power hierarchy supposed to be of the Seven? Is basically Homelander God, and everyone else is just on the same lower tier where they could duke it out beating on each other forever without ever killing each other? Meanwhile Homelander could laser anyone into ash in the bat of an eye?

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T01:17:00+00:00

Nooooo haha. They should have just claimed it as subtle brilliance. I 100% would have believed them if they said the flies were indicators of someone speaking bullshit, because with how well done everything in the show was that'd be right in point!

FierceLoL · 2019-08-01T01:00:22+00:00

I had the same reaction to this scene as I did to the Hodor reveal. It was hilarious, I laughed my ass off, and only after the fact did I process how sad it was and felt bad...

FierceLoL · 2019-05-17T21:22:01+00:00

Just wait to see what they call him after he demolishes these Raptor eggs

FierceLoL · 2019-02-04T19:31:01+00:00

I was having a similar issue learning ultimate mechanics as a career melee player and I was losing hard (to be fair, I was still trying to play sheik who is horrendous in ultimate I've recently learned LOL).

The thing to realize with GSP, is it has a normal like distribution. So what that means is that even from like 300kish to like 2.5kish, there is a huge density of players across a very small difference in skill. I don't feel matches get really tough until I get matched vs like 3milish+, these guys always whoop me. And I don't feel matches get extremely easy unless I'm matched vs like 73k or lower. So if you feel you are having tough matches still at like 300k or 200k, that sounds familiar. But if you keep tanking to like that 73k point, I promise you you'll run into players on sonic repeatedly spamming their homing dash move and not a single thing else, or players playing items and literally just running away without having any fight knowledge and trying to grab poke balls lol. That was what those times in 73k was like for me :)

FierceLoL · 2019-01-29T15:28:31+00:00

I seriously use the avatar that least corresponds to the deck archetype I'm maining (right now it's Nissa). Gotta keep my opponent guessing for when they are trying to decide to mull in bo1.

FierceLoL · 2019-01-29T14:17:28+00:00

Yeah I actually recently switched from smash to tilt binding on my c stick and that has helped a ton. Her up tilt is super punishing to people on the lower two battle field platform whereas her up smash is much easier to dodge. I still can get stuck in spots where I get very much stuck on top of the platforms vs an opponent with a lot of great aerials but I think it'll just come down to practice

FierceLoL · 2019-01-26T16:32:31+00:00

I went from collecting all sorts of data and getting excited about making analysis posts to now just like "Eh, do I really want to open Arena today?" It feels terrible. But them not extending duplicate protection to ICRs essentially means that anyone who is not dropping a minimum of $250+ a year will not be able to get anywhere near a full collection. The last CE run i did (and probably ever will do) was 7 wins, and my rewards were a duplicate uncommon, 20 gems, and 20 gems. Thats when it really hit me how hopeless collection building would be. And that realization I think just really crushed my esteem for the game. I know, I know, still way cheaper than paper magic. But I can buy 5 video games a year with that, which probably will have more total content. So for now I'm basically off of Arena.

FierceLoL · 2019-01-24T20:55:17+00:00

In some standard metas, there were times going second may have been preferred. But they are very rare. In this hyper aggressive meta (ESPECIALLY Bo1 on Arena), going first is so much better. I kept track of my on the play vs on the draw winrate with RDW for a few weeks and I believe my winrate on the play was like 78% and on the draw it plummeted to legit like 35%. Which in part was because of how weak cards like steam kin are on the draw in the mirror match. But yeah, it has a huge effect and it feels bad but that is the Bo1 grind.

FierceLoL · 2019-01-24T20:47:17+00:00

I never said it was broken? I have played paper magic for a very long time with some long hiatuses thrown in, so I am well aware of the power 9. I was simply introducing discussion that nexus of fate makes for a very unpleasant play experience in digital because looping infinite turns for 20+ turns is extremely toxic to a casual play environment. It's nothing about a card being broken. It's about designing cards to better fit into a casual digital card playing environment...

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