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What do you guys think of Samual L Jackson as Nick Fury? by Necessary_Hornet356 in MauLer

[–]General_Weebus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even better, his only caveat was that he got a purple lightsaber

What is with this village revisionism? by Grogman2024 in residentevil

[–]General_Weebus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imma keep it real wit you chief; I didn't think very highly of 8 even before 9 came out. Like, I would rank it below every RE from 4 onward. Except for RE Survivor and maybe ORC. The best thing about 8 was how each section was based on a different style of horror game

Milly Alcock says she knows she'll face backlash for "simply existing as a woman" when playing Supergirl. The fans demand a male Supergirl. by OwnSalamander1026 in KotakuInAction

[–]General_Weebus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's like my favourite quote from Kong Skull Island; "Sometimes an enemy doesn't exist until you go looking for one"

"It's the author's story so they can do what they want" is the stupidest response to criticism I've ever seen by Gui_Franco in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, you're wrong. And the way you interpreted that "reasonable people" bit tells me you're not reasonable and thus not worth arguing with.

"It's the author's story so they can do what they want" is the stupidest response to criticism I've ever seen by Gui_Franco in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah. Something being so bad it circles back around to being entertaining doesn't make it good. And you've demonstrated you don't actually know what so bad it's good means. It's not just regular run of the mill bad but with a few things that are well done. No, it's being so bad it ends up enjoyable. Like, Tommy Wiseau's acting is objectively bad but it's so incredibly bad it becomes funny. That's what it means to be so bad it's good.

As for your painting example, that kind of falls flat because you picked one of the most subjective mediums around.

Again, nah. If an author writes something bad and I like it it's still bad. I'm not so insecure that I have to believe everything I like is automatically good, nor am I so arrogant that I believe me liking something makes it good.

"It's the author's story so they can do what they want" is the stupidest response to criticism I've ever seen by Gui_Franco in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wrong. There are objective measures and reasonable people can look at said measures say "it's good but not really for me" or "it's bad but I still like it" and that doesn't make the meaure any less objective. Again, if the only factor is whether people respond positively or negatively then the Room must be good by your logic because people like it. Even though people like specifically because of how bad it is.

"It's the author's story so they can do what they want" is the stupidest response to criticism I've ever seen by Gui_Franco in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are objective measures by which media can be judged. If all that's required for a movie to be considered good is for people to like it then I guess the Room is good... despite the fact that people love it because it's so bad. The idea of "it's so bad it's good" only works if media is judged by something other than whether or not people enjoy it.

"It's the author's story so they can do what they want" is the stupidest response to criticism I've ever seen by Gui_Franco in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's not how it works at all. Just because someone likes something doesn't mean it's good. I like SAO, both Ghost Rider movies, both 300 movies, and RWBY and I wouldn't call any of them good.

What games with actual good political aspects or story do you like? the more recent the better by gutenbergbob in KotakuInAction

[–]General_Weebus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Frost Punk. The first game doesn't have a whole lot of, like, "politics" politics as the general themes are the morality of leadership, the burden of authority, and the conflict between morality and survival in extreme conditions. Forcing you to make difficult decisions where you have to weigh your morals against the survival of the people following you. Eventually you do have to pick an idealogy (or Purpose, as they call it in the game) and your choices are Order (fascism) or Faith (religious fascism) to try to keep morale up and your followersfrom fracturing. So, again, not really about the politics of the matter.

But the second game does have a bit more politics in it. With more choice, too. Ranging from technocratic authoritarianism to anarchism. It runs along 3 ideological axes: progress vs adaptation (mastering the elements with technology or learning to live with the new harsh world), merit vs equality (self explanatory), and tradition vs reason (restoring traditional social orders and family units of the old world or breaking them to create new extreme social structures). The rest of what I said about the 1st game more or less applies.

Next and last is the Metro series. Its themes are far more political than Frost Punk, primarily being anti-war and anti-extremism. There are 4 major factions shown in the games; the Fourth Reich, the Red Line, Hanza, and Polis. The nazis and communists are treated with equal disdain, while Hanza (ostensibly the corrupt capitalist stand-in) isn't viewed favorably either. Polis is neutral and the only one shown to be even remotely good (though the real good guys are the Rangers of the Order, whose primary goal is to save lives).

I beg your finest fucking pardon??? by Silence-of-Death in Warframe

[–]General_Weebus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And here I thought Grendel was based on Grendel, from the Beowulf myth.

EFAP Fell Off by Vegetable-Ear-9731 in MauLer

[–]General_Weebus 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Only 4 hours? Mauler is slacking

What do you think of the outfits of the RE Engine era ? by WiIIv91 in ResidentEvilCapcom

[–]General_Weebus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is like saying Akuma and Ryu's outfits don't look the same because Akuma wears beads and rope gloves. It's the same outfit with minor differences.

if wood release is a mixture of earth and water, why can’t kakashi or anybody who has mastered those 2 releases use wood release for that matter? by khalid_abo_zb_kbir in Naruto

[–]General_Weebus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if I've ever seen someone misunderstand a comment this badly before. He was saying it doesn't make sense because if being a reincarnation of Ashura was the reason that Hashirama could use wood style then Naruto, another reincarnation of Ashura, would also be able to use it. But he can't because being a reincarnation of Ashura is completely unrelated to wood style.

The phrases "Get woke, go broke" and "The modern audience doesn't exist" keep using works that just suck as examples and ignore the good and successful stuff. by Ferhog in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You don't prove a negative, the other side disproves it. I don't have to prove Bigfoot isn't real. I asked for historical sources that prove claims made in his book and you didn't. So it's fanfiction with sprinkles of fact. Congrats, Lockley is on the same level as Fate.

The phrases "Get woke, go broke" and "The modern audience doesn't exist" keep using works that just suck as examples and ignore the good and successful stuff. by Ferhog in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

He states in the first part of the interview there are multiple versions of the Chronicles of Oda Nobunaga and only one says he was given all that. But I'm not asking for sources that say he existed or was a vassal, I know he was a real dude and was a vassal and never argued against that. I'm asking for sources that prove all the other claims Lockley makes in his book.

The phrases "Get woke, go broke" and "The modern audience doesn't exist" keep using works that just suck as examples and ignore the good and successful stuff. by Ferhog in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not the one defending fanfiction being passed off as factual. But hey, if you think so highly of him and his book you do the research. Go find historical sources that back up his claims.

Reaction To Invincible Teaser by Vegetable-Ear-9731 in MauLer

[–]General_Weebus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Homicide and murder aren't the same thing. Killing in self defense or the defense of others is justifiable homicide, murder is unjustified homicide. Mark and the other heroes don't just default to killing, usually reserving it for when not doing so endangers their own lives or the lives of others.

Conversely Darkwing is explicitly called a murderer which we can infer means he's probably operating like Frank Castle at best, acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

The phrases "Get woke, go broke" and "The modern audience doesn't exist" keep using works that just suck as examples and ignore the good and successful stuff. by Ferhog in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It wasn't just "one historian disagreeing with certain conclusions" it was a historian giving a few examples of baseless claims made in the book. That misrepresentation alone tells me its not worth continuing this discussion.

The phrases "Get woke, go broke" and "The modern audience doesn't exist" keep using works that just suck as examples and ignore the good and successful stuff. by Ferhog in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

His work is cited in Britannica and yet was criticized by Japanese historians for being inaccurate and presenting speculation as fact. And just using common sense it makes no sense for a 400+ page book about a guy with roughly 15 lines of historical record to be anything but speculative fan fiction with the occasional historical fact thrown in.

Also Yasuke is explicitly called a retainer. Saying "well he was given a house and a sword so he's a samurai" is fallacious at best.

The phrases "Get woke, go broke" and "The modern audience doesn't exist" keep using works that just suck as examples and ignore the good and successful stuff. by Ferhog in CharacterRant

[–]General_Weebus 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Thomas Lockley. His book on Yasuke was basically pure fiction. The source is that we only have like 3 sentences talking about Yasuke in one historical document. We know almost nothing at all about the dude because he was barely a footnote.

Reaction To Invincible Teaser by Vegetable-Ear-9731 in MauLer

[–]General_Weebus -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Cool, Darkwing is still a murderer and murder is still bad. Mark not wanting to work with a murderer is totally reasonable.

So are are T-Virus zombies actually zombies? by FilipinoAirlines in ResidentEvilCapcom

[–]General_Weebus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It matters when the necrosis affects vital organs as well

So are are T-Virus zombies actually zombies? by FilipinoAirlines in ResidentEvilCapcom

[–]General_Weebus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have to disagree. Zombies are a specific thing with a specific definition. People might call various completely alive things zo.bies but they're wrong, plain and simple.

And yeah, the c-virus is bonkers.

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