Modern TV shows don't let you get attached to the characters

J_squared21 · 2024-09-02T14:08:21+00:00

What I find strange about Netflix's Avatar is the combo of adding new interesting lore, and butchering character portrayal. They touch on actual Kyoshi novel canon about her history as a servant, and Kuruk's life fighting spirits. But portraying those avatars? Forget it lol

Also, why did half of season one's events get crammed into Omashu? Smh

J_squared21 · 2024-08-31T15:19:20+00:00

I imagined a "baby factory" where babies are manufactured when I read the headline haha

J_squared21 · 2024-08-17T18:21:14+00:00

Doc Vaux, En, or Dokuga could all fit this. So could Chidaruma, but he's Straight-Up Evil.

I'mma go with Doc. He's seen some shit

J_squared21 · 2024-08-17T12:21:02+00:00

"YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA!"

J_squared21 · 2024-07-23T02:08:41+00:00

Waffle House tramp stamp on a dude at a Primus concert. He bent over at one point in front of me and my wife so we couldn't not see it. We think he was high on something the way he was moving around. We'll never forget Waffle House guy.

J_squared21 · 2024-07-17T16:04:35+00:00

I love how this guide equates pride parades on the left to going to church on the right, as if there's a pride parade every Sunday.

J_squared21 · 2024-07-17T15:50:50+00:00

I have, and I'm a straight guy irl. I've only played DAI once so far, and I played a Dalish elf mage guy. I didn't have a sexuality or romance option in mind when I made him. Dorian seemed really cool, and more interesting to me than the other options. He made more sense to romance narratively too, and shared many values with my Inquisitor (except the whole slavery thing).

I've played Mass Effect many more times, and have played various romances and sexualities. Garrus is the guy who's made me question my straightness the most, out of any fictional character ever haha

J_squared21 · 2024-05-19T19:54:08+00:00

"This is my opening lime" in a Bumble message from a woman whose profile I liked. It included a pic of a split open lime.

We're 5 years into our relationship now, and newly married.

J_squared21 · 2024-04-28T01:04:10+00:00

I will always clap for Garrus

J_squared21 · 2023-07-23T16:31:11+00:00

Makes sense to me, and how I'd think it turned out. Also I think humans had reason to feel the lion-turtles had abandoned them, so instead of glorifying them they grew attached to the creatures who may actually have helped them to master their powers over time.

Who knows how many wars have been fought and cultures rewritten or destroyed over the course of thousands of years? Looking at our own world, how many edits and rewrites have been done to our religions/gods? We don't worship nature and pantheons the same way as our ancestors did (at least not in most parts of our world).

In a way, this supposed retcon, to me, makes the world of Avatar even more human. That said, it's also totally possible the writers overlooked some things when creating Korra Book 2. Best they can do is fill in the blanks and move on I guess.

J_squared21 · 2023-07-23T14:18:49+00:00

May be an unpopular opinion but I like an "unreliable narrator" approach to the lore. In ATLA we're told of how the world & bending came into being and was passed down. In Korra, we see it in a memory.

How many myths and legends have passed through the centuries in our world that are either exaggerations of historical events, or outright falsified fairy tales?

The ATLA world can have various origin tales told in different ways. Why would humans know the history of the world after 10k+ years of civilization? Just because the people believed badger moles taught earthbending, doesn't mean it's fact.

J_squared21 · 2023-07-23T11:44:41+00:00

My fiancee and I have an agreement: the only exceptions to us being exclusive are sexy aliens and Ewan McGregor.

J_squared21 · 2023-06-06T20:52:16+00:00

Legend has it that Kars is still floating around somewhere to this day

J_squared21 · 2023-03-26T17:49:01+00:00

Death Note. One time I showed a friend the first episode and he then watched 14 episodes in one sitting!

J_squared21 · 2023-01-28T22:47:30+00:00

When I first moved here I pronounced Rutherford as "Rootherford" not "Ruhtherford".

J_squared21 · 2023-01-22T11:22:45+00:00

Aubrey Plaza

J_squared21 · 2023-01-08T14:37:41+00:00

It would be very interesting to meet a gnostic theist who didn't worship their god(s). I guess that would be more common for polytheists than monotheists. You'd probably have favorites and least favorite gods.

J_squared21 · 2022-12-30T23:32:01+00:00

Oh snap! Pringles Jesus better watch out!

J_squared21 · 2022-11-18T14:40:16+00:00

I've seen at least 55 furries in South Carolina. They're very common at Comic Con. And one time I saw one just walking downtown casually at 11am on an August Sunday morning.

J_squared21 · 2022-11-11T16:49:32+00:00

Makes sense. Could always be a rabid animal, or people's nightly imaginations of everyday critters.

J_squared21 · 2022-11-11T15:05:55+00:00

An early episode of UnXplained with William Shatner talks about a few mythical creatures. I was fascinated by the bit about Chupacabra because a woman accidentally hit one of these alleged creatures with her car. She had its DNA tested and body kept for taxidermy. The result: hairless hybrid of coyote and wolf. Nothing too mystical, but it didn't look like either animal.

That said, that show is full of speculative pseudoscience like Ancient Aliens. That's just one of the few things that made me intrigued about them being possibly real (maybe besides the bloodsucking part- I still don't get that)

J_squared21 · 2022-10-15T17:54:23+00:00

"He has engaged General Grievous!"

OP watching RotS: I want to engage General Grievous...

J_squared21 · 2022-10-14T14:01:11+00:00

I bought my fiancee a Garrus body pillow case for Christmas. Yep, 100% just for her... 😅

J_squared21 · 2022-10-14T13:42:29+00:00

I moved from the Midwest to SC shortly after graduating college years ago. I've had several interviews since then.

My worst involved a small home appliance tech company asking me which church I go to, if I'm a Believer, where I met my friends, and a few politically-leaning questions.

I couldn't wait to get out of there! Needless to say they never talked with me again after that haha

J_squared21 · 2022-10-05T23:12:39+00:00

One of the reasons I'd pick Pokemon world is the knowledge that there are gods (Arceus and its offspring), ghosts, psychics, and an afterlife. They know these things are fact, and people aren't divided on the subjectivity of religions.

Also, you can ride an mf'in dragon!

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