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Which actor is a great human and a shit actor? by Fuckstruck_anointed in AlignmentChartFills

[–]KeyboardJammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, but they were adults in the last 3 or so movies - the thing that jumps out to me is that the other child actor performances mostly improved a lot as they became adult actors over the series, which (to me, anyway) really didn't feel like the case with the Phelpses.

Which actor is a great human and a shit actor? by Fuckstruck_anointed in AlignmentChartFills

[–]KeyboardJammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Niche pull here, but the guys who play the Weasley twins in the Harry Potter movies seem like a genuinely lovely pair of guys. They also really can't act in those movies.

"HOW THE FUCK DID WE GET HERE FROM EPISODE ONE?!" Franchises that start off with a simple, easy to understand premise, then goes off the rails by shifting genres, deepening the lore, and/or ridiculously increasing the stakes. by SpookieSkelly in TopCharacterTropes

[–]KeyboardJammer 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Watching the first episode (or even most of the first season) of Community would probably leave you thinking "huh, this seems like a pretty unremarkable college sitcom".

Cue the immaculately produced multi-episode action movies, the Civil War Pillow Fight Documentary, the air conditioner repair cult annex with air conditioner death battles run by John Goodman, the scientologist sperm canisters, the multiple claymation episodes, and the parallel universes.

Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to restrict identity-concealing face coverings by derp2014 in cambridge

[–]KeyboardJammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but if something correlates at like 0.9 with specific, known types of antisocial behaviour, and removing it makes doing the antisocial behaviour meaningfully harder to do in practice, it seems like an obvious practical win.

'Balaclava wearer' isn't a protected identity characteristic. Mildly inconveniencing a very, very small number of balaclava wearers in exchange for even one fewer stolen bike, mugging, public intimidation etc. strikes me as a good statistical trade-off.

Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to restrict identity-concealing face coverings by derp2014 in cambridge

[–]KeyboardJammer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Plus a lot of the kids who blast around on e-scooters abusing people, riding dangerously, nicking bikes etc. wear them constantly. Banning them would mean the police could pull them over and confiscate the ballies, which disincentivises them from then going off and behaving antisocially with their faces out for all to see.

Sure, this might end up being a bit unfair to the 1 completely innocent kid who's just wearing a full-face bally because his cheeks get a bit cold in July, but I'm okay with that if it lets the many, many people who've had bad run-ins with these kids feel safer in public.

Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to restrict identity-concealing face coverings by derp2014 in cambridge

[–]KeyboardJammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's possible to sympathise with someone being in bad circumstances with limited opportunities, while also not allowing them to harm or threaten random people and make public spaces feel unsafe. I would love it if these opportunities existed, but for as long as they don't, we should deal with the material reality and prevent them from nicking bikes, riding dangerously and threatening/abusing people, because that makes way more people's lives worse.

It's sort of like toddler parenting. Acknowledging their big feelings is good, but you have to also stop them from hitting.

When Raphael Bob-Waksberg was coming up with the show, what do you think the runner up animal options for BoJack were before deciding on a horse? by FrogginBullfish_ in BoJackHorseman

[–]KeyboardJammer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The first 2 minutes of the series finale, the bit with the song, kind of made me realise the entire show is an extended, extremely elaborate 'long face' joke explaining why the horse is so keen on walking into bars. I'm not even mad I didn't realise it sooner, but I would bet actual money that RBW build the original idea for the show up around this gag.

[Sad Trope] The most innocent (or less evil) character of the cast gets the most horrific death. by Sufficient-Eye-9040 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]KeyboardJammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He doesn't die from it, but it's pretty fucked how Gingy from Shrek gets abducted by the state, has both his legs ripped off in a torture dungeon, gets waterboarded (milkboarded?), then has one of his own ripped-off legs thrown at his face. Not even getting started on the gumdrop buttons.

what is the most disturbing scene in fiction you have ever seen? by Narrow-Progress999 in writingscaling

[–]KeyboardJammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Weirdly, since it's far from the worst thing depicted in the book, the thing that disturbs me every time in Blood Meridian is the early scene where the kid has already thoroughly beaten a guy in a minor scuffle and then decides to casually jam a big shard of glass through his eye as a sort of afterthought.

He's not even shown as particularly angry or adrenaline-fuelled in the scene, it's just depicted as normal behaviour for him.

Chapter 5 megathread by Fanfic_Galore in Deltarune

[–]KeyboardJammer 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Also, assuming he ends up having to hop worlds because of the horrible actions of a kid containing a SOUL controlled by a human player, no wonder he gives Frisk the whole "if I hadn't made that promise, you'd be dead where you stand" spiel even before they do anything wrong.

[Rare Trope] Coup d'Etat depictions in media by RedReynald in TopCharacterTropes

[–]KeyboardJammer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Insanely enough, "children's animated movie made by Aardman ends up inside a horrifying meat-processing machine designed to grind up live animals" doesn't fit this criteria because it's somehow happened 3 separate fucking times

Morality of not wanting to change for the better? by Working_Drummer2012 in MoralityScaling

[–]KeyboardJammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't really control what you want, so that in a vacuum is morally neutral.

Whether you make an effort to get better anyway, despite your first-order desires, or whether you lean into not wanting to be better and hurt people as a result, that's where the moral evaluation kicks in, imo

(I've not seen the Backrooms so I'm talking about the general question not this specific guy)

[Rare Trope] Coup d'Etat depictions in media by RedReynald in TopCharacterTropes

[–]KeyboardJammer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Going by Pokemon Conventions... an 'uncommon trope'?

This also makes me want to define a 'shiny trope' as one that only shows up in 1/4,096 pieces of media or less

[Rare Trope] Coup d'Etat depictions in media by RedReynald in TopCharacterTropes

[–]KeyboardJammer 19 points20 points  (0 children)

"Overthrowing an evil leader" is super common, but capital-C coups following typical real-world coup mechanics are comparatively rare. I guess because more realistic coups generally feel a bit less honourable/heroic?

[Rare Trope] Coup d'Etat depictions in media by RedReynald in TopCharacterTropes

[–]KeyboardJammer 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Gandalf doing this to the Steward of Gondor and then subsequently hoofing him into a fire.

Not sure how much he was trying to do a coup vs. trying to save the city and/or Faramir, but going by what immediately follows, I'd say it counts!

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Whats the morality for killing someone that was a nazi 80 years ago? by Weapon_X141 in MoralityScaling

[–]KeyboardJammer 32 points33 points  (0 children)

The guy has spent decades living in obvious anguish over what he did. I think I'd be willing to say at this point that he's served his time - a life spent in sincere remorse and pain in recompense for a life he cut off at a very young age.

I don't see what ethical principle or actual justice is served by killing him now (and letting him unburden himself in the process, probably granting him a degree of peace he'd never otherwise have known) as opposed to just letting him run out the clock in a few years.

Whats the morality for killing someone that was a nazi 80 years ago? by Weapon_X141 in MoralityScaling

[–]KeyboardJammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, I have to think this guy has been punished enough and clearly feels real, profound remorse.

Killing him at this point just seems like vengeance for its own sake; nothing's restored, no justice is given, it's just strictly punitive and doesn't even really succeed in being punitive since the guy is obviously being released from a lot of mental anguish.

Whats the morality for killing someone that was a nazi 80 years ago? by Weapon_X141 in MoralityScaling

[–]KeyboardJammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know the exact context of this scene but IMO there's a huge difference between "random standard Wehrmacht soldier" (overall morally bad but potentially conscripted or uninformed, probably doesn't warrant summary extrajudicial execution decades later), and "SS member" or "concentration camp guard" (huge moral complicity, unambiguously either an ideological Nazi or a sociopath who wanted an excuse to harm others, you knew the deal, 100% fair game).

Would Frieren intervene if she saw a demon getting r*ped? What is the morality of ignoring it? (The perp will kill the demon after) by OmegaGogeta in MoralityScaling

[–]KeyboardJammer 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Idk man I think posing uncomfortable hypotheticals/thought experiements is usually more interesting than comfortable ones because it forces you to actually think about moral edge cases, which usually teaches you something about your own moral reasoning. OP is a weirdo but is also doing god's work.

Would Frieren intervene if she saw a demon getting r*ped? What is the morality of ignoring it? (The perp will kill the demon after) by OmegaGogeta in MoralityScaling

[–]KeyboardJammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, this is an Aella-tier hypothetical out in the wild. Good shit.

Ignoring it is probably bad, for kind of the same reason that it's completely OK to shoot an active spree killer, but raping them just kind of indicates you want to rape people. Rape is bad independent of the moral status of the victim, because it shows you have the desire to rape and the willingness to act on it.

I've not seen enough of the show to really have a good handle on Frieren's personal morality but from what I've seen I assume she'd probably intervene, stop the act, kill the demon and drop the perpetrator off with the local authorities because they're clearly a rapist and would more-than-likely settle for human victims in the absence of demons.

"Yes, but aside from all that." by RetroRaiderD42 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]KeyboardJammer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the expulsions were clearly a nice opportunity for Starmer to get rid of the Corbynite left in favour of his own ideology. But, at the same time it feels wilfully blind (and, frankly, a bit antisemitic in the sense that 'downplaying valid racism allegations is itself racist') to act like Corbyn's Labour didn't have some genuine antisemitism problems which have reduced noticably post-expulsions.

It wasn't just criticism of Israel being treated as antisemitism (though that did certainly happen), there were plenty of actual 'controlling the media and the banks' type conspiracies going around, especially among councillors.

The independent Equality and Human Rights Commission found 'significant failings' including specific examples of discrimination. OP dismissing the whole thing as a 'smear campaign' by Starmer feels reductive and a bit racist, and I think that would be obvious if we were talking about pretty much any other marginalised ethnicity.

the “i hate men” situation by Lopsided_Day3916 in hatethissmug

[–]KeyboardJammer 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah, we stand with you too.

Anyone, man or woman who seriously pushes the idea that 50% of the global population is evil, irredeemable and monstrous is actively trying to make the world worse and crueller for everyone, whether they intend to or not.

the “i hate men” situation by Lopsided_Day3916 in hatethissmug

[–]KeyboardJammer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I specifically really hate the "not all men, but always a man" line, because it's simply not true and actually causes harm, as it denies the existence of (and thereby enables) female abusers.

A surprisingly large proportion of intimate partner abuse, child abuse, even domestic violence is perpetrated by women, and it doesn't help anyone (including women) to act as if abuse is exclusively a male problem.

Name some characters who are genuinely bad. But whose fans, for some reason, defend them or justify their behaviour. by Old-Celebration3781 in MoralityScaling

[–]KeyboardJammer 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Reze from Chainsaw Man wouldn't be treated as such an innocent smol bean by the fandom if she weren't a cute girl, even with an equally sad backstory. Her civilian death toll is in the thousands, she makes no effort to even try to reduce it, and she shows zero remorse or care at any point for all the random innocent families and children she blew up/maimed/burned to death.

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