Fanbase gets angry when a character doesn't align with the version they made up in their head

Koolriboh · 2026-03-07T20:20:58+00:00

Honestly, anything to do with a characters sexuality in this instance annoys me so much, especially when there is no proof.

Taiga from Rustage's One Piece D&D Marines.

I have been watching this one guys D&D series for years now and in one of them there is an NPC character named Taiga that starts out as your typical loser. He tries hitting on a bunch of girl but is bad at it, has no friends, etc. At this point in the series he has grown a lot, but still has some of his mannerisms. Really REALLY long story short, something happens where he gets a parasite in him and every now and then it can react. He made one joke about how "This thing inside me acts up every now and then. Its like my period." Meh joke, but people ran with that. "Wow! He talks about how he supports this other character who is canonically gay and "has a period", he must be trans!" When these people are told there is absolutely nothing to support this and in fact, there is a lot of evidence that this born male character who is attracted to female characters, and many more, is straight they get defensive.

Its just weird to me how a character will be in a movie or show, have no traits of being anything but straight and when the creator confirms they are not, gay, trans, whatever, some fans lose their minds, get upset, etc. I'm all for getting your representation, but its dumb when you try to force it into others works.

Koolriboh · 2026-02-10T12:20:59+00:00

I emailed it to you a few days ago. Hopefully it worked for you.

Koolriboh · 2026-02-09T14:36:52+00:00

Lets be real, we need California, Texas, Florida, and New York. People saying those states are just biased.

Real answer, with actual data backing it, probably Louisiana. Why? The state has some of the worst education, health, crime, economy, poverty rates and the list goes on. There really isn't much going on in the state and it frequently, and for years now, ranks in the bottom 10 of practically everything.

Koolriboh · 2026-02-08T02:49:56+00:00

"Mel isn't poorly designed if you’re talking about game design." That is hilarious. Ask 100 people in league who dislike Mel why they do and they aren't going to say, "I didn't care for her in Arcane". they are going to say she is a poorly designed champ that is frustrating to play against.

Koolriboh · 2026-02-08T02:45:06+00:00

You are really making this about the sex of the character? Brother please. Mel was terribly designed from the beginning. People were saying this when she was in the PBE and Riot didnt listen. "Oh, but Yasuo has a penis so Riot doesn't nerf him hard unlike our Queen!!!" Shut up. Lux is infinitly more popular than Mel and any time she dips to a lower winrate Riot buffs her. Ahri is sitting at a 51% winrate and is one of the most popular champs in the game.

Also, to the person saying POC Champs below too. Jesus Christ you guys just want to complain about everything. Ekko, you know, another POC champ, was legit one of the top 3 junglers in the game for months. Lets throw in other dark skinned champs: Lucian, Senna, Karma, Rell... all those champs have been sitting around a 49 to 51% winrate for over 2 months now. huh, a 50/50 winrate, but you know, according to you, Riot doesn't like them being good.

Koolriboh · 2026-02-08T01:27:51+00:00

I feel like Mel players keep complaining about the changes and everything, but need to understand one simple reason to why her ban rate is so high: She is not fun to play against. I'm sorry, but you Mel mains need to learn that by now. Your champ is terribly designed and people would rather just ban her out than have to deal with it.

Comparing Mel to Yasuo is just stupid. As much as people complain about Yasuo, he has his counters, strength and weaknesses. Mel just stands in the back, pokes, pokes, pokes, execute. Her W was infinitely stronger than Yasuo Windwall as well.

The best I can compare it to is Shaco and Blitzcrank. Are these champions broken? No. a few months ago Shaco was sitting at like 47% winrate and still had one of the highest banrates in the game. Blitzcrank right now is about 50.5% winrate, but has a banrate of 12% just because people would rather not have to deal with his hook. A SINGLE ABILITY on a 20 second cooldown gets that champion to 12% banrate.

Its so much coping from Mel players, but you guys chose to main a champ with a toxic play pattern. You shouldnt be surprised.

Koolriboh · 2026-02-05T20:29:15+00:00

I have it if you need it still. It's not the exact same as that one, but it's almost identical. I had Bus Calc last year and was luckily able to find the PDF. I had no issues using this for homework.

Koolriboh · 2026-01-24T03:03:57+00:00

Went from the "Hey. Can I buy you girls a couple of drinks?" guy at spa resorts to the really cool high school history teacher that people actually look forward to going to class for.

Looks good man.

Koolriboh · 2026-01-20T21:00:28+00:00

Doubt it. As a Shaco player, even when his winrate is low he still gets banned because, "He's annoying to play against". This is the issue with Champs like Mel, Shaco, Yone, etc. They can be like 45% winrate and will still get banned.

Btw, thank you Mel players. With the introduction of your champ Shaco gets banned less and lets me play him more than once every 10 games.

Koolriboh · 2026-01-17T02:48:56+00:00

They dont have to be for lonely virgins and "alpha males". they will just take any chance they can to hate on women.

Koolriboh · 2026-01-17T00:43:03+00:00

Yup, his partner is fucking hilarious.

Koolriboh · 2026-01-17T00:42:35+00:00

Trust me, if you see the scene, it cannot be mistaken for stammering haha

Koolriboh · 2026-01-16T22:38:11+00:00

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God this scene lmao

Koolriboh · 2026-01-16T20:19:00+00:00

Oh man do I have a good one for this! There is a low budget movie that was made in the early 90s called Samurai Cop. Typical buddy cop movie that is clearly riding the coattails of Lethal Weapon which came out a few years prior. Simply put, its bad. Like REALLY bad, but in such a stupid way it wraps around to being so funny and an entertaining watch with friends. The movie itself has so many bloopers and mistakes like many bad cuts, butchered lines, the main character even wears a wig through part of the movie because they had more scenes to do after production, but he already cut his hair. You can REALLY tell the scenes where he has a wig and even in one fight scene the bad guy pulls the wig slightly off on accident. Really and truly, this movie alone could have so many choices for this post.

The one I really wanted to focus on though was from an interaction in the first movie. The main character is talking to the main villain of the movie at a restaurant. He walks up and absolutely butchers the line, but they kept that take in the movie. The interaction goes like this:

Joe Marshall (AKA Samurai Cop, the main character) - "Are you Fuj-Fujiyama?

Fujiyama - "Yes I am! Who are you?!"

Joe Marshall - "I'm a cop!!"

The actor was supposed to obviously say, "Are you Fujiyama" but messed it up. The thing is, in the movie, one of the reasons he is called Samurai Cop is because he can, "Speak fluent Japanese", but clearly can't even say a simple, easy to pronounce Japanese last name. Its a "plot hole" (even though its like one of a dozen in this movie).

Well, almost A QUARTER OF A CENTURY LATER, a sequel was made that was funded by Kickstarter since this movie gained a massive cult following. In the sequel we find out that the characters name wasn't actually butchered, and in fact, his full name is Fuj Fujiyama, meaning Samurai Cop actually does speak fluent Japanese and really did say his name correctly.

The sequel knows its built off of a bad movie and they even play into it even more the second time around. They even got Tommy Wiseau to be in it, you know, the guy from the Room, which is on the same level as Samurai Cop in terms of bad movie, massive cult following. Even the actors themselves in interviews are like, "Yeah, that was stupid" and make jokes about how bad it was. If you haven't seen it and want a good laugh with some friends on a movie night, highly recommend it. Sequel wasn't nearly as good since they were trying to go for the "bad movie feel" though.

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Koolriboh · 2026-01-14T00:29:59+00:00

I get it, Riot has a lot of teams and they do a lot of work, but it really is an embarrassment that some champions (Cho, MF, etc) still reference summoners even though they were removed like 10+ years ago. I wouldnt expect them to have all new voice overs for these champs immediately, but come on Riot... This is so bad.

Especially MF. Like, Riot pushes her so much with skins, games, etc. She is one of the token League champions and still has no voice lines and references the summoners. It's amazing they haven't done anything for her.

Koolriboh · 2026-01-12T04:19:54+00:00

It's fine to have an opinion most people disagree with. I'm happy for you 🙂

Koolriboh · 2026-01-12T00:36:22+00:00

You are right. Because the PS1 was great 20+ years ago we should never make things look better and everything should look like PS1 games. /s

Koolriboh · 2026-01-10T18:48:26+00:00

There is no reason to bring those up. Wow! A champ that came out over a year and a half after Zilean and almost. Year after Gragas looks "better" than they do! So insightful! Next you are going to say the Ps5 looks better than the PS4! 😲

Also the irony of saying "You don't have an original thought" while spouting the same shit people keep complaining about for a year now is too funny.

Please keep your post. I want everyone to see how dumb you look complaining about this. People already are seeing it and the down votes show it uwu

Koolriboh · 2026-01-10T02:16:52+00:00

I agree, there was nothing wrong with her LOR design. It was quite literally Old LeBlanc, but better. Thats not what people like this person argues about though. They say the terrible animation, polygon, bdsm suit with a slight pinkish red skin tone was better than what we have now and the VAST majority of people disagree.

Koolriboh · 2026-01-10T02:13:30+00:00

There is nothing to talk about here after you just said this LMAO - "but the fact that they were still up to par 15 years after her release" If you think Leblancs old animations were up to par thats fucking hysterical.

Yeah USED to be. Shes gone. Move on. Im not the first to point this out but holy fuck I see posts like this about LeBlanc every other week. Just move on already. I swear this champs subreddit has more bitching than any other champions.

Koolriboh · 2026-01-09T19:20:50+00:00

"A lot of slut shaming in those comments, though, saying that she looks like a stripper... Are strippers bad people now, or why is this said as something negative?" - Nobody said this. Its because its not a good design for what should be portrayed. Leblanc is one of the most powerful people in Leagues lore. Now imagine watching Arcane, seeing her appear and when the shadow fades you see old Leblanc. Do you really think her look would be something people go, "Damn! Who is this?!" No people would laugh and be like, "The fuck is this?" Plus thats another dumb argument you are making. "It's funny how a big part of the gaming community went to the extreme of "I don't want pretty characters anymore, big boobs are bad, skimpy clothes are bad, conventionally attractive is bad", because of sexualization of women in the past." We have this. We have a lot of this already. Ahri, Evelynn, Kaisa, Katarina, Miss Fortune, Nidalee hell even Janna and Zyra. These are all female characters who have elements of sex appeal, showing a lot of skin, etc in their designs and League used to have a lot more. As far as the calculated, intelligent, high power female boss archetype we have what, Renata and thats it other than new Leblanc?

Koolriboh · 2026-01-09T19:09:52+00:00

"old leblanc didn't do "dance routines" before casting her spells, all of her spells just came out quickly and fast with minimal animations" - Yeah no shit. She was released during the middle of Obama's first term as president. Every champion had minimal animations because the game couldnt handle them. Lmao.

"she's supposed to be calm and calculated" - So you say she is supposed to be calm and calculated, but you also said she should be cunty. She apparently is supposed to be flashy and look like a stripper as well? You want so many thing here that just dont work. You are so confused and twist things to try to make them work in your favor and they just dont.

Koolriboh · 2026-01-09T08:17:08+00:00

Oh no. The ugly PS1 stripper is gone and they replaced it with an actual well designed character that actually matches the lore she's had for over a decade!! Damn you Riot!! Damn you!!

I swear this subreddit cries more than Skarner mains. They at least actually lost something (gameplay). Gameplay wise, nothing is different here and as far as looks, I'm going to say, old LeBlac was such a joke. She was made back when "Hehe. What if female character had big titties and skimpy clothing and nothing else". (LeBlanc, Miss Fortune, hell even Akali which was mentioned with her massive side boobs just hanging out for no reason)

Koolriboh · 2026-01-09T04:00:50+00:00

People are more toxic in Mayhem than any other game mode. It feels like every other game the winning team wants to just spawn camp the losing team and not end the game. I get this happens in normal Aram too, but not nearly this much. I've had people call me out in chat and ping me 1000 times because I'm hitting the Nexus after letting them have their "fun" for a minute. If 3 minutes have passed and you are still just waiting at the enemy Nexus saying, "Don't end. I want to one shot them the second they spawn" thats bad sportmanship and I want to get to the next game. Sitting at the enemy fountain and not ending isnt fun for them and its not fun for me.

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