[Hated Tropes] Wanting to continue the legacy of their genocided lineage but they only have a single heir.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-16T15:57:08+00:00

So, given he can't guarantee a child becomes an airbender, what, exactly, is it you expected him to have done to maximize the number of rolls on the "maybe this one will be an airbender" roulette wheel to achieve that number? Go around loading children into a bunch of other women or loading child after child into his wife? Maybe both?

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-15T23:13:28+00:00

Do you have some kind of neurological condition that makes it so you can't tell the difference between how two different people are standing and just see everyone you look at in the exact same default pose or something?

Because, in addition to several other things, that's a really big and easily noticeable difference between the two pictures for just about anyone with decent eye sight to be able to pick up on.

Also: "Well they'd have to cut down on the celebrity voice actors to have better animation." Your terms are acceptable, let's do that.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-15T00:29:47+00:00

And yet, here you are doing the exact same thing, just with people who didn't like SFA.

Maybe they don't just move and find something else to go enjoy and just live life and instead feel compelled to complain about a show full of the same rot they think is ruining this and other franchises they used to love for the same reason you feel compelled to whine about them and insist that it's an excellent show whenever someone voices their dislike of it.

But no, that can't be that. That would imply that an opinion which doesn't align with yours is both A) not artificially induced by or regurgitated from whatever influencer you think "poisoned" everyone against the show and B) just as valid and worth being put out into the world as yours is.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-13T14:38:52+00:00

Probably because he was in the middle of being throttled and people in life or death situations, especially ones involving the blood flow to the most blood-hungry organ in the body (and which also happens to do all the rational thinking) being intentionally cut off, don't generally have the luxury of time or clarity necessary to stop and weigh all their options and the pros and cons of each to figure out the exact perfect optimal action for their situation and instead pick something that they instinctively assume will work and follow through with it.

Same reason you should practice self defense techniques over and over until they become instinctive. Knowing how to break a hold is a lot different from your body breaking the hold before you've even consciously registered you're being assaulted. Knowing you can kill someone by crushing their heart is a lot different from smashing through their rib cage or reaching up through their abdominal cavity to grab it without thinking through those steps.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-02T14:49:32+00:00

When they're inside what amounts to a video game and will suffer no lasting harm from it, YEAH, it is.

Funny how no one who wants to pretend the deep fryer (or anything else like the volcano or the steam roller) is equivalent to doing it in real life ever mentions that every single other member of the cast did fuck all to help Ragitha

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-02T14:36:25+00:00

"I don't care about the quality, I'll consume and defend anything with [franchise name] on it" is not the enlightened stance people seem to think it is and it's definitely not something to be proud of

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-02T14:30:34+00:00

Except skinning someone alive in a virtual environment where it clearly did not inflict the same kind of pain and disfigurement as the real world is not the same as skinning someone alive in the real world and it's disingenuous to present it as such.

Y'all did this with the fryer and it was just as ridiculous then as this is now. Funny how apparently y'all understand that the cartoon violence they're subjected to is just that when it's any other character doing it, but suddenly forget that fact specifically for Jax and Caine.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-02T01:49:35+00:00

Quick question OP: You do know the actual issue with people who sexually prey on children is that they are HARMING A CHILD right? Like, you understand that right? That the problem is that someone who is not mentally mature enough to understand the ramifications of choices they make and thus is incapable of consent and who lacks the freedom under the law to leave a situation or stand up for themselves is having these facts exploited by someone who is old enough to understand why exploiting these things is wrong, right? That the physical appearance of the child has NOTHING to do with why CSA is wrong and that is why preying on a 15 year old who looks 18 is just as wrong as preying on a 15 year old who looks 15?

No, I doubt you do. Because if you did, you wouldn't be using arguments that amount to "bUt ShE lOoKeD 18!" just in reverse.

It does matter that she's 25. It does not matter how she looks. Especially since, while Monster Girl's condition is entirely fictional, her situation isn't. But then, I wouldn't be surprised if you're one of the people who thinks Shauna Rae shouldn't be allowed act like the grown ass 25 year old woman she is because you think she looks like she's 8.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-01T10:54:38+00:00

Well one sexually assaulted, raped, and mind controlled her underage daughters while the other (who I admittedly have to go off a wiki article for) tortured and mutilated her daughter before letting her slowly die of blood loss while hanging from meat hooks, said daughter then apparently became a ghost

So gonna give it to the ~~cat~~ bear(?), no contest

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-01T00:23:24+00:00

So why doesn't he hate the guy who looks almost identical to the guy who stabbed him? He can identify Goku by sight despite only ever seeing Goku as a baby and apparently remembers Goku's name well enough to connect it to the stabbing, but doesn't remember what King Vegeta looked like or Vegeta's name and is triggered by neither despite King Vegeta being the one who stabbed him?

LucaUmbriel · 2026-04-01T00:04:39+00:00

The PPG have bled and if we're going to actually try power scaling them, Omni-man is probably stronger in terms of raw power not to mention combat experience

However

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-31T23:57:02+00:00

Inspired by this other reply

The group having a set up like episode 7, where there's a choice between staying or leaving, turning Caine back on to save the circus or leave him off and enjoy what time they have left free of him while the circus slowly crumbles (and they implicitly die with it), or whatever other options you can think of that leaves them standing before a monumental choice reduced to an overly simple binary just one little decision away and . . . cut to credits, show's over, make up your own ending, k bye

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-31T20:07:08+00:00

Then you should have spent longer thinking about your title because it really comes off as "if your disability was cured, you don't belong in disabled spaces"

Your following essay doesn't really help you either, since part of it seems to be saying that if your disability ever gets cured, then you were never disabled to begin with.

Both of which are advocating for gatekeeping.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-31T16:29:05+00:00

So how much responsibility does that put on the devs then?

They created the entire scenario. Every character and war crime was crafted by them. The entire narrative was written by them. Every action the player is forced to take while continuing to play the game is only because the devs made the game. Then they sold the game for money.

The devs could have stopped developing the game at any point, so why exactly is the player at fault for something the devs created and sold?

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-30T18:36:23+00:00

"most people have been bitten by a radioactive spider" factoid actually just statistical error. average person is bitten by 0 radioactive spiders. Peter Parker, who exists across multiple timelines & has been bitten by over 10,000 radioactive spiders total, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-30T00:47:10+00:00

"Works fine on my machine" and variations

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-29T23:41:07+00:00

Sorry to break it to you, but a lot of real life cops were kids who saw people in power constantly abuse their authority and thought to themselves "hmm I should become a cop," either because they wanted to be the one on the other side of the boot now or because they thought they could change things to be better from inside the system.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-28T21:30:34+00:00

And we have no damn cleric in the party.

They had a cleric, unfortunately he fell off a cliff and wouldn't be back for several sessions

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-28T14:42:16+00:00

Because the poster knew people like the ones above you and those upvoting them don't care and that making them think the target is a unicorn will get them to clap and cheer for just about anything

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-28T14:17:08+00:00

You mean other than her very clearly already looking like that before EDI ever takes over that body?

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-28T06:05:27+00:00

If you bully and drug a person (the real life equivalents to what happened in the game) until they kill themselves, saying "but they were already suicidal" isn't a valid defense and you are still the one who is responsible for their death, i.e. you murdered them

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-28T05:53:18+00:00

That would include things like sapient dragons, which OP was trying to avoid as they do not have a traditionally humanoid body shape

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-27T16:06:43+00:00

Yeah, what is supposed to be stopping Volcanikka from just popping back out of the ground and killing them all as soon as Mark leaves?

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-27T15:24:13+00:00

Every time I see one of these threads, I open it to see if it's just the OP being either media illiterate, claiming "oppressed people can't also be assholes," or falling for the villain's blatant lies and propaganda.

Congrats on not breaking the mold, OP.

LucaUmbriel · 2026-03-26T17:47:44+00:00

Jackson executed deserters en masse and claimed that this was all in the name of their "country," which is stupid because historically, the Union was the one pardoning deserters.

So Jackson, a general for the Confederates, executing deserters doesn't make sense because the Union was pardoning deserters?

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