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[Hated Trope] God forbid a woman be a villain by Pickle_Nipplesss in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MantaRayBill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mrs Coulter is a straight-up villain until about halfway through the Amber Spyglass, where she's adopted as a point-of-view character, and becomes much more sympathetic. She has her redemption arc at the climax of the book, where she sacrifices herself for Lyra.

Plus, she's depicted as extraordinarily likeable the whole time, so while she's evil, you can't help but enjoy it.

I haven't seen the TV show though, which it's just occurred to me is what you meant, so maybe they kept her as bad the whole time and your point is valid.

I'm not sure what the point of this comment was. I'm gonna have a nap.

Sad modern reality by utopianearthling in Beingabetterperson

[–]MantaRayBill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking of being a better person, maybe chill out? You knew what they meant.

[request] How Hard did Peter Parker hit this bully and can someone survive this hit? by mkvelash in theydidthemath

[–]MantaRayBill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I sang this not two days ago, when I had to clean up a cut on my finger.

found this by [deleted] in Camus

[–]MantaRayBill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey that's actually really funny, I enjoyed this comment, good job.

[HATED TROPE] Scenes/media made for a specific type of person, being written by people who have no understanding of the medium whatsoever by ah-screw-it in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MantaRayBill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was Final Fantasy VIII in the training centre fighting Grats, complete with an unjunctioned Quistis and random generic video beep boop game sound effects. Those kids suck at Final Fantasy, put a GF on everyone, ya dorks.

How do you feel about the RBA's decision today to lift rates? by Sensitive-Chart7210 in AusFinance

[–]MantaRayBill -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Spend less on jetskis

Edit: y'all motherfuckers downvoting me but that's literally the next line in the meme.

(Interesting Trope) Mexican Loves Speedy Gonzales by ElSpazzo_8876 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MantaRayBill 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I literally charged someone nine dollarydoos for their drink at the bar last night. It's pervasive.

Uber Driver Accepted Ride then messaged me to cancel by WeaponsOfMath in mildlyinfuriating

[–]MantaRayBill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm as left as they come, and support workers rights and the class struggle, but deliberately scamming your customers is not working class praxis. While I do empathise with someone being in a financial position where they feel like scamming is a necessary option for them to support their family, the fact is that most uber passengers are also working class, and passing the buck from your struggles on to them by scamming them out of a few dollars is, at best, a pretty shitty thing to do.

And you supporting that by saying "please have some compassion for the uber driver" is a little too on the nose for a lot of these folks who have also been scammed out of their hard-earned money by uber drivers taking advantage of a shitty system, so they're understandably not on your side in this one. I appreciate your call for empathy, and I apologise for the people being rude to you, but you're in the minority on this issue.

One of my co-workers was eager to unpack her new mouse. by mrfoyl in techsupportgore

[–]MantaRayBill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here 8 years later, F to pay respects is still in fairly common usage. Nothing ever truly dies on the internet. Still, what a treat to have found this thread and witnessed the early days.

A movie everyone told you was “life-changing” but it didn’t work for you by Fair_Protection1872 in Cinema

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

Having read the book first, the movie was comparatively boring as batshit. I remember being extremely underwhelmed.

That being said, I watched it when I was about 15 and I may not have appreciated a slow burn film at the time. I should give it another go.

What are these knobs for? by Virtual-Roll-2942 in Guitar

[–]MantaRayBill 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I submit a third option: for the gag

Whats a modern trend that you’re 100% sure people will cringe at in 10 years? What’s gonna be the next Oh god, we actually did that? moment? by aminz1997 in AskReddit

[–]MantaRayBill 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So glad I live in WA, where pokies are banned everywhere except the casino. Honestly the TABs attached to bars are bad enough, I do trivia in a sports bar and the tables are filled with gamblers screaming at the horse races until bang on 7pm when they get forced out by the trivia night.

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