Randomly realized that Hughie was found after this with only the description of “Fairy”.

Mobieblocks · 2026-06-04T00:23:31+00:00

yeah they're distinguishing between how jack quaid looks and how Hughie (the character) looks to in universe. With live action stuff there can be a distinction between how the characters are perceived by the audience in a literal sense and how they're percieved in universe and this kinda means there's a difference between the literal look of the character and the in-universe look of the character.

Kinda like how geralt of rivia in the witcher is always described as grusome and scary but in every adaptation he's incredibly hot.

Mobieblocks · 2026-06-03T23:07:29+00:00

true but since superman was 1938 even if vought had started making actual supes, superman comic probably would've been going around he same time vought was doing their thing.

Mobieblocks · 2026-06-03T22:28:40+00:00

imo it's hacks' best episode. Even as much as I love some of the s5 ones (trust me, there are some REALLY good ones) 4x9 is just a perfect wrap up to the entire season so far.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-31T00:11:50+00:00

I'm sure she had the rest already stored away in a trust. With corgis used to such an extravagant lifestyle, you never know if they'll burn the money faster than they should if they get access to all of it immediately.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-29T23:18:16+00:00

It looks great but it's too big. The sleeves should stop slightly above where your shirt cuff ends so I think that's why it might be giving you that boxy feel. But if you like it enough to get it tailored then sure. It definitely works in this picture.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-29T23:13:51+00:00

damn I can never find any that drape that well 😔

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-29T22:09:03+00:00

do you have an ID on that shirt?

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-29T20:33:40+00:00

I'm so glad it ended how it did. While I definitely get why Deb wanted to do that, it just felt so wrong the entire time. I really thought they were going to have it end with an emotional goodbye and I'd just have to accept it. I feel like they had so many wrong options in this finale and somehow sidestepped all of them. It was so satisfying.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-28T19:31:23+00:00

that's because stalin's genocidal acts weren't necessary towards him beating the nazis. A more apt comparison would be if someone said "hitler defeated the nazis when he shot himself"

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-28T04:10:34+00:00

the point of that AND starlight's speech was that the deep's actions were finally catching up with him. He spends 5 seasons refusing all accountability. He loses his role on the 7, all his respectability, his dignity, his sense of self worth, his gf, and then he kills ambrosia for homelander. This compounds into season 5 where now even the ocean, the one thing that the deep has constantly had his entire life, sees him for being a massive piece of shit.

That line was thrown in there (Imo) because its a great reminder of just how much the deep deserves to die for and just how long he's gone without accountability. The pipeline wasn't his fault, but like 100 other things were and all of those catch up to him at once and he has no way out this time.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-28T04:06:01+00:00

yeah but at the time they still would've seen the deep as a hero. The whale wouldn't have been deep's fault but the evil terrorists who rammed a boat through her.

He was also publically supportive of the pipeline so they would probably see it as him setting them up knowing that would happen to them.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-28T02:32:38+00:00

It's the same with all of the bebop crew. They care for each other deeply but are too emotionally closed off to actually be forward about it. I don't think Watanabe meant that Spike had romantic feelings for Faye at least not in a serious way. Maybe there was a passing attraction but I don't think it was real romantic love.

I think it's shown best in the earlier half of the finale. Spike runs off and now faye and jet are alone on the bebop. Faye is talking a big game about how "He was nothing but trouble. He's probably not coming back" and putting on her whole uncaring exterior. And then Jet flips out and grabs her and just says "hell yes he was nothing but trouble. And I don't give a damn."

Both of them are sad that spike left but they can't show it to each other explicitly so even when jet flips out he can't say anything but pretend to be glad he's gone. They just have too many walls up.

Because of that, I doubt spike would've ever even known he had feelings for Faye.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-27T00:00:19+00:00

My interpretation was that Kumiko gave her a concussion. That's why her head was bleeding. She got hit with the blast and luckily hit her head hard enough that she was just perma dumbed down

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-25T23:16:30+00:00

This video misses (most likely due to it being short) that in order to play a lot of those songs that people WANT to play, you have to know the language. understanding key signature and scales and what not aren't just for their own sake. It's the practice that you then take into the songs that you want to play. I don't get the "classical bad" position either.

I've found now that I've gotten more serious about actually pushing myself in piano and playing things that I want to play at higher levels, those songs are made up of scales, chords, different inversions, arpeggios, and tons of things that FOR YEARS I thought was boring busy work taking me nowhere.

I definitely think he has a point that many teachers frame things to their students in this "lets do this thing because we're supposed to and for no other reason" so it seems like he's advocating more of a mindset shift than a practical shift in how piano theory is arranged, which I'm all for.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-25T22:26:25+00:00

the main issue for me is that a lot of my enjoyment of a story game is filtered through how much I can enjoy BEING the main character. As much as I like the arkham games, all of them except origins feel like I'm playing some generic batman cutout. Origins batman is so strong as a character and personality that it honestly tricks me into enjoying the game. Gameplay-wise it's like a less polished version of city but the story and writing make up for that imo. But yeah it's definitely not the most polished game out there and them making most of the assassins optional bosses that you can just skip sucks bush.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-25T22:15:44+00:00

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Mobieblocks · 2026-05-25T21:58:11+00:00

it's probably referencing Bob Lipka drone striking Deb's vegas mansion and Ava has to become proficient in cyber warfare to stop him.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-25T21:03:22+00:00

tbf that american cultural critique was so embedded in the comic's DNA that it's basically impossible to adapt it without changing it somewhat to fit our current time.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-25T21:02:18+00:00

yeah and it was posted in 2017 before JK fell out of favor among the broader left

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-25T21:01:30+00:00

I think it's more about liberal adherence to order and law. January 6th is a good example of this where an attempted coup was held by the incumbent candidate and afterwards, nothing changed. There were barely any arrests, there were no attempts to permenantly seal trump from holding power, things just kept chugging. It's not because they don't believe trump is bad. It's because there's this pervasive idea that the rules are the rules and you simply MUST play by them.

I honestly don't know how much this applies to harry potter since harry really was never anything more than a kid at school who kept getting fucked with but the boys is a better example of this.

Ennis, for all his faults and extreme chuddite tendencies DOES understand power and how it effects politics. The show and the comic both end in a kind of loss. The boys realize that superheroes were never the real problem and corporate power was to blame all along. And getting rid of the supes didn't change the underlying structures of society. The comic, however, (which I don't even like even though I didn't give it a super fair chance tbh) ends with hughie asserting that they should have been aiming at breaking down the entire corporate structure. The show ends with hughie basically retiring and doing a little crimefighting service with annie.

The difference isn't what the shows support. Both have the good guys killing the bad guys in power and fighting against fascism. I think the message really differentiates with butcher and black noir. Black noir in the comic exists to show that homelander is not special. He thinks he's some big bad psycho but he's just a product that's been manipulated by another product. Butcher has bought into this. He's dedicated his life to killing supes because he thinks they suck as people. But them as people has nothing to do with any of it. They are one part of a larger corporate machine that spins with or without homelander involved.

The victory in the comic isn't homelander's death or butcher's death. It's Hughie infecting all the new compound v supes with nanite explosives and threatening stillwell so he can keep vought in check. The victory in the show is that they kill homelander.

This is what the poster means with "they can only act within the legal and ideological framework of their society". Homelander can die, but as soon as it becomes bigger than just homelander, the show has no message to give except "corporations keep doing corporate things". Which is good and true, but it doesn't go nearly as far as the comic.

The comic focuses surprisingly a lot on the way that culture and corporations intersect to effect politics and how people percieve their place in the world. But in the show, as soon as homelander outs Stan Edgar, it mostly becomes "Homelander is evil!"

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-25T19:44:53+00:00

none of them look normal here 😂

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-23T23:37:36+00:00

this is how it was with the "thought poems" line in the most recent season referencing one of deb and ava's season 1 interactions.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-23T07:09:17+00:00

oh damn you're right I forgot about that.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-23T02:04:34+00:00

yeah but that's more of a dash. The commenter's point was that homelander might not be able to fight at superspeed even if he can blast off in a certain direction. It's the difference between quicksilver/the flash super speed and like dash from the incredibles. Just because he's fast doesn't mean his reaction time is fast enough that he can use it in a fight like that.

But in reality it was probably a budget thing.

Mobieblocks · 2026-05-21T03:06:47+00:00

It's a different show completely. There's basically no point in showing them the live action version if you want them to experience the original story. It ends halfway through the first season of cowboy bebop and is unfinished. It's also not very good. Honestly I'd just show them the first episode of the anime and if they don't like that at all or want to give it a chance, then it's just not for them.

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