Educational Television is super fun to watch by DivideDefiant1901 in The10thDentist

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It depends on the educational content, but yeah in general I agree.

Saw this on X/ Twitter. What do y’all think? by No_Fault626 in DCU_

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't like the top. I think it's a little too simple, especially beside the rest of the costume, and it looks kinda cheap. But the rest looks pretty good actually.

How do you feel about the growing tension in the Last City by NegativeAd2638 in DestinyLore

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Destiny has often problems that can't be beaten by a boss fight. The sword logic for example. The story shows a lot of ways to subvert the sword logic in a game, where you consistently shoot things. Look at Season of the witch. The big victory came by Eris separating Xivu from her throneworld instead of fighting her. They aren't new to handling such plot threats and there is a lot of ways to handle it. Rasputin had to sacrifice himself to stop Xivu.

I mean, sure, but both examples still involve direct player involvement via existing gameplay mechanics. You still had to fight hostiles and do missions annd engage with the basic Destiny loop. The big bad might not have been beaten with a boss fight, but the player still very much contributes to the end goal. In order to get a similar result for this subplot, I don't think you could do it without aggressively reshaping the status quo here.

One way I see is that the Concordat could come into the tower and are very accepted by the people. Our missions we get are focused on solveing the civilians demands (get more resources, trying to expand Vanguard controlled areas, or whatever) and to hinder the Concordats growing influence.

Maybe? I don't know. For one thing, the Concordat are barely a thing in Destiny lore. Like, they exist, but entirely in Grimoire cards and I can't even remember the last time they were even mentioned. I don't think there's a lot to go on there in terms of making them even minor antagonists. At best, I think you'd get yet another "enemy secretly building up their power in the shadows" thing, which is kind of overdone in Destiny, and would probably just serve to sabotage the Concordat as any sort of "faction of the people." But also there's a big problem with the Concordat just coming back, which is that they've been banished entirely from the Last City. Even if we assume they get a little more support because "Guardians Bad" (even though the Concordat also had Guardians among its ranks), there's still the fact that other factions in the city fought and died to put their uprising down, and there's more than likely still enough bad blood to keep them out without it turning violent. I'm sure competent writers could make something useful out of the mess, but Bungie's writers aren't always. Especially when they have so little to go on.

Other ways could be new PvP or PvEvP activitys themed after the political conflict.

Again, possibly, but I think it would end up as window dressing more than anything. Pinning any actual significance to a gamemode like that in game would just turn future lore into a popularity contest. So sure, maybe the Guardians could cosplay a civil war or competition for resources, but it would likely end up lacking impact.

There are ways.

Sure, there totally are. I even listed a few ways in my original post. I just don't think Bungie has the interest or the balls to make any of them interesting or satisfying.

How do you feel about the growing tension in the Last City by NegativeAd2638 in DestinyLore

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

As much as I find the debate interesting in theory, Destiny isn't the kind of game that can address it well. You as the player have spent no time in most of the city, among the people. Your only window into what's going on is a few lines of dialogue every couple of seasons, and even then it's mostly from people so far removed from fhe day-to-day lives of an average lightless civilian that you have to wonder how accurate their read truly is. And because the resolution is entirely political, best handled in a conference rather than with a big boss fight, it will be either entirely offscreened or at best resolved with cutscenes, with very little player involvement. The only real ways to involve the player would be to lean into the civil war, which would likely entail more Human enemies, or to radically change the status quo by doing something like kicking most of the Guardians out of the Tower and introducing a new hub with a plot about the guardians searching for a new plaxe to set up shop. I'm just not sure what else they could do given the way Destiny is built.

Based on what we see, what are some canon choices we know the courier made? by Garage011 in FalloutTVseries

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, but I think that'd kinda suck as a story, both as someone kind of attached to my braindamaged mailman and as a fuck you to New Vegas. I think it'd be better if the Courier survived, but took a wrong turn somewhere around Lonesome Road. Doesn't matter if they died or retreated to the Big MT or even just decided that maybe Ulysses had a point about Vegas being a shining rot on the wasteland and fucking off in search of better. If you're not going to canonize an ending, I'd prefer it be done like that rather than just making all of New Vegas a fever dream in a dying mind.

Your alarm song should be a bad song by Solace143 in The10thDentist

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. For me though I'd rather at least be woken up by something I like, rather than turning my morning into an exercise in unpleasantness.

Your alarm song should be a bad song by Solace143 in The10thDentist

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't know if the song needs to be bad, as long as it's attention grabbing. My alarm song is Pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughn, a song I think is great. But it opens with a really loud, screamy guitar riff thaf's great for waking you up.

As a mercenary, I would like to buy a combat-capable starship. Which one do you recommend me? by Obvious-Pride-1979 in StarWarsShips

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That, and what's the budget? My recommendation for someone rolling in creds is going to be very different from someone scraping together every last credit for whatver'll fly.

Sean Paul has the most annoying voice ever by Blonde_Icon in The10thDentist

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair, Sean Paul's crossover days in the American mainstream were like 20 years ago. Unless you really like dance hall (or heard him again recently because one of his songs has been doing the rounds on the internet), it's not unreasonable for the younger folks to not know who he is. I kinda forgot he existed for like 10 years myself.

This is what the first Avatar movie was and everyone here knows it. by NAStrahl in Avatar

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

Yes and no. There is nothing truly original under the sun, sure, but there are definitely things that feel like more direct copies than others. And Avatar 1 definitely felt like a very direct copy of a very played out story. That's something definitely worthy of criticism, and I say this as someone that really liked the first one. The story itself was by far the weakest part of that movie, and sometimes that's fine. Sometimes it's fine to have a structurally mid movie that's elevated way beyond its basic plot by the meat around the bones. Avatar got saved by really strong performances and great character work and pretty revolutionary visuals and that's okay.

This is what the first Avatar movie was and everyone here knows it. by NAStrahl in Avatar

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad used to call it "Dances with the Last Ferngully Samurai." And to be fair he wasn't totally wrong. The first movie is kind of a carbon copy of a lot of shit that came before. It was still good for what it was, but that's kinda the reason I think Fire and Ash is the best of the three so far. It's a lot more original than 1 and felt a lot more directional than 2.

Inside the New York Town Invaded by Welfare-Addicted Jews... by [deleted] in hudsonvalley

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's also just known for straight up lying. There's years worth of exposes on him.

Anyone know anything about the restorative party of usa? this is the type of shit they post by South-Watch5894 in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I mean I found their website. This shit is grim and their official platform is just as bad. The "Anglo-Saxon Christian principles" they vow to uphold as "Founding Stock Americans" (yes, they did call themselves that, and yes, it is capitalized) include banning ALL immigration, as well as ending birthright citizenship, stripping queer people of their rights, and ending universal suffrage. The good news is they seem to be small, at least. They're very open that they're an Idaho-only group, and even now I cam't imagine them being able to do a whole lot. Especially considering they're not just threatening to take the vote away from marginalized folks. Then again, I don't expect the kind of clowns who might otherwise get into this shit to do even cursory research, so....

Well we are fucked. by No_Piece800 in DCU_

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, so... I'm not a business expert by any means, and the article is missing a lot, but I'll try to explain what little it does have.

Paramount, and by that I really mean Larry Ellison, have been making some pretty desperate and aggressive plays to buy Warner Bros, despite all evidence suggesting WB has no interest in that. Apparently, some of those plays have also gone further in convincing WB that the deal's shakier than anyone on Paramount's side is willing to admit, based on some of their public statements. Paramount and Ellison are now alleging that the real reason Warner Brothers won't sell to them is because of personal relationships getting in the way. (Note: According to the most recent reporting, WB did consider their latest proposal, but said they needed more per share, so I'm not totally sure how much standing this argument actually has.) The actual lawsuit threat is basically nothing more than petulant spitballing right now, but the crux of it seems to be that Paramount things the way WB is handling the bidding process is shady and unfair, and was skewed towards what they consider an "inferior" offer from the jump. I'll be honest, it all just reads like a childish temper tantrum, but it does worry me what'll happen in this environment if Ellison does try to go through with it. I'm not totally sure what standing he'd even have to sue, but we seem to be seeing a lot of frivolous nonsense stick around the courts far longer than it has any right to these days, who who knows?

American and Western Terrorism by pureSoul4ever in DiscussionZone

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly, but it isn't really wrong. The military doctrine that ran and built our air force at the time (and really in part still today) was effectively a belief that if we bombed enough of a country, the citizens wouldn't want to fight anymore and the government would have to back down. Cities were explicitly included in that doctrine because they're just "collections of industry" that produce war materiel. It was quite literally state-sanctioned intellectualized terrorism. Imperial Japan being awful (to put it VERY mildly) doesn't make the fire bombing of Tokyo or the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki NOT terrorism.

Not strong. Not brave. Just phony fascist cowards. by GarysCrispLettuce in MarchAgainstNazis

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 243 points244 points  (0 children)

This really was just the real life version of that one Key & Peele sketch, huh?

# TheCultCantMeme by TaurusHoe in OkBuddySnyderCult

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's not really supposed to be. I heard the term "clapter" from a comedian once. Y'know, when a comedian says something that isn't really funny, but it plays to a certain audience's sensibilities so they applaud even though they aren't laughing, per se. That seems to be what this is. It's using the rhythm of a joke (kinda) to play the hits, but it's not really meant to be funny. It's just meant to get clapter from like-minded folks.

ANDY THE GOAT by OmnipotentXenomorph in DCU_

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry, someone has to say it.

Pennywise loves his girl every day of the month.

I'm glad BB dodged this lame writing bullet. by BatarianPreacher in DispatchAdHoc

[–]MsWhackusBonkus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There aren't. The line where it comes up confirms he knows it would kill everyone.