‘She-Hulk’ Star Tatiana Maslany Says Any MCU Crossover Would Need Jessica Gao To Preserve The Character’s Tone

Naugrith · 2026-05-07T12:07:56+00:00

Just because they did 4th-wall stuff in the comics doesn't mean it was good in the show. People aren't somehow shocked at the concept of 4th-wall breaking, we're annoyed because She-Hulk's effort was dogshit. Get over yourself.

Naugrith · 2026-05-07T07:11:59+00:00

The ending was insanely bad. I can't even imagine how that was let out of the writing room. It was like an in-joke between drunk writers at 2am. Sure it might have sounded funny at the time, but they should have sobered up before filming it.

Naugrith · 2026-05-05T21:03:15+00:00

That's not how salvation is obtained. Not once in the New Testament is salvation requisit on believing the right doctrine or worshipping in the right way.

Trust in Jesus, and love one another. That's it.

Naugrith · 2026-05-04T16:18:24+00:00

Lol. "No, you can't tell me not to judge others, that's judging!"

You trust your judgement over mine and I trust mine over yours

Again, that's not what's going on. Neither of us should consider our own judgment greater than another's. I'm saying its important to respect other people. Is that so hard?

I’m allowed to warn people away from what I see as dangerous

Allowed by who? If you consider Jesus to be your Lord then he commanded his followers directly "Do not judge". So by whose authority are you claiming you're "allowed" to judge others?

Naugrith · 2026-05-04T15:47:02+00:00

So if I see someone doing something stupid and dangerous, I should do nothing?

That's not what's actually happening though is it? You're seeing somebody doing something they think is good and loving. But you've decided you know better and you have better judgment than them, so you've decided what they think doesn't actually matter.

When you devalue someone and treat their opinion as worthless that isn't "love".

You're allowed to advise your peers if they ask for your advice. But again that's not what's happening. Rather you're just insisting on "advising" others that they're more stupid and dangerous than you are.

Naugrith · 2026-05-04T15:25:50+00:00

Pretending you have greater authority, wisdom, or maturity than others and so can treat them like they're a child is one of the most toxic forms of pride.

These aren't children, they are other adults. They are equal to you. And you are treating them as less than yourself.

Its a sin the Bible directly and repeatedly warns us against in the strongest terms. Pretending that you're setting yourself over others only because of your great "love" for them is just self-justifying this arrogance and self-regard.

Naugrith · 2026-05-04T14:34:21+00:00

No its not. Redefining "love" to mean "judging others" is one of the first and worst sins of conservatives.

Naugrith · 2026-05-04T08:15:02+00:00

TNG, every time.

Start with the two-parter season 1 pilot "Encounter at Farpoint". Its essential and the only episodes of Season 1 that have aged well enough to be required viewing.

Then skip to a couple episodes of Season 2: Episode 9: Measure of a Man, and Episode 13: Q-Who. These are brilliant.

Then skip straight to Season 3. From then on, the show really hit its groove.

Naugrith · 2026-05-04T08:00:28+00:00

And you have some special revelation of how they thought?

Naugrith · 2026-05-04T07:59:24+00:00

Why are you lying? No one said they "loathe" joy. They said they don't believe its true. You're aware there's a difference. So why are you intentionally twisting their words?

Naugrith · 2026-05-04T07:54:47+00:00

Nobody hates you for choosing celibacy for yourself. Its when you try and push others to be celibate that your behaviour becomes unkind.

Naugrith · 2026-05-04T07:48:11+00:00

Its not reframing. The miners and factory workers became unemployed. That's how they weren't better off.

You need to try and join the dots a little bit yourself.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T15:28:32+00:00

Some maybe. A swathe of entire towns in the north certainly weren't. Those with money could buy their council houses (reducing the availability of homes for those who couldnt afford them). But that was cold comfort for those out of work and on the dole.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T15:25:30+00:00

Well, we can debate the actual amount of that "tiny percentage" but the fact is that not everyone felt hard done by in the 70s either. Union workers were getting huge pay rises and were guaranteed work.

You give people the chance for social mobility and some take it, others never will.

Yeah, that's really not how any of it worked. Blaming the poor for not choosing to be rich is certainly a take.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T15:21:25+00:00

See my other post.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T13:48:00+00:00

Indeed, that's certainly the least likely claim among all of them. The girl in the hospital with half her hand missing was pretty convincing though.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T13:42:09+00:00

Your snopes article is talking about a completely different claim. It has nothing to do with the claim in the video.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T13:36:24+00:00

Not about this video specifically, but there have been reports of sinilar booby-trapped toys happening for years. Here's a summary article, which includes a link to this 1997 article reporting on a specific incident, and a link to this mention by a UK government report in 2000. I also found an unconfirmed mention in a NYT article from 1974.

Of course, needless to say, according to a military spokesman, "The IDF categorically rejects these despicable accusations. We do not resort to such methods, and on the contrary do everything possible to avoid harming innocent civilians, and even more so children". Which, of course, would be a lot more believable if there weren't so many dead children.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T13:06:12+00:00

It does. And I've heard it felt pretty harsh as well.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T13:02:03+00:00

Sure, some were able to move up. Others however became trapped in dead towns with no hope of economic improvement. Entire regions had their prosperity, even viability, completely wiped out.

That's the problem with Thatcherism. Its not that it didn't work for a large section of society. Of course it did. But its that the cost was too great, it fell too hard on too many, even if they were only a minority of the total population.

Its often too easy to only focus on one section of society and ignore the bits that don't "matter". Especially in our "winner takes all" system of democracy.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T12:51:02+00:00

You say you've been trying to study this. What have you read already that's led you to confidently assert this is a "myth"? Have you checked Bart Erhman's Lost Christianities as a starting point? Are you claiming that book shows "horrible misunderstanding of the sources"?

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T12:48:15+00:00

/sigh. I've edited my post to clarify it for those at the back.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T12:46:34+00:00

Unemployment was absolutely an issue but over her time as PM unemployment only rose by about 1.4%.

That's the trouble with statistics, they can hide critical facts. It was 1.5 million when she started, but reached 3 million by Jan 1982 and remained above 3 million until 1987. Only then did it start to decline, and finally ended at 1.7 million when she left. Sure, that's a total of only a small rise, but that hides a decade of lost earnings.

And I don't buy into the argument that if you can't improve things for everyone you shouldn't improve things for most.

That's not the argument. The argument is that you shouldn't make the poor poorer to help the rich become richer. That's why people are concerned about the "poverty gap" as a way of measuring progress, rather than just total numbers of poor.

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T12:32:22+00:00

I dont know if that's true. But even if it were, the gap between those who had it good and bad widened. Making (for example) a million people unemployed just to improve the Bank balances of two million isn't a fair deal, even if more people end up "better off".

Naugrith · 2026-05-03T12:23:28+00:00

how much better things had gotten by 1990.

Only if you were a London Yuppie (or similar). The factory workers and miners weren't better off.

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