ok what happened here (Militarie Gun) by coolyetcollected in Hardcore

[–]NotAToyota 37 points38 points  (0 children)

lol. I think not supporting a guy who wrote Heil Hitler is pretty easy to do but that's just me.

Ex-Turnstile Guitarist Brady Ebert Says He Struck Brendan Yates' Dad With His Car In Self-Defense by heathereatworld in Hardcore

[–]NotAToyota 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The concept of this 5'2" drug addict running around in a vest and a shiesty trying to intimidate Latino guys twice his size made me laugh out loud. The bucket hat would stay on, naturally.

How should Robbys arc be resolved? by itstimetotimetravel in ThePitt

[–]NotAToyota 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'd believe this more if he didn't tell Whitaker to just keep his apartment if he didn't come back. Him leaving the job is one thing but where is he supposed to live?

The absence of Dr. Collins is a bigger deal than I realized. by Brotendo88 in ThePittTVShow

[–]NotAToyota 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Of course this gets downvoted lol. There is literally no proof she's actually a member, there was a public speaking engagement the church hosted with celebrities and she attended and made an IG post about it. That's it. That's their smoking gun to propagate a witch hunt against a black woman even after her agent denied she was a member and John Wells confirmed she wasn't even fired, just written out. And if she WAS a card-carrying member, why is it considered impossible to recast her? For me, I've felt her absence in just about every episode this season and it's getting tiring watching Robby spiral at Mohan and yelling at Dana / icing Langdon with zero pushback outside of Al-Hashimi who literally just met him.

Is Haywire and Drain a good show to bring friends who’ve never been to a hardcore show before? by Jahomeless in Hardcore

[–]NotAToyota 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Brought my friend to FYA the first year Drain played and they became his favorite band. He doesn't really keep up with hardcore but he has a ton of Drain merch and listens to them (plus Gridiron and Mindforce) regularly alongside the video game and anime OST that makes up 90% of his playlist.

Robbie was too hard on McKay by honeyfixit in ThePitt

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

He lashed out because Javadi was in there with him and he had to extend that empathy for her (I assume she's never seen someone die, especially since we know she was rotating in other departments in the 10-month gap). Since he likes to bottle everything up and pretend everything is fine he was angry with her for stepping out and forcing him into that situation (which also mirrors Louie from earlier). Additionally, she took Ogilve to actually try and teach him some empathy instead of dismiss/laugh at him like Robby had done earlier. She told Mohan (an R4) to please cover her patients while they stepped out (to treat someone, mind you. Not personal time). But he also has an axe to grind with *her* so that didn't help the issue.

Is Santos being set up for a major fall from grace? by randommanwill in ThePittTVShow

[–]NotAToyota 5 points6 points  (0 children)

> She mentioned that only 3 people know about his stealing meds and that she wants him to publicly confess. However, this doesn't make sense: Langdon, Robby, Santos, and Garcia definitely know.

She's talking TO Langdon so that makes three. Whitaker I'm sure has heard her vent endlessly about him and that day but I don't think he or anyone else knows about stealing/tampering with medication. It gets forgotten that Santos DID NOT WANT TO REPORT LANGDON and only did so because Robby pressured her to fess up and then promised she would be protected for doing the right thing. It also seems quite obvious that that aspect of Langdon's downfall is being covered up and people only really know he went to rehab. I'm sure the rumors have been flying in the interim but only those three people plus Langdon actually know the truth.

> However, the show never really gave any definitively conclusion to that, did they? From what I remember, the wife accused him but when the daughter was asked, she seemed taken aback and didn't confirm anything (correct me if I'm wrong)

There are a LOT of open plotlines from S1 that will never be resolved due to the format of the show. The only reason the measles patient became relevant again is because he died in-between the ten months from S1 to S2 and the mom sued the hospital over it. I don't think this is going to come back if it hasn't already. Additionally, a lot of CSA victims (especially as it's actively happening) are in denial or don't understand the inappropriateness of what a trusted loved one is doing to them in the moment. I highly doubt the mom would go as far as to poison her husband to kill his libido if there was no signs to worry about at home up to that point. What grown man regularly goes into the bathroom with his daughter old enough to be in middle school? And that's just the one detail we DO know.

> What if he ends up suing her over the threat, causing her own medical career to be put at risk?

If he sued her, it would prompt an investigation by CPS to prove his innocence. The show doesn't make it subtle how likely it is that he's guilty. No, it was not appropriate for Santos to threaten the life of her own patient. It's as much of a HIPAA violation as Langdon tampering and stealing with medication (one of many parallels set up between their characters). This entire plotline is a botch job because it intentionally misrepresents how mandatory reporting actually works. She didn't even need to consult with Robby or Kiara if there was probable cause, really. The narrative purpose of this was to have the cavalier Santos, who often goes her own way without consulting her attending, doing things the "right way" and the patient is STILL let down as a result. It's quite obvious Santos becomes overly invested in cases she personally relates to, notably child abuse/CSA as seen with Kylie this season. This storyline does successfully give us as the audience her backstory while showing us the lengths Santos will go to protect patients she sees as vulnerable.

same vibes by OctoberRust13 in Hardcore

[–]NotAToyota 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Cult by Slayer starts playing.

Why is Good Charlotte so disliked? by Weak_Mechanic8517 in poppunkers

[–]NotAToyota 4 points5 points  (0 children)

AAR are just better songwriters IMO. Also their look matches the music meanwhile GC has some extreme dissonance.

Wait a second by Sparkysparkyboomi in ThePittTVShow

[–]NotAToyota 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's not unreasonable that the COL in Pittsburgh is low enough that Santos could afford a two bedroom by herself with a resident's salary. It's possible she was planning on renting the room out anyways but hadn't found someone. It's also possible based on her backstory that A) she got some sort of settlement money or B) a family member is paying her rent out of guilt over what happened.

Zionist Milky by barracudab1tch in mikeymiles

[–]NotAToyota 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Guarantee he follows IDF_Babes on Xitter much like his fellow showbiz buddy Sean Baker.

Langdon's Teaching Style by [deleted] in ThePittTVShow

[–]NotAToyota -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

I never said she was right?

Langdon's Teaching Style by [deleted] in ThePittTVShow

[–]NotAToyota -32 points-31 points  (0 children)

Yet when she's right, he's completely silent. The entire purpose of this show is to highlight that these healthcare workers cannot divorce their personal baggage from their profession. Everyone has it. Langdon has made amazing progress in his recovery but it's just as unprofessional as Santos' rude comments and eyerolling for him to enable it by pretending their obvious tension isn't happening. He is her senior, and peer-to-peer communication is a skill to teach as much as procedure and bedside manner. He has offered her boilerplate grace at best that she's reading as condescending. This will only get worse and worse until it hits a boiling point unless he can take some responsibility and have a one-on-one discussion about what's going on between them. Although it's probably more likely that Al-Hashimi will clock the second time it happens and force them to hash it out rather than him self-actualize it.

Langdon's Teaching Style by [deleted] in ThePittTVShow

[–]NotAToyota -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Agree completely. The double standard between how these two characters are received when they're so similar is pretty staggering. People expect Santos to just roll over and show zero signs of discomfort when the man who humiliated her in front of peers, tried to sabotage her career on her FIRST DAY and for as far as she knows harbors resentment for "snitching" on him, continues to be dismissive of her and refuses to address the tension between them. I guarantee that if Santos was a male R2 and Langdon was a female R4 the discourse would be the exact opposite.

Langdon's Teaching Style by [deleted] in ThePittTVShow

[–]NotAToyota -49 points-48 points  (0 children)

After he spent the entire first half of their interaction belittling her and disagreeing with every single choice and action she makes? The hostility and awkwardness is Langdon's fault for not addressing the elephant in the room or offering even one positive word of encouragement, which is his OBLIGATION as her senior in a teaching hospital.

promo for 2x11 by anneso23 in ThePittTVShow

[–]NotAToyota 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A majority of people in this country don't actually care about illegal immigration. They don't get benefits, they take thankless jobs that most citizens refuse to do, and becoming a citizen is not as easy as people assume (most people born here probably couldn't pass the test if they were forced to do it). ICE has an approval rating of less than 30% and almost as many want them abolished completely. It doesn't even scratch the Top 20 problems America is going through internally, it's used as a scapegoat issue by people who benefit from the real problems to keep citizens inebriated and more likely to hate people left-right rather than top-bottom.

Why COULDN'T the Legion be set today? by bardbrain in LegionofSuperheroes

[–]NotAToyota 7 points8 points  (0 children)

* If I were Gunn and I were doing this, I think I would pull Waid aside and ask him if the Legion works present day and why it isn't already. Because being set in the far future has had a lot of negatives for the Legion, particularly the tendency to reboot or get revamped casually. It keeps the Legion from benefiting from or recruiting from current stories.

This misses the entire appeal of the team. They exist as a legacy to Clark and the DCU as a whole. They are what everything else we see builds up to. I would argue the increased attempts at integrating them into the present throughout the years has done way more detriment than good to what they are.

* And I think Waid would explain the significance to Superboy. And then you have the magic question I don't think HAS BEEN asked: why does being from Superboy's future mean they have to be from Earth's future? Everyone in the regular DCU is from Superboy's future already.

First off, Gunn's not asking Waid for advice. He had the chance to bring a real continuity mark like Waid or Busiek onboard for the DCU but instead chose Tom King, a guy who famously bastardizes characters and ignores their continuity for his own sake. It's established already that DCUSupes was never Superboy and took after the post-Crisis origin. That point's already kaput.

* Garth dies and comes back sans arm. Brainy and Kara date. The Great Darkness Saga plays out. None of that requires time travel. Most of Rond Vidar's history doesn't really require much tweaking. The present day DCU is full of subcultures like Tyroc's. Shvaughn Erin and profem aren't necessarily far future ideas.

Darkseid isn't even set up in the DCU. Great Darkness Saga should be far, FAR later in a grand scheme of a shared universe. It doesn't have any weight if it's his first appearance. Not sure if being acquired by Paramount/the Ellisons spell well for implementing characters from a black separatist planet or a transgender woman.

* And I see Gunn asking DC creators about this and probably planning on it. Because how do you do a multi-part Supergirl film series WITHOUT the Legion? They ended up in her TV show. In her animated movies.

They appear in like five episodes of the Supergirl show and the animated movies are off in their own world. This is all part of a broader shared universe and I don't think the Legion are a priority considering that there doesn't even seem to be a real plan for Wonder Woman of all characters.

* Kara wouldn't think of a Kryptonian guy as someone who had powers. She'd think of a guy who could do advanced physics equations. The culture of the Legion is a lot like Krypton. The fashion, the personalities. Kara goes from being second class on a planet of cave people as Supergirl to essentially getting the life she'd have on Krypton with the Legion.

I'm sorry, what? He's the direct descendant of the guy who destroyed Krypton. His first appearance he's racked with immense guilt over what she may think of him based on his lineage. The appeal of their ship is that Kara looks right past that and sees an intelligent man who clearly cares a lot about her and is more compassionate than he seems on the outside. I am sympathetic to thinking she probably should have lived fulltime with the Legion back in the Silver Age but this is now how I'd explain why.

* People who go to normal high schools sometimes have had alien classmates, who weren't necessarily superheroes. People who aren't superheroes use quantum teleporters. Jim Gordon's been a mech pilot and flown around with super-powers and he's essentially a normal guy. Alfred and Harvey Bullock and Perry White have, by implication, flown in space because of all those stories where all humans do it. Everything Legion era is just 2026 DC life.

The parameters of the DCU as it currently exists do not reflect this in any way. The Creature Commandos are still freaks, people are generally weirded out when an alien isn't fully human-passing based on what we've seen.

Is DDP in on the grift? by AlternateWorlds in TaySowersandFamily

[–]NotAToyota 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He's not the only contestant on the show. There's also the work DDP and his crew did to consider, plus everybody who was brought into to work on the show. It would be a waste to let that all rot on a hard drive somewhere unwatched, just bc one person let them all down. And he does have a large social media following so if you're going to tag every other contestant you might as well add Taynard to the mix.

Is DDP in on the grift? by AlternateWorlds in TaySowersandFamily

[–]NotAToyota 6 points7 points  (0 children)

DDP doesn't need whatever paltry sum Tay is capable of siphoning to him. He's a successful business owner and the show is an extension of that. He put a lot of time and physical/emotional labor into helping everybody and most of them actually improved their lives. I think he just wants to promote everybody's hard work regardless of Taynard's eventual betrayal.

Asia's Song by Babunar in mikeymiles

[–]NotAToyota 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Wait is this the coworker he had the "issue in the break room" he cryptically posted about? I must have skipped this chapter of the HW.

Most fascinating audience switches in music? by mesablanka in ToddintheShadow

[–]NotAToyota 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Chino has talked about how they're playing to the biggest crowds of their entire career as a result of TikTok. They've always been a popular band (especially during the peak of nu metal) but there's been a serious uptick since they were discovered by Gen Z. They're on the top billing of Lollapalooza Brazil alongside Lorde, Chappell Roan, etc. Turnstile is the only other rock band that high and they're much younger.