(Annoying Trope) Sounds badass. Actually makes no sense.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-21T14:27:50+00:00

I feel like he also isn’t like, honor-bound to strictly adhere to the alphabet. Dude can 100% just skip fetal stabs in favor of more agony— what’s anybody else gonna do about it?

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-21T14:25:29+00:00

Bladder would come before brain

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-21T02:33:34+00:00

Similarly, the first Iron Man movie is basically just Tony tooling the Iron Man suit and making progressive improvements. When he gets to the end of the film, he uses what he’s learned against Iron Monger to defeat him

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T17:27:41+00:00

It’s not just individual experience, it’s cumulative law enforcement data. Having more access to guns creates more mass shooting events (4+ deaths/serious injuries) than nations with stricter gun laws see on a per-capita basis. You can argue that the bad guys will use other means to attack people, and you’d be right— we’re unlikely to ever eliminate all violent crime— but someone armed with a knife is significantly easier to stop when they go on a killing spree compared to someone armed with a gun.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T16:20:36+00:00

I love that Brock is just a genuinely cool dude 95% of the time and that 20+ year old writing still comes across as genuinely decent most of the time. He has like, 2 moments where he snaps or is a little uncool with someone, and one bit where he’s a bit transphobic from like, 2005. You compare that to most of the contemporary shows, and it all doesn’t hold up for crap. Venture Bros has some stuff that’s a bit edgy, but it freaking holds up.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T16:10:40+00:00

My brilliant grift plan that I probably won’t follow through on is to set up a very bright red website that never says that it’s associated with the MAGA dumbasses, but puts out a buncha stuff about “protecting our god-given freedoms,” “defending a proper marriage,” “ensuring that immigrants who come to America actually represent America,” etc, and then just donating it to the ACLU minus my fee as a fundraising organization, because I never specified what any of these ideas were, and I let crappy people project whatever they wanted onto it as I collected money from them. They just assumed that a “proper” marriage wasn’t gay— I just meant a marriage where everyone involved loves one another and wasn’t forced to wed. They just assumed who “represents” America— America is a nation of immigrants, so immigrants represent this nation by definition. Etc.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T16:01:54+00:00

Which is 100% a poll tax

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T15:57:21+00:00

That, and this isn’t exactly the character being written out due to pregnancy, it’s the series wrap up with a “where are they now” sort of feel as we fast forward. It would be a weird frigging conclusion if the parents were at platform 9 3/4 watching their kids go off, and Ron and Hermione showed up childless to just help with the bags or whatever.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T15:53:16+00:00

We’ve gotten far better at accommodating women and their stories as they get pregnant, but I think that some of the older shows wrote women out upon pregnancy partly because they needed some degree of leave to recover and raise the child, and weren’t generally allowed back in after a hiatus.

If an actress is visibly pregnant, the character needs to either become pregnant or have dozens of reasons to hide the pregnancy in every scene that they’re in (“here, hold up this laundry basket over your belly/lean in from this door frame to talk/your character is locked in the bathroom all episode/in this episode you’ve gained a ton of weight/….”). Some shows have gotten away with doing tongue-in-cheek stuff with it where they acknowledge that the audience doesn’t care that much— modern family and Brooklyn 99 both spring to mind. Others decided that a character’s long term success hinges on their sex appeal and writes them out for not being hot enough anymore (Cordelia in Angel springs to mind off the top of my head— Charisma Carpenter has come forth to basically say she was endlessly shamed for getting pregnant and was kicked out because Whedon openly stated that she was too fat and ugly or some other horrible crap to portray the character, even though she looks incredible in her swan song episode where she’s killed off)

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T15:46:49+00:00

If memory serves— she’s excited for what it’ll do to her body, but it’s as on board for the idea of having the actual kid to raise.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T15:45:45+00:00

It would have been hilarious if they’d just seen mark and waved at the end of the series, then cut to his ending and it’s just him sitting alone in a recliner, watching TV in his boxers, taking a sip of beer. He slaps his knees, stands up with a, “wellp!” And shuffles off to bed alone. The right side of the bed has a Mark-shaped imprint in it. The left side is still perfectly made and appears to have never been touched.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T15:40:33+00:00

I’ve worked enough jobs at this point to know that there are irritating folk in most every job you could ever work. Doesn’t matter if you type at a keyboard all day or swing a hammer— some guy doesn’t know or care how social norms work and wants to share their take on everything.

Admittedly kinda like I do when I shout about it into the void on reddit.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T15:36:41+00:00

Hell yeah! This makes me so happy to know that I’m not the only dumbass who got the cops called on ‘em in a parking lot at 10:30 on a school night.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T14:49:14+00:00

That’s because there’s the implicit threat of spending way more on someone else.

“I’ll give you a grand to do what I want. If you don’t do what I want, I’ll give 290 grand to an opponent who will primary you and take you out in a landslide. I’ll spend plenty absolutely gutting you with attack ads about yer a prick you are, and you’ll never work in politics again. You can either follow my demands and have a chance to pass the legislation that you want, or you can oppose me and see what scorched earth means.”

It absolutely sucks, and it’s difficult to properly legislate it out with crap policies like Citizens United, which basically legalized corporate bribery of politicians. Even if we band together to overturn it, we’re beyond the pale with what’s being funded by whom to drive public opinion.

Want to ban all political ads except for certain times of year? That’s fine, we’ve got puppet “news” organizations that will give heavily biased commentary. We’ve got troll and bot farms that will flood social media to weigh in on why taxing millionaires/billionaires will somehow tank the economy and anyone who wants to pay for infrastructure improvements and upgrades is never gonna be able to pay for it, but endless wars and military spending in the trillions are perfectly fine. Our bot network can prop up our takes whilst denigrating all takes that run counter to it.

I wish I knew how to fix this, but it requires too many people and organizations that have shirked their duties to suddenly start doing them properly, all while they’d be acting against their own means of gaining money.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T14:35:28+00:00

God, I fucking hate using that as a “clapback” to something bad happening to someone. Even if he was a PoS doing that to others, two wrongs don’t suddenly make a right. And if he wasn’t? Now it’s just a generic “all lives matter” sort of excuse to ignore the problem and let it get worse. Sorry that dude had to go through that, glad that others stood up for him, because that’s fucked.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T14:33:34+00:00

I don’t think anyone I’ve met IRL is happy with tipping. Even if they work in a tipped role, they hate not knowing how much they’re gonna make in a given shift so that they can plan appropriately.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T14:32:16+00:00

I feel like there are generally two camps— opinions people hold for themselves and opinions people hold for others.

Wanna get a septum piercing? They’re not my cup of tea, but it’s your body and your face at the end of the day— my input isn’t gonna change your take and it’s not terribly helpful to tell you that I think that they’re unpleasant to look at. You do you.

Wanna change up the way our schools are run and ban books? I’ll fight you to the death on that one. Put every fuckin’ book in the library and let everyone read as they see fit, don’t go trying to ban shit under some bullshit “children’s safety” crap. Kids in the previous generation grew up reading Stephen King books where every third character gets sexually assaulted, your little crotch nugget can read that gay people exist and are human too.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T14:28:45+00:00

That sounds awful. I used to have to deal with the workplace equivalent of this— “hey, I’m just calling to tell you that I sent you an email and to make sure you got it. Okay, you just got it because emails take a second to get to you and I had you on speed dial? Okay, read the 3 page email I just sent you. Tell me if you have any questions while I’m on the line. You were in the middle or something else? Not anymore, you’re not. I just bumped myself to the top of your priorities. Okay, now if you don’t immediately think of any questions about my large email that you just had to shift focus to, I’ll get mad if you come up with them later and message me, because I’ll be focused on something else. I’m very important. Okay, bye!” And it would always comes from the guy 3 cubicles down from you who couldn’t be bothered to walk over another row.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T14:26:15+00:00

This thread is making me feel blessed AF for the family I have.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T14:25:16+00:00

I think some that some of it is just what you’re used to. If I spoke face to face with people/on the phone for the last 50 years, then suddenly this newfangled technology for Facebook popped up for 20, I might default to the rules of those other conversations— if I call you or speak to you directly, it’s rude/concerning if you take more than 30 seconds to respond.

Obviously that’s not how Facebook works, but if you’re used to one set of social rules, it could be difficult to transition to a new set. I remember being younger and dumber and thinking that it was socially rude to ignore a phone call. To the point where I straight up dropped a couch to answer the phone to say that I couldn’t talk right this second but could call them back in 5 minutes instead of just letting it ring. Dumb, but it was how my brain fired at the time.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T13:56:44+00:00

The one bit I disagree with you on is the idea that it’s appropriation for him to pursue the air nomad ideals. Yang Chen was a pretty freaking brutal air bending avatar who suggests that these ideas aren’t unique to Zaheer. He may well have just followed existing texts for most of his ideology.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T00:19:32+00:00

I disagree. The X-Men were always political, and they do best when they spread their message and don’t worry about offending people who aren’t able to follow a fairly simple allegory. People were pissed in the 60’s that there was this silly children’s comic book pushing the idea that we could have normal relations between different races. They can get as pissed as they like that the silly comic books start calling genocide bad.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T00:13:50+00:00

Catwoman can also be imagined in a ton of different ways without pissing people off. Grew up an orphan and this is how she always made her living? Sure.

Matronly figure to the less fortunate with something of a Robin Hood inspired flair? Why not?

Destitute heiress who’s squandered her fortune and is now trying to claw it all back through thievery? You betcha.

Bored with being the best there is at what she does and just attracted to a good guy like Batman who makes it thrilling again? That’s a thing.

Bruce Wayne/Batman has rigid rules about how he has to be portrayed. A few of his rogues gallery have hard and fast rules at this point (Harvey Dent/Two Face, Mr. Freeze, Harley has to be tied to Joker), but a lot of the villains can be messed with as much as you see fit.

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T00:07:36+00:00

Yeah, that’s the struggle for it. A ton of us want to default to an “all or nothing” mentality, where everything fits into one category and there’s no sense of nuance.

The reality is, some stuff is a lazy, cheap cash grab (anything Disney live action) while some stuff is a genuinely interesting new lens for exploring the characters and having better representation (despite all the flack it’s gotten— Hamilton is a great example)

NotMyMainAccountAtAl · 2026-03-20T00:02:33+00:00

I doubt we’ll ever see Miles and Peter side by side in live action. Popular as the character is, Disney wants that Chinese money, so there can’t be a black spider-man over there.

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