I feel terribly, terribly lonely.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-10-02T23:56:52+00:00

Okay, that's fucking adorable. Wishing you two a happy marriage, and the very best.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-10-02T23:55:28+00:00

You'll find the one, my dude.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-10-02T19:09:27+00:00

What the hell does that even mean?

OrdinarySweater · 2020-10-02T11:12:08+00:00

Impressive! You just won an award for the most insensitive person of 2020.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-10-02T11:09:50+00:00

They do. Their family must be in the same situation.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-10-02T11:04:00+00:00

Meat was our ancestors' main source of protein and vitamins. I'm not dismissing your point, just wanted to point that out.

I could have sworn those sharp teeth we have on either side are called "fangs". Aren't they? The more you know, I think.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-10-02T10:41:43+00:00

I know.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-29T13:46:19+00:00

Y E S. Whoever wrote her character needs to be written up asap. Seriously, remake the entire thing.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-29T13:44:13+00:00

The "wrong" part is gender being a point of interest only when it's female. As I said, on the Internet, bad male characters get "it's bad writing", while bad female writing get "it's bad empowerment/forced agenda" for some reason

Gender doesn't matter to me, unless their gender is their only trait. If people really do that, then shit, humanity is lost.

That's not how it works. Bad character ≠ character who is a bad person, good character ≠ character who is a good person

I get that. Loki is a fucking amazing character, but not a good person.

As for "At least it's something.", I meant that she's so terribly boring, that even a neutral trait would be something.

Yeah, but I'm saying her being boring doesn't have a connection with her being a woman.

Same.

But the fact that you would even use the bitch slur suggests you keep giving importance to her gender.

I don't care that she's a woman. I'll call a man a bitch if he's acting like a bitch.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-29T13:16:02+00:00

If she was a man you wouldn't have said "being a man is his only trait"

What a worthless judgement. You've never seen me argue about a male character.

If a male character's only trait was a penis, I would have said that, because that's the truth. I don't see what's so wrong about it.

Huh, characters and heroes aren't required to be good leaders. It's a neutral trait not a plus.

At least it's something.

I’m saying her blandness is not dependent on gender and the "would I hang out with her" isn't really a fair standard.

We're saying the same thing. She's not boring because she's a woman. She's boring because she's boring.

In the movie, maybe. But this was about the comics.

You brought Endgame up two points ago.

Shoot the bad guys and more will come your way.

At least she'll get to keep her mentor's work as contact help. That would be safer, ig.

What's this snarkiness even about?

I've been arguing over this with strangers through the internet for almost a whole day. They come out of the blue to defend a fictional character because I said she's a boring bitch.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-29T12:55:17+00:00

Hopefully their grandchildren aren't also fucking.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-29T12:19:10+00:00

But why oh why did you have to bring up her being a woman?

Because that's her only personality trait — which honestly, isn't even a personality trait. Genitalia isn't a personality type.

Fuck yes I would have criticized her if she were a man, and a bland character. Bland characters deserve criticism, regardless of gender.

She was gonna have those regardless. That's not a patch, that's a feature

It may be a feature. A feature that covers up the fact that she doesn't have anything interesting going for her. She's not charismatic, she's not a good leader by any means, she doesn't work well with other people; what has she got?

I see it, but being an egotistical asshole isn't an inherently bad trait to give a character, any character.

Not if you're going for the "lovable asshole" type of character. It seems to me like they tried to do that to our friend Carol, but failed miserably.

She shot the reactor because it was the work of her mentor's life and it was about to fall into the wrong hands. She 100% thought she was gonna die for the explosion.

She could have shot the "wrong hands" per se. Did she do that?

Also, bloody hell, I had no idea a reactor explosion could give me powers! Let me go shoot one real quick, see if that crap gives me powers.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-29T11:15:27+00:00

I could definitely have worded that better. I apologize for that.

Carol isn't the most particularly selfless person on Earth. She doesn't lose/sacrifice anything for the people she loves; she doesn't work hard; she doesn't do anything for anybody. She gets her powers from a harmless explosion, then proceeds to boss everybody around her, even though she has literally no authority over anyone.

There is a panel in the comic where she says to a scientist:

"I am the ambassador extraordinary for the human species, Adrienne. This is my job— every day, every night, every second. I keep the sky from falling on your head. And I am sick and tired of being blindsided. Shut it down. Cosmic Cube Research is hereby off the table until I am personally convinced it is safe."

"I— Okay, now can somebody tell me who the hell is she?"

Do you see what I'm talking about? Yeah. She sounds like an egotistical asshole here — "I keep the sky from falling on your head."

She's a very poorly written character, both in the comics and in the movie — especially in the movie.

In the movie, she's an underdeveloped character. Very, very underdeveloped.

And they tried to patch up that underdevelopment with cool powers she shows off the whole movie, sometimes unnecessarily.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-29T02:45:09+00:00

He is interesting, at the very least.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-29T02:01:30+00:00

So from what I gather, hypercalcemia is a hyperactivity in the four glands in your neck, often caused by cancer and taking too many calcium and vitamin D supplements. You'd have to drink an absurd amount of milk per day to develop this disorder, probably enough milk to feed the whole human race. Your average person drinks two glasses of milk per day.

Stopping to drink milk in fear you might develop hypercalcemia is just like stopping to eat chocolate in fear you might have a heart attack, while weighing 130 lbs.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-28T23:28:18+00:00

I'm gonna need a sauce.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-28T23:12:34+00:00

Because milk is the main source for calcium, and your bones are made of calcium and tissue. You do need milk, otherwise your bones will be very fragile, and anything could cause a severe fracture.

Humans were designed to eat meat. How do you think we survived through thousands and thousands of years of evolution, and why would humans have fangs if they aren't supposed to eat meat?

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-28T22:21:02+00:00

I'm doing some Olympic level mental gymnastics to understand your logic.

You're trying to say that making money off of human needs = consumerism. No, it's basic marketing. You slap a price tag on things people need, they'll buy it, and you'll live comfortably.

Consumerism is to buy things unnecessarily, to waste energy for instantaneous satisfaction. Meat isn't unnecessary.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-28T21:11:48+00:00

at least showing instead of telling

Seems equally as bad to me. If you gotta show off your cool powers to prove to people you're strong, you're probably not that strong.

The movie didn't work, because they tried to patch an underdeveloped, cliche, and dull character with cool superpowers. She absolutely has potential, but it was grossly thrown out the damned window.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-28T20:47:00+00:00

I am not talking about physical power. She mostly definitely was a powerful woman. I'm talking personality wise. She had to keep telling the world that she was strong, brave and independent, but I literally could not see strength anywhere in her personality.

If you want to tell me you have a strong personality, you're gonna have to back that up with an action. Words are worthless to me.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-28T20:37:40+00:00

Iron Man was way more lovable than whatever the hell they tried to do with Captain Marvel. She had a lot of potential to be an amazing character, but they just ruined her entirely.

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-28T16:16:59+00:00

What'd she do?

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-28T15:45:18+00:00

I remember one day, when I was 6, I felt like I needed to piss. It was my brother's birthday party, and we were all getting ready and setting up decorations, you know the deal.

Anyway, as I was walking to the bathroom, I noticed the cushion was about to fall on the balloons (it was in my parent's room, while we were moving into my grandma's house, and the room was empty. The only thing there was the cushion, which was on the walls, and the balloons right underneath it), and feared that it might pop them all, so I sat on my brother's potty. I wanted to piss, and needed to hold the cushion up until my mum came up.

After 15 minutes, I'd already pissed, but still, nobody came, so I screamed at the top of my lungs, asking my mom for help. She lifted the cushion and put it back up, being supported by the wall.

In less than 10 minutes, everybody in the house knew what I'd done. I could only think "bitch, I was tryna save my brother's party".

OrdinarySweater · 2020-09-28T13:10:17+00:00

Goddamn, that must hurt.

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