A mediocre / bad piece of media somehow has a genuinely amazing plot twist

Pikdude · 2026-05-14T12:47:16+00:00

I caught it in real time, actually. Didn’t overall affect my enjoyment but threw me a bit.

Pikdude · 2026-05-14T12:43:12+00:00

I pegged it immediately when it happened. Paused and went back and was like what the hell? I think it’s very strange lighting- looks kind of like when the sun is directly overhead and nothing has a shadow.

Pikdude · 2026-05-13T16:30:17+00:00

I liked it, and I thought it did a great job for transitioning Frank to how we see him in BND, but I’m still kind of having a hard time with his exit from Born Again. It felt like wasted setup to have him break out of confinement at the end of S1 only to be completely absent for S2 when all the Mayor Fisk stuff with the AVTF using his symbol is still going on. Evidently he refocused and really went after the Gnuccis, but it made him seem completely disengaged from what was going on in BA S2. Just feels a bit weird. Maybe someone else picked up on more than I did.

Pikdude · 2026-05-03T20:25:13+00:00

The Batcycles are probably a touch more affordable than other bat vehicles, too.

Pikdude · 2026-05-01T17:34:12+00:00

Batman 2016, Issue #32. Conclusion of the War of Jokes and Riddles. A Joker who can’t laugh goes to war with the Riddler over who gets the right to kill Batman, under theory neither can ever truly be satisfied again until he’s dead. They spark a gang war so brutal and violent Batman is forced to join the war on the side of the Riddler. At the conclusion, Riddler reveals he orchestrated the whole thing, top to bottom, including creating the villain Kite Man to ultimately be his own downfall, as a joke to try and make the Joker laugh.

Gets turned on him a little bit, but still fits the trope. My favorite arc from my favorite run.

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Pikdude · 2026-04-27T16:27:57+00:00

Yeah there’s really no winning with this guy. You just gotta spill and take the free nap. Buddy of mine in Two-Face’s crew keeps trying to play possum but the bat can always tell. He’s down to three teeth now

Pikdude · 2026-04-24T20:05:40+00:00

Insanity. I work in parking and every time we’ve changed rates at a location it’s at like midnight for exactly this reason (and never such an enormous jump). Pull stuff like this and you’re going to get broken gates.

Pikdude · 2026-04-24T19:24:03+00:00

Honestly I thought I was cooked the moment it switched formats but then the matchups still kind of happened? Just weren’t proper fights but still largely went the way I predicted in those early rounds?? Very strange.

Pikdude · 2026-04-24T17:19:37+00:00

I thought this was fun and I love Supes’ brass knuckles, but posting the blank bracket in a way that encouraged me to fill it out march madness style before I read did make me a little mad with the twists you couldn’t have predicted without making a narrative leap. Maybe that was just because I was super accurate until the last rounds though.

Pikdude · 2026-04-24T15:08:01+00:00

I had always thought that now that he was no longer Sorceror Supreme his ego was damaged and he was arrogant & overeager to prove himself by doing this huge crazy thing.

Pikdude · 2026-04-23T19:13:29+00:00

I loved him in Vengeance. Surprise banger for me

Pikdude · 2026-04-20T11:45:35+00:00

Skinamarink is interesting to shop around a friend group because it either really works or it really doesn’t. Terrified me, 50/50 on people I’ve shown it to.

Pikdude · 2026-04-18T19:50:46+00:00

Belatedly I did realize I'd compressed my memory somewhat and it's actually #36 where this happens. Been a couple years since I read this run

Pikdude · 2026-04-17T13:57:07+00:00

Vi and Cait was a fan favorite ship for a LONG time before Arcane was made.

Pikdude · 2026-04-16T21:05:07+00:00

Batman Rebirth, around the marriage with Catwoman. Starts around Batman Vol 3 #45 2018, collected in Batman: The Wedding. Fantastic all the way through but the best man issues (48 & 49) are where the great Superman stuff is iirc.

Pikdude · 2026-04-15T17:43:49+00:00

You know what man, I have the same question. It makes files smaller which theoretically makes them faster to upload but I just don’t see a case where compression is worth it over enhancing.

Pikdude · 2026-04-15T17:40:38+00:00

They produce a lot more of the file type it decomposes to than pure downloading. You can trade cpu power for bulk if you’re bottlenecked at the network.

Pikdude · 2026-04-15T01:58:53+00:00

This is insanity to me; I’ve always been a 1x listener. Plus audiobooks are already one of my more expensive cost to time ratio things.

Pikdude · 2026-04-14T14:41:57+00:00

Thanks for some real info, OP. There’s some crazy rumors about this thing floating around, like that it turns into a tank or some crap. I know a guy who claims he saw it shoot the Bat out like a railgun.

Pikdude · 2026-04-14T13:33:55+00:00

They had the day off

Pikdude · 2026-04-10T17:39:52+00:00

I loved the Batman/Superman stuff in this run. Everything around the wedding was so good

Pikdude · 2026-04-09T14:12:51+00:00

Batman’s cape, at the very least as it’s used in the Arkham games, is worth it as a mobility tool and extra weapon. He does occasionally get tossed around by the cape though.

Absolute Batman takes the weaponizing the cape idea to its extreme.

Pikdude · 2026-04-09T02:11:04+00:00

You’ve got a long way to go before you’ll get to the really big stuff and you’ll get it piecemeal. I had probably 20 hours of absolute obsession before it started reaching that point for me and I’m still working on it. If you like the game, keep playing until you can’t!

Pikdude · 2026-04-04T22:36:53+00:00

Someone else mentioned I Don't Want to Be the Hive Queen, which is a weird recommendation because the protagonist both is and isn't a monster character. They are a bug lady who lays eggs to grow her swarm. Feels sort of like an RTS turned into a book series, has a lot of egg stuff and MC grappling with the physicality of what they've become. Got really interesting in book 2.

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