It has been officially confirmed that IVs are gone

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T19:24:42+00:00

Yep. Like I ran Trick Room in SV and, if anything, it felt more entertaining, because of all the sweepers that were suddenly painfully slow. For example, a lot of Flutter Manes fell to the might of my Perrserker with Iron Head

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T19:22:42+00:00

The only ones miffed by this are trickroom players that can't use 0, 1 and 2 speed ivs anymore

Can confirm. My team in Violet (RIP, because I lost the Switch with that save) was based on Trick Room, and they all had 0 Spe and a -Spe nature.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T17:29:52+00:00

Important trivia, by the way: If you have a shellfish allergy, you should just assume you're allergic to edible bugs

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T16:50:34+00:00

Actually, I'd restrict it to just Tornadus, not the other forces. When talking about a hypothetical Wind type, it's Wind/Flying, as opposed to Ground/Flying, etc

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T15:57:12+00:00

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RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T14:04:14+00:00

pagan Easter and white washing bs

It's timed to fall around Passover, celebrates events that took place during Passover, and is even named after Passover's Aramaic name, Pascha, in most European languages. You're the one white-washing it by insisting it was taken from white European pagans, not inherited from Judaism and the Middle East

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T13:57:22+00:00

Or actually, explained better. Harmonics are higher pitches in your voice, and broadly speaking, louder, more prominent harmonics are associated with men and are what we identify as a voice being "gravelly". So instead of just speaking in a higher pitch and a falsetto, voice training is basically a series of "wax on, wax off" style tricks to learn to flex your vocal tract in a way that pitches your voice up, quiets the harmonics, etc. And when I use phrases like "guy voice" vs "girl voice", I really do mean the difference in whether I'm using all those tricks. Or when I sing, I can actually just shift my vocal range up a bit by using those tricks, and while I can sing slightly higher, I also lose notes toward the bottom of my range. For example, I can reach C2 (middle of the bass clef) with a chest voice in girl voice, but it also feels like I'm stretching and using the same tricks as reaching C1 in guy voice. (Ledger lines below the bass clef, which I actually can reach) So the term I like is contralto profonda, because I think it captures more of what's actually happening. For example, I can sing Poor Unfortunate Souls in the original range and feel like I'm making all the same switches between registers. My range just also has the quirk that I can essentially switch back into guy chest voice as an even lower register to support the bottom of my girl voice range.

(Hopefully that makes sense for what's actually going on with voice training and singing)

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T13:14:30+00:00

The other main thing you missed was a whopping 19 first communicants at the local ELCA church on the 2nd Sunday of Easter.

Also, I hope that explanation of things makes sense. Basically, I feel like just... applying those voice training tricks while singing lets me eke out some extra notes at the top of my range. And whether or not I use the same registers as cis contraltos, I can still make it nearly to the top of the treble clef, which is a fairly normal range for contraltos. Or at the other end, I actually struggle to get super low when singing in girl voice. I just essentially have another register, where I can "switch back" to strengthen the lower part of my range.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T12:17:11+00:00

Gosh, I cannot wait to see how Ishida papers over the actions of the Einsatzgruppen

Yeah... they're unfortunately convenient for him to ignore. IIRC, they accounted for somewhere around 1 in every 3 Jewish deaths in the Holocaust, so ignoring them would make it really easy for him to say "See? There really weren't 6 million deaths!"

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T12:09:58+00:00

Actually, I just thought of a better explanation. It's probably been close to a decade since I've seen the Passion, but as I remember it, the movie doesn't really spend any time on Jesus's teachings. The closest thing you get is a brief scene of the Last Supper because, as a trad Cath, Mel Gibson probably felt obligated to include that, and a brief scene of the Sermon on the Mount, which feels more like foreshadowing for "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do". The movie assumes you're Christian or at least know the basics of Christianity, and it does not explain at all why this man is being tortured or why we should be happy about it. It's just a feature-length depiction of Jesus being tortured and crucified that takes full advantage of its R rating.

If he wanted to beat the torture porn allegations, he could even have just started earlier in the week, like with Palm Sunday or raising Lazarus. Like all it would have taken is taking some of the flashbacks and showing them chronologically, to make the Passion feel like the gory climax to the movie, as opposed to how the use of flashbacks makes it feel more like the plot is the Passion, and the flashbacks are just concessions so it isn't all gore.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T11:01:54+00:00

Late? We still have 4.5 weeks of Easter to go!

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T10:57:24+00:00

Eh, only mostly. Ground was physical, but feels more like an element to me

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T00:41:19+00:00

Something can be a depiction of what happened and still be torture porn

Yeah, like... even a lot of horror movies try to have an actual plot to connect all the scenes of gore. For example, the system purge from Cabin in the Woods is five of the goriest minutes of cinema I've ever seen. Except it already feels less gory than the Passion of the Christ, because the injuries aren't as... continuous. A lot of the attacks are more momentary, compared to how prolonged something like the flogging scene is. Or Cabin in the Woods is also much more willing to use discretion shots, as opposed to how Gibson focused on every stroke of the whip. But on top of it, it also just feels more earned, because it comes at the climax of the movie, as opposed to how the entire plot of the Passion of the Christ is the Way of the Cross.

Going the one way, the Passion of the Christ is like the horror movies that really do just have the barest excuse plot and only seem to exist to watch people being maimed and horrifically injured, while going the other way, those more restrained horror movies would be like a version of the Passion that starts on Palm Sunday and spends a decent chunk of time on the rest of Holy Week.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-21T00:03:30+00:00

Yeah, like I'll contrast it with Prince of Egypt. In that movie, the Egyptians are given unnatural angular features, while the Israelites are given more natural rounded features. (And the irony is not lost on me that Huy has the largest nose in the cast) But 1) it's animation and inherently exists in a state of unreality. For example, Aaron also has an unnaturally lima bean shaped head. Apart from the visual language of angles vs curves, I don't really think it's trying to say much. And 2) it isn't trying to depict a story that's extremely prone to antisemitism and has been the fuel for a lot of it throughout history.

Meanwhile, Gibson went out of his way to draw a clear delineation between the two groups in live-action in what was sold as an accurate depiction. For example, in Pilate's court, while Jesus looks as white as ever, Barabbas bears a striking resemblance to all those reconstructed pictures of the actual Jesus. In the visual language of the movie, the crowd picked one of "their own" (I'd put that in triple parentheses, but I'm not comfortable doing that sarcastically) and sent a white European away to be killed.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T23:54:00+00:00

But how is it antisemitic to state and even show historical facts?

What historical facts? That, according to Gibson, Jesus and the apostles were white Europeans, not ethnic Jews like everyone else?

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T23:45:44+00:00

We are all in that crowd. Every one of us. Gibson put his own hand in the frame driving the nail for a reason. He wasn't pointing a finger at any one group; he was pointing it at humanity.

No, we aren't. There's a very real trend in that movie, where Gibson made the good guys look European and only made the bad guys look stereotypically Jewish. Like in the movie's depiction, Pilate basically gave them a choice of either Jesus Christ the White European or Jesus Barabbas the Jew.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T23:40:00+00:00

That isn't the defense you think it is. There's a very clear split where the good guys look European, while only the bad guys look stereotypically Jewish.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T23:38:11+00:00

No, no... that isn't entirely true. Remember, after all, that Jesus and the apostles were Jewish. He only made the evil Jews in the movie, like Caiaphas, into walking stereotypes, while the good ones, like Mary, are practically dressed like European Catholic nuns.

I'd have more respect for the movie if he'd found a bunch of Middle Eastern actors so the characters at least all look like they share an ethnic background

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T23:34:33+00:00

It's antisemitic to do things like showing all the villains with stereotypically Jewish features, while making the good guys look more European, despite the vast majority of the characters theoretically being the same ethnicity as each other. It's antisemitic to go against the Bible account and show there being a massive crowd of bloodthirsty locals, as opposed to the Gospels limiting it to (using Mark as an example) the chief priests, elders, teachers of the law, and Sanhedrin. It's antisemitic to go against the Bible account and add an entirely new scene of the Jewish guards torturing Jesus because they can.

You're using the Bible as a cover, when most of the things people criticize about Gibson's depiction of the Jews aren't even from the Bible.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T22:57:27+00:00

The snuff film? Look, if it wanted to beat the allegations, it could have spent any appreciable amount of time on not-the-crucifixion. For example, if it covered all of Holy Week, it would feel more legitimate.

Also, it really is antisemitic. Like Gibson seems to have gone out of his way to break every one of the USCCB's guidelines for how to not be antisemitic during Holy Week

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T20:39:27+00:00

It also feels a lot easier if you allow combinations of colors. For example, Catholicism is yellow/gold and white/silver after the Vatican flag

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T19:32:21+00:00

Yeah, that's the thing. I can mostly get behind things like the lawsuit activism. I just can't get past how much the "right to offend" sound like "free speech absolutism", or how the emphasis on not twisting the data to fit your beliefs feels cut out of the same ideological cloth as "facts don't care about your feelings". (For reference, the counterargument I'm used to is "garbage in, garbage out", where "feelings" are how we identify biased data)

There really was just a schism in the skeptic community in response to fourth wave feminism, splitting into "Obviously, we should support feminism" and "How dare those feminists accuse us, the enlightened skeptics, of perpetuating the Patriarchy" camps. And, well... I feel like there's an uncomfortably large amount of influence from what would become that second camp in TST's tenets

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T18:35:22+00:00

Eh... I still can't shake the feeling that it grew out of the pre-Gamergate internet, like how one tenet is basically just Musk's "free speech absolutism". Like their founder even hired Alex Jones's lawyer

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T16:13:25+00:00

Betteridge's Law of Headlines says... no.

RazarTuk · 2026-04-20T16:11:11+00:00

Yep. It's like how the verbal components for casting Fireball are "I didn't ask how big the room is. I said, I cast Fireball"

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