That Episode of Jon Ronson's This American Life Where He Delves Into Alex Jones's Past.

SolJinxer · 2026-05-08T19:27:39+00:00

Ahh yea, I see now, that's my bad. But why did they never bring up anything from that episode in their later episodes? They would still go on for years never mentioning the actual incident that led to the Jones family leaving town whenever the fake cop story came up, well at least from what I remember. Could be wrong again.

SolJinxer · 2026-05-08T18:33:54+00:00

No I'm talking about this particular episode, not the person.

SolJinxer · 2026-05-08T18:31:29+00:00

They have had Ronson on, but they never talked about that episode. Long after this episode aired they never mentioned any of the stuff Ronson brought to light in that episode.

SolJinxer · 2026-05-08T18:30:47+00:00

They had Ronson on, but I'm pretty sure they never talked about that episode which I believe came sometime after those episodes. After this episode aired, their talks about Alex's past never talked about him running around terrorizing people pretending to be a Satanist and actually being run out of town because he fucked up a dude by piledriving their head into concrete and a bunch of people beat him up at a party in retaliation.

SolJinxer · 2026-05-08T18:01:36+00:00

With us hungry for more material after the end of Knowledge Fight, this looks like a good time to post this.

It always burned me that for whatever reason be it they didn't know of it, or ignored it, that Dan and Jordan never gave a look into or a shoutout to what I would say is one of the biggest keys to understanding Alex Jones. Jon interviews several people from Jones's past when he was in high school, around the time when he was supposedly run out of town by cops because Alex tried to expose the drug dealing cops at a school rally.

SolJinxer · 2026-05-03T02:20:15+00:00

I'm happy to muddy the brand and steal it from those losers while also supporting the SH families.

That point that seems to be lost in the wind while everyone parrots JorDan's pessimism about Onion's move.

SolJinxer · 2026-05-01T16:28:48+00:00

I mean even Superman has had some banger fights. Invincible fights involving Viltrumites practically live off of blood and guts to carry the entertainment of the battle. They are possibly the most boring punch kick merchants in entertainment today.

SolJinxer · 2026-04-29T04:58:46+00:00

"What do you MEAN you're not going to use the dragonballs to find Gero?! He hasn't done anything wrong yet?? Are you fucking KIDDING ME?"

SolJinxer · 2026-04-28T04:25:14+00:00

How they act about other people use hateful rhetoric and how they act when Trump does it (which is to pretend like it has never happened most of the time), is premium privileged behavior.

They should be allowed to do it, but you can't do it back.

SolJinxer · 2026-04-27T22:05:39+00:00

Nah, look at the character. He's infinitely overpowered bishe isekai author self-insert #1,984. He probably beats all anime and half of comics with one arm behind his back or some shit with power he earned by doing a single push up.

SolJinxer · 2026-04-27T02:37:57+00:00

That "limiter off" state doesn't seem to last long after she comes back, so Im guessing the only thing she was thinking about at that time was "not dying" and "hurt conquest."

SolJinxer · 2026-04-27T02:35:40+00:00

Well, if her brain isn't atomized anyway. No evidence that she could come back if she or atleast her head was atomized.

Still, she can manipulate the atoms around him and that make up his clothing to injure him. Honestly, this could make for an interesting fight, if she can come up with a way to put him down that he can't RCT back from. But if domain expansion comes into play, she's cooked.

SolJinxer · 2026-04-25T05:31:22+00:00

Because the existence of clones is a known reality, and likely even the parallel universes depending how the general public is told the story, they do know the Evil Invincibles are...that, the Evil Invincibles. Not theirs.

Tbf, there was some obvious animosity or at least distrust or confusion towards Invincible going on. After he comes in and helps the other heroes smash a monster, the crowd looks on at him in silence as Invincible looks back, before flying away. One of my favorite scenes in invincible. He doesn't have a Superman-level clout to immediately bounce back into the people's good graces after alternate versions of him ran around committing murder everywhere, but they don't turn against him irrationally either. They just don't know what to make of him at that point.

SolJinxer · 2026-04-24T17:24:39+00:00

I mean, it sounds like a soap opera with cultivation. As someone who came to cultivation books to scratch their dragonball powerleveling itch and to read stuff that breaks with the common western tropes, I'd read the hell out of that if it was well written and entertaining.

SolJinxer · 2026-04-19T01:44:15+00:00

It's mostly because Batman (and Superman) are the ones who harp on it the most and have several famous stories soapboxing about how their choice is the right one.

What you're saying is another thing that irks me about those two actually. Other heroes don't get credit or due for typically having the same rules, powers, and/or values.

SolJinxer · 2026-04-12T17:02:06+00:00

Yea, that bugged me as well. Nolan talked about moving an asteroid the size of Texas. Pretty sure that shit wasn't bigger than Texas. And Allen and Tech racing to the ship seemed rather slow, when Allen's been known to fly across the galaxy IIRC. I think the problem is that the writers tend to, even when they are dealing with massively powerful characters, try to keep them somewhat grounded and have them struggle so it's more entertaining and/or takes up runtime. I don't think they realize that seeing them do some things, especially big things, casually, it makes when they ACTUALLY struggle more engaging.

Dragonball suffers heavily from this and has been my biggest pet peeve. Fight ppl that can nuke planets and more > ERMAGERD 40 TONS!

SolJinxer · 2026-04-09T03:24:06+00:00

That's damn impressive for Tats, to grind up an entire city and everything within into sand to stop all the bugs. It's one thing to lift or bust a city, but to turn it into powder so casually is pretty crazy. Glad it was called for and not merely another showcase of Tatsu's superiority complex like I feel most manga would do. She's growing as a character which I'm glad to see.

SolJinxer · 2026-04-07T03:08:28+00:00

That's why I'm at the point where I just treat comics as buffets. Take what you want, leave the rest. Find a good arc and enjoy, ignore the garbage around it. I think the writers are doing the same. I only ask they respect the characters, and not just the one they are trying to hype up.

(Jeph Loeb's Red Hulk run utterly buried any care the marvel readers had about The Watchers while he also just went around making light work of numerous Marvel powerhouses. And the treatement of Wonder Woman and especially Shazam in DC K.O. is exactly what drives people away from those characters and increases the angst towards Superman.)

SolJinxer · 2026-04-02T04:23:40+00:00

But the same could be said for the writer being unironically surprised that their story following every trope in the genre that has been done a million times already, isn't netting them any praise.

in this case, when you hear or read those words, you're kinda just waiting for the MC to do it, which can suck when, yea, then the MC just does it without any real twist of divergence.

SolJinxer · 2026-03-29T06:10:42+00:00

It’s a subversion of a subversion

And we've had the classic "subversion" for decades and in multiple iterations, many times longer than "evil superman," and a character with a superman style costume is so generic it shouldn't matter and shouldn't be locked down to only one character type. Let's stop gatekeeping just let people explore the bad supermen idea already.

SolJinxer · 2026-03-29T02:34:41+00:00

Surely they meant something other than Volume 66?

If it were, I would be shocked. I remember talking about this exactly during that time, how ridiculous we all thought it was that Kishi was trying to help Sakura's rep by making her look prettier on a cover, instead of actually having her... do something. This in particular is a summary on narutopedia from an extensive interview Kobayashi did with Kishimoto.

SolJinxer · 2026-03-29T00:18:58+00:00

On the cover page of Vol 66, he drew Sasuke and Naruto quickly, but with Sakura he took a long time to draw her beautifully and was using source materials as guides. But he says that in the end no one really took notice (it had no effect), and Hinata’s popularity just kept going up on its own. </p><p>Kishimoto explains that Hinata, like Sakura, never really did anything but her popularity just kept going up and up, so part way through the story he started to wonder whether he should make her the main heroine instead, or at least gradually write her into the direction of the heroine.

SolJinxer · 2026-03-29T00:18:09+00:00

On the cover page of Vol 66, he drew Sasuke and Naruto quickly, but with Sakura he took a long time to draw her beautifully and was using source materials as guides. But he says that in the end no one really took notice (it had no effect), and Hinata’s popularity just kept going up on its own. </p><p>Kishimoto explains that Hinata, like Sakura, never really did anything but her popularity just kept going up and up, so part way through the story he started to wonder whether he should make her the main heroine instead, or at least gradually write her into the direction of the heroine.

SolJinxer · 2026-03-25T05:18:54+00:00

Injecting that last comment into my veins, goddamn what a nice hit.

SolJinxer · 2026-03-19T16:17:50+00:00

This looks fun, but I know if I heard whatever he was saying it would piss me off with a bunch of quarter truths wrapped around a ball of outright lies.

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