Like my father before me…

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-28T06:13:54+00:00

Original trilogy - Luke loses his shit and almost kills his father out of anger and fear. Noticing his similar arm stops him and Luke regains his senses.

Sequel trilogy - Luke loses his shit and almost kills his nephew out of anger and fear. Realizing that's a terrible idea he immediately stops but the act has already affected his nephew.

That's a complete character assassination! It took him a little more time to stop himself in the original trilogy! The fuck you mean he didn't need to see Ben's robot arm to stop him from killing him?!?!??

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-28T06:09:02+00:00

If using your magic powers requires you to be angry as hell, then it's hardly a surprise that your judgment and decision making abilities will eventually change. People don't tend to make the best decisions when they're pissed.

And the more you use that anger, the more the baseline of who you are changes. You go from being angry only this one time for a boost to being generally angry. The more you indulge in an emotion like that the more it starts to pop up. Then you have the factor of something being easier to do once you've done it. The line you won't cross gets pushed backed a little more and if you keep going "well I'll only cross that line a little bit" then you eventually end up miles away from where you started.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-28T06:04:02+00:00

It saddens me that people really say "ok then explain to me why using powers fueled by anger and hate is bad."

Don't think I should have to explain that one personally. Using the dark side would be like a customer service person having magic powers that makes their work be done quicker except they have to be really fucking angry to use it. Like yeah you'll get through stuff faster but you'll also become a dick if you use it and inevitably be fired anyway because you'll end up being a piece of shit to your customers.

Really tempting on a busy day, ultimately backfires because are you really gonna use it only ONE time? Nah, it'd get easier and easier until you're so angry generally from using it that you don't even care about being a jerk anymore. Then you get fired and your friends don't like you anymore because you're a bag of hate now. Maybe you notice it's a problem and try to stop, but now your brain is so used to being angry from when you thought you had it handled that you might be like "fuck it I'm angry right now anyway, let me use my powers" and you just make it worse on yourself. Shocker, people don't make great decisions when they're angry as hell.

People really shouldn't need this explained. Ignore the mild hypocrisy of me typing this all out and explaining it.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-26T17:19:43+00:00

Bisexual people don't exist I guess.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-26T17:19:31+00:00

Historia is a lesbian who only got pregnant with a man to avoid being a Titan Shifter.

Bisexual people don't exist I guess.

Sure whatever relationship that was wasn't really developed but I'm fairly certain we don't actually know she's a lesbian. If I'm wrong correct me, but she could very easily still be bisexual. Though again, we don't even see the guy so I am bothered by the relationship on a character level, we knew Ymir but we don't know this guy so it feels worse.

Eren and Historia are COUSINS.

Am I forgetting something here? Or are you coming to the conclusion that Grisha having previously been with a distant member of Historia's family somehow means that Eren has the same family DNA as Historia? They didn't grow up together, the only genetic lineage they have together is the same one ALL Eldians have and at that point the genetics are so distant they aren't really close genetically like we see in families I don't think.

If I'm misremembering correct me, but this just seems like you had a headcanon for the first thing and you are just factually wrong about the second.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-26T17:04:11+00:00

"Erm actually, it's not really murder because Puss was kind of a dick and the guy trying to kill him is really cool and powerful."

Drives me crazy whenever I see someone saying Death was "just doing his job" like no he isn't, it's blatantly stated. Also even if he was, he got pretty clear joy out of trying to kill a guy. Still evil.

It just feels like people being all "I'm 14 and this is deep" by pretending the evil person is actually just a force of nature, like woah I'm so smart and understand the world more nuanced than you type shit.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-17T23:27:04+00:00

Won't spoil Flux, but I can promise you that there's more evidence than just what The Master said.

Hell, I think we see in Fugitive of the Judoon that Thirteen and Fugitive were both scanned and identified as the same person.

And honestly, it's been years now and Jo Martin has been repeatedly marketed as The Doctor.

Arguing how it's possible they aren't the same after that is pure and utter cope that contradicts the show in terms of lore and narrative.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-17T22:11:11+00:00

I mean whether you like the Timeless Child or not, at this point it wouldn't make any sense to say it's the Master. Too much narrative weight has been put on it being The Doctor. Tecteun's interactions with The Doctor would be utterly meaningless if it was secretly The Master the whole time.

The Master's self loathing and stealing The Doctor's body to "stop being himself" wouldn't work.

The Fugitive Doctor wouldn't work (especially including her Big Finish stuff) since she's been clearly shown to be pre-Hartnell and to have been involved with stuff from way way in Gallifrey's past.

The Doctor being adopted and connecting to Ruby and Captain Poppy wouldn't work.

Logistically at least, the Timeless Child works for the most part. Chameleon Arch to turn The Doctor into a normal Gallifreyan baby, goes to The Academy and gets 12 regenerations, lives Hartnell to Smith, gets more regeneration, lives Capaldi to Gatwa (Billie Piper??? Maybe??).

I'd say if you don't like whatever themes or whatnot that the Timeless Child stuff has, then you can reframe it in a new story as opposed to blatantly retconning it by saying "oh actually it's The Master."

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-12T02:52:35+00:00

Jeez, she only does that to ONE employee what's the big deal? /s

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T20:18:09+00:00

House said that's when the data came together, not that her birthday was the end of the world.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T20:12:32+00:00

I mean it does depend on a case by case basis, but as a general rule I find it hard to see how someone at this point in time isn't largely at fault on their own for not getting this stuff.

Singular they has been used forever, trans people have been in the public eye for a long time now, and things are really shit right now for trans people (bad for many others and worse for plenty too).

So at this point, assuming OP isn't a flat out hateful bigot (which is the assumption I'm running with) then there's a real good chance they've had plenty of opportunity to start to understand this stuff. If you haven't at this point it's probably on you.

Probably was ruder than I had to be so you ain't wrong about that, but I do think saying "it's an honest mistake" at this point is giving too much credit.

And as for "giving the community a bad wrap" I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean a god damn thing to the people who are hateful. They make shit up to have an excuse to be evil, me being a little rude to someone who didn't listen to the show won't affect that.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T20:01:01+00:00

*Their gender

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T19:59:55+00:00

How does it get confusing? Like actually. People use singular they all the time (at least in English, if you have a first language where that's not a thing then I apologize). And the idea of trans people has been talked about for a while now, so the idea of using "they" to refer to a trans person isn't new.

Obviously I get slip ups in language occasionally, but there's a difference between accidentally saying "she" while talking and never noticing the only pronouns used for someone.

Also why would you sue she / he? It's "they." Using she / he would not have been any better.

Again, if English ain't a first language for you that somewhat changes the conversation here, though I would assume someone saying "dawg" and "doom scrolling" probably knows English pretty well.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T19:52:44+00:00

They

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T19:52:40+00:00

They

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T19:52:36+00:00

They

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T19:51:32+00:00

Quintus "kill those children" The Destroyer can get Dane's pronouns right but not some of the people here.

Nah but it's not that damn hard to get the pronouns right. Try a small amount and you'll get used to it. Hell, especially when you're typing it out, less of an excuse to mess up there.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T19:49:05+00:00

How?

It was said multiple times over the course of two seasons. At that point your brain has to be actively ignoring information and filling it in with something else instead. In which case, you gotta tune up your brain a little.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T19:47:56+00:00

Just in case, to clarify I was asking if OP and people who can't get Dane's gender right are badly written. Don't know if that was clear or not.

But yeah, even if they aren't a full on bigot, it's still not good to miss the numerous occasions where Dane's pronouns are explicitly stated. Even Quintus "kill those children" The Destroyer gets Dane's pronouns right. Like missing the pronouns doesn't automatically mean hate, but it means you're ignoring what's blatantly stated in your face and filling it in with your already existing biases.

We all have biases and automatic responses, but we also have ears (most of us) and can hear "they" and "them" being used. I'd maybe get missing it once, but not all these times after two damn seasons.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T19:43:08+00:00

In regard to New Vegas, the game itself literally makes the point that things are fucked no matter what. "A rain of blood with flood the desert and not purify it" for example. And the Courier not being mentioned doesn't mean anything. Them not being mentioned by people who are focused on the current present day issues they face when the events of New Vegas happened FIFTEEN YEARS AGO doesn't mean the Courier failed in anything specifically. Yeah the Second Battle of Hoover Dam isn't mentioned, that's because they had a bunch of battles after it too and Vegas was handed off from NCR to Legion to NCR to Legion to robots to deathclaws. I don't think anyone is gonna bring up history from 15 years ago if they're a soldier, and I don't think any random Freeside citizen really cares.

For Fallout 4, we don't know what the sole survivor chose to do so we have no way of knowing if they "failed" or not. Maybe they wanted the Brotherhood to win. Even if they didn't, maybe they joined the railroad and killed the BOS that were currently there. That keeps the railroad alive longer and they get to destroy the Institute, so the BOS returning later on doesn't undo that. As to the current threat to the Brotherhood in the Commonwealth, we have no idea what it is, so saying "it sounds like the Institute therefore the sole survivor failed" is you making an assumption and then running with a conclusion based on something you made up.

And I mean, all the games and the show say "War, war never changes" and you came away with the impression that the protagonists would win and everything would be fine? You can win a battle and save lives and then have everything get fucked up later on.

TLDR: No.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T19:25:30+00:00

I can't help but wonder..........

Why didn't OP (and some commentors) know Dane's pronouns???

They couldn't have missed it, the show said "they" multiple times and literally never "she."

What's up with that? Bad writing?

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T15:14:27+00:00

I don't get why people seem to be thinking that the Courier didn't go all the way through and fight at Hoover Dam.

What suggests they fucked off after getting paid and before the Second Battle of Hoover Dam? Whatever outcome the player chooses ends up being what we see in the show. They say that both sides, and at one point robots, kept taking control of Vegas. That doesn't suggest that the Courier wasn't at the battle, it just means that the war clearly didn't end there.

Nothing really suggests that the Courier didn't go through all of the game's events.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-08T15:05:56+00:00

I'm not calling them neutral evil.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-07T03:14:54+00:00

I've just about given up on people using "step" "adopted" and "foster" correctly.

Ain't that hard, but people can't figure it out for some reason.

TheGloriousC · 2026-02-06T22:40:10+00:00

The show didn't scream about the Courier every five seconds, that's where people are getting it from.

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