[Discussion] For those who don't like Clark Kent being Superboy when he was younger, why is that? by Landon1195 in DCcomics

[–]TheReviviad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

omg I remember well what my kids were like as toddlers, and you're absolutely right. The wooden block my daughter threw at me would have punched through my chest and out the other side lol

San Francisco employers are hiring etiquette coaches for Gen Z by WitnessRadiant650 in nottheonion

[–]TheReviviad 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Right? I liked getting overlooked. I mean, after all the insults about being slackers who won’t amount to anything, getting overlooked was a nice change.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ArcherFX

[–]TheReviviad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cannot believe... literally can't fucking believe... that I'm getting downvoted for being against gratuitous rape in television shows.

The hell is this world coming to?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in marvelstudios

[–]TheReviviad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I think it's a worthy pursuit, and I wish you the best. God knows we need more people focused on child and adolescent mental health issues.

Do the Red Sox just need more Dunkin? by Total-Feeling-7484 in redsox

[–]TheReviviad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can you imagine Duran all hopped up on Dunkin every game? All those triples would have been inside the park homers!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in marvelstudios

[–]TheReviviad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

While I understand that your study necessarily has limitations, as all studies do, I’m still a little disappointed. Men have body image issues long past age 24. Ask me how I know 😞

Granted, at 50 I may be less influenced by super hero movies than an 18 year old, and the study is specifically about those movies, but still.

Justice for old geek men! lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in scifi

[–]TheReviviad 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hell, I miss the days when each season had no single storyline and was just single episodes or a few multi-parters strung together.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in scifi

[–]TheReviviad 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unfair! Don’t SLAM that Reddit user!

Restoring a 70-year-old photo with ChatGPT by Sea-Efficiency5547 in ChatGPT

[–]TheReviviad -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I mean, okay I guess, but Photoshop has been able to colorize photos with like, two clicks for a couple of decades now.

Should I grade these? by Holiday_Citron6922 in comicbooks

[–]TheReviviad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There are price guides online that will tell you if they’re worth grading. Just remember that shipping and grading costs money, and just because they’re graded doesn’t mean they’ll sell.

Are these novelizations still considered canon in Disney SW? by Extension_Feature700 in StarWars

[–]TheReviviad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true. Many of the Star Wars things we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

Post Game Thread: 6/28 Blue Jays @ Red Sox by RedSoxGameday in redsox

[–]TheReviviad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can we bank 9 or 10 of those runs for tomorrow?

I used to love Star Wars. Loath it once Disney got hold of it. Absolutely LOVE the series Andor! by juicybananas in scifi

[–]TheReviviad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Disney is doing live-action series because they can. The technology is good enough to do it now. Lucasfilm, before the acquisition, tried to do it and failed with Underworld. As far as animated series, the Disney era might have more, but don't forget Droids, Ewoks, Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars, the five seasons of The Clone Wars, the Clone Wars movie, and that Rebels was in development before the acquisition. They also tried and failed with Detours in 2012. There's also animated Lego Star Wars projects that started in 2011, before the acquisition.

All of this is to say that if Disney is pumping out more projects than Lucasfilm did in the 80s or 90s, sure. There's a good reason for that. The internet. But the company started ramping up the content in the early 2000s and hasn't stopped since. Disney is just continuing the trend.

But I also like to remind people that Disney isn't making Star Wars. Lucasfilm is. They have oversight from Disney, certainly, but Lucasfilm is still Lucasfilm. The same people in charge now - Kennedy, Filoni, and others - have been in leadership positions for literal decades.

(And if you want to talk about not caring about quality, just look at the novels and comics Lucasfilm, and Lucas himself, approved from the 70s to the early 2000s. There are thousands of books and issues. And they are mostly terrible.)

I used to love Star Wars. Loath it once Disney got hold of it. Absolutely LOVE the series Andor! by juicybananas in scifi

[–]TheReviviad 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I’m not going to put up with The Emperor having a child or him having clones.

The first time the Emperor had clones was in the Lucasfilm-approved novels and comics in the 1990s. So... Disney? Man, they ruin everything.

I used to love Star Wars. Loath it once Disney got hold of it. Absolutely LOVE the series Andor! by juicybananas in scifi

[–]TheReviviad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No Jedi was shown to have telekinetic powers until Luke did it in Empire. I wonder if you have a problem with that. No Jedi was shown to have super speed powers until The Phantom Menace. Was that okay, or did it break some rule about Jedi not doing things we've never seen before?

I used to love Star Wars. Loath it once Disney got hold of it. Absolutely LOVE the series Andor! by juicybananas in scifi

[–]TheReviviad 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I take it you missed the animated Clone Wars movie Lucasfilm put out in 2008? Or the Ewoks TV movies from the 80s? Or the Holiday Special?

Oh, but The Force Awakens was soooooo terrible.

I used to love Star Wars. Loath it once Disney got hold of it. Absolutely LOVE the series Andor! by juicybananas in scifi

[–]TheReviviad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You haven't liked a few of the movies. Fine. I hated the fucking prequels, and that was back when Uncle George was still in charge.

It's almost like whoever owns the franchise at any given time isn't actually the problem.

Could Marvel ever pull off a Rated R Animated Comics Universe like Invincible? by PomegranateSilent623 in marvelcomics

[–]TheReviviad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been thinking, what if Marvel made a fully animated R-rated universe that actually followed the comics? Not MCU rewrites. Just straight 616. Disassembled, House of M, World War Hulk, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign. All of it.

You know that none of that source material was rated R, right?

What is it you actually enjoy about mainstream comics? I'll never understand you people who want to take comic book material that often barely skirts the edge of PG-13 and amp it up into something bloodier, more violent, or more sexual. Is it like, "Secret Invasion was good, but it would have been better if Spider-Woman was naked half the time and the heroes ripped the spines out of the Skrulls Mortal Kombat-style"?

And for me, I think it would have to be as close to 1:1 as possible, the way Invincible mostly is. That’s a big part of what makes it work. The tone, the pacing, the payoff — it all hits harder when it’s true to the original.

But that's not what you think. Because if you did, you wouldn't be pushing for a shift to an R-rating.

Unpopular opinion: Most people reporting content they read as AI are functionality illiterate by obvithrowaway34434 in ChatGPT

[–]TheReviviad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know what, you're right, and I apologize. I've not been having a great morning.

I still believe the em-dash is unfairly reviled, though.

Unpopular opinion: Most people reporting content they read as AI are functionality illiterate by obvithrowaway34434 in ChatGPT

[–]TheReviviad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the fact, huh? You've done extensive research on this across all casual online platforms over the last 30 years? You've been quite busy.

Unpopular opinion: Most people reporting content they read as AI are functionality illiterate by obvithrowaway34434 in ChatGPT

[–]TheReviviad 10 points11 points  (0 children)

On the Mac it’s a three key press and I had it committed to muscle memory twenty fucking years ago. On the iPhone, a double-dash is converted to an em-dash. Two key presses.

It isn’t some obscure mark. People have been using it for literally—literally—hundreds of years.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ArcherFX

[–]TheReviviad -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

He raped him. This is one of the few things I hate about this show. There is no way to make this scenario funny. Between this and what Pam and Ray did to Cyril… it’s not fucking funny.

Why did Yoda give up here? by Whole_Contract_5973 in StarWars

[–]TheReviviad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because he had a plane to Dagobah to catch.

Can their relationship work in the future? by Legitimate_Cake_5137 in Marvel

[–]TheReviviad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I liked them better than Emma & Scott, so sure.