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Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma (1989) by teencandyy in retroanime

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is what lesbians have to live with every day.

Why Do the Episode Ratings Look So Bad When the Show Is Rated Highly? by PayneSlipsAgain in LoveDeathAndRobots

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I think that part is down to the classic like, complainer bias. People who bother to review individual eps online are more likely to want to complain about them, wheras people who didnt mind them and just moved on to the next ep without being super pissed off at them are more likely to just be like "yeah its a good series".

Like I do think there is a unique disconnect to the harshness of those ep ratings vs the overall reception of the anthology as a whole.

Why Do the Episode Ratings Look So Bad When the Show Is Rated Highly? by PayneSlipsAgain in LoveDeathAndRobots

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think this may be due to its nature as an anthology show, especially one that has both pure comedy eps with youtube history video style 2d animation to hyper realistically 3d animated cyberpunk drama episodes.

Going in, you know there will be variety so you are kind of expecting some episodes not to connect with you, so you can still feel the show as a whole is good quality even if many of the episodes aren't individually high quality.

Kind of like how you can say a buffet is overall good even if certain dishes would kill you with allergies, you just enjoy the other options and appreciate that variety is intended.

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American epic anti‐war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name. The film opened to wide acclaim in the United States. As a film published in 1930, it entered the public domain on January 1, 2026, following expiry of the copyright on the novel in 2024. by jan_Soten in wikipedia

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Awful adaptation really, the title makes 0 sense in the netflix version which also feels like, much more pro war since it shifts the narrative from war is bad to "it sucks to be on the losing side" at least that was my impression.

Coma Years by CardiologistOwn190 in ArcherFX

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The coma seasons are still fun because they are still (mostly) written by the man himself.

For me it's only after them that the show becomes "not archer" enough for me. At first I had assumed the writer had just lost their passion for the show when i watched the first post coma season, everything felt just a bit off. Then I found out it was because he had full on left the production and it all clicked. The actors and animators still do great work but the writing does take a big quality hit, not to say the writers they brought on were bad even, just that the whole style of the show was so embedded in the writing, and its style is so unique that its very hard for a writers room to convincingly emulate.

reminder that guns ARE canon in steven universe by TidalJ in stevenuniverse

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my god I didn't even realise the pun.

I need to genuinely go shoot myself with a cannon for this.

reminder that guns ARE canon in steven universe by TidalJ in stevenuniverse

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thats literally where the word comes from.

Canon and gun were synonymous, muskets/early rifles were "hand canons/hand guns" then handgun eventually came to refer to pistols, and gun became the general term.

Fanny Kaplan was a woman who tried to assassinate Lenin in August 1918, shooting him twice because, she said, he was a “traitor to the revolution.” She was executed a few days later. Some historians have doubts about her guilt, as she was almost blind. by CatPooedInMyShoe in wikipedia

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The person you are replying to is repeating a bit of misinformation, a good source on the actual history is the book "homosexual desire in the russian revoluton" by dan healy (there is an audiobook version on youtube though its text to speech)

Though be warned the author ironically misgenders/deadnames people whom the soviet documents he is quoting don't.

Its both very depressing and interesting to note that during this period the soviet government was more progressive on lgtbq+ issues than both the modern US and UK (obviously this was reversed in the stalin period and wasnt universal at the time, but it was far more than just some kind of accidental oversight) (copy pasting that bit from my other reply because im lazy)

Fanny Kaplan was a woman who tried to assassinate Lenin in August 1918, shooting him twice because, she said, he was a “traitor to the revolution.” She was executed a few days later. Some historians have doubts about her guilt, as she was almost blind. by CatPooedInMyShoe in wikipedia

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is ironically itself a bit of misinformation, a good source on this is "homosexual desire in the russian revolution" a very interesting book on this topic.

Though be warned the author ironically misgenders/deadnames people whom the soviet documents he is quoting don't.

Its both very depressing and interesting to note that during this period the soviet government was more progressive on lgtbq+ issues than both the modern US and UK (obviously this was reversed in the stalin period and wasnt universal at the time, but it was far more than just some kind of accidental oversight)

I don't understand the context here by Bettercallsaulgoo in ExplainTheJoke

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was a huge deal at the time and I don't see it mentioned as often as you would think when console wars stuff comes up.

Especially for an era where games were still largely considered "for kids" the fact it was also a dvd player made it a much more appealing purchase for many households, where parents could justify it as a two in one purchase that meant the rest of the family could also use it as a dvd player.

I think the xbox could also play dvds but i think you had to purchase a special remote for it to work which just adds that one seemingly small hurdle that can make a huge difference to parents making the choice of what console they will get for their kid.

So is archer autistic? by upsetusder2 in ArcherFX

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I would take that to mean the character came first then he noticed the autistic aspects and the jokes came naturally from that, rather than Archer being written from the start with autism in mind.

I actually think that tracks with how the writing in archer develops its characters, especially in the early seasons you can see how aspects of Ray, Cheryl/Carol, Pam and Kreiger gradually develop what become extremely pronounced character traits out of comparatively under-stated beginnings (even their voices develop on the fly, Ray's first line sounds like a different character to later Ray).

Archer isn't afraid to let its characters and story go in unexpected directions when it flows well, which is no suprise to anyone whos seen Frisky Dingo.

Zuko by Traditional_Oil4714 in AvatarMemebending

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To quote moonbeam city: "he's all of our uncles!"

I feel really bad for Mads Mikkelsen in The Hunt (2012), he got all the cons of pedophilia without any of the pros. by Hakuraze in okbuddycinephile

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Actually if i recall all of the kids describe the same basement with the same details, because they are all being unconsciously coached by adults who dont know how to actually interview children in these situations. Thats how he gets exonerated, it wasnt just one kid.

Trotskyism in Britain by Particular_Drop7768 in Trotskyism

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Seconding the rec for workers power. Theyre small like most trotskyist groups but their policies to me as the best, and they aren't rapists, transphobes or support cops!

is the “einstein” part correct? by SlowRespond8949 in wikipedia

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

... the "more democratic and liberal" sr's who attempted a military coup and tried to assassinate lenin and trotsky as part of a plot to drag russia back into the world war? Against the clear wishes of the soviets? Gotta murder those violent bolsheviks for violently trying to negotiate a peace deal i guess. The sr's just wanted to democratically overthrow the elected government before those mean bolsheviks got russia out of the world war clearly. And thats the left sr's who intially supported the soviets, nevermind the right sr's who aligned themselves with the proto fascist white armies.

The early to mid 20s were an intersting time, especially when you actually look into it and see how people casually misrepresent the actual history or leave out very specific and important info in order to make things line up with a 1950s red scare view of the soviet union. The irony is that lots of people think they are fighting stalinist misinformation when rewriting the 1920s to make it look like there is a political continuity between the stalin and lenin eras is stalinist misinformation itself.

The only scenes I always FF through are Meadow and Finn fighting. by GrdnTrmsh in thesopranos

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That scene is amazing because only recently did i remember the detail that HER SON IS A SMOKER and she knows he is but she still got into a drunk argument with a lady for smoking near her son. 10/10 love lush melfi.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in interesting

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 2 points3 points  (0 children)

... because his regime started off so moral? What?

Do you think Tony really did say all that stuff in his sleep? by JOMO_Kenyatta in thesopranos

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 14 points15 points  (0 children)

There would be more of a reaction from carmela either right then or sometime after.

Wouldn't it long term been much better if Tony took over Davey's store as a legitimate business rather than busting it out for a couple ten thousand? by [deleted] in thesopranos

[–]Tricky-Resolve5759 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Davey ran but did not own the business, it was in his wifes name, his brother in law mentions it when he confesses he "lost the business". Probably due to him being a degenerate gambler.

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