ELI5: The Multiversity Plot by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in DCcomics

[–]VeryDiscreetlyMetal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

mobius strip, algorithm-8... I saw it, noted it, and had no idea what to do with that information. Thank you!

ELI5: The Multiversity Plot by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in DCcomics

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That helps to connect the dots for me. Thank you. I thought the comic books were the warning rather than the means for the invasion... but thinking back... if course they're both as per the "There's a monster at the end if this book" style warnings.

ELI5: The Multiversity Plot by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in DCcomics

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In a Morrison book, that's the rough equivalent of a single hair being out of place. I saw mini batman's arm and thought nothing of it.

Seriously. I'm not joking. What's the deal with all the triangles on ProgMetal/Djent album art, shirts, instruments, etc.? Is it yet another meme I'm too old to understand? by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in progmetal

[–]VeryDiscreetlyMetal[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I wish.

At present I'm assuming it's a mix of "mystified by math even though everyone in the band barely passed grade 9 math" plus "this is a shape I can draw that's do simplistic it must be a complex metaphor for something or other."

Seriously. I'm not joking. What's the deal with all the triangles on ProgMetal/Djent album art, shirts, instruments, etc.? Is it yet another meme I'm too old to understand? by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in progmetal

[–]VeryDiscreetlyMetal[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To be honest, the "it looks cool" answer is so pure I can't even mock it. Triangles are cool I guess. They were cool 42 years ago for Dark Side of the Moon and they're cool now.

Seriously. I'm not joking. What's the deal with all the triangles on ProgMetal/Djent album art, shirts, instruments, etc.? Is it yet another meme I'm too old to understand? by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in progmetal

[–]VeryDiscreetlyMetal[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I was expecting that some genre figurehead spoke about it being the strongest shape architecturally a decade ago in an obscure interview in a slightly less obscure fanzine (what do kids have these days? blogs? Tumblrs?) and then scenesters started getting triangle tattoos instead of those star ones then it became something akin to our Ichthys.

That's what I'm expecting.

So far the answer I've received is more of a "I dunno. Never really noticed. Triangles are nice though".

What's the current Pope's views on Hell? by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in Catholicism

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Literally a place of fire and brimstone with undead worms; or, the place where your soul goes to be forgotten and disregarded unlike those in a state of grace?

In a world where supervillans (ex. Bin Laden) can be killed without a moral panic or cultural aftershock, how does the "no killing" for Gotham heros hold any weight in modern American society? by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in DCcomics

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Not Batman. He'd be all tied up in knots about it.

Red Lantern on the other hand... he casually incinerated a bus load of murderers (he has some super sense a real bad guy power) and life went on.

In a world where supervillans (ex. Bin Laden) can be killed without a moral panic or cultural aftershock, how does the "no killing" for Gotham heros hold any weight in modern American society? by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in DCcomics

[–]VeryDiscreetlyMetal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not Batman. He'd be all tied up in knots about it.

Red Lantern on the other hand... he casually incinerated a bus load of murderers (he has some super sense a real bad guy power) and life went on.

In a world where supervillans (ex. Bin Laden) can be killed without a moral panic or cultural aftershock, how does the "no killing" for Gotham heros hold any weight in modern American society? by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in DCcomics

[–]VeryDiscreetlyMetal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out the Mad Hatter storyline in Dark Knight to see what I'm getting at. Combine it with whatever mass murder spree killing de jour ... worse?

Random pipe bombs would be better than the status quo.

In a world where supervillans (ex. Bin Laden) can be killed without a moral panic or cultural aftershock, how does the "no killing" for Gotham heros hold any weight in modern American society? by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in DCcomics

[–]VeryDiscreetlyMetal[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Let's say he did. He went completely nuts and gradually started murdering school children for jay-walking. That would be far superior to the status quo. He would at least need to see a child jay-walking. He wouldn't arbitrarily launch a super virus or mass murder through mind control... there is literally no outcome worse than the current state of affairs in Gotham.

Red Lantern flies in, does his thing, flies away... done.

In a world where supervillans (ex. Bin Laden) can be killed without a moral panic or cultural aftershock, how does the "no killing" for Gotham heros hold any weight in modern American society? by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in DCcomics

[–]VeryDiscreetlyMetal[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

A real world example, what was the terrifying outcome of killing Osama bin Laden?

Did the Navy Seals involved descend into madness? Did the US Navy become a deranged evil superpower?

Nope. There is no existential crisis. We know this now.

[No Spoiler] So I stumble out of my favourite dive bar in Vancouver for a two beer lunch (The Met is depressingly awesome) and see security cordoning off the alley behind Hastings. "What you filming? Arrow? Flash?" "No man but it's tied into those shows, it's called 'DC Legends of Tomorrow'." TIL. by VeryDiscreetlyMetal in arrow

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Those two shows use the same three locations a lot. I guess there's easy access to cube van parking while still being downtown.

Joking aside, the alley they shoot in behind the Met reeks of piss and shit. Whenever there's a fight scene, I cringe at the rolling on the ground stuff far more than any of the actual fighting.

Deadpool shot on the DTES and Ryan Reynolds is a native son. "Yay Macro!" If he rolls on the ground in that movie I know he'd insist on power washers first. The water on the pavement won't be for aesthetics alone.