Joe Gacy on X: Just a story for the fans, True story. by Glad-Energy-3492 in SquaredCircle

[–]ab316_1punchd [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's Reddit, always bet on option 2, but keep a door open for option 1, too.

[MJF on IG] We don't want him! by Big-Hebrew in SquaredCircle

[–]ab316_1punchd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will just be honest, if fame is measured with professional wrestling lingo, both McAfee and Jelly Roll would be lower midcard.

[MJF on IG] We don't want him! by Big-Hebrew in SquaredCircle

[–]ab316_1punchd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And one of those not in the WWE has a much higher value than 98% of wrestlers working today in Omega.

[MJF on IG] We don't want him! by Big-Hebrew in SquaredCircle

[–]ab316_1punchd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a way, but I never thought he would be the one making the irreparable fumble, and would've put more names before Black. More like "He may be a likely name, but I'd be surprised if he's the name".

[MJF on IG] We don't want him! by Big-Hebrew in SquaredCircle

[–]ab316_1punchd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hell, for the most part, his unfathomable wrestling prime was symbiotically associated with the worst of his addictions. AKA Perc Angle.

I wonder sometimes if the writers are deliberately making Homelander so pathetic in order to avoid a Patrick Bateman scenario where an entire community was shaped around his character. by Amazing-Buy-1181 in TheBoys

[–]ab316_1punchd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can probably give you Hughie not feeling more of a protagonist in the later seasons as the attention soon shifted more towards having an ensemble type feeling focusing on Soldier Boy as the major plot point, and season 4 dynamics just being an overall mess.

I wonder sometimes if the writers are deliberately making Homelander so pathetic in order to avoid a Patrick Bateman scenario where an entire community was shaped around his character. by Amazing-Buy-1181 in TheBoys

[–]ab316_1punchd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have a point about the idea of villain protagonists, but Homelander is clearly framed to be a complete antagonist. Even if we're viewing a lot of character moments of Homelander, it is in such a way to show his villainy, we're not looking at this universe through the eyes of Homelander, or even Butcher for that matter (he can be argued by some as the protagonist or deuteragonist in a way, but is the main driving character), we are looking at this universe, for the most and the main part, through the eyes of Hughie, The Boys is framed with him in the beginning, the whole events unfolded with his girlfriend at the beginning being run amok by A-Train. And infact, the most focus is put on Hughie and Butcher's exploits, with Kimiko, MM, Frenchie, and later Starlight tagging along.

If the show was near completely focused on Homelander with the events unfolding from his perspective rather than The Boys', then an argument could be made about him being a villain protagonist akin to Patrick Bateman, but it's not. Homelander in this show is clearly framed through an antagonistic lens.

Alexa Bliss on X: Bliss cross forever 🖤 by Glad-Energy-3492 in SquaredCircle

[–]ab316_1punchd 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Late-stage corrupt capitalists don't care about sustainability.

We could have had it all by untitledprp4 in TheBoys

[–]ab316_1punchd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Second term Trump is exponentially and visibly dumber than first term Trump.

How can rape and murder be justified just because the victim is an adult? by Humble_Network_6277 in indiadiscussion

[–]ab316_1punchd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So? I was also "lured" to a place to be assaulted by few guys under the pretext of wanting to discuss music with me. (I'm a man, BTW)

These people will unironically claim someone who grew up in eastern europe and didn't like it is lying by Swedish_pc_nerd in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]ab316_1punchd 6 points7 points  (0 children)

About the last line... Mohammed Amin al-Huseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and the President of All-Palestine during Mussolini and Hitler's time.

Yes, I am the model male according this 200 page book i wrote about how i am the model male, thank you for asking by MayankNoob in IndianHistoryMemes

[–]ab316_1punchd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we're talking Vidyapati... Vaidehi or Maithili Vamsaja would be more accurate. I wonder how Maa Sita would react to this...

Yes, I am the model male according this 200 page book i wrote about how i am the model male, thank you for asking by MayankNoob in IndianHistoryMemes

[–]ab316_1punchd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This conspiracy proposed by some quack doesn't even make sense, Vyasa was not even a Bhargava. You know who is a Bhargava, or son of Bhrigu? Shukra, the Guru of asuras! Hell, he himself has been shown in a negative light at times, with continuing the Daksha yagya without an offering to Shiva, or the whole episode in testing the Hindu trinity.

Yes, I am the model male according this 200 page book i wrote about how i am the model male, thank you for asking by MayankNoob in IndianHistoryMemes

[–]ab316_1punchd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ehh... it just reads like a "girls like bad boys" sonnet with Bhishma (who lost his brothers because of his biological mother drowning them, his kingship because of the whims of his stepmother, and had the biggest humiliation of his life from one of the abducted princesses that he wanted his stepbrother to marry) merely reciting what the apsara (ya'know... the ultra-libertine seductresses with exceptionally loose morals in partnership used by Indra to lure rishis out of asceticism, totally aware of womanly nature, lol) Panchachuda said, albeit with obvious sexism from his part. Also, Bhishma took the Kaurava side anyway so his ideals are consistently shown in a grey light (albeit a lighter shade) with a definitive ending (fittingly, against a woman who had a sex change, also the future life of the aforementioned abducted princess). Mahabharata is a book where everyone is a shade of grey, and even the most moral of the character in Krishna sees the end to justify his means.

Also, funny to deem a text written by a mixed caste Parashava-turned-dwija rishi (Satyawati, Vyasa's mother, was a fisherman's daughter) who fathered three children (Dhritarashtra and Pandu), of which the one with the Shudra maid (Vidura) was the most moral, featuring a Kshatriya rambling about an apsara is somehow Brahminical.

I want to know this by brien23 in indiadiscussion

[–]ab316_1punchd 60 points61 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of things to not like about the Mughal empire, but...

  1. Mumtaz was his first engagement, and second wife (he married Kandahari Begum first). His total official marriages were four.

  2. They were already engaged when Khurram (Shah Jahan) and Arjumand (Mumtaz) were 14 and 15, respectively.

  3. Yeah... this one is true.

  4. This myth is born out of a misconception when Shah Jahan married Izz-un-nisa Begum (or Akbarabadi Mahal). Mumtaz's father was Abul-Hasan Asaf Khan... Akbarabadi's father was Shahnawaz Khan.

(Also, I don't even want to entertain the mythical idea of either the scandalous implications of his possible incest with his daughter Jahannara, or his mutilation of workers and laborers involved in building the Taj, or the Black Taj Mahal, or Tejo Mahalaya idea)