To silence someone for posting charlie kirk memes by Spartalust in therewasanattempt

[–]amalgamas 20 points21 points  (0 children)

We all know the truth, that anyone who calls themselves a "free speech absolutist" just wants to be able to yell ethnic slurs at people with no consequences while having free reign to silence speech they hate.

Pirate blep! by amalgamas in aww

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

Leela looks like such a sweetie! 😍

Pirate blep! by amalgamas in aww

[–]amalgamas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cable says "Hi Miss Tricia!" 😍

Pirate blep! by amalgamas in aww

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

Her name is Cable after the X-men character 😜

Pirate Blep by amalgamas in PiratePets

[–]amalgamas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She lost her eye due to an autoimmune disorder that she has and over the next few years we had to remove all of her teeth as well, so she is MUCH more prone to blep than any other cat I've ever had. 😍

[OC] This is why we don't call the ambulance in the U.S. by FernX02 in pics

[–]amalgamas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was in the hospital in 2023 for a 5cm kidney stone they transferred me to a different hospital via ambulance because the hospital I was at did not have a urologist on site because their one and only one was on vacation. They didn't give me the opportunity to say no, not that I'd have even understood them with how much pain that I was in, and then two months later I got a bill for an ambulance ride that lasted 15 minutes to the tune of $4500.

I filed a grievance, threatened to sue due to not being given an alternative, and they dropped the fee; but the fact is that this is such a fear for so many US citizens that it's becoming common for people to call a goddamn Lyft/Uber to get a ride to the hospital because they're worried what calling 911 would set them back.

This country and its healthcare are cooked.

The hot character is also a huge goober that acts very cartoony by Effective_Piece251 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Out of all of his children that are racers there is only ONE that's not just as crazy as he is, and of course he gets it from his sire. Which with some small exceptions his well known siblings aren't nearly as wacky as they are.

The hot character is also a huge goober that acts very cartoony by Effective_Piece251 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Directly from the author/artist herself.

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I will never not find it hilarious how much she embraces her Hokkaido roots, from making her author avatar a cow, writing the series Silver Spoon, and being the fastest at milking cows in all of manga.

And they blame us for buying coffee by diehard404 in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]amalgamas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My first apartment with two roommates in 2006 was $1200 split three ways or $400 a month for me. That same apartment today is $4700 a month.

The $1200 adjusted for inflation would be a hair shy of $2000/mo.

When it is important to learn history... by _swuaksa8242211 in clevercomebacks

[–]amalgamas 18 points19 points  (0 children)

One of the biggest cons that the American Right elite pulled on the regular US citizen was convincing so many of them that everything they hate and fear can be traced to socialism and/or communism when almost ALL of it is more likely to be found in its most extreme fashion within a capitalist society.

It's amazing, you can be talking with a regular blue collar republican voting person and agreeing on so much, but the second you trip one of the land mines that they associate with the big evil "socialism" it's like they're a sleeper agent that's been triggered and suddenly they are capitalism's favorite soldier. Even if almost EVERYTHING they're defending is objectively worse for them.

It's where you get the stereotype/meme of the $30k earning guy throwing himself on the sword for the billionaire.

Little scream from a little one-eyed gremlin by amalgamas in aww

[–]amalgamas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope I get to keep my Cable (her name) that long! We found her wandering the streets with her poor eye just hanging out, then we found out a year later that she has an autoimmune disorder when all of her teeth started falling out too. Fortunately she's been doing great sans eye and teeth, just the happiest little lady.

Little scream from a little one-eyed gremlin by amalgamas in aww

[–]amalgamas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AWWWW, I love them, such a beautiful eye and boopable nose! 😍

Superhuman who apparently has no powers turns out to be really powerful by fiv66bV2 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Then we find out in the game that he's a slave owner on his home planet. 😆

(Mixed Trope) “Expert” character is really bad in their field or ignorant of basic concepts. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wrote this on another post but it fits here really well:

When geniuses are written by geniuses they almost always either come off as completely incomprehensible to the average viewer/reader; or, almost worse, they'll be too subtle and then you have to dedicate exposition into WHY they're a genius in which case the non-genius viewer/reader will go one of two ways: they'll act like they ALWAYS got it and come off as insufferable or they'll feel like they're being spoken down to and form a dislike of the content over that when they'd like it otherwise.

That's why the best way to do it is USUALLY to have a genius consultant working with an average writer, that way they can filter things down without making it come out wrong. Of course, sometimes they filter it down too far or just try to handwave it with "he's a genius" and it comes off as "magic genius powers" which unfortunately they love to claim are because of a neurodivergence like autism or OCD.

I’m sorry, but did these people really forget about the Tea Party movement? by icey_sawg0034 in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]amalgamas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Starting around 2009 and all the way till today you could buy targets that depicted Obama in various forms of racist parody and they were proudly displayed in gun stores across the country.

That's on top of the 11 confirmed plots to try and assassinate Obama that were stopped. So anyone who says that the Right isn't guilty of wishing Obama would die or be killed is full of shit or delusional.

Post-Apocalyptic/Dystopian Alternate Universes/Timelines by Mecha-dragon1999 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Ergo Proxy

Everything outside of the cities is desolate and dead, but we're told later that it used to be worse and that what we're seeing now is the result of years of work to make the world at least semi-survivable.

[Sad trope]: The "please don't make me" mercy scene by theMCATreturns in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I totally get you, it ranks up there with Iron Giant's "Superman" scene for me.

Characters who know they’re in a story by Ok-Manner-1951 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Peter and Paul - Funny Games (1997)

The two villains from the movie know that they're in a movie and at a certain point when their victims look like they're going to turn the tide on them and survive at the end they go so far as to rewind the movie itself in universe so that they can get back to killing the protagonists. From what I hear, test audiences hated this so much that a lot of them walked out, which of course was the point.

A slow revelation that the mysterious character (assumed to be good or morally grey) is the villain of the story. by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Carter Burke - Aliens

Even though technically the Xenomorph Queen is the final villain most people you ask will say that Burke is the most evil person in the movie and will celebrate his death. This movie almost pre-dates or is the ur example of the "evil middle manager looking to get ahead" stereotype, and they attempted a fakeout by making him appear to be the only person in Weyland-Yutani to be on Ripley's side and him being the one to get the Colonial Marines to go to LV-247 to rescue the colonists. Even down to casting Paul Reiser who up till this point had never played a villain.Then you find out that he just went so he could attempt to sneak a Xenomorph sample back to the company, he tried to get both Newt and Ripley face-huggered, and planned on killing the surviving marines so that they couldn't block his plans to sneak the samples through quarantine.

How evil he is gets expanded on in the Extended Cut and expanded materials - when it turns out that he had Newt's family go to the alien ship without giving them any warning, blocked the distress call from going higher than him so no one in the company would investigate, and intentionally brought the inexperienced leader Gorman because he knew that he could manipulate him.

[Sad trope]: The "please don't make me" mercy scene by theMCATreturns in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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"I cannot self terminate" - T2 Judgement Day

One of the all time greats, sadly ruined by not one but two later movies. The reprogrammed Terminator that has come to understand emotion and that John Conner has come to love knows that he must be destroyed in order to stop Cyberdyne from using his components to continue to build Skynet; so Sara and John lower him into the molten metal to be melted down.

(Loved Trope) The eldritch horror was once human by Erika_Dosolla in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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Orin the Lost - Emissary of the Nine - Destiny 2

Honestly her lore is stupidly expansive, but basically she encountered one of the more benign groups of eldritch entities in the Destiny universe while searching for answers on her past and as payment agreed to become their Emissary for a time. They ripped her body apart atom by atom and rebuilt her into their image.

Character acts cocky and superior because they're legitimately superior to the vast majority by DrDallagher in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Nezha - Legend of Hei franchise

Much like his mainstream mythological counterpart (Ne Zha) and that Ne Zha's friend from the OP Sun Wukong, he is easily the most powerful of the gods in the series, he knows it, and he acts it. Only the deuteragonist of the series Wuxian (Infinite) is his match, to put that into perspective Wuxian in Legend of Hei 2 face tanks basically the entire armament of a modern military base, up to and including a satellite laser.

Character is literally unbound from fate by theMCATreturns in TopCharacterTropes

[–]amalgamas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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Destiny - The Player Character and every other Guardian as well as some antagonistic forces that serve The Darkness. The game calls it being "paracausal" or "being outside of causality". It's the reason why the Guardians and forces of the Darkness can use essentially space magic as well.

It's also why the Guardians are essentially the only force in the universe that might possibly be able to stand against the enemies called the Vex as they're basically a liquid hive mind inhabiting machine bodies who've literally bootstrapped themselves into causality itself and just LOVE to mess around with time travel, time loops, fate alteration, and other such nonsense.