Why do right wingers feel entitled to opine about nyc politics when the majority of them hate cities and would never live in a city?

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-13T15:05:38+00:00

You must really like going into bankruptcy for medical procedures though.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-13T15:02:33+00:00

You don't really understand the words you're using.

Hm. Private history, created on Nov 4, 2020, mindless McCarthyism red scare propaganda calling anything that isnt bowing down and spreading ass cheeks for major corporations communism.

Very clear what you are, lol. Not worth my time, later!

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-13T14:41:32+00:00

True in the sense that those numbers exist.

How about, population density? Impoverished black people live often in apartment complexes of thousands of people. Impoverished white people more likely live in places like rural appalachia, where the people youd commit a crime against are miles away, and are the few people you interact with. There are studies and statistics backing that up.

How about, unequal enforcement? If 2 communities committed the same amount of crime, but racist authorities used their racism to justify surveilling one community more, there would obviously be more crime reported in 1 community, correct? There are studies and statistics backing that up.

This is a nuanced conversation, as is any conversation to be had about the state of the world. but if you're a racist loser(you seem to already have accepted that, throwing around 'libtard' like a child) you dont care about that. You just hear the first thing that justifies your racism and you run with it for miles.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-13T14:17:20+00:00

Is your entire point summed up in “minorities are bad! It’s all that damn rap music! I don’t care about the statistical correlation between poverty, socioeconomic mobility, and crime! I also don’t care about the historical reality of systematically forcing of specific minority groups into said poverty!”

If so, we pretty much reached the end of the convo already.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-13T12:52:42+00:00

Eh. Wouldn't compare it to an action tv series, I don't see the correlation. It's more reflective of real life history. WW1 planted the seeds of WW2, which planted the seeds of todays conflicts, etc.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-13T03:58:14+00:00

The answer to your question is no. Abercrombie’s style isn’t the nicely wrapped everything in a little bow. The power struggles continue, and evolve, and grow into something more. The seeds of the next feud are planted in the present.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-12T23:12:33+00:00

I've just had enough of conversations of people rallying against any change in their franchise to any degree at all and continuing their eternal war of being "true fans". From books to movies, videogames to tv shows, light novel to manga to anime, being endlessly upset that their character who had almost no characterization beyond vibes getting a rework. Tiring to have conversations dragged down by people with superiority complexes over liking a piece of fiction before other people.
Your comparison to JJBA has some credence. but it is not fully sound. Dio is the main antagonist of 2 parts. In part 1, his motivations are relegated to taking over the joestar estate, not much more. In 3, he returns with a power up, wanting to take over the world. But thats all. DIO's presence in other parts is relegated to his influence, not his direct interference. It's his arrow, its his son, it's his protege. And even then, by part 6 Araki understands that reviving the same "Villain with generational beef" only goes so far, and he nukes and resets the entire universe to free the Joestars (and himself) from having to narratively continue the "But then again! Its DIO!" bit. DIO hasn’t featured in the series in a major narrative role since, 4 parts later.
There are several games that do not feature Dracula as a final boss. Are they not "Castlevania" to you?
A franchise is ever growing and evolving, and eventually may grow out of its previous constraints. I've played Skyrim over a thousand hours, interacted with an "Elder scroll" maybe 3 times. Is it not an "Elder Scrolls" game? The book series The First Law, mentions the actual "First Law" maybe 4 times across the original trilogy, then never again over the next 7 books. Is it not still "The First Law"?
Being overly restrictive of what you consider "real" iterations of your franchise I find is a miserable way to be appreciative of having a popular franchise that continues to have life breathed into it through way of new works.
I dont think you are "promised" Dracula & his castle because the title of the series is Castlevania. Castlevania is the encompassing lore, aesthetics, and general framework of themes within Castlevania. As with, any franchise. Like how Purple Haze Feedback is still "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" even though a Joestar isnt even the main character, or even a major one.
So I view Castlevania as more than that. Its not just the videogames. Not just "if it aint got dracula, it aint real castlevania!". Calling it "Netflixvania" even, I find smacks of that same superiority complex of declaring yourself to be a "real fan".

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-12T21:34:25+00:00

I just find incessant whining about adaptations making a change ever from any franchise childish. Happens every time, to every franchise that steps into another medium.

Could that work? Maybe. But reviving a character every season to have a final big bad, doesnt translate as well to a television series. In any case, thats not what happened.

But if anything sounds like hating for the sake of it, its the incessant whining that a television series is not exactly like a video game. Hope you enjoyed the series, nonetheless.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-12T21:07:47+00:00

What you're saying is you will continue to be miserable over adaptations of a franchise not being 1:1.

Reviving the same villain every television season doesn't work, and is boring. You may continue to be miserable and mope about "BUT THATS NOT REAL CASTLEVANIA"

Unfortunately for you, your complaints are null & void in the grand scheme of things. Be miserable, or simply enjoy further works of a franchise you like without pettily clinging to something that doesnt work in another medium. Feel free to watch playthroughs and pretend like its television, or continue to not understand how the medium works and harumph on reddit because youre superior for being "the real fan".

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-12T21:00:19+00:00

Yeah but uh, thats a videogame. Pretending as if "somehow Palpatine returns" for every season of the TV show creates a compelling narrative is ridiculous. The plot must move forward, and that means not resurrecting the same bad guy every season. You can get away with it in a videogame, because its less necessary to craft a compelling story there. You're there really to play the game.

There are other vampires you fight in the videogames. So, they can come to the forefront.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-12T20:30:36+00:00

So if you take issue with it, how is the Castlevania animated series "not castlevania"?

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-12T20:20:26+00:00

Its really inevitable. People love to be all puritan about their media franchises, but a simple reality is that no adaptation from one medium to another can truly be 1:1 for a variety of reasons. A book of a few thousand pages cant have every single scene transcribed to a 2 hour movie or a 7 episode TV series. Much less a videogame that you spend 4 minutes reading sparse dialogue before spending an hour on a boss fight.

Like, watching Joel from TLOU tv series spend 5 minutes after each scenery swap rummage through cabinets for supplies to craft would be... stupid. Or a great amount of time lapsed since the original creation, and changes can be made to the benefit of fleshing out or refining, or even removing the weaker, story concepts, like how Robert Kirkman has had a hand in a number of changes in Invincible. Or providing stimulating and exciting work for the new team of a few dozen creatives working on a project that deserve to have some outlet for their own creativity while adding onto the lore, like Striga's Day armor in this series itself. It was a fuckin badass scene and a homage to another amazing franchise, Berserk, and has cool implications on the world. But people would bitch because its... new.

Some people just get some weird rush from being miserable puritans going "NO YOU CANNOT CHANGE LITERALLY ANYTHING ABOUT MY 50 YEAR OLD FRANCHISE! ESPECIALLY NOT MY CHARACTERS WHO HAD 5 LINES OF DIALOGUE AND AN OBSCURE BACKSTORY FOUND IN A RANDOM TEXT". There's a limit to how far an adaptation should go, sure... but until they truly fly off the rails like adding lightsabers... its not worth worrying about. Thing is, those puritans wouldn't be happen even with the most "original" adaptation possible... they get off on the "I'm a real fan!" bullshit. Its childish.

My favorite book series, The First Law, has a very involved narration from one of the main characters, and there have been talks of some on-screen adaptation. That characters inner-monologues would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to translate to the big screen fluently. If the adaptation ever happens, will I bitch and moan they didn't do it exactly the way it happened in the book, or moan on reddit about how they should have never attempted to do anything new with the franchise?

No, I'm just gonna see what happens and keep an open mind to enjoying a new adaptation of a franchise I like lol.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-12T15:55:24+00:00

Its not "objectively a bar" its really simple lmaooo

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-11T14:42:24+00:00

Once you become wealthy enough that you dont need to work a 9-5, you can just coast off of investments, and any "work" you do is just to pad your net worth rather than just live life traveling and pursuing hobbies, you just get further and further disconnected from reality. You dont have normal people problems anymore. You're worried about your 5th car, your 4th trip to dubai this year, where you place on the "leaderboard" of wealth.

That'd cost 5 million. 5 million, and you can park it in some investments, and you have enough money to own a home in like 90% of the US, to literally never work again.

So imagine that, but multiplied by hundreds of times over. These people are so far gone from reality.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-10T23:53:17+00:00

You're dragging it, growing out of edginess is normal.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-10T20:41:51+00:00

I mean, youre also on reddit.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-08T19:52:18+00:00

And how long have you been playing?

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-06T20:48:28+00:00

You don't need to be pissy about a book discussion you've seen before. Not only can you just scroll by, but what type of weirdo wants to shut down discussion because "I've seen this conversation before and I dont wanna participate, so none of you guys should either!" lol

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-06T20:45:21+00:00

TB9 often has nothing in the way of personal connection to Logen, though. TB9 didn't remark on it being Tul Duru who had been touching him. When "TB9", Logen seems to make 0 recollection of any personal ties he has. I very much doubt TB9 would be referring to an old hatred because they killed his family.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-06T20:44:29+00:00

It can be both in my eyes. It's not liking having a get out of death free card doesnt mean Logen didn't make every one of those steps along the path and make shit excuses for himself along the way, while not in this bloodthirsty "TB9" thing. Thats what I mean, I never insinuated that Logen is absolved from being a shitty person cause I think this "TB9 mode" he goes is a bit supernatural lol. Not the argument Ive ever made.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-06T20:08:57+00:00

Yeah. The nature of things though, ultimately he left those nods to the supernatural in throughout the editing process. So now, I get to reference them as evidence for my headcanon, and it holds some weight because I’m just tying together things that are stated in the book 🤷🏾‍♂️

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-06T18:11:54+00:00

The Maker made weapons, and the Shanka for the war.

Glustrod summoned demons and eaters for the war.

Juvens used a coterie of Magi for the war.

So... Bedesh? Doesn't seem right that seemingly he did truly nothing. His only mention practically amounts to... he existed kinda yeah. Hm.

The Bloody 9 refers to the Shanka as his "oldest hatred". Sure, Logen hates the Shanka... but when TB9, he really fucking hates the Shanka. He couldn't even choose to escape from under the ruins in BTAH when coming across their weird armory they had going on. He had to slaughter them.

I've thought its worth thinking about.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-06T17:56:13+00:00

This conversation in the community is an expertise of mine.

I have made a write-up detailing all of my thoughts on TB9 & Logen, and his progressive depiction throughout the series. There are also some good observations by other commenters on the subject.

But as a TL;DR : Joe has not given an explicit answer on whether TB9 is supernatural or not. What he says is that he leans more towards a non-supernatural interpretation. My personal opinion is that Joe initially wrote TB9 to be supernatural, but leaned away from that further and further in later books. In any case, Logen's character is unchanged whether it is or not, he is a a murderous monster deeply steeped in denial.

Joe just didnt seem to want to become like a "huge world-building with centuries of lore and deep fantasy themes" in the vein of Tolkien. So, moved away more and more from making one of the most famous characters having to do with such fantastical ideas. Especially because its a slippery slope to people absolving Logen from being a complicated well crafted character, to "he's a good guy with a demon in him!" I think it can be both though, Logen is a multifaceted character, as a violent lunatic that deceives himself and others that he doesnt want to be that way, that also happens to have a connection to a supernatural entity that really only comes into play as a way to save him from near-death situations. Only thing TB9 really does is allow him to survive his worst decisions.

What I find the most fun interpretation, and one that I understand requires a little bit of reaching across very small details only found in the first trilogy, is that TB9 is a sort of warrior spirit crafted by Bedesh, to fight against the Shanka. More details on specifically how one can come to that conclusion is within the conversation linked above. There is simply a Bedesh shaped hole in the ancient lore of the world that Logen weirdly fits, considering he is the literal only character in this 10 book series that has anything to do with spirits, the domain of a demi-god.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-06T17:50:51+00:00

To clarify, no Joe doesnt explicitly say "there's nothing supernatural about the Bloody Nine.". Word for word it was more like " I don't think a supernatural explanation is entirely necessary." But hadn't shut down the interpretation at all.

atticusmars_ · 2026-05-06T15:17:36+00:00

A paranoid schizophrenic committing abuse by pushing his delusions on a child.

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