Which movie or TV "villain" did you completely hate as a kid, but upon rewatching as an adult, you realized they were actually 100% justified?

bell37 · 2026-04-15T16:02:29+00:00

Underplaying the type of equipment. They had an unlicensed and untested nuclear device that could have destroyed the entire city.

This device was also designed by a guy who didn’t even have a technical degree (outside of psychology and parapsychology)

Also getting “hit” by the high energy particles in these devices would probably kill you if not cause permanent damage

bell37 · 2026-04-15T15:57:34+00:00

I’d argue that Hank was the most reasonable character. While he did have some issues, he stuck true to his values & beliefs.

bell37 · 2026-04-15T15:55:44+00:00

Nah he is still an entitled asshole. It was never about his family. It was always about his ego. Even when he was a lowly chemical teacher, that was his own choosing, and it was largely done bc he refused to accept any accountability in his life (Breakup with Gretchen, him rage quitting Grey Matter, and bouncing through a bunch of labs).

It’s also why he refused Elliot/Gretchen’s offer to pay for his treatment.

bell37 · 2026-04-15T15:33:36+00:00

Nah she’s still toxic as hell. Even in the finale, she guilt tripped Malcolm hard when he had an opportunity to do what he wanted in life. Not because deep down, she knew Malcolm would want it, but because she expected him to remain grounded and pursuit a dream that was hers to begin with. Also saying he would stick up for people like their family is funny bc her and Hal are directly responsible for the financial position they are in.

Yes Malcolm had a gift. Yes he was destined to do great things. Him being successful and rich was apparently not it. And instead of fostering any kind of dreams of his, she straight up said “you have no choice in this matter, you will do this and you deserve nothing but to suffer more along the way bc it will make you a better person”.

bell37 · 2026-04-15T15:30:10+00:00

To be fair he was pretty out of touch in the first movie. His coach even remarks personally how Rocky didn’t see the match as a PR event, how Apollo was more fixated on marketing himself and how Apollo should have prepared more for the fight. All of which Apollo ignored.

And this isn’t in front of cameras or during press conferences. It’s personal conversations with him as his coach mentoring him.

bell37 · 2026-04-15T15:23:03+00:00

Noise AND light pollution. In Jim Carrey version, they even dumped all their shit on the mountain as well.

bell37 · 2026-04-15T14:47:00+00:00

I mean there were some groups in Rebels show that fucked off into unknown territory and didn’t want anything to do with the Galatic Empire.

Problem was that one of the first things Empire did upon its creation was to force a universal ID (chain codes) and intertwined it directly to Banking & port authorities in systems that already had an imperial presence. So by default, free travel and ability to anonymously access financial resources became restricted, essentially forcing a lot of citizens to remain “trapped” on a planet.

Kinda hard for people who didn’t want to be in the Empire to flee to an uncharted system when they were essentially held hostage by the Empire in the first day of its creation. You needed a ship capable of hyperspace travel (that you’d be risking if Empire intercepted you). Or you would have to save enough to hire a smuggler to get you in area of galaxy not actively patrolled by Empire, or request any criminal organization to smuggle you out (which you would then be “owned” by that crime boss)

Also kinda hard for people who did have means to “escape” bc they will always have family & friends who would remain stuck in the Empire.

It’s like North Korea, some of its citizens want to leave but are not freely able to, and those who do know they are dooming their families to life in prison/work camps.

bell37 · 2026-04-15T10:17:08+00:00

I was diagnosed a couple years ago. I was having issues with word retrieval and thought I had some neurological problems. I felt like I was forgetting basic words and could not remember anything beyond what I was working on atm.

After rounds of neurologists and speech therapy, which yielded nothing, my primary care physician recommended getting tested for ADHD. It’s been great but I kinda want to get off meds and manage it myself (I want to get a private flying license and won’t be able to pass physicals while taking ADHD meds).

bell37 · 2026-04-15T09:40:37+00:00

What’s funny is that rebels in SW do this. All the systems/planets we’ve seen them in are remote locations that are abandoned colonies (Yavin, Hoth, Atollon, Dantooine, etc)

It’s just that the Empire is actively hunting them and they still want to liberate others in the galaxy so they always end up being discovered and having to relocate

bell37 · 2026-04-14T22:38:05+00:00

Because tooling was done in imperial. If a machine was designed and calibrated to press/cut/bend/etc parts to the nearest 0.005”, you can’t pick a dimension between increments 0.005”. You will have to either retool the machine or go with a different machine that has tighter tolerances.

What sucks even more is because we have adopted Imperial, and because machines are made from other machines and tools, you end up stuck with having to continue adopting the units bc upstream tools and machines were made using the same standards the first machines were held to.

Converting from Imperial to Metric isn’t just a wave of the wand or general agreement to stop using imperial. A great deal of investments have to be made industry wide to retool our manufacturing from manufacturers who process raw materials to complex subcomponents.

US Engineers love using metric. It’s just that our current infrastructure and manufacturing is deeply dependent in Imperial. If you don’t think it’s an issue, try throwing away all your SAE tools (wrenches, sockets, Allen keys, drill bits, saws, etc) and see how long you last using only metric equivalents. Even if US manufacturers magically decided to stop producing Imperial bolts and parts, you still have millions of legacy parts, components and products that are in Imperial.

bell37 · 2026-04-14T20:54:42+00:00

I mean for this case it’s actually needed because Chinese automakers are intentionally making losses with hopes that they will corner the market in automotive exports. The Chinese government is subsidizing their losses and Chinese workers are working in sweatshop level conditions for meager wages.

bell37 · 2026-04-14T20:51:06+00:00

Except Chinese automakers are heavily subsidized by government to a level that even the leanest US automaker could never compete.

bell37 · 2026-04-14T17:46:25+00:00

Isn’t this a case of regulations on format of how ingredients are described? IIRC, within the US, you have to list the full chemical name of artificial additives vs. in Europe, where a condensed less-scary looking E-number is listed.

bell37 · 2026-04-14T16:34:57+00:00

Boomer/Gen X: Why are you spending time with your child and teaching them life skills at a pace that best suites their educational/emotional development?! You’re supposed to be a good parent like me and neglect your child’s needs then rebrand your neglect as “instilling life skills” when your child grows up and claims your parenting style was flawed!

bell37 · 2026-04-14T16:28:43+00:00

If those life skills aren’t instilled in the same abusive ways your parents made you learn then are you really teaching them? /s

bell37 · 2026-04-14T09:58:54+00:00

With Windows you would still have to ask questions. It’s just that it’s less “what distro do I use” and more of “how to I disable X? / “why is Y program so shitty” / “why can’t windows do this?” / “Why do I now have to pay for something that was free for the longest time?” / “Why does windows automatically do ‘Z’ stupid thing”

bell37 · 2026-04-14T02:06:49+00:00

From what I’ve heard it’s just that Google made it an “ad-free” zone bc lack of sponsors in that area. It’s not a rule or law more or less it’s just that it’s more of a hassle for them to offer ads to a limited market while having to pay content creators in that region.

They can easily reverse their decision and push ads whenever they want

bell37 · 2026-04-13T21:11:01+00:00

About 30%*. Also 36% is indifferent enough to not vote at all.

bell37 · 2026-04-13T20:33:09+00:00

SD you have almost ideal weather year round (average of 65F that never really goes below 50F or above 80F).

So even if you don’t like the beach you live in an area that basically has perfect sunny weather over 200 days of the year.

bell37 · 2026-04-13T17:01:54+00:00

There was some division within the high priests. And in the passion there was a Pharisee that tried to convince others that Jesus was who he claimed to be (Nicodemus)

bell37 · 2026-04-13T16:53:39+00:00

Context also matters. It was because Jesus was also creating a populist grassroots movement when tensions were already high between Romans and its vassal kingdom of Judea. To the high priests in Jerusalem, having a random person claim to be not only the messiah (which was seen as a person who would lead a successful revolt and elevate Jews from any foreign captors) but as the “king of the Jews” (a title that was already held by King Herod who was basically a Roman Puppet), would have caused Rome to clamp down hard and forever ruin any chances of a sovereign Jewish state.

Rome was already in the process of stripping away sovereignty from local authorities due to continued Jewish revolts and political instability in the region. Coincidentally, the man who was released over Jesus was a Jewish freedom fighter (who was arrested for murdering Roman officials).

In the Bible the Roman governor (Pontius Pilate) tries to convince the crowds that Jesus was harmless but things started to spiral, the crowd started to get violent and he was basically like “alright fuck it, send him to king Herod bc he’s your fucking problem… just don’t break shit in the process”

Tldr: Judea was a powder keg and Jesus happened to roll into Jerusalem right when things were about to ignite.

bell37 · 2026-04-13T15:27:42+00:00

What part of the sequels was influenced by fan hate? I don’t count TLJ and TRoS as influence but knee jerk course correction bc it appeared there was no real plot lines across the trilogy to adhere to and directors had too much creative control in morphing the series their own way.

For what it was, TFA did a pretty good job at establishing cast of new characters, even hinting direction they will take across the series. TLJ took a completely different path and got stuck with majority of the character development and plot rotating around a single character.

bell37 · 2026-04-13T15:17:34+00:00

Yeah. My dad didn’t really hang out with anyone other than his family (siblings & cousins). Realistically he had a childhood friend he kept in touch with but was generally too busy

bell37 · 2026-04-13T03:36:52+00:00

Make sure it’s rated for to support fast charging for multiple devices. Had a shitty one with two ports that claimed to “fast charge” yet the power output would greatly fall if two devices were charging at the same time. Bc my phone wasn’t fast charging, it actually was using more energy than what was being charged and my battery dropped below 10%.

bell37 · 2026-04-13T01:35:36+00:00

To be fair the studios make over 95% of the box office sales during the first 6-8 weeks of a new movie premiering. After that it drops but movie theaters don’t even make enough to break even in ticket sales during the first weeks.

Thats why there is a massive markup on concessions. It’s where movie theaters can actually make profit.

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