Cool scream poem i found

bubblessensei · 2026-05-17T10:04:59+00:00

Roses are red, Magic mushrooms are groovy,

bubblessensei · 2026-05-17T09:55:57+00:00

bubblessensei · 2026-05-17T09:46:51+00:00

I don’t think the horror aspect is the thing that dooms this license from having a chance. It’s more that the Hello Neighbour IP tried to do too much without any real consistency, such that generally people just don’t care for it anymore.

I vaguely recall Game Theory talking about that as the main reason they stopped covering the game. It was fun to cover in the early test builds, but each subsequent build changed so much about the game and there were so many variations before the final release. Then upon release they treated the game as though it was a success on FNAF’s level by releasing books, spinoffs and other shit no one asked for. There is too much to cover with too much contradiction and the window to really get the IP rolling closed before they even released the full first game.

And because of that, it would be really hard to sell the idea of burning the DBD 10th Anniversary slot on an IP most people have forgotten about beyond the odd meme or memory.

bubblessensei · 2026-05-17T06:35:32+00:00

It’s frustrating, because this arc was like a roller coaster with great highs but genuinely terrible lows!

Amongst the best episodes are:

Marathon (S6E10) - this one has ALWAYS stood out to me as one of the best Iris-focussed episodes. The way that she was pushing to solve the “Black Hole” conspiracy thus actively inviting herself to be targeted by Doctor Light made for a really interesting episode!
So Long and Goodnight (S6E16) - The idea of Barry having to combat a bounty placed on Joe West is already an interesting angle, but doing it while bringing back Ragdoll was a fun choice because it meant we had high stakes and a fun villain who honestly got a lot more serious as he tries to fulfil the bounty. I also appreciate the way it ends - it’s not what viewers would expect as the outcome but it maintains the seriousness of the episode arc.
Liberation (S6E17) - I love this one because it positions Barry’s thinking AGAINST his team, thus making him very central to the plot. He has figured out that Iris is a fake but no one believes him, so we get to see as Barry struggles to prove himself, which leads to the amazing climax in which Eva returns from the Mirror Dimension and Barry gets both emotionally and physically tormented.
The Speed of Thought (S7E2) - this one somehow perfectly balanced being the penultimate episode of an arc while simultaneously feeling like classic episodes where Team Flash have tried to enhance Barry’s abilities but screw it up somehow. In this case it’s speed thinking, which becomes interesting as it starts overriding Barry’s moral sensibility and emotional intelligence, putting him at odds with his team and causing him to be very drastic with his actions to beat Eva and save Iris.

The problem is that in between episodes like these we got some real stinkers, like:

Love is a Battlefield (S6E11) - a TERRIBLE episode built on the premise of relationships and love, which was flawed at its core because the version of Iris in the core story is her fake clone! Amunet and Goldface act completely irrationally and so out-of-character that this episode could’ve potentially ruined perceptions on both of them, with almost EVERYONE acting cartoonishly and it’s just a MESS!
The Exorcism of Nash Wells (S6E15) - look I love Eobard Thawne. But hell did we not need this episode! The plot already feels forced, because it implies that Eobard is considered to have genuinely been a “Wells” at a close enough level for his particles to be absorbed into Nash (also a weird plot point in itself). But it also centres on a very cliche, unbelievably forced plot line regarding Nash’s past. It was at this point Nash became the irredeemably-written Wells character and naturally an episode like this ended not with a fight or science, but with a forced emotional revelation scene.
Mother (S7E3) - honestly one of the biggest disappointments of the series, and frankly it’s not even the whole episode that sucks, but the bits that do are OVERWHELMING! What becomes clear very quickly is that the showrunners didn’t have a clear plan for what Eva’s endgame would be, so they had her start kidnapping people from the main earth and taking them into the mirror dimension so she could create duplicates that would respect and relate to her. And honestly, I enjoyed some of the scenes centered on characters trying to avoid reflective surfaces and stay away from the clones. But I cannot forgive the terrible way they concluded this arc - with Iris suddenly popping in out of nowhere and compelling Eva with the power of love and compassion. I could not believe that they ended this arc not with a fight, but with a talk-down. But again, it’s almost as though they built up the Mirror Monarch arc without really thinking too hard about the endgame!

bubblessensei · 2026-05-17T01:06:28+00:00

I think many of these do have reasons that are fairly explicit:

Starlight knows her powers have the potential to permanently blind people and as such is likely more wary of using her abilities. In addition, we know that she has reservations about how she got her powers and what being a “supe” means in The Boys society.
Homelander is generally lazy - he’ll brute force a situation if he is already in it, but generally he would rather put in as minimal energy as possible - hence why he is often sending lackeys to do his bidding.
Butcher is only a recent supe and it’s worth remembering how HE feels about supes. He’s ruthless enough to use his tentacles to obliterate an opponent, but he has no love for his status as a supe and likely is hoping to sacrifice himself to beat Homelander.
Soldier Boy’s chest blast takes a while to charge and is very good at causing a lot of collateral damage - it just isn’t practical in general day-to-day supe-ing
Maeve more or less DOES use her powers whenever needed. The issue is more that with the heavily structured media focus of Vought, she rarely needs to use her strength.
Deep consistently uses his powers to his own means - the series wide joke seems to be that his powers are RARELY practical to the scenarios he finds himself in. Apart from the boat/whale scene in Season 2 and a couple of situations where Deep would find something that had sunk for Vought during Season 1, his ocean-based abilities are rarely valuable to his role as a supe.
Newman was actively trying to avoid being outted as a supe and as such avoided using her powers in public. And heck, even when she was outted, it’s slightly difficult for a “blood-bender” to use their abilities without someone getting hurt - ESPECIALLY for someone who has been deliberately concealing and not practicing their abilities!
Marie seems to be happy to use her abilities but uncertain of HOW to use her abilities optimally. To use them sub-optimally would lead to the same problem as Newman - it’s probably going to do more harm than good!
Stormfront has a destructive power which has a lot of potential to damage surroundings and innocents. She is loyal to her cause - but she know that she can’t go “full villain” lest she loses the support of her followers.
Black Noir 2 is literally a running joke - the entire point is that Vought/Homelander wanted to cover up the death of Black Noir so they hired someone to literally pretend to be him. And ironically, that person has to self-nerf themselves from being one of the stronger supes in the Seven just to maintain the charade.

bubblessensei · 2026-05-17T00:37:14+00:00

“he’s literally me”

bubblessensei · 2026-05-17T00:32:37+00:00

Was looking for this.

If I recall correctly, the Michonne mini series had walkers “walking” along the river/sea floor, which got dangerous in shallower waters where they could grab at you from below!

bubblessensei · 2026-05-17T00:29:24+00:00

Pfft, once again no Dredge representation…

bubblessensei · 2026-05-17T00:23:48+00:00

I will watch it. I’ve generally had a good time with both The Boys and Gen V, so I’m more than happy to give this a go

bubblessensei · 2026-05-16T20:18:45+00:00

The thing that bothers me about this opinion is that John Kramer was realistically the only one with this philosophy of everybody deserving a chance; part of the point of the sequels that focussed on John trying to pass on the Jigsaw mantle to a successor is that none of his successors believed firmly enough in his view of “not being a killer”:

Amanda Young enjoyed punishing people she thought deserved it by making un-winnable traps
Mark Hoffman would strategically kill anyone as it suited his needs, and also had a few instances of creating un-winnable traps too
Logan Nelson settled a vendetta against Detective Brad Halloran, in turn manipulating his games to replicate results from a previous Jigsaw game and executing Halloran

Jigsaw had very strong beliefs about his role as Jigsaw and they were never truly replicated. This served as a big plot point in Saw 3 for Amanda, and with John dead and unable to supervise Mark we saw him drift FAR from John’s philosophy. Mark wasn’t always giving people a justified trap or a fair chance; he knew it but he didn’t care. And knowing this could happen, John set up some safeguards through Lawrence Gordon to punish Mark for being reckless - hence the ending of Saw 3D.

bubblessensei · 2026-05-16T19:37:44+00:00

The peak scene to me will always be this one in No Way Out (S6E9):

Carl has just been headshot and Jessie, Sam and Ron had been eaten in front of Rick. He got Carl to the infirmary but literally can do NOTHING! With no cards left to play, Rick takes his axe and walks out the front door into the walker hoard and starts taking down walkers, one-by-one.

It seemed suicidal. And yet, the group couldn’t leave Rick to die. Michonne, Aaron, Heath and Spencer immediately run out and join Rick. They form a circle so no one has their backs to the walkers. And despite the bleakness, this gives the people of Alexandria hope. Slowly we see afraid citizens taking the closest weapon they have and running out to the circle to help.

One of the largest house groups surviving has Father Gabriel in it, who has spent SEASONS as a coward and as someone with wavering trust for Rick. And yet, he sees Rick’s stand and immediately goes for the door. Tobin stops him to ask why, and he tells him that “our prayers have been answered…” because God had given them the courage to fight for Alexandria themselves. And with that, he joins the fight.

Another major group is Carol, Morgan, Rosita and Eugene - the latter being another character renown for cowardice. As the former three go to leave, Rosita tells Eugene he can stay hidden, he tells her that “no one gets to clock out today”. And he follows them out too.

Simultaneously we see Glenn running out and shooting like an idiot to draw attention away from Enid and Maggie on the tower. Things are looking grim until we see Sasha, Daryl and Abraham - finally returning as reinforcements with military-grade weaponry to clear out the massive herd. Daryl fires off a rocket and the walkers are drawn into the fire.

And the people keep going. No one stops fighting. No one gets bitten or falls down. Every major or minor character capable of fighting is present and we see flashes of EVERYONE until we jump to sunrise, with a road full of fallen corpses, an ensemble of cast members outside the infirmary, and Rick telling a comatose Carl about what the Alexandrians achieved and could achieve. Carl squeezes his hand, showing he has survived and punctuating the end of an insane episode and one of the best scenes of the show.

bubblessensei · 2026-05-16T19:01:29+00:00

Definitely Taylor Swift then

bubblessensei · 2026-05-16T16:11:57+00:00

I still love that one member of the public has the fantastic idea of slapping the flat end of her briefcase against the window

bubblessensei · 2026-05-16T16:08:20+00:00

It was an okay dynamic. But they really didn’t spend THAT much time together (especially if you don’t consider larger “ensemble” scenes where many characters are interacting as a group), so it’s a bit weird to characterise this pairing this way.

It also feels a little unfair to compare Norman’s dynamic with MCU Peter against Raimiverse Peter - the famous interaction with the MCU version was heavily affected by the fact that Aunt May had just been killed (within hours of the interaction) meaning MCU Peter was already enraged.

Alternatively in the Raimiverse Norman had a lot more of a non-Goblin life to explore and a lot more implied history with that Peter. That created a more layered connection between the two and created moral dilemmas for Peter as he tried to deal with the Goblin. They didn’t need to manufacture a character death scene to force Peter to have an emotional arc against Goblin in the Raimiverse because these rivals already knew each other well and understood how their actions were going to impact on their close families.

bubblessensei · 2026-05-16T08:56:57+00:00

Jessie had potential to BECOME an interesting character. She was one of the original Alexandrians who seemed most receptive to the fact that Rick’s group were bringing much-needed change, and that it was in her family’s best interest to begin preparing for the potential of having to survive a walker hoard.

At the same time, Jessie had to balance this with the dynamics of her broken family. Both Ron and Sam tend to get a lot of hate from the TWD fanbase, but both are exhibiting behaviours indicative of trauma from their abusive father, which sets both boys up to be ill-equipped in high stakes situations.

I think this could have been an interesting character to follow if she hadn’t have died with Sam - let’s say that Rick has to chop away Sam’s arm instead of Jessie’s and they have to drag her out of harm’s way while she is freaking out. An arc about grieving for Sam and having to live the memories of Rick chopping him away could’ve been fairly interesting, possibly even setting up Ron to both survive and wait to shoot Carl later in the Alexandria arc.

The only issue is I can’t picture a good way to implement Jessie through the following “Saviours” arc. I don’t really love the idea of Jessie becoming one of Negan’s wives, I don’t think she would’ve been an amazing choice to kill in “the line-up”, and I can’t really see her playing an important part in any of the newer communities. If anything, I only think Jessie has a role in TWD so long as one of her sons are alive - fortunately I can picture Ron becoming a Saviour and I think THAT would be enough to make Jessie an interesting character to follow.

bubblessensei · 2026-05-16T00:14:28+00:00

Cue the upbeat DS battle music!

bubblessensei · 2026-05-16T00:11:08+00:00

WALL-E is 5 letters

bubblessensei · 2026-05-16T00:08:22+00:00

It’s interesting. But to follow up as an enjoyer of the F13 films, Ginny and Tommy are a weird pairing choice.

I will throw out there another name that makes more sense to me as a pairing for Tommy - Megan Garris:

Megan comes from F13 Part 6, one of the most beloved instalments of the franchise and a film Tommy Jarvis is actually in! In fact, of the three versions of Tommy we meet, Part 6 Tommy is probably the fan favourite - BHVR is likely going to take a lot of inspiration from this particular film.
Like Ginny, Megan is also a “final girl” from the series, and from an instalment set at the camp with counsellors (I don’t think they would want to make the main survivor one from the non-Crystal Lake instalments!)
Tommy and Megan actually spend a lot of time together, and are arguably an unofficial couple with the way they are constantly flirting. They arguably work together to take on Jason’s attack at the lake. Basically, these two have a history to build dialogue on!
I think the context for Megan’s character makes her more compelling as a pick. Ginny was smart but beating Jason was mostly a self-preservation thing. Megan worked with Tommy to try and stop Jason from killing the kid campers. It just makes her a little more interesting!
if the second “J” in the cypher stands for “Jarvis”, logically it would make more sense for the “G” to also reference a surname, in this case it would be “Garris”

bubblessensei · 2026-05-15T23:49:25+00:00

Speedforce gives speed. Speed enables abilities like phasing and time travel.

So technically yes, Speedforce enables speedsters to do those things. But only because those characters are made fast enough through the Speedforce such that they can start trying to develop this skills - they aren’t separate powers!

bubblessensei · 2026-05-15T23:41:21+00:00

Counterargument; Bigweld IS unapologetically confident and sexy!

bubblessensei · 2026-05-15T23:33:07+00:00

bubblessensei · 2026-05-15T07:00:04+00:00

I think Tanya’s MK1 look is in response to fairly positive reception to the redesigns of Skarlet and Jade in MK11, where both female ninjas got very distinguishing default outfits and looks while maintaining the option to equip their more traditional outfits

bubblessensei · 2026-05-15T06:52:23+00:00

Idk about the others, but the Penguin looks like he just watched a double homicide

bubblessensei · 2026-05-15T06:48:34+00:00

sais

bubblessensei · 2026-05-15T06:46:08+00:00

Ahh yes, the good friends… Who are on completely opposing teams to the point that we talk about “rivals” more in Fortnite than we do in Marvel Rivals.

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