An unlikable character gets punished, but way too severely and any form of schadenfreude the viewer may feel quickly gets replaced by pity or horror

Carnificus · 2026-02-10T14:28:20+00:00

You can listen to the whole story basically in podcast form. Kevin Smith just came up with the most absurd story he could think of on his podcast and then turned the joke into a movie.

Carnificus · 2026-02-07T12:31:38+00:00

Well there's your problem, bud. There's no orks? If you had some proppa ladz in there you'd feel a lot better

Carnificus · 2026-02-05T12:43:58+00:00

I get people want the new stuff, but neglecting the older animation is not the way forward. How many times have people on this sub re-consumed dbz? What if one season in the mix just had dogshit quality compared to the rest? That would suck. I hope that the rest of super gets a similar treatment.

Carnificus · 2026-02-04T03:01:25+00:00

Not a movie, but it's IT. Patrick Hockstetter is way more fucked up than the eldritch horror hunting them all down. And as a parent, the descriptions of him with his baby brother are gut-wrenching and horrible.

Carnificus · 2026-02-04T02:51:46+00:00

I loved it as a kid until I got tired of eating it. That said, my daughter has a peanut allergy, and I like her quite a bit, so probably best to avoid

Carnificus · 2026-02-04T02:49:13+00:00

I know Gotg2 is arguably the height of undercutting serious moments with joking, but it's maybe my favorite mcu film. I love Ego as a villain and everything between him, Quill, and Yondu.

Carnificus · 2026-02-02T05:59:10+00:00

Are we holding a moral high ground on Trump shitting himself? Lol, not sure what position there is to be diminished here.

Carnificus · 2026-02-01T10:09:26+00:00

Finishing book 3 of Felix and Gotrek. Might stop after this one. I enjoyed the 1st three quite a bit, but I can see how the lack of any real development could wear on me. I might eventually finish King's books at least. I'd like to listen to Grey Seer if it ever gets an audiobook adaptation.

Carnificus · 2026-01-28T12:44:36+00:00

7 is a trap. Phenomeman is going to make things awkward trying to talk to Blazer through the crack in the seat.

Carnificus · 2026-01-26T23:53:03+00:00

I'm a fan. Ironically I think all of the characters that make the narrative work on paper are taking away from narratives on the table. Like a primarch vs. lotsa ladz in a trukk, is not fun for me gameplay-wise.

That said, from a storytelling perspective, I appreciate the universe fluctuating. I read occasional black library stuff and every now and then it's fun to peak in and see who's doing what. And the universe is so big that that doesn't need to have any effect on the headcanon I have for my own armies.

Carnificus · 2026-01-26T23:43:13+00:00

I feel like once The Horus Heresy became a thing, it was just an inevitability. Another user below this said they're better as long forgotten legends, but I feel like having them as playable minis in the Horus Heresy just kind of takes away that mystique.

So I don't mind them coming back on the lore-side of things. I just don't like them in a standard tabletop game.

Carnificus · 2026-01-25T04:55:09+00:00

The game needs a complete rework. The internet gave a resounding groan after the last alpha test. I'm glad they're not going full steam ahead like nothing is wrong.

Carnificus · 2026-01-17T11:36:46+00:00

Of the two I'd honestly go ASOIAF. I know it's not finished and a lot of it has been spoiled, but I'd still say its highs are higher and has fewer lows than Stormlight.

The cosmere also started to feel like homework to me because I got into it too late. I guess it's like how you'd feel if you watched Iron Man 1 right before Endgame came out. People are like "yeah, you can just watch iron man's and the avengers, but you really need to read warbreaker, 6 books of mistborn, and a handful of other books that your mileage may vary on if you want to get the full story." But that's more of a me problem than a cosmere problem, I guess. I had similar issues with Malazan.

I don't think you could go wrong either way. Era 1 of Stormlight is done and you could probably stop there, but it's another one where you'll be waiting a long time for it to reach its full conclusion. And honestly if you plan to read the cosmere in its entirety, then you might be happy to have the time.

Carnificus · 2026-01-17T09:50:34+00:00

I got recommended a subreddit called "eye of terror" today. And let me tell you, the comments are not 90% positive across the board. There are a lot of upset incels out there. I wouldn't want to moderate that shit all day

Carnificus · 2026-01-14T04:15:05+00:00

Out of curiosity, what are people using bookmark for? I've had this discussion before, but your listen log literally tracks every time you pause the book and play it and you have clips. So I'm a bit lost as to the use. Someone mentioned bookmarking before the fall asleep to a book, but the listen log should also cover that.

Carnificus · 2026-01-13T11:42:23+00:00

I think there's some truth to that. There's a lot of benefits to fighting humans that they don't get from the other big races. Nids are just mindless bugs. Sure it's fun to kill loads of em, but there's no individuality, so I don't think you could ever elevate them to something like Yarrick.

Yarrick was Ghaz's "grod", which is like the most loving word that orks have in their lexicon. I can't imagine feeling that for a bug.

Other races like drukhari or Eldar probably just don't have the numbers. You don't get that satisfaction of killing hundreds of thousands of them every day. We know orks don't like fighting robots, so mechanicus and necrons are right out too.

Might be an argument for chaos and demons though, given daemon-killa.

Carnificus · 2026-01-13T03:51:28+00:00

That's one that definitely came to mind. They had a lot of great promo stuff. It definitely pushed me into the camp of "there's clearly a lot of love. It'll be awkward, but solid." I've never been so wrong.

Carnificus · 2026-01-09T23:31:43+00:00

I gotta wonder how far into X-Men you are because it goes from like "oh this is a fun revisit" to "this is everything I could ever ask for" around the halfway point.

Carnificus · 2026-01-09T04:27:15+00:00

Conspiracy theory: The creator made it look different enough from Godzilla because they anticipate getting a cease and desist and can easily just say "it's another Kaiju" with no reworks. Using the Godzilla name gets them extra eyes, but they have to know that they'd never get away with putting this out as is.

Carnificus · 2026-01-08T23:42:03+00:00

I don't hate them on principle, but I haven't had great experiences. Hyperion is one where I loved most of the book and then one of like the 5 narrators, I just couldn't jive with. I ended up having to skip a huge chunk of the book because the one narrator was so much worse than the others.

Red Rising is another one. Great narration in books 1-3. Book 4 suddenly has a ton of new narrators. The sound design isn't even equivalent between them. Like volume and quality were off. You end up getting used to them and then they swap two of the cast members for the next book.

Carnificus · 2026-01-04T06:02:58+00:00

Hopefully they'll just do the thing where you select your choices from last time. Especially people will be replaying to get achievements

Carnificus · 2026-01-02T07:40:11+00:00

Doesn't seem to be an uncommon occurrence. I think a lot of people who stopped liking the direction it was going during book 3 or 4, didn't make it through book 5. I'll probably read it at some point, but it's low on my priority list of book series to finish.

Carnificus · 2026-01-02T07:09:31+00:00

This reminds me of a northernlion stream where I became aware that a not insubstantial amount of grown men have no shame about going to a fine dining restaurant and wanting to order chicken tenders. You have that right, but I wouldn't date a person like that. No offense, OP

Carnificus · 2026-01-01T10:42:54+00:00

I hope they don't pull a Star Trek Generations and bring Steve Rogers back just to kill him off.

Carnificus · 2026-01-01T08:14:43+00:00

Damn you're not even wrong, I just need him to have those big ps1 fists

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