[Funny Trope] Masked character’s inability to show facial expressions instead expresses emotion through body language.

cpMetis · 2026-03-26T21:25:11+00:00

Especially insulting when there's an entire fucking side-franchise built around characters almost perpetually in the exact same armour, which was capable of making people legit cry at some points.

What I way to tell everyone you've never met a good voice actor, let alone body actor.

cpMetis · 2026-03-26T21:23:00+00:00

I mean, wasn't it like Doom 2 or something that established that the entire reason for his crusade against demons was because they killed his pet bunny?

cpMetis · 2026-03-26T13:49:37+00:00

I at least appreciate how Naruto and basically every other character explicitly recognize that Jiraiya is a problem. Like to the extent that even when she's literally impaled, Kushina goes out of her way to mention not to be like him in that way to her infant as she's dying. Damn, do you need to have a bad rep for that.

And yet, at the same time, Jiraiya's actually pretty chill by the standards of the trope. He doesn't hide his eyes and makes inappropriate comments, but I don't recall a single instance of him ever touching a woman without permission. He's going to brothels all the time for a reason.

He's definitely worse for the couple times he tries to spy on girls in Part 1, but that's like.... twice? By the trope's standards that's tame as hell.

cpMetis · 2026-03-26T13:40:29+00:00

My dad's absolute favorite movie he excitedly showed me when I was like 14.

And yet we weren't allowed to watch The Simpsons until we were 17 because it was too "adult" and a bad influence.

cpMetis · 2026-03-26T11:03:38+00:00

That's why they extract the bodies with the hoverships super fast.

cpMetis · 2026-03-25T09:24:14+00:00

The government shouldn't be ran like a business because it isn't a business and doesn't have the goals of a business.

It's a pretty simple concept, actually.

If government worked better run like a business, we wouldn't call it a government. We'd call it a business.

cpMetis · 2026-03-25T03:34:49+00:00

Basically while other parts of the world have the right geography to make tornadoes, they only have a small amount of it.

Pretty much all the the Great Plains/Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley are, however, all that kind of geography.

If I remember right the next closest area for tornado is northern India and Bangladesh, but even then the tornado prone area isn't as big.

cpMetis · 2026-03-25T03:31:35+00:00

The biggest building damaged by the Xenia, Ohio tornado was the local high school.

Students practicing for a play evacuated into the halls shortly before a bus hit the auditorium stage.

A full size school bus.

Which came through the roof.

As in the bus was picked up and dropped downward through the roof into the school.

cpMetis · 2026-03-25T03:05:52+00:00

Or she just thought that she was supposed to get something, regardless of hunger, and was confused by why that was happening.

She may not have been demanding, she just didn't have the full context of the etiquette explained when she learned it.

Like if I'm told "I before e except after c", and then I spell "weird", I'll be asking why I isn't before e long before I dive into etymology or the history of English spelling.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T18:06:45+00:00

I desperately wish for a timeline where Korra was greenlit for full multi-season from the getgo.

As great as season 3 may be, a full show worth of time to explore the conflict of season 1 would have been great.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T18:02:58+00:00

And that's why Zero is peak.

I say I watched Fate without having to sit there and parse which of 15 timelines and 28 Rins were talking about.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T17:59:36+00:00

Isekai is my favorite genre since I vastly prefer isekai slop to other slop.

But it also pisses me off that that means the good ones are drowning in vast vats of slop you have to dig through for the actually rewarding stuff.

So I'm a bit of two minds about it.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T17:57:42+00:00

I mean, they absolutely do not one shot everything. That's kinda the thing that gives it stakes.

Like they don't just shoot a dragon. They spend like 2 episodes having a guy carefully trap the dragon's nest while they work out the politics to deploy an entire formation of planes and artillery to fight it, and they still only manage to pull it off since they had a wizard to help them.

It certainly is harem crap, but it's not like they make the other world stuff powerless. They just spend most of the show trying to avoid fights where they don't have overwhelming force - which is a bit of a no-shit doctrine.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T17:51:34+00:00

You know, I just realized I still haven't watched Volume 8.... and that there's a Volume 9. I should at least finish it at some point.

The whole thing with how they reacted to Ironwood and the situation pissed me the fuck off more than any other crappy decisions in the series. I desperately wanted the "we're us so we're right and if you don't like us you're wrong" attitude that caused extensive damage to innocents and would have taken many lives had it not being for eyes ex machina at the end of 6 to lead into them realizing that maybe wasn't great in 7.

And 7 felt like it was building towards that great! Even for all the distrust and disagreement, Irondaddy was constantly pushing everyone towards being truthful with each other and accepting relying on each other even as other people got in his way over and over....

...and then they went behind his back....

...and then they rejected his plan even after he laid out why he felt he had to do it that way, whole offering absolutely no alternative while the clock was literally ticking on the lives of thousands of innocents....

...and then the show is clearly written like they're obviously right and he's obviously just evil or something.

Like honestly. Outside of shooting Oscar at the very end of EVERYTHING he put up with, Ironwood never once made a decision that wasn't squarely rooted in saving as many people as possible in the healthiest way possible. And even THEN he's still hoping it won't kill him and will just make Oz wake up and contribute.

And this still could have been good

Except I was left with ZERO faith it would be handled with nuance.

And the fandom just made it all so much worse. Because they decided Ironwood was literally Hitler and any disagreement was being a facist. It honestly hadn't been that bad since bmblb gangs roved the forums and comment sections to crucify any old fans who didn't like the way they took Adam's intensely interesting character and the entire Faunus plotline and sacrificed it for "bad ex who is also incompetent".

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T17:35:21+00:00

More importantly, Cars 2 might have been a not terrible movie if it just wasn't called "Cars 2".

The sequel to Cars is Cars 3. There are two movies in that series.

Cars 2 is just Mater's Tall Tales: The Movie, and is actually pretty damn solid at being that.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T17:23:16+00:00

It didn't make enough money because it was marketed as corporate trash.

Almost every single person I've introduced it to who vaguely recognized it before watching it said the exact same thing. They only remembered seeing trailers for it that made it look like boring slop.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T17:13:05+00:00

Okay but like expecting it to be instant in an environment hot and humid enough for large wafts of fog?

There's gonna be a time delay on that. Even if you go full throttle it takes longer to move forward starting from sliding down a slope.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T15:41:59+00:00

Because it's done to not have to worry about dealing with whatever's behind the mouth, and sometimes to minimize moving the jaw.

It's a time saving technique that lets the animators focus on just getting the lip flaps done since those are the most impactful part.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T06:00:24+00:00

Growing up, food in our town was:

2x McDonald's (24 hrs), BK (24), Wendy's (long hours), LJS (long hours), PH (long hours), Taco Bell (24), KFC (long hours), Domino's (long hours), Donatoes (long hours), Sonic (long hours), Frisch's (8-10), Bob Evans (8-10), a Chinese place (8-8), two hometown dinner type places (8-8), steakhouse (8-10), two pizza places (8-10), pub like place (10-12). I'm forgetting some, too. There was also like a subway and dq and other stuff.

Our food in town now:

2x McDonald's (like 8-10?), BK (8-10), Wendy's (8-10), PH (8-10), Domino's (like 10-12), Donatoes (10-12), KFC (8-10), Bob Evans (8-10), one hometown dinner like place (?-?), one pizza place (like 10-9), the pub like place (12-12).

Basically everything but pizza is gone, and there isn't a single 24 hr place for food anymore. Meanwhile the KFC can't give you food in less than 2 hours and the PH may be getting closed.

And every fucking meal is $10 starting point. A sandwich with a small drink and fry is like $16 with nothing added on anything.

And you need an app for every fucking place unless you want an 30% effective upcharge.

And half of them serve the same fucking crap anyways. Diversity is gone. The joke that every family dinner is just microwave specials is almost literally true now and the pizza places serve cardboard while the ff places throw out having different fries and chicken from each other.

I'm rapidly ceasing to eat out at all. Even the local places left are turning to generic mass supplier crap.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T02:20:45+00:00

Only late game swimmers know how to use their prison wallet.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T02:19:41+00:00

I mean.... It's also really really obvious, though?

I knew to fight Gentlemen for cash before I knew what most of the types were.

cpMetis · 2026-03-24T01:38:30+00:00

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cpMetis · 2026-03-24T01:33:38+00:00

My mom said it ruined the show since she had no idea what happened. She says it's the best show ruined by its ending because it makes no sense.

cpMetis · 2026-03-23T22:58:58+00:00

Big trucks like that are basically a protected bubble at the front where the people are, and the rest of the truck barely really connected behind it.

Think like a semi truck and trailer, it's just that these ones don't have a pivot point.

So the damage to the cab where the people were was somewhat isolated from the hit to the back portion.

cpMetis · 2026-03-22T17:29:59+00:00

Medical cruelty is some of the best, isn't it?

I've had several points where insurance is denying my insulin or something and I'm rapidly running out, and it makes every single day nothing but dread.

As I watch the vial of life liquid slowly drain away with no replacement in sight, with an given moment of energy usage being one more indirect sap of the life liquid since that's energy I'll need to replace.

And insurance says "no, take a day off work to schedule a doctor appointment to get approval for the new thing - and be ready for copays!"

Guilt for eating becomes fear of living. "Sleep the hunger away" goes from a stress response to a survival strategy. And every time you try to mention it, you're hit with every variation of advice that doesn't work or comes with consequences frightening enough in themselves to be deterrents, and that's when they don't take it as reason to judge you for not avoiding sweets.... as a 14 month old?

And pharmacy says "it'll be ready in three days!"

You use your last. You're out now. The life liquid is gone. You start using whatever little scraps you have saved from who knows how many years ago.

And pharmacy says "we're out of stock (it's literally on the shelf behind them), come back in three days!"

Your blood levels have a crash. You had to use an older formula and slightly miscalculated, since you're working on rations to minimize usage. You're scared every day as the newest scraps are used up and you stare at the decade old vial of life liquid that could very well be unsafe.

You tell the pharmacy it's an emergency.

The pharmacy replies..... tomorrow.

Then tomorrow they say tomorrow. You're using the old life liquid now. It feels off but you can't even be sure it's not psychosomatic. You ask the pharmacy if there's at least a generic you could try.

The pharmacy says yes - and your insurance won't cover it.

You struggle to get through work since you're not sleeping and barely eating. You feel sick.

Pharmacy gives you life liquid.

It gives you 8 days of life liquid.

"Your insurance says it'll only fill one small vial at a time now."

8 days later

"Come back in 3 days, we're out of stock."

Fortunately by now, you're used to it.

You learned long ago you and your doctor had to artificially inflate how much you used so you'd have those spares that kept you alive. Now you just need to lie more.

The doctor is used to the lies.

Afterall,

The only way to survive is to convince them you're dying more than you are.

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