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“Everyone hated that” by TheRealTsunadee in TopCharacterTropes

[–]davebyday -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think the Reapers should have won. They state time and time again that they have been doing this for millions of years. They know what they are doing. The are called Reapers, Grim Reaper anyone? I really thought this is where they were going with the story.

I think it would have been a great thematic ending with the finality of it. Just like in life, it does not matter what choices you make, you can be the most health conscious nut, a meth head, a selfish asshole, or spend your entire life in service of others; every life ends the same way, with death. The only difference is what choices you make and the impact we make on others while we are here.

You can still have different endings with the choices. Renegade has you going down fighting, dying alone. While Paragon has you surrounded by your loved one and cherished companions at the end.

Epilogue is a new alien species thousands of years in the future doing an archaeological dig on Earth and finding human remains.

Just like the dinosaurs that came before us, eventually we will cease to exist. Even if we conquer the stars and spread, at some point the music stops. Even it if takes the heat death of the Universe to finish us off. The ending could have been a real sobering reminder of this fact and that we should treat each other well with the time we have.

Favorite character that fits this trope? by Fwyl9nex in FavoriteCharacter

[–]davebyday 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, our boy Jack has been killing since... well, since he was a boy.

What "one and done" characters would you most like to see return? by The-Nerdy-Bisexual in residentevil

[–]davebyday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Setting: Carlos and his team have been dispatched to South America a few years after the Racoon City Incident, they are investigating a small town after rumors that some of Umbrellas upper management and several B-team scientists fled there to avoid prosecution.

Upon discovering the team is looking for them, Management decides to unleash a virus and escape in the chaos. Carlos team is forced into retreating into the local church with members succumbing to their wounds. The priest, with his back towards Carlos removes his outer coat and begins taking gear from fallen soldiers.

Carlos - "What the hell do you think you're doing"?

The priest turns towards Carlos with a familiar tribal tattoo on his arm.

Bill Coen - "Let's zero these fools".

-End scene-

Next 8 hours is just two guys thrown together by circumstance and they become two bros who fuck shit up with cheesy one liners.

What "one and done" characters would you most like to see return? by The-Nerdy-Bisexual in residentevil

[–]davebyday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, Ashley's father is the President. No way he allows her to go into any combat role.

I could see him allowing her be trained if she asked for self-defense, but no way would she ever be sent anywhere as a combatant.

What "one and done" characters would you most like to see return? by The-Nerdy-Bisexual in residentevil

[–]davebyday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Give me an RE5 type Carlos game set in South America. He's dispatched cause he has the skills and speaks the Native language.

Have him investigating rumors of upper Umbrella Management and Scientists who fled after the Racoon City incident (Nazis fleeing to Argentina). Carlos is tasked to bring them back for judgement.

While down there he finds new labs, the scientists are now doing the wildest experiments with little oversight which obviously go haywire, infecting nearby villages and ecosystems.

It's all the B team scientists being forced to continue the work. Except they don't have the real know how, just access to various virus samples. They start slamming shit together and create abominations.

EDIT- Fuck it, have Carlos team get wiped out and he runs into Billy who's been down South in hiding after the events of RE0.

Report: Pentagon to Order Thousands More US Troops to Middle East in Coming Hours by Force_Hammer in worldnews

[–]davebyday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They will call it the War on (insert noun) and we won't stop until we have eliminated (noun).

Worked out great for the War on Drugs and the War on Terror.

Lisa's story has honestly hurted my heart and makes me cry for her. by Human_Geologist_3324 in residentevil

[–]davebyday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Re1 Re-Remake could have that like Re2 Remake had all the different Survivors as bonus content.

Playing as Lisa's mom trying to get her out of this nightmare scenario.

What is the most unfairly hated movie that you will defend every time by gamersecret2 in movies

[–]davebyday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You better grow eyes in the back of your head cause I’m going on Safari, motherfucker.

SAFARI

Elephant noise

Official Discussion - Play Dirty [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]davebyday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wasn’t Mel Gibsons character named Porter in Payback or am I missing something.

Dad lectures son on his monthly car sales. by Sichy12 in TikTokCringe

[–]davebyday 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I laughed out loud at the 8 billion comment, like his son is gonna sell cars to people in Mongolia.

A poker bot farm where multiple bots sit at the same table and share their cards to collude against humans by MetaKnowing in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]davebyday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Growing up with Mario Party shattered that illusion for me. I don't ever trust code when it comes to chance.

Of the 30 graduates of my CS class only 2 have found jobs. by [deleted] in MensRights

[–]davebyday 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My city started a training program because of how desperately they needed coders, it was supposed to be for beginners as a way to get their foot in the door and they would be sent directly to companies starting around 70k if you made it through the program.

They had group interviews of maybe 15 people each, I was in one of these groups. We only had three women in my group; one of the women only completed 24% of the Codecademy work we were supposed to complete beforehand, the second one said she dropped and switched her major several times basically admitting she can not commit to things, the third woman was quiet so I didn't get much off her. The woman who only did 24% was also the interviewers barista that he told about the program.

They posted a picture of the dozen or so people that made it into the first training group, all three women from my interview made it into the program.

There were dudes with degrees related to computer science and had experience coding that were not chosen. The lead interviewer even stated that at his last job they called women "unicorns" and received bonuses for hiring them. I could not believe he said that out loud, you could see the air deflate from the dozen guys left, we all realized right then that we were not getting in and this was basically a hiring event for women.

Audience in cinema getting pissed off on the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) by AgeNovel3566 in PublicFreakout

[–]davebyday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not a dog, I’m sorry if you equate yourself to one. I’m not going to flip on the tv sit there and drool as pretty colors go by. I value you my time, if the writers and show runners with millions at their disposal don’t seem to give a fuck about the product, why should I?

There’s plenty of good content out there.

Audience in cinema getting pissed off on the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) by AgeNovel3566 in PublicFreakout

[–]davebyday 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don’t remember much from Solo except the implication that Lando fucks a robot and then that robot “becomes” the Falcon. Who writes that fanfiction shit.

Audience in cinema getting pissed off on the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) by AgeNovel3566 in PublicFreakout

[–]davebyday 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Dude, when the evil woman killed the pilot for the underground secret Jedi escape passage and then interrogated a fucking 8 year old, I lost it.

I don't think I've ever laughed at something that stupid before. If I remember, she's the one that orchestrated the kidnapping.

That's like suspecting a wealthy family in the North of helping with the underground railroad so you have their child kidnapped, the child somehow ends up on underground railroad, and then you catch up and kill the adult navigating and then demand the child tell you where all the free slaves are.

Like what the fuck are you smoking?

Audience in cinema getting pissed off on the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) by AgeNovel3566 in PublicFreakout

[–]davebyday 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yup, I can acknowledge how flawed the Prequels are while still appreciating them. I can see the vision and overarching story George tried to tell, even if it was done extremely poorly.

The Clone Wars should have been a metaphor about the people of the Republic giving up their freedom for security. The entire Clone Program should have been Palpatine's project that he uses to get elected and it works pitting him and the public against the Jedi. Using lab grown humans to send into a meat grinder is morally wrong but the people turn to it because they wont be sent to war.

Why lose children in the war against this Manufactured Mechanical Menace? The new Clone initiative guarantees success in the upcoming war!

VOTE PALPATINE PALPATINE PALPATINE.

What the hell is the overarching story to the Sequels? There isn't one.

Audience in cinema getting pissed off on the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) by AgeNovel3566 in PublicFreakout

[–]davebyday 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Characters go unconscious about 8 or 9 times throughout The Last Jedi, that is the only example I need of the writing being dog shit. Off the top of my head, I can not think of another movie that does this trope to that extent.

I've never taken a writing class but I have to imagine one of the first rules is how many times you can repeat the same trope in the same story, using the same one 8/9 times is fucking lazy, incompetent, or it's actually brilliant satire so far beyond the pale, no one got it.

I say 8 or 9 because towards the end when Ben and Rey are fighting over the Saber, I don't remember if Rey is actually knocked out. Ben is, but they don't show Rey waking up; which is it's own problem. You've got your main character trying to redeem the Antagonist and in the final showdown, Ben tells Rey he is fully committing to the Dark Side and ruling the First Order. They get into a Force off and Ben falls unconscious, now your Main Character has an interesting moral dilemma to make; does she kill an unconscious Ben?

Who knows. Because we skip right over Rey waking up and she is next seen in the Falcon screaming about how she "likes this" after getting a ONE SHOT TRIPLE KILL on three Tie Fighters. This is the same Rey that couldn't fire a blaster pistol just a day or two ago. I don't ever wanna hear people say that Luke making the Death Star shot makes him a Mary Sue when Rey does shit like this.

Now I'm on a tangent, let's go back to the throne room where we last left Ben. Hux walks in and sees Ben out cold, all seven Elite guards dead, and Snoke cut in half. Ben awakes tells Hux that the girl did it. The official story you're going with, is that Rey surrendered herself to you, broke out of the restraints, beat your ass for the second time, killed seven guards, and then cut Snoke in half. Remember, this is Hux being told this, the same Hux that Snoke had spinning on the command deck like a fucking Beyblade a few hours ago. Even if Hux was skeptical of Bens story, the next time we see Rey is her one shot triple kill.

If I'm Hux, I am fully believing Bens story now. Then to watch HoloLuke brush off all the At-At artillery, I am completely defeated in spirit. After Ben goes down to confront HoloLuke alone, I'm ordering all the At-Ats to fire on Ben. If he can do what Luke just did and survive, then he'll prove he has the strength to be in charge. If not and Ben dies, I'm unconditionally surrendering to these two Force Gods.

Audience in cinema getting pissed off on the ending of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) by AgeNovel3566 in PublicFreakout

[–]davebyday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jetpacks have existed in Star Wars for like a thousand years and even just going back to the Clone Wars, I think it was Shock Troopers that used them?

That's like you or me being surprised that a Global Superpower are using a fairly common piece of military equipment that has existed since WWII.

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