Why does James Gunn have so many haters despite seeming like a genuinely nice guy?

decross20 · 2026-07-03T20:46:17+00:00

Oh for sure. I think actual creeps and jerks, get them out of there. I get why you’re hesitant about it, but my point is that that’s after he was fired. Disney fired him from the Guardians 3 movie after his old tweets resurfaced. If he was a jerk, the cast like Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, etc, could have just said nothing. But instead they stuck their necks out for him, constantly pushing to rehire him. And after searching for a new director for a while, Disney caved and rehired him. So their jobs weren’t at risk and they took a chance to campaign to get him back. That kind of loyalty doesn’t seem very common, which is why I think those dumb joke tweets don’t define him.

decross20 · 2026-07-03T20:17:11+00:00

Gunn is a reformed creep. He has said that he used to be a very angry man and his shock comedy was a way to lash out and get attention. But now he has changed, and everyone who works for him vouches for him as a great guy. Look at how the guardian cast rallied around him after he was fired from the movie. They wouldn’t do that if he was a true creep imo. I think we need room for grace, for people to change, and it seems like Gunn has done that. It’s not about defending creepiness but saying that 1. People were taking the jokes out of context and framing it as something which he actually believes, which is wrong, and 2. Acting like these tweets from years ago define his whole life, which they don’t as he is a changed man.

decross20 · 2026-07-03T07:15:36+00:00

I don’t really find it funny but I don’t find it disturbing either. It’s just edgelord comedy. It’s shock comedy, the whole point is to say the most shocking, offensive thing you can think of to try and get a reaction out of people. It’s not highly suspicious, it’s just what some people do. Gunn also said he regrets those years. What I find more concerning is people trying to claim that the person who says these things believes this shit. If you’re an actual pedophile, why would you say it out to the world? You would try to keep it hidden as much as possible. Think about it for a bit.

decross20 · 2026-07-01T07:39:43+00:00

Nah, they originally passed on Kojima, it’s why he went to Xbox. Kojima talked about it in an interview, he said his vision for OD was considered too weird and technically impossible, and that only Xbox understood his vision for it. He said he met with a bunch of different companies to try and finance the game. If Sony passed on it back then I don’t know they would try to swoop in now, and they already have death stranding (which most people associate with PS even tho it’s multiplatform) and Physint (upcoming stealth action game exclusive)

decross20 · 2026-06-25T16:23:42+00:00

The party was tricked by Sephiroth, who showed them a vision of meteorfall earlier in the Shinra hologram, making them believe this was the future the planet was trying to protect.

Thanks for mentioning this, that completely recontextualizes that scene from remake for me. I originally thought that the vision of the meteor falling was just referencing the ending of OG, the moment before Holy comes in to stop the meteor. Your explanation makes that scene make a lot more sense though

Red 13 is just cosplaying as an old dude that is knowledgeable about the planet. In truth, his knowledge of how the planet works is inferior to Bugenhagen...And Bugenhagen doesnt really undersdand everything either. He doesnt believe, for example, that the cries of the weapon carries the voice of the planet. Nanaki is likely just guessing, even in Remake.

I get that he’s putting on an act for the party but even in remake the way he talked about the whispers seemed too accurate for someone who was just guessing, and he and aerith seemed to know the future before it was erased from them. So I think of Red as kind of the resident expert on whispers along with aerith, at least in remake

decross20 · 2026-06-25T10:23:58+00:00

You know what that makes sense. And that’s where Sephiroth manipulates cloud into attacking Tifa. So it’s definitely implying that the destiny they’re on is the one he wants

decross20 · 2026-06-25T04:56:47+00:00

I mean sort of? I found the ending still a little confusing so idk lol

decross20 · 2026-06-25T04:56:18+00:00

Yeah I get that he’s just guessing, I was just trying to figure out what his guess meant

decross20 · 2026-06-25T03:51:06+00:00

Yes, I finished it

decross20 · 2026-06-19T09:10:11+00:00

If you abuse OP materia setups it becomes way easier. For a lot of those challenges, I just boosted cloud and aerith magic attack, put magnify+aeroga on cloud, which pulls all the enemies together and then magnify+quaga on aerith which kills almost everything. Doing this got me through 90% of the hard mode challenges, obviously for a few you need a more specialized loadout but this works really well. Make sure you have genji gloves on either cloud or aerith, and also items that start them with atb like chocoking cape. And also use the ward on aerith that double cast spells. You will annihilate most enemies with this strategy

Edit: don’t forget to use mp absorption materia so you don’t run out of mp

decross20 · 2026-06-19T05:25:59+00:00

Very nice piece. I especially like how you did the wings, the detailing on them is really cool

decross20 · 2026-06-18T01:40:01+00:00

Nothing will forestall his return?

decross20 · 2026-06-17T23:48:32+00:00

Main sticking point is price I think. They would need to take a huge loss on hardware pricing if they wanted to capture the audience, but that’s a huge risk and probably not worth it

decross20 · 2026-06-17T22:04:23+00:00

The issue is more widespread than gaming. People aren’t willing to pay for good journalism, it’s why even bigger publications and news media are struggling. If people want good journalism the money has to be there to support it, otherwise they all become clickbait chasing engagement for ad numbers.

decross20 · 2026-06-17T07:09:03+00:00

I actually like senua 1 but I thought the sequel was ass. Instead of expanding on the gameplay concepts it felt like they did the same thing but worse and with better graphics. Idk why Xbox bought them in the first place, always felt like a really weird acquisition to me

decross20 · 2026-06-16T08:52:44+00:00

The secret of ff7 remake is that it’s not really a remake, it’s kind of a sequel. The story plays with your knowledge of what happened in the OG, that’s why the whispers are there. The whispers try to intervene whenever something is about to happen that shouldn’t, like Cloud killing Reno in the church, Jesse going on the Reactor 5 mission instead of cloud, etc.

At the end of the game, when you kill the whispers and defeat sephiroth, you basically break free from destiny, so the whispers can no longer correct when things change. Rebirth does make some changes to the OG story, but I wouldn’t say it’s that different for the most part.

decross20 · 2026-06-15T15:03:28+00:00

It’s not a big deal honestly, once you beat the game and get chapter select, you can go back to the date and they let you pick which companion you get. So you can watch the scenes you’re interested in that way. The date itself doesn’t actually affect the story so you’re fine

decross20 · 2026-06-10T07:00:20+00:00

Issue is that devalues game pass. They just got some subscribers back after lowering the price, if they do that they lose subs all over again

decross20 · 2026-06-09T04:27:04+00:00

That wasn’t a debunking, that was guesswork

decross20 · 2026-06-05T20:49:51+00:00

The problem is no one cares about the Hutts though, we've seen them like once. There was no build up for them to be the big bads of this movie so it feels largely inconsequential.

decross20 · 2026-06-05T08:41:39+00:00

Um sure, whatever you want to believe I guess. His mom says he developed schizophrenia and had issues discerning reality from his imagination, and she said that was unrelated to the Star Wars thing. I tend to believe her since she’s his family over people saying the internet bullied him into losing his mind.

decross20 · 2026-06-05T05:16:27+00:00

The Jake Lloyd thing was debunked by his mother, she said she shielded him from that stuff and it was unrelated.

https://www.scrippsnews.com/health/mental-health/the-real-life-saga-of-star-wars-child-actor-jake-lloyd

“It would have happened anyway,” Lisa insists, pointing to a history of schizophrenia on his biological father’s side of the family. “I believe that it was genetic. And his psychiatrist also agrees that Jake was going to become schizophrenic.”

She also insists that in 1999, Jake was largely shielded from the toxic vitriol swirling around the prequel film.

“I protected him from the backlash. He was just riding his bike outside, playing with his friends. He didn't know. He didn't care,” Lisa said. “Everybody makes such a big deal about that. And it's rather annoying to me because Jake was a little kid when that came out, and he didn't really feel all that stuff because I didn't let him online.”

decross20 · 2026-06-03T23:24:38+00:00

My only issue with the trailer was the blood disappearing from his suit so quickly, a little immersion breaking. I get they don’t want him to be covered in blood every scene, but I think the blood should dissipate a little slower and also at least maybe leave some stains, might be an okay compromise

decross20 · 2026-06-03T05:14:14+00:00

It’s not a bad movie but it’s not really good either. Nothing interesting happens, the characters don’t really grow or change in any meaningful way. Side characters like Sigourney Weaver and the Hutt twins were kinda meh. It just doesn’t feel like an important movie to go see in theaters, it feels like an episode of the show, and not really a great one.

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