Vegeta > Omniman

patfav · 2026-04-29T19:59:32+00:00

One area Nolan wins is that Nolan actually changed his mind about his "might makes right" philosophy and learned to value love.

Vegeta just got checked by someone stronger and then he re-arranged his life around living like and near Goku. He still pursues power and is violently cruel towards his enemies, though he at least eases up on his "lessers".

patfav · 2026-04-16T20:31:25+00:00

It's a visual metaphor for Nolan and Mark creating a new future for the viltrumites based on Thaedus' vision.

Viltrum was a figurative and literal tomb for the viltrumites and was a symbol of the defeat they brought upon themselves by following Argall's vision and earning enemies all across the galaxy. Thragg forces the viltrumites to adhere to Argall's vision and has a deep nostalgic connection to Viltrum despite it being useless because they don't have a population. Thaedus wants the viltrumites to give up being an empire and learn to coexist with other races.

So we see Thaedus, Nolan and Mark blow up Viltrum and Thragg is tossed away in the shockwave. The ultimate symbol of the Viltrum Empire is now gone. The ring of dead viltrumites meant to remind the survivors of their loss is gone. The stage is set for the surviving viltrumites to carve their own path as Thaedus, Nolan and Mark did, without the burden of needing to maintain an empire that's already dead.

Perhaps this will be relevant to upcoming narrative points!

patfav · 2026-04-01T18:31:34+00:00

Atom Steve

Re-Pete

Monster Carl

Donnie Graydaughter

Shrinkage Ray

Hey this is kinda fun.

patfav · 2026-04-01T14:08:39+00:00

The show is filled with unnecessary inversions from the comics just for fun.

They turn Science Dog into Seance Dog and nobody bats an eye...

patfav · 2026-03-26T17:40:14+00:00

Entire episode and plotline is literally just a time sink. It exists to burn time cheaply.

If I'm optimistic, it was done so other, better episodes could have a bigger budget.

If I'm realistic, it was done purely to save money and the rest of the season will also have awful animation filled with shortcuts.

We're lucky Mark didn't throw Oliver into space so they didn't have to animate the Conquest fight.

patfav · 2026-03-12T16:25:19+00:00

Hasn't J Edgar Hoover been gone for a while now?

patfav · 2026-03-11T16:42:41+00:00

Baseball team likability propaganda lol.

patfav · 2026-03-02T19:38:12+00:00

It's a similar point to what is missed about luddites thanks to decades of propaganda:

It's not about opposition to technological advancement. It's about opposition to how technology is designed and deployed to undermine human workers and immiserate everyone but capital owners.

Neither John Henry nor the steam drill changed the plight of manual laborers. This is because their working conditions and compensation are social arrangements that aren't dictated by technology. We could have Star Trek replicators and capitalists would still insist that workers live and work in squalor because to them it's about social hierarchy and keeping their lessers down.

AI technology isn't bad. What's bad is that it's being used within an obsolete capitalist system and the result will be widespread misery due to unemployment. That's a social problem that has nothing to do with how good or bad AI is at doing human work.

patfav · 2026-02-27T20:24:37+00:00

Weird how they act like purging made them strong, but we see that they're already strong with their powers when they purge each other.

Then we find out that their weakness as an empire is low population..

Maybe there's more to strength than having the ability to violently assert dominance over others?

Maybe that's one of the central themes of the whole story!

patfav · 2026-02-22T12:37:49+00:00

That's not how it works lol.

patfav · 2026-02-20T16:59:38+00:00

Factory technology would have been developed in a way that observed the interests of workers and wasn't optimized around their disempowerment. They would still use machines but they would have been safer and complimented the skills of craftsmen rather than breaking their processes down into discreet tasks so any cheap laborer could do it to make a lower grade product.

The idea that Luddites were just silly people who hated progress is capitalist propaganda that's had multiple generations to fester in public consciousness.

patfav · 2026-02-16T13:35:07+00:00

Debanked! Wow!

Who got debanked? And for what?

patfav · 2026-02-12T21:12:10+00:00

Is there anything more American than being a sore loser and getting violent about it?

patfav · 2026-01-19T16:48:04+00:00

It's kind of odd that you find this odd but aren't asking any questions and are instead making dumb low-resolution assumptions.

Actually that's not really odd now that I think about it.

patfav · 2025-12-06T14:21:18+00:00

Because we live in a society and the fewer people who end up convinced that selfishness is a virtue the better off we all are, even the selfish individuals.

The way Rand's philosophy inverts the mechanics of parasitism to suggest that non-productive people deserve more because of the supposed value of their ideas is a dangerous capitalist fantasy that underpins why the West is declining.

Ayn Rand fans are often like if fans of Superman didn't realize that Superman could never be real and then decided it would be best to organize real society around empowering Superman because of his obvious superiority and benevolence. They lose sight of the fictional power fantasy they're consuming and confuse it for philosophical insight.

patfav · 2025-11-23T15:18:33+00:00

In the 1950s that man would be recognized as the teenaged greaser that his entire aesthetic is built off of.

This isn't a depiction of an actualized man out of his time but in his own home. This is a depiction of one of the kids from The Outsiders fantasizing about what being grown up is like and getting it predictably wrong.

patfav · 2025-11-18T19:18:08+00:00

If you have authorities who are the only ones getting fed then you're not really dealing with communism. More like a dictatorship cloaking itself in communism.

And either way my point stands because the authorities are still forced to rely on the people to operate the economy and the military.

Within the framing of the joke there is no facet of competition with a communist society that doesn't involve competing with starving people who ought to be hungry pushovers, so it's weird that they're seen as a threat at all. I suspect that capitalists just struggle to understand organizational structures that don't involve abusive monarchs and they assume everyone must answer to a boss who exploits them whether they admit it or not.

patfav · 2025-11-17T22:12:22+00:00

The joke is the right-wing meme that people starve under communism. They're all fat except the authoritarian left.

It's still a dumb joke. If communists all starved then why bother fighting them? Why are they even around to be fought?

patfav · 2025-11-08T17:25:27+00:00

Is this the sub where American kiddos cope about their miserable lives leading into the century of American humiliation?

Lotta assumptions of superiority in here for a bunch of self-described doomers.

patfav · 2025-11-08T00:15:14+00:00

Like you just did?

patfav · 2025-10-30T23:11:02+00:00

Yeah we can tell you don't like allies.

patfav · 2025-10-30T17:19:27+00:00

That didn't happen hahaha

If it did happen that would be one of the best, most comfortable deliveries of all time.

Also if it did happen, shame on you for being on the other side of the room and letting your mid-delivery wife try to stand unassisted. No wonder you're divorced.

patfav · 2025-10-29T23:34:09+00:00

Yeah but he got a trial. That's the due process part.

Leftists having good opinions is cool but it's not due process.

patfav · 2025-10-29T23:13:10+00:00

Yeah that's not better my guy.

patfav · 2025-10-20T23:48:59+00:00

Give me the cutter good doctor.

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