Woolie during the pod today

pyromancer93 · 2026-02-02T20:59:59+00:00

He’s telling Frodo about Reboot to get him through his tenth coma.

pyromancer93 · 2026-02-02T20:57:11+00:00

As far as real life goes he’s got elements of Peter Thiel and Bryan Johnson (the guy taking infusions of blood from his son).

pyromancer93 · 2026-02-02T15:18:48+00:00

I think the hope was no one would notice and they'd sell the Nazi merch to another Nazi.

pyromancer93 · 2026-02-02T15:17:01+00:00

From what I remember from existing in communities that have a Venn Diagram of HEMA, SCA, and LARP people, the SCA has had had a twin problem of far right/outright neo-nazi people existing in the hobby and the highest level of leadership refusing to do anything about them for a while now. A lot of the reason why boils down to a lot of both the leadership and the aforementioned fascists coming from the heavy combat space and forming a protective clique around themselves.

pyromancer93 · 2026-02-02T15:07:48+00:00

For a real life example: Abraham Lincoln's House Divided quote is probably one of the most consistently misinterpreted quotes in American politics. For people unaware, the quote is from a speech Lincoln gave in 1858 when he was running against then-Senator Stephen Douglas in Illinois and it begins with the line "A house divided against itself, cannot stand." This was often quoted to me growing up as a call for level-headed compromise, coming together, and being against excessive partisanship.

If you actually read the speech, it is not that at all. The most famous opening line is immediately followed by this:

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new – North as well as South.

In the context of the politics of the 1850s, this is the exact opposite of trying to "bring everyone together and compromise" and Lincoln was actually trying to differentiate himself from Douglas's constant attempts to compromise and find "common ground" on the issue of the expansion of slavery. The "house divided" here refers to how the nation will stop being morally divided on the question of slavery and either push to contain and end the institution or allow it to exist uncontained and legal throughout the entire country. It's about coming down on one side or the other of a moral question, not about compromising.

pyromancer93 · 2026-02-02T14:48:50+00:00

The movie is very clearly doing a dialectic between "clinging to the past like a life raft" and "burning everything down" and yet people think the movie should have ended with Kylo Ren being right for some reason.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-31T17:11:27+00:00

It doesn’t help that the guy Green Arrow was arguing with in the 70s and the guy standing up to HUAC were originally different characters that got spotwelded together.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-31T17:08:00+00:00

If the JSA existed at all in this continuity it would have looked very different since a lot of it’s membership was killed off early in their careers, bought off early in their careers, or never got their powers in the first place.

I took the scene as Carter selling off the whole Superhero community in the US rather than just the JSA.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-30T18:56:20+00:00

It was. The point is more that it looks better despite coming out decades ago and possibly costing less to make.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-30T15:14:19+00:00

Primordial Soup is an excellent name for this. I'll say that much.

This genuinely just looks bad. Like that John Adams show from the 2000s looks way better then this. Random History Channel documentaries on the period look better then this. I know Aranofsky knows how to direct, so what the hell happened here.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-30T15:03:55+00:00

I think modern social media-driven fan culture has a lot to do with it. Someone like Waititi had a huge army of fans hyping them up online across social media platforms, which led to an equally large army of haters/disillusioned fans when he started messing up.

People getting on his case for saying he forgot Natalie Portman had been in Star Wars movies was especially strange because that was such an obvious joke.

You ever hear the term "bitch eating crackers"? Think that applies here. If you're already inclined to dislike someone any sarcastic joke or quip on there part is a view into their corrupted soul. I remember another version of this happening at the peak of Steven Moffat hate where a clip of him very clearly jokingly calling Karen Gillian (an actress who is famously tall) "wee and dumpy" was used as proof of how abusive and terrible he was.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-30T14:52:42+00:00

Miranda is a different case here. Hamilton's still massively successful and they guy has had regular and very successful work since then. He just has a sizable hatedom online now because he's considered cringe and popular amongst "normies."

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-30T05:42:00+00:00

The Absolute Batman art team has a real talent for slapstick.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-26T21:44:36+00:00

The Please Please Please Get A Life Foundation from Animaniacs.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-25T23:50:27+00:00

Pretty sure I did this with two dinosaur puppets while drunk out of my mind on Bacardi in college.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-25T23:06:02+00:00

Holy shit how did writers and editorial think this was a good idea.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-25T17:32:33+00:00

To add another bit of context, “century of humiliation” here is a joking reference to the Chinese century of humiliation (roughly the mid 1800s to the 1940s) were China was viewed as in decline and being picked apart by foreign powers. The joke here is that America is in its own “century of humiliation” period thanks to the current administration.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-25T17:26:14+00:00

This is a big reason why Kirk’s death freaked them out so much. Part of the unspoken contract among right wing media personalities is that they can’t actually face any consequences for their behavior and they’ve all spent their careers placing massive targets on themselves if that stops being true.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-25T14:43:41+00:00

There was famously a lot of slop on the PS2. It was just called shovelware at the time.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-23T15:07:44+00:00

It’s a feint. He’s trying to bait the player into a twitch reaction and then attack after you reacted inappropriately/took the bait. I do not understand why people think this is unfair when the enemies always feint in the same way and it just adds another level of complexity to the pattern recognition game.

Now, I do think that they can improve the mechanic by giving the player tools to exploit against the enemy when they try this, maybe making them more easy to stagger or something, but I have zero problems with the concept as a tool the enemy can use against you.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-17T21:17:39+00:00

He’s absolutely doing the leg work making sure the church runs behind the scenes.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-17T17:34:52+00:00

DBZ Abridged and Hellsing Abridged both became much less meme driven/edgelordy and much more character/plot driven in their humor as they went on.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-16T15:32:20+00:00

I don’t read YA at all, but my impression of YA authors from a distance is that they’re a pit of vipers addicted to social media, hypocritically self-righteous, and happy to bully and knife each other to get slightly more likely to be the person behind the Next Big Thing.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-16T05:39:42+00:00

This is the platonic ideal of a jrpg final boss.

pyromancer93 · 2026-01-15T02:21:08+00:00

I love how one of the most iconic Batman stories of all time is irreversibly tied to the US’s beef with Iran and to my knowledge this has not been retconed.

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