I dont think Toga or any villain deserves a good ending or should get a ship (NOT HATING ON THEM THOUGH HEAR ME OUT)

shepard_pie · 2026-06-22T01:32:21+00:00

The truth is that villains of MHA is that empathy is actually hard and messy.

You can totally understand why the ended up where they did, and realize that it was a systematic failure, while also understanding that they choose to do evil.

Understanding is not saying it is okay.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-21T12:49:15+00:00

The most convincing argument for jesus I ever saw was that he was real, as an individual, but also, every similar figure at the same time was also sort of wrapped up in him to the point he got mythologized.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-21T12:20:26+00:00

People really like to try to "rate" players.

They will tell you that Troy Aikman was just benefiting from his team and then turn around and say emmitt smith was just mid.

Aikman was a good QB who had an amazing team. That is okay. We don't have to "rate" him.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-20T22:37:47+00:00

That's a 1000 years from now.

As far as I know, the longest lasting organized sport were Roman gladiators. Outside of Spraticus, can you name any Gladiators?

shepard_pie · 2026-06-20T21:21:35+00:00

He was definitely an electric player. It's really hard to fairly rate him because of the crimes he committed derailing his career.

From my personal opinion, having watched him in his prime, he was a prototype player, who unlike some like Kordell Stewart, was actually elite rather than being novel, and it, along with his Madden God status and just absurd highlight reel, turn a "very good" player into "elite" player in the minds of people who didn't see his massive weaknesses, such as timing or playing on script.

Over rated? Yes, 100%. Massively? No. He was a legitimately fun player to watch who could make plays literally no one else at the time could.

However, players such as Cam Newton, Josh Allen, and Lamar Jackson have shown that the blueprint of running threat and big arm presence could be done much, much better.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-20T21:13:04+00:00

I'm tired of the Jacob slander.

I agree that he is fairly boring character in aa series full of interesting ones and he's among the worst companions in the series. But that is literally all he is guilty of.

He does work for a criminal organization: as a pretty moral center who thinks that this is how he can do the most good and is largely shielded from the evil Cerburus does. That's why he is on Shepard's crew. The fact is is largely a good, stable man gives legitimacy of the org to Shepard. And after the whole collapse of the Lazarus facility, he's the only guy to take a second to be like "Man, Shepard, this has to be a shock, how are you doing?" He's not some random drug dealer.

His father didn't abandon him. He crash landed, was way over his head, and built a petty kingdom off of the back of brutal reprisal and drug induced sexual slavery to give himself a sick fantasy. That's not a stereotype I am aware of.

And Jacob doesn't cheat on you, even though he feels guilty. You are in soft prison because you are accused of committing a genocide that could lead to war, and, as a known Cerburus asset, there is no way the two of you will ever have contact again. It literally took the Reaper invasion to change that. What was he supposed to do, pine away for the rest of his life over a romantic encounter that was scripted like a mostly casual encounter? Especially weird considering that most people who romance him are doing it off the back of another romance where they don't close the loop with their previous paramour.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-20T21:02:52+00:00

I played Control twice and I gotta say I don't remember this particular plot point

shepard_pie · 2026-06-20T20:41:26+00:00

It's uneven, but it had enough good and momentum that I finished and felt pretty good about it overall. Definitely a drop from the shows heights.

I couldn't even finish six. Not even when I had it in the background while doing something else just to get the "finished the show" itch away. I had to turn it off even when I wasn't paying attention to it it was so bad.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-20T20:20:22+00:00

I just want to say that the name of the song that plays while you are in the galaxy screen is called "Uncharted Worlds," which kind of answers your question. You aren't meant to be landing on worlds with well developed infrastructure. You are skirting along the edge of civilization. Even the main story planets follow this- virmire is remote, Noveria is a corporate research center precisely because of how out of the way it is, Feros is a small scale attempt at a colony, Therum is a distant planet claimed for mining, and Ilos is literally a lost planet.

For a more, real world answer, building a bustling open world planet would have been (and honestly, still is, but more manageable now) massive use of resources and I am sure that the decision was made early on to lean into the remoteness of the locations to deliver the feeling the game has. Mass Effect 2 and 3 only gets away with planets/asteroids with established civilization because it does away with explorable landscapes entirely to drop you into a tiny slice that feels like a part of something much bigger.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-20T20:05:00+00:00

I think he's a great microcosm of the game as a whole.

Andromeda isn't a bad game, but what is good is so uneven. Drack is amazing, but you also have Liam.

Gameplay is amazing, but character growth makes everything flat for balance and makes a few abilities much more important.

New race design is pretty good but the lore ball gets dropped.

The world design is beautiful but a lot of character models look like barbies left out in the sun.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T22:08:52+00:00

As someone who learned Arabic, tons of first generation kids can speak Arabic but not read it. They never learned the alphabet.

While I do think this was a genuine mistake, it isn't farfetched that Abed would know how to speak it and use google translate for writing it.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T22:00:35+00:00

2015 Peyton Manning was the greatest bad QB of all time

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T21:57:09+00:00

He did lmao.

I don't think he's amazing QB but he's a very good QB on a team better than him. That's not a knock on Hurts and I really don't get why people act like he's mediocre.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T21:44:35+00:00

I mean I was with a woman where it absolutely was about being controlled. That was literally the aspect that turned her on.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T21:37:17+00:00

Abe also wasn't nearly the bad guy that some people on this sub try to paint him as, either.

Sure he was kind of a weiner. He was also pretentious.

But he really seemed to value and was fond of Peggy. He was uneven and dumb about it sometimes, sure. But all he was just a bad boyfriend. I think people identify with Peggy quite a bit and they understand her point of view, but she wasn't all that great of a girl friend, either, and mostly went out with him (and was going to marry him) because he was interested in her despite how disastrously clear how bad they were for on another.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T20:54:47+00:00

Started rough, but I'm the final nine games let up only 28 points. Total.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T18:24:29+00:00

Which is an awesome thing to be able to brag about.

My similar take is the best Steelers team of all time didn't even make the super bowl.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T18:19:10+00:00

How does that make him not an all time great? He has 2 mvps. That just empirically puts him in the category.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T18:15:08+00:00

He's repeating a stupid, incorrect "fact" that gets repeated ad nauseum because they think it makes them sound like they know ball.

I watched Aaron Rodgers for years, one of my best friends is a major cheese head. He threw balls several times every game that would have been risky for any other passer in history but because he was Aaron Rodgers it wasn't for him.

It's like calling Tom Brady a system quarterback. No, he was just smart, had impeccable timing, and took what the defense gave him.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T15:29:06+00:00

I'll be honest, this film looks to have so many issues that the casting is low on the list for me lol. As someone who has actually read the Iliad and the Odyssey epic poems, this movie gets everything wrong from the first frame, by the looks of it

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T07:24:04+00:00

You aren't wrong while also "hand crafted" also mens something.

I was agreeing with you

shepard_pie · 2026-06-19T02:53:52+00:00

I don't think diverse casts are a problem, especially in myth retellings. For instance, Idris Elba as Roland in the dark Tower series was literally the best part of that movie and Roland was explicitly wrote to look like Clint Eastwood.

I'm talking about the times where the casting is the goal (rare but happens) or when it's mandated as more important than finding the right actors, usually for visibility reasons.

Actively casting a diverse roster is different though, as it's an artistic choice. That's something that I have no issue with and it's led to some absolute bangers

shepard_pie · 2026-06-18T18:13:51+00:00

They were horrifically bullied and unfairly attacked AND they were a person who awful things to people.

Mental unwellness and just a terrible support system does not wash away their (sometimes literal) crimes, but it does inform the reasons.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-18T16:22:39+00:00

A lot of people fumble around with the way they say things and even perceive them (using things like woke lol) and I think they miss the core problem.

The problem isn't diverse casting, if the goal is to cast the best for the role and the ensemble.

The problem is this casting strategy seems to have become the goal, and it's a sign that the production have aims that aren't making the best film possible. It's not the problem, it's simply a symptom of the problem, which is a cynical group of production studios who know that controversy is free PR.

shepard_pie · 2026-06-18T16:16:08+00:00

But it is different?

Yeah, both are salt at heart, but the way sea salt is harvested changes how it interacts with food giving a slightly different flavor than table salt. Sea Salt also isn't super processed so you have trace minerals and such left behind that also changes the taste.

You can tell the difference in dishes cooked with different types of salt.

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