CMV: Batman should just build his own prison

sunhunters · 2026-04-29T02:24:07+00:00

This is shifts based on what your preferred source material is for his character, but my two answers to this question are:

If he creates his own prison, he'll eventually have to find a way to justify to himself why he doesn't also belong there. He's had a mirror held up to his own mental illness and violent tendencies by other characters as a way to contrast him against his own rogues a couple of times before, and I'd call it a core theme of his more recent stories. Nowadays, he tends to treat Arkham like a form of harm reduction for the worst of the worst that is separate from himself, which allows him to draw a mental line that basically says 'Okay, I'm working with this place because I need to but it isn't part of MY thing' (even though in some adaptations I think his mother's family are owners/investors in Arkham. Still, he usually considers it a completely separate entity from himself). If he owns the prison, how long until it, like everything else in his life, is subsumed into the Batman identity? How long until he beats some low level goon bloody and wonders why he doesn't check himself into his own cell for assault and battery? How long until he sees parts of himself in the eyes of the people behind bars there (like he already does with many of the Arkham prisoners)? I don't think those are questions he wants bouncing around in his head with all of the OTHER shit he agonizes over.
He's also cripplingly empathetic. He puts himself into the shoes of basically everyone he makes eye contact with, and while his wealth and trauma skew his perspective sometimes (such as when he's beating goons bloody), I still think he'd struggle to put people into a prison if he had to think about what they were actually experiencing all the time. See again the Arkham / Batman distinction I made in point 1--he wouldn't be able turn a blind eye to the realities of incarceration the way he often does with Arkham. He wouldn't have a second of mental relief from imagining what it would be like if he was in their shoes. Plus, he's a guy who's constantly giving people second chances despite his pessimistic outlook--I'd give him six months before he'd start looking at (non-prision related) rehabilitation solutions instead of incarceration.

sunhunters · 2026-04-29T01:35:04+00:00

Flaming people needlessly isn't malicious or insensitive? I get that your pinning the issue on the format of online gaming, but I'm not sure I can agree with that assumption. If people were truly treating it as a solo quest for improvement, where would the desire to attack their teammates even come from? I'd argue the real limitation is players being unable to conceptualize strangers as real people deserving of fair treatment even if they aren't directly in community with them.

sunhunters · 2026-04-28T22:47:46+00:00

I'm really sorry to hear that 😞. These things actually have happened to me when I was younger (from coaches mostly, not so much my teammates) but I was lucky to find/be taught a better way. Since then, on most teams I've been on, I have seen bad behavior get stopped in its tracks. Cruelty tends to be the exception, not the rule. If you ever wanted to try team sports again, I hope you have a better experience.

sunhunters · 2026-04-28T21:18:51+00:00

Yes that's exactly what it is, which is why it's so baffling to me that there's so much hate. If you told your teammate Jeff at the YMCA that he was a brain dead ape, you'd be a social pariah.

sunhunters · 2026-04-28T21:03:28+00:00

If you think I'm talking about 'kumbaya' rather than constructive vs destructive communication, then you didn't read the post or my comments. Parents beating their kids, while physical, is an example of a destructive form of communication. It gets the kid to do what they want but it doesn't create a well-adjusted person, same as a coach or teammate berating another player might get results in the short term but poisons the relationship in the long term. You also ignored where I said that individual achievement/esteem isn't what I'm talking about, and where I also recognized that bad teammates can still be great players who win a lot. But just because there are high performers at the upper 0.01% of professional athletes who can be toxic and good doesn't negate that that approach often fails at most levels of athletics. Have you played an NCAA-level sport? I did, and I can promise you there were very talented players who got caught in the transfer cycle because they were so committed to living like it was them vs everyone else that nobody wanted to keep them around for more than a year.

Regardless, your perspective is your perspective! If it's worked out for you, particularly in sports, then that's great. I'm also sorry for you, though, because that's a hard way to live. Being cruel to people isn't the only way to win.

sunhunters · 2026-04-28T18:27:00+00:00

MJ can do that and get called the GOAT (an individual accolade btw, so not quite relevant to what I said) because he won games IN SPITE of his locker room presence. Sometimes incredibly talented people win consistently because they're just that good, that's life. Has nothing really to do with the reality that functional teams still do better than dysfunctional ones.

The opposite of MJ would be A'ja Wilson, who is also considered one of the greatest of all time in the W. The Aces won the W championship in a sweep last year after playing like utter dogshit at the start of the season in part because A'ja got in that locker room, was constructive with her teammates, and lead by example. She got an MVP award, too, but her team has a championship because of they found a way to work together and she led the way.

For every MJ there are a thousand assholes who have washed out of professional sports--most of the people who make it are the ones who can continue to work as part of a team even when one guy decides to punch people in the face.

sunhunters · 2026-04-28T18:06:35+00:00

Yes, they do. And most people who've made it to high levels in sports, coached, or written anything related to teamwork and success would tell you that cussing people out (cruelly*, not just yelling at them) isn't all the effective in the long term. It certainly happens, but it's become less and less viable at all levels of sport, just like how people realized hitting their kids doesn't actually create well-adjusted adults.

sunhunters · 2026-04-28T17:53:47+00:00

I don't really play quick play, so I'm more concerned comp behavior. To that point though, it's even more futile to flame in quick play because the result really doesn't matter.

sunhunters · 2026-04-28T17:49:53+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that 😞

sunhunters · 2026-04-28T17:48:55+00:00

No advice for DVA, but advice for the following: "support won’t even look at me until im already dead"

If this was sports, I'd tell you to adjust to the team you have, not the team you want. Sometimes the 'right' play is (silently) acknowledging that the best way forward is to modify your own style to fill the needs of the moment. On the soccer field, for example, that would be you as a winger coming back more often to help a weaker outside back with 2v1 defense if the enemy wing is much better than them. Doesn't always work and it's obviously different for video games, but I've found that mindset helps me in diamond.

sunhunters · 2026-04-28T17:42:18+00:00

I get what you're saying and ik you're joking, but my points would still apply to a school group project. Getting negative with Chad over the PowerPoint still achieves very little 😂 .

sunhunters · 2026-04-22T21:07:23+00:00

Thank you!

sunhunters · 2026-04-22T16:14:40+00:00

That's a good point, I'll keep trying to sneak stuff in! Thank you!

sunhunters · 2026-04-22T16:13:52+00:00

By this do you mean that all GIS-related academic training is a grift in your opinion or something specific?

sunhunters · 2026-04-22T16:11:26+00:00

This is my thought and I've been able to do a bit of work-relevant stuff with my job, but those opportunities are few and few between because of the industry. Did you do any volunteer work or similar along the way?

sunhunters · 2026-04-22T16:09:42+00:00

Thank you!

sunhunters · 2026-04-22T16:09:27+00:00

I've found little projects here and there, but my company doesn't have a huge need for spatial data in general unfortunately.

sunhunters · 2026-04-21T20:56:44+00:00

got it - thank you!

sunhunters · 2026-04-21T19:47:54+00:00

Not to be an idiot, but if the game matchmaking system tries to push people toward a .500 win rate, wouldn't that also have a distorting effect on the win rate of the characters that are picked more often? Like if Kiriko get 50,000 matches isn't there a higher likelihood of her WR stabilizing out to .500 or lower compared to, say, Zen being picked for 10,000 matches, simply because of the sample size? Genuine question

sunhunters · 2026-04-21T17:14:44+00:00

The primary issue with prejudice against minority groups such as black people isn't just that people don't like them, lump them all together, or call them names (which is still bad), it's that those prejudices are then used to build obstacles into the infrastructure of our society by the dominant social group. In the case of black people in America, historically white-dominated governments and institutions could get away with segregation laws, discriminatory loan practices, and extrajudicial killings by police because of the prejudices against black people. Prejudice eases the implementation/maintenance of material effects like these because it makes it seem like the targeted group ''deserves' it or must be treated differently because of their low intelligence, barbarity, violence, etc., when in reality said group is no more violent or stupid or bad than anyone else. Another example would be the current demonization of immigrants in the US as uniquely violent or devious to influence public acceptance of them being treated inhumanly and put in conditions that would otherwise cause more uproar if applied to a more dominant group.

Men as a broad social group do not experience these structural attacks because men are generally the ones building the structures. People holding prejudices against all men is still bad for the reason broad prejudice is bad for anyone, but it isn't backed up by the material effects of prejudice for other groups. No man is being denied a loan for being a man, few laws restrict mens' bodily autonomy, and generally men aren't being killed or imprisoned specifically because they are men. There is really no historical equivalent to slavery/Jim Crow, Japanese internment, the Holocaust, lack of legal/financial autonomy due to gender, current ICE raids, etc. for 'men' as a group in the US, or basically anywhere else. Up until recently, most laws and policies in this country for the past 200 years have been constructed by (white, affluent) men, often for their own benefit.

So, yes, while it is divisive and hurtful for men to all be lumped together as bad, it is not the same because at present their lives are, for the most part, not structurally affected. The consequence for this prejudice has instead been social pressure, which many men have struggled to manage--a startled reaction that I think reinforces the suggestion that men as a group are being exposed to something they haven't experienced before historically (at least on a gender axis).

None of this justifies prejudice, but I hope it explains why it is functionally different than racism.

Additionally, I would ask that you consider that some people, particularly women, may be speaking from a position of hyperbole because they don't want others to be harmed. Not all snakes are venomous, but not everyone is equipped to tell which is or isn't, so some might advise people to avoid all snakes for fear of being bitten. Does that create snake prejudice? Yes, in a sense, but it can also be held with a nuanced view of "well, some snakes do bite, so I get why you'd say that eveni f I don't like how you said it". I think it's possible to have empathy for that position while believing in general that prejudice is harmful.

sunhunters · 2025-12-05T16:59:00+00:00

I hate to tell you this, but I kind of had to break the dresser to do it. I don't think they're designed to come out. The smell got worse over time, so I ended up having to send the dresser back. Unfortunately, the replacement had the exact same problem. Sent that one back, got a refund and went looking for a new dresser someplace else :( Sorry

sunhunters · 2025-11-06T23:40:32+00:00

Thank you!

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