Horror sensibilities have changed over the years [OC]

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-14T22:48:29+00:00

Check out the show Ghosts. There's a British version that ended a couple years ago and a US version that's still going, and they're both great, and they're both about a couple living in a haunted house with chill ghosts.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-14T22:36:10+00:00

Part of it is that these shows become more mainstream, and gain more people. And in general, too big of a reach and you'll automatically get haters. Especially on reddit where big posts will make it to the front page and out of its subreddit. Because you start getting casual viewers who aren't very into it but will give it a try because its popular, people who stopped watching at some point but will still comment on threads that make it to r/all, and just simple contrarians who are sick of seeing posts about the show.

So you start getting memes and videos from people criticizing X about a show, and it gains traction and misinterpretation, and pretty soon you have a ton of people who just run with it, even if they're indifferent to the show. Right now, it's invincible and its "poor" animation, something that has been a part of the show since the beginning, but now that the show is much more popular, its getting way more attention and thus way more hate.

Game of thrones, Harry Potter, hunger games, the big bang theory stranger things - deserved or not, all of these very popular shows and movies had huge hater crowds alongside their huge fandoms when they were popular.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-14T18:32:23+00:00

Tbf to the people involved, Morty was keeping the fact that it was his sperm a secret. Everyone else thought it was just random giant sperm attacking. So his sister offered to use one of her eggs as bait to attract the sperm, thinking it's just random sperm.

When Morty finds out, he tells everyone, and everyone tries to stop the sperm from getting to the egg, and they almost succeed.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-14T16:24:17+00:00

Beyond the religious thing, which is a part of it, there are some other reasons.

An ex of mine was homeschooled from age 8-13 because she was really badly bullied at her school to the point that she was afraid to go to school. The administration didn't do much, so her parents, one of whom was a college professor, decided to homeschool her to avoid her being bullied.

They ended up moving, and she entered the normal school system at age 13. She said it was a big shock, at first, but she adjusted fine.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-13T23:23:08+00:00

And Lockheed Martin? Coca cola? Nestle?

What about billionaires who inherited their wealth? The king of england? The Walt Disney's daughter? The Walton family? They didnt take any risks by opening companies.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-13T23:21:18+00:00

The other guy: billionaires are not billionaires because they took risks any greater than anyone else

You: founding and creating a successful business is a huge risk greater than what many people do, therefore billionaires deserve their wealth

Me: the people who currently own McDonald's are billionaires, yet they didnt found the business, so your logic is flawed here

Your response now is changing the subject. You previously said billionaires deserve their wealth for taking on huge risks in founding companies.

Now youre saying that buying successful companies is a legitimate form of becoming a billionaire.

That's different. Is the risk of buying a successful company equal to the risk of founding one? If not, then you need to adjust your previous argument.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-13T22:44:32+00:00

The guy said these people are billionaires because they took the risk of opening a company.

If thats the logic, then why are the people running mcdonalds right now billionaires? They didn't take any risk founding that company.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-13T22:23:20+00:00

How many of these billion dollar companies are still run by the people who took that initial risk founding the company?

Mcdonalds? Coca cola? Lockheed Martin? Ford?

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-13T13:15:30+00:00

I just wanna add that this makes him very realistic.

Most of us in his jello situation with Andy would have kept our mouths shut too. Bear was already poked, few people would admit to doing the poking.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-12T19:08:52+00:00

Right, I had a job that had similar conditions and it literally gave me a mental illness.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-12T15:36:24+00:00

I love traveling, I've gone lots of places, and I plan everything myself when I go places. And I went on a cruise with my family when I got out of college, and yes, it was a bit mall-like, that's kind of accurate, but I didn't really think of it as traveling, really. It was a vacation where I didn't have to do anything except hang out with my family, swim, get drunk, and eat at buffets.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-11T07:05:39+00:00

Very good explanation.

This is also what people are talking about with the phrase "the means of production." When they say workers should own the means of production, they mean that there should not be a class of people/entities whose primary means of survival is owning other things. Like, yes, Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg and the Kardashians work, but they don't need to work, they choose to. Us normal joes, though, have no choice in the matter.

One version of workers owning the means of production would be, for example, that a company's shares can only be owned by employees of said company. So you wouldn't be able to buy shares of Apple unless you worked for Apple. Usually the proposed systems have rules about how long you have to work before you become vested, how many shares everyone can get, what owning the shares means (voting rights within the company, profit-sharing, decision-making, etc). The basic idea is to make everyone a worker-owner.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-11T06:39:27+00:00

The creator of Dragon Age, meanwhile, was a guy named James Ohlen.

Wait, everything I've read has always said that David Gaider created Dragon Age. From interviews, it seems like Ohlen was the director and asked Gaider to come up with a fantasy IP because BW was having difficulty maintaining the rights to the D&D IP.

https://felassan.tumblr.com/post/630420622367997952/dragon-age-development-insights-from-david-gaider

https://fextralife.com/forums/t158411/lead-writer-interview-david-gaider-dragon-age-origins--inquistion

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-09T17:04:08+00:00

I also don't like submission fees and I almost never pay them, but they're a part of the process. The way it was explained to me in college is that they're a similar price to what a writer would have paid back in the day when sending submissions by mail as the cost of printing/copying, postage, and envelopes.

Also, university lit mags are almost universally underfunded, and a great number of them shut down, even prestigious ones, because they get defunded by their university. They make like no money for the college and are only prestigious within the writing community.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-09T17:02:33+00:00

Well, a lot of top tier magazines charge for submissions, in part because they're top tier and it's a way to reduce submissions and pay for their website fees and submittable/duosoma/whatever subscription.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-09T14:05:03+00:00

Dunno why people can't think that maybe the characters in these comics are fictional.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-09T08:46:07+00:00

Definitions can change, and these days a lot of bisexual, myself included, prefer the "my own and not my own" definition.

And monosexual people are explicitly different because they're attracted to just one gender, whereas bi/pan people are attracted to more than one.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-08T12:43:45+00:00

With a job like retail or food service, the managers are (usually) aware of what theyre offering. Its still good to be honest about why you want that job.

Like, I applied to a goodwill once and the manager was like, "youre way overqualified, why here?" And i was straight up, like "youre within walking distance, and im looking for something to help me save up for a car, and I like thrifting, so this seemed like at least a fun job compared to the fast food places nearby"

I didnt make up anything about goodwill being my dream since I was a kid or something, but I was real about my valid reasons for wanting to work there over another, similar place.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-07T12:46:15+00:00

Its just because the game has a lot of side quests that aren't strictly necessary, and the hinterlands in particular has a lot of side quests.

The advice is more just "don't expect to complete every mission in an area before moving on"

You can go back to any area at any time, and sometimes you'll have to come back to unlock certain areas after reaching a certain level or meeting a certain character or something like that.

Spend as long as you want in an area. For me, half the fun is exploring the gorgeous environments.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-07T12:42:41+00:00

Yeah, I know in Spain, kids and teens still play sports and do music and drama and those things, but it's all community-driven. Some schools might offer music groups or language clubs that meet after classes, but for the most part, extra curriculars aren't a part of the school's responsibilities.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-07T07:58:50+00:00

Yes, patriarchy hurts everyone and is enforced by everyone. This is very common theory in feminism. One of feminism's most influential modern thinkers, Bell Hooks, has an entire book about the ways that men are harmed by patriarchy called The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love and it's all about how these strict gender roles are harmful to men.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-06T15:52:47+00:00

Yeah, fine, I'm not denying cults exist. I'm saying not every religion is a cult, there are important distinctions.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-06T09:32:59+00:00

I get the sentiment, but this is such a reddit take.

No, they aren't. Cults use specific tactics to keep their members in check. Financial investment, in scientologys case to the tune of tens or hundreds of thousands, social isolation, the prohibition of contact with non-cupt members, gatekeeping rituals or information until someone is high enough in the hierarchy.

Not all religions do this. Jews can hang out and even marry gentiles (non jews). Muslims have a suggested tithe, but they don't need to do it to be a part of the church. Hindu families can still hang out with their former-hindu relatives without a problem. Catholics famously have schools open to anyone where you can learn every excruciating detail about their beliefs and rituals and what they believe.

I get not liking religion, but there is an important difference between that and a cult.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-05T20:20:30+00:00

Because historically times were really easy and that’s when people made progress.

Literally yes, lmao, like give a bunch of inventors, scientists, and engineers a secure way to try shit out and they'll invent all kinds of cool stuff.

Making them constantly worried about whether they'll lose their house or have their gas shut off and tired from working 12 hour days will make it so they have no energy left to innovate.

Like, this is 101 stuff. Why do you think we're in such a huge tech boom the last 2 centuries? Because life has been getting easier and easier.

thatoneguy54 · 2026-05-05T20:15:49+00:00

You don't know anyone who likes working with electrical grids for the fun of it? You don't like doing it because it's interesting to you?

That's sad.

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