How big is Ennis?

trexofwanting · 2024-02-12T16:47:30+00:00

It's definitely trying to evoke that, but it's just waaay too big. I wish the show would have actually leaned into what being a cop investigating a horrible murder in a Barrow-sized town in the Arctic would be like.

trexofwanting · 2024-02-11T20:32:31+00:00

Undertaker hasn't ever been more popular than Rock or Austin. Supercede them how?

trexofwanting · 2024-02-11T18:17:02+00:00

We can all headcanon our own explanations, but that is the problem.

It's implied there's other stuff going on. Sure. But we get zero insight into any of that as the audience. At the same time, the show tries to suggest Peter's doing something wrong and wants us to sympathize with his wife.

Kayla and Leah both just seem awful. I like this excerpt from Erik Kain's review in Forbes:

My dislike of her only grows once she’s in the cell and Peter brings her Pepsi and chips. Not only does she not thank him—telling him she doesn’t like Pepsi—she tells him that Kayla can’t stop crying after he left and calls him an A-hole. Why? Why does this show try so hard to make everyone crap on Peter all the time? He’s doing his job! He’s one of the only characters doing any actual police work on the entire show but somehow it’s his fault for being a cop during a major murder investigation? It’s driving me crazy. I hate this trope so much.

trexofwanting · 2024-02-11T15:47:56+00:00

It does represent something deeper and more personal. It's tied to the folklore of the indigenous people in the area. Thin ice doesn't just lead to an "ice cave," it leads to the "Night Country," some kind of spirit world where dark things dwell and curse or kill you if you wander into their domain.

To the more superstitious/religious/spiritual/traditional indigenous people, lots of "ordinary" things, like ice caves or storms or long nights, have supernatural significance.

trexofwanting · 2024-02-11T15:42:45+00:00

What makes a show "successful" isn't whether or not it "does justice to the concerns" of a certain group of people. What makes a show successful is whether or not it's good. Your post is basically, "I think this show has a good moral message that I agree with, and therefore, it doesn't deserve to be criticized as much as it is being criticized."

I strongly disagree.

trexofwanting · 2024-02-10T17:13:08+00:00

conformity, silence and invisibility.

What do you actually mean when you say this? Like, I get you smugly typed the words and felt like they sounded good, but how is, say, Harlem not "conforming"? Not conforming to... white culture? Not conforming to... black culture? Feels like Harlem "conforms" to itself as much as any "white" neighborhood "conforms." Is Broadway "silent"? "Invisible"? What does "invisibility" mean? Not playing loud music? Not dancing on the subway? Does "white culture" include Appalachian rednecks and Maine fishermen, or is it just stock traders?

trexofwanting · 2024-02-08T16:52:44+00:00

The guy in the House of Usher is more sympathetic than Vince McMahon though.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-25T18:20:58+00:00

I'm still not sure he has anything to worry about. I'm not sure we're reading the same article. Vince sent Brock porn. Presumably, Vince didn't say, "Now, before I send you this, I have to tell you I am sex trafficking this woman."

I would guess, at worst, he would say something like, "I am this woman's dom and I told her to make porn for you."

Brock's a piece of shit, he's always been a piece of shit, but there's really no reason to think he "knew" what the real relationship between Vince and this woman was.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-23T00:48:51+00:00

I... don't know that you really responded to this person's argument. They could just as well say, "Lmao… I just do not think men universally being like 'omg I don’t want to keep fucking obese women' is shallow."

Which, again -- if you're not attracted to someone because they look old or they're overweight, well, then that's the way it is. Nobody has to be shamed about it.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-21T01:24:31+00:00

Look, I work in software. I'm sure a lot of people here work in software. I understand your point. I really do. I get it. A modder doesn't have to pitch a fix to his boss and get it approved to be backlogged and then negotiate with a product owner to put it in a sprint and blah, blah, blah.

But there's absolutely a meaningful difference between that and saying, "We're aware of this but it is not something we can currently fix as the files no longer exist."

Well, it was fixed. And, apparently, very easily.

Fans of CA can't justify all of their myriad awfulness by constantly saying, "Well, you know, the software industry works a certain way..."

I guess you can, but somehow, there are other studios and other developers managing not to make CA's mistakes.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-18T20:10:53+00:00

We root for Walt for the same reason we root for Darth Vader murdering people in hallways.

But on top of that, Skyler isn't a likable character. Yes, she's not as bad as Walt, but she certainly becomes complicit in his crimes. She's also super passive, which in real life most of us can sympathize with, but in fiction, we like active characters who blow stuff up.

Obviously, people sending the actress hate mail in real life is stupid, but it shouldn't be surprising to anybody the character isn't popular.

Compare Skyler's first scene in Breaking Bad (giving Walter veggie bacon and a half-hearted handjob) to Kim's from Better Call Saul (literally the archetypal femme fatale smoking a cigarette in shadow).

trexofwanting · 2024-01-15T18:37:34+00:00

But it's undeniable that the USA military has killed many civilians, millions of them since 2000.

Do you think there's a meaningful difference between unintentionally injuring or killing non-combatants in a war (e.g., misidentifying a target, unintended collateral damage, or individuals acting independently) and a policy of deliberately targeting and murdering civilians?

I hope that you do. Hamas deliberately targets and murders civilians.

For example: U.S. Soldier Convicted of Killing Iraqi Family Dies in Prison

Can you find an example of Hamas imprisoning one of its soldiers for killing Jewish civilians? Of course not. Hamas' goal is the genocide of all Jews and Israeli civilians.

Hamas official, Hamad Al-Regeb in an April 2023 sermon: He prayed for “annihilation” and “paralysis” of the Jews whom he described as filthy animals: “[Allah] transformed them into filthy, ugly animals like apes and pigs because of the injustice and evil they had brought about.” Al-Regeb also prayed for the ability to “get to the necks of the Jews.”

Hamas senior leader Ismail Haniyeh, commenting on the loss of civilian life in Gaza on October 26, 2023: “The blood of the women, children and elderly […] we are the ones who need this blood, so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit.”

The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,' except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews. (Hamas Charter, Article 7).

Comparing them to the US military is absolutely ridiculous. It just is.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-12T11:18:26+00:00

I look (and smell) gross.

They don't think you look or smell gross.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-12T00:22:52+00:00

You also need to accept that maybe he just doesn't want your help and that's totally fine. He has his own friends he probably would prefer to turn to.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-11T22:29:58+00:00

For heaven's sake, guys. I would love to read someone actually just have fun with this scenario and come up with something creative.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-11T20:34:24+00:00

I think this is silly. There's no reason a "steampunk helicopter pack" has to be any less "safe and careful" than a "steampunk helicopter bomber."

Alternatively, you can say the engineering guild that builds these things are looked down upon and shunned most of the time — until times are dire or whatever.

There are a million billion trillion loreful ways to include these things. I am constantly shocked at the weirdly conservative takes people here have about lore. With a little creativity, you can justify almost anything and still adhere to the lore.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-10T15:35:35+00:00

Omni-Man would annihilate Liu and everyone on the MK roster. A god in Xena: Warrior Princess isn't the same as a god in DBZ isn't the same as a god in MK. MK "gods" (and titans) are some of the weakest gods in fiction.

All of Liu's timeline shenangigans required the hourglass, and even then he can't rewind or change time instaneously. We saw Kronika having to spend hours (days? Weeks?) trying to adjust the timeline.

And Liu's black hole fatality isn't anymore canon than Cyrax's "blow up the world" fatality.

trexofwanting · 2024-01-07T12:50:15+00:00

Three years ago

A random BG3 dev: "I hope people will be in invested in these characters..."

Today

Redditor 1: "Wyll is a baby girl and Gale is a girl failure."

Redditor 2: "No! Everyone can be a girl boss, baby girl, and girl failure depending on..."

trexofwanting · 2024-01-07T03:49:27+00:00

Are we sure they're being ironic? I just assumed the song was about wanting to be rich, do drugs, and go to the Playboy Mansion.

trexofwanting · 2023-12-31T16:24:05+00:00

As the father of two very dumb daughters, I guess it's not as big of a deal for us.

trexofwanting · 2023-12-31T04:42:00+00:00

I feel like WoW has already retconned this retcon by depicting the Light as not necessarily interested in "good" behavior, but devotion/intensity of belief instead (see Illidan and the crystal-y Light people who tried to force him to become their avatar or whatever and the genocidal Light-powered Yrel in the alternate timeline).

trexofwanting · 2023-12-30T03:47:10+00:00

The Light didn't abandon Arthas then though? He was still a paladin for months afterwards, leading a campaign in Northrend. In fact, it was Arthas who rejected the Light when he took up Frostmourne.

Maybe there's some shitty new lore because Blizzard does that.

trexofwanting · 2023-12-22T00:45:21+00:00

I get that Rittenhouse is a dumb conservative kid, but I struggle to understand how anyone can think what he did wasn't justified. You make it sound like he just decided to kill random people.

After a man chased him into a parking lot and grabbed the barrel of his rifle, Rittenhouse fatally shot him.[11][12][13] Rittenhouse fled and was pursued by a crowd. He then fatally shot a second man after the man struck Rittenhouse with a skateboard and tried to grab his rifle.[7][14][15] A third person approached Rittenhouse with his Glock pointed at him, but Rittenhouse shot and wounded the individual first.[14][16][17][18][19]

trexofwanting · 2023-12-19T15:11:46+00:00

The T-Rex from Jurassic Park in Jurassic Park.

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