VindictiveJudge
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- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes 21 hours ago:
Cowboy Bebop and the Ghost in the Shell movies are great places to start.
Anyway, it’s not so much a change in what’s being produced as what’s being imported to the US. There was a good mix of shonen and seinen at first, but shonen sells more merch so we get a lot of it now. Just watch stuff tagged as seinen if you want more mature themes or more sex and gore.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 1 week ago:
This has been a problem for far, far, longer than you think. The silver age definitely had it, the golden age probably did, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it cropped up in the proto-superhero stories, like Zorro. It’s a consequence of having a long-form story where the narrative’s status quo isn’t allowed to meaningfully change and characters either aren’t allowed to die or aren’t allowed to stay dead. Recurring antagonists also can have much richer characterization and more complex relationships with the protagonists, which makes writing stories about them more appealing the more often they appear.
The usual trajectory for a new superhero or new incarnation of an existing superhero is to start off with street-level problems, then get a nemesis that has strong ties to those street level problems, then have the dynamic between the two grow in prominence to eclipse all other parts of the plot. The Joker, for instance, always starts off as either a mob boss with a gimmick or a serial killer with a gimmick, not far removed from the mundane crime Batman always starts with, but always winds up with a fixation on Batman and spawns stories designed as some commentary on Batman’s no-killing rule. Again and again and again, dozens of times over the decades.
Why? Because the dynamic between the two characters tends to be fascinating and results in audience engagement.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 1 week ago:
At what point does it become a grass roots movement?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing…
More seriously, some people just like older people better. Their interests or personality may make it harder to jibe with people in their own age group, but mesh well with people in another age group. Sometimes they’re ahead of the curve on mental maturity and their peers won’t catch up for a few more years, sometimes they just think they’re more mature than they really are, and sometimes they really would have fit in better if they had been born a couple decades earlier.
Personally, when I was younger, I had a hard time relating to anyone around my age and generally fit in better in conversations with people my parents’ age. As a preteen in the early 2000s, I was reading things like Dune, watching things like Blade Runner, and my music tastes included the Rat Pack. The things the adults talked about were just more my speed. This got to be less and less of a problem as I got older and my current friend group is actually a few years younger than me on average, though I do still have the occasional ‘faux old man’ moments with them.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I love VTMB, but the gameplay was never the highlight, it was always the writing. If the story and characters are well written and it ties into VTMB1 somehow, I’ll consider the title justified. The writing is a pretty high bar, though.
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 3 weeks ago:
Beginning of internet memes? Maybe. I’d have to look up when that happened. Beginning of memes as a whole? That would be off by several thousand years at a minimum, just going by ones archaeologists have already found.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 3 weeks ago:
I could be wrong, but doesn’t he own the company?
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 3 weeks ago:
In particular, it’s a very East Coast thing. While we have the mom-and-pop pizzerias on the West Coast, there aren’t styles of pizza named for West Coast cities and we just don’t have that pizza rivalry that the other coast has. There’s California-style pizza, but that’s named for a state rather than a city, and as soon as you leave California it’s easier to find almost any other kind of pizza.
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 3 weeks ago:
Really, the problem is labeling that axis law-chaos in the first place when it’s really order-chaos. We’re pretty much stuck with it now, though.
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 3 weeks ago:
2 and 3 do the same diagnostic routine, and Reach asks you to look at a building in the distance.
- Comment on GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction! 3 weeks ago:
This is exactly my experience with their dice sets. I got the transister dice, but I think the cat dice use the same box.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 4 weeks ago:
You made a comment that is typically meant with complete seriousness without any indication you were joking. PETA, for example, has an entire anti-Pokemon campaign built on the premise that Pokemon is animal cruelty.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft, Sony, EA, Activision, or Square Enix would be my guess.
- Comment on Like a heart 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think ducks typically use tampons.
- Comment on AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access 4 weeks ago:
I use some as coasters.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 4 weeks ago:
Only for backwards compatibility titles. PS5 titles have to be run off of either the integrated storage or an M.2 SSD.
- Comment on Immortals must be riddled with cancer thanks to gene errors in their dna replication. 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if it just takes longer to become a problem? I would expect (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) that a tumor likely grows at roughly the same rate regardless of body size. A 3cm diameter tumor likely just isn’t as big of a deal when you mass 100,000kg.
- Comment on xkcd #3134: Wavefunction Collapse 5 weeks ago:
Well, there’s not really any randomness, we just can’t ever have enough data to determine exactly what will happen. Which is why we have the Uncertainty Principle. If we both had a functioning Grand Unified Theory and total knowledge of all the particles in a system, we could simulate what would happen in the system with perfect accuracy.
- Comment on More action than RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 struggles to convince after a few hours' play - EuroGamer 1 month ago:
Not sure if this is what they’re talking about, but they made an ARG called Tender as part of the early VTMB2 promotion stuff. You had to do stuff within a fake dating app called Tender that was made in-universe to help vampires find feeding targets.
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 month ago:
Kane is Cain, probably.
- Comment on They don't make 'em like they used to 1 month ago:
The handle is torn up, too.
- Comment on Southern USA core. 1 month ago:
Can actually be done without any inbreeding. For instance, if a man has children with two women who are sisters, the children would be paternal half-siblings and maternal cousins. Used to be fairly common when arranged marriages and dying in childbirth were normal. Wife died, but the marriage ties are important so you marry her sister.
- Comment on Funny 2 months ago:
Likely depends on jurisdiction. Should be legal in Oregon. Less sure about Missouri.
- Comment on Iron 2 months ago:
What about just telling them that the meth is laced with birth control now?
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 2 months ago:
Chocolate isn’t sweet, it’s bitter. You have to add a lot of sugar to get the sweet chocolate we’re familiar with. The Mayan and Aztec versions of hot chocolate were more like a spicy coffee than the sweet drink we have now.
- Comment on In the olden days, when people got married a lot younger, there were probably lots of grandparents in their thirties 2 months ago:
Median lifespan was also fairly close to ours even though the average was way down. High infant and child mortality rates skews things.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The Batman: Arkham, Metro, and Mass Effect games are also impacted.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
While the 5090 will run the latest games great, it will struggle with many older games due to the RTX 50 series having dropped 32-bit PhysX support. RTX 40 series cards are nearly as powerful and have 32-bit PhysX, if backwards compatibility is a concern.
- Comment on It bothers me when cat memes refer to the pictured cat as "he," but I can tell from its coat pattern that it's female. I may know too much about cats. 2 months ago:
Male calicos need to be XXY instead of XY. They’re almost always female, with males being very noteworthy. Only 1 in 3000 calicos is male.
- Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later 2 months ago:
2038, not 2028. We have twelve years to fully migrate to 64-bit time.