I'm all for any and all cultural celebrations and intigrations into fantasy schemes. The more that do this the better. Let's all appreciate each other's in a fun way. The better aspects of them anyway because every single one has skeletons we'd rather forget.

But this is also why anyone who tries to equate true pagan cultures, specifically Viking, with racism gets sharp disagreement from me. Not what it represents and it's ok to take pride in it, just like it is for everyone else.

 

"Based" is the stupidest slang creation of all time. I cringe every time I see it in print, and can't help but think of the "fetch" thing from Mean Girls.

 

IMO its either based or cap.

 

Considering that it originally was a slang term that meant someone either was or acted like they were addicted to crack... yeah, it's pretty stupid.

 

I do not like any of the main combinations and designs from ssss gridman... They’re all ugly to me.

 

You can blame assholes for this.

 

You can blame assholes for everything if you really think about it.

Louis Farrakhan is a hardcore piece of shit racist but people don't attribute that to the culture he uses. They shouldn't but there's a huge double standard there.

 

I have no idea who that is.

 

Just this guy on our side of the water preaching racial hate and racial superiority. One if the aholes you mentioned.

 

Everywhere at The End of Time is one of the most terrifying pieces of media I have ever seen.

I made it to about stage four before shutting it down. The music from stage one and two are still ringing throughout my mind, it's truly haunting.

 

Makes you wonder.

 

This video made me think back to an unpopular opinion that I've thought about here and there...trilogies are kind of overrated.

Sure trilogies fit nicely into three-act storytelling...in theory. But how many trilogies actually function as a beginning, middle, and end? Most of them don't really work that way. Like, people call Indiana Jones a trilogy, but the second movie is a prequel. People call Captain America a trilogy, but Captain America's story wasn't even resolved until after his third movie (in Endgame).

My favorite model for a movie series is probably the classic Star Trek movies. They just made an ongoing series of movies that weren't terribly concerned with some kind of overall series arc...they just continued until they started to get old, then they wrapped it all up in a stellar conclusion. And the conclusion wasn't even trying to turn the series into some arc, just give the crew one last meaningful adventure.

I honestly think the Star Wars sequel films should have been the same way. I mean, Disney plans to make Star Wars movies indefinitely. Why box themselves into a trilogy? The ending stank anyway. Just drop the pretense that Episode 9 is the end, because we all know it's not. Just do a pulpy ongoing series of unnumbered movies about a cast of new characters, and change up the cast whenever they start to get stale.

 

MW2 is way better than MW1. I personally like the story way more.

 

Apex legends is the best br out rn

also AoT’s ending is meh

not absolutely terrible but not amazing either just meh

 

br? I assume rn means "right now" but it's hard to keep up with abbreviations where there's no known starting point.


And to be fair, A0T was pretty damn meh when it gets right down to it. It was essentially guro with the eroticism removed.

 

I find the "Bright Slap" memes within the Gundam fanbase to be incredibly unfunny.

For context: In the original Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 anime, there was an (in)famous moment where a character named Bright Noa slaps the teenage protagonist, Amuro Ray for refusing to fight.

From a storytelling POV, I do find this specific scene to be interesting, and I do find that it's a pretty legitimately shocking and odd moment (Especially if you're invested in the series); Where a grown man comes in and slaps a child suffering from PTSD and battle fatigue and tells him to quit being a baby..... but for a different reason than how most of the "memetic" take on this scene on the Internet interprets.

What most people seem to forget was that, Bright Noa was just an ordinary Earth Federation officer who was only a couple of years older than Amuro, and was instantly thrown into commanding an entire ship and crew when the story of 0079 began; I always see the "Bright Slap" scene, not as a comedic funny "meme" scene, but a realistic and horrifying scene where Bright reacting violently when things didn't turn out as he wished, because he's also a kid overwhelmed with the responsibility suddenly got entrusted upon him. Bright hitting Amuro for back-talking him really lays his inexperience bare as if he was more experienced at his job/in a better mood, maybe then he would see how ragged Amuro is feeling.

At the same time, the scene was also the big moment to show what’s going on with Amuro; After all these battles, Amuro is at his breaking point, where Amuro was exhausted both physically and emotionally, saying that he’s tired of being scared all the time. He’s tired of the terror of battle; Looking back on it, his battles really have been a harrowing experience for him. He’s an untrained amateur (Who only survived because of the superior mechanical performance of his Gundam) going up against established Zeon ace soldiers like Char Aznable and often fighting against long odds.

While it's not OOC for Bright Noa to slap Amuro considering the stress he went through; In a sense, the scene is borderline abusive if you want to look at it realistically, since a child solder suffering from PTSD is abused and forced to fight (Even if Amuro wasn't completely innocent either, as he continues to argue with Bright and Fraw; making things worse for everyone).

Despite Bright does use his fair share of fists and punishments, both Amuro and Bright are also at wrong for never sat down and tried to understand each other more (As Ryu Jose points out). It's hard to ignore that Bright and Amuro have been feuding so much, that it's actively damaging the cohesion of the entire crew (Until Ryu needs to tell them that they're both being stubborn and should've sat down and try to understand each other sooner)

Not only that, the "Bright Slap" did absolutely nothing to help and in fact, just made the situation between him and Amuro worse; as Amuro still ran away from White Base for a while (and need to be tossed to the brig obviously) later on; It was only with the death of Ryu Jose (Who heroically sacrifices his own life in a last-ditch effort to save everyone on board the White Base, during a battle against the remaining soldiers of Ramba Ral commanded by his wife) that solidified Amuro (And everyone else on the White Base) to become a better and mature soldier, rather than Bright slapping him.

For some reason, this moment has become a meme within the Gundam fandom and is referred to as the "Bright Slap".

All of this is why... I completely despise how everyone online seems to be "twisting" this scene into a meme, where people seems to call the slap amazing, or things like "Bright Slap transforms wimps into MEN OF DESTINY!!", and all sorts of nonsense; completely misses the entire point of the scene.

 

The Forbidden Woods (area in Bloodborne) is just as good as Yharnam. It seems to me that most people don't like it that much, but I thought it was great! It's atmosphere was incredibly ominous, with disturbing and intimidating enemies scattered about. Plus, I really enjoyed how it twisted around and went all over the place, like a nightmarish maze.

 

I'd bet my soul that UFOs are not aliens. Aliens are not visiting us. If they had the tech to reach us they'd have the tech to observe us without getting caught by some guy with a camera. Or crashing in Rosewell NM. Or even having a need to enter our atmosphere.

 

I dunno if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but as much as I like the soundtracks for FFIX and FFX, as well as his other works like Lost Odyssey or the the Smash Bros Brawl theme, I feel FFVIII was Nobuo Uematsu's Magnum Opus. That's where he peaked

 

I definitely expect this one to be an unpopular opinion here...I prefer the look of smaller, minimal toy display over the larger "walls lined with shelves displaying the full collection" setups that a lot of hardcore toy collectors have. Not that there's anything wrong with the latter by any means. I just personally find smaller, focused displays (especially if it's a clever diorama) more attractive looking. Larger displays are impressive in-terms of sheer quantity, but the tradeoff is that it tends to look very busy, and your eyes can get lost and overwhelmed. I totally get the appeal of that, but I just gravitate towards a more minimal look that my eyes can rest on easier.

Recently I've just been displaying 6 or 7 of my favorite Transformers figures (usually my favorites, or ones that are special from my childhood) in a quaint little 'diorama' (which it probably barely qualifies as), and switching some of the figures with others when I want a different look. I keep meaning to post pictures of my display somewhere, but...it's honestly kind of a mess right now.