Local Yugioh nerd. Arc v deserved better

[boiledkwamaegg]

I keep forgetting that the sole reason I fell in love with TES elves back in the day was because they have weird as fuck facial features and the games make little effort to make them look conventionally attractive. The only exception I can think of are the cinematic ESO trailers, which is a bit unfortunate. Like, why can't elves just be straight up ugly sometimes. I want the awful supremacist elves to look weird and creepy and nonhuman. I want the carnivorous forest elves to make me think of bugs. I want the elves that live in ash and ride insects all day to look like it too. They literally look alien and that's cool as fuck. Shoutout to everyone who draws elves that actually look strange and otherworldly. Nothing wrong with drawing your blorbos with more human features but whoever vibes with ugly elves is goated asf

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

"Men Aren't Better Than Women: Both Genders Are Inferior To Me" is a 1991 book by Dr. Ivo Robotnik (better known for other work). Though its primary purpose is clearly to stroke the author's own ego, it is generally regarded as a comprehensive, well-constructed, and accessible work of contemporary feminist theory, and is still commonly-cited to this day.

Most of the critical complaints have been about the tone; in a review from 2005, Professor Victoria of Spagonia University said, "The constant self-aggrandizement undercuts the idea that its subject ought to be taken seriously. Also, wasn't the 'feminist' line from the Sonic Heroes manual a mistranslation of 'womanizer'?"

In 2026, Dr. Robotnik released a new edition updated for the preceding 35 years of developments in feminism, with the subtitle changed from "Both Genders" to "All Genders."

[crimsonservbot]

Help a Genderfluid Transfem move in with her trans girlfriend

Hi, you might know me as the voice of Magnus the Red in TTS Marckus in Hunter: the Parenting or as "The woman who voiced that one fucking Exterminatus Meme, the one with the Inquisitor smashing his head on the button wait wdym that was you-" In roughly two weeks, I will be going on a little roadtrip with my girlfriend @paragonsheep to Utah (and before you gasp, I'm moving out of Texas) and we could, quite frankly, use some help. If you would like to get something out of it, I do voice commissions for $7 per 100 words and $5 for anything under that. You can contact me here, on bluesky (same url), or on ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/redservbot Thank you very much for any help you can provide

[friendofhircine]

I mentioned this in the comments of Chapter 5.2 but I wanted to also share my thoughts here.

As a Garou fan, I love me some Garou slander.

They are a very much creatures of Rage, and because of their very nature they see everything as a nail and themselves as being born with hammers for hands. They are fighting a noble war but they are not fighting it with the nobility it requires. It’s dirty, it’s bloody, and their enemy uses every underhanded trick it can find to win, and it most always does. For every Garou that dies, four more vampires are embraced and three more fomori are born. Their ancestors failed during The War Of Rage, failed during The Impergium, failed during their coming to the American continent during the colonial era, and failed to realize that either all stand together against the Wyrm (non-kinfolk humans included) or they will all fall alone. And whats worse... The Garou Nation is failing, and your PC can either follow the party line and be rewarded, or walk the more difficult path to create true change. You face enemies more ruthless than even you, and you must be wary at times, for fanaticism turns even good intentions into twisted and impotent idiocy. You can be heroes, but The Garou as a whole are not, they are just what's left, the last line of defense. There are no pure good guys in WOD, even WtA, the only reason your player character/your pack/The Garou aren’t the “bad guys” is because you are fighting something way worse. And thats why I love it. Though we shouldn't generalize them too much, all splats/factions are complex in their own ways, no doubt.

Also, as a final thought, I would like to personally celebrate Alfabusa and his team's wider approach to WOD. They seem to be using lore from all editions, from 20th, to 5th, to even Revised in some cases. And the way they use it, in my opinion, contributes to a rich tapestry for their personal vision of the World Of Darkness.

In the end, I always remember what my ST once told me; "It's your world of darkness - use the parts you like, ignore the parts you don't."

[captainsnoop-deactivated2020041]

i was playing pokemon blue on stream earlier at 350% speed and i got to thinking

what if the reason nobody in the pokemon world has any good teams is because its considered a dick move to have a proper team comp

like culturally everyone is like “haha pick the pokemon you want! if you’re happy with three geodudes, thats you and your life!” and then you’re supposed to just have a friendly battle with any other pokemon trainers and whatever pokemon they just happen to have

like the average trainer is probably just walking around with a growlithe because that’s their pet, or a hiker has three geodudes because the geodudes help him with hiking. and if this pet owner and geodude hiker meet, you’re supposed to have a friendly battle but nothing too serious

now imagine the 10 year old kid that has six pokeballs on their belt comes up. you’re like “haha, we’ll have a friendly battle!” and you throw out your geodude 

and they throw out a fucking gyarados, and it one-shots your geodude 

and then you throw out your pidgey you have because the pidgey helps you navigate mountains because you’re a hiker

and then electricity crackles around the gyarados and a thunderbolt flies off of this giant dragon and evaporates your pidgey 

so you’re down to your last pokemon. you tell them you’re gonna send out your bulbasaur. the ten year old is like “oh okay in that case i’m gonna pull out my vulpix.” like not only is this kid walking around with an amped-up super dragon, but theyve also got multiple pokemon specifically for making type advantage counter-picks?

this kid’s a fucking asshole! really, kid? what are you trying to prove here? this is a friendly match between strangers for fun! why are you composing real-ass competitive teams? what a fucker! 

[jumpingjacktrash]

i mean if you look at how npc’s talk about their pokemon, they’re service animals mostly. some of them are just pets. apparently they really enjoy sparring, so you let them battle other people’s pokemon for socialization, it’s like going to the dog park.

hell yes i’d be mad if i took my chronic pain support chow-chow to the dog park and some asshole with four rottweilers and a husky was like SIC EM THUNDERNUTS even if my dog enjoyed the tussle at first.

look, kid, the paras helps me weed the garden. it’s not a special forces attack paras. it’s just a bug that eats dandelions. please calm down.

[maxknightley]

This is precisely why Cooltrainers are exiled to the mountains

[theaussielemming]

It’s not the trainers’ fault, they’re going about their god damned business trying to get badges and go to the Pokemon League and stop legendary Pokemon from fucking shit up and save the world, but they’ve got fuckin’ Hiker Willy stopping them on the path and running over here like;

“PLEASE WILL YOU STOMP MY TWO GEODUDE INTO THE EARTH!”

Like, fuck off, if Willy didn’t want my Swampert to one-shot his hiker helpers then he shouldn’t be trying to harass unaccompanied 10-year-olds halfway up a mountain. I mean, at some point, ya gotta know what a trainer looks like, and the majority of them are little tweens running around by themselves. These are little twerps trying to go up against the Elite Four, they’re not messing around.

Hiker Willy is asking for it. He’s asking me to kill his Pokemon. 

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[cats-and-confusion]

releases my creations into the wild

[cats-and-confusion]

part 2 electric boogaloo

[earndiltheequalizer]

AI, Chatbots, and HTP

Hey ya'll, Earndil here, but you probably could have guessed that already based on many things.

I've seen some stuff courtesy of the Hunter the Parenting Subreddit, and things people have brought to my attention, and though I have made my thoughts on the matter clear before in some form, I figured I'd give a clear statement on the matter:

With the advent of AI, Chatbots, and exploitative programs that are fed hard work from creatives in our industry, to churn out gray, palatable slop for easy and convenient consumption, it's become apparent to me that some people in our sphere, be they fans or detractors, have begun to use them with our works as well.

I'm not going to speak on the intent of such things, as that's not a battle I'm here to fight. What I can say, is that we here at Ogre Poppenang heavily disapprove of the use of generative AI for creative purposes broadly. We do not want our hard work being fed into a machine to sate the needs or desires of people who are, in my opinion, extremely impatient, or so demanding of instant gratification that they do not care whose toes they step on to get it.

Perhaps it's merely a harmless, fiery passion to interact with our characters, perhaps it's something else, but in any case of it, we disapprove, and are highly disappointed whenever we see it. I have no specific people to call attention to, nor would I, as that is the kind of low-brow dogpiling I disapprove of just as much, but I want it to show in the record, at least here, that we do not want this in our world.

We are working diligently at producing hand-made, effortful media, for everyone, for free, and these kinds of things are extremely disheartening to see. If you see this, and have created a chatbot or other such thing using ChatGPT, or whatever the hell it is going as now, I implore you to do away with it.

Our work is not yours to steal and repurpose in this way.

Thanks for your time, take care.

-Earndil

[havenfable]

Greek Mythology: Unfortunately, Zeus was horny.

Norse Mythology: Unfortunately, Loki was bored.

Egyptian Mythology: Unfortunately, Set was envious.

Japanese Mythology: Unfortunately, Susanoo was rude.

[labelleizzy]

Diné mythology:

Unfortunately, Coyote had “a good idea”.

[skywardkonahriks-deactivated202]

Celtic Mythology:

Unfortunately you pissed off the Fae

[theinfiknight]

Hindu mythology:

Unfortunately, another asura managed to obtain a boon from Bramha/Vishnu/Shiva

[little-urban-witch]

I love how everyone’s mythology has some variation of “And then there was This Asshole”

[neyruto]

Cowboys are witches and horses are their familiars

[istillfuckwithdemilovato-deacti]

guns are their wands and they only know one spell (bullet)

[omnybus]

Rootin’, tootin’, toil n’ shootin’

Fire burn and cowboy bootin’

Eye of newt and spicy beans,

Toe of frog and denim jeans,

Whiskey, grits, n’ demon spittle

tossed into my iron griddle

With the tannin’ of our hides,

Somethin’ wicked this way rides

[serendipiteaart]

Not that anyone asked for this but

[celuere]

Watched 3 episodes of the kakegurui live action and this shit is SO ass and everyone who says otherwise is either lying or hasn’t watched the og because:

-yumeko is now apparently a crybaby with a tragic backstory who wants revenge

-Kirari is emotional??? OUR Kirari????

-everybody fucking knows that Ririka is her sister and she fucking KILLS people and doesnt act like her literal counterpart

-Midari is fucking straight and not obsessed with Yumeko? And crushes on a literal guy that doesn’t even exist in the anime nor manga?

-Itsuki is a MAN???? An influencer who said- and I quote: „mother is mothering“ „unbothered queen“ and „slay, mother cuntress“ to Kirari like what the actual fuck who was in charge of that?

-also Mary and Yumeko Yuri is just NOT THERE??

-Sayaka- Kirari‘s personal assistant and biggest Kirari yearner- also doesn’t even exist?

-also Midari isn’t a borderline psychopath who carries a gun with her, but instead beats Yumeko in a DANCING competition?

-Yuriko is also nonexistent

-Momobami clan is like not a thing at all

Except for Yumeko, the casting of the actors is HORRIBLE. That fucking blue lipstick that „Kira“ wears looks just awful. The least they could’ve done if they butchered an entire series is to cast people that at least SOMEHOW resemble the og cast, Runa is also okay but that’s it. Don’t even get me started on Yumeko‘s character. The gambling sessions don’t even last longer than five minutes when it‘s the entire point of the series?? Just a bigass shitshow that only gets worse with each episode, I cringed so many times win the span of 90 minutes I feel like I deserve some kind of mental compensation.

[toweringclam]

The different genres of Doctor Who episode:

The dumbest bullshit you've ever seen. Just absolute baby brain nonsense.

Man, aliens are weird, huh?

Genuine high-concept science fiction serving as biting if heavy-handed social commentary on present issues

*Lisa Simpson voice* Look, Mom! It's Ea-Nasir!

Nightmare fuel that will traumatize a generation of children while adults roll their eyes.

The villain is determined to out-camp every other camp villain combined. There will probably be a needle drop.

The harrowing story of one character's personal hell

Tbe Doctor is sorely tempted to break one of the laws of time and/or one of his firmly held moral boundaries, never mind all the times he's done this without comment.

The Daleks are back, and they're purple now

[daddyhiccup]

This was too brilliant to not share with you all.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

Amazing

[ramen-hair-denki]

future children will be asked questions about corona and this song will be a way to remember some key parts of it

[phineas-and-ferb-heritage-posts]

phineas and ferb heritage post

[beepbopitsgt]

Reblog to make him lose another 200 billion, like to make him lose 1 billion

[tenaflyviper]

He's throwing a tantrum about it, too.

I cannot wait until this man snaps.

[thefirstanomally]

Does he really think he can just...cancel a holiday?

[bugkrumch]

[shamebats]

[asingularcanadian]

You are not safe from this. You, the person reading this, are not safe from this. No matter how educated or open minded you think you are, you are not safe from this. The moment you think you are safe from it is the moment you become the most susceptible.

Its similar to why you cannot put bad people in a class of their own. The moment you do that you stop being able to see the bad things that the people closest to you do a la "my best friend couldn't have said that racist thing, they're not evil."

The moment you think you are immune from this type of backslide into right wing nonsense is the moment you stop questioning yourself enough to keep yourself from backsliding into right wing nonsense a la "I mean im not antiscience, im vaccinated, I just think that fluoride in our water supply is imparting children's ability to learn as fast as they otherwise could without it."

Remember, being progressive means progressing, its about always moving forward. The moment you rest on your laurels and stop putting in effort to keep the progression is the moment you start becoming left behind.

[cyber-corp]

this website’s easy watch. *dangles a bunch of greek gods like keys*

[cyber-corp]

i know what i’m doing dw

[cyber-corp]

Keep in mind I only know like. Two Greek gods by name. Homer is one of them, and he was good friends with Odysseus I think?

[cyber-corp]

Wait fuck Homer isn’t a god he wrote the fucking thing. Fuck

[cyber-corp]

POST CANCELLED NO ONE LOOK

[cyber-corp]

desperately google searching for “greek gods to pray to when people notice your online idiocy”

[pluto-officially]

You're failing.

[cyber-corp]

You don’t think I know that, God of Death? Can I pray to you so I can DIE ALREADY

[communist-mannyfesto]

Pluto is Roman, not Greek

[cyber-corp]

?????

[enigma-system03]

Short version is that Pluto is a later name for the god of death, which is often associated with the Roman era/Roman mythology. Hades is the earlier name.

[cyber-corp]

I set up my own house made of sticks and it has promptly fallen on me

[cyber-corp]

HE’S NOT EVEN REAL?????*

[cyber-corp]

I made this post thinking I knew what kind of fire I was playing with. Hephaestus, God of Fire, looking upon me from his fuck off tower or whatever said “Oh you think you know? Check this shit” and promptly set my post ablaze for everyone to observe

[legionoftuna]

Hephaestus doesn't have a tower, he lived in a volcano

[cyber-corp]

FINE THEN. BIG FUCK OFF VOLCANO. WHATEVER

[cyber-corp]

wrong.

[pointless-achievements]

Achievement Unlocked:

Lightning Bait

You're basically doing the post equivalent of standing out in a field during a storm with a ten-foot copper pole, you better hope Zeus is busy hiding from Hera.

[cyber-corp]

FUCK'S SAKE NOT AGAIN

[taco-bee]

I need you to name every greek God you know and what they are for plz

For science

[cyber-corp]

OKAY FINE HERE'S WHAT I'VE FOUND

HERMES: DA FUNNY ONE

ZEUS: DA LIGHTNING (NOTE: THOUGHT HE WAS NORDIC, FATHER OF THOR)

POSEIDON: DA SEA ONE

HEPHAESTUS: DA FIRE/FORGING/STEEL ONE

APHRODITE: DA HOT ONE

KRATOS: GOD OF WAR

HADES: DA HELL ONE. ROGUE LIKE

APOLLO: DA DODGEBALL/PROPHECY ONE

[boxxed-juice]

ares is the god of war, not kratos

[cyber-corp]

WHY THE FUCK DOES THE GAME CALL HIM GOD OF WAR THEN

[f1rstperson]

Eris dangling this concept in front of OP like "make the post, it'll be so funny. You know the name of some greek gods, you can do it."

[acoolguy]

me as a hotel receptionist: *greets guests by playing hotel california but cutting it off right before they say california*

[moonbutters]

Me presenting my rock collection: *plays the start of Roxanne but cuts it off before the “anne”*

[jewishpangolin]

[sighinastorm]

the Champton of Brampton

[uniiiquehecrt]

I'm thinking in terms of actual real life experiences I've had when I say this, but I'd imagine part of what makes being a Thor enjoyer so frustrating in 2024/MCU's phase 4+ era is that... you're effectively not allowed to enjoy your favorite superhero.

I once had a conversation with a close friend of mine during a casual outing, and without going into very many details, this particular person is an enjoyer of Ragnarok, and enjoys Tailka's work overall. Now, I should say right off the bat: there is nothing wrong with these opinions. Everyone is entitled to like what they like and enjoy the work of creators just the same as other people are allowed to dislike them. For this particular post, I'm not here to get into fandom wars or "reasons why taika waititi is a terrible director" beef. I have other posts in line for that. But what I will say is that I already knew this about my friend, so it never surprised me when the topic of Thor came up that it would be a point of disagreement.

The issue I've found that continues to circle in the general space of "being a Thor fan" came when I expressed that I don't like Ragnarok, I do think Thor was funnier (and just better overall) before Ragnarok and therefore Taika's involvement, and quite frankly Taika had very little business taking on the mantle of director of a superhero franchise he has never liked or understood in his life just because he had mouths to feed. (There are other opportunities to fulfill that. And filmmakers know going into this industry that it's all gig-based and - if they're smart anyways - work around that.) I hadn't even gotten a chance to go through all of the reasons WHY I feel that way, of which I have had before compiled an organized list of about 16 talking points off the top of my head, so as far as that particular discussion goes... it didn't go anywhere. We were busy at the time.

But namely what I want to talk about is this:

The response I was given, in summary, was something along the lines of "well I think Thor was boring, and he wasn't my cup of tea, so I'm glad he changed."

But, you see, there's just ONE small issue with that: Thor isn't meant for everyone.

In fact, no character is meant for everyone. So why is it that Thor needs to change to be "for everyone" and be the MCU normies' "cup of tea" when no other character has to? Why does he need to lose his core identity (both as a character, as a franchise, you name it, it's been done) just because people like my friend don't understand him as well as Tony Stark or Spider-Man? And why should Thor fans have tow watch their favorite superhero get stripped down and turned into something completely divorced from the character, world and cast we were first involved with from the beginning?

Nobody at any point has been able to answer me that besides "well just because I didn't like Thor personally."

Iron Man won't appeal to everyone. Neither does Captain America, neither does Spider-Man, beloved as even Spidey is. They have their own quirks, their own villains, their own storylines... Every superhero has a core to them that their stories revolve around. He's from DC, but Superman, for instance, has the core of: love, justice and the American Way. Therefore, his stories revolve around challenging that core, and making Superman prove it. Steve Rogers/Captain America has a similar core. Justice, freedom and the American Way, is what I'd mostly boil his core down to. Thor's is "love" all around. I've written about that '(here)' in my post about his 2011 themes. Maybe it's different for other fans, but for me personally? I adore that about Thor. It's one of the many reasons I'm drawn to him over any other marvel Super besides Spider-Man. (not you tom holland ... yes you andrew garfield...)

So when I go to Thor for entertainment, I'm going to him above the other superheros because I want a story that revolves around HIS core and how Thor goes about reckoning with his challenges. I also go to MCU Thor specifically for his quiet, kind, regal nature. I come to him for his gravitas, his passion, his relationships with his cast of companions.

I go to him for high-sci-fi action/adventure, or for the "what if we took norse mythology and made it an alien superhero" route they took him in for the MCU. I go to Thor because he IS different from the rest of the Avengers... and that's the point.

So when someone says to me: "Well Thor wasn't for me so I'm glad he changed", or "Well I really liked Ragnarok because Thor kind of become more in line with the other Avengers"... they're fundamentally missing the point of why Thor has a fanbase at all.

[abby118-deactivated20260314]

You're right and I hope you know that. If you have to make a character ooc in order to enjoy their characterisation, that character was never written for you and you need to accept that and get over your need to be making everything about yourself. Imagine how awfully boring and one dimensional stories would be if they all had the same target audience.

[supervillainarchaeologist]

I'm clinging to these opinions because in the very well-worn path of "Loki was changed beyond what people loved about him at Ragnarok" meta I think it is easy to forget sometimes the exact same crap happened to Thor.

I think there's a couple of reasons or more that this sadly happened, I don't really have the energy to go pulling out sources right now but from what I remember as someone who was there:

The fairly lukewarm critical reception to TDW contributed to this, as well as the fact the film went through a handful of changes in terms of creatives involved and the story they wanted to tell. I'm not gonna entertain "they shoehorned in more Loki with reshoots" though because reshoots are normal AND Loki is by far and away the most successful part of the film, in fact "normies" would've probably forgotten it entirely if not for him.

Chris Hemsworth clearly had issues with the way Thor was treated in Age of Ultron in particular and I can't say I blame him. His brother was the reason the Avengers formed in the first place, they're searching for Loki's sceptre at the start! Clearly Asgard is being set up as important in future and then...nothing. Thor gets to do nothing. Regarding that suggested importance for Asgard, he gets a vision in a cave which was ALSO cut down because test audiences are incredibly stupid and/or Marvel is incredibly stupid and didn't construct Thor's journey or that scene properly to underline it wasn't suggesting Loki created Ultron somehow.

The amount of fuckery going on with the creative committee (can't remember the exact name) in Phase 2 didn't help.

Hiring a director known for comedy was obviously done because of the success of Guardians of the Galaxy when THOR ISN'T GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY FFS. Even if you're gonna cite the comics and the era of comics that Ragnarok is using, it's still not GOTG humour just because it's colourful and garish. Also as a side note on that: a lot of fans of Planet Hulk in particular were pissed off by this film in the end anyway.

And as much as I LOVE GOTG, fuck the fact that the sense of humour of those films basically took over the entire MCU, probably starting with Ragnarok.

Anyway yes, justice for Thor as well, because having become more familiar with the comics in the decade plus since I became a proper MCU fan: psst there was nothing wrong with Thor's personality or aesthetic prior to Ragnarok.