Macademia

147. Registered flex offender. First Minister of Northern Ireland. Currently petitioning to equip all PSNI personnel with grenade launchers. Luv Stormont, 'ate Dublin. CEO of Avon Enterprises (your dad works for me). All products made from 100% slave labour. Constantly on the grind. RHI denier; Don't ask me about it or I'll delay your DLA cheque by another six months. Professional Jimmy Saville hater. [The remainder of this bio has been expunged by the Central Intelligence Agency]

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As someone who adores Silent Hill, I’ve been thinking about the relatively recent announcements. All in all, I’m cautious since it’s… Konami, but have some optimism.

I think the Silent Hill 2 Remake is about 50/50 on if it’ll be good or not. Trailer was great, but heavily scripted to show some of the original’s most iconic non-spoiler moments and is clearly not representative of whatever the final product may be. If this had been a year ago, I would have dropped a preorder in a heartbeat, but now, I’m going to wait to see the reviews once it comes out.

Between F and Townfall, I have slightly more interest in the former, with the alleged 1960s Japan setting. Again, for both I really need to see more, but I’m at the very least intrigued. Still weirded out that they announced two presumably mainline games at the same time. Unless F is more of a spinoff, which seems kind of likely considering that 1960s Japan kind of implies that Silent Hill the town won’t appear much if at all.

Ascension… It’s going to be crap, isn’t it? Best case scenario, it just won’t be my thing, but in the worst case, it’ll be a total mess. Silent Hill multiplayer just sounds like a bad idea, it doesn’t work as a concept the way that it does witj Resident Evil.

The film is not something I have any interest in on one hand, but on the other, I’m curious to see if they could do a proper adaptation and not more weird nonsense like the previous attempts at loosely retelling the first and third games.

I’m happy to see the franchise return after being dormant for about a decade (and devoid of good installments for almost two) but I’m being very careful here. Capcom pulled off RE’s return with minimal casualties (RE3Make being the only major screw up since 7 in my opinion), but Konami are another beast entirely. I really, truly want everything that releases to be good, but that just isn’t a guarantee, sadly.

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lmao, coming back to this:

The remake sucked

F was mid

Townfall looks mid

The movie sucked

Ascension... Did it even come out? I heard nothing about it

What a good use of this franchise, Konami.

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Something Broken - A Fanfic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66169840/chapters/170547463

In 1972, at the climax of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War, a young G.I. by the name of Henry Schmidt has a chance meeting with Corporal William S. Afton of the Engineers' Corps. This meeting would prove to be the catalyst for what would be the rest of his life. Over the next twenty years, he would build up both his friendship with Afton and their own business. Until it all came crashing down in horrific fashion.

Now an old, tired man, Henry is left to recall the events that led up to the complete and total destruction of his life, and his relationship with a genuine monster.

I've been back and working on something not actually related to MHA for once. Fnaf is a fun one, because even the actual canon is basically a glorified fanfic for itself.

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Beyond Tomorrow is big finished. It has Re-Destro in it. And other colourful characters like Sex Offender and Crooked Fed.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57867418/chapters/147294142

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Is this my most esoteric post yet? We shall see.

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We just do memes here, now.

(Also, Ghost of Tsushima is really good.)

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Ma? It happened again.

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Beyond Tomorrow Very Real Official OP

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Shigaraki Detective Agency main plot:

Possibly even trillions. Maybe gazillions, if needs be.

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HELP, I ACCIDENTALLY SEARCHED "SMUT" INSTEAD OF "SMT", I WANT TO BURN MY EYES OUT

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Stans of the character Austin Kiddierape the Deranged Serial Killer and Genocidal Dictator when he says a bad word (he is now irredeemable)

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After actually properly reading through the final few chapters of BNHA, I almost think the issue is more the fact that it's over than how it ended.

In all honesty, it isn't that bad as an ending. Not even the worst of its era for manga series. It's mediocre, a decent enough ending point, all things considered. It's made worse by the entirety of the final battle being awful, but the Epilogue Arc in and of itself isn't anything too egregious.

I think the problem is more with the fact that it is over. BNHA had a lot of severely underdeveloped characters, from students to pro heroes to villains. Back when the series was still running, there was a sort of hopefulness. "Oh, like half of Class B haven't done anything cool or interesting yet, but there's still time." "Geten and Compress' discussion getting a cliffhanger is annoying, but we'll get back to it soon enough." "We'll see Shigaraki actually acknowledge Twice's death and Compress' sacrifice sooner or later." "We can still get Mustard back." With the series now over, that cope is well and truly dead. This is the end, and all these underdeveloped characters and plot aspects are likely never going to get a chance to shine. It's a sort of melancholy; It's one thing to criticise something that has a chance of improving, but another to realise that it is now dead and buried and the critiques will never be addressed. I think that's the more tragic element of the ending, to me at least.

And you know? I've got to give the manga props for at least getting me invested enough to actually have that cope. For all its flaws, BNHA was a fun series, I wouldn't make braindead blog posts about it if I didn't enjoy it to some extent, because I am a functional member of society who doesn't like to spend all day ranting about something I was never going to enjoy anyway (shots.)

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"Oh, uh, there was just one more thing I was wonderin' about. See, Mr. Afton, while I was waiting to get a chance to meet ya, I couldn't help but get a closer look at those robots you've got dancin' around on the stage. What didja call 'em again? 'Animatronics.' That's right. My wife loves that kinda stuff, she was all over the robots at Disneyland. She mentioned they move around 'cause of pneumatics. Y'know, compressed air pushin' and pullin' the joints and all. I was just curious, do pneumatic systems usually smell like rotten meat? I figured you would know, Mr. Afton, since you was always workin' on 'em."

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I'll say it: I love the MLA, but they probably shouldn't have existed. Not in their canon state, at least.

Everything about their presence after their introductory arc only really serves to make everything to do with storytelling harder for Horikoshi. Let's remove the League from the equation for the moment. The MLA has Geten and Re-Destro, implied to be two of the more powerful characters in the series (and neither of whom were actually defeated during the MVA arc, with the latter only standing down due to losing his own faith in the battle), and that's without getting into the 100k+ foot soldiers they've got kicking around. Curious and Skeptic are fairly useless in regards to combat proficiency, but Hanabata provides another strong support pillar of the army. Even before you add in Shigaraki, Twice and Dabi, the MLA is overpowered.

And what did this lead to? A massively tangled operation where half of its members had to be unsatisfyingly knocked out off-screen because Horikoshi had accidentally made them too powerful to be conceivably beaten. And to be fair, it's a trap I fell into myself the last time I wrote them. The Liberation Army are very difficult to make threatening, because you have to gimp them in order for the heroes to not get immediately blown to pieces like a small child throwing a rock at the Berlin Wall. As it stands, they're too good.

So, in all this smug retrospect, what would I have done? Well, it's something I'm toying with for something I'm working on, but my main idea would be to cut the MLA down. Make them a real underground faction of extremists. They still have their primary figureheads, but that aside, give them a couple of hundred loyalists spread throughout the country, not a couple of hundred thousand. They're powerful, but they're low in number, with many of their forces consisting of people like Yotsubashi's private security team and Hanabata's party subordinates. Much like the IRB at the turn of the twentieth century prior to the Easter Rising, they're basically an old boys' club, sitting around and reminiscing on when the group had power. Their schemes have to be more subtle, more focused on the - ahem - hearts and minds of the public. Things like Detnerat's products and commercials, Curious' articles, Hanabata's proposed policies, they all subtly push a pro-Liberation message. They warm the general population up to the idea, they take advantage of the Commission's failures, they engineer public crises from behind the scenes to weaken people's belief in the current system. What if, for example, it had been the MLA who had secretly encouraged Overhaul's production of a Quirk-erasing drug, in the hopes that it would cause further unrest and fear that they could manipulate to turn public sentiment against the current government? What if they had provided funding to the League post-All for One's arrest in order to stir up more trouble, instead of getting in a big fight and losing half their men to Shigaraki? What if the UA traitor had been acting on orders from the MLA, who then relayed the information to the League for the purpose of essentially using them as their pawns to attack UA on their behalf? A secret society pulling the strings, and using the League as their unwitting patsies, behind the scenes to sow distrust in the Commission and set them up for their eventual failure. The final arc could have been less about whatever the hell it was about and more about the League finally realising what was going on and having a massive three-way battle between the heroes, the villains and the MLA who finally take to the streets after spending pretty much the whole story scheming and manipulating and building up their forces.

It's all fanfic stuff, and it's so easy to point and gape and go "I would do that so much better!" but I honestly think the secret society working to undermine the government angle would have been more interesting and made for a more threatening faction than a massive revolutionary army which gets immediately crumpled during their first major battle with the heroes.

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I'm gonna say it: Iain Morris got cursed by an ancient witch at some point and couldn't make anything good with the number 2 in it. Not only is Series 2 the weakest of the original Inbetweeners, but the second movie is the worst thing to come out of the franchise (and I include the American remake in that, which is terrible but unironically still better than the second movie.)

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With the Series Ending

I decided to do this solely based on canon, except for F which are so bad that they transcend the rule. I also put this in the lens of do I enjoy watching them, or do they infuriate me. Most of the ones in G are there because I can't tell who they are from the picture, or are so minor I don't get why they were on the list to begin with

Hawks was the hardest to place because as I've mentioned before I love villain fanon Hawks, and hate Canon for all the missed potential and the guy being shit.

Before the last arc, Deku would have been in C, and I felt most criticisms of him were undeserved. I still feel a lot of them are dumb, however, he's canonically a hypocritical, suck-up to labels, abuse apologist, idiot, etc. As much as it feels like character assassination it's canon, same with Shoji. I also just don't care to read fanfiction of him, and feel he takes a lot of roles where other characters would make more sense. If I'm not already following someone I'm not going to read fanfiction with him in it

Most of E I hate as much if not more than F but the fandom either doesn't write about, or treat them like the pieces of crap they are, looking at Mineta of course.

Fun fact Edgeshot is in E for bringing Bakugo back, and causing me both meta and dramatic issues for me. What the fuck was the point of killing Bakugo to immediately bring him back. How the fuck did Edgeshot know he could do this? How the fuck did he know how to do this? Why the fuck is he doing this for some random teenager he has never interacted with before, in the middle of a war? And now why the fuck does this fucker get to live, no one gave a single fuck about Edgeshot but he gets to live!

Centipeder would have been in E if not for the fact I know what my ringtone for him would be, Red Flags by Tom Cardy

Uraraka owes her rank in B for her arc with Toga, otherwise, she would have been in D. For the plot forgoing her original motivations so they could turn her into a generic love interest. Toga tried talking crushes with her 'twice' everything else regarding that shit, which started before they ever met, is on her

I actually love Endeavor fanfics as most of them either a treat his abuse for what it is, or b I view them as an own on canon Endeavor and his incredible laziness and selfishness. But Twitter exists and they flock to him and his bullshit so to F with him.

Speaking of Fs, Bakugo is a whiney spoiled rotten brat with a silver spoon shoved into his mouth since birth. I hope he never breeds. Damn near every shit thing that has happened to him, was either brought on by himself, literally applied to everyone, he literally doesn't care, and even with the two exceptions I'd give this, the Sludge guy, and being chained up at the sports fest (he should have been disqualified), do not justify his shit

Congrats to Dark Shadow and Tokoyami for being the only hero (student) to make it past B

Needless to say I love villains, Dabi is by far my favourite, followed by Himiko, they are way more engaging and convincing than the heroes. And by convincing I mean it actually feels like they are going to put in effort to make their goals happen, not just wish really hard. I truly wish we could have seen how Shigaraki's goals shifted during his reign over the PLF. We had already seen how he wanted the League to be happy and an exception to his goal of destruction

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This is the most based tier list of all time (Yotsubashi's placement aside, and even that is fairly agreeable.)

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The Shigaraki Detective Agency: Beyond Tomorrow (Fanfic)

The Shigaraki Detective Agency: Beyond Tomorrow - Chapter 1 - BNWA - 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga) [Archive of Our Own]

In the words of the Muppets, we're doin' a sequel. Hooray. The brand new adventures of a detective agency run by a less-evil-than-usual Shigaraki. what fun!