Knight Of Balance: Redux

You honestly think Tumblr can keep me down?

[chessb0r3d]

Analysis so bad you don't even know what it's talking about anymore.

[chessb0r3d]

What??

[chessb0r3d]

[chessb0r3d]

[chessb0r3d]

Sarcasm.

[chessb0r3d]

[chessb0r3d]

This is hopeless.

[chessb0r3d]

IT WAS FUCKING

HORRIBLE

[kob131]

"Oh man, it's so awful that RWBY had that joke about Blake and a lazer pointer!"

... You got into racial fights with people on hentai sites over white on black porn. Specifically white on black porn, because I see from as recently as 2024, you still commissioned black on white porn.

You're a fucking racist, who cares what you think?

[kob131]

Well, in light of learning his backstory from today's death battle, I can confidently add Denji's dad to the list of the worst fictional fathers of all time, right up there with Jacques Schnee, Marcus Black, Aku, Gabriel Agreste, Ulric's Dad (Code Lyoko, btw), Trigon, Slade Wilson/Deathstroke, Darkseid, Bruce Banner's dad, and Sarevok from the Baldur's Gate games.

Also, I winced in pain after finding out that Denji sold one of his testicles to help pay off his dad's debt with the Yakuza. Although I suppose it's slightly less humiliating than my uncle selling his "magazines" to help cover the rent on the apartment he lived in for a while after divorcing his first wife.

Yeah, Denji's dad is a real piece of shit.

[beardedmrbean]

[beemovieerotica]

[flork-of-cows-official]

Reach WITH IN To your LOCAL yard and you may find A Friend And Boy…

[flork-of-cows-official]

they’re multiplying… like mold spores….

[flork-of-cows-official]

[flork-of-cows-official]

You misunderstand; these are four more kittens she found in addition to the other two.

[kob131]

Pokemon Mainline Games | grids.fun

Fill in the Pokemon Mainline Games grid on grids.fun.

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

[teh-nos]

i get this now and it won't let me click through to any 'mature' blogs :(

[moviesludge]

seems like we all gotta wrestle the gun outta tumblr's hand every other month to keep them from shooting themselves in the face

[imsobadatnicknames2]

My favorite joke in Metalocalypse is how as the show goes on it becomes increasingly obvious they’re naming characters with the sole purpose of torturing Mark Hamill.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

It’s been almost two years since I posted this but here’s a list of the official spelling of every character he introduces here:

Dr. Gibbitz

Dr. Amon Skagerakk Fredrickshaven

Dr. Donald Gorthian

Ronald Von Momnaldberg

Dr. Natasha Nesciantskidovich

Vicenzo de Alimamala Corningston III 

Professor Jerry Gustav Mangledink

Horace Marmingblat Wimplestein, Jr.

Dr. Chazz Fazzledopenhoffer

Vater Oorlag

Dr. Milminaman-lanilim-swinwamly

Dr. Gibbitz again (but for some reason it’s spelled “Gibbetz” in the season 2 subtitles)

Melmord Fjordslorn

Dr. Ralphus Galkinsmelter

Dr. Amomolith Chesterfield

Wilmore Unduntingiminen

Dr. Ninmiltrid Fmiltindryden

Dr. Imptnin Pmiltson

Dr. Tormindbind Mickmildididindnin

Dr. Krumpworth Chponglasia IV, Jr.

Dr. Borgermu Barret Swingdworth 

Dr. Richard Reinhold Rnawighiwowpj

Captain Slufgyflaysid

Dr. Bartholomew Grahsrihajul

Dr. Alsajahb Fifborgiltk 

Dr. Fsmilejera Irlelwoll 

Dr. Commander Vernmim Chuntspinkton

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Like I just love how you can pinpoint “Ninmiltrid Fmiltindryden” as the exact moment the joke went from making Mark Hamill say funny but still vaguely name-shaped words to forcing that poor man to pronounce straight up keysmashes out loud.

[kob131]

Seriously, I barely tolerate private companies doing this 'hello fellow kids' shit, I want my government to shut the fuck up and keep the prices down.

[gsirvitor]

[kob131]

Cool. So when are you guys gonna stop fucking around and lower those gas prices and stop them wars?

[kob131]

Have you seen Michael Coolwood’s “ADHD vs Sherlock is Garbage and Here’s Why”? It highlights a lot of problems with hbomberguy’s approach to Sherlock that show a pattern with his approach to RWBY. You might like it.

Actually I did. In particular, what stood out to me was the section about how Harry had a habit of making personal attacks on the writer Steven Moffat and how those issues mirrored the issues with how he depicted Miles and Kerry. How I thought that bit was him taking advantage of the hate surrounding them in that unique situation....and it turned out: No, that's just how Harry is. He just makes personal attacks. Lines up actually- he exposed Internet Historian for plagerizing the Man In Cave video from a Brental Floss article...but decided to dilute his actual point by making personal attacks.

Honestly, it reminds me of how my opinion on the Jello RWBY video changed. I originally thought it was some of the worst shit ever and how it was uniquely bad. But then I watched some of his other STiB videos and his ranking videos and I realized: No, there's nothing unique to the RWBY video. It's just his usual STiB shtick, I just knew enough about RWBY to feel when he screwed up. Same with Harry: While I knew he was just vomiting up common complaints, I thought he was being unique with the personal attacks. But no: Again, I just knew the RWBY discourse enough to know the issues.

I've even started noticing this issue elsewhere, like how people call the professor from High Guardian Spice a self insert when...no, people just don't like the show and 'self insert' is an easy complaint. I think we all just get caught up in our initial reactions, we don't actually think stuff through.

[cookingwithroxy]

The thing is, HBomberguy has had this pattern of personal attacks as replacement for real arguments for over a decade now, back from the post Atheism+ days.

Now, to be fair I don't disagree with his positions on Moffat or Sherlock. Sherlock is a TERRIBLE show. It's just that he's also a terrible person, and the kind of vitriolic behavior he shows is easy to overlook when you agree with him, but is obvious when you don't.

[kob131]

I hated the guy well before the RWBY video myself for his...political takes but I had assumed he was being especially bad in that video and not just doing his usual shtick.

Yeah no: Both of the big 'RWBY sucks!' videos are just their creators doing their usual things, I just knew enough to catch on.

[mainblag]

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE TORMENT ME ? !

[ruinedchildhood]

[kob131]

"The subreddit that shall not be named-"

...You know, I don't usually criticize the main RWBY subreddit. Mainly because: it's kind of pointless. I grew up in the era of hearing about Hideki Anno getting sent death threats over the ending of NGE or fans shit talking George Lucas for the Star Wars prequels. I grew up with characters like Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons or Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory. Back then, everyone just kind of accepted that fans were gonna be toxic so you just shrugged them off and didn't listen to em. My issue with critics was that they use to provide an essential counterbalance to the fanaticism and gave a grounding to online discussion whereas now, it's just fans but with spite replacing love.

I say this because this attitude here about the RWBY critics subreddit is nothing new. In fact I've contributed to that toxic view myself. But I do wanna point out how the blacklisting of the sub from the main one and how people use this to act as if it's some unspeakable evil* is just gonna make people grow more and more smug and dismissive towards them and encourage more of that old school fanatical behavior. I remember when that subreddit was even gonna be banned alongside anyone who was following it, which was such an overreach that even the writers told the mods to knock it off. Which...that's fucking ridiculous. Creators should not be responsible for moderating their fans. The fans should be moderating themselves and handling their own problems. If the creators have to step in at all, that's a sign that shit's gone wrong.

We need to stop allowing this toxicity to fester. If you see this shit going on, even if you agree with them: tell them to tone it down. This echo chamber shit helps no one.

[kob131]

"Ugh, RWBY fans are so awful in how they harass people, dox people and send death threats!"

...So uh, fun fact. Even if we ignore how I've been harassed and sent suicide baiting for getting into prolonged arguments and block evading:

We already know the writers go through this too. Because a Camp Camp blog here on Tumblr somehow got confused with Miles and people FLOODED them with shit. To the point it somehow reached Miles himself.

So no: No one gets to play that card. You only don't get hit because you're ON those people's side. Start saying the opposite side's things and watch how quickly those 'friends' of yours turn.

[takashi0]

And knowing RWDEs, it's probably total projection too

[kob131]

Not specifically from that group, nor do I think it's projection. Even if it was: the fans ARE toxic as well.

[kob131]

"Ugh, RWBY fans are so awful in how they harass people, dox people and send death threats!"

...So uh, fun fact. Even if we ignore how I've been harassed and sent suicide baiting for getting into prolonged arguments and block evading:

We already know the writers go through this too. Because a Camp Camp blog here on Tumblr somehow got confused with Miles and people FLOODED them with shit. To the point it somehow reached Miles himself.

So no: No one gets to play that card. You only don't get hit because you're ON those people's side. Start saying the opposite side's things and watch how quickly those 'friends' of yours turn.