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let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no
AND nobody is offering me drugs, smdh
This post keeps making me cry laughingg
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couple days ago i tagged along with my brothers and sister who were watching Spider-Man 3 (2007) and watched like, the whole thing except for the first 30 minutes of it.
Who told me that this movie was bad??? It was fantastic. Masterpiece
I mean it wasn't a good movie but it was amazing
What am I saying
In some ways that are very noticeable it was not a "Good Movie", but according to an idea of a "good movie" which is based around how embarrassed you are to be watching it
The action scenes were very creative and engaging, and interacted with the surroundings in interesting ways. All the character arcs were really well done. It had real emotional depth and drama. It was tightly plotted as well.
There was A Something that is definitely missing from MCU and I'm struggling to put my finger on what it is.
I had the same experience when I watched that spiderman trilogy a few years ago. The conclusion I came to is that what the MCU is missing is Saving People as a general motivation.
like, this is most obvious in Homecoming, where Peter wants to upgrade from the baby heroing of stopping street level crime to fighting space gods, and the progression of his arc is him gaining the experience to get that “promotion”. The implication is kinda that stopping a bus from crashing is kinda lame, cuz you only save like, what, twenty people?? And if you fight a space god, you save millions of people. There’s no point in helping someone carry their groceries or saving people in a burning building, because the numbers are too small to mean anything. What’s the point of saving anyone if you can’t save everyone? If you’re not incredibly powerful, you can’t make a real difference.
And I think this is the MCU’s disconnect from the superhero genre. We’re not watching people who have a passion for helping others and using their abilities to alleviate suffering—we’re watching people win glory in their personal epics. The soap opera of gods and giants. That’s not a bad type of story, but it lacks one of the core emotions of superhero stories—the fantasy of being able to make a tangible difference. This extends into the MCU’s unwillingness to disrupt the status quo, as described in this excellent video by PopCultureDetective. (One example of his that really stood out to me is how in Age of Ultron, Stark and Banner’s attempt to use their superhuman genius to create something that will benefit all humanity is framed as foolish, dangerous hubris.)
This incongruence is most obvious when comparing Spiderman movies, because the core of Spider-Man’s character is “great power, great responsibility”. The thing that makes Peter Parker stand out is how no matter how broke, lonely, or even powerless he is, he still tries to use what he has to help the people he can.
I think it’s also noticeable how the MCU superheroes don’t really have Helping People as their Job. Like, whatever they’re doing in between movies, when we’re not watching, when there isn’t a massive problem to solve, they don’t have Rescue as their day to day Job the same way most superheroes do. Plenty of them have Beating Up Bad Guys as their Job, but that makes them more……soldier than superhero. More military than first responder.
Anyway, that’s a huge ramble, I’ve just been thinking about this for like years trying to figure out why the MCU made me so uncomfortable.
Yes! This!
THIS IS WHAT OSP's Superheroes in Empty Worlds VIDEO IS ABOUT! SUPERHEROES ARE SUPPOSE TO SAVE PEOPLE!
And its not something that like, breaks the movie in the moment- it just sits in the back of your mind, kinda itchy feeling. And then you hear Tony Stark say "isn't that the point? that we get to go home?" And you're like, why would a superhero say that the point of heroing is to stop heroing?
There's always gonna be people in a burning building that need someone who can walk through fire.
This is why I LOVED 2025 Superman. He's constantly saving people. He's always checking in and caring about those around him. And even when he's busy, the world is still lived in! Its so busy; you can believe that Metropolis gets attacked by something at least once a week and thats why the other heroes are there.
Right, right.
I didn't elaborate earlier because the humidity and other arbitrary stuff are making me super depressed and I did not have the energy, but this is exactly it.
There was some of this in the first Avengers movie, but you're right, MCU really dropped the ball on superheroes saving people.
Like, I remember, a few years back some rando on tumblr said something about super heroes being a fascist genre because their purpose is to collaborate with and enforce the power of the State, and this argument makes sense to make about the MCU.
But it's not what superheroes are about.
There's a lot of things superheroes could be, but one of the most important things is a vision of "What if there was a person with power to help people and that person was GOOD?"
And "using powers to help people" doesn't mean "collaborating with the government" or "fighting crime in collaboration with the cops" or even "vigilante justice" even though all of those things have come up a lot in superhero stories to the point that people can have a hard time thinking of alternatives
But there are plenty of alternatives. Saving people from natural disasters/accidents? Taking care of and protecting people the system doesn't help? Protecting civilians in a warzone? Shielding people at protests? Oops, now your superhero is considered a " terrorist... "
That's the thing, a superhero advancing the cause of good would have a hard time not getting into conflict with the government. A superpowered individual that collaborates extensively with the State might not even be a superhero. There's another archetype we could look at, that of the supersoldier. A superpowered person who is either created by a government's military or appropriated by it to advance the goals of the State.
Supersoldiers and superheroes are pretty different, and in some ways, non-overlapping things, and MCU ended up conflating the two.
I feel like any kind of satisfying arc for Captain America would have had him STOP being a supersoldier and start being a superhero, and of course MCU shat the bed on that one.
Once again, Captain America: The Winter Soldier was the best MCU movie, showing Cap's depression and then existential crisis as he realizes the government he was working for is evil and corrupt, and as with every other aspect of that movie that made it so great, the creators were like "UH OH" and never did it again.
HUH?
Most cop thing I've ever read. what the fuck are you talking about. The posts you're looking for might be on this website but we won't show them to you???
I'm sure all my settings are set to "yes show me mature content no don't filter anything" what are you TALKING ABOUT
the posts are ON THE WEBSITE. I can't search dirty words?? am I five??? is this club penguin??? when I get you
What the hell
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that was everything I was hoping it would be. marvelous
I love this because you know exactly where it's going and you're not disappointed
I was so looking forward for the Jupiter gravity and it didn't disappoint and THEN THE SUN GRAVITY MADE ME HOLLER
i think you could reach escape velocity on pluto by just jumping really hard
THWE DRAMATIC PAUSE IN THE SUN GRAVITY HAD ME
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yes "if he wanted to do open-heart surgery on me, i'd probably let him" is an indubitably insane thing to say unprompted about a guy you've known for a few days as well as hideously revealing in ways that you might not want to unpack right now but i think we should consider that rocky also has profound self-worth issues 46 years of isolation in the making and would think absolutely nothing of insisting (not offering) that he will donate one of his hearts to grace if he ever needs a transplant or just feels like he could use a backup and not even because he has four to spare. & he announces this with the tone of someone saying hey man how's it going over grace's morning coffee BTW.
eventually they agree that if grace's heart ever starts failing him rocky can be the one to design and install the pacemaker and rocky is so turned on by the thought that he starts recording grace's heartbeat daily for any irregularities like a metronome
My sister-in-law (husband’s sister) was supposed to get married this fall but due to some immature/concerning behavior by her fiancé, the wedding and engagement were called off. (I don’t want to be too specific, but there were sudden red flags, followed by his sudden decision that he wanted to postpone the wedding months or years despite the fact that most of it was paid for already).
I explained the delicate situation to my mom, as my sister-in-law is letting the news get out by word-of-mouth from the immediate family rather than an awkward “unsave-the-date”. My mom obviously told my own family.
Apparently my dad was so angry by the behavior of this guy that in the lunchroom at work he made everybody listen to the whole story (censoring names and identifying details) and said “I’m not crazy, right? This guy sucks!” And then reported back to me all his different coworkers that agreed this guy sucks, as well as their variety of ages/genders to indicate widespread consensus.
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I wasn’t sure if my vibes about this post would come across over text but you all picked up exactly what I was putting down.
I usually despise saying a homophobic politician is gay because it feels like blaming the community for their own oppression but it is important to note Lindsey Graham was gay and this was an open secret his entire life that he thought he was hiding well from South Carolina
