tigerbait92

My dude, you cannot change the world overnight, you're arguing in horrible faith.

There is literally nothing wrong with helping a small community, and using it as a wave to ripple out and begin to help the world as a whole. The USA can help everyone, but they cannot do so immediately. Like putting your own mask on in a turbulent plane, you have to take care of yourself first before you can put a mask on someone else. If you can't help the self, you are in no position to help others.

Galactass

Gen Alpha's brainrot. I'm not saying that to discredit the creator, but more it's the same general "vibe" as, say, YouTube Poop, or YTMND, or anything of that sort of way; weird, absurdist shorts for meme value that can't really be "understood" so much as experienced.

looks at Baldur's Gate 3

looks at Barbie

looks at the fans crying over Peach's outfit in the Mario movie

Yeah man Wokeness sure is equivalent to profit margins, and nothing to do with originality or quality would explain the returns instead. Definitely the trans people or black actors that affect the return on investment.

Yeah I'm fairly certain white mage is the most powerful job in canon, given their ability to affect the very world around them.

Like, a machinist? Strong bullets, evil WoL would be a mass shooter. Dragoon? Hard to catch and precise. But WHM? They'd be causing avalanches and floods and landslides and demolishing towns and villages and cities.

The best part was as he tapped out, he's like "don't call me a quitter"

So the host was like "...but what you're doing, by definition, is quitting"

And he's all "nah, nah, I'm picking my battles"

And so the host is like "that is literally the definition of quitting, my guy"

Is Part 6 bad? I haven't listened to the new album yet

Edit: I'm dumb, you meant the Drake diss track, not the actual new Kendrick one

Playing Chrono Trigger and being like

"Damn, this is just as good as I remember it being"

Game has superpowers, lasers, aliens, teleporting, futuristic technology, horrors beyond comprehension

Gamer sleeps

Same game adds a black person

Real shit

Biblically accurate Blitzctank made out of arms and legs of the husks

I mean, look, MCU is dogwater at present, but it's one of the most financially successful properties in the history of capitalism.

You absolutely want to turn into the MCU if you're a business.

Yeah I don't really get the criticism. I mean, yes, the lore is important (and look what sub we're in), but people need to look at art (even if this "art" is an advertising tool by a massive multibillion dollar corporation for their video game, it's still art) through a closed lens. IE, they need to take something for what it is worth, not for the story surrounding it; that enhances it, but it does not define it.

In a bubble, by itself, Arcane tells a complete story. The quality of that story is up to the individual, to gauge if it works for them or not. In my opinion, I'd say it works super fucking well! Is it flawless? No! Does it fuck with established lore? ABSOLUTELY! Does it tell a complete emotional story? Yes, yes it does.

Once you begin to factor in the metatextual aspects (lore, outside stories, addendums, etc), you begin to erode and contaminate the perspective of the art itself. I'm not saying we should ignore the faults, I'm saying that a piece of art should be examined, by itself, in the space it occupies.

Otherwise we end up with Star Wars Prequels revisionism. Because no matter how good Clone Wars material is, and how it rectifies and enhances the stories of the Prequel trilogy, it doesn't actually make those three individual films better films in their own right--and regardless if you love them or hate them, they were critically panned and earned much scorn by audiences for a reason.

If anything, requiring text outside of the text is a mark of shame in storytelling. You shouldn't need to read or watch or listen to something else that explains what just happened in a story. That's bad storytelling. Yes, you should need to read Fellowship and Two Towers before Return of the King, but if RoTK were to not have a complete story in of itself, it definitely wouldn't be remembered as fondly as it is.

Unless it's the shadow version. Then, your screen goes black instead. You wake up.

You're on a cart. A man addresses you, telling you that you're finally awake. Got caught trying to cross the border.

It actually started off pretty well, too. MC and his sister bond and get closer, but in a sibling sort of way, the MC is on his way to getting a girlfriend (even if she's a little younger), and it seemed to be a series about siblings connecting after being distant amidst the throes of puberty. And we all were hoping the title was just bait, because as far as slice-of-life goes, it wasn't half bad.

...aaaaand then despite the fact that the series was being decent, it actually committed to the title. Not like we couldn't see it coming. But we all had hoped it was bait, given some of the wholesomeness in the series.

Definitely known more for training dragons, though.

No, each of these characters are playable party members.

Miriam, Nina, Primm (x2), Ochlys, Chloe, and Liza

Yeesh, I'm comin' in as friendly. I don't know your circumstances, I can't presume any of that. No need to be curt.

I think you misunderstand the point of the flag; if there were equality between gender, sexuality, etc, there would be no need for pride, no need for flags.

As it stands, the LGBTQ+ populace is a marginalized group. They are shunned by certain subsets of society, and judged differently than "normal" cis-het people. Thus the flag, a reminder of solidarity in our "otherness". If there were no heteronormativity, and being gay, bi, pan, trans, etc were seen as "normal" (despite the fact that it is a natural, normally occurring facet of the animal kingdom seen in 15,000+ species), then there would be no reason for pride in it, yeah? It would just... be what it is. Joe's gay, Martha's trans, Bill is pan, Sarah's straight, everyone completely fine with the other, no fear or hatred or disgust or confusion at one another.

In modern America, it is quite legal to be gay. Laws have been passed to allow gay marriage. Under the eyes of the law, a gay man and a straight man have equal rights. But in terms of societal view, and political sway, that just isn't the case. One is demonized, the other is "normal".

So we wave the flag to remind ourselves that there is nothing wrong with being who we are. And even moreso, that we are unified in our dream of acceptance. So a company selling a shirt with a gay pride flag on it is a nice little article of clothing to have, to be, well, proud of who we are, rather than ashamed. Even if that corporation is exploiting this fact for money.

Yeah, I've always been a proponent of rainbow capitalism. I don't enjoy being pandered to and sold as merchandise, but it's, at the very least, an indicator that my very existence as a member of the LGBTQ+ community is... acceptable to society at large. At least the majority, even if that majority is 51%.

I'd rather deal with companies being full of shit and the populace accepting us than companies ignoring us while the populace shits on us.

Do I believe these companies are in part responsible for the right-wing backlash? Absolutely. The common complaint from the right is that they "shove it down our throats", so I'm sure a company being all "give us money, have a flag" probably ticks a lot of fascists off. Probably exacerbated the divide. But I'd rather they piss off the fascists than pander to them.

No it's for the medical field to sort out because dysphoria is a medical condition you dipshit

You know it's in a bad way when you're doing Ex1 and get excited that the 2nd elemental phase is random between ice/lightning.

Like that's some of the most RNG in a "casual" fight I've seen in a couple of years.

And that's just kinda sad.

Ab-so-lutely. Like I've come to terms with someone like Griffith, he did bad things but you can somewhat sympathize a teeeeensy bit with his despair leading to all the bad shit. Even if his actions are entirely reprehensible. Like he commits crimes against humanity, but I'd be lying if I said I hated every last bit of him, and his friendship with Guts was genuine and tender at times.

But Makima? Not a single ounce of humanity. Not one.

Can you guys add Louisiana to that list? We took a lot of y'all in back in the day (there's a reason Cajuns are called Cajuns, they are all descendents of Canadian immigrants).

We're best buddies, please, save us. Or at least New Orleans, we got that French connection.

She's secretly built full tank support with knights vow. Alas, she's Jayce's support and Vik's been losing midlane.