Post Crisis stories really got ppl thinking my mans is a hippie.
Like think about it, killing them is a no no but crippling em for life is A-Ok? Wtf.
Let's just call it like it is, this is a Batman that realized that no-kill code doesn't work.
It was a luxury he thought he could afford as a Year One, he got too old to give a crap.
Fact is, he's not Joe Chill. Batman puts down criminals, Chill killed innocent ppl.
Even IF Batman kills, he and Chill will never be the same.
The no-kill code was simply a vehicle to make Batman more complex and have more depth as a character & motivations, but it's not necessary for Batman to work.
He's actually cooler without the code. But having it makes him more complex because it's a principle, a rule, a discipline.
But he doesn't need it to be Batman, nor to work as a entity. To be fair in reality, him being willing to go to that place but he simply chooses not to at any given moment, makes him more scary.
That's what people don't understand. It actually makes more sense that Bruce doesn't want to kill people or use guns because he doesn't wanna be like Joe chill and Batman is the one that realizes that that's an idealistic fantasy because no matter what he does, he'll never be what that man was that night.
Most just end up emotional dumping their imprint misfires on the rest of the planet through the internet as if they're in the privacy of a room.
Then get wound tight when someone finally says the quiet part out loud; after making their issues everyones business in the first place: The premise of the linked timestamp.
100% confident as long as everyone's in on it.
However with that illusion of confidence, peacocking such mess in the public scheme, waaay beyond boorus and deviantart but on YOUTUBE & others , ten toes down, for years on end.
Then nothing but crickets or straight up panic when an NPC pulls up and says the quit part out loud, even if just ironically in passing.
And it's even WORSE if that person has receipts on the psychological/social lore behind what the fuck it is these people are even playing with for decades on end.
Lore that even psychologists aren't putting on the table, which is partly to blame for a good amount of this "explore it" enablement culture, cowardice.
Note: The OLNY natural phase of a fetishes origin is the fact that a child doesn't control when or what they're imprinting on. So errors can & do happen. Hence fetish.
Nothing is wrong with one, us, you, or people cause imprinting errors happen, how far one takes it is when the accountability comes knocking.
Meaning a hyper-fixation/fetish on most paraphilia is essentially a brain glitch. A misfire, because your untrained, malleable child mind is conflating one thing with something else that it's not, because of a mistranslation stemmed from an emotion evoked by said thing in an underdeveloped brain.
Which is explains why a lot of fetishists act like actual children in regression context or the fantasy is straight up infantile.
Ppl get too caught up in the communities/cults, the illusion of security of owning it or this "embrace" shit when in reality it's a game of: "Tell me you're an addict without admitting you have issues you let fester like an infected wound"
So no, it's not permanent (dun dun duuun), nor a gift from the universe, nor an identity trait, it's not destiny, it's an adoption, DLC. Cope. A brain glitch.
Because "Neuroplasticity" exists
Look up "Neuro-plasticity", that's where this illusion of fetishes being identity or perma, or destiny or whatever they tell themselves to cope- comes from.
Despite this very modern sentiment of being protective of what is essentially a Windows Update Error in the human mind:
Fetishes are not sacred concepts no one can't ever challenge, it's not an orientation, it's an imprint misfire.
And if this is news to any of us because the "experts" want to destigmatize everything to save their own optics, or omit morality from study to avoid over-pathologizing (which in concept is an understandable reason) but miss the fact that to avoid over-pathologizing because they feel judgement of fetishes is either wrong or likely gratuitous-
that in itself IS A MORAL JUDGEMENT in the first place.
So morality in psychology is a problem, unless I decide to use my morality to say using morality avoid calling a spade a spade cause it will hurt people's feelings cause everyone's got a fetish, which is a lie, more people have kinks than fetishes.
A fetish is a statement of sexual ineptitude, that you NEED specifically some paraphilia in order to get going, which is a sexual handicap. Not a evolutionary advantage.
So this "hot harming anyone" clause deriving from destigmatization deriving from the MORAL decision to omit morality from psychological overview is a meaningless excuse #1, and at worst: hypocrisy and negligence, stemming from good intentions (where a lot of bad decisions come from).
Thanks experts, what would we do without you..
'Cope for a cope' is this narrative:
"It's part of who I am",
"owning it"
"embrace the monster",
All this bullshit a damn child wouldn't say while huffing laughing gas, is coming out the mouths of grownass adults, desperate to exist; even as a disgrace if they have to.
Having a fantasy on the brain is not the fault of imprinting, that's called "immersion learning" or the like, it's how you learn a language, Basically repeat conditioning.
So If you've rammed/ violated your mind without a condom with the same crap ad infinitum, it's not your childhood that caused your mind to be stuck on it, it's addiction that did that.
JLongBone in the video got it 1000%, and I've been saying this already. Half the issue isn't that sexual variations exist, if people didn't feel the need to push it everywhere on almost every platform BECAUSE they're insecure and need the world to pay attention, clamor in reddit/threads/ communities pumping out content looking for cheerleaders & handjobbers to tell them they did a good job being a doof.
Constant hunt for justification.
Some people have enough sense to get their lives together & remold what they're attracted to as a kink.
Kinks (depending on what it is) can add flavor to sexuality vs Fetishism is where instincts & braincells go to rot to instead buff regression & devolution stats.
imagine they made a post recommending a show to people, & then you come along- not to disagree with arguments while acknowledging what little the show also does right:
but instead telling them not to explain why their favorite show works, solely because you/we/ i decided for everyone that we don't see the "need" to have a conversation about it, regardless of good or bad.
Just slap a 10 on Mal and move on.
A flaw as it is, I get caught up in my own guff sometimes when I go on tangents but the ego on that one? In that statement? Can't compete, I'm beat. Holy moly.
All the essays I could cook up to make a damn book can't match the power levels of pretentious in that very short comment.
"I don't see the appeal of discussing-" [translation]: you stop talking about it because I'm over it. Yeah? O rly? Lmfao.
now would they say that if the opinion was exactly what they wanted to hear? Course not.
hate supergirl as a concept with the burning passion of 1 million suns times decillion, but i'm 100% game for that film to possibly be better than Superman 25, deadass. It has the advantage of being second, to learn from the previous mistakes-
5:45 nah, ppl have kids regardless of funds all the time. ppl don't breed, because people don't value families because society has destroyed the value of the family for more than 20 years.
can't just undo the damage of decades of propaganda in a few years because NOW you can't ignore the birthrates anymore. Thats not how it works & thats the only reason why people talk about it. You can’t pretend it doesn’t exist anymore.
The money is a factor for the smarter people who think first but the fact is: If the sexes don't want to deal with each other in the first place, yer not getting kids.
If the people together have more desires than values or principles, more wants than reciprocation? You're not getting families even if you get kids.
If 40-60% of people are opting out of dating, mankeeping, womankeeping, all these terms just to illustrate “frustrated”, if more men are retreating to fetishes, ai, addiction, online para-social crap like OF/Vtubers/Tier 3s, peter pan syndrome- anything and everything to replace women and men. And there's more and more puff piece articles ENCOURAGING IT? Enabling exploring this crap.
You're not getting kids.
If the women are raised in feminized society that doesn't raise any men for them to choose from, and all they have are wannabe footslaves, boytoys, shrunken tinies, bottoms, and docile manchildren- a generation of weakness, self-loathing and incompetence.
you might get kids, MAYBE, but you're not getting stable families, let alone 40 yr + long marriages. It won't happen.
That time is long done, at best the flukes are the ones that do succeed. Success isn't the norm for westerners, because the norm is dysfunction, dysfunction is progressive. Destigmatization is inclusive & tolerant. Decline is the reward.
Japan has the exact same problem.
Why are any of us confused as to why birthrates decline in civilization that values dysfunction, hedonism, neutering masculinity because femininity is easier to control & manipulate, nerfing femininity by signaling to women that they have to emulate the masculine to compete with men instead of just changing how the competition works, & enabling disconnect more than pushing the family.
And you're actually surprised that your country got to this point? The real surprise is you didn't get here sooner.
This birthrate situation is not a complicated algorithm, and im so sick of the same 2-3 talking points being brought up as if that's all there is to it.
South Korea 2025 is somewhat fixing this issue by just changing the attitude of the overall culture AND providing monetary support, but it's more about the attitude of society.
And not just changing an outlook because it's a gut reaction to the numbers falling but a genuine admission that independence & Marxist abolition of the family for that ignorant sense of progression because your country THOUGHT you could afford to take traditional values for granted: was both a mistake and a lie.
to be fair, this isn't on the tool, it's on the engagers.
If someone has such weak constitution to entertain such a thing, let alone get lost in it, they're doing the dating market a favor by omitting themselves from it to go play with action figures & dolls. If one is curious, thats one thing, but to get hooked, that's a different story.
Same with fetishes & otaku culture, all this does is separate the boys from the men, and if the men are less than a handful, then there's the actual problem.
Ai actually helps occupy the non-factors, the irrelevants whose genes & habits should not be propagated, so if this in any way threatens an already falling population issue that's more fault of sociological political failures than Ai, then the issue is the number of low quality options that'd take the bait, that a society produces as the possible NORM.
That's the real issue than the Ai itself.
another issue is entitlement due to natural instincts, yes all people who want to be with someone should be with someone, because people weren't made to be alone; but because you want to be with someone, doesn't mean everyone needs to be or should be.
A lot of people aren't built to be in relationships in todays atmosphere where partners aren't cultivated properly.
making a fairly neutral situation into a problem because you want to feel specifically the good parts about companionship that makes you feel good, not get into one to serve someone else but so you feel good- it's making something out of nothing.
A lot of those success stories is people letting nature run it's course, not force feeding nature wishes upon a star & expecting outcome on demand because you tried.
Causality don't work like that, accepting it may never happen contributes to it happening when it's supposed to.
And even if you got what you wanted, you won't appreciate it if you're desperate for it.
and if it doesn't happen, then it doesn't happen. with acceptance of denial of what you want is you avoiding disappointment of lack of something (despite the desire for it being natural instinct), still everyone is not even entitled to.
doesn't mean don't try, means don't over-extend for something that is a doorway to both positive and negative. Not anticipating it is time to be happy while waiting for opportunity to be happier vs expecting happiness to happen to you.
"-you cannot put 2 buffoonish men against 4 strong women."
yep and they still doing it, in the minds of execs & elites, the men have to be lessened & shrunk into irrelevance for women to even stand a chance and it's bullshit.
strong men do not have to disappear for strong women to have agency, the two can coexist in the same dimension & do so everyday.
Because when we make men weak to prop women up in the name of equity, we're saying women can't compete even with equality, problematic narrative.
Another drinker doom post lol, he not entirely wrong but with a caveat:
It’s not just about numbers, it’s not always about box office.
I understand that’s the criteria Studios operate by, but there’s too much emphasis on it on our level as non studio-execs.
Even if it made a billion+, that’s not a degree of quality just means people bought product. Endgame & the Manga industry is proof that getting numbers doesn’t mean the product people consume is platinum or the absolute upper echelon, it means the marketing did it’s job to convince people to buy product.
Many people can enjoy a quality product but just because a lot of people bought product in droves, is not always indicative of quality.
Numbers alone don’t mean it’s good or bad. that’s where I detract from Drinkers very common talking point: “box office”
S25 was bloated with classic Gunnisms; Corenswet did his best (he was the best thing about the film, thankfully. Though there are some characterization issues here & there (not MOS levels of bad characterization btw) but that’s the writer’s fault, not David.C, hence why D.C himself actually pushed back against Gunn on some writing decisions, so even the actor of the title character smelt some of the same contrivances i did
https://youtu.be/0IwY7Mfzw_w
The music was amazing, impressive shots (like X-El combos in that underground tunnel), wonky characterizations overall, miscasts/many miscasts (Mr.T was alright), undercooked plot beats, & thus Gunnisms galore getting in the way of the execution, which is why majority of his productions are gimmicky and predictable.
Joe Kelly should’ve written, and Matthew Vaughn should’ve been the director or Co-director with Gunn.
Gunn needed to offer notes or have a partnership here if he absolutely needed to be a director, or ideally, stay out of the way.
Corenswet disagreeing with Gunn on-set over some scene details with that final Superman monologue (both Gunn & Corenswet in context had a point, but Corenswet was right because his angle had less contrivances long term) is just icing on the cake as to why the movie (partly why) was without a doubt better than Snyder’s Man of Sulking as a Superman movie (been said MOS is a great Sci-fi movie but a horrible Superman movie), but S25 still below average as a movie because of Gunn’s Gunnisms.
And as a Superman film: it pales in comparison to something like Superman vs The Elite which was LEAGUES shorter in runtime, gets more done, had an excellent Superman, better characterization with less characters, better writing, better action, better theme/moral and said themes were given FOCUS & thus got to cook.
If Superman vs The Elite had Gunnisms:
introduced to the Elite
set-up the dilemma of Superman’s morality in the modern day being challenged by The Elite, which puts in question, is Superman relevant to the modern era, where morality allegedly requires a gray approach?
Lex has a pet Kryptonian (lets say it’s Kara in this take) who’s in her 40′s, she landed on Earth first, stronger than Superman (not his cousin but his clone) & was imprisoned this entire time on Earth. Her brain is beyond repair because Lexcorp turned her into a zombie & she has a peanut allergy, which Lex mocks her for for comedic effect. “That’s not funny“ you say? Exactly! It’s random, & that makes it funny, #WelcomeToGunnisms
Parasite is a bleeding heart victim who’s just misunderstood & has to consume peoples life forces to survive but his hunger is turning him into a planetary level threat, he is set loose by Luthor to end Superman and everyone killed by Rudy will be blamed on Superman for not stopping. P.R assassination by Luthor.
Btw the Justice League is here too for some reason
And then out of nowhere it’s revealed Superman was actually carrying an alien pathogen, spreading it throughout his life to wipe the people of earth as an unknowing carrier, which was his real purpose for being sent to earth
Mxy is in the goddamn movie causing trouble, doing weird dumb shit (the Krypto of the film) 1000% unnecessary addition
See how bloated that is?
All of those random ass plot beats stuffed into a single runtime, most of those are worth their own movies: Superman 2025 in a nutshell.
If Gunn wrote Superman vs The Elite, that’s what we have gotten. And it sounds like it should be the best Superman movie in history (which is what people said when Superman 25 trailers dropped & we saw the kaiju) but we got a well shot mess, which I saw coming when I saw the Justice Crew aka Temu Guardians of the Galaxy.
Gunn needed focus, because he kept putting more on his plate before we got to cook the previous introduction:
Kohei Horikoshi’s mistake
Introduce plot beats & then dropped for more story set-ups, then resolve the previous introduction in the set-up after instead of focusing on the previous to let it simmer and get us invested, spread thin: this ADHD style of writing that plagues even that garbage My Adventures with Lois-Chan show, problems I saw since Season 1 Episode 1 & 2.
It’s actually thanks to me watching that dumpster fire that I recognized what S25 was on, it’s only ironic that the suits are so similar.
Superman vs The Elite movie got to cook cause there was less going on in it and the writer was/is competent: And that writer of both that movie and Action Comics #775 was the same guy-
Joe Kelly
TL;DR It’s way more than just box office numbers, because when you stress revenue so much, people then get this misconception (one that the anime community struggles with) that “box office” or “sales” = “It’s good"
