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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • I wouldn’t even give it a ‘pleasantly surprised’ tbh, it genuinely was bad and I think anyone who doesn’t have a very strong attachment to the show in general would agree.

    many contradictions like Homelander going to space and back in a few seconds but not being able to outpace and beat Kimiko, Ryan and Butcher when he is literally upgraded with V1?!

    Yeah I love that stuff. I’ll give you a better example. They highlighted Homelander’s sense of hearing multiple times this season (and throughout the show) - he can hear people’s heartbeats and, as Frenchie showed in S05E07, he can hear the tap of a finger on a metal door from across a giant abandoned school (which still baffles me, like wym you set up a fucking uranium reactor there make it make sense Eric), but he of course doesn’t hear Starlight crash through the side of the White House with The Deep in tow?? He doesn’t hear O Father’s confrontation with them? Which yeah sure you can wave away with ‘he figured they’d be able to handle it’ but it is also very funny that the show is written so badly that you have to ignore things established in S1/2 otherwise you’ll just have a Bad Time every episode. Very funny to do it though for the Nth time in the series finale.

    Starlight’s won 2 fights in 5 seasons and 1 was against Dogknott and the other was mainly her probably using her powers at actual normal speed for once and blasting The Deep away to get actually defeated by the octopus. Can’t believe at no point the show refused to change this despite being willing to do so with so much comic-adjacent stuff. If I were Starlight I would literally just be doing light Spirit Guns everywhere you can’t be serious with the charging up, palms out, doing nothing constantly when you’re surrounded BY THE SUN and your power is LIGHT you should always be ready to pop-off

    Awful show. I mean, slop is slop so in the end and I went into S1 7 years ago having read the comic and concluding that it was also slop, so its neither here nor there in my eyes but man put me in front of the Amazon Prime Video board of directors and I could probably get them to greenlight 5 seasons of me sitting in a chair and pressing play on a recording of some sex shop where they have gloryholes like its found footage.


  • Honestly it was a bit better (and by ‘a bit better’ I mean that it was legally a television ending with a beginning, middle, and end) than I was expecting/hoping for as someone who loves seeing people lose their shit whenever their beloved TV show completely fucks the ending but I can’t get over the whole Soldier Boy power plot ass-pull in the penultimate episode lol.

    Random intern: “So, should we have Soldier Boy get thawed out somehow and get revenge on his weirdo chud son for preventing him from leaving after Soldier Boy gave him immortality willingly?”

    Eric Kripke: trump-who-must-go What? No. We’re gonna make Kimiko see Frenchie’s spirit and that’ll give her the power to do it. And also she’ll get the ability in the first place from a last minute rug-pull in the 7th episode.

    Intern: “Okay…but we’re gonna start the episode with Homelander just going ballistic, right? Last we saw him, he was really pissed about Sage and killed Frenchie after not being able to locate her. I’m thinking we open the episode with his God announcement and then he snaps and just goes ballistic as soon as he realizes everyone is terrified of him, not reverent. Or maybe we can just open the episode with Terror’s death since in the comic, Homelander does kill him and that’s what really makes Butcher go full genocide on supes”

    Eric Kripke: Let me stop you right there again kid…


  • Yeah I get that in terms of Hasan but also he could just stream himself talking about international politics, or just politics in general, without doing the DNC endorsements and saying shit like “actually you’re wrong for caring about the fact that Platner isn’t a good candidate because of the nazi tattoo, the mercenary work, etc. he needs to win otherwise you’re never getting anything like universal healthcare but go off king i’ll be there with you when you start the revolution” to anyone in his chat/online who raises the point to him. Entryism and its consequences.

    I actually have a lot less sympathy for the Chapos when it comes to this because they’re outside of the whole Twitch.tv ecosystem and while Patreon does have the ultimate say over their $2.4 million dollars a year, it is insane to me for them to make the mistake with Fetterman and then immediately go “Yeah I’m supporting Graham Platner” to which I can only say: …okay, here’s hoping he gets M4A passed, maybe that’ll put him back in the positive for ‘lives saved’ versus ‘lives taken’ (I have no idea if Graham Platner has ever killed a man but I’d wager he probably watched multiple die over the course of his time in Abu Ghraib and did nothing so he’s in the negative as it stands given his pride of having served)


  • I’m not saying they were or have to be ‘vanguardist revolutionaries’ lol. As I said in my original comment - there is just a certain “why are you even supporting them then??” that cannot be easily squared away when you’re listening to Felix Biederman say something along the lines of “Chapo’s endorsements do not even have a realistic effect on Maine elections so you guys shouldn’t be upset at us for supporting Graham Platner even if you disagree with us”. And sure, the Chapos have never called themselves communists or anything - but Hasan actively does call himself a socialist???

    Good for Chapo for ‘disowning Zohran’ whatever the fuck that means; weird comparison to make in general though given Zohran doesn’t have or ever had a nazi tattoo, wasn’t stationed in Abu Ghraib, wasn’t a mercenary, and hasn’t made ‘proud veteran’ a central board in his campaign’s platform. Zohran’s also just a fucking mayor. He’s not sitting in Congress actively letting the wheels of the US government continue to flatten various other countries, marginalized people’s rights, etc.

    Should I wait another year or so for them to walk back their Graham Platner episode in which Will basically says “yeah he’s a mercenary and that’s a blight on his soul…but I’d still personally vote for him”?

    It should only take like 2-3 key Senate votes on like war powers resolutions or something being shut down by a 48-52 vote for them to start tweeting “Graham Platner is scum of the earth” right? lol

    Let it be known that I’m not a ‘electoralism is stupid hahaha you should be out giving unhoused people copies of Capital Vol I’ leftist. I have defended politicians before (speaking of Zohran), I vote pretty regularly because I understand it does have importance and only takes literally 5-30 minutes out of my day once every 2-4 years. But there is a difference between going “Yeah chat I’m voting for Kamala Harris because at the end of the day, I just don’t want Trump to win, and I think you should too” as an American ‘left of center’ or even socialist streamer & going “Yeah I support this senate candidate who lives on the opposite end of the country who only recently got rid of his nazi tattoo after claiming he didn’t know what it was despite serving for 5+ years, was there when the US army was torturing hundreds of people in a prison in Abu Ghraib, and consistently says he’s proud of his service & time being a mercenary”.

    Anyways you’ve been up and down this thread defending Hasan so I assume you are just reacting out of affection. Which is fine, you’re allowed to like Hasan and think he does good - I think he does too for the most part; but he & the Chapos are still fucking stupid for this and the fact that your only argument in defense of them is “when did they ever say they were vanguardist revolutionaries” is funny


  • I have been saying this about Hasan (and all ‘leftist’ streamers/podcasters/etc) for years lol. Ultimately I do genuinely believe that once you hit a certain point in terms of wealth/yearly income, especially when your wealth is derived from sitting in front of your computer/microphone all day giving your opinions on various political things and promoting various people in politics to 2000+ sycophants in your chat or subbed to your patreon, you just become a Petite Bourgeise caricature of who you claim to be.

    This goes for all 5 of the Chapos (virgil-sad believe it or not he’s had what I’d consider to be the ‘ideal’ grift - he made his money, made a bit more agreeing to co-host Bad Faith, and then dipped - never to be seen posting online again outside of presumably some teenager’s DMs) and everyone who streams on Twitch.tv.

    You can say “Well Hasan went to Cuba and did activism” and “He kept X union afloat” and that’s well & good, admirable even, but I don’t think that absolves him from the fact that he also will gladly support some ex-nazi democrat candidate who will probably vote Yes on any Cuba sanctions and do fucking nothing but middling shit in office. Same guy who supported Fetterman and when challenged on this (before Fetterman was even elected), basically said the same thing he says today about Platner. “smuglord I don’t like him either but you know we have to play this game to win guys!! Also don’t bring this up in 2 years when I’m tweeting about how much of a piece of shit Platner is because I’ll say something smug like ‘you really got me with that one’”

    “We need more John Fettermans. Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth. Ugh leftists have this really bad ability to make every candidate’s worst traits/moments the only thing that matters. He supports M4A!!!” michael-laugh

    Adam Johnson & Nima Shirazi remain undefeated.










  • come and take all the strays (half of them aren’t even strays they’re just uncollared free-roam pet cats from the nearby surrounding neighborhood being fucking menaces when they’re horny, the tiniest bit hungry, or when they have temporarily scared off all the birds & squirrels) from my goddamn apartment complex they have pissed on EVERY DOOR AND ALL ALONG THE WALKWAY and keep pissing on my packages if they get left outside my door for more than two hours

    oooaaaaaaauhhh my neighbor swore she was in contact with a rescue program and was gonna do something about them…same neighbor is now leaving wet cans of cat food outside for them every day…like thanks for encouraging them to piss on our front doors and loudly fight in the morning on the walkway i guess



  • Hi, first and foremost I want to say I completely get where you’re coming from and I agree with you - but I think it is a bit wrong to say “Just look at who brings this up in this comment chain, there was not a single she / her pronoun to be seen when our exchange started, don’t you wonder why that is?” and “You think you can mansplain misogyny to me.” to the user you’ve been back & forth with who clearly has ‘Any’ pronouns and also extended an apology.

    Can you reword the last bit of your comment so it doesn’t read like you’re telling the person you’re replying to that you think they’re mansplaining something to you? I only ask because it has been reported as misgendering and I don’t want to just nuke the comment because you do raise valid points (even if I don’t personally think ourtimewillcome has ever been in disagreement with you) kissinger-beg-mercy

    Also, I do think you’re probably referring to my comment (among others, such as the removed one you initially replied to in this thread) in this same post. It was just a joking ‘i don’t like it because anime’ (I genuinely would’ve made the same comment if it was Goku or some ‘ideal male anime guy’) though I get how it could’ve been taken as serious negativity since I don’t regularly post in c/anime about how josei/shojo is often better than your average shounen (Chihayafuru my beloved…Journal of Witch may be the best anime of 2026 so far) and am a man. So let me extend an apology as well if it came off misogynistic or that I have an issue with effeminate/hyper-feminine/cute things!