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@matana @ChristiJunior
I don't think making the mentor sexy counts as a subversion though.

I had an interesting conversation with Sis about Lovecraftian horror 

More importantly, about why it fails so monumentally in modern movies. And, after a while, we have reached the conclusion, that the element of it being beyond your understanding is completely undermined if you know the hero is safe.

While in normal capeshit, even if you know the hero is going to win, you can imagine scenarios of how its going to happen. You can feel every hit he recieves or gives. There is a story there.

But, if the enemy beyond your comprehension, then story turns to "hero did ....something???? and won :comfyshrug: " So, there is literally no substance left for you to enjoy.

@Loki @ChristiJunior
I just love the "oh shit, they were right" phase, that sometimes comes 10 years later.

E;R's latest Whorra video and his comments about Tenzin reminds me of how modern Western writing, with its girl power Mary Sues, completely screws over traditional Mentor characters. Obviously a Fucking White Male has nothing to really teach a Strong Independent Woman, so instead of taking up what *should* be his role, the would-be-mentor character instead ends up portrayed as an out-of-touch loser, or a bitter, broken failure of a man, who of course has to be saved by the Mary Sue.

Contrast this with Shulk and Rex in Xenoblade 3 Future Redeemed, who actually ARE allowed to become the leaders and mentors you'd reasonably expect them to be. Not perfect or all-knowing, but still genuine great and good men possessing lots of special knowledge, who the younger characters learn a lot from.

@Terry
*10k drone.... If it was an actual missile drone.
Half of them could have been without payload, and noone could tell the difference.

158 millions dollars worth of SAM missiles fired in 2 minutes

and at least one of the AD batteries still got hit
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@knittingknots2@mstdn.social
What do you mean "hospital acquired?"

@beardalaxy
But man can spend literally last 15 years alone in a single room complaining to everyone he knows about purposelessness of his life, and about how all the effort he put into changing it lead to nothing but an empty void of solitude...

And people will still say that there were no signs. :meru_meruomegalul:
(not talking from experience... obviously)

@beardalaxy
hell is going to the same place over and over again, so I can stare at a wall and repeat the same boring motion, so I have the privilege of feeling like shit.

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