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Post by burrunjor on Mar 4, 2024 10:18:55 GMT
Supernatural creatures are just part of a supernatural world. That's all fine to me. I don't like a 'superhero world'. The whole point of a superhero is to stand out, to be this mythical figure. At least that's the appeal to me. They're not super if there's lots of them. Then they just become mutants or vigilantes. And I get that some stories like X-Men and even Smallville explore that concept. But to me, that's not a superhero story anymore. That's a story about mutants or vigilantes. Remember, as a kid, I had no idea Smallville was even a superhero show. It was just sci-fi fantasy for me. That being said, Smallville just about made it work by drawing a clear distinction between Clark and all the other heroes. I can understand that thinking to some extent. For instance I would never, EVER want the X-Men to exist with other superheroes. The idea that there are just naturally millions of super powered people is too big a thing to bring into other superhero stories. For instance if Batman crossed over with the X-Men you would be thinking "why are there not more mutants running around in Gotham, and if there are, isn't Batman a bit useless?" At the same time however, since the X-Men is always about the struggle for mutants to be accepted, if they live in a world where there are already hundreds of other kinds of super powered beings that are more powerful like the Hulk, as well as witches, warlocks, vampires etc, then mutants don't actually seem that special anymore. Hell who'd give a shit about mutants if we were under attack from aliens? X-Men should always exist in their own separate universe away from all other superheroes, I completely agree there. That said however I don't mind some superheroes existing together like say Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman, as the way I see it, if you accept that there can potentially be other super beings (which you have too, in order for your hero to fight super bad guys.) Then it's not so beyond the realms of possibility that one of those other super powered beings would be a good guys as well? Also remember that a lot of these characters have other super heroes as supporting characters anyway. Like Batman for instance whose supporting characters include Batgirl, Zatana, etc, heroes who already operate on their own. Also like I said there is a lot of history, and certain dynamics that can be explored with those characters meeting and teaming up too. However again, depending on how you do Batman, then yeah sometimes it's still a no go. Nolan's movies for instance wouldn't work with Superman existing as he's an alien. Similarly even the Keaton movies, whilst I think they could have worked with that as they were a bit more fantastical, I can understand some people having doubts as ultimately the first two Keaton movies, other than it being implied with Catwoman don't actually have any fantastical concepts. Still there is value in it, depending on the Batman and it must be said that what are generally regarded as the two best, most complete versions of Batman, the DCAU version and the 1970s version respectively did work alongside other heroes. In fact the DCAU version of Batman's greatest ever moment, and possibly the best moment for the character is in Justice League Unlimited, when he comforts Ace in her dying moments.
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Post by Spark Doll King on Mar 4, 2024 14:49:37 GMT
Kind of like why dose Spider-Man get singled out for persecution by the daily bugle in a world of super heroes. Ol JJ has given reasons in different media but many of them apply to other heroes.
It feels a little more believable in a setting were Spidey is the only hero.
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 5, 2024 10:34:05 GMT
Kind of like why dose Spider-Man get singled out for persecution by the daily bugle in a world of super heroes. Ol JJ has given reasons in different media but many of them apply to other heroes. It feels a little more believable in a setting were Spidey is the only hero. To be fair there are reasons as to why Spidey gets it the worst. FF don't hide their identities behind a mask like Spider-Man does, which is one of the things J Jonah Jameson hates about him. Iron Man similarly, his identity is public. The Hulk a lot of the time is a renegade on the run from the law anyway, so no need to try and take him down on Jonah's part by tarnishing his name. The X-Men similarly don't have secret identities and again are controversial from the point of view of being mutants. Maybe J Jonah Jameson also doesn't want to open a can of worms on himself by looking like he is anti mutant. (Look at what happened to Senator Kelly.) Captain America is a beloved national icon and war hero that Jameson couldn't go after, plus has the Avengers as his PR team. Daredevil, again is a shadowy figure that most people are terrified of and isn't seen as a hero by little kids, so no reason to try and convince people to dislike him. The Punisher, similarly a violent vigilante that nobody really likes anyway. Spider-Man is actually something of an anomaly among Marvel heroes. He's the only one that at times feels more like a DC hero, in that his identity is concealed, and he isn't part of a team who can protect him, like the Avengers or X-Men, but he also isn't a dangerous, murderous rogue that goes around killing people. He's a clean cut, lovable, but still mysterious individual who works outside of the law, so with that in mind you can see why J Jonah Jameson would distrust him more than the other heroes, and devote more effort to tarnishing his image than say Daredevil who's already seen as a murderous vigilante. With Spider-Man there could be the worry that people might start to emulate him and take the law into their own hands, if the media doesn't make it clear that he isn't a great guy underneath it all.
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 14, 2024 11:19:15 GMT
Had a weird dream about Silver Nemesis last night.
It was the same basic story but different in some ways. To start with it was a big budget extravaganza and really cool. Rather than just say "she is mad" in a bitchy way (which I loved btw as it was hilarious.) Lady Penforte and the Cyber Leader had a final duel for the statue, where she used magic and flew through the air shooting beams from her hands, whilst the Cyberleader shot at her! He eventually beat her by kicking her into the statue which still ate her, but the end revealed she was still trapped in there, screaming to be let out and nobody knew.
Also Ace had a friend in it, a feisty cockney, black babe, the type who says somefink instead of something LOL. She was Ace's old friend who saw her disappear and was deemed a lunatic for saying it, so she started to investigate alien sightings to prove it, which drew her into this, but she got shot by the Cybermen protecting Ace in the showdown. I was really pissed about that. The Nazis were replaced by vampires, descendants of the great vampires actually, who knew about the statue because of their feud with the Time Lords. They decided to form a genuine alliance with the Cybermen because both converted other life forms and there was a vampire/cyberman hybrid, who had a metal heart that protected him from staking, but gold didn't hurt him because as a vampire he didn't need to breath! He also had metal fangs and those he bit became vampire/cybermen hybrids. Ace blew them up however. At the end of the story, the Cyberleader still got stabbed with a gold arrow, but didn't die and had to be shot by Ace and his chest exploded into green blood with organs leaking everywhere, but even then he didn't die and still tried to strangle Ace, so the Doctor use the rockets to burn him. He was also a lot more hammy, shouting about Cybermen are supreme!
It was hilarious.
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Post by rushy on Mar 14, 2024 16:10:38 GMT
Red Dwarf nightmare
I had a horrible dream where I was stuck at a screening of the new Red Dwarf reboot, and it's this absolute rubbish starring foster kids on 21st century Earth.
At one point, an animated female Mac MacDonald crashed into the foster home. Daniel Craig had a celebrity cameo.
It was horrific... but I couldn't speak up because Craig Charles was also at the screening and he was singing its praises like he was watching a Shakespearean play. Giving me the glare of death every time I opened my mouth.
So I was stuck there stewing... but then to make it worse, I became trapped in the reboot myself. Giancarlo Esposito was chasing us through an office building! I still have the cold sweats.
Anyway, yesterday I started reading Infinity Drivers. It's a great book.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Mar 14, 2024 16:22:14 GMT
Yes, that novel is amazing. Better than Life is pretty good, too.
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Post by burrunjor on Mar 14, 2024 17:25:33 GMT
Red Dwarf nightmare I had a horrible dream where I was stuck at a screening of the new Red Dwarf reboot, and it's this absolute rubbish starring foster kids on 21st century Earth. At one point, an animated female Mac MacDonald crashed into the foster home. Daniel Craig had a celebrity cameo. It was horrific... but I couldn't speak up because Craig Charles was also at the screening and he was singing its praises like he was watching a Shakespearean play. Giving me the glare of death every time I opened my mouth.So I was stuck there stewing... but then to make it worse, I became trapped in the reboot myself. Giancarlo Esposito was chasing us through an office building! I still have the cold sweats. Anyway, yesterday I started reading Infinity Drivers. It's a great book. DW fans can definitely relate to that bit LOL.
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Post by rushy on Mar 14, 2024 21:01:01 GMT
Yes, that novel is amazing. Better than Life is pretty good, too. Lucky then I bought the omnibus version that has both...
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Mar 14, 2024 22:07:30 GMT
Yes, that novel is amazing. Better than Life is pretty good, too. Lucky then I bought the omnibus version that has both... I have all four novels. The books were my first experience of Red Dwarf as a family member passed them down to me when I was about 12. God knows why I didn't end up watching the show back then. I didn't actually become a fan until about 2016.
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Post by burrunjor on May 9, 2024 8:49:37 GMT
Had an absolutely fantastic dream last night. One that made me shout nooooo when I woke up because it wasn't real.
There was this superhero, whose costume looked like Batman, except he had no ears and no cape. He called himself "A Dark Agent of the people." Every week he'd announce on tv that he was going to make someone who'd hurt the people pay at an exact time.
The first week he went after Rishi Sunak and beat him to within an inch of his life, and cut his legs off.
The next week he went after George W Bush, beat him to within an inch of his life and dragged him to Iraq where he left him in the company of several vengeful citizens.
The following week he did the same thing to Hillary Clinton, but left her in the care of ISIS in Libya and then posted on his social media account (which no one could take down.) "I came, I saw, I left her with the monsters she created."
The week after that he went after David Cameron, Iain Duncan Smith and Rishi Sunak again. He captured them all and slowly starved them over several months by feeding them the bare minimum and then deprived them of medicare and forced them to carry out hard labour even when their bodies were breaking down. Iain Duncan Smith was worked to death, David Cameron was driven mad by the experience and Sunak was left a broken out husk that our hero then dumped into the most brutal, corrupt insane asylum where he suffered horribly at the hands of the staff.
Tony Blair, Netanyahu and Obama were forced to survive one night in an area that was being attacked by drone strikes and fighter jets and whilst they survived the first night, our hero forced them to do it night after night for weeks until they finally died.
Finally Joe Biden? Well he just let him fend for himself and he ended up eating his own feet for being too hairy.
Everybody f*cking loved the hero who the authorities NEVER caught. They even made a film about his life. God damn it was so f*cking amazing watching these guys finally get their just deserts. For once, FOR ONCE it wasn't the John Lennons, Amy Winehouses and Jimi Hendrixes that died young. For ONCE it was these bastards being made to answer for their crimes. Honestly I was practically in tears when I woke up to the nightmare our world actually is.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2024 10:32:41 GMT
No Jeremy Corbyn being gassed in Auschwitz? Shame
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Post by burrunjor on May 9, 2024 11:11:59 GMT
No Jeremy Corbyn being gassed in Auschwitz? Shame Well I'm not going to take a moral high ground given what happened in my dream LOL, but you are dead wrong about Corbyn. Jeremy Corbyn is not anti semitic. Criticising Zionism and Israel is not anti semitic as they do not = Jewish. What the f*ck does your average Jew living in the west have to do with Israel? Also if the Jewish people do bad things are we not to call them out? I view ALL people as being capable of horrible things. It's human nature to be tribal, greedy, want to take things from others etc, all of which Zionism promotes. The only silver lining which obviously means nothing given the lives lost, is that given we've now seen the Jews fall victim to and promote this kind of psychotic tribalism themselves, hopefully people might stop pushing their "only white people do this," or "black people are more violent by nature" etc crap. The victims of today can be the villains of tomorrow thanks to human tribalism. Ironically the right wing shit lords who try and push that narrative of criticism of Zionism = racism are no different to the pseudo lefties they sneered at who insisted all criticism of Islam is white supremacism. In both cases we have a fanatical, fascistic, supremacist ideology that uses both religion and a vulnerable minority connected to it, to absolve itself of any criticism. Sadly political pundits on both sides view everything through a narrow, tribal lens will adopt a "but when we do it, it's cute" mantra and brush off any religious extremism on either side. Of course in both sides sadly a lot of stupid Muslims and Jews who don't know any better will give into tribalism and support the extremists, without even knowing what they are. I don't mean they'll go off and fight for them, but they'll say they support them and get angry at any critique regardless, but again that's just the usual stupid human "I have to be part of this club" attitude. Now I clearly given my history on this issue at least am not a hypocrite given I routinely criticised Islam and was even dubbed a white nationalist by certain people on older versions of this forum, like Penny (whose judgement about that and me hating anything starring a woman was absolutely spot on.) However here I am calling it out when it's Jewish people doing it too. Ironically Corbyn and Tommy Robinson in this respect were similar. Honestly the two should have defended each other against the establishment, but of course Tommy bought into the tribal shit about Corbyn and smeared him as an anti semite. Still the point stands, that it's a very easy way to demonise your opponents. Meanwhile Corbyn's policies would have benefited this country. It's tragic and a sign of how f*cked England is that Corbyn was even seen as a communist threat to the country. His manifesto was actually fairly tame. It would basically have brought us back to the 60s in terms of economic model, where the most vulnerable at the bottom of society weren't constantly being attacked. Resources like gas, transport and the internet would have been owned by the people, for the people and our country wouldn't be bleed dry to support a holocaust. Sadly however Corbyn's chances were blown by tribal idiots like Tracy Ann Cyberman who believed the media about him being an anti semite. We all know that the media have never lied too or misled or f*cked us over in the past, and stupid little Englander, grifter c*nts like Sargon of Akkad, who care more about a trans woman giving them a confusing boner than in issues that actually affect people, like not being able to pay rent, or their disabled relative being declared fit for work when they don't even have the money for a wheel chair. According to Sargon, socialism killed 140598 septillion people in the 50s (with his source being a literal Nazi) oh and also Corbyn is a beta cuck and not an alpha chad like Sargon, so yeah that's why we had to get rid of Corbyn. Meanwhile in the 6 years since, EVERYTHING that they said Corbyn would do, their Tory masters have done. Driving the country into poverty, check. Trying to take away our rights, with Draconian lockdowns and vaccinations, check. Culture war crap getting even more out of control in an effort to split us up, check. The working class, who apparently Bo Jo had the backs of, unlike the out of touch Corbyn, being completely f*cked over, with longer hours, less pay, and the most vulnerable at the bottom of society being f*cked royally, check. Even anti semitism, well give it time. In much the same way as attacks against Muslims went up in the 2010s, because Islamic extremism was carrying out unspreakable horrors and nobody was allowed to call it out without being smeared as a racist, and idiots started lashing out in anger. Expect to sadly similarly see idiots lashing out in anger at the Jewish religion which is similarly causing horrors, but you can't criticise it without being labelled as an anti semite. Corbyn sadly may have been this country's last chance and his rejection says far more about how sadly the English working class are the definition of this line from a man that I can't believe we shot instead of Rishi Sunak. "Keep you doped with religion and sex and tv, and you think you're so clever and classless and free, but you're still f*cking peasants as far as I can see." Mind you as a Scotsman I can't complain as we had the chance to get away from the English working class, but we didn't take it and now will be forever shackled to their idiotic faith in men like Bo Jo. And to think arrogant little Englander c*nts like Paul Joseph Watson and Sargon of Akkad actually had the cheek to say Jeremy Corbyn was the threat to free speech because he was a commie and friends with dictator Hugo Chavez (despite the latter being democratically elected, the media say he is a dictator, and despite PJW and Sargon types claiming to be counter culture, they'll happily spout the media's bullshit when it suits their tribe.)
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on May 9, 2024 18:28:16 GMT
"little Englander c*nts"
hált, Englander, oder du wille sei schuss an sicht!
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Post by burrunjor on May 9, 2024 19:06:34 GMT
"little Englander c*nts" hált, Englander, oder du wille sei schuss an sicht! Just to be clear I didn't mean Little Englander as in an English man who is little in case people thought it was just a racist rant of "f*cking little English shitbag" LOL. Little Englander is a specific term coined by English lefties that refers to an Alan Partridge, Sargon of Akkad type of guy who doesn't see the world beyond his tedious little circle of equally ignorant friends, thinks England is the greatest country in the world for stupid reasons, thinks the Empire brought civility to the world, that Scotland is leeching off of it, that we need the church and the Monarchy to have proper values, thinks those darkies and foreign types are ruining our perfect country, that women have spent all of history doing their nails and are happier in the kitchen and are getting too uppity by these feminists or lesbians, that people who complain about mental health or poor working conditions don't have enough get up and go like they did, that anyone to the left of Enoch Powell is a bolshevik, communist, socialist, lesbian, homosexual, trans, single mother, anarchist traitor and sees himself as an alpha man who lives his life on hard mode despite being the most soft, ignorant twit imaginable. Richard Richard from Bottom is another shining example of the Little Englander type LMAO. "I have lost 200 pounds, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was you that nicked it, you thieving swarthy nomad, you or one of your slippery deformed half brothers. Yes, yes I know what gypsies get up to when the lights are out. Extended family? Just another word for a sexual free for all, well you are not in Romania now buster, and I'm going to get a good British police officer.""Oh a Bolshey eh? A pinko? Eh the, eh the interesting, eh the, eh the interesting, that you women never much up when it comes to a scrap." Be honest here both of those rants from Richard Richard are EXACTLY the type of shit you could see Paul Joseph Watson and Sargon of Akkad saying LOL. You could always count on Rik Mayall for great social satire. He is missed. Whilst the little Englander mentality began with their upper middle class, sadly it seeped its way down into the English working class too, especially in the last ten or so years thanks to the backlash against woke politics. I obviously don't hate English people LOL. Pretty much everything I love is English, but they definitely need to sort out that problem with their working class who more than any other vote against their own interests. Thanks to the little England mentality of "we're not pinko, trannie commies, we don't complain when things get out of hand." The English honestly would roll back and let someone like Rishi Sunak attack the most vulnerable in society and happily let the NHS be dismantled. Compare that to the French working class who will f*cking tear Paris to bits if their rights are infringed on for even just a little bit. Not surprisingly the French work short hours for more money and generally live longer and are happier than the English. Don't get me wrong here though I'm not saying the French are perfect. No one is. To be honest the French have just as bad a history of voting arseholes in. I almost think they do it just so they can have revolutions LOL. The Scottish working class meanwhile, well in some ways we are better in that we are more genuinely left wing, but at the same time we are also unimaginably, insufferably woke. Scotland is a cesspit of SJW shitheads at times. My own life has been affected by it beyond just first world crap of my favourite tv shows have been ruined. I told you about how I was fired from BGCC and my work for them that took hours destroyed because I said Gina Carano isn't a Nazi and Missy was crap. Then there was the time I was fired from a job, because I made a Gary Glitter joke. All that happened was we were talking about who our favourite singers where and I obviously said Amy, but after I said "it's a good thing nobody said Gary Glitter" and my boss reported me to the higher ups for making disgusting remarks. It was an awful experience and nobody had my back. Of course that's nothing compared to what the likes of Mark Meechan went through with the Nazi dog fiasco. Once again tribalism rots the brain of any group of people, Scots, English it doesn't matter.
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Sept 11, 2024 11:11:38 GMT
I had a dream where my family were watching something about Daleks and I blurted out, "I hate Steven Moffat!" and left the room. I'm not sure what all that was about
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