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No more cape shit once you hit 30. Do some praxis instead or read a good book.
I don't even like superhero movies but the whole idea of "once you hit a certain age you are obligated to lead a sterile and joyless existence" never sat right with me
Ironically, the older I get, the less I care about what I am or am not "too old" to enjoy
I think it comes from a place of appreciating certain media as you age that you couldn't get into when you were younger, but now transports you to incredible places emotionally while the angsty stuff that spoke to you as a teen just doesn't speak to you anymore. Then you see other people your numerical age who haven't made that transition and start to wonder what it is that keeps them in arrested development. Nothing to do with sterility and joylessness.
i think rhe assumption that people will go down this linear progression in taste is flawed, given that lots of people keep the same tastes their whole life and are otherwise perfectly functional.
i am beginning to regret the slop and treat memes. moralizing media consumption easily dips into ableism, it's often just a way to act smug about superficial preferences instead of actually criticizing the parts of popular media that are actually bad, like the CIA propaganda or exploitation in production.
I'm not smug, I'm just annoyed that I have fewer people to talk with shit about because they refuse to branch out from media meant for literal children. Like how we're all here because it's nice to discuss socialist ideas. Having people to talk with who are on the same wavelength as you is nice. I met a guy at a wedding last month who said his hobby was watching family guy. Like what the fuck do you say to that.
How is this even a fight? Buu would destroy Spider-Man in like a fraction of a second
Not if the writer wants spider-man to win
I kinda would like to see a bit in Super where a western-style superhero just gets wrecked by a Goku-level threat. Kind of a "Hercule 2".
No more cape shit once you hit 30. Do some praxis instead or read a good book.
I'm going to go read Ready Player One
In America children are made to read that book for their education
Yeah, at 30 you should be ready to graduate to all of the capeless suburban dad fantasy schlock like Reacher, the Equalizer or CIA Jim in the Clancy bullshit.
What about discussions on whether a person could win a fight to the death against various animals.
oh that's evergreen
I'm not really a superhero type of dude but I think people can enjoy these things and still be a good communist. Sometimes the brain needs a little slop
image if someone started re-dubbing random popular movies but changed a lot of the dialogue to be about Marxism lol
I feel like at this point in my life, my passion for a better world sometimes clouds reality and I feel like that can apply to all commies. I still don’t know whether “letting people enjoy things” has as much of an impact on material reality as we like to think (e.g. I don’t even think the average person looks at media like we do).
Fuuuuuuuck if I know though
Dont get me wrong I totally understand looking at modern media these days and realizing how not only propagandized it can be but also how copy paste it is and hating it. I get looking at media through an ML lense and cringing only to then see another ML enjoying it and wondering how they don't see it the way you do. But I mean, at the end of the day, it's all mindless slop meant to be enjoyed as mindless slop.
I've definitely fanboyed over star wars and read hours and hours and hours of lore in an obsessive frenzy knowing full well the whole time that im "wasting my time" as if all of our time needs to be spent doing something meaningful or productive. Ironically I think this feeling is rooted in capitalism. The belief that all of our time needs to be spent furthering some goal is pretty horrendous in all honesty. I like my slop and I think slop is good for us in moderation (though the slop is not moderated well in most people)
I agree it's bad media but I don't think enforcing good taste is something we really ought to be doing
Majin Buu would wreck Spoder-Man tho
I think every single Z fighter, even Yamcha, would shit on Spiderman lmao
Yeah not even a contest. What is he going to do, shoot some web shields to block a planet sized energy blast?
Everyone likes to bring up the time Spider-Man beat Firelord (one of Galactus' heralds, on par with the Silver Surfer), but everyone always forgets the time he got beat up by Turner D. Century, the man who thought the world peaked in 1908
Oh no my date with Mary Jane, how do I shot web?!
And one punch that could split a planet in two vaporizes the web slinger.
Yessss battleboarding on hexbear
I used to live for this shit as a kid, like we used to dream up Ryu from Street Fighter versus Wolverine...then MvC happened in my teens and it wasn't nearly as exciting.
They gave Majin Buu nipples lmaoooooooo
Majin Buuba
It's so weiiiiird he's an artificial being he doesn't need nipples. It's one of the things that stands out in the character design in the show because the Saiyans all have nips but all Buu's transformations don't. He's always been a pretty well design character.
Anyway you joke about "Majin Booba" but uhhh Majin Buu's official wife is a female spawn he created and named Booby after finding Mr Satan's porno collection. The entire Majin race descends from them because they then fucked like rabbits. I am not joking. This is the canon explanation between Dragonball Online and Dragonball Xenoverse.
How else will he feed his young?
I wasn't into capeshit until I saw this picture. I am now into capeshit.
Also you set the bar at 30? Telling.
We can trace this down to antiquity. All the old stories of gods and heroes were cape shit. Achilles is just a Mary sue self insert OC. Just was that back in the day, like dioginese cranking his hog in the market square, people made their own. Now people have been so alienated they can't make their own anymore. The only revolutionary force powerful enough to fix this is Ao3.
This is such a culturally illiterate comparison that it's hard to say where to start, aside from that Achilles, while "overpowered" is clearly not a Mary Sue. He was wildly unstable and occasionally blasphemous to the point that when he spent days dragging Hector's corpse to desecrate it, the gods intervened to preserve it.
People do make their own myths, probably the clearest example (awful as it is) is Roko's Basilisk. These designed-by-commitee entertainment products do not have the social origin of myths, nor really any of the functions of them.
Gay vibes are off the charts 
it's my turn to do the 'Marvel bad' struggle session next
Oh god what is this?
What is this?!!?!
What have you brought to my screen??????
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Spiderman vs Penis, who would win?
That penis has huge booba
Neither would win. I would be the real winner because I discovered the meaning of friendship along the way.
You're going to have to pull some serious bullshit to make Spider-Man win.
