RustyVenture [he/him]
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100% It’s awesome imo. Truly unique story and storytelling, and gets better and better as the years go by. It both rags on and pays homage to a lot of the old Hanna-Barbara cartoons, has an endless amount of layered jokes and obscure references, and personally I love how it treats the whole superhero/supervillain dynamic like it’s just another business. The show was created and is written by two absolute weirdos, they do like 80% of the voice acting, the premiere was created in Adobe Flash, and several seasons were animated and colored using OG Technicolor processes, so there’s an artistic element to it too. The whole thing is a real labor of love and it shows. It’s also been nearly 20 years since the premiere and there’s only been 7 seasons, but it hit me during my formative years when I was just a weird kid who didn’t like mainstream shit and it shaped a lot of my humor going forward.
There’s certainly some jokes from the first couple of seasons that are a bit…dated and lame (homophobia, primarily) but it’s an early-to-mid-00s TV show that was on adult swim so :shrug-outta-hecks: so take that as you will. If you do decide to start it up, I always warn people that the first season is a bit of a slog until the last 2-3 episodes, when it begins to find its footing. My go-to introductory episode for skeptics is season 2, episode 4. It’s a banger, no real story spoilers but you get to meet most of the main characters and story elements.
My username? Pure coincidence! IGNORE ME!
God it’s really annoyed me that libs were apoplectic over the Brandon thing (which was a legitimately hilarious event when it happened and now they’ve finally gone ahead and ruined that too) but have an endless supply of utterly braindead nicknames for Trump that they still use and none of them see this as hypocritical or equally stupid.
"There are some who say Hitler’s skeleton is in the trunk. Others say it’s just a spare tire.
I’m a busy man so I haven’t checked yet." :jordan-eboy-peterson:
Lol no. It’s from this Simpsons scene (sorry, best clip I could find of it).
I won’t watch it either. I think this photo from the jezebel site was enough :cringe:
This is how I thought about it too, but I also felt like the field was so incredibly limp in 2020, and the energy building up over the course of the Trump years would result in a righting a historic wrong in the universe. I remember in 2019 we were laughing at how deranged and unlikable Biden sounded on camera, how phony Warren came off, how mediocre Amy and Pete were, and the rest of the hacks in that contest. It felt like there was a legitimate chance. After seeing the first few ST states roll in, I couldn’t sleep. I remember sitting in a meeting the next day and one of my coworkers asking me later that they noticed something was up, but I couldn’t really articulate the feelings I had. It was really the last time I had any actual hope that things would get better, and then covid happened and I was fully radicalized.
Yeah, agreed. It stung at the time of course, but I’ve come to accept and learn just how entrenched Americans are in their twisted (to put it politely) exceptionalism, and how the system is designed to stifle meaningful, material change. Still would’ve been nice to have instead of…this.
Also lmao I forgot to include Kamala in my initial post. Just proves the point that the rest of the field were virtually indistinguishable and how lame she was.
Similar feelings here. I went to visit my family, many of whom already have pretty shitty immune systems, and asked everyone to test before we got together. My siblings were fine with that and were glad I brought it up, and I got totally expected pushback from the 50+ crowd. They put up a fight that almost sent me back the night I arrived over taking the most innocuous of precautions (eg. my mom would only test one time but then was going to go to her office the next day where everyone is unmasked :deeper-sadness: ). One member of the family is still unvaxxed and arrived to the house on Christmas Day with an “upper respiratory infection” where they noted that they couldn’t taste or smell, but they did actually test the night before and it was negative. Cut to 3 days later and I’m heading home feeling like a cold’s coming on, which was my initial conclusion after testing negative twice, but a few days later I tested again and it was positive. First time getting covid. Too late to do anything for my housemate so now they caught it too, and I feel absolutely terrible about that. We’ve been so careful the last couple of years and it just feels so deflating to get got this way.
I called my parents and told them to test. They mentioned they were feeling feverish, and it turns out both of them and my chud grandmother got it as well. Curiously my sisters were spared despite everyone being together the entire day. The whole family’s fighting with one another over who got who sick (the latest is my grandma’s accused me of bringing it home because “masks never worked” :pain: ). I’m just sitting here, thankfully hundreds of miles away from all that, thinking about how weird the holidays were this year and how empty the whole affair felt to me in general. Throughout this last week I’ve become ever more perplexed as to why people’s anger and frustration isn’t being directed at the ones responsible for the hellworld we currently occupy. Why aren’t there riots or mass protests and :gui-better: attempts going on? Why aren’t there guerrilla campaigns to beat back on the obfuscation of vital information about this pandemic? Like I know we’re pretty cucked here in the US, but even this has to have some kind of limit? Sooner or later the glut of preventable deaths and disability will reach an inflection point even amongst the most insulated libs and chuds out there, right?