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Get the rope Macaulay! said:
calling yourself a fan 20 years ago was like being an alog of a lolcow, you knew everything about all of it.
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I'm willing to give a lot of leeway as I've grown older. I certainly can't be bothered to be as obsessive/autistic as I was when I was a kid.

I'm willing to let someone claim they're a massive fan when they don't know shit about say The Wall or The Spot. Hell, I'm even willing to let not knowing shit like Sins Past or The Other and just general Spider-Man garbage from the past 30 years slide.

But if you don't know major enemies? People that have shown up in video games, toylines, cartoons? You don't know a founding member of the Sinister Six?

Like...come the fuck on, bitch. You haven't even read a Wikipedia article on Spider-Man at that point but you're calling yourself a huge/biggest fan?
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
but you're calling yourself a huge/biggest fan?
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its all relative too though, a harry potter fan could mean her non-book reading friends and family saw her read the books once or it could mean she's on the forums and started a harry potter theme band and writes slash fiction.

To everyone else around her she might be a fan because at minimum she talked about the movies at some point. I'm giving them leeway because i have plenty of family members who still think i'm into the same shit they remember me being into when i was a literal child. I'm getting lego sets because the last they bothered remembering i exist was when i was 4 and in their mind i'm still that because they don't care enough to update their memory. Chances are if you did a spider man trivia night between her and her boyfriend and all her friends and what not, she easily might be the winner. Thats just how some people are.

Its like how as a kid old people assume you wrote the code for every computer program because you use the computer more than they do so they ask you for tips. Essentially you need to affirmative action your level of "fandom"; to her stupid friends she probably is who they think of when they hear "spiderman fan" obviously you could/should gatekeep if this bitch is showing up to some con, but as a conversational thing you're just pissing people off. Thats a big reason a decade ago you had all these hitpieces whining about gatekeeping in fandom, he was just proud his girlfriend wasn't empty inside and at least had some sort of hobby.
 
Get the rope Macaulay! said:
he was just proud his girlfriend wasn't empty inside and at least had some sort of hobby.
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It was actually him trying to argue that Mysterio "wasn't" a big Spider-Man villain, basically an unknown to use in Far From Home, and his girlfriend being a massive fan and not knowing who Mysterio was was his reasoning.
 
Doctor of Autism said:
I have seen people try to bring back some BS activism with The Marvels stating how "WOMEN SHOULD GO SEE THIS MOVIE OR NO MORE HECKIN' WOMEN DIRECTED FILMS" when The Marvels is pretty much guaranteed to bomb or not do well. Hell the fact the director pretty much said that it's a "Kevin Feige" movie more than her own idea really raises red flags.
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Wokeness aside, I don't understand why they need to make comic book movies the movies that have to appeal to other women. As Barbie showed, if you make movies that are clearly made for women, they will watch it. Make a bunch of rom-coms about overworked career women finding office flings the bestest sex evar!

wtfNeedSignUp said:
Superstars worked by having high charisma and unique people in films being incredibly manly. The modern Hollywood simply does not allow it. Too much nepotism. Stars that burn themselves out on woke and drugs. Too much safety layer over anything. And the same boring low steroid muscle in every guy. Every one of those guys looks the same.

Women is just as bad. All ugly mutts who are the spawn of the elites.
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Yes, Twitch Thots are Twitch Thots, but they're the only type of actress these days that hit the 90210/Melrose Place actress look that we used to get even 10 years ago. Hollywood doesn't cast sexy people anymore and worse, they're not even good at acting. I get that people like Pratt and Hemsworth and Ryan Reynolds et al, but their performances aren't very dramatic TBH. Sure, movies aren't written for adults anymore, but 21th century actors really don't have the acting presence of a Denzel Washington or any one that got big back in the 20th.
 
Your Starter for 10 said:
I think the official reason they changed it is because Brave New World is more optimistic sounding than New World Order (which is hilariously ironic), but I suspect the real reason is that Aldous Huxley's estate is less likely to sue than Hulk Hogan.

Whatever it's called, it's gonna be utter shit.
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Brave New World, the dystopic book in which:
* Children are medically screwed up from early childhood.
* Nobody is over the mental age of 18.
* The population is addicted to drugs and shitty violent/sex entertainment, with an obsession to BBC.
* Abortion is pretty much the only thing and is taught from early childhood.
* Sexual acts are taught and encouraged from early childhood.
* The only two options for the masses are being braindead work drones or being savages in a ghetto.
* Business monopolies are the de facto governments and religions.
* Being a manlet will cause you to be a social pariah.

Glad not to be living in that reality.
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
Yes, Twitch Thots are Twitch Thots, but they're the only type of actress these days that hit the 90210/Melrose Place actress look that we used to get even 10 years ago. Hollywood doesn't cast sexy people anymore and worse, they're not even good at acting. I get that people like Pratt and Hemsworth and Ryan Reynolds et al, but their performances aren't very dramatic TBH. Sure, movies aren't written for adults anymore, but 21th century actors really don't have the acting presence of a Denzel Washington or any one that got big back in the 20th.
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I don't remember any Twitch thot that was beyond just a sexy body. They don't have charm just a fuckable body. At best few vtubers have actual charisma to narrate a script.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I don't remember any Twitch thot that was beyond just a sexy body. They don't have charm just a fuckable body. At best few vtubers have actual charisma to narrate a script.
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I mean that Twitch thots bother to be sexy. Hollywood actresses aren't sexy anymore. That's what I mean when I refer to 90210/Melrose Place. We don't have actors like Casper Van Diem or Denise Richards-types anymore; we have Tom Holland and Zendaya now where the neoteny is so prevalent that we either get perpetual 15 year olds or the 50 year old action star for leads now.
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
I remember when someone told me his girlfriend was "like the biggest Spider-Man fan ever." but that she didn't know who Mysterio was.

He got mad when I said she sounds like a fake fan because "You don't have to know everything to be the biggest fan of a character!"

That was when I realized that Millenials and Gen Z equate being a braindead consumer with being a fan of a property.
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That shit triggers my autism, especially when people use it for clout. I remember I went to the movies and before the previews they do commercials and like, I guess you could almost call them skits. One was with some e-girl who's known for cosplaying Spider-Man and being this huge fan of the series being quizzed on pretty entry-level knowledge of the comics. She got most of them wrong, and I think she even said The Penguin was a Spider-Man villain.
 
Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
I mean that Twitch thots bother to be sexy. Hollywood actresses aren't sexy anymore. That's what I mean when I refer to 90210/Melrose Place. We don't have actors like Casper Van Diem or Denise Richards-types anymore; we have Tom Holland and Zendaya now where the neoteny is so prevalent that we either get perpetual 15 year olds or the 50 year old action star for leads now.
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Calling Zendaya an actress is a bold statement considering she can't act lol.
 
The Nothingness said:
I guess Disney was too cheap to dub over Tara Strong's character in Loki even after what happened to her in the last two weeks.
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Wow, I had to look this up. So she was fired for supporting Israel? Oof. Never thought I'd see that happen. Grievance stack isn't looking quite so good now, Jewish bros.
 
jspit2.0 said:
Wow, I had to look this up. So she was fired for supporting Israel? Oof. Never thought I'd see that happen. Grievance stack isn't looking quite so good now, Jewish bros.
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I'd say it's well deserved karma since this bitch had an Uber driver fired just for being a conservative.
 
Lone Star said:
If The Penguin was some minor villain, sure, but he's about the second most famous Batman villain after The Joker.
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Maybe third or fourth after Two Face and Bane since the only Batman normies know is the Nolan movies. I'm not counting Ra's Al-Ghul because he didn't appear in the Nolan movies; Liam Neeson did. Movies that hate the idea of Batman BTW.
 
xXx: State of the Union said:
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Oh boy, it feels like I'm back in the mid 2000's
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Joker could be awesome...or terrible. Only one of these except maybe Venom I'll even consider watching.

xXx: State of the Union said:
I'm willing to give a lot of leeway as I've grown older. I certainly can't be bothered to be as obsessive/autistic as I was when I was a kid.

I'm willing to let someone claim they're a massive fan when they don't know shit about say The Wall or The Spot. Hell, I'm even willing to let not knowing shit like Sins Past or The Other and just general Spider-Man garbage from the past 30 years slide.

But if you don't know major enemies? People that have shown up in video games, toylines, cartoons? You don't know a founding member of the Sinister Six?

Like...come the fuck on, bitch. You haven't even read a Wikipedia article on Spider-Man at that point but you're calling yourself a huge/biggest fan?
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This is their critical misunderstanding of fandom. I don't fucking care of you can name polkadot man. Do you get the character? Do you understand what makes him or her work?

Like making two fucking Spideyman movies without Uncle Ben ever appearing or being mentioned. Ben exists for a reason!!!! Just like Clark Kent is important to Superman. So Yeah, I don't give a fuck if when you began working on a project you know that crap. I care that when it comes time you don't pull a Sony Tom Rothman and undermine it because you don't understand the material put in front of you as an artist.
 
guess the news came in about the multiverse- Battleworld - Marvels takes place again you guess before the reset happens troll despair.
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for the record first appearence of xmen phase 4 Dr.Strange & multiverse of madness
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I guess I'm glad Kelsey GrammEr is getting more work, but, I mean, how shitty is your franchise when you have to dig THAT deep into history to dig up a memberberry that anyone wants to see. I mean if it was just in Deadpool, you could just write it off as a goof, but shoe-horning it over into the main cannon - your fucking tent-pole, even - is VERY telling.

Yes, people would rather see a decrepit old well cast, bit part white dude than your ugly, shitskin, girlboss charisma voids.

It'd be hilarious if Grammer just used this as a stepping stone to get back in the public eye and get some cash for 6-8 months or so and then fucking ran as Trump's VP. I could die happy if that happened.
 
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