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And here's my point for this whole entire thing with people saying "put marvel characters in the hey aj show instead of captain durag." If you want babies first marvel put that on, or the iron man version, which exists?
I can't believe anyone said that sincerely. "Don't make original characters, put BELOVED BRAND in my kids' show!" That's insane to me. It's like demanding there be hidden mickeys in an episode of Spongebob. Let things be separate from one another, oh my god.
 
Why do cartoons always show people shattering their piggy banks with hammers? Don't they ever show the actual way to open them with that cork or stopper thing on the bottom?

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Because the old fashioned ones didn't have corks or stoppers, they were just clay pots with a coin slot on top and you had to shatter them to get them open.

ETA: So the long version is this:

600 years ago or so in Europe most pots and kitchen cookware were made of a type of clay called pygg (pronounced "pig") and people didn't keep their money in banks. So what you would do is any spare coins you'd have (if you had any) were put into a pygg jar that was molded to only have a small slot in it through which coins could be slid, this was an anti-theft feature but also helped to disincentivize superfluous spending as the only way to get the coins out of the pygg jar was to smash it and then you'd have to build a new one. (This is also where the term "breaking the bank" comes from) Eventually (and I don't know when this first started to happen) some clever boots made a pun out of it and pygg jars in the shape of pigs became popular, but they still maintained the feature where you had to smash them open to get at the money inside since this instilled some level of frugality into a child (or an adult). Eventually stoppers and hatches were integrated so that the pygg bank slaughter could be curbed but that's a fairly recent thing, afaik piggy banks with stoppers only really became a thing in the 1950s or 1960s, prior to that it was still common for a child to have to smash their piggy bank to get at the money inside.
 
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I can't believe anyone said that sincerely. "Don't make original characters, put BELOVED BRAND in my kids' show!" That's insane to me.
Believe me it is, the niggers complaining about this are going "mayne, I don't likes the captain durag mayne, he's raysus. I wants there to be the new captain america, or at least black panther in this show, you work for disney you can do that." That's how they view that take, simply because disney owns marvel it therefore means that in their minds anyone who was working on that show could simply gibsmedat there black marvel characters. Like for fuck sake, theres already 2 marvel capeshit preschool shows, you don't work for disney so stfu nigger.
 
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I’m starting to wonder if Asian Americans are capable of making animation that isn’t about family trauma/drama. It’s getting old.
 
I’m starting to wonder if Asian Americans are capable of making animation that isn’t about family trauma/drama. It’s getting old.
Asian Americans are at that point where they have just discovered therapy and not beating their kids, so this intergenerational trauma thing has them in a choke hold. Meanwhile, white people already went through this and got over it generations ago. I've had to sit through Everything Everywhere All at Once in a room of my Asian friends all sobbing, and I'm just looking around like "are you guys fucking serious?" Of course I couldn't bring myself to tell them the truth that I hated it afterward when they excitedly asked me "So, did you like it?? It's one of the best films ever right!" Goofy ass movie.
 
Also, why do cartoon touchtone phones usually or always have only 9 buttons?

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Because a lot of them were laid out in a grid of 9, then one key below it.
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It's like giving a character 4 fingers, it doesn't make sense and would make things harder irl, but it makes things read better in a cartoon, which is simplified and exaggerated. They're called "cheats" and are a normal part of cartooning.
 
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I’m starting to wonder if Asian Americans are capable of making animation that isn’t about family trauma/drama. It’s getting old.
In theory, a show like this can work playing off of the divide between second or third wave immigrants that assimilated more into American culture than the ones who stick to tradition. In practice, this is a drop of water in a bucket that's already spilling over. South Park joked about how Netflix was running literally anything you'd pitch at them around 2018 when they were doing the Fractured But Whole tie-in episode, and I guess nothing's changed since then.
Asian Americans are at that point where they have just discovered therapy and not beating their kids, so this intergenerational trauma thing has them in a choke hold. Meanwhile, white people already went through this and got over it generations ago. I've had to sit through Everything Everywhere All at Once in a room of my Asian friends all sobbing, and I'm just looking around like "are you guys fucking serious?" Of course I couldn't bring myself to tell them the truth that I hated it afterward when they excitedly asked me "So, did you like it?? It's one of the best films ever right!" Goofy ass movie.
The way I think of it is that it's from the viewpoint of immigrants that are still adjusting to American ideals, so it's naturally going to have much more of an impact on that kind of audience. The oldest generation mostly flat-out refuses to accept them, the middle-aged generation embraces the ideals while repeating the culture they were raised in, but the younger generations aren't (usually) raised in their parents' cultural landscape, so a lot of the attitude they experience from their parents just doesn't make sense to them when they look at the homes of other people their age. You can also view other movies or shows this way, like the Sopranos with how the older guys from the mafia clash with Tony's relatively liberal ideology, and how Tony clashes with how his kids are trying to live their lives (Meadow dating a black Jew, Tony Jr. trying to find himself in the writings of Nietzsche and smoking weed). Yes, we already "got over it" generations ago, but this is the process of getting over it condensed into a much smaller time frame.
 
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They're called "cheats" and are a normal part of cartooning.
“In episode 2F-09 when Itchy plays Scratchy’s skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession; yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean what are we to believe this is some sort of ‘magic xylophone’ or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.”
 
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Why do cartoons always show people shattering their piggy banks with hammers? Don't they ever show the actual way to open them with that cork or stopper thing on the bottom?

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It's the only kosher way to do it.
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I’m starting to wonder if Asian Americans are capable of making animation that isn’t about family trauma/drama. It’s getting old.
I'm just tired of Slice-of-Life as a genre, both from the Orientals and Asian Americans.
 
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