Astrealix @ Astrealix @lemmy.world

Hong Konger NYU student | he/him

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I don't really see another option, unfortunately — the alternative is just going to be a shutdown, given Republicans don't know what compromise is. And lots of people will suffer if one happens, likely for no material gain.

Israel's clearly taking this war in a different direction from usual, unfortunately — based on what they're saying at least, it seems the intent is to eradicate Hamas and deal with the consequences later

Just saw it, honestly not too bad, I see why it's like kinda mid cuz there wasn't really much of a climax and not like, engaging in the same way some other stuff has been, but it's a fine movie, if you ignore the standards of the MCU, imo. I may be biased by the mid-credits scene, but it was fun — and to me that's more important than a lot of things. Not much character development or room to breathe though, which was a shame. And no resolution for the first two planets.

I found it fun too. I think the main problem which most people took though was that it really didn't feel like an Antman movie. And Kang felt weak.

I think they'll recast if needs be, cuz while the TVA is monitoring Kangs the TVA also clearly falls by the End of Time.

Yggdrasil by the way looked amazing.

Also "Centuries later" was great.

So no season 3, I'm guessing.

Amazing finale. Upped the stakes on what made Kang Kang, as well. He's not just some guy who beat a couple of dudes off-screen as powerful as him, he has carefully cultivated a world where, functionally immortal, it took a god as powerful as him if not more powerful given the magic, willing to do what he would not, to "beat" him. And even then, he's not really been beaten, simply replaced by someone doing what he could do, but would not for the risk it brought.

It does retoroactively also make Quantumania even weaker though. And I'm saying that as someone who found that movie alright — though certainly not nearly a "great" MCU movie. Technology aside, you're telling me 616 Kang got outsmarted by Ant-Man? Like, Ant-Man is smart, but in the MCU he has certainly not been portrayed as nearly this smart. Or maybe they will pull him out of the probabilistic drive thing to start the Kang Dynasty and this was all planned and just poorly explained.

to be fair, from a Doylist point of view without that there is no show to be had lol. TVA becomes an entirely useless organisation unless it can work from beyond the multiverse, and the only way it can work from beyond the multiverse yet have change in it is if there is a dimension of time in the TVA.

Wait you can schedule posts? how?

The way I see it, there's two dimensions of time: one being linear time within the TVA, and the other being the time that everything else experiences including us, which branches. The TVA therefore doesn't branch, because it experiences a different axis of time. It's self-consistent in that sense where the TVA's time works the same always, and the time of everything else works the same always (if you ignore Cap), at least for now.

I really thought they were just going to go with the route of Sylvie realising it and then them time travelling back, didn't expect the shift back to the time-slipping thing. Chekov's gun strikes again.

With this power though, Loki is essentially more powerful than Kang, no? Able to go anywhere in time and space, and one of a kind so he doesn't have to keep fighting Kangs the same way He Who Remains did, doesn't have to keep pruning branches to prevent more Lokis with timeslipping because he is the only Loki with this power.

The way the music at the end didn't even reach a climax it jsut kept building and building and then nothingness... holy

Atwood specifically called it speculative fiction, because everything written in there had happened already in some other form.

someday we'll realise the entire universe is a massive supercomputer which runs doom

lol there are studies on it done for Russia, Ukraine, UK, Dutch UN troops who intervened in Srebrenica...

Ukraine has been defending itself. Dutchbat we're trying and failing to maintain peace and instead watched as a massacre happened.

Yes, the US has more statistics, as it often does for psychology because many people don't treat it seriously. That doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

PTSD is a real thing. Trauma is a real thing. Yes, we are much too desensitised to war. Yes, we should absolutely be outraged and we need to recognise that warfare is terrible. That doesn't mean that access to traumatisation should be easy. Look at suicide rates of veterans, for example. Trauma is a real thing, and there's a reason there is so much research dedicated to protecting journalists etc. who have to look at this stuff so they can tell us the truth.

First of all, I am from Hong Kong and utterly hate the CCP and tankies. It's frankly insulting that you would compare me to them when they consistently fight for the complete eradication of the Hong Kong identity.

But more importantly, there's a line to be drawn there. I agree that it is important to be informed — but you don't need Israel tweeting photos of dead babies onto everyone's Twitter feeds and traumatising people to be informed that babies died. You don't need to personally witness every single gory detail of humanity's terrible sins in order to know that things have happened. That's what people do as a job in journalism, and they have lots of protection to make sure they're not traumatised by it. The average Lemming doesn't need to see that.

Not really tbh. We don't need to personally see that stuff — it can cause lasting trauma. Knowing it exists and who did it is enough for war reporting.

Yeah, but what do you think happens if Trump gets nominated? It only takes 5 people to join the Dems to have actually got Trump as speaker, mind you.