MerrySkeptic @ MerrySkeptic @sh.itjust.works

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Girl Scouts USA has always been a completely separate organization with no affiliation to Boy Scouts of America

Imagine saying this at a Civil Rights sit-in in the 60s

Fuck these counter-protestors. I hope the reporters press charges. It really seems like the majority of the violence is started by the counter-protestors, but apparently this is what Zionism is all about.

X-Men 97 continues to have no right to be this good and this relevant.

"Overload their bandwidth, too much to compute. Because when your skin's not in the game, apathy's the answer." - Bastion

The Wolverine/Nightcrawler team up was great, especially when they showed Nightcrawler with THREE swords!

Nods to Iron Man and Dr Strange, and outright cameos from Dr Doom, Baron Zemo, and Spider-Man

The whole concept of "absolute points" makes me think we are gonna see Kenosha destroyed in the MCU at some point too

Loving this show!

I have lived in Texas my whole life. My knee jerk reaction is no, absolutely not.

First off, what part of Texas?Texas is a huge state with several metro areas, smaller cities, and lots of rural areas. Eas h has their own quirks.

There are parts of Texas that are so racist that POCs shouldn't drive there at night. There are parts that are as progressive as any other metro area in America (at least within the limitations of the state government). There are parts that are essentially artist communes. Texas is huge and diverse. No one viewpoint can capture it all.

Fantastic fucking episode.

Nightcrawler's eulogy for Gambit was perfect and showed a real love for the character from the writers

The sudden twist from relief that Sunspot's mom knew and accepted her son as a mutant to betrayal that she wants to keep it secret mirrored what a lot of LGBTQ youth go through with their own parents

Rogue going off in her grief and actually trying to kill Trask when he was no longer useful was jaw dropping

And some cameos from Captain America and Thunderbolt Ross, with a Hulk name drop to boot

I tried but apparently I'm doing something wrong. What am I missing?

EDIT I'm not sure how to spoiler tag apparently, so read at your own peril

Easter eggs I've noticed so far:

That's a sling ring portal

The ::: spoiler

Ant-Man helmet

:::

is actually ||his whole corpse, as you can see his arms fanning out beside his skull, his skull under the helmet when it opens, and you can see that when DP and Deadpool jump into the Sling ring portal it is through the skull's eye socket||

You can see ||Azazel and Lady Deathstrike|| in the group shot of the thugs around 1:52 and maaaaaaaybe ||X-23 in costume|| on the far right

The shop in the background during the slomo walk is ||Liefield's Just Feet|| 🤣🤣🤣

The point isn't about whether or not social media is bad for kids. The point is about the hypocrisy of a political party that is willing to minimize the legal and social consequences of parents opting to not vaccinate their kids, arguing that it is up to the parents even though it clearly has health risks to other people that the unvaccinated kids come into contact with, but then say that the state has a moral obligation to protect kids from the harms of social media regardless of how the parents feel about it.

While generally speaking, no, social media is not great for kids, there are some who can handle it responsibly. It's a clear case of how parental discretion should be used. But the state is removing that option. Vaccinations and herd immunity, on the other hand, have a century or so of evidence and the risks of not being vaccinated are clearly demonstrable, but consequences like no access to public schools are disappearing. The internal logic isn't there, it's all just pandering to an idiotic political base.

Holy shit I can't imagine the sheer terror. One second you're just doing your normal work commute, the next you just fell a hundred feet into freezing water. Without reacting immediately you're probably trapped in your car from the water pressure. Shit shit shit

Vaccines? PARENTS CHOICE, CONSEQUENCES BE DAMNED

Social media? TOO DANGEROUS TO LET PARENTS DECIDE

I declare... BANKRUPTCY!!!

Streisand effect in 3...2...1...

Gambit charging Wolverine's claws is something I never knew I needed, but my inner 10 year old was squealing with delight at that

And chills when Cyclops said, "To me, my X-Men..."

Sensei of my domain

I can't read "secret tunnel" without hearing the song from The Last Airbender

I remember in the early post-Avengers days there was the theory that Clark Gregg was going to return to the MCU as Vision, and Vision was going to be based on Coulson's brainwaves. Obviously this was before Agents of Shield.

Arcane. Hands down 10/10 on practically every possible metric, but the thing that really got me was the way they portray trauma and the subsequent impact on mental health. I work with folks who have experienced trauma and I thought this was one of the best depictions of the aftermath I had ever seen in media.

Also, this is a perfect depictions of a Greek tragedy, in the sense that everything ends in tragedy not despite, but because of everyone's best intentions. As the story unfolds you understand everyone's motivations and they all make sense. There's no perfectly good or bad characters, just a lot of people doing the best they can with the cards they were dealt.

You're right. Unfortunately it wasn't Palestine that attacked Israel, it was Hamas.

Overall I enjoyed it. I really liked the setting of the French Revolution and the way that the Church allied itself with darkness in the face of an existential threat. Very relevant I think to many religious institutions today.

I REALLY liked Olrox. An Aztec vampire that can transform into a serpent god? Yes please. And they made him a three dimensional character, neither totally good or bad.

I agree that more time could have been spent on Rictor and Marie's upbringing, but that wasn't critical. I assume Rictor just comes by his skills naturally by way of being a Belmont and doesn't need formal training. Marie was obviously trained by her mom. I really liked her power of conjuring creatures from another dimension, especially that one particular moment on the last battle with her foot.

Anne was a cool character but I agree she took too much responsibility for Eduoard's death. But she's also young and he was one of her only friends, so I can also kind of understand. She has a lot of growing to do.

I thought the idea of reformed Night Creatures was intriguing. Elizabeth Bartlett was underdeveloped as a villain, and Drolta wasn't much better. Grandpa Belmont coming out of left field was weird and didn't add much to the story since he didn't do much.

Whatever it's flaws, they weren't enough for me to not enjoy it.