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Nothing to do with heroines or wholesomeness, but to me, as an aesthetic choice, the smaller and fewer the better. But as a character choice? Depends on the character, and how you're playing with the character. I could see Diana having a penal tattoo as a condition of exile. I could see young SG get...

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A lot of money seems to get spent on the game of coaxing a girl to be just a little bit naughtier. The not-too-naughty brand management of content portals is obnoxious, especially when the limit gets fastidiously dragged toward broadcast TV standards. But it also seems inevitable. Which makes conten...

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shevek wrote: ↑
2 years ago
Can't wait to hopefully eventually see the entire video of Starlight's contemporary Christian pop-styled "Never Truly Vanish"

Apparently it was posted last month:

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This looks like a costume for girls and women who want to be a superhero. It looks female, form-fitting, athletic, purposeful. Also like actual clothing made of fabrics not resins, with a couple of key elements of melodramatic identity. I hope this iteration has a good run with stories that make gir...

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Mr. X wrote: ↑
2 years ago
Not sure what the complaints about sexualization are about

Not sure what complaints about sexualization you're not sure about.

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Or did the fact that the Captain Marvel made tons of $$$ for the MCU set a bad precedent of sorts for superheroine-dom? Hollywood probably felt that they can get away with superheroines wearing jumpsuits, and now everyone is doing it. No, the Hollywood default has been skin-tight full-coverage for ...

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The drunken stagger that is DC just makes me want to think about anything else while waiting for the next Marvel show.

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They'll slim her down in post.

I hate fussy textures generally, but this is especially bad -- looks like lizard scales.

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As I suspected, cost seemed to be a deciding factor for cancelling. Those 1920's sets were amazing, but that stuff doesn't come for free. Shame they couldn't have pared down the cost level of the flashbacks and gone forward with a second season. I was enjoying it. I don't know, this suggests to me ...

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The series was cancelled last year. But last month, Adult Swim announced movies for Venture Bros, Metalocalypse, and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. A movie seems an inadequate vehicle for a proper farewell, and as brilliant as they can be in 60 or 90 minutes, a single extended adventure a la the Cowboy Beb...

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I miss the brothers Venture so much.

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Unaware it had already been cancelled, I watched the first two episodes last night. It had that "the whole first season is setup" feeling. In websearching Jupiter's Legacy Cliffhanger I saw that it had a cliffhanger ending *and* was cancelled. I felt bad for Josh Duhamel for a few minutes,...

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I'm keeping in mind that the first trailer is for people who already know the characters and will be excited just to see the them moving and speaking.

It acknowledges the Huge Question. I'm hopeful this means Marvel knows they need a solid answer.

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I disagree. Threads get yanked into the drainage ditch by political cliches, and then trapped by the insistence that no political cliche go unanswered. This is more toxic to the forum than when originally-political threads cross that semantic line of "personal attack." I guess I agree tha...

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...all that was really necessary was to continue enforcing a no tolerance policy for personal attacks. I GET that watching Scribbler and Dazzle1sling bile at one another without even the pretense of discourse affects the 'vibe'... but the only reason that always devolves into what it does in the fi...

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My cat's breath smells like cat food.

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Be careful with aerosols, when outdoors or even inside with AC or just people moving around a lot, microcurrents can waft it back on you. You wouldn't want your up-close weapon to backfire on you. Microcapsules under a couple of fingernails require actual contact but are less likely to be used again...

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RedMountain wrote: ↑
3 years ago
I can certainly echo many of the comments that I've started visiting this forum less and less, as it feels it has become less about superheroines and more about how many political dramas people can get into in these threads.

Maybe you should have stopped there.

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Batman and Wonder Woman brought superhero peril and bondage to generations of very impressionable minds through family-friendly network and syndicated television. I doubt anything will ever replace that bubble. I wonder, how are vampire fetishes doing these days? And is there any content coalescing ...

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I'm guessing they don't like zero tolerance policies. Do you also know what a lot of people don't like? Every thread devolving into a political snipe-fest. I don't like it either. This thread was wrecked. But, honest question, was this a political thread from the beginning? If not, are moderators c...

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We are going to be taking a zero tolerance stance towards political talk or attacks on this forum. This time I mean it and some of you aren't going to like it. But I can guarantee you many others will. Does anyone like zero tolerance policies on matters that aren't black and white? What's wrong wit...

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I like the moves at the nine minute mark.

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Whatever the vaccine narrative was initially, I wish they'd just left it in.

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I don't think anyone (including me) think there ought not to be consequences for one's freedom of speech, I just feel those consequences ought to be organic. Before social media, there were examples such as MLB executive Al Campanis and CBS NFL analyst Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder who said in...

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Nice to see people dragging Fuck Twitter off-topic to be a duplicate of an existing thread. Gives one horse town a new meaning. Maybe there is a way to shrink Twitter's domain of terror. Convince media companies and major brands that Twitter's toxicity is so bad it's inevitable, so that they refuse ...

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We can't stop Twitter by encouraging people to stop using it.
Twitter provides addictive dopamine hits. A sense of empowerment. It basically uses an exploit in the human operating system that we can't patch.

Twitter is in the league of tobacco and soda pop.

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Way to miss the point, kids.

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The whole blood clot side effect debate seems pretty pointless when you got a 1 in 30 chance of dying if you get Covid and a 1 in 5 chance of longterm health issues against a 1 in 100,000 chance or literally a 1 in million chance of developing a blood clot depending which vaccine you get. It's a no...

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(And pace Imagineer, a good chunk of the movie is in fact a training montage. IDK if that's a good thing, though.) I went back and looked, because I wondered how a superhero movie could feel so terribly without rhythm. There isn't a training montage. There are several feints toward a training monta...

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On the contrary, I expect awful projects like Thunder Force exist precisely b/c McCarthy is in demand and there are people trying to work up the most profitable possible way to exploit that with minimum effort. Being in demand to replay the one dimension Hollywood can exploit for quick cash is not ...

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I bet she doesn't have many choices unless she funds them.
Doing this dreck for Netflix probably funds something interesting.

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Femina wrote: ↑
3 years ago
Hypothetical: What if the thread itself is wrong?

I don't know what you mean.

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It's crap. Lazy. Stretched to make length like a C student's essay. Everyone leaves their A-game at home.
I don't think they even bothered with a training montage.

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https://xkcd.com/386/

I humbly suggest that if your prosecution of the wrongness dragon leads a thread into the woods to die, you are not serving the greater good, you're just feeding the dragon and helping them poison the ground.

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I don't think the special interests at the root of this site have much to do with the discussion trainwrecks here, except to the extent that they limit the size of the community.

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I watched the first couple of seasons, but it didn't survive my transition from cable TV to streaming. It was fun but not worth paying for special. Witty, rude, lewd, over-the-top and self-aware, badass hot chicks being badass and hot, unabashedly male-gaze compatible, what's not to like? I guess I ...

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Weird. The time displayed at the top left of the forum index, and the "last visit" at the top right of the forum index, and the time of my last post (and I assume other posts) on the forum index are all still 25 minutes behind -- but view any particular thread and the time of my last post ...

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I'm not sure who that Story 101 wall of text was for. I mean, no shift, Sherlock. Seriously. I tried to keep it simple and direct, and you've spun off lecturing. Elaborate backstory is just series padding indulgence if it rapidly evaporates away and leaves narrative cliches. The jackass cop is a cli...

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There's a difference between what we can fridge-logic about the character and the narrative beats a character has -- between the richness of a character's backstory and how they can influence the protagonists' growth. The narrative is not subtle or nuanced about how we're supposed to feel about him....

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I must disagree about John Walker. His introduction feints at being sympathetic, but then they lean into Swaggering Jackass way too hard. They're PUSHING him as an antagonist. The audience is already primed to dislike him, so a nuanced approach would be to play against that. But they don't. He doesn...

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tallyho wrote: ↑
3 years ago
Dear lord! This is a middle- aged- man conversation if ever there was one, lol

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Meanwhile -- in the Phantom Zone...

But seriously,
I bet the Sokovia Accords include a framework for financial compensation.

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I get the impression that this is very recently after the Blip -- so half the working-age world doesn't have much employment history, and the other half has new uncertainty. Even if the US government is swift to authorize assistance, it probably doesn't start with ready capital for small businesses ...

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If I'm still in the future on Tuesday I'll post the winning MegaMillions numbers.

Edit: Aww... I should have kept my mouth shut.

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I wish; I might actually show up on time for things.

No, what the forum tells me is GMT is about 23 minutes behind what Greenwich says.

How many minutes after the hour does the forum tell you your post above is?

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By about 23 minutes.

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I like that the new Cap's jaw looks all wrong under the helmet.

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How DARE you post that sort of political filth on this site. Your opinions, sir, are completely out of touch with reality and your language is abusive. Another post like that and you won't see the light of day here for months. Now good day to you, sir!! I'm sorry if you were triggered, but I posted...

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Two mice fell into a bucket of cream.

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Source your exact quote.

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Surely I'm not alone in my confidence that we're on the cusp of settling whether or not Pepe Le Pew is a racist or a misogynist.

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