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“But the as the stakes”
that is a constant in Dragon Ball.
enemies get defeated, surpasseda and then they become entourage
Piccolo noooooooooooooo!
Jesse and James were always effective, they just suck at villainy. They are good at dressing up, making rube-goldberg devices, and many other things, they just aren’t evil enough to elevate that potential. If they were, Giovanni would be sleeping with the magi-karp, and Ash would be eaten by their Arbok.
good at dressing up
Ah yes, I still remember questioning my sexuality over James when I watched pokemon as a teenager. Good times
Was that with or without his massive tits?
What was the answer to the questioning?
Its always a maybe!
Kind of like what happened to Bush after Trump came around.
Seriously. I was at the right age to be much more politically intense back then and absolutely despised Bush.
Now, I almost feel bad about it after witnessing the last 20 years of politics.
We can have room in our hearts to hate more than one monstrous US president.
Well, there’ also Nixon…
But only almost.
Yeah, I still think the criticisms of Bush were valid, but I’m so much more cool-headed as a person now that the difference in my response feels incongruent. Political news doesn’t take an emotional toll on me like it used to, even though I objectively disagree with modern politicians more.
I think you’re wrong that it doesn’t take an emotional toll on you like before. However, it’s such a toll that you just have to start ignoring it. Back then it felt useful to constantly pay attention. Now it’s all so bad that if you paid attention to all of it you’d go insane, so we have to be more relaxed and only let the big things get to us.
Interesting. Instead of listening to this person explain their experiences, you’ve decided they are wrong about how they feel.
Are you trying to express how you are experiencing these different times?
Yeah, I did listen to them. As you notice from me saying “I think…” at the start of my comment, I’m trying to give my perspective. Is that not allowed?
It’s very common, especially right now, for people to care so much that it’s overwhelming. I can’t know that’s happening to them (hence, “I think…”), but usually people don’t just stop giving a shit. They just figure out that they need a filter.
Also, yes. It’s how I’m experiencing it.
It could be a bit of both, but in general I recognized after a certain point that the only one affected by my stress level is me, not the thing in the news. I’d also credit having a career where you have to get really good at controlling what you let affect you.
Contrariwise, I think I feel a greater emotional impact now.
That’s called “The Memory Hole”.
We take all the illegality and corruption and horrific violence and torture and wars and media manipulation/intimidation and petty dictator shit and stuff it down the Memory Hole. Then we get to pretend
NSFW
This shit
Wasn’t such a big deal after all.
America has been the bad guys for close to a century at this point the difference maker is their marketing game was on point.
Now? They no longer with Saatchi and Saatchi lol
That spoiler tag did NOT work what the fuck dude
It follows lemmy spoiler format. Your ui is not compliant
Jesus Christ.
I very well remember seeing the censored version of that image… this is the first time I’ve seen it uncensored.
I’ve seen uncensored pics from the highway of death, other graphic shit that made it onto the early days of liveleak… but there ya go, memory hole in action.
That’s right! The war crimes go into… The memory hole!
and then you have the venture bros, where the monarch starts off as goofy and ineffectual but becomes more menacing as the series goes on and the stakes get higher
I didn’t realise that “Venture Bros” was a TV series and thought you were talking about Silicon Valley tech bros and venture capitalists and was like “sounds about right”.
Villain Cay
Alternate name for Epstein Island
If anyone is a victim of “Villain Decay” in the Venture Bros its Brock Sampson. The Swedish Murder Machine is practically a teddy bear by the final arc.
They did fucking stellar work with the character growth. I normally hate the “you need to give it a couple seasons” kind of thing, but Venture Bros did so well to have a moment where you feel the tone start to change, and somehow, the goofier start ends up working in the shows favor.
I will never look at a Homies the same way again.
wait i’ve just described ordinary (if incredibly well done) character development
That’s three times Venture Bros have come up for me this week, guess that means its time for another re-watch. :logs into Nightreign as The Bat:
Don’t forget the movie between seasons Uhh… 4 and 5 I think? I didn’t know it existed and was very confused.
Isn’t there just the one movie, which is the series finale? Unless you’re talking about one of the holiday specials.
Also goddamn the Monarch is one of the best-written villains of all time.
My brother recommended Venture Bros. to me since I like the recent Harley Quinn series. I need to start watching it sometime.
Oh, its easily one of my top 10 all time TV shows, personally. It’s smartly written from start to finish. Absolutely worth your time.
Upon a moment more thought, I’d reckon it may sit as high as #3 or 4. It’s damn near perfect.
As mentioned elsewhere, the first season or two is kinda rough animation-wise, but it’s truly a masterpiece. If you’re an 80s/90s kid, it’s even better because they lampoon a lot from that era, specifically (but abstractly) Johnny quest.
Only to rivals, though. His plots against Rusty stayed pretty slapstick and harmless. They even worked together in a late season.
between the death’s head panoply, the butter glider, and the scarionette cannon? i’d definitely say he upped his game from the dreaded candiru and the deadly cloud of deception slash diversion.
beyond that, going from threatening bodily harm to financial ruin was definitely a glow-up in my opinion.
“YOU ABANDONED MY HATRED!”
The one thing missing from my life is being able to scream like the monarch
I had the season 5 torture scene in my head, where rusty is entirely unaffected by every torment while being held captive.
And then you have real life, where… well… shit
Supposedly harmless asshole to fascist cult leader is actually pretty common. Hitler’s rise was similar.
Hercule.
Dude didn’t even have super strength.
Yeah, but you know shit’s about to get real when he summons all the characters into the drawing room.
“Supernatural” in a word
This same process is why u stop watching cop/detective dramas as soon as a protagonist gets kidnapped.
- This happens 100% of the time, usually 3 season in
- You know they’ve gone from procedural to full on drama at this point
- The quality always drops off a cliff here
Examples?
Castle, Bones, Law & Order SVU, The Rookie (though it still has good episodes, the protagonists get kidnapped a lot tho), NCIS, Criminal Minds (again, multiple times), Hawaii 5 0 refresh, CSI, Monk…
…this is making me realize that I watch very few procedural detective shows, apparently. I think SVU is the only one of these I’ve seen, at all.
I read it as SUV.
And now I imagine a detective show in the Cars universe.
Title character being a grumpy SUV detective with a Keicar as the comedic sidekick
I haven’t watched most of these in a long long time
The Rookie is pretty good though
Anybody remember that season of hawaii five-0 where they spent like half the episodes almost killing danno
I remember a lot of really bad product placement for windows phone and cars
I stopped before the final season though
Yeah that was always dumb and annoying.
Captain cold in cw flash
Villainflation
I see this in politics and everyday acquaintances all the time. When the turf you’ve been fighting over gets attacked by a mutual significant foe, some hostilities get paused.
Why did they posted a picture of Team Rocket? Does Pokémon actually have more villains?
Team rocket is basically the mafia, and then gen 3 has team aqua and magma, one of which wants to remove basically all water and the other wants to basically remove all land.
I think that’s a pretty drastic shift.
Giovanni is the big bad in the early seasons iirc. No clue how the show progressed past that though but there was always a more serious organization looming (ie Team Aqua and Magma, Mewtwo in the movie are the only ones I can think of right now…)
idk for more recent seasons, but i know the xyz and sun & moon arcs had more serious villains (especially xyz)
