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PatrickMahomes posted...

what is the point with a "car full of knives" when you only have two hands

Either she's got a lot of people in a lot of places she wants to hurt, or she was looking to conduct a drive-by knifing

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Less dangerous than the MAGAbomber, but about as deranged if she's going around with knives in her car and acting like xsquader to the cops

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Balrog0 posted...

A lot of them are just ported master system games aren't they?

Fun fact, a lot of Game Gear games were ported to the Master System in places like Europe. Sonic the Hedgehog on Master System is apparently a pretty rare game nowadays because it only launched in Europe or something.

Yeah, I heard that the Game Gear needed a glut of batteries for a ridiculously small amount of playtime. Similar deal as the Nomad. The only workaround that I've heard about is to plug it into a power outlet with an AC adaptor, at which point it's not even that portable. At best, you can play it at any power socket you can get to.

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GeneralKenobi85 posted...

Looking forward to playing it whenever a Switch finally becomes available. I have no doubt that I'll enjoy it because I've loved every other 3D Mario. Even if it does end up being the worst of them all, that will still make it better than most games.

Man, Sunshine was my first 3D Mario game and I really enjoyed it at the time. It was baffling to me at the time that people seemed to shit on it, and over time it's been vindicated by people who actually played and enjoyed the game despite the stupid internet backlash.

I would still say that Odyssey is better than Sunshine. The opinion of online fandom means jack fucking shit in regards to Mario.

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I always thought Odyssey got a bad rap at the time. Everyone on GameFAQs seemed to call it a short, gimmicky game with no real value compared to Mario games past.

I really enjoyed my time with Odyssey. It was incredibly well made, to the point that even the motion controls were good. You know those boss fights where boxing gloves came out of a hat? Actually punching with the Joy-Cons felt so fucking satisfying, like I was pummeling Bowser in his fat fucking face.

It's not a game that's easy to revisit, at least not for a while. Gotta recharge the batteries before you take another swipe at it. But I think it's an excellent game that got way too much bitterbeard flak on here when it came out.

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I can respect the reasoning. People who've worked on the game applied to get some of their bonuses early, and they got it. Employees applied to get some of their bonuses early, and the company threatened to fire them over it.

Everybody's hurting right now, and as the post states, it's a common practice in the game industry to underpay workers during the development of a game. These people probably don't have a lot of cash to fall back on, and a precedent had been set with Neil Druckmann and other employees receiving a portion of their promised bonus - only for lower staff to be threatened with termination for asking for that same courtesy.

While the action is extremely rash, the reasons behind the leak are sympathetic.

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I've heard it's good if you like this style of game. I haven't played it, but it's a game I have faith in.

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Aww, sweet. Congrats TC!

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The scene in Man of Steel where he says it stands for hope, after spending the whole movie running away from the cape and immediately 9/11ing Zod through a bunch of buildings after he puts it on, is probably the stupidest thing I've seen Superman say. It is comic book lore, but nothing about Superman in Man of Steel is hopeful, and not even his most benevolent and caring line-read could have made that line work.

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Imagine being older than 20 and still shilling for Sega hardware lmao

Not that I think their hardware is bad, necessarily. But that laundry list of how "SEGA was first" or "SEGA was making advances that the competition wasn't" feels so desperate. Just running down the list, and if SEGA wasn't first, they were supposedly better. Like jeez my man, the console wars are over - come home.

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That makes it all the better though. "urr the mods have it out for me, no mod history and they suspended me, they're all corrupt >:("

and the post itself is

"You'll NEVER hear an unbiased account of Hitler on this website, with this free speech police!"

Like yeah, going to bat for Hitler by saying "the crimes levelled against him are exaggerated" is clearly going to get you moderated. The fact that he chalks that up to "moderator bias" is hilarious.

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DrizztLink posted...

Nobody gives a shit about glitteringfairy getting what he deserves.

Oh no I agree, I just think it's funny.

I was hoping this topic would turn into a hub of people getting btfo by the mods.

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You know you've been on CE too long when you come in thinking this thread is about Fox News presenters.

I thought you were saying that the AR-15 alt-right girl who shit all down her legs at a party was gonna be the new Laura Ingerham or whatever her name is.

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closetjpopfan posted...

That's interesting because I'd already read what he wrote and I didn't see anything there where we disagreed, it was just a different emphasis, which is why I didn't worry about replying to his post. But hey maybe MrMallard himself will disagree and let me know if there's something in his post he believes I contradict in mine, or are you his spokesperson?

I'm not saying systemic racism may not exist, although yeah, that's debatable but more a matter of semantics. My point is that systemic racism isn't inherent in society, just as racism isn't inherent in individuals.

That post was ages ago, and I've already said what I said and basically exited the thread. I made my case, drained the bile per se, and left it as it is.

If y'all agree or disagree, or use the emphasis in my post to discredit others - I've kinda checked out of this thread, and I'm not gonna go back and re-soak my brain in the drama.

I appreciate it if you liked/agreed with it, but that was definitely a one-and-done sort of post for me :/

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bknight posted...

That man is going to be president one day.

He wasn't born in the US, though

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neato, peace Walker fanart

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It's like having a cop at home!

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"Stop smoking! It's bad for your health!"

*kneels on the kid's chest, putting all his weight onto one knee*

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Has anyone mentioned that racial coding can be a subconscious process, taking biases and common beliefs of the time and transferring them into character designs unintentionally? No one's arguing that Tolkien was sitting at his desk, wringing his hands over racial caricatures and cackling with delight over the prospect of slipping them into his fantasy races as a way to undermine real world racial groups. It was most likely a subconscious process that was influenced by media he grew up consuming, with racially coded villains of those stories influencing how he designed his characters.

I mean, one of the Great English Novels for about 2 centuries was Robinson Crusoe, which is mired in colonialism - he meets a native man and calls him Friday, and teaches him the "civilised" British way. A whole slew of "adventure" stories grew out of that, focusing on white people "taming the wild" and combatting "savagery" - this is media that was actively celebrated for centuries, and Tolkien would have grown up in a time where media like this was a big thing. It's not out of the question for him to have internalised some of that if he was exposed to media like that, which considering the time period in which he grew up, he likely was.

The thing about criticising media is that if the material is good, it will hold up. Commenting on how characters are potentially coded to reflect an attitude or bias, consciously or unconsciously, isn't a sledge against the work unless those biases grow to define the work. You have critics like Lindsey Ellis who enjoy Lord of the Rings a great deal, but who talk critically about coding in stories including LotR. It's a valid line of criticism, though I think the core of the story is strong enough for a lot of people to take the potential coding of races like the dwarves and the orcs into account while still enjoying the overall journey and atmosphere of the story.

While it's not the same process, I think of it in a familiar context - personally, I like classic Looney Tunes. There are quick racist gags in a lot of those older Looney Tunes, including in some of my favorite shorts ever, and while it's unfortunate that those objective biases exist in these cartoons, it's an aspect I address critically while enjoying the artistry of the cartoon as a whole.

But there are Looney Tunes shorts that have racism so deeply interwoven into them that they just don't hold up. You have your wartime cartoons, where Japanese people are depicted with some of the grossest stereotypes of the time, but you also have shorts like the one where Bugs Bunny is being chased by one of the grossest caricatures of a black person in western media. They could have replaced this caricature with Elmer Fudd, and this cartoon would have been fine. But the depiction of this caricature is genuinely so awful, and the humor surrounding this caricature is so unfunny to begin with - relying on audiences laughing at him because he's black, not because he's funny - that the entire short is completely wasted. It's a racist piece of shit, and it belongs in the trash.

The discourse surrounding Lord of the Rings isn't that it was a secret minstrel show, or one of the biggest antisemitic screeds since Mein Kampf. It's looking at these character types through a critical framework and discussing how aspects of their design may be rooted in regressive racial characteristics. People are influenced by conscious and unconscious bias, and a man in the 1940's likely had a lot of unconscious bias against certain races due to either aspects of other races being demonized/mocked in popular media, or due to media we consider to be extremely regressive being pretty commonplace at the time. That sort of shit, regardless of one's egalitarian leanings, soaks in sometimes.

These aspects likely slipped into Tolkien's work without him actively thinking about real-world race when creating these fantasy races, and while his stories are beloved classics to this day and not outwardly racist like a lot of classic literature is, it's worth commenting on the characteristics that define his villified races and how they tie into depictions of other races. Racial coding, consciously or unconsciously, happens in media - it's whether the content of that media holds up to greater scrutiny that defines its greatness. For the most part among critics, Lord of the Rings seems to hold up.

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SiO4 posted...

And as for Tekken 3, Virtua Fighter a Sega game was the first 3D fighting game.

No one's saying it isn't. I mean Christ, Tekken 3 isn't even the first Tekken game lmao

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Reckon this story will go viral?

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Protesters: "Americans want to get back to work! Infringing on their right to work is against the constitution!"

Protesters: *hold up signs saying 'I need a haircut!' instead of anything related to missing their jobs*

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Tired-Insomniac posted...

lol fucking how

"And God spoke forth with a booming, awesome voice, 'Thou Shalt Never Be Without A Haircut'." - Jobs 7:24

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DevsBro posted...

He absolutely can

Doesn't mean he will

I mean why regenerate lost limbs when you can give babies malaria and AIDS, or create insects who lay their eggs in the eyes of other living animals?

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From the looks of the videos, the oldest one was in it for kicks. It looks like he worked with his father more often than not, to the point of holding the cell phone when his dad needed to get involved with the video, and you can see in that first video that whenever somebody's room needed to get trashed, it was usually the oldest son who would do it.

I think the situation that they were put in was extremely fucked up, and being the oldest and strongest child of this family, siding with your dad in this situation where you can be praised and have a lower chance of being hurt is probably the better choice to make. I think this guy is almost certainly a bully like his dad, just from what you can see in the videos, but considering the atmosphere of that environment it's hard not to see why someone would fall into that role.

In short - while it would be interesting to get a perspective from inside the house, the only people who are currently cognizant enough to discuss the events of this YouTube channel at the moment are an abusive dad, a mother who actively went along with the dad's schemes and told one of her kids that she didn't like him, and an older brother who worked with his dad to create hostile situations to film. You see him getting his siblings into headlocks, to the point where these kids are audibly choking, and you see him take clothes and toys and strew them around his sibling's rooms so his dad can record himself yelling at the siblings over it. I don't know if this guy's word would be trustworthy.

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NinjaBreakfast posted...

Prob one of those automated celeb ones

"Here's some words that rhyme with Zooey: shoey... cluey... kablooey..."

Twitter nerd: *sighs affectionately*

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ChocoboMogALT posted...

I like Jodie Whitaker and I like her character, but she's always on step away from being great. If I had more resources I'd give examples, but some of her deliveries don't quite take. They're not flat, but she feels too passive. If she went around screaming all her lines, got used to that energy, then toned it down - she'd hit the mark.

I like the companions, especially Graham, but no companion seems to have really hit that chemistry since Amy. I think that's mostly the writing, though.

Doctor Who has also had serious issues with special effects and lighting for a long time. Some episodes are just trash out the gate because they were filmed so terribly. This seems like a modern issue, though, CW shows also have issues with special effects and settings that look worse than 4-10 years ago. Buffy had better visuals than most modern TV shows and it's not all budget.

She can be a bit one-note, sure. I feel like it was a problem with series 11, but she's had a bit more to work with in series 12 and I think she's been better.

Honestly, chemistry is a bit of an issue with the TARDIS team. I think Jodie and Mandip play off each other well, but it's in the sense that since the text is a bit lacking, I'm looking more into subtext and body language. I've subsequently gone into shipping these two characters, but that's neither here nor there.

I think the last companion I really liked was Clara, but only when she was with the Eleventh Doctor. I thought they had a really interesting progression, and I think they got along like a house on fire in a way that was really entertaining to watch. It's her interactions with 12 that kinda soured me towards her.

I agree with you about the lighting. I think the issue is with filming in HD, and/or filming digitally. Lighting methods had to change along with the format, shows today have to be filmed in a more brightly lit environment I think. That's really impacted the look of TV shows, even the cheaper low-end shows that used to film on video.

I really like RTD's era because on top of the stories feeling kind of contemporary for the time, the look of the episodes are set in the format of the time. You can tell right off the bat in Matt Smith's first episode that something is different, because the picture quality and framerate of the episode is way different. I think it shows way more in series 1 that they recorded on video, whereas for all I know series 2-4 recorded on film or another format before series 5 went HD.

I think a consequence of this is that shows today look a lot more saturated, including Doctor Who. Look at Riverdale, Cheryl Blossom in particular - her red hair and cherry red lipstick pop whenever she's on screen.

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PMarth2002 posted...

I haven't watched any of her yet. Any stand-out episodes to check out?

The Woman Who Fell to Earth (her debut), Demons of the Punjab and Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror are all very good.

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anyone who seriously got upset at the lesbian reveal in the TLoU2 reveal is a bitch-made fake fan, since she was shown to be attracted to a girl in the Left Behind DLC of the first game.

Same dumb shit as that moron who ranted about Parasite winning Best Picture. No fucking idea what they're talking about, it's pathetic.

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One last bump

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He's no Hitler, but he's so steeped in avarice and sin that I wouldn't hesitate to call him evil.

The only good thing that I can say about him is that - to my knowledge - he hasn't actively endorsed genocide. At least not from what I've seen.

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kingdrake2 posted...

my belief is that research lab in wuhan started it :(.

They were researching homosexual abortion, and things got out of hand! Repent, all ye blasphemers!

God I hate these evil fundie jerkoffs, and their stupid faith-based scapegoating.

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MachineJaipur posted...

Also imagine being afraid of touching your own anus.

Its yours.

Not anyone else's.

But apparently some people think it's "not manly" or "[modded]" to do that

You've got to be a special kind of close-minded to think touching your own butthole is gay. Like, it's your butthole. You're the one who's touching it. Unless you're thinking of the same sex in a sexually arousing way while you're doing it, or there's someone else sticking their hands in there, touching your butthole to wash it is about as gay as putting your fingers in your mouth to pick food out of your teeth. You wouldn't let another man put his fingers in your mouth, so why isn't it gay when you do it?

If the response is "they do sex stuff there!" - I've got bad news for you pal, you can use mouths to do the exact same thing as a butthole. It's a stupid double standard that only the most insecure of morons would buy into.

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Yep. Wash everything else first, then lather up my hands and get in there. Make sure the last time you touch that soap is before you touch your bare butthole - if you do it right, you'll be clean as a whistle.

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soulunison2 posted...

Wait theres a topic for bad content creators

Is there? I kinda just made this topic after reading some discourse on the woman who eats live animals - while wholly removed from this whole thing, the cruelness of that content reminded me of the most distressing series of videos I've ever seen. If there's a general for this sort of thing, I didn't see it unfortunately.

Something I want to bring up - DaddyOFive had over 700,000 subscribers, he had over 200 videos uploaded in this vein, and he was able to ride trendy keywords like "pranks" and flag the content as comedy for the widest appeal. This content was seen as acceptable by YouTube for years.

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Coronavirus is going to impact the mental health of this generation, and there will be people needing therapy after this is all over just to cope with the supreme fucking overwhelming weirdness of it all.

I think Australian therapists are going to be especially swamped, because on top of the coronavirus stuff, we're still reeling from the bushfires. I woke up one January morning choking on bushfire smoke. I had to sit on the floor in my bathroom just to have some breathable air. I remember seeing streetlights being reflected off of the ambient smoke in my town, and it stretched so far into the sky that I genuinely wondered if the main Street of my town was on fire.

If you're studying to become a therapist, you're gonna want to fast track your course if you want to get in while the getting's good. The mental wellness business is about to get booming.

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Christ, I can hear the 5G antivaxxer microchip crazies screeching about "the emasculation of Western society" from here. This might be the inciting incident that introduces alt-right terminology like "soyboy" into the dumbfuck mainstream conspiracy crowd.

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One of the worst parts of this entire series is the third video, which goes over the sort of fanbase that this channel was cultivating. We're talking comments like "you should torment Cody more, he deserves it" and "Cody's screaming is like music to my ears". There was also a Facebook group that got forcibly shut down, followed by an invite-only group.

A lot of the stuff with Cody is particularly shitty, and as the focal point of these videos he gets a lot of screentime. Considering the disproportionate focus on him in the videos themselves, that's understandable. But I think the part that really made it all real for me is that clip of Emma getting blasted with a super soaker and crying over her drawings getting ruined.

The fact that this evil oaf of a dad instructed Cody to do this for a video, only to start yelling at him like he had no control over what just happened - "disciplining bad behavior", despite actively encouraging it seconds earlier - is the point where his malice really makes itself known. And it's fucking heartbreaking hearing this little girl break down crying over her drawings, saying that she just wanted to do something nice and fun for once and that now it's been ruined.

But God, then there's the slapping bottle flip game, and the footage of the adoption "prank". It's such a fucking harrowing video.

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I think this lockdown is getting to everyone, I've been getting very fucked up lately myself. I can't imagine living in the biggest epicenter of the virus in the world, with a respiratory condition - that shit's scary.

The fact that you can step back, examine your actions and show remorse for actions you're not proud of is a good sign that you're a pretty good dude. Post 3 is like "man it's GameFAQs, you really don't need to apologize", and honestly they're right, but the fact that you did is worth commenting on.

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In the description for the first video, you can see the timeline of the case. The parents in these videos got 5 years probation, and Cody and Emma went back to their birth mother. Apparently she was having drug problems which prevented her from taking her kids back, but when you see what this fuck face subjected them to in these videos, you really have to wonder whether they would have been better off with her the whole time. Or, barring that, why CPS didn't place them with other relatives or with an entirely different family.

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Unknown Nomad posted...

honestly if her run as Doctor was written by Steven Moffat or RTD over Chris Chibnall, it would have been better

One reason I like her so much is because she brings back some of that RTD energy. Chibnall's run has unfortunately been spotty, but I'm still so glad that Moffat isn't behind the wheel any more. He had his high points, but I cannot stand his run on the show.

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https://youtu.be/QOVrrL5KtsM
https://youtu.be/O3_8rc271GI
https://youtu.be/oPcQ0rjejyU

Warning: by virtue of using the original videos, these videos contain examples of child abuse.

This trilogy of videos goes over the entire saga. The host is playing a character, but there's footage and there are receipts.

I thought with the recent talk about the Asian woman who eats animals alive, I'd bring back another heinous YouTube channel who got away with cruelty. DaddyOFive was a "family" channel where a dad would "prank" his kids and turn them against each other. It became clear that he was encouraging an atmosphere of fear and violence for the sake of drama, and he would often target his youngest adopted son Cody.

Cody started to display lingering signs of abuse, like bloody lips and bruises, and in multiple videos where he was tormented for the amusement of his father and exploited for YouTube views, he hits his head with an audible thunk sound. All of this is showcased in the linked videos. He also pulls an adoption prank on him three times, to a kid who's already been adopted at least once.

Basically, if you were abused as a kid or otherwise have really unpleasant childhood memories, this might be a tough watch. There was shit from my childhood I had completely forgotten about, and watching these videos brought back a lot of the negativity and fear I felt as a kid that had long since been buried.

Remember - channels like the live animal girl and this child abuser have cultivated a fanbase on YouTube and stayed undercover for months/years. The larger YouTube gets, and the more automated their systems become, more and more channels like this will slip through the cracks. Channels showcasing incredible cruelty to children and animals have existed on YouTube before, and going forward, it is all the more likely that this same content will continue to appear on the platform. YouTube is fucking horrifying.

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Bumparoo

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Millennials: Tide Pods

Republicans: Direct Injection

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TC looks like Jay Bauman in that second pic.

My corona beard is going poorly. I have a bald spot on my chin, and the hair that does grow is really weedy and unkempt, so that's never going to happen. My moustache also has a ton of blond hairs in it, so it's very thin and seedy-looking.

Honestly, I kinda like how I look now. There's a lot of caveats, but there's no other time more appropriate to grow this shit out and give it a try.

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This is her third year in the job, counting the hiatus year.

Personally, I really like her performance. I really like her energy, and I like that most of her screentime isn't just her gobbing off about how she's the smartest person alive - I think her character exemplifies a love of learning, and one of her favorite things is to put 2 and 2 into someone else's hands and help them along until they can make 4 with it. I would take that any day of the week over another tired "yes, yes, it's bigger on the outside, I know" eyeroll from one of the Moffat Doctors.

Saying that, the show really isn't in peak condition. The worst episodes are Chibnall ones more often than not, and while the good episodes are really good - Demons of the Punjab and Fugitive of the Judoon say hi - the bad ones are some of the worst episodes of the revival - Orphan 55 and Arachnids in the UK say hi.

The show also has an overcrowding issue, with three supporting characters on board the TARDIS - Yaz is criminally underwritten for most of series 11, Ryan gets pushed further and further out of relevancy with every episode, and Graham's reduced to a quip machine half the time. I think Yaz is my favorite because she has the most potential, and most of the time she's paired up with the Doctor and I really vibe with their energy - Graham is good, but a lot of his time is tied to Ryan and I just don't dig how they play off of each other.

I think this issue could have been rectified if the TARDIS crew were allowed to wander off on their own more often. I was rewatching The Empty Child the other day, and the Doctor and Rose have their own separate plots - The Doctor gets to the bottom of the gas mask children, and Rose stumbles into Captain Jack Harkness. Most of the time, the current TARDIS crew don't have a lot to do - it's basically following the Doctor and doing what she needs. There's limited branching, but there's a lot less of each character having an individual plot or an episode focused on what they get up to - Demons of the Punjab being a notable exception, being a more Yaz-centric episode.

Current Who isn't the best it's ever been, but I think Jodie Whittaker is a fantastic Doctor. The best thing about this show, consistently, is her performance. Everything else is a bit rocky, but I really like her Doctor.

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R1masher posted...

Is this the note?

Like I said, I'm adamantly against offing myself. This was a bit of a ramble where I went over some negative emotions I'm going through right now, and just worked some stuff out.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Im not reading all this, but with the first couple sentences it's obvious you gotta stop drinking first and foremost. Nothing else is gonna matter until you do.

Yeah, this entire day has been a wake up call. I'm gonna try going cold turkey, alcohol is off limits going forward.

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Is this Permanently Ruined?

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So you don't get to be a saint, martyrs never last this long
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