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Yung Dramps
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For some reason, this image fills me with inarticulable dread.
Bro, this is so weird. But like, I am a hypcrite since I love heavy metal music and more classical music so idk, brains are weird.
Yung Dramps
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dbs broly and beavis and butthead in the proximity of clint eastwood and saving private ryan is literally just this
tangentially related but broly and into the spiderverse releasing on the exact same day is an absolutely insane factoid not enough people talk about
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Over the last few years, whenever I encounter toxic people, I always wonder about their upbringing
Like I had a boss who called me the n-word (I am not even black and neither was he) after I delivered documents to him with paper clips that were too small for his liking. What was this man's origin story, I really wonder
Like I had a boss who called me the n-word (I am not even black and neither was he) after I delivered documents to him with paper clips that were too small for his liking. What was this man's origin story, I really wonder
The paper clips being too small is crazy. Some people just really want an excuse to spew hate, I guess.
probably bad parenting. like 60% of villains in real life are a result of bad parenting. im willing to bet that it is at least 95% for bigotry.
I'd say it's more like 90-95% of all villains. You'd never hear of a serial killer without some kind of parental issues. Abuse is one factor, but circumstances that normalize violence or isolated or spoiled environments are notable to
That said, I wonder what these circumstances were like to have made a villain. I think I started asking these questions when I first saw The Sopranos. The most interesting aspect of this show to me is how Tony's development (or rather regression) as a human is determined by his parents, and how, despite Tony being in his late 30s by the start of the show and having a family of himself, is most influenced by his mother. Made me reflect on myself and how my parents have determined my idendity
Like Yandev. Guy's fucking awful, pure poison in human form. Where did this poison come from? There had to be something wrong in his upbringing, but what specifically?
Well, its definetely the normalisation of this abuse makes people think that being toxic is a part of normal life and is just somebody caring about you, when in reality it isn't healthy at all. Children base their attitudes a lot around those around them and you can see this clearly when somebody points out how somebody sounds like one of their parents, they are subconciously doing the same thing that there parents are doing since they have been imprinted on as children. I know that my awful jokes are representive of the fact that my father makes the same awful jokes (and also my anger issues that rarely pop up, though I have tempered it down a lot since I realise that is no way to treat people and acting like my father does only pushes people away) and others also have similar things. When adults are being toxic, they believe that it is normal behaviour and thus become what their parents are.
There are other things that can shape a person into a bad person, such as personal tradegies/experiences and other close relationships (mainly friends or role models) acting as bad influences, so it isn't a black and white scenario, lots of things can influence somebody to become a bad person and even if there are all the above things, a person can turn into a wonderful human being.
This of course, does not excuse anybody from acting this toxic way. As I like to say, "That's a reason, not an excuse, to be an awful person".
I think that's describing it well
I'd say that there's a decision for everyone who's gone through trauma between "I want to make the world feel the same as I felt" and "I don't want anyone in the world to feel as I felt". The uglier sides of my upbringing have thaught me a lot, despite the damage it has done unto me
I think cultures play a role here too. Some cultures are more inclined towards normalizing violence and other depravities than others. My parents are from the balkans and I think the toxicity that is prevalent among balkan cultures has affected the home life too. That isn't to say that any culture is perfect, every one of them has certain issues, but if we deny these issues, we'll never address them and never get better. Additionally, circumstances of oppression or exclusion warp cultures to be more inclined towards these toxic cycles. This is also something The Sopranos has shown (go and watch Sopranos now, you won't regret it)
I've never really listened to rap music (VideoGame OSTs reign supreme anyway) aside from Kanye West this past year, but I can foresee that Drake is more trapped than a RB primeape trapped in Lorelei's room with only Rage. His meat reveal earlier in 2024 should've been a sign he's lost it.
With this controversy, Drake will lose more than fans, he'll lose brand deals as well. Even more, he's likely to be dumped by Disney and WBD so he cannot show up on any media!
Ice Spice's music honestly stinks but I'd be lying if I wouldn't admit that she's so unbelievably, unfathomably bad
I scroll my social media, I see her, I cannot withhold myself from jumping up, floating midair, having my eyes become heart shaped and popping out of skull and screaming awooga to the heavens
I scroll my social media, I see her, I cannot withhold myself from jumping up, floating midair, having my eyes become heart shaped and popping out of skull and screaming awooga to the heavens
i know nothing about darling in the franx, so can someone who has seen it tell me what the heck happened to zero 1 in as confusing of an answer as possible
yeah so in the last 5 episodes of the show it was revealed the big blue guys that they've been fighting for the past 20 episodes weren't actually the bad guys (no buildup to this reveal whatsoever) and that the real bad guys were aliens and zero two is a clone of zero one and then zero one just fucking dies because she served her purpose as zero two's "backstory" and a bigass plot device to set up a really boring final fight. honestly i fucking hate darling in the franxx because despite being made by former members of the team behind evangelion it had absolutely no idea what made the twists in evangelion good (it was the fact shinji is a believable characterization of a 14 year old with parental issues) while only barely tuning down the voyeuristic sexual exploitation of teenagers. fucking terrible show. i wish it was never made.
Studio Trigger is just awful at writing. I didn't finish Darling in the Franxx, I finished BNA and it was... Really dumb
You'd immediately compare it to Zootopia and Beastars. Zootopia had the same message and conveyed it 10 times better. Beastars also had the same message and conveyed it 1000 times better
It's no wonder that Trigger releases something, it's popular for a few months because of the animation and the soundtrack, and then vanishes into obscurity. Ten years ago, Kill la Kill was soooo huge, no one talks about it anymore, because it has no lasting effect. Compare that to Eva, it's a well-known meme that every modern video essay has to mention NGE at least ones, because its subversions, deconstruction and innovation are everlasting
The best Trigger project, that I genuinely adore, is Cyberpunk Edgerunners, because Trigger did the visuals and the writing was done by competent writers. I think Trigger should continue like this. They are amazing animators but awful writers
I'm fascinated by the selection of vinyl records and CDs at my local Barnes & Noble. Do people really buy these? I can't imagine that they're popular enough to justify the cost for the store. Nobody goes to a Barnes & Noble for music.