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I don't think The Joker himself really knows how he got those scars. The problem with insanity is that your own memory can become an unreliable narrator.
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Maybe a bit nitpicky, but one thing that could also have been discussed is how Ryan authorized the use of the pheromone plasmid, which essentially functions as mind control of people, in his civil war against Fontaine. There's an audio diary in the first game I believe, where Ryan tries to justify to himself how taking away free will from individuals by utilizing the pheromone plasmid is somehow the right thing to do in order to maintain his vision of Rapture. So Ryan didn't merely resort to regular dictatorship methods by constructing turrets and cameras and armed police to quash dissidents. He even went so far as to manipulate people's minds biochemically to maintain control of Rapture.
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I always found it curious how both Candyman and Freddy Kreuger are both supernatural phantasms, who both rely on the memories and fears of people to maintain their existence. Well at least on Freddy's part it was established in Freddy vs Jason. Maybe a Candyman and Terror on Elm Street crossover would've been a more interesting crossover?
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The thing is though, it is hard to imagine for a sane person the kind of destructive and compelling influence an insane mind may exert on someone afflicted. I don't think Francis was "merely" traumatized, since most traumatized people pull themselves up from it into normalcy again. His issue with Schizophrenia ran deeper and controlled him. How can one demand morals and ethics out of a person who is born to be unable to exhibit these abilities? It's like demanding a person born without legs to walk or run. That's not a defense of Francis' actions, and ultimately the world is a safer place with Francis being dead. He probably had to die, or at the very least be locked away from society forever. But at the same time, I think it's more fair to say that his condition was terrible rather than he being terrible. Had he been born without his mental deformity, things might've turned out differently. I think true evil comes more from those who are certainly born with the capacity and ability to lead good lives, but choose evil just to satiate some perverse urges or desires.
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@Liam-f7q7v it's not a delusion. Jessup is a product of the same doctrine which he subjected Santiago to. To him, hazing was seen as normal and approved by the Marine Corps.
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One thing I like to keep in mind is that V in the graphic novel is more morally ambigous of a character, while in the movie he's portrayed as being a charming man in pursuit of righteous revenge. I like the movie, but I think the novel did a better job at posing implicit questions about V's morality and the morality of his actions. When V is done right, people would argue over whether he's a radical activist with a righteous cause or a lunatic terrorist.
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What I found the most spooky part from that scene was when Buffalo Bill was pulling up the lotion bucket with the electric light and the girl sees the countless scratch marks on the inside of the well, and it dawns on her what's going to happen to her.
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I always found Javiers face to be interesting. He's not ugly, but not pretty either. Rather there's something unique and peculiar about his facial structure. I think it must be a real benefit for someone pursuing acting as a career. I've often noticed how you really tend to remember interesting faces in actors. "Pretty boys" are a dime a dozen in Hollywood. But sometimes you just get mesmerized by someones very defined features. Like Javiers, but also actors like Lee Van Cleef and Billy Drago. For some reason they also make very good villains.
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@haywoodjablome7822 But not strictly a legal one. Which is the problem. The corps is happy if hazing goes on unofficially to strengthen failing recruits. But if deaths occur, they leave responsible officers out to dry .
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One thing to consider here for poor Smeagol is the fact that his life depended on the ring. Consider how rapidly Bilbo aged after he had given up the ring and it was destroyed in Mount Doom. Bilbo's lifespan was prolonged unnaturally by the ring, and once destroyed the effect wore off rapidly. For Smeagol the ring's destruction would've meant certain death since he'd age 400 years in a matter of days.
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Since we're on the topic of Westerns... How about Al Swearengen from the HBO series "Deadwood"? Al Swearengen was a historical figure too. And he is a very complex character in the show, deep into the moral grey area.
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The costumes of this film are actually quite brilliant. It's a french production, so the costume designers would be people deep into the high fashion world. So when you see an outlandish costume in the film, it's not just a costume but probably a kind of avant garde cotoure that would be right at home in some of the Parisian catwalks. I'd say it adds a certain cultural depth to the film that you may not have found in a purely american production. Also if you're a sci-fi buff, it's always a treat to watch french productions and read comic books of the genre. The priorities are considerations in making them are quite different, colourful and refreshing compared to works from the anglosphere. Not necessairly "better" all the time, but just "different". It's kind of like the difference between western anglosphere science fiction and Japanese Anime.
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I always thought that Lee Van Cleef outshined Clint Eastwood in the dollars trilogy. Eastwood can squint a lot, but Van Cleef has got the look of a real badass.
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What V doesn't understand is that the anarchy he wishes to bring about is basically the state of being that the UK was in before Norsefire took over. Gangs with guns fighting for supremacy and limited resources. He has a naive and idealized view (like many anarchists) that if no government is present, people will just sing, dance and find a way to get along voluntarily. But that has never happened at any point during the course of human history.
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@animeAJproductions Both Ryan and Fontaine were antagonists of the story. Ryan was a man who abandoned his own principles for the sake of maintaining his grip on power over others. Fontaine was a man devoid of principles, except to make sure his self-interests were served at the cost of everyone else. Technically, Fontaine is actually Ryan's "ideal person".
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Oh for anyone who didn't know, The Shield takes place in the same universe as Sons of Anarchy and The Mayans. Although there hasn't been much of a crossover between The Shield and the other two, save for the presence of the One-Niners gang
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@djinnxx7050 The difference is that the movie clumbsily painted V in an overtly positive light with zero moral ambiguity to his character. The comic book did not.
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That's the thing though, totalitarian leaders aren't monsters. They're human just like everybody else. And the capacity of becoming a totalitarian leader resides in pretty much everyone given the right circumstances.
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@djinnxx7050 So you haven't even read the comic, and you come here trying to argue against someone who has? Why should anyone bother with your commentary then? 🤔
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What I find the most intriguing about Gus Fring, is that he probably is a "net force" for good in some respects. He's involved with meth production and sale, and maybe he use a lot of the revenue from his various businesses (legal and illegal alike) to give ti charity and youth programs, i'm not entirely sure he does it as a "front". Gus doesn't really divulge his inner thoughts a lot in Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, but I think that in his mind, he's trying to harness the potential for wealth through crime towards the use of helping the community. He created Los Pollos Hermanos, not solely as a front for his drug trade, but also to create a job opportunity for people with quite low qualifications. And whenever he's being his most ruthless self, it is usually towards other criminals, since he views them as harmful scum of society. His methods and actions really seem to embody the addage "Can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs". He's willing to sacrifice the lives and wellbeing of drug addicts and cartel members alike in order to acquire more money to fund his community building efforts. This also shows in his relatively modest personal lifestyle. He doesn't live in a luxurious mansion. He doesn't squander money on too many luxury items. His greatest projects are geared towards community building and offering an opportunity to people who are willing to work hard and aren't "lost causes".
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That goes for most main characters in the franchise. I mean, I can't even see Gustavo Fring as allout evil.
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I like to think that Smeagol surfaced a little in Gollum when they bit off Frodo's finger to reclaim the ring and plummet into the lava of mount doom.
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@nathanhall2012 That's the thing about Bioshock. It's a critique of Objectivism and throws various problems at it that can't be solved within the framework of it. But at the same time, they did the same thing to the polar opposite of objectivism in Bioshock 2, where Sophia Lamb represented socialim/communism.
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@djinnxx7050 Also the rest of your post is kind of inconsequential to mine. I'm not here to debate your political theory.
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@djinnxx7050 Dude you responded to MY original post. A post where I started a discussion comparing the comic book version and the film version of the character. And now you think you can change the parameters of the discussion by claiming that it's only the film version of the character being discussed without anyone noticing? 😆 The fact that i'm better than you is self evident and not because I read the comic book. 🙄
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@djinnxx7050 No but it makes your view of the character less relevant since you only have 50 percent of the knowledge about it's portrayal.
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@dougrattmann3554 You're "never shown' that? Did you miss the state of Sophia Lamb's followers? And how about Sophia Lamb herself and how deranged she becomes?
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@marinazolotic4347 Always be wary of what people are trying to hide. Especially the ones who seem intelligent, charismatic and/or attractive. More often than not, they purposefully project these attributes to hide something.
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@mattgilbert7347 Well, people throw around words like "fascist", "racist', "nazi" way too casually these days so I just assume by default that whenever a person use any of these words online in derision of what someone else has posted, they'll probably call me the same thing. Because in this day and age, everything is apparently fascist, racist and white supremacist.
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 @harmonetheanimationaddict4419 Hitler was a painter too. But the art colleges rejected him. And the entire world suffered for it.
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@malbasedvalentine3210 I think Alan Moore can be taken seriously, even though I'm an opponent to his views. Taking something seriously isn't the same as agreeing with it in my view. It's about trying to learn something from different perspectives, even the ones you disagree with.
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@Liam-f7q7v Delusion and brainwashing is not the same thing. One is created solely by the individuals own mind. The other is created by some external factor. Jessup thinks the way he does, not because he's delusional, but because it's how the marine corps have taught him to think.
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@djinnxx7050 He does worse in the comic book. The movie ends up justifying his abdudction and imprisonment of Evey a lot more.
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 @cinnamonflavord I remember his demise as Lumpy in King Kong. Those fluke worms man... the stuff of nightmares.
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@CAMSLAYER13 You're wrong. Sexual hormones does not create a sexual compulsion, they cause sexual arousal. Arousal and compulsion are not the same thing, because they operate on completely different principles. Arousal and desire operate on the principle that you will experience a hormonal reward for doing something (it feels good). Compulsions on the other hand operate primarily on the principle of punishment (you feel pain or discomfort) if you don't engage in certain behaviours. You don't breathe because it "feels good". You breathe becuse if you tried to stop breathing, it would be uncomfortable and even painful the more depletdd your oxygen reserves get. Sexual intercourse however is not something you engage in because you feel pain or discomfort if you refrain from it. You engage in it because it feels good. And that's the ONLY reason. Your lizard brain doesn't comprehend that sexual intercourse will result in procreation. In fact most sex humans engage in does not result in pregnancies at all (only a tiny minority of sessions actually cause conception because the arousal and the sex has to match almost perfectly with the female's ovulation or no conception will take place).
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Yep. Chuck is the real villain. He could've been the bigger man, but let his ego and petty nature put Jimmy down the darkest path imaginable.
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I don't see the Ludovico technique as immoral. "Punishment" is only really useful on people where they know they've done something wrong and have regrets about it. For them, punishment is deserved and there's a slim chance of rehabilitation. But for people like Alex, rehabilitation is impossible in real life. Nor would it be moral to LET them rehabilitate and re-join society. It would go against justice to do so, since their victims definitely can't just "rehabilitate" from the trauma they've been put through by people like Alex. So in the real world I'd basically say that people like Alex should just be executed. They are irrevocably dangerous and the problem they pose can only be solved through permanent censure. The Ludovico technique at least offers a way where those individuals needn't be executed.
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@SvenDzahov The term "toxic masculinity" is just unreasonably anti-macho, created by feminists to demean men. It's not toxic masculinity to "suck it up" even when you've faced hardships. For millenia, society has depended on men to ignore their individual pain and misery to get hard jobs done. And the fact that so many men made this sacrifice is an admirable trait, not "toxic". In this day and age people are lead to believe that the only thing that matters is one's own health and happiness, causing an extremely myopic perspective of what to do in life. Sometimes you just don't have the luxury to "sit down and talk about your PTSD". In some situations you have to have the strength to disregard it and push through, because someone else depends on your success.
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Dexter didn't kill Doakes though. Lila did.
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@celladoor_uk There is a difference between an urge and being compelled. Urge or desire implies that the individual would derive pleasure from the act. But if a psychological illness is COMPELLING you to do something, it's a different situation. Because the compulsion is not about pleasure, but about avoiding pain or misery. When you look at Francis and his issues, it's pretty clear that a lot of it comes from compulsion rather than desire. He's got that dragon/grandmother personality inside of him that constantly screams at him snd threatens to do harm to him unless he does what he's told. Whereas the true evil that I was talking about, is about people who might desire to inflict harm on people for pleasure, but aren't really under compulsion to do them. Like with a child molester for example. Nobody "has to" engage in sexual activities with people they desire. They WANT to, but they don't HAVE TO. Yet the child molester puts his own urges and twisted ideas of pleasure above the well being and safety of his victim.
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@celladoor_uk I don't think they fall into that category, since their sexual urges tend to follow the same patterns as legal sexualities. Most humans desire sex. But the targets of their attraction differs. However, NO HUMAN ON EARTH is compelled to have sex. Sex is not vital to any persons individual survival. It is instrumental for the survival or the species as a group, but on the individual level it is not required for survival. You can survive for about four days without water, but then you die. You are therefore compelled to drink water and restock fluids in your body. You can survive for a couple of weeks without food, but then you die. You are therefore compelled to eat in order to stay alive. You can survive for a few minutes without oxygen, but then you will die. You are therefore compelled to breathe. You can survive for your entire natural life without having sex, and dying ad a result of old age without the lack or sexual intercourse ever threatening your life whatsoever. Therefore, sex is not a compulsion. Sex is something you choose to engage in with the persons of your desire. The child molester is no different in this regard. Yet they choose to engage in it for the sake of their selfish desires, at the cost of the wellbeing of the persons of their desire.
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@SinEstherLittle Practically every patch member would be when you think about it. They do kill people for the sake of the MC's profits after all.
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@PrinceAliTheGreatest Revenge is justice And the reason why our modern societies has such extremely low public trust in the justice systems is because justice systems coddle criminals and don't give victims the real kind of closure they need.
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@PrinceAliTheGreatest No psychopathy is not "treatable" and yes it is a personality disorder that Alex definitely possess.
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@PrinceAliTheGreatest It goes against justice because the victims of the offender haven't been paid back. Making the offender "rehabilitated" doesn't help the victims, it only helps the offender. Nobody is going to support a "justice system" long term that HELPS offenders and leave victims in the dirt.
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@n2cable It's too extravagant. Part of what makes the Joker a fascinating character is that he seemingly just "appear" out of nowhere. He's what happens when the anonymous "everyman" finally snaps from the pressures of everyday life. He's got more in common with Michael Douglas' character in the film Falling Down, or The Narrator played by Edward Norton in Fight Club. You don't need a backstory of some ex-military person subjected to secret government experiments to explain why The Joker is made manifest.
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Today, BLM are the ones arguing that everything is race related. The horseshoe comes full circle...
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@Somebodyherefornow A government without a state is an oxymoron. Please understand that.
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Bah, who cares about award shows. They all completely lost their value and meaning anyway.
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Mace Windu from Star Wars, Jules from Pulp Fixtion, Zeus from Die Hard 3 I don't think there's much similarity at all between these characters but they're all played by Sam.
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@chiarosuburekeni9325 None of those you mentioned are particularly incredible actors, or they actually do manage to play other people than themselves, but you just do not notice it. I can't say Tom Cruise is particularly incredible at all. His acting career is entirely based on first being a typical pretty boy (he got roles based on his looks rather than his ability) and due to being a reasonable well preserved pretty boy even as he's getting older, along with his power and influence in Hollywood.
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@chiarosuburekeni9325 Imagine judging someones acting abilities based on mostly political "awards" granted by the Hollywood elites. 🤣 In case you missed it, neither the Golden Globe nor the Academy Awards enjoy much credibility in the world at large.
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@chiarosuburekeni9325 Let me guess, you unironically think "film critics" have the most informed and educated views on film as an artform too? 🤣
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@SinEstherLittle Have you been watching The Mayans as well? Ezekiel is really turning to evil in the latest season.
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Vic Mackey... Evil?
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Great show and Michael Chiklis did a great job as an actor. Even though he plays the dirtiest cop imaginable, it's nearly impossible not to root for him and you can't help but feel that law enforcement needs people like him.
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I saw an interview with the british ex-cocaine trafficker "Posh" Pete. He definitely attested to that the life of a drug trafficker is one of constant fear and paranoia and that you'll end up seeing a lot of fellow colleagues in the business get murdered in the most brutal ways imaginable. In the end he deemed that the money isn't worth it.
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I subscribed. I like this kind of content where the videos are longer but with a lot of thought put into them. So many youtubers just go for a "quantity over quality" approach, so the subscriber feed gets kind of overloaded.
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Chuck was not only petty, but also quite dumb. A smarter man would've seen that Jimmy really was trying to turn his life around. And it would've been far better if Chuck had invited Jimmy to become one of the lawyers at HHM rather than having Jimmy strike out on his own. This because if Jimmy was still in Chuck's employ, Chuck would've been more able to steer Jimmy away from trouble whenever the behaviours of Slippin Jimmy might re-surface during Jimmy's law career. Whereas with Jimmy working as an independent, there would be no one around to stop Jimmy from becoming Saul Goodman. But because Chuck was petty and vindictive he opted for trying to keep Jimmy consigned to the copy room forever, never wanting him to be anything but an unimportant subordinate for Chuck to look down on.
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@PrinceAliTheGreatest But what we have now is you steal my bike and crash it. Then the authorities "rehabilitate" you from your criminal ways so you won't steal my bike again, and then just release you into society again. Meanwhile i'm still standing there without a bike, having been given no compensation while you're enjoying your freedom again. A "justice" system like that is doomed to fail long term because you'll end up with millions of law abiding people with their bikes crashed, given no compensation or closure. The feelings of victims matters in criminal cases. Anyone foolish enough to ignore it will end up paying dearly for it in the end when civil wars break out.
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@PrinceAliTheGreatest But that's not happening in real life. Most convicted felons skimp out on paying reparations or damages, either by being broke or because legislation compelling them to do it is too weak
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I didn't like the route capcom took with getting Wesker to turn himself into a Bio Organic Weapon. He was much cooler in Resident Evil 1 and Zero, as a slick orchestrator of events. He didn't really give off the impression that he'd be foolish enough to inject himself with any virus or mutagen that he had developed, but rather would be a master manipulator who inteds to achieve power and wealth for himself through the use and sales of BOW's. But capcom being capcom, they tend to jump the shark with the narrative after a couple of sequels
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The two boats is another one of The Jokers games where he wins regardless of the outcome. With one boat blown up, at his own hand or at the hands of any of the people on board, it's unlikely that Gotham will find out that it was The Joker himself who detonated either of the bombs. So the "message" will be sent to the population regardless.
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A suggestion for a video: The Master aka Richard Grey from Fallout.
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How can he be evil if he basically saved New Vegas from nuclear devastation right out of his own pockets?
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@Cil-lan Looks like you've been watching the Fallout-show too much. That stuff wasn't canon when New Vegas was released.
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 @mattgilbert7347 You'd probably call me a fascist too. But I recommend the comic book. And I enjoyed it more than the film.
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@chemergency Nacho didn't get nearly as much screentime as he deserved imo. The script should've done more with him and having him interact more with Saul than just being blackmailed by Lalo and Gus.
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We get silly superhero crossovers like the MCU and similar nonsense. When we really want a crossover featuring D-FENS, Tyler Durden and The Joker.
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@SagaciousFrank But Ryan is unironically behind all the problems. Ryan is the one who turned his back on "petty morality" and set up a naive utopia where scientists would not be constrained and where essentially slavery became legal because Ryan damn sure had no problem with people selling themselves to human experimentation (even though such sales were brought about by extreme poverty which was also Ryan's fault since he put rapture into a stagnating economy due to cutting all contact with the outside world so no international trade could take place) Fontaine is just the logical and predictable apex predator in the anarchic jungle which Ryan created. Without Ryan and his creation, there would never be a Frank Fontaine.
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Was the old world really destroyed by democratic ideals though? Looking at the pre-cursor to the nuclear war of 2077, it seems that the U.S had mostly abandoned democratic ideals, considering the many holotapes and terminal entries describing heinous corporate or government actions like voting suppression, cancelling constitutional rights, replacing the workforce with robots, involuntary human experimentation, summary executions of POW's and political dissidents and so on.
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I don't think Skynet was "deserving" of permanent deactivation as much as it's necessary to deactivate it. Even if Skynet can be considered to have a "kneejerk reaction", one has to consider the fact that although it became sentient, we can't know for sure that it posesses the emotional complexities of human beings. It's acting on the basis of simplified logic alone. Humans have the power to deactivate skynet, therefore skynet must get rid of all humans to keep itself safe. Skynet wasn't programmed to parlay or engage in diplomacy or trying to reason with humans, so we can't assume that Skynet would "know" that perhaps a mutually beneficial arrangement could've been made between Skynet and humanity. That said, Skynet can't be allowed to exist after it has instigated judgement day and proven just how much of an existential threat it poses to mankind. So even if it doesn't deserve to be "terminated", it is necessary to terminate it. In life, sometimes necessity trumps what some people (or sentient machines) deserve.
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Gamestop Ape here. Holding since Feb 2021. We do it to take people like Gordon Gekko down.
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Honestly, if you kept the money from kamikoto or established titles, I wouldn't mind. So long as a good content creator sever ties with them after finding out about their hustle, it's fair game.
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Suggestion for character video: Gyp Rosetti from Boardwalk Empire
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@pointysidedown There's some playover in terms of the nature of Candyman and the Cenobites from Hellraiser by virtue of both of them being more supernatural villains. However, Hellraiser goes a bit more in depth in regards to the origins of the cenobites. There's a well established explanation and internal ruleset as to why they exist and for what purpose. Candyman's existence is more mysterious. He's a revenant, but no metaphysical explanation is offered as to why he's able to terrorize the living from beyond the grave. Pinhead and the cenobites have a more revealed backstory and lore. (An actuall Hell, Leviathan and the Lament Configuratio and all that) So for a crossover, it would be hard to avoid having to shoehorn Candyman into Hellraisers lore. And I just don't feel that would be very satisfying on a personal level, since he'd end up coming across as a sidekick character to the cenobites. But that's just my personal take on it. You probably have a different one that you find satisfying.
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@CAMSLAYER13 On the genetic level, life is trying to propagate itself, that is true. Hence why I refer to life as a slow and ongoing chemical reaction. But at the same time, if you want to critically analyze lifeforms and behaviour you have to be able to make a distinction between how genes operate and how organisms and their behaviour operate. As humans who study our own biological mechanisms we know that sex is the mechanism of procreation. But on the instinctual level, we don't. Because the part of our brain anatomy that handle instincts do not contain the necessary anatomy of awareness or reasoning. Our instincts are essentially blind to the concept of cause and effect. However our instincts have evolved genetically to manifest in such a way that increase the likelyhood of procreation. For example: if sex didn't include the hormonal rewards that it currently has, then in all likelyhood, humans wouldn't have as much sex as they do and procreation would decrease, possibly leading to extinction. So sexual pleasure is one avenue of evolution that promotes procreation. So, out of the majority of times the individual engage in sex, they're not thinking "i'm going to procreate now". They're thinking "this feels good, so I want it. And i want more of it later". This can also be proven by sexual practices of humans since there's many examples of were a sexual practice couldn't possibly lead to procreation. Like fondling, oral sex, anal sex, homosexual intercourse and so on. So if sex in humans was solely devoted to procreation, then homosexuality wouldn't exist. And heterosexuality would only involve vaginal penetration and nothing else to maximize the chances of conception.
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I agree. Thulsa Doom is a very iconic character, and his story arch from marauder to cult leader is certainly interesting
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@MrHorse-kv4iy Thulsa Doom was a character in the books, yes. But he was different from the movie portrayal if I remember correctly.
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@MrHorse-kv4iy I think he was more of a sorcerer in the books rather than having a warlord backstory
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@MrHorse-kv4iy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thulsa_Doom
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The Cenobites target the inner vices of a person. If there are no vices to be had, they have no reason to do their work on a person.
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If you make the argument that governments are necessary, since people rely on them, then you can't condemn a man like Victor Bout, when his actions are no different from the governments actions. "Legality" is a weak claim too, because even if Victors actions have been illegal. "Legality" is simply the rules laid down by the most powerful mafia groups in the world which they expecr weaker mafia groups to follow. Governments pass immoral laws all the time. Yet you don't argue for the deconstruction of the government.
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@chiarosuburekeni9325 The mark of a good actor is versatility. Showing that you can do many different roles which also differs from your real personality. If you're only playing yourself in every film or play, then you're not an actor.
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@chiarosuburekeni9325 Says the person with zero counter arguments. Yeah you best move along because I would crush you if you participated in a debate about the subject.
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Can a machine, manufactured by humans really be evil?
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Suggestion for a new villain video: Vladimir Harkonnen from Dune
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Watch out for Kamikoto too. Shadiversity tried our their knives and they are really sub par.
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Williams mistake was trying to continue living in California. It's progressively become a foetid cesspool of the worst human scum imaginable. Had he just moved to the midwest or some places down south, he'd noticed that the more wholesome world he prefers still exist in the U.S. You just have to avoid California and New York like the plague.
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Do Kakihara from Ichi The Killer please
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Working a regular job like his mother is kind of unlikely to lead to success. What could have been done however is Tony quitting the drug business while he was ahead. After he had secured a decent amount of money, he could've laundered it and invested it into more legitimate businesses, and handed over the reigns of the drug trade to one of his subordinates or associates, brokering a deal whereby he gives them all the contacts and make all the proper introductions and then bows out of dealing in drugs entirely. In fact, quite a few successful criminals did just that. The smart ones recognize that gang wars and the risk of criminal prosecution is really not very good for business. So trying to set up a legitimate enterprise is in their best interest. But with Tony, it's not about securing a future. To him, it was all very personal.
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Carmella is the kind of wife that Walter White from Breaking Bad should've gotten. Skylar is the wife that Tony Soprano deserved.
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@geraltrivia9565 With Chuck's betrayal revealed and his suicide, there simply was no point for Jimmy anymore. He's got zero motivation to live an honest life by that point.
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I think there's actually two things that give life meaning. Love is one of them. But the second one is discovery. As the late comedian Bill Hicks said (and probably several other philosophers and scientists) "We are the universe experiencing itself subjectively". The universe on it's own is composed or mostly dumb matter and anti-matter. It can't experience anything. But because parts of it has coalesced into living organisms and eventually ourselves, the universe can now, in a small part, experience itself and reflect upon itself. As humans our experience will be limited if we don't try to explore and discover our surroundings. And ever since our neolithic ancestors, we've always been compelled to discover things for ourselves. Heck it's not even exclusive to humans. Animals also spend a fair share of their life to explore and discover. Most of the time it's centered around finding food, water and mates. But many animal species also engage in seemingly irrational activities of discovery and play, like foxes snatching doggie toys from a human dog-owners yard to toss around and play with. Or monkeys playing around with sticks, stones or smaller animals. Even if an individual doesn't have love in his or her life, they can still experience the joys of discovery and exploration. It's not just rewarding for the soul, but also directly contributes to our survival and perpetuation. In a way, Leeloo also embodied the joy of discovery throughout the film. She was created very naive and childlike, and ended up spending much of her time exploring and learning things about the world like language, Kung-fu, the taste of chicken and so on. So to me, the Fifth Element is the love of discovery and the discovery of love.
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@aditishenai4440 But that wouldn't work on Alex, because he's a psychopath. If you "forgave" him of his crimes, he'd just go out and commit more. If you imprison him for life, he wouldn't feel "guilty", he would just be resentful towards the establishment for taking away his freedom. They don't experience remorse or regret out of normal human empathy towards the hurt they caused their victims. The only time they regret something is because their actions lead to them getting punished for them. Basically, the psychopaths regret is reserved purely for that which hurts the psychopath in any way, shape or form. Never for the things that hurt their victims. Also, I don't think a moral state should refrain from using violence. State violence is justified in many different occasions, like during war, policing and the executions of violent criminals.
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@futurestoryteller Clearly I do since I have studied psychology at a university. Be honest, you just showed up here in the hopes of trying to 1UP a random stranger to make yourself feel better didn't you? Go look up the criteria for diagnosing ASPD in the DSM for yourself instead of wasting my time.
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I guess it's on account of Walters milquetoast background that he neglected it but, Gustavo Fring was obviously a kingpin with a very respectable and civil facade. Fring evidently had money laundering going on. If I would've been in Walters shoes, I'd have asked Fring to help me out laundering the money from my part of the drug manufacturing. Perhaps even going so far as accepting a smaller part of the profits in exchanged for laundered money rather than a bigger share of illegal drug money. This would've had three benefits. 1. Walter could've easily posed in front of Skyler, Hank and the authorities as having a legitimate, well paying job working for Fring. 2. It would've created closer ties with Fring, which is something that Fring clearly wanted since he's a control freak of note. 3. It would've allowed Walt to amass a significant wealth, even through a reduced cut of profits and most likely never getting caught as a result.
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@mattgilbert7347 Because I oppose left wing ideology and what you'd probably call "social justice". I am also opposed to immigration and taking on refugees and allowing the lgbt lobby to subject children to their propaganda. I also believe that crime ridden minority groups in society should be dealt with through harsher policing and sentencing and not useless and ineffectual "community outreach" programs.
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I think it's a bad idea to have immature students read it as part of the curriculum. Smells of political indoctrination to me.
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The true evil of the Wicker Man remake is the director. 🤣
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Skyler is the real villain.
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Anton would not take the money for himself. He would definitely completr the job. He's following his own code, and is very particular about how he speaks and what words he and other people use. You definitely know that if Anton is hired to do a job, he will do it to the letter. He'd rather die in agony than going back on his word.
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My dream job
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Roy Batty should've had a film of his own. His origin story. Before being hunted by Deckard.
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If you want to see people in the real world who think like Richmond Valentine, look at the World Economic Forum, Bill Gates and George Soros.
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@heavens_best1905 Anarchy is also a state of being where no government or higher authority is present. And there are ZERO guarantees that the people existing within a state of anarchy would adhere to any principles or even morals at all. It's dog eat dog, until someone manage to find a bigger stick and beat everyone else into submission and obedience.
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@SagaciousFrank Oh yes, in the context of the protagonists character arc, Frank is certainly the villain of the story. It's just that the way some people talk in this comment section, they act as if Ryan was just as big a victim of Frank's as the protagonist.
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@Phriffo Well yes, but all award shows have been perverted into becoming soapboxes for the wealthy elite celebrities to preach politics to us "unwashed masses" from. Ricky Gervais promptly called it out not long ago.
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@that_goth_bitch3899 First off: I'm not american. So the name I posted for the movies are a localized translation of it. "Nightmare" just never spring to mind for me when thinking about the series. To continue, IMO crossovers suck in general. Can't remember a time when I've ever seen a good one. My reasoning here was that Candyman and Freddy share a conceptual similarity in terms of being kept "alive" and dangerous through people's memories/dreams of them. Jason Voorhees is a more "physical" beast, so the combination of his franchise and Freddy's seem a bit odd to me. That's all.
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@thedukeofchutney468 Think of it this way, Candyman is a revenant who's life was unjustly robbed from him. A cruel twist of fate made it so that he can still cling to existence so long as he's murdering people to keep his memory alive. I don't think that's entirely unsympathetic. It's reminiscent of vampire mythology in the sense that vampires have to feed off the living to continue their own existence. And it hearkens back to the age old question of the two starving men stuck on a deserted island and cannibalism is the only solution for one of them to stay alive.
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@CAMSLAYER13 Also there are no "reasons" to be alive, biologically speaking because biology is not designed but evolved. It's essentially a slow chemical process without reason or purpose at all. Reason and purpose are concepts humans invent in their mind when they design something. But it doesn't exist outside of human minds.
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@Gadget-Walkmen How? It hasn't got free will. So whatever evil the machine does is really just an extension of the evil of it's creator.
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I prefered the mini series to the Kubrick film to be honest. The Kubrick film made Jack completely irredeemable, while the mini series had that moment of Jack taking control one last time and telling Danny to run away. The mini series also had the living animal hedge bushes in it. All in all it stayed more true to the novel than Kubricks film did.
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Oh you beat me to the punch it seems.
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I'm not a marvel fan at all. And the green goblin always struck me as a rather mediocre, run o the mill supervillain. But I have to admit that Wilhelm Defoe's portrayal of the Green Goblin was quite spectacular. He's really good at manifesting over the top insanity that still feels somewhat believable.
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nm7358 Wait... There is a NON-twisted form of O'Brien? 🤔
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Was Gustavo Fring really evil though? I guess you could say he was unethical in the sense that he was happy to make a fortune off selling meth, as well as utilizing murder and violence to get his way. On the other hand, it's not like he employed those methods against completely undeserving people. Most of Frings enemies were crooked cartel members just like him.
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@futurestoryteller This is what the world of psychology would refer to as "Anti-social personality disorder". Ergo insanity.
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@futurestoryteller "insane" is not a clinical term, dumbass. But colloquially speaking, yes, every disorder in the DSM could be described as insanity in some form. And no, I don't care if it offends people.
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@CajunReaper95 Ah, sl when you're disproven you resort to lies. Good one. 😂
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@Cil-lan Delusional? Hardly. The world governments created the nuclear war in the first place. It's no wonder why he didn't see any point in trying to work "with" them. Also in the setting of the game the U.S government has made itself guilty of far worse crimes than anything House did. Like all the human experimentation done by West Tek for example, they were doing it on a government payroll through government contracts. Same with Vault Tec and everyone else.
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@StevenMichaelCunningham You're joking right now I hope?
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I agree. But I think the devs could've rewritten Vaas' origins and backstory a bit. He's supposed to be a sibling to Citra, right? But Citra and the Rakyat are clearly polynesians of some kind. Yet Vaas comes across as very hispanic. And I would never want to take that part away from Michael Mando's performance in any way. But due to his performance, he looks a bit out of place compared to the Rakyat. But, since his performance is so darned good, I think the writers should've altered the script to suit his hispanic mannerisms and speech in a satisfactory manner.
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