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    Goku doesn’t do shit through teamwork tbh. DBZ is all about the power of getting really pissed, not the power of teamwork

          • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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            Disney goes to the next level

            American capitalism baybeeeeeeee porky-happy amerikkka-clap

            Disney also makes a lot of effort to get kids hooked on their tentpole franchises really early. Look at the Spiderman and Star Wars shows they’ve put out for preschoolers

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          looks at table covered in mecha models you don’t have to call me out like that lol.

          at least its not from Latest Media Slop Fad #42069, i have some Special Armored Battalion Dorvack (shitty show, cool power armor, lame transforming mecha, kinda based writing for the 80’s) power armor models and Maschinen Krieger models as well (the Strahl Democratic Republic did nothing wrong)

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              i like the original gundam designs because the show reminded me of ww2 movie cinematography and design aesthetics, and also the Iron-Blooded-Orphan robots are cool even if the show glamorizes a pretty gross mafia harem owner. 30 minute missions are also cool, but i prefer larger scales than 1/100 or 1/144, but those can be expensive compared to gunpla. most of my gunpla/30MM models have been under 20 american biosurvival tickets while maschinen krieger models at 1/20 scale are usually around 40 or 50 for power armor. Dorvack is neat because the show sucked was unpopular so the models are mostly not very valuable and you can find them on ebay for like 30 american biosurvival tickets sometimes. plus they are 1/24 scale which is the same for a lot of model cars and tanks and planes and also the same scale as the Hexa Gear series of models.

              at least model kits give you something to build and sometimes articulate/pose unlike funko pops lol, even the SD (super-deformed, chibi proportions) series of gundam models retain a hint of the original art style unlike funko which digests every IP into an indistinguishable bolus of media slop.

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            side-eye-1side-eye-2 Couldn’t be me lol

            I’m going to break into your house and replace that deep cut stuff with Loki® Season 2 and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore® FunkoPop!s elmofire

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              NOOOOOOOOOOO I NEED AESTHETICALLY CONSISTENT TREATS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! john-cruelty I HATE FUNKO POPS! I HAVE A PARASONIC C3 DNA SCRAMBLER AND A BASIC IDEA OF HOW TO USE IT! oooaaaaaaauhhh 🍖

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    Never really considered why endgame didn’t matter to me, despite me being relatively invested in early marvel (up to avengers) and honestly the answer might probably just be that nothing MCU has done, beats the spirit bomb of dragon ball

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      I didn’t care about Endgame because Infinity War was just so much better. I’m not a huge MCU person anymore, but Infinity War did an amazing job of making Thanos a great villain while Endgame just reveled in the setup that Infinity War had done. Thanos turning Quill’s bullets into bubbles, throwing his own daughter off a cliff, reversing time at the end to rip the stone out of red guy’s head, the “I don’t feel so good Mr. Stark” were all just completely unexpected from a marvel movie. By far the best villain in the MCU films. Endgame though? The movie schedule of the stuff coming out beforehand was essentially spoiling the movie. And Thanos isn’t even that threatening when he comes back because he’s just raging out and acting completely out of character in the final battle.

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      I’m in the exact same boat. Avengers Endgame was just missing… something, compared to Dragon Ball. I don’t know if it’s the charm or the fights or the villain or what. It’s not like DB is high art or anything, but it just has an edge over most Marvel stuff.

      Maybe I just find it easier to get hyped over Goku, a character with one full contained story that DB follows, over any MCU character that is just a mish-mash of 60 years of comic characterization.

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    They will deride anime as childish and absurd when they worship a movie whose premise is based on a godlike being that attempts to solve resource scarcity by erasing half the population instead of simply doubling the resources. I never understood how that ridiculous idea made it past the writers’ table.

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      I don’t think his plan is meant to be logical. All the other characters say he’s insane and he’s literally referred to as “the mad titan”. He’s just brain broke. It’s not like fascism in our world is particularly reasonable either.

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        Well, it seems more like he’s treated as mad because of the violence of the plan, not because it wouldn’t work, in the eyes of the writers.

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          Is that true tho, or is it more that the writers of the various films had to keep the shows rolling out rather than really explore the ramifications of what happened? I haven’t watched the TV series, but the movies after barely touch in the fact that half of the universe went missing in an instant. That sort of premise cannot behind by a perpetual slop machine.

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        The problem is that the protagonists don’t actually argue against his beliefs. In fact, the protagonists generaly do agree with him that there’s too many people in the world hogging up resources, there’s offhanded remarks about how nicer the emptier world is.

        They just don’t like his methods because he’s too mean about it and makes people sad in the process.

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          But if you suggest that ecofascist malthusians that complain about overpopulation start with themselves they get really mad for some reason.

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      the comic its based on had him doing it purely to impress the female personification of Death, which honestly makes a lot more sense lol. i hate how they have to make comic books into something ‘serious’ and ‘realistically sci fi’ these days.

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    Goku? Now that’s a Brooklyn man if ever I heard it; Goku Barclay or Goku Fulton for sure; let me guess, it’s a tale about a boxer? A man with a heart of gold trying to make it in this sick world, up against the man and trying to earn an honest buck.

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      “A man with a heart of gold trying to make it in this sick world, up against the man and trying to earn an honest buck.”

      Goku vs. Vegeta, circa Saiyan Saga, colorized

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      i think plenty of people watch both anime and mcu stuff, but i thought it was a funny tweet. and yuuko from nichijou probably just thought it was a funny joke, i don’t think it’s meant as a serious critique

      i do however feel that dragon ball (which i’m not even a big fan of) blows the mcu out of the water

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        I definitely watch both but I only actually like one of them, and even then only like 20% of it. When anime is good though, it’s great. And I completely agree about the dragon ball universe. Way more interesting and less sanctimonious.