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Was I Nintendo I would cast this man immediatly, no question asked

For Pride Month, I would like to throw my very long and pointy green hat in the ring.

[Disclaimer: this is 100% a joke and not a real audition unless you like me, in which case, I am very serious]

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"the 5th celebrity you have saved on your phone -" you and i live in vastly different worlds

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i hope luigi mangione is proven innocent & gets to sue a ton of companies for slander and win & i hope he gets enough money to rebuild his life and get any help for his chronic pain that he needs & i hope he’s able to disappear from the public eye entirely if that’s what he wants

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True.

At that point Samy idea of punching Slide in the face would have been better than this

@elmaxlys already made #perfect rant posts about F2RX and I agree 100% with everything they said, but I never got to write my rage down myself and so here are my top grievances with Foot 2 rue Extreme in order of pain :

Disrespecting previous canon :

Tag is a mockery of his previous self. Essentially stripping away most of his personality, they also added super random and really improbable things such as : Having learned horse-riding (WHEN?!), suddenly having learned to play the piano, and MOST importantly not being an exceptionnal football player (HIM NOT DOMINATING THE FIELD WHEN PLAYING WITH THE KIDS IS JUST NOT BELIEVABLE). Tag had enough of a story with 3 seasons and a comic, they didn't need to add all the stupid extra stuff as if they were trying to invent him a personality (#his room being full of random shit that has no reference to the previous stuff).

He only met his father when he was 14.... The original story made a point of digging into serious themes and the emotional struggle of the characters, as football gave the catharsis that helped them get through it. There is NO WAY that at 17, Tag's issues have all disappeared and he is now a 100% healthy confident and nurturing adult.

Pablo's name is changed to Ramon, and his whole story seems to have disappeared. His relationship with Tag is as if he'd been around his whole life. The fact that he theoretically has been captured and IMPRISONED is shown nowhere.

They basically didn't want to bother with Foot2Rue and the story it had told, so why add the previous characters at all?

Superficial themes and story :

Foot 2 rue was a kid's show about playing football in the street, right?

WRONG.

It's a story about growing up in an unfair, chaotic society and football helping them bond and find hope.

The whole point is that this childhood pass-time was their resilience against everything around them ;

- where they were unequal in their life, on the playing field everyone was the same, had the same opportunities and rules,

-when they were alone in life, on the playing field they had a family,

-and when their life showed cruelty and malevolence, the game taught them empathy, understanding and respect.

THAT was the "dream" of street football, that's why they call it a dream throughout most of the original show.

The point of the world championship wasn't about winning or being the "coolest" or most athletic player, it was about bringing this shared "dream" to unite all the kids growing up in this world.

Extreme Football has gone completely beside this point.

The only motivation for the team is winning and looking cool. What makes a great player to them is just their athletic ability. They go through regular childhood troubles that have no deeper meaning or demonstration of the world and the society they live in. (and the resolutions for these are pretty shallow and clumsy). They seem to live in a weird utopian/futuristic city that is super polished, and so NO real-world issues can be adressed.

Basically the show is JUST a kid's show about playing football... how sad.

The animation and chara design :

I am not an anti-CGI, only traditional 2D purist. I was pretty excited the new adaptation was going to be CGI, as I had also a good memory of the early CGI in kids shows like code Lyoko, and Galactic football.

but DAMN does it look bad.

The main characters design is bland, but that's ok for the main characters, and the other characters are pretty much as much caricatures as the original Street football characters were, but the animation is INCONSISTENT, the lighting/shading seems unequal from one episode to the next, the environment is BORING and polished to a point where it just looks extremely fake.

I already went on a bit about what they did to Tag, but damn the redesign just doesn't work.... once again, the direction for the character just seems VERY random, as Tag has never been into fashion why the hell would he start wearing a bandana, and live with one side of his joggings rolled up? and like, why would his face become ROUNDER with age?

(This goes the same way for Eloise whose appearance in the last episode both made me a little happy but also hurt my eyes)

The new characters/main characters :

As the world and the narrative doesn't give them much to work with, obviously it is hard to be engaged and learn to like them.

Obviously the main problem is Samy, whose hurtful words/actions are not grounded in any deep story making him just a petty brat. Often his harmful behavior is not challenged, especially with the way he treats Tag which drives me nuts.

The worst part is that there is POTENTIAL for a deep dynamic that could have made for a better story that adresses re-building broken families but... No. He is a brat but in a vacuum so it doesn't evolve into an interesting arc or even make sense really.

(They could have made an interesting parallel between him dealing with his parent's separating and having to accept a new unwanted family member and Tag dealing with the realities of family that he never got to experience, and integrating into a family life that he WANTED but doesn't know. Also there could have been references to Tag's memories of "Pti Dragon"....)

I could go on for longer but this post would never end....

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Yikes

Thanks for the explanation Bosses 🫡

sorry to post shit on main but its actually so fucking evil that joanne kathleen rowling made an entire Irish child character just so she could make a vile IRA joke through him.

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"Aro/Ace person gets given a love potion" story but instead of them being immune or whatever, it DOES work, and they realize IMMEDIATELY that they've been fed a love potion because this feeling is so wrong and foreign but everyone keeps laughing off the idea of it being a love potion because "they were probably just a late bloomer" or "no, you just finally found the right person!" and it's just a horror story about how no one believes them even though they know, they KNOW this isn't right and they can't stand it.

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The best way I can describe to an allo person how you feel about sex as a topic as a sex-repulsed or averse asexual is that it feels like a hype that never ends. As though Despicable Me came out and everyone around you was sending minion facebook memes to each other for years to come. The stores are full of minion themed products; they're in ads and your friends talk about them all the time. And deep in your heart you're like "I'm glad that they're able to enjoy something I personally don't like and am not interested in :3". But there is always this little voice in the back of your head that's like "If I have to see ONE MORE of these little yellow FUCKERS today then God help us all." You make an active choice to communicate only the former.

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For the context, what's an IRA joke ? I'm not familliar with that kind of thing and also have the pleasure of never ever reading one of the prime terf book's

sorry to post shit on main but its actually so fucking evil that joanne kathleen rowling made an entire Irish child character just so she could make a vile IRA joke through him.

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Honor Mosab's memory by donating to The Sameer Project.

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UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.

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I drew this kind of thing for an inktober one time, it’s probably one of my favourite ways they would interact in my head 😂

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So I went back to check and here is the exact quote, it is says in episode 23 : Les Dark Side font la loi

From Pablo (french dialogue then english translation) : "Le meilleur moyen de lutter contre l'injustice c'est de respecter le réglement, de rester le plus irréprochable possible.''/''The best way to fight against injustice is to follow the riles, to stay the as blameless as possible.''

From Tag (suposedly repeated from his dad) : "Face à l'injustice il faut être unie et irréprochable"/''Against Injustice you need to be united and without fault''

This not exactly how I remembered it but it's still disgusting.

@elmaxlys already made #perfect rant posts about F2RX and I agree 100% with everything they said, but I never got to write my rage down myself and so here are my top grievances with Foot 2 rue Extreme in order of pain :

Disrespecting previous canon :

Tag is a mockery of his previous self. Essentially stripping away most of his personality, they also added super random and really improbable things such as : Having learned horse-riding (WHEN?!), suddenly having learned to play the piano, and MOST importantly not being an exceptionnal football player (HIM NOT DOMINATING THE FIELD WHEN PLAYING WITH THE KIDS IS JUST NOT BELIEVABLE). Tag had enough of a story with 3 seasons and a comic, they didn't need to add all the stupid extra stuff as if they were trying to invent him a personality (#his room being full of random shit that has no reference to the previous stuff).

He only met his father when he was 14.... The original story made a point of digging into serious themes and the emotional struggle of the characters, as football gave the catharsis that helped them get through it. There is NO WAY that at 17, Tag's issues have all disappeared and he is now a 100% healthy confident and nurturing adult.

Pablo's name is changed to Ramon, and his whole story seems to have disappeared. His relationship with Tag is as if he'd been around his whole life. The fact that he theoretically has been captured and IMPRISONED is shown nowhere.

They basically didn't want to bother with Foot2Rue and the story it had told, so why add the previous characters at all?

Superficial themes and story :

Foot 2 rue was a kid's show about playing football in the street, right?

WRONG.

It's a story about growing up in an unfair, chaotic society and football helping them bond and find hope.

The whole point is that this childhood pass-time was their resilience against everything around them ;

- where they were unequal in their life, on the playing field everyone was the same, had the same opportunities and rules,

-when they were alone in life, on the playing field they had a family,

-and when their life showed cruelty and malevolence, the game taught them empathy, understanding and respect.

THAT was the "dream" of street football, that's why they call it a dream throughout most of the original show.

The point of the world championship wasn't about winning or being the "coolest" or most athletic player, it was about bringing this shared "dream" to unite all the kids growing up in this world.

Extreme Football has gone completely beside this point.

The only motivation for the team is winning and looking cool. What makes a great player to them is just their athletic ability. They go through regular childhood troubles that have no deeper meaning or demonstration of the world and the society they live in. (and the resolutions for these are pretty shallow and clumsy). They seem to live in a weird utopian/futuristic city that is super polished, and so NO real-world issues can be adressed.

Basically the show is JUST a kid's show about playing football... how sad.

The animation and chara design :

I am not an anti-CGI, only traditional 2D purist. I was pretty excited the new adaptation was going to be CGI, as I had also a good memory of the early CGI in kids shows like code Lyoko, and Galactic football.

but DAMN does it look bad.

The main characters design is bland, but that's ok for the main characters, and the other characters are pretty much as much caricatures as the original Street football characters were, but the animation is INCONSISTENT, the lighting/shading seems unequal from one episode to the next, the environment is BORING and polished to a point where it just looks extremely fake.

I already went on a bit about what they did to Tag, but damn the redesign just doesn't work.... once again, the direction for the character just seems VERY random, as Tag has never been into fashion why the hell would he start wearing a bandana, and live with one side of his joggings rolled up? and like, why would his face become ROUNDER with age?

(This goes the same way for Eloise whose appearance in the last episode both made me a little happy but also hurt my eyes)

The new characters/main characters :

As the world and the narrative doesn't give them much to work with, obviously it is hard to be engaged and learn to like them.

Obviously the main problem is Samy, whose hurtful words/actions are not grounded in any deep story making him just a petty brat. Often his harmful behavior is not challenged, especially with the way he treats Tag which drives me nuts.

The worst part is that there is POTENTIAL for a deep dynamic that could have made for a better story that adresses re-building broken families but... No. He is a brat but in a vacuum so it doesn't evolve into an interesting arc or even make sense really.

(They could have made an interesting parallel between him dealing with his parent's separating and having to accept a new unwanted family member and Tag dealing with the realities of family that he never got to experience, and integrating into a family life that he WANTED but doesn't know. Also there could have been references to Tag's memories of "Pti Dragon"....)

I could go on for longer but this post would never end....

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the assisted dying debate is so crazy

because i do fundamentally believe everyone should have the right to die when they want.

BUT if they legalise assisted suicide in the UK right now i don't trust our ableist fucking government to not just start coercing disabled people into suicide to save money. they already won't give them enough money to live.

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bombing children is bad