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Remember the Mushu gif.. where he goes “I’m aliiiiive” ?

Yeah… I’m coming back to tumblr just to rant about the Netflix DMC.. adaptation…?

Because goodness grief I’m MAD! I should have just stopped watching after three episodes but jeeez..

Spoiler I guess..

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Now, to be fair

I really liked the Rabbit’s design (until the reveal that he’s some tortured human soul that just wants to help the itty bitty poor demons)

I didn’t hate the artwork

I actually quite liked the.. well.. they’re bit easter eggs… but like.. showing the Kalina Ann (and then underutilising it.. not having Mary having ANY connection to the weapon…) but these little inclusions were FUN and it was fun looking for them. Why the Mega Man cameo though?

Onto the REST

Why, oh WHY did the demons have to get a society with poor downtrodden souls that get victimised by Mundus? Demons are demons. It’s fun to slaughter them in the game because they are inherently and irrevocably EVIL. They. Are. Supposed. To. Be. The. BAD GUYS!!

Why did the story need to have a religious fanatic as the ACTUAL MAIN ANTAGONIST WHEN THE RABBIT WAS RIGHT THERE? What choice was that? Why????

They introduced a compelling and interesting villain by adding the Rabbit (love the design!), especially when they chose to not have him be Mary’s father. And then they absolutely BOTCHED IT by making him into some jaded martyr with a god complex.

I cannot repeat this enough. They added an additional villain by including a religious, purist, colonialist dipshit that then magically invades the demon world and promptly begins a genocide against the (mostly) benign (again wtf) residents. Only to build a giant prison and a massive dig site to extract.. I assume some form of ore, it really doesn’t matter. It’s just so fucking on the nose it’s not even remotely interesting, witty or funny.. nothing about this is entertaining. At best it’s mildly annoying. At worst it’s infuriating and tone deaf to the CURRENT GLOBAL SITUATION WITHOUT ANY FINESSE!!

The music choice is godawful in 90% of cases. Not because I dislike the songs (I actually do like the ORIGINAL soundtracks as well as the songs they used because I’m just that kind of trash Millennial) but the chosen songs & timing was just… No! The fact that they DARED to bring in Bury the Light (and fucking butchered it) at the end is just… the AUDACITY!

How the fck did Vergil just… drop the Nelo Angelo armour which Mundus USES TO CONTROL HIM. And simultaneously he still has ALL MEMORIES KNOWING EXACTLY WHO HE IS? And.. AND HELPS MUNDUS DESPITE THAT KNOWLEDGE!

Why is Dante so.. weak? Don’t get me wrong, it’s ok to balance out a basically insanely OP character.. but Lady had him by the balls most of the season, overpowered or outsmarted him MULTIPLE TIMES and then.. And THEN! He ends up in some cryo chamber lab container in a military facility completely helpless.

I didn’t mind that they gave Lady a more fleshed out background. Heck, I didn’t even mind that they switched Arkham with the Rabbit. At its core, that wasn’t a bad choice. But just as with the Rabbit, they botched the hell out of her character. Just looking at DMC3, Lady grows from meeting Dante. She would never have handed him over to the military. Most of the story sets her up to be this strong, independently thinking power house… and then she just… loses all of that to obey an order? And order which she should have fundamentally disagreed with? But what’s character consistency anyway…

The animation was - not surprisingly - inconsistent as fuck. The lesser demons (the evil variety) were kinda ok. Some of the mini bosses were almost interesting, although it was jarring to see Agni and Rudra with heads….. IT’S THE SWORDS THAT TALK FOR FUCK’S SAKE!! But towards the end? When they actually open the portal to hell (kinda) and all those biiig baaad demons pour forth? They’re so. Boring!!

Honesly, I don’t know where I was/ an going with this.. I’m just pissed I guess.

I wouldn’t have gotten as mad if that stupid VP would have died horribly at the end of the season. Instead they shoehorned in a last minute sneak preview of an additional villain, which means season 2 is going to focus on that asshole instead of murdering the VP.

And while I love the original Vergil, I was never on his side in the games. He’s the bad guy and you feel mostly righteous about defeating him over and over again. After finishing this insult to the DMC franchise I am rooting for MUNDUS just so I can see the VP being ripped to shreds.

On that note.. the VP managed to invade Hell, set up a dig site and a prison… and I guess Mundus just watched him do it while getting his nails painted or something?

Mundus is as close to invincible as you can get from a boss in DMC… but apparently he doesn’t give a shit about the puny humans encroaching on his territory. Make it make sense!!

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TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).

Bonus:

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This elderly woman was one of the leaders of demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when she was a student at Columbia University. Today, 56 years later, she returns to the same place and says, "Palestine must be free."

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Holy Shit! So, you have to come up the stairs, then walk the death strip to get to bed. Forget about going to pee in the middle of the night or having too much to drink.

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kinda bums me out to see all these teenagers thinking they're porn addicts or hypersexual because they like to masturbate! @ all the teenagers who are worried about this: this anon masturbated basically daily from ages 12-26. it's fine and normal to be horny especially when you're a teenager.

it's soooo so so sad seeing fucking social media teach kids to armchair diagnose themselves as addicts if they enjoy reading smut or jacking off or even if they're just feeling horny, a profoundly typical feature of being a teenager that is indicative of nothing bad at all. like. good job everyone we did it, we repackaged the protestant fear of sex into pop psychology for gen z and gen alpha.

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english's pronunciation rules are absolute bullshit poopoo made up crap but one of my favorite side effects of this in written english specifically is like. altering the spelling of a word in such a way that it's technically pronounced the same. but reads very differently when your eyes go over it in written form. and that sort of dissonance between the proper spelling and the altered spelling producing the same basic sounds in your brain creates an unprecedented level of comedy.

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you can’t support autistic people and support the police. No amount of paint jobs or sensitivity training can stop police from killing with impunity

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perfect new meme template just dropped

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"there are too many things to boycott"

yeah there are. and isn't that fucked up? isn't it fucked up that so many companies, restaurants, brands, clothing stores, etc care more about money than people? care more about profit margins than people dying or the planet being poisoned?

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Die temu ad die

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it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they're in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like "unalive" and "seggs" because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they're easier to market to

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Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.

Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!

Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn't make more than last year!

Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you're profitable!

Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn't make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!

If you're not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!

Absolute degenerate LUNACY

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Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

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you will accidentally activate keyboard shortcuts you didnt know god could think of