#critical anger

[sbatj]

Sonic.EXE: Alright, what's with the grin? You know who you're up against, right? Nostalgia Critic: Can't you feel it, weird demon Sonic? Sonic.EXE: Feel what exactly? Nostalgia Critic: Somewhere, maybe not here, but in another realm, ever so close to this one... Nostalgia Critic: So close... but just out of reach... Nostalgia Critic: It's coming. The day approaches. Sonic.EXE: Okay NOW you're speaking my language! What day are we talking about here? The day of reckoning? The end of days? The day Zalgo comes to consume this wretched pit that that worthless child had the audacity to call a comic? Critic.XMAS: C H R I S T M A S Sonic.EXE: . . . Sonic.EXE: What. AVGN: Oh my god not this fucking shit again.

VOTE HEAR ----------------------------- VICTIM 2st - critical anger

irate gamer better

- shitty games (action 52, sonic 06, hydlide, big rigs) - shitty movies (battlefield earth, eragon, moonwalker, green lantern) - youtubers who bitch about shitty games and shitty movies (themysteriousmrenter, game grumps, irate gamer, the lonely goomba, the cinema snob) - rivalries only dumb babies who poop in their shitty ass diapers care about (mario vs sonic, pokemon vs digimon, team edward vs team jacob, literally any shipping war ever)

VICTIM 3Nd - sonic.exe

i once printed out this bloodcrying buttheads story and took a hyperrealistic piss on it and then used it to wipe the hyperrealistic shit off my hyperrealistic ass

- “horror” that isnt fucking scary (fnaf, spookys house of jumpscares, creepypasta) - blood and gore (blood//water, underground crimson, the doom franchise) - sonic the hedgehog and related media (satam, freedom planet, nazo unleashed, chaos fnf) - going fast and things that are fast (gotta go fast, speedruns, rollercoaster the musical, around the world [you have to be going really fast to go around the world as many times as the song says])

Sources: MaStarBro - Too Slow (really just the song structure, but Sonic.EXE:) Nostalgia Critic - Holiday Clusterfuck (Critical Anger:) Nostalgia Critic - I Fucking Love Christmas (Critical Anger:) KKV2006 - ZIP Vs EXE (Sonic.EXE:)

[mayapapaya33]

I had sort of hoped Keyleth would have matured and grown past her anger at the Matron over the past 33 years but I suppose it's in character that she hasn't fully dealt with her grief yet. And the Vorb probably isn't helping her issues either. It just sucks because I think a lot of the fandom take Vox Machina's grief fueled blame and fully accept it as fact when the reality is that Vax's situation is almost entirely his own responsibility. The only other person with any remote culpability is Percy. And even Percy is only really to blame for accidentally Killing Vex, not for Vax's choices. But even if you want to hold Percy accountable for Vax's choice in the tomb as well, that still doesn't make him responsible for Vax's death. Vax could have lived a long full life as the Matron's Champion, as shown by the Delightful Purvan Suul and his companion Galdric.

Vax was a borderline suicidal, self-sacrificing character from day one. He always threw himself into danger headfirst regardless of the cost to himself. Between Percy accidentally setting off the trap creating the circumstances for Vax trading himself to the matron during Vex's resurrection, all the way up to Vax CHOSING to come back as a revenant after being disintegrated in order to help defeat Vecna, the choices have always been his. Especially him, fate touched as he is. Ultimately, Vecna killed Vax and Vax killed Vax. I think it's easier to blame the Matron than to be angry with Vax for being who he was.

The Matron maintains the balance of life and death. She accepted Vax's offers both times, do you think she should have refused? The first refusal would have meant Vex's death, and the second refusal would have meant Vax possibly just staying dead after being disintegrated, and not being there to fight against Vecna, which was truly an all hands on deck situation. There was no time to fuck around with a resurrection ritual that might not even work, the whole world was in danger. One life, a life that was already lost, is a small price to pay to save the world. I'm pretty sure Vax would agree with me!

Frankly, Vox Machina were super lucky and privileged to have so many successful resurrections between them. I think they got a little spoilt and entitled about it honestly. Most people have never even met someone who's been resurrected before, they did it like 20 times! Vax was disintegrated, he chose to come back as a revenant to fight Vecna, protect the world, and help his family. An opportunity he was only given due to his allegiance to the Matron. She gave Vox Machina and Vax extra time together and a chance to help save the world.

For those of you shouting "what about true resurrection!?! I hear you, and Matt said it's complicated and didn't elaborate lol. Personally, I think the Matron has quite the special a barrier of entry to true resurrection, if the spell even works at all in Exandria. I think they touched on it briefly in Calamity but I've forgotten. I can only imagine what insane ritual Matt concocted years ago that he's had plenty of time to work on since. Part of the Matron's whole thing is that everyone must eventually go into death, sure they can avoid it for a while, so some resurrection is fine (the DC gets higher every time), but eventually enough is enough and it's time to go. Hence why necromancers and liches are her enemies.

At any rate, I'm really proud of Keyleth for going to therapy and I hope she goes back when all of this moon business is over because she still needs it and that turtle lady in the frog seemed great lol.

[ruporas]

i killed. i murdered. i'm nothing like these sleepy people here… nevertheless, you can actually be grateful? bastard… i’m saying… thank you. because you spilled blood, you saved all of these people’s lives. i couldn’t have done it without you. (ID in alt)

[yashley]

It’s easier with people around you. To make you feel more like you.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

I *knew* there was something fishy with no writers/quest designers being credited. Also: outsourcing is not an excuse not to credit the gamedevs doing hard and deserving work.

[revvethasmythh]

"Do you know what a trope is? A thematic element, you are a apprentice bard, are you not? It's one of my least favorite. Yet, it is where my heart guides me. I want revenge, Dariax, badly. Do you think you can take revenge against the universe? Do you think you can fight back against gods and monsters?"

[teansouprmyjam]

thinking thoughts about one miss kiki voice of the tempest

[hugevanserrass]

I don't even care about this ship at all but I will laugh when gwyn's "pliant bones" comment turns out to be exactly what people are insisting it's not. you're giving sjm way too much credit if you think she didn't include it as a hint that gwyn can bear azriel's children. this is the same author who had nesta rearrange her entire pelvis to accommodate birthing cassian's children. sjm is definitely not above this sort of bullshit

[mortispoxi]

Seeing Twitter users recommending the People Make Games documentary as a good way to get insight on the issue is so….

I know, I’m always extremely disappointed whenever I come across someone who thinks it’s the end all be all explanations regarding the Studio ZA/UM situation.

Recommending that video always comes with a heavy caveat from me that the person needs to stop around the 40 minute mark since the interviewer shows a very clear bias that’s unbecoming of a journalist.

Regardless, now that more people are finding out about these layoffs, which might take out members of the studio that have been there since the beginning, it could finally help smack some sense into those Twitter users that actually thought, FOR SOME REASON, Rostov, Kurvitz, and Hindpere were lying for shits and giggles rather than seeing what's ACTUALLY going on which is that the investors have a very obvious agenda against the real wronged party. Hopefully this'll also open their eyes to how the People Make Games video fed into this twisted narrative that Kurvitz was somehow at fault/responsible for the theft of his own IP, but that might be asking too much from their concrete brains. Here's hoping though!

[arson-09]

Rhysand really thinks his trauma trumps everyone elses trauma

Ofc i feel bad cause rhysand was obviously abused UtM but that doesn’t excuse the fact he 1- does shit things to other people 2- can act like since he was traumatized he is morally superior.

and i know the rhysand-ites will yap about how “he knows hes not good” or “he doesnt think that at all!” but the narrative certainly thinks so. sjm jumps through HOOPS to convince you rhysand is a great and amazing person no matter what and good god it’s annoying

[wishesofeternity]

My problem with The Dragon Prince is that while it preaches about "breaking the cycle" and "choosing love", it repeatedly does so in a way that echoes the age-old idea of telling victims to passively accept their lot in life and the injustices inflicted upon them while their perpetrators never have to acknowledge their wrongs or face consequences for their actions. This is the kind of narrative they follow on both a personal and systematic axis, and it's exactly why the show will always frustrate me.

[sbatj]

Results GIF here

god fucking dammit john

[shaunashipman]

ok there's delulu, and then there's thinking that buddie going canon is going to bring in 20 million viewers.

this isn't even about a ship war, this is about living in reality. NCIS hasn't brought those numbers in in almost a decade, and that's like the number one scripted show. if they had said 10 million, I'd still be scoffing and calling them delusional, but at least that would be somewhat in the realm of possibility. but 20 million? I don't think anything but sports events even gets those numbers nowadays

fandom is simply not that big. there are not 15 million people just waiting for 2 guys to kiss before watching. would viewership go up if buddie went canon? possibly. possibly not. you have to balance the new viewers it would bring in with the current viewers it would lose by making another main character queer. cause unfortunately the general audience, even if they're fine with queer people and characters, still thinks there can be "too many" queer characters. abc took a risk with bucktommy and it appears to have paid off: viewership stayed steady, the majority of reviews and responses were positive, but they were ready to pull back if the backlash was too strong, that's why lou was originally only contracted for 4 eps. if the GA didn't respond favourably, they could quietly get rid of tommy, and yeah buck is bi now but that doesn't mean it needs to be mentioned like ever and he can continue to date women.

making another main character queer AND putting him together with another main isn't something that can be basically retconned if it isn't received well.

and even if the network does think it will be received well, it is not going to be to the tune of 20 million viewers. we've been saying it for months, years now some of us, but the expectations are too high and will never match reality, and as soon as it doesn't go exactly the way they've "theorized" they will lash out at the show, which the network will take only as negativity towards the ship itself, and make them that much less likely to greenlight another such story.

[artemis-pendragon]

Ludinus: And once we kill the gods we will all be free!

Orym: You know what else is free? Shutting your big stupid idiot mouth. Frankly.

[shorthaltsjester]

what if i said imogen is a better metaphor for generational trauma than she is for chronic pain or queerness

[nanierose]

Dorian falling for Ludinus' trap is making my heart hurt, cause of course he would be most susceptible to it. Lolth killed his brother mere days ago to take Opal away, and there was nothing he could do. He's not had a second to properly grieve or understand why it happened. All he knows is that a god killed someone he loves, and he is angry that none of the other gods tried to stop her. So it's not enough for just Lolth to pay, it's also those who enabled her to do it. And here comes Ludinus showing a similar thing happening in Aeor, the gods protecting their brethren even when they kill mortals. He sees it as a pattern that needs to be stopped, and he's always had a dark streak in him that rears its head when it comes to people he cares about.

The fact it puts him in direct conflict with Orym just adds to the drama of it all. Because if he does think that the gods are at fault for Orym's family dying, and he articulates this, then it's going to lead to some very tense moments that will make or break them. It's going to be a case of seeing how these two are able to navigate how their respective grief has informed their opinions, and where it leads them. It's going to be difficult and painful, but there's still a chance they get through it together.