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I can’t help but wonder if the reason Silver Age Clark does so much science is as a way to feel closer to Jor-El.
Clark would get SO MANY voicemails from scientists for stuff like this
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For 60’s DC, that featureless face is a pretty horrifying design.
Oh! He's here! He's here he's here!
One more W for the rogue's gallery ladies and gents!
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Wait until he learns his descendant has been making out with her!
(Also, apparently even evil androids aren’t immune to sexism)
Wait until he learns that Superman's baby cousin is more than enough to hand him his green ego
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He really did.
Conan is not a dumb man, he just tends to let people think he is.
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Just doing a cursory look to refresh my memory of what was what around “now”, outside of the nine members of the JLA, you’d have at least
The Teen Titans
The Doom Patrol
The Metal Men
The Blackhawks
The Challengers of the Unknown
Metamorpho
Animal Man
Prince Ra-Man
Adam Strange
The Sea Devils
Cave Carson and his team
Hawkgirl (not yet a JLA member)
Our old friend Congorilla
Rex the Wonder Dog
Robbie Reed (Dial H for Hero)
Jimmy and Lana, who could suit up as Elastic Lad and Insect Queen if required
Plastic Man
The Elongated Man
Zatanna
The possibility of the Legion or JSA dropping by for a visit
The Batmen of Many Nations
Batwoman and Bat-Girl
The Immortal Man
Mera
Zook (Martian Manhunter’s alien pet)
Krypto
Comet
Beppo
Streaky
The Superman and Supergirl Emergency Squads
and, of course, Kara herself!
Earth is FAR from defenseless.
What did you think the JLA left the earth totally undefended? Do you only know like 7 of the dozens and dozens of people fighting this fight? Are you in fact stupid sir?
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Soooo... did Kara ever tell Clark about this guy? Because I think he'd have follow-up questions.
Oh...
...Kara doesn't play
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"Doing in the wizard" as it's called.
Not usually a fan of it. And especially not preemptively, like the first Doctor Strange movie or the first two Thor movies, where they dismissed magic as just manipulating the energy of the universe and tried to firmly say the Asgardians were not gods. Both of these were significantly lessened by the time of the following films.
Generally speaking I'm not really a fan of the trope where it turns out that something previously established as being magical turns out to have a science fiction explanation instead.
For example, like how in Ben 10, I believe a character in one season thought that they were learning magic, only for in another for them to learn that it's actually more like a mutant power resulting from them being related to aliens somewhere.
Similarly, as HP Lovecraft's work shifted from fantasy-horror to dark science fiction, things that previously described as being magic (the Dreams of the Witch House, for example) were later reframed as people accessing a kind of math or science that enabled them to bend space-time. The Necronomicon becomes less of an evil spell book, per se, and more a reference book about aliens and their abilities as interpreted by an old timey person who couldn't conceptualise such things.
I don't know, I think that it cheapens it somehow?
I'm somewhat more ambivalent over the Clarke's Law idea (where any sufficiently advanced technology is distinguishable from science), as depending on how it is used it can still act as a overlapping with actual fantasy still. For example, the way magic (and how specifically wizards study/use it) in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series is informed from his time as a press officer for a nuclear power station. Magic is treated in a similar manner to radiation and the like, but still operates AS magic would do.
Interestingly, the manga/anime Dungeon Meshi also puts a tone of worldbuilding into both the ecosystems of magical dungeons as well as the physics of magic itself (the biology of magical creatures, how the energy that powers magic is theorised to come from an alternate dimension "where infinity exists" etc.). It's emphatically still a fantasy setting, tropes and all, but it uses a form of science to explain how magical stuff works while maintaining that it's still all magic, if you get me?
The third option, which tends to be more rare, is the idea that something scientific turns out to have a magical explanation rather than the reverse. So, for example, in the Rivers of London novel Foxglove Summer, protagonist and trainee wizard Peter Grant ends up in part of the UK which tends to have a lot of UFO sightings (rural Herefordshire)... only for it to turn out that the alien sightings and abductions area actually caused by elves very similar to those from the Discworld novels (who exist in a pocket dimension that can only access other worlds at certain times of the year).
This is, itself, an inversion on the theory among UFO enthusiasts that stories about fairies and such in folklore were more primitive folk describing UFO encounters, with it turning out that it was ALWAYS fairies, it's just folks' frame of reference changed for the more "logical" scientific explanation (aliens) instead. This was itself referenced within the Discworld novels themselves, with the coming of the elves being forecast with a sudden spike in crop-circle activity (a phenomena claim is caused by aliens, rather than bored rural folk making Art).
I don't know, it basically comes down to how it's done in all honesty. Personally I like it when Science and magic are defined as two separate things, but I can appreciate when people use science as a way to help conceptualise how magic works in-universe? Such as the time in the comic Planetary where a character uses simplified computer analogies to describe the physics of magic to someone.
Reality has a form of operating system, and magic is the means to manipulate it to the user's own ends via a specific method or sequence of actions.
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biologist here! why are plants green? well they suck up air from the sky (blue) and mix it with the sunlight (yellow) i fucking love science.
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...Huh. Worth chewing over.
Perhaps some day we could have a serious conversation about why despite her amazing character designs and great variety in body types compared to other mangaka, Kui Ryoko still chose to have all but one (two arguably) of the characters with an active leader role in the story of Dungeon Meshi to be men.
Spoilers below.
It is a fantastic manga, to quote a post I've read a while ago (paraphrasing), Dunmeshi is 95 chapters long and no panel is irrelevant. But! Out of all the groups in the story only one is led by a woman (elf queen) and she does not actually participate in it.
Laios' party has Marcille, but she is at best "second in command" if you will, as much as Chilchuck is.
Kabru's party, the orcs, the governor(s), the gnomes' party, the canaries, Shuro's party, the dwarfs and even the golden kingdom (Delgal and Thistle). Fionil and Doni are minor characters and they're a party of two, we could assume both share the "leader" position.
One can find excuses to each of those choices, but at the end of the day the choice was made to make them men.
Kabru could have been a woman, it would not change anything at all.
Zon and Leed could have swapped places, with the older sister leading and taking a less violent approach to the hotheaded younger brother.
Either/both of the governors could have been women, no difference.
The leading, more vocal and abrasive of the gnomes could have been the old lady and the quiet one the old man. I struggle to see if anything would change at all.
The canaries are mostly women, and they were led by Milsiril back in the day and the queen leads them, technically. Still, the choice was made to have Mithrun in the role of Mithrun with everything it represents. Could it have been the younger sister that has her love stolen by the older one, would the dynamics be the same? Tempted to have the life she could not get by the demon, getting eaten (but not fully!) and seeking revenge? Would Milsiril spare her this time? We can't tell, Mithrun is a man. It was a choice made by Kui-sensei.
Could Shuro have been a woman? Seeing as he's the fantasy equivalent of a japanese young lord(!) probably not(?) in terms of how it would be presented. A young lady with her entourage chasing after her unrequited love and getting beaten to it by another lesbian? Sorry but this looks like the kind of ntr I enjoy now. But I don't think it would be the same conflict with Shuro/Marcille and Shuro/Laios. It could(!) work, but not in the kind of story where (almost) all the leaders are men.
Could the dwarves have been women? I don't see why not. Senshi could have been inspired by a mother figure (or older sister) as much as he was by his mentor (whether you see it as a father/older brother/something else figure). All the women in the party starving while the young kid survives? I won't even call it sexist (<- not joking).
Could Delgal have been a queen instead? What about Yaad being a princess? Or Thistle, still a jester but a woman now? Which manga readers thought he was, for a while. It would require an author that doesn't put the importance on the king while the queen is irrelevant.
Am I overthinking things? There are a lot of important characters who are women in the story of Dunmeshi. People have jokingly described the plot as a lesbian trying to resurrect her girlfriend, and it would be accurate although not fully correct.
But the issue remains that all leaders except for the elf queen are men. I don't believe it was by chance. It might have been a deliberate choice for reasons that I can see, or it might have been completely unconscious when designing the characters and writing the story.
What a shame.
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This mystery book series I’m reading is wild. It’s about a eunuch solving crimes in 1830s Istanbul. And in every book so far this dude lovingly cooks about six exquisitely described food-porn-y meals and then cucks European dudes by fucking their wives. Incredible.
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I pretty much always play video games on whatever the easiest mode is. I'm 40, I have a sometimes mentally demanding day job, and even when I was young, my reflexes weren't exactly what you'd call top tier and they've only dulled since.
Damn right I'm making the game fun for me.
I wish gamers would realize that there’s a baseline level of like intuitive understanding on how to control video games in general that you build up through hours upon hours of gaming in general plus another level of it you build up with each genre. These are things like being able to figure out basic movement in a game and use it proficiently, or navigating a dozen different menus in slower paced games. The sort of things that I think a lot of people don’t realize they’re already adept in, because most “serious gamers” powered through this phase when they were young and at their most capable of learning (coincidentally ages you just don’t remember a ton of).
Snobby MMO players will be like “oh the high level raids aren’t even hard you just have to know the fight” not realizing that they have, oftentimes, literal years of experience with how to memorize an MMO boss and intuitively use that knowledge, how to go through and adapt a rotation during a fight, how to coordinate with the rest of your group, etc. And this goes for other games, too; the Soulsborne series has only gotten harder and harder as it’s gone on because it’s been forced to ramp up difficulty each game for a playerbase that is increasingly used to it. I’ll see people saying Dark Souls 1 is easy and Dark Souls 3/Bloodborne are the only hard games in the series and… Yeah, that is true if you’re Gud™, if you’re extremely used to the series Dark Souls 1 is a very straightforward game, but to the average non-fan, Dark Souls 1 is still very difficult and the bosses the later games threw in to challenge hardcore fans are inaccessibly hard.
And that’s where this becomes a real problem, accessibility. Real Gamers sneer at AAA games that aren’t difficult and have a lot of tutorials, but the only reason video games have become as ubiquitous as they have is that your average big budget game these days puts in effort like that to draw in people who don’t have years of skill built in before starting a game. When someone talks about how modern gamers don’t have the patience for classic cRPGs (or, really, any older game), I just think, well, yeah; you got into them when you were young, had vast amounts of free time, and at a point in time where the interface was contemporary and up to date. Anyone trying to get into them now has to get past dated UIs that they either no longer have or never had a proficiency with, past poorly explained mechanics and concepts, and past aged graphics, all usually with limited time and the opportunity cost of not doing something easier to get into and more immediately fun.
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"It's better to do one thing well than two things poorly" is definitely a solid rule in game design, but I have to admit a weakness for old console games that were basically two different games stacked on top of each other. Zelda II: The Adventures of Link (top-down exploration overworld which becomes a side-scrolling action platformer in dungeons), Blaster Master (side-scrolling metroidvania which becomes a top-down arcade shooter in dungeons), and The Guardian Legend (top-down action RPG which becomes a vertical shoot-'em-up in dungeons) are all titles I remember fondly, but I think my favourite example of the type is the Super Nintendo version of Jurassic Park, which has a brightly coloured Legend of Zelda style top-down overworld, then when you go inside buildings it becomes a survival-horror first person shooter. It's a game-mechanically incomprehensible choice which actually makes perfect sense in terms of emulating the source material, and it's a small disappointment to me that nobody's ever made a serious effort at elaborating on it.
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Excellent J’onn.
urrhgfhg im just realizing how messed up my colours are from drawing in the dark but im.im so.no one talk to me this show is doing crazy things in my emotions
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Screeeeching at this meme a girl I went to high school w posted recently
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capybara
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Lilo & Stitch is a great example of a story that has no villains. It has antagonists, sure, but most of them are well-meaning. The worst person in the film is that little shit Myrtle, but she’s not in the film that much anyway.
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Holy shit, that’s cold.
Oh...
...Kara doesn't play
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