The girl cried wolf and the villagers descended upon the friendly sheepdogs.
...There's a Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog cartoon in here somewhere....
I've mentioned it here before, but there's a thirty year old episode of Adventures in Odyssey that's a dead ringer for the current "book burning" nonsense going on. From an explicitly liberal teacher decrying their removal as censorship, to the books implicitly being sexual in nature. Listening to it again recently, I was shocked how much of it went over my head as a kid even though I still got the overall message.
I came up with it myself. I haven't read Dawkins either. The high-energy, constantly changing nature of the internet just makes radiation a fitting analogy. Especially looking at the results....
Scrooge McDuck has been lying to me this whole time!?
My brother got banned from a prominent Mega Man discord for "transphobia" because someone dug up a years old screencap of him saying he disagreed with trans ideology. He refused to recant, so they banned him. It's because of nonsense like that I refuse to use discord.
It really is a worldview that can only survive by infecting unrelated spaces and banning dissent.
The word "meme" comes from gene, being something that spreads and changes as part of existence. Social Media has been like exposing our memetic code to intense radiation, causing mutations and growths of unrestricted cancer.
Gotta love the Nintendo Directs. How else will we know that seven Farm Simulator RPGs are coming to market?
If the devs make a good game, great! Good for them. I will watch their careers with great interest. But if they don't make a good game, why should I care?
The "Indie Debut" award went to a game with a developer who's made at least two other games. Pizza Tower got robbed.
Not canon, as far as I'm concerned. Terry being genetically related to Bruce detracts from the idea that he was just some punk kid who had his own dead parent trauma that pushed him towards justice.
Yeah, evangelism will be certainly be made so much more efficient by killing nonbelievers.
The newer Pokemon trailers have given me an absolute hatred for the term "game footage not final." And the sheer number of midwits it has enabled to defend Gamefreak's corner cutting.
Something I find interesting is that they HAVE to race swap, because they've made the stories and history of everyone else off limits.
Think about it. Any display of an ethnic nationality other than white (or gag white-passing) is immediately labeled a racist stereotype and offensive, doubly so if it's a historical representation of a native culture. It makes everything that's not a safe "current year" narrative downright radioactive. And if you try to steep everything in a fantasy setting, they'll declare everything be "coded." Everything must have a real-life analogue that must be apologized for.
It's just another cog in the homogenization machine.
If Santa, the magical gift giver, existed for real, he'd probably give gifts to the people who hold onto their belief, regardless of age. After all, it's in his best interest to maintain the Christmas Spirit, as it's also his power supply. The problem, like with real life, is people would get jaded by the darkness of the world, and find ways to rationalize his gifts away, or secure themselves so tightly that he couldn't get in to deliver them.
My sister was in a lesbian relationship for the past few years. She "surrogated" for her own daughter. Now that she's left the relationship and come back to our neck of the woods due to her partner being controlling and manipulative dies from lack of surprise there's an understanding that the other woman still has a connection with my niece that's not so easily severed. It's all a mess and I hate everything about it. Especially since nobody can tell her "I told you so" without getting snapped at.
The only heterosexual couple allowed will be the Metallikats. And their mobster bickering will be changed to Mac being physically abusive to Molly instead of either of them going berserk if their counterpart is taken down. Because real couples never argue and still love each other.
Swat Kats already had two strong female characters in the main heroes' love interests. Callie was the mayor in all but name, and Felina was an Enforcer who could keep up with the Turbo Kat. Not to mention the female villains like Molly Manx and Turmoil.
But of course none of that counts because they all were either in or interested in relationships with men.
It speaks to their inability to separate fiction from reality. They can't comprehend someone doing anything in an imaginary context without actually wanting to do that thing for real.
My grandparents are really into the idea that we're in the End Times. I'm not convinced that we're in THE End Times, but rather in A End Times. History is cyclical, with rising and falling empires. I'll bet people thought that the world was ending when Rome fell too. We're on the precipice of a major fall, but that doesn't mean that the entire world is ending just yet.
I mean, have you SEEN the state of /v/?
There's a thirty year old episode of Adventures in Odyssey where a teacher was trying to get age-inappropriate books out of the school library and another teacher tries to smear her as a censorious busybody. It blows my mind that this nonsense has been around for this long with no real change
Yankee Doodle Intensifies
... Shapiro does realize he's put himself as opposition to God in this scenario, correct?
The thing is, a lot of those guys look goofy. How do you make a goofy, comic relief woman without getting complaints?
I always liked the concept of Steel. It's a shame that he didn't become DC's working-class Iron Man.