The Layman Philosopher

The boys spent 5 seasons trying to gaslight people into believing the right wing was the radicalized terrorists when in reality, its entire fanbase is the unhinged lunatics

@Pirat_Nation RPGs are driven by passion. They're games by nerds, for nerds. The point is to completely immerse yourself into a new world. Romance included. Modern game development has no passion. It's not about delivering a game they're proud of and want to share. It's about maximum profit.

RPG developer Josh Sawyer says Obsidian Entertainment is not against romance systems like the ones in Baldur’s Gate 3. He explained that these features take a huge amount of time, money, and work to create properly. “It’s not like an opposition to their existence,” Sawyer said. “It’s just that I don’t know if we’re going to be able to do it.” Sawyer said romance systems need a lot of extra writing, voice acting, cutscenes, and character reactions. Because of this, Obsidian would rather focus on other parts of a game instead of adding romances that feel incomplete or low quality. He also said players now expect romance content to be as detailed as Baldur’s Gate 3, which raised the standard for RPG games. Sawyer added that Obsidian still cares about emotional stories and character relationships.

@screenrant Please come back! We know our OG series dropped off, but we promise the prequel will resolve none of the problems the tanked it in the first place.

#TheBoys creator Eric Kripke confirmed to ScreenRant that Jensen Ackles' spinoff will solve key mysteries left in the series finale: "...a lot will make sense that might not make sense to the viewers at this exact moment, but hang in there, it all will.." Full Quote: screenrant.com/the-boys-vough…

@BradPorter_ @scarlett_koller Not true. The aerospace industry is a mess. All of the OGs are retiring out. It's now full of 24 year old engineers, technicians barely skilled enough to wrench at Jiffy Lube, and an army of admins more obsessed with promoting Ibram X Kandi trash than building quality vehicles.

Aerospace is full of plane and space dorks. @scarlett_koller is one of them. Three MIT degrees, SpaceX Crew Dragon, NASA Perseverance, Amazon Kuiper, now founding Mithril. Deployed EP5 is out now. Check it out for some incredible stories: cobot-deployed.com/ep5

@CultureCrave Lol. Kripke got tired of getting dunked on. Had to let everyone know he wasn't the only one responsible for the bad creative decisions.

Eric Kripke says Antony Starr came up with Homelander's line about eating shit in 'The Boys' finale "I reached out to him before the script came out, and I said ... 'He goes out in the most pathetic way possible', And he was like, 'Of course. He has to. This is the end. He has to get a comeuppance that befits the horror that he’s been inflicting for the last seven years' So he totally understood it" "And as a matter of fact, he added the line 'I’ll eat your shit on live TV'" (via @RollingStone)

@AmiriKing Remember kids, everyone's vote is important. We're all equals.

These same people were doing backflips at their graduation last week.

@Critical_Scribe It's not laziness; it's ineptitude. You can teach "creative writing" but you can't teach world experience. In the end, a story will always hinge on the writer's understanding of how the world works around them, and how best to use those elements to effect.

If the world your story is in is inconsistent with how it works, people will notice and question why that’s happening instead of paying attention to the theme. Better consistency=stronger theme in the end because there are less questions raised. If you write a story and your explanation for everything is “because theme” then your story is barely a story and instead a soapbox. Your laziness is not a boon, you don’t get to lower the standards because you can’t be bothered to reach them when you think it’s beneath you. Your arrogance has zero foundation other than ignorance.

@MauLer93 Hey @MauLer93, nice breakdown but it's kind of short. When do we get the 6 hour exposition?

"My skin didn't char but I was screaming in agony, my tears just sizzled away." Homelander has a few moments that give insight to his relationship with pain. It defined his life and yet he has grown numb to it. He responds with anger in almost every instance of challenge but that's not because of the pain, it's the sheer desire for vengeance on a world that created him to receive and perform every torture and manipulation. Homelander took on three supes at once, got beaten, tossed around and nearly killed. He was inches from losing everything...but he didn't even hint at begging. He simply got more and more furious. Watch his fight with Maeve in s3, she can and does make him bleed but he goes for vengeance and immediately takes her eye. Not because he's so scared of her causing him pain but because he wants her to suffer much like anyone else crossing him as part of getting his pay back. Same for the guys who tortured him when he was a child. Homelander lasered his own arm open and didn't give much of a shit because pain isn't new to him whatsoever. He's an egomaniacal psychopath with a horrific history of intense childhood trauma turning him into a vengeful monster. This ending feels more like a self masturbatory fantasy where Kripke sees his enemies begging to suck his cock while he kills them. It does not however, for many in the audience, feel like the ending for Homelander. A broken monster losing the only avenue of enacting vengeance on the terrible world that he always wanted approval from. I would have perhaps expected him to see red, to enter an impotent rage, unable to do the damage he's desperate to achieve only to reach a despondent end. Knowing he is now incapable of taking that revenge, and has to simply deal with his psychopathy. Ending on a hard fought, bloody fight with Butcher, who would eventually win due to his training but at the very least give us a decent back and forth about how much meaning could be drawn from this fight. Butcher was created by Homelander and there's something to say about both men being exposed nerves turned empty shells, struggling to feel anything by taking even a sliver of vengeance whenever possible. I would picture them both drenched in blood, fighting to the bitter end, devoid of humanity, demanding payment for something they can't even fully rationalise anymore, after having taken so many lives. At the end, they couldn't even follow through on the threat Homelander was warned to be throughout the entire series, stemming from having lost a loving mother and father to protect and raise him as opposed to a sterile laboratory. The countless humiliations and tortures he suffered as a child, created Homelander as we know him. I guess, him being humiliated at the end is a good enough throughline to argue this was somehow worth it? "Evil Superman" was mostly a bad joke and they cashed in a petty ending for social media instead of finding something more in the material. Nothing here has layered thematic value for the history the show presented, your just supposed to vicariously enjoy kicking your own personal monster while he's powerless, enjoy him begging to suck your cock and eat shit while you kill him. It's all a rather long waste of time and can happily sit next to so many other stories that fail to realise their potential in this generation. But oh well, we still have Mandalorian and Grogu I guess...

@MarieIsabellaB Ball cleaning cup?

Looking back now, that was pretty gross🤢😂

@sircalebhammer Apparently, I live in a bubble. I only know of four of these podcasts.

Fuck me you guys are amazing. Number 3 in the WORLD!

"HoMeLAndEr wAs WeAk! HaHa! HE sUCk Da DIcK WiKe TWumP!" - the media literacy crowd x.com/i/status/20573…

@AnalysisAizakku @RealEmirHan x.com/i/status/20574…

@thelaymphilo @RealEmirHan Homelander, the guy that spends his time craving a parental figure, looking for approval, and drinking breast milk wouldn't be cowering in fear once you took away the only thing that made anyone put up with him? What show have you been watching?

In The Boys finale, Homelander had to look powerless according to Eric Kripke “Yeah, it was really important to us for Homelander to at least experience a little bit of time powerless.” “People have asked me, ‘Well, why don’t you send him out in the world powerless, wouldn’t that be the ultimate punishment?’ “I’m like, it would, until he gets his hands on some more Compound V, and then you’re back to where you started.” “So, he cannot walk out of that room alive, but we can spend time with him powerless to really reveal what everyone’s been saying all season, which is, ‘Take away those powers and you are nothing.’ “And he’s so cowardly and blubbering and pathetic, as are most strong men when you remove their power and they’re and they’re faced with their imminent death, they rarely handle it bravely.”

@VissensLair @RealEmirHan Strength doesn't mean flawless. Homelander was a test tube baby and treated as an experiment, not a person. In the beginning, he thought he wanted approval, but learned fear was a powerful motivator. What he discovered was he wanted reverence, not love. That was his "growth."

@thelaymphilo @RealEmirHan By "an actual man" do you refer to the mommy issues, daddy issues, breast milk fixated weirdo who only wanted approval and was terrified of being called upon so he just killed?

@TheLaurenChen Low IQ Blacks saw Chuck Norris jokes and said, "hold my fentanyl, fam."

My favorite part about black history is how you can just make it up

@FightWithMemes A beer; and not having to hear about the latest escapades of Tina the office bitch for a night.

What's the equivalent of flowers to men?

@lporiginalg I genuinely don't care about the voice actor. As long as the character sounds and acts true to its established lore, then hire whomever. The issue arises if the character is race swapped and has an entirely different personality, like that atrocity Velma.

Uncanny resemblance

@disparutoo @Nerdrotics It's because Homelander is supposed to be Trump. They don't fantasize about putting him in prison; they dream of seeing him dead. This was a cathartic release for Kripke. It could never have been anything else.

@Nerdrotics My ending was actually better. Turn Homelander human but still immortal. put him in prison forever so he had to live as a weak man for all time. A lesson to him about having the horrors inflicted on him he did to others with no way out, even death. But nah just kill him.

The Boys finale was as bad as the show has been since season 2. Nice to see people figuring that out.

@aeredhell @dyingscribe It starts to suffer in the later seasons. You can tell the writers were running out of ideas and just throwing shit at the walls to see what stuck. But by that point, it didn't matter. The cast was likeable; the action was fun; and you just wanted to see the spectacle.

@thelaymphilo @dyingscribe banshee is so good, watching it this very moment