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No more cape shit once you hit 30. Do some praxis instead or read a good book.

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 94 points 11 months ago (28 children)

I don't even like superhero movies but the whole idea of "once you hit a certain age you are obligated to lead a sterile and joyless existence" never sat right with me

Ironically, the older I get, the less I care about what I am or am not "too old" to enjoy

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 58 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How is this even a fight? Buu would destroy Spider-Man in like a fraction of a second

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

Not if the writer wants spider-man to win

[–] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

I kinda would like to see a bit in Super where a western-style superhero just gets wrecked by a Goku-level threat. Kind of a "Hercule 2".

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 55 points 11 months ago (2 children)

No more cape shit once you hit 30. Do some praxis instead or read a good book.

smuglord I'm going to go read Ready Player One

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago (6 children)

In America children are made to read that book for their education

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[–] GenXen@hexbear.net 54 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, at 30 you should be ready to graduate to all of the capeless suburban dad fantasy schlock like Reacher, the Equalizer or CIA Jim in the Clancy bullshit.

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What about discussions on whether a person could win a fight to the death against various animals.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

oh that's evergreen

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[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 44 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm not really a superhero type of dude but I think people can enjoy these things and still be a good communist. Sometimes the brain needs a little slop

[–] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

image if someone started re-dubbing random popular movies but changed a lot of the dialogue to be about Marxism lol

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[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I feel like at this point in my life, my passion for a better world sometimes clouds reality and I feel like that can apply to all commies. I still don’t know whether “letting people enjoy things” has as much of an impact on material reality as we like to think (e.g. I don’t even think the average person looks at media like we do).

Fuuuuuuuck if I know though

[–] sharkfucker420@hexbear.net 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Dont get me wrong I totally understand looking at modern media these days and realizing how not only propagandized it can be but also how copy paste it is and hating it. I get looking at media through an ML lense and cringing only to then see another ML enjoying it and wondering how they don't see it the way you do. But I mean, at the end of the day, it's all mindless slop meant to be enjoyed as mindless slop.

I've definitely fanboyed over star wars and read hours and hours and hours of lore in an obsessive frenzy knowing full well the whole time that im "wasting my time" as if all of our time needs to be spent doing something meaningful or productive. Ironically I think this feeling is rooted in capitalism. The belief that all of our time needs to be spent furthering some goal is pretty horrendous in all honesty. I like my slop and I think slop is good for us in moderation (though the slop is not moderated well in most people)

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[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

I agree it's bad media but I don't think enforcing good taste is something we really ought to be doing

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[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Majin Buu would wreck Spoder-Man tho

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I think every single Z fighter, even Yamcha, would shit on Spiderman lmao

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[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah not even a contest. What is he going to do, shoot some web shields to block a planet sized energy blast?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Everyone likes to bring up the time Spider-Man beat Firelord (one of Galactus' heralds, on par with the Silver Surfer), but everyone always forgets the time he got beat up by Turner D. Century, the man who thought the world peaked in 1908

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Turner D. Century, the man who thought the world peaked in 1908

You gotta respect that pure concentrated cringe though. He even got to be specifically boomer Thanos

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

And because he was Boomer Thanos, it didn't work

Then he was killed by the Scourge of the Underworld

Then he was cloned by Nazi Scientist Arnim Zola

Then he was killed by Deadpool

Then he was brought back to life by The Hood to kill the Punisher

Now the Punisher became a ninja, got divorced, his ex-wife stole all his money and he's moved to Weirdworld to fight monsters and now there's a slightly different guy who's wearing a slightly different skull and uses lasers instead of bullets

comic books, folks!

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh no my date with Mary Jane, how do I shot web?!

And one punch that could split a planet in two vaporizes the web slinger.

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[–] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

sicko-hexbear Yessss battleboarding on hexbear

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I used to live for this shit as a kid, like we used to dream up Ryu from Street Fighter versus Wolverine...then MvC happened in my teens and it wasn't nearly as exciting.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They gave Majin Buu nipples lmaoooooooo

[–] Smeagolicious@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

It's so weiiiiird he's an artificial being he doesn't need nipples. It's one of the things that stands out in the character design in the show because the Saiyans all have nips but all Buu's transformations don't. He's always been a pretty well design character.

Anyway you joke about "Majin Booba" but uhhh Majin Buu's official wife is a female spawn he created and named Booby after finding Mr Satan's porno collection. The entire Majin race descends from them because they then fucked like rabbits. I am not joking. This is the canon explanation between Dragonball Online and Dragonball Xenoverse.

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[–] hotwarioinyourarea@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How else will he feed his young?

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[–] Egon@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago

I wasn't into capeshit until I saw this picture. I am now into capeshit.
Also you set the bar at 30? Telling.

[–] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

can you image being sandwhiched between those beefcakes

[–] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We can trace this down to antiquity. All the old stories of gods and heroes were cape shit. Achilles is just a Mary sue self insert OC. Just was that back in the day, like dioginese cranking his hog in the market square, people made their own. Now people have been so alienated they can't make their own anymore. The only revolutionary force powerful enough to fix this is Ao3.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago (8 children)

This is such a culturally illiterate comparison that it's hard to say where to start, aside from that Achilles, while "overpowered" is clearly not a Mary Sue. He was wildly unstable and occasionally blasphemous to the point that when he spent days dragging Hector's corpse to desecrate it, the gods intervened to preserve it.

People do make their own myths, probably the clearest example (awful as it is) is Roko's Basilisk. These designed-by-commitee entertainment products do not have the social origin of myths, nor really any of the functions of them.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Gay vibes are off the charts stonks-up

[–] FoolishFool@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] the_kid@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

it's my turn to do the 'Marvel bad' struggle session next

[–] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

Oh god what is this?

What is this?!!?!

What have you brought to my screen??????

#kitty-cri-screm

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

Neither would win. I would be the real winner because I discovered the meaning of friendship along the way.

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

I am penis head, prepare to die.

[–] DrCrustacean@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Spiderman vs Penis, who would win?

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

That penis has huge booba

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