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Dammit and I bought Far From Home on Blu-ray thinking it wouldn't ever come to a streaming service I have.

Oh fuck yeah

This is how I saw it as well.

Literally every time I hear the name "Flag Smashers" I picture angry young adults stomping on a flag and think how stupid that looks.

I missed this!

Wow that topic title is certainly a combination of words.

Zemo kills Captain John Walmart at the end, right? That's where we all think this is headed?

I watched the first episode when it came out but decided to wait a few weeks for some episodes to build up before continuing. Glad I did. It was much more enjoyable and had much more momentum when I was able to watch the last three episodes back-to-back. John Walker is a perfect corruption of the ideals of Captain America. I'm loving the concept.

You could definitely argue it's in poor taste, but as far as "is it ok?" Well, who is actually harmed by this? The kids aren't actually being shown anything harmful. So it's only adults who are affected, who know the implication, and who are being offended by this.

Oh wow that's hilarious. WTF indeed!

Oh thank god!

They put a hood over his head? Pretty sure it was the gestapo.

Oh dude it's the running tiger channel! I love that channel! That thing better come with a 50 year warranty.

I like how that sounds!

Oh god.

Anakin was always destined to fail!

Yeah.... The description is enough for me.

You were only supposed to notice he was white.

Pfft Far Cry patch 1.3 beat it to the punch. You could crank it to levels no human eyes should ever be subjected to.

Fun fact, HDR lighting in games has been around since 2004. GPUs have been processing it for over a decade, but it was only recently that monitors have been able to actually display the higher color precision depth. Up until then, they had to do what's called "tone mapping" to reduce the color depth to something a non-HDR monitor could display. It's really not surprising that many games can be simply modified to remove this tone mapping step and output high dynamic range color to the display directly.

I'm sorry but arguing with this entire board (which I often have to do) is like balancing spinning plates and I just don't have the time to do it. Also you didn't even read the article we're talking about.

Oh boy, a lot to unpack here! Alright... I did say I can get behind the notion that many used the term purely because they hold misogynistic views, in the text you quoted of me. However, it's not correct, if the article is trying to be objective, to reframe the definition of the term. It's disingenuous. To remove the gender connotation for a moment, though it could be a matter of taste, a flawless character is a character without room for growth. You can argue whether that applies to TFA or not, but that's the gist of it. Even being "perfect" can be worked into a story as a flaw in itself, but if a story doesn't do that, the character is probably going to be rather boring or unrelatable. Again, this can be a preference. As a content creator myself, I will tell you, full stop, no one gets away with getting any detail wrong. Ever. The comments section will rip you to shreds if you get anything wrong. I don't keep up with Sarkeesian but I do remember her running a crowd-funding campaign and producing relatively mediocre results. See creators like No Clip, strafefox, Ahoy, Mustard, or Archipel for reference on how high the standard is for research-driven documentaries on YouTube. I called it out because it DOES distract from their overall point. I was onboard until I got to that point and was like "whoa, this blog isn't in any way even trying to be objective." It stood out like a sore thumb to me. Alright, let me clarify. In modern times, why do you think Batman tends to be more popular? Those points you mentioned about adopting a darker, more serious tone is exactly why I think that is. 50-80 years ago, flawless heroes were all the rage. When the world was in turmoil, people loved more simplified heroes that could do no wrong. Society since then has evolved their tastes. We want more nuanced, troubled characters that have as many struggles internally as they do externally. A term like "mary sue" probably wouldn't have even registered to people in the 30s through to the 70s. This post is already too long so I'm going to have to skip @skillzdadirecta post, but I'm sure my points probably already address his.

lol they didn't become a problem just with this movie. Maybe for some people it did. But as I said, the term existed before TFA, but you're still hung up on "well I never heard of it before then!" Ever wonder why Superman tends to not be as popular as Batman?

See, this is exactly the problem with discourse around this film. Alt-right hate groups latched onto this film and used it as a recruitment tool. From that moment forward, any criticisms about the film, even story-based, could be lumped into easier strawman arguments about feminism and race. And presto, suddenly criticisms about boring flawless characters can be nullified because a problematic term used used to describe it is now a stand-in for the swastika.

It's very relevant. The term itself could die in a fire and be replaced with something gender-agnostic, but the problem it describes is story-related. Also that's not what it means now.