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I'd differentiate between being special and being powerful. Okay, if you're more powerful than most people, that makes you special in a... -
Around here (Netherlands) the Dutch version of the comics and toys started in 1987 (I would have been 11), possibly a little earlier the...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Violence and (Geek) Entertainment with
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A good superhero (and other genre movie/TV show) is all about the subtext. Thunderbolts isn’t about a bunch of underpowered heroes... -
The Marvel movies (or any superhero movies) don't deal with the consequences of violence... except when they do. Plenty of examples have...
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To be glib, I grew up in the 80s, which I still think takes the crown for the most desensitized violence put onscreen whether it’s the...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread Violence and (Geek) Entertainment with Like.
I just watched Thunderbolts last week, and that movie's understanding of trauma is pretty solid, coming from someone with whom I viewed...
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I don't know when Mr. King made those comments, but if it is recent, there's an interesting point here: Mr. King just opened up the...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to The Soloist's post in the thread Violence and (Geek) Entertainment with Like.
Escapism vs Realism: Your choice what you want to watch and how often you want to watch of each. I'm not judging. Did King have a new...
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People have been referring to this "problem" ever since Wile E. Coyote ran off a cliff and Daffy Duck got shot in the beak with a shotgun.
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread Violence and (Geek) Entertainment with Like.
So I just rewatched the recent Superman movie, and this time around noticed even more how consistently they follow up nearly every bit...
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Both King and Hama have good points, and not just about Marvel and GI Joe. There is something dishonest about showing violence without...
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It isn’t enough to just show the gore either. It’s why I’m a big fan of shows and books like the Witcher which show the full range and...
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This thread is inspired by Stephen King's recent comment regarding the violence of Marvel movies being almost "pornographic." In a...
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DrunkonDuty reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Tall vs broad advancement in RPGs with Like.
Yeah. I did a more elaborate version myself some years ago, but it was more complex than most people wanted to fuss with (and was only...
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I think something was lost when multi-classing moved away from the AD&D model. Given the way XP worked, a two-multiclass character would...
