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@eric-coldfire / eric-coldfire.tumblr.com

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Tragic news! The big bad has put up a "DNI if you're an adventuring party or on a quest to stop evil", so it looks like there's nothing the PCs can do about their scheme :(

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Get the illiterate Barbarian in here!

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I don't have DNI's but there are certain rules.

-> Evil Lair is closed to all visitors on Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays unless an appointment is made beforehand.

-> Leave your horses at the designated parking space.

-> Male adventurers are welcome on Mondays. Please approach the western entrance with huge open space in front of it. Please ignore the smoldering remains of previous visitors

-> Female adventurers are welcome on Tuesdays and Thursdays - please come directly to the audience/throne room.

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They say bad ideas.

Hence why I immediately believe this is in D&D 5E/5.5E.

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book cover - Brigitte: Operacion Estrellas - circ Feb 1967

Jose Luiz Benicio

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"I am Wonder Woman, Princess of Themyscira, and I am here to make the world a better place!"

"Yeah, sure. Do you have some kind of magical laser beam that can heal any illness?"

"As a matter of fact, I do. It's purple."

"Really? That's great! Can we have it?"

"No. What I'm going to do is go around and give speeches and if you follow my advice, that will solve your problems."

"Okay, well, one of our problems is that when we get sick, it can cost a lot of money for us to get better. What should we do about that?"

"On Themyscira, when we enlightened Amazons get sick--"

"Does it involve the purple laser beam?"

"It does."

"We still don't have that."

"Well, there's your problem, you need to invent one. I've already told you it's purple. Get to work."

"What about religious conflicts?"

"Oh, that's simple. Do all of you worship Zeus?"

"No."

"If all of you worshiped Zeus, that would completely solve your problem."

"What should we do about education?"

"Be immortal and don't have kids except for one single time."

How does anyone in the DC Universe put up with this lady?

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You're putting words in Diana's mouth. When has she ever spread the idea that the way the Amazons live is good or right for the rest of the world? Not to mention that DC's Amazons don't even worship Zeus. The patron deities that gave Diana her powers are the female Olympians (plus Hermes).

(The purple rays not being more commonplace I'll give you, but that's a "why doesn't Reed Richards cure cancer?" problem, where the availability of revolutionary technology to regular people is constrained by the need for the setting to somewhat resemble modern-day Earth.)

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I'm saying she's incredibly privileged and cannot offer solutions for much of Earth's problems because they're outside the context of her specific insular culture. Her saying "just tolerate other religions" is useless because she comes from a world where there are no other religions to tolerate.

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First look at SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE set to release in theaters June 4th, 2027

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Not to be mean, but these movies would be so much fun if the entire MCU weren't also all about the multiverse and the agency policing the multiverse and how there are important rules to keep from imploding the universe and here's a guy from another universe who's like our guy but he's EVIL!

It's a fun concept, I won't say it isn't, but I don't need Doctor Strange AND Deadpool AND the Fantastic Four AND Spider-Man AND Loki AND Ant-Man AND I guess Captain Marvel AND two movies' worth of Avengers to ALL be dedicated to this one particular not-very-big idea.

It's enough. WE. GET. IT.

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The art style just keeps getting uglier.

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The Left is the one that doesn't want politics in entertainment, not the Right

The Left doesn't want to debate black crime rates, so whenever you see criminals in a movie, they're a multiethnic gang, the Russian Mob, or Neo-Nazis.

The Left doesn't want to debate Muslim terrorism, so whenever you see a terrorist in a movie, it's a white guy.

The Left doesn't want to debate women in the military, so whenever you see a woman in a movie, she's easily able to KO multiple 220-pound guys despite being 105 pounds herself.

This is the problem with wokeness. We allow Hollywood to create a fantasy world so that everyone can have a good time and then it both presumes to lecture people based on that fantasy world ("How can you think black people are criminals? Don't you see WE'RE telling you different?") but it enacts a double standard for the unrealisticness.

Women are allowed to enjoy movie characters that are attractive men with unattainable physiques in flattering costumes, but when a man wants to see Sydney Sweeney in a skintight catsuit, THEN comes the insistence on "real women don't look like that!"

That's what the Right means when they say they don't want politics in entertainment. It's powering down the real world for EVERYONE, not just the pet causes that would make you uncomfortable if they were shown accurately.

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They'll still be dead.

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Justified Murder. I'd slaughter someone in a heartbeat if they committed atrocious acts. I hate this argument. It's so boring.

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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. So, yeah, justified murder.

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I can respect "I'm not going to kill someone because I don't have the right to make that call, but I will use all my power to stop them from hurting an innocent person."

And.

"I will commit my body and soul to exterminating evil from this world, even if it demonizes me. I'll gladly make that sacrifice to safeguard the innocent."

Both are good when done well.

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Superman and Punisher's worldviews, respectively.

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Both are right.

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