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7 days agoYou and I have very different definitions of “mildly”
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2·7 days agoGiving you an upvote because I think this is a legitimate position, but I strongly disagree. AI has become so pervasive in our lives that it’s extremely difficult to avoid even offline, so I see no problem with someone saying in an irl conversation, “I wish my mom would stop sending me AI slop videos” or “I can’t help but feel paranoid I’m going to wake up one morning and find out I’ve lost my thesis work to the latest microslop update” or “I’ve started dreading work ever since they hired ‘workslop Bill’”
My comment was more about the use of “female” as a noun, but your comment about which to use as an adjective raises an interesting point, especially because, as you mention, the generation to regularly say things like “woman doctor” in a not-so-great way has mostly died out. I’m not sure where things stand currently on which adjective is preferred; I think it’s mostly contextual at the moment? (Like “I would feel more comfortable being examined by a woman doctor” sounds grammatically a touch clunky but connotatively fine to me, whereas “I can’t believe what that idiot female doctor diagnosed me with” sounds grammatically correct but otherwise awful)
I agree that
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Jinx’s actions are extreme, but I think the writers do a satisfactory job of setting up the final scenes. They show Jinx overhearing Silco and her misunderstanding that he will turn her in to show her feeling cornered, they show her losing previous allies like Vi and Ekko to emphasize how she feels completely abandoned, and they show her suffering hallucinations to demonstrate her fragile mental state. What she does is sad but completely tracks with her character and the setup from previous scenes. Then her attack on the council is (I interpreted) a means of lashing out after Silco dies, while also to get revenge and honor him in a way that she thinks would have made him proud. Again, completely tracks with the setup.
“Female” instead of woman or girl.
Edit: as in, where “woman” or “girl” would be grammatically correct. e.g. “a lot of females work at that company” vs “a lot of women work at that company” or “that company has a lot of female employees”
I actually thought the ending to S1 was brilliant, especially for a cliff hanger, and that the first arc of S1 was the weakest of the three (although E3 was quite good), and that S2E7 was just okay, so it’s likely that we have different tastes.
S1 did an excellent job of its storytelling, such as show don’t tell; character actions driving the plot, not the other way around; and well-written villains with clear motives. S2 fell flat on a lot of those fronts. I’d need to rewatch it for a proper write-up, but some examples from what I remember:
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Jinx (and to a lesser degree Vi when interacting with Jinx) acts in a number of ways that felt entirely plot-driven. I could not take the entire Vander comes back plot line seriously (the emotional moments felt forced and cheesy). Isha was a really weak character, obviously only there for Jinx’s character development (no wonder they made her mute). It seemed like characters got killed off based on whether their survival would be inconvenient for the plot (e.g. Maddie, Loris, Isha, Vander). The Jayce torture felt excessive. Ekko turns into an exposition-spewing device. The AU plot line was forgettable. Neither Ambessa nor Viktor remotely matched Silko in terms of being a good villain. Minor characters in S2 aren’t anywhere near as rich and fleshed-out as those of S1.
A lot of what made S1 great continues over into S2, such as the soundtrack and animation. But the character development, writing, and little details just didn’t match up in S2.
Re: Bee and Puppycat – YouTube or TV show version?
I thought the short-form YouTube version had much better pacing.
Archer was great until the South Pacific season (S9). It’s like they fired all their writers and hired new ones off temu. I stopped watching there; does it get better after that?
I thought S1 Arcane was brilliant, but S2 (especially starting with E4) fell apart. Still had some good moments though.
Your two anime picks are Cowboy Bebop and… Future Boy Conan!?
Ngl, didn’t know anyone else even knew that series existed.
I propose a border swap: USA gets Alberta, Canada gets Washington State
(Please I beg you get me out of here)
I don’t care, I’m not giving up the em-dash in my own writing. Good luck reading half of my run-on sentences without it~~~