The Nerd Thread (comics, movies, anime, cartoons, video games, lore, fun stuff, ect.)

I hope venom 2 does carnage justice and be like a horror film because a film without carnage not being shown killing people is lame and dumb; I don’t want no PG rated crap, I want it to be a R rated movie.

@Phantom Rider
 
Kinda of.

@northern haste  
Nothing is safe from Anime.
 
Except redneck stuff, I’ve never seen a redneck anime.

 
Adam shown actual size.  
Also the black girl stole Mulan’s armor.

@northern haste  
Anime will save Star Wars.

@northern haste  
Did Sonic Comic Artist draw that?

Just finished watching Black Widow.
 
Thought it was great. Though (spoilers) ||the reveal of who Taskmaster is was kinda obvious ||
 
Also post credit scene has a LOT of interesting implications on what’s gonna happen in the MCU

@Hali the Emoji girl  

 
me too

The first Venom was supposed to be R rated but got trimmed down to PG-13. So I’m not too sure Venom 2 will be rated R.

@Dustcan
 
I thought they already said it would be R rated? Maybe I’m misremembering.

@ichiban iceychan 1517  
so who was Master of Task? Somebody new in the series or Frank Grillo again?

This is, maybe semi political, but it’s more specifically nerd culture stuff so I’m going to post it here.
 
 
So I just stumbled upon an old interview of one Andrew Klavan, a prolific author and columnist and someone well known amoung writer circles. He was ranting about not liking some books, I think a Song of Fire and Ice, or the Witcher, because it showed “a woman fighting like a man” and that he, personally, believed that a woman would lose to a man in a sword fight 100% of the time.
 
I’ve seen this idea come up a few times in fantasy circles, and as someone who has currently two stories in production that involve female sword fighters I find this take hilariously inept.
 
By his logic, a slightly weaker man would 100% lose every time against a slightly stronger man. He implies that strength is the only factor in sword fighting, as if every sword fight in real life and fiction involves giant anime swords the size of a small car. He conveniently ignores swords like the gladius, a sword that was specifically designed to be used by pretty much every strength level and still be effective since it was necessary in an army of conscripts of various degrees of skill and strength. Or swords that are designed to be weapons of finesse, or other edged weapons that can compensate for slightly reduced strength. And you have real life women fencers, and sword fighters, and historical figures like Joan of Arc.
 
 
And in fantasy? Where magic and shit exists? You’re going to criticize that? Every good fantasy universe has some sort of strength enhancer via spell/enchantment/blessing/etc.
 
This is as dumb as the time a Vox writer said that fantasy was bad because it will make people more receptive of religion.
 
These outdated views have no place in fantasy literature.

@Zincy  
The smaller guy could always win if he stabs the bigger guy in the back. It’s the safest way,after all.

@Zincy
 
I mean, technically Joan of Arc was a poor commander with not much of a fighting record to note. Historians sometimes note that many of her “victories” were either due to dumb luck of the English to think “Nobody would be dumb enough to X” only for her inexperience to make her command her army to do X, or by frequently laying siege to poorly strategic (and therefore poorly defended) locations that only ended up useful by sheer quantity. She apparently never even saw combat!
 
But. Like. She was still part of the French military. Teen or not she had to have had some training, which right off the bat means she’d kick my ass 99 times out of 100. And the last 1 would only be because she felt sorry about seeing grown man cry after losing 99 times in a row.

@Dustcan  
As a wise man once said “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” There’s need to be a concrete name for when someone gets completely blind-sighted by something because they know better not to.

@Vortaxonus
 
Murphy’s Law.

@Zincy  
Julie d’Aubigny killed 3 noblemen one right after another in fair duels, allot of people have a warped view of the differences between men and women thanks to the size and buld differences being exagerated by media that tends to favor very petite women and very big guys or if the guy isn’t big like Tom Cruise will use cienma tricks to make them look taller,

I once responded that fans can write a better story than the original writers. Instead, several people condemned my statement.
 

 

 
Two other examples they used were Voltron and Five Nights at Freddy’s.
 
What do you think? Do you think that simply letting fanfic writers write your canon is a big mistake?

@HorsesandMuchMOAR  
Power Rangers let a fanboy write two Episodes,and look what happened!  
 
We got two of the most well-regarded Episodes of the whole show!

@HorsesandMuchMOAR  
Definitely, if you put them all on the same level like that.
 
Some can definitely take stories deeper and farther than the original writers, but leagues more are out to satisfy none more than themselves.
 
I mean, Rise of Skywalker, written by fans? Since when?

The biggest tragedy in film history  

@Dustcan  
or maybe “mad lass”.