… I mean, it’s a war on the commercialisation of christmas, as opposed to its religious source…

although St Nicholas, whom Santa (saint) claus is based, is a… saint.

👦: Oh yeah Artemis of Efes, what are you wearing?

🤖 : I am wearing a bra that covers all of my forty plus breasts. Ooops, one of them came out. I guess I should take it off 😏

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis#Ephesian_Artemis

👦: Venus of Willendorf, is it true, are you fertile?

🤖 : Oh yeah, my gut hangs over my legs. Look at my limestone carving, but don’t show your friends, I’m shy 🥵

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine

Is this grandpa blaming his grandson? What fucking 11 year old has access to “any celebrity” and chooses a woman that’s been dead before their parents were born, or a … 60? 80? plus year old woman?

EDIT: Whitney houston is messing up my head, she was born in 1963, died 2012 but was under 50? (aged 48). I thought she was way older and alive. Also, I imagine people from the 60s to be old as fuck now. Although I thought she was like 30 or 40 during the 80s.

IDFK, I can barely remember my own age.

I can let you all know that here in Uruguay, all the Iranian hezbollah is very busy trying to illegalise cannabis and abortion. (Oh wait, the Iranians have legal abortion, unlike texans)

The iranians are trying to help the trans people transition. Sometimes they suggest the cis gay people do it too, which makes it awkward.

EDIT : The irony is that the venezuelans down here are actually super right wing , working as barbers or pedidos ya (LATAM uber eats)

Just ask Ian to start your computer when he goes on it

The world would be so much better with women in charge.

The women in charge we end up with :

(nb : I’m not saying women are incapable of power, just that assuming women would be great leaders is a stupid idea. There are examples of great/not horrid female leaders like Jacinda Ardern, but thatcher, this woman, Kirchner, theresa may, the lettuce woman are all terrible)

My extremely popular opponent can’t take over my role if he’s in jail for a zillion years

She consented to something but didn’t consider/understand what that something implies.

so… she’s stupid?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKMLthL_g0

planet earth was a perfect utopia until… the asteroid hit

nope, is the music good and not poppy slop like most other musicals, and if the music is good, is it actually funny at the same time?

That’s what I find it difficult to enjoy about musicals, either it’s unfunny or really broad humour or the music is too shitty.

Joe Momma.

how can it be, it’s a musical. There’s only like 3 good ones, Moulin Rouge, Nightmare Before Christmas… and maybe the weird al one?

Hero’s journey :

So, Light goes through call to adventure, supernatural aid, and threshold guardians? Ok.

All the characters go through “challenges and temptations” but aside from Light not going for the Shinigami’s eyes, they generally tend to cave to whatever temptations they’re presented with. I assume

Is the death & rebirth and transformation. I don’t see the atonement, return nor the gift of the goddess. Also, I thought the hero’s journey had “visit to the underworld” as part of the abyss, and also a voyage to a strange land which again, feels missing.

I appreciate you sharing your point of view though.

who’s who? I thought Light and L were fairly similar in their types of intelligence and both felt book smart.

Light = Book Smart
Light’s Father = Street Smart

ah yeah, that makes sense

the story is illustrating “book smart” from “street smart”.

who’s who? I thought Light and L were fairly similar in their types of intelligence and both felt book smart.

Death Note is a variation on the Hero’s Journey trope

how? It just seemed like a typical “antagonist and protagonist are mirrors” with a villain protagonist in Light.

it’s some plot holes/stupid stuff I noticed watching. Here’s a comprehensive list , I can’t remember anything specific because I watched it about a year ago and you know, flippantly.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WhatAnIdiot/DeathNote

One part of my perception of Light is that he expects killing every petty criminal would solve all crime forever and that society would evolve into worship of him or something stupid like that. He does nothing to address actual social ills or people with enormous amounts of power or anything like that. Other similar holes in logic, putting himself in many contrived and risky situations , the final showdown, etc etc.

Also, the show was very much a product of the post 9/11 world and its views on justice and human rights abuses.

Light was a teenager. He’s always lived an easy sheltered life under the care of his parents. He’s lacking any real life experience. In my mind, his juvenile sense of justice is right in line with someone of that immaturity especially given the power he got from the Death Note.

sure thing. It’s just combining that with the “I smelt the onion in his farts, that breed of onion only grows in the nagasaki region” style writing of “smart, observant people” makes the show kinda silly , while the tone is suuuuper serious about everything.

I watched it out of curiosity and to practice my spanish (netflix dub). In a way I’m glad I gave it a miss in its heyday when I was at uni.

Light is an asshole, bully and ironically an idiot. he uses the deathnote in an infantile manner and his sense of justice is juvenile.

also, deathnote was mid.

What a monumental disgrace to have this clown in charge for the 250th anniversary

actually no. I mean yes, it’s a worldwide issue, but the point I’m making is that in terms of natural resources and system of governance, Argentina actually has a lot going for it. They have a two round election system, the elections are fair and reliable, the amount of terms someone can serve as president is limited, they have abundant natural resources, free and high quality public education, etc etc.

For all intents and purposes, the argentinian public doesn’t have as many excuses as other countries, for having such shitty governments. There’s no unfair vote distribution, there’s no lack of resources, there’s sufficient education opportunities for social mobility and so on and so forth. If they bothered voting for a decent party instead of idiots, they’d be faring far better than they are.