Thinking on it, for as awful as Simpson characters are as people the consistent trend seems to be that most of them are usually better parents than Homer.

You know people complain about how much the big box office stuff today is iterative of past films but looking through the box office of the 00’s and 90’s it’s not too uncommon there either. Hell it was probably true decades prior.

I've played a lot of classic videos games but not gonna lie I do feel a lot I need to replay to have a more solid take on them. Should really go through the Megaman games again.

It’s wild to me right-wingers will complain about the competency of any institution or practice but yet will jump to defend the incompetence of any military or law enforcement body. You can be pro-blue while admitting there are very incompetent police officers.

One trope I love with any rpg, both western and Japanese, is the moment around the end when the whole party gives the “final word” before facing the final boss, reminiscing on the journey before that. Even the shittiest RPG’s get me with that trope, it hits me every time.

Nobody wants to admit they actually have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to economics.

Part of me thinks certain AI videos would be funny or enjoyable if the ai slop part of it didn’t exist.

I just realized Persona 3 didn't come out in NA until 2007. For some reason I always thought it was earlier.

Christian lore would be so much cooler if the dominant view became Gnosticism.

More people like to performatively grandstand over RTS games than actually play or understand the meta of those games. Anytime I see anyone refer to APM as something to jerk over I’m convinced they actually don’t know what high level play is in most RTS titles.

It’s kinda funny that Guardians of the Galaxy became so big that it got a bunch of non-MCU stuff made for them but weirdly no one ever talks about them.

It’s very funny that people know so little about Iran that they think that protests happening will result in people disavowing Islam in favor of Christianity and Zoroastrianism which is such a laughably ignorant view centuries of history.

I dunno why but Tien shilling never ceases to make me laugh

Lowkey think I actually prefer Trudeau over Mark Carney.

Kind of a shame Neo Yokio went nowhere because Jaden Smith could have been legendary as a cheesy anime protagonist.

A lot of people acknowledge the existence of corruption but have no clue what that actually is.

It’s funny people will target migrants and accuse them of negative traits but never come into consideration if those negative traits aren’t that dissimilar to the natives.

I feel a lot of games would be better if they were shorter. A lot of titles don’t really have enough depth or sustainability to last 10-12 hours of investment as opposed to a more reasonable 4-5.

People have this weird mentality that every Muslim country functions under the same moral and legal principles which makes me think they'd receive extreme culture shock if they went to certain places in Indonesia or Turkey.

You know it's kinda funny to think that people who are critical of "woke slop" seem to have this mentality that everything must conform to safe, conventional practices otherwise it's a failure. What a boring, stale mindset to have on things.

I find it boring if the only thing people have to say about an ideology is calling it immoral or evil. It's far more valuable to dig into the specific issues of the ideology than have such a bland view of how people generally act.

Thinking about it, I actually think Justin Trudeau has had notable success in a lot of things within the first 5 years of his premiership. It didn't start going downhill for him until covid, in which case he went rock bottom.

I hate how little respect academics have nowadays, especially by blue collar workers who only see value in how much money people make. They’re not always right but they typically have far more weighty arguments and justification for what they say than the laymen.

It blows my mind people will see immigrants work menial jobs like a bus driver or daycare worker and think that person has a lot of wealth for some reason.

It’s kinda funny that so many people push ai slop as some deep artistic achievement when it’d be easier to sell it as a tool for unhinged shitposting which can actually be funny on occasion. But like, I certainly wouldn’t cry if it stoped existing.

You know it's odd for as much flak South Park gets now for its political commentary that people seem rather ignorant of how much shittier it was in their early seasons. Looking back at it before the Trump season you can disagree with whatever stance they had on a multitude of

It's funny the whole "games are art" bit is even a thing because I don't think anyone treats any medium as "art."

Thinking about it, I think the interest in making Disney villains morally sympathetic comes down to how much more common it's become for people to pull the extreme relativism on fucking everything. And god, I hate that shit so much.

Sometimes I think people need to admit in many situations a police officer did nothing wrong and stop doing this performative conspiracy shit that assumes they always have some sinister agenda they're hiding.

Yeah at this point no one can pull the dove rhetoric when Trump just invaded Venezuela.

You know it’s always so funny to me that people will point to a lost of traditional culture as a result of Islamization but never do this with Christianity. Imagine some guy dressed up like an Incan down Peru and people acting like Christianity ruined the nation or something?

Honestly feel like the world would be a better place if our population was lower. Cut India and China's population by half, cut Africa's population down by 75%, cut America down 60% etc. This is not to say corruption or what have you wouldn't be an issue, but resources wouldn't be drained as hard.

People insist on nuance but expect the result of nuance to not take a side on something. Understanding nuance is not about being toothless in your conviction but understanding the broadness of a topic, in which case it makes your standing more valid when you can express nuance.

I think South Park is interesting to look at in terms of studying zeitgeist politics because South Park was far more specific and overt about it in the way something like Family Guy or The Simpsons weren't. You would never see either of those tackle scientology the way SP did.

I feel people really don't get how diverse Bollywood actually is. The cheesy, over edited action films are a big part of it but to me saying this is what embodies Bollywood is like saying 80's action movies is what embodies American film. The industry is massive, expect diversity

I don't think anyone should be trusted if they scorn at the idea of needing to provide actual sources or references to what they claim, especially if the claim is extremely contentious.

There has always been an aspect of "entertainment" to how people discuss and convey history but a lot of older documentaries on this topic tend to have a condescending view of their audience assuming they're completely clueless and subject them to cultural biases as a result.

People complain about modern Youtubers and the weak standards/accountability for them with documentary like content but man people need to talk about this with some perspective. Older documentaries, especially for history, were so god awful and distractingly disingenuous. I

I feel the problem with people calling younger generations dumber is that it placates older generations as more intelligible when they are often the ones spreading the rhetoric that young people believe and boomers are equally influenced by the same narratives.

It's pretty funny to think people confuse incompetence for corruption.

I think people have a very poor memory of things in the past. Believe it or not, there’s a lot of things that aren’t all that different back then compared to today.

Andrew Tate's boxing record is like if someone only played against low rank shitters in Street Fighter and pretended they were hot shit for doing so.

I just learned Rob Schneider is Filipino.

I feel like I keep myself informed more out of habit than any personal benefit.

It's pretty funny that MVC2 top tiers are utter bullshit that would never be allowed even in most 00's fighting games but people love them anyway because the whole game is obscenely imbalanced and that's just part of the appeal.

It's pretty funny to me that Canadian voters have insane and unhinged beliefs but Conservative politicians are relatively mundane and don't play into that the way politicians in America or the UK do.

Nobody seems to have any idea what "culture" means. In practice it's actually "things I like vs things I don't like."

I feel people's modern perspective of India clouds so much of what India has been throughout its history where they just assume their modern perception and stereotypes associated with the nation should be conflated with the whole of their history and society rather myopically.

people who are critical of journalists are not unjustified depending on the context but most have a moronic idea of accountability, assuming that any who don't pursue their ideology is a bad journalist and often times they'd be destroyed if given similar accountability.

It's so funny to call criticism of Israel anti-Semitic when their leader is openly making up Holocaust denialism.