RoidingOldMan
@RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration 1 hour ago:
It’s a power strip not a surge protector.
- Comment on [deleted] 16 hours ago:
If the world will collapse in under 12 months, you should go spend all your money right now while it’s still worth something.
- Comment on What is my purpose? 21 hours ago:
“You pass butter”
- Comment on Is it paranoid to think that the midterms are already fixed for the republicans? And the Dems are just walking into a shooting gallery? 3 days ago:
Yes. Don’t let pessimism stop you from voting.
Fingers are already on the scale in tons of ways, like gerrymandering. But they can’t gerrymander away a massive victory.
- Comment on Good stuff 4 days ago:
October 31st.
- Comment on Small apartment? No problem just maximize space 4 days ago:
Think of the efficiency. You can microwave your hot pockets while on the toilet. No reason to ever get up.
- Comment on one step closer to 100%'ing life!! 5 days ago:
The amount of money spent is the deciding factor. If it was like $10, people waste money all the time. If it was more? Gets stupider by the dollar.
- Comment on Is there a website that can tell you the new names to I guess "classify" people? Like the R word, or the N word or skin color or nationaility? For ex. Is African American still acceptable and so forth 6 days ago:
Just ask people want they want to be called? There’s no list that’s going to be perfect in every situation.
- Comment on Every heartwarming human interest story in America... 1 week ago:
It’s the school lunch issue.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 1 week ago:
What the cops in NYC do is they wedge a leaf in the plate frame, so there’s always a leaf partially blocking 1 letter.
- Comment on Would hammering websites on black Friday actually cost companies money? 1 week ago:
You’re suggesting the “reddit hug of death” as a weapon. It would have to be something much smaller. Certainly not Amazon, who runs their own web services.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Saw someone the other day describe Portland as 'full of whimsical anarchists" or something.
- Comment on law enforcement partners 1 week ago:
Still, they’re having to call the police so frequently that this parking space made sense to someone. Maybe there’s something about their store that needs to change. If a strip club was having to call the police every single day, they’d probably shut the place down.
- Comment on Baby with heart defect carried by surrogate must receive treatment, Texas court rules, after intended parents request abortion 1 week ago:
Wild story.
- Comment on law enforcement partners 1 week ago:
“Our business has SO MUCH CRIME INSIDE that the police have special parking” is not a message that makes me want to come inside.
- Comment on How come when paying cash for gas, it is not like a coke machine where you can insert your money? And when it hits that limit it clicks off? 1 week ago:
Maybe by forcing you to go inside you’re more likely to purchase something? Or maybe it’s about the potential for crime? They would effectively become ATMs with less security.
- Comment on Is ICE still doing the so-called "immigrant" hardass stance and in the states we don't hear about because "bigger" stories? Kind of like the Nazi's did against Germans about the Jews? 1 week ago:
Yes. They’re still building more “detention centers” and still rounding people up.
- Comment on Is there a point to the Straight Of Hormuz? What is the difference between the Iranians having it than the US? What does it mean for the average joe in either country? 2 weeks ago:
IDK if there’s a point.
The Trump admin is going wild with imperialism. They did a coup in Venezuela. It went surprisingly well. Negotiations with Iran weren’t going well (over the nuclear stuff), so Trump decide to try that coup thing again. Killed the leader of Iran. With no actual plan for how that was going to go afterward. Now the dead leader’s son is in charge. He’s pissed at the USA. The main/only leverage Iran has is on the Strait of Hormuz. So now that the USA killed their leader, they’re using that leverage. Which is driving up the price of oil and hurting everyone, including the USA.
If the Iranians didn’t have control of the strait anymore, that would probably mean that the regime has fallen.
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 2 weeks ago:
World Wildlife Fund successfully got WWF to switch to WWE. Now they have to blur out their own logo on old matches. It’s quite bizarre.
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 2 weeks ago:
I assume it’s a new tag team, or something along those lines. This makes it so a rival promoter can’t use the same name for a different tag team, or sell competing merchandise. That sort of thing. Someone could still open “Vice City Coffee Co.” and sell shirts and it wouldn’t be directly competing with them at all.
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 2 weeks ago:
It’s only within the context of professional wrestling. Verizon has a trademark on the color red, but it’s only within the context of cell phones.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s pretty nonsense though. Superman can literally die for days/weeks and come back to life with the sun’s power. Krypto should be able to also.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 2 weeks ago:
Yes! That was plot hole that frustrated me early on.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s true at all, and there are nearly 100 years of Superman comics full of stuff that doesn’t fit that. I feel like you are commenting on the movies specifically and coming to the conclusion that these are the ONLY choices.
When they make a movie, they are OBSESSED with the 2nd idea. An enemy with equal power. Which is why we’ve seen 2 movies starring general Zod, despite him not being that major of a character. It’s why we got Doomsday in the Justice League movie. Hollywood filmmakers are clearly in love with the idea of two super people bouncing off buildings for 90 minutes. In the comics though, this would be boring as hell. “Essentially no stakes” as you put it. Correct. It’s boring. I hate that the movies always want Superman to become this. Because it’s not what the comics are like at all.
There are many options you have missed. There are limits to Superman’s powers. Remember that these are from detective comics. A good Superman comic involves a mystery for Clark Kent/Superman to solve. Like who is supplying Intergang with weapons. A good episode from the kids cartoon show starts with Clark Kent being assassinated, then Superman trying to figure out who did it and why. Superman Red Son (which has a cartoon movie with some changes), puts Superman in the USSR instead of Kansas, for truth, justice, and the communist way. Again, not remotely any of the 3 plot lines you have suggested.
Superman (2025) did a great job with this. Yes you’ve got an “equal” super-being for him to fight (Hollywood wouldn’t accept anything less), but ultimately it’s about Lex Luthor and the plot behind it all.
The Boys is a poorly written show that loves violence. They ran out of ideas within a couple years. Not surprised at all that everyone hated the ending. They wrote themselves into a corner very early on. They were always pushing the idea that violence was the answer, very unlike Superman in nearly every way. The fact that you see this as comparable to Superman is pretty frustrating. Frankly I think the whole show is a bit of a middle finger to Superman. It’s literally a show about how much they think Superman sucks.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 2 weeks ago:
It won’t end in a satisfying way. They never do. Game of Thrones or The Boys or any violence-focused show. Terrible endings, all of them.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 2 weeks ago:
Couldn’t get past season 1 of Invincible. You won’t like what I thought about it. But I’m a Superman fan who doesn’t like excessive violence, so hopefully you can understand where I’m coming from.
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 2 weeks ago:
Diane Keaton was once in a movie where she gets cancer. Meryl Streep is her hairstylist sister. She makes her this wig. Marvin’s Room (1996)
Before makeover: www.imdb.com/title/tt0116999/…/rm1756714240/
After makeover: www.imdb.com/title/tt0116999/…/rm991533057/ www.imdb.com/title/tt0116999/…/rm303667201/
I laughed so fucking hard when they put on that wig and all acted like it was great.
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 2 weeks ago:
I feel as though most war movies, especially the famous ones, the moral is always “war is horrible.” The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is about how hard it is to come back from war and resume life.
With the exceptions of Top Gun, Act of Valor (2012), Lone Survivor (2013), etc. Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) sticks out as propaganda-ish.
The ones I would actually call “war movies” and not propaganda. Like The Longest Day (1962), Tora Tora Tora (1970) are obsessed with their historical accuracy. Hard to call those pro-war.
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 2 weeks ago:
So tired of seeing revenge killing movies in Hollywood. As long as someone is truly evil and does something unforgivable in the 1st act, the “hero” is then justified in slaughtering like 100+ random people in a dark hallway in the 2nd act. I think it’s the only sort of violence we’re okay with anymore. Any other type of violence people might have a problem, but because it’s done in the name of revenge for a dead wife/dog/kidnapped daughter, that’s now been whitewashed as “good wholesome revenge killing.” Or something.
- Comment on Supergirl 2026 storyline 2 weeks ago:
I would like to see a situation that cannot be solved by strength alone. It feels like lazy writing to take that strength away. Kryptonite as a plot device is kinda old. But if you use it for a few seconds here or there, like Superman (2025) that’s great. What I definitely do not want is a movie about Superman without his powers.