Ma Dong-Seok’s character in his Outlaws/Roundup film series being called Ma Seok-Do is peak character naming.
I would’ve thought that the many characters intentionally designed to be aesthetically that already exist in that game would be more than enough for most people. By god, even grandma Demeter and bloody Hephaestus of all people have fans thirsting after them, they look that good.
Are people really rallying against Supergiant solely because they’re angry about Hestia being a little old lady with vitiligo, among a vast cast of characters designed to be pleasing to look at? Also, they’re several years too late when it comes to being angry about Hades depicting Greek gods with different skin tones.
It’s an extremely peaceful and prosperous and enlightened society, but it also comes with its fair share of flaws. It’s not dystopian, but it’s a “utopia” with a few troubling quirks.
The individual responsible for its downfall was also flawed and absolutely did the wrong thing in more than a handful of ways, but some of his criticism was correct. A lot of the stuff that civilisation did was troubling.
Personally, I find that I’m more likely to run into the opposite crowd, who claim that said society was the perfect pinnacle of civilisation, and that the bad guys were right, and that Square Enix are jerks for not letting us side with them, and so on.
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Of course, that’s fine and valid, but it’s your answer not the correct answer – in the sense that there isn’t a right/wrong.
I think the worldbuilding of it is cool, but I don’t think it’s entirely utopian based on what we’re shown.
It’s interesting that rather than being too cruel for that world/society, he was too gentle and empathetic that it broke him. What he wrought needed to be stopped, but I could appreciate why he ended up like that.
Oh, for sure.
But when has common sense, being late or an ability to refrain from metaphorically licking windows ever stopped the brave and mighty Culture Warriors? 
Apparently there’s talks going on for a Shogun season 2. Dunno how they’re gonna do that, given how S1 ended. Maybe instead of doing the shogunate’s rise they’ll do the Meiji Restoration and show its fall.
Either way I think it’d need a whole new cast of characters.
Though if Hiroyuki Sanada showed up playing someone else I’d 100% be fine with that.
It’s where the book ends too
I thought it would be. An S2 without any existing material to draw from does activate my “Game of Thrones Season 8” concerns.
I guess if they didn’t want the mid-1800s aesthetic for Shogun S2, they could go back and do a ‘prequel’ focused on Not!Nobunaga Oda and end it at Honno-ji.
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Honestly, stop seeking out their drama or exposing yourself to it, save yourself from the terminally online brainrot.
Impotent storm in a tea-cup drama.
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Okay, wait though.
What kind of tea?
The absolute pish-water that is typhoo. 
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Peeve: Too tired to do anything today. Please body let me have my hobbies
Awakened Fyrakk dead - legendary dropped and went to our paladin healer.
lol, and dare I say it, lmao
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You say that like it’s so easy.
The Warhammer fandom has been flooded with brainrotted edgelords. I’ve block spammed so much that I’ve got rid of the majority, but it still seeps in around the edges, like a faulty sewage pipe.
It’s almost a good thing that 10th Edition 40k is just putting me off with its hardcore focus on Meta/Tourni gameplay so I can focus on Bolt Action. I do find it deeply ironic that there’s less intolerable Fash in the literal WW2 tabletop game…
We’re watching one Disney princess movie after another with The Girl™ and it really sparks her imagination.
“I want a Luthien dress! And a Belle dress! And a Rapunzel dress! And an Elsa dress! And an Anna dress!”
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And related to the above.
People who say “Beauty and the Beast is about Stockholm syndrome” not only don’t know what they’re talking about, but probably haven’t even watched the movie.
Belle absolutely refuses to do anything with the Beast while he holds her prisoner and issues her ultimatums. She has so much self-respect that she’d rather starve than acquiesce to his demands. It’s only after he saves her from wolves at the expense of his own health that she warms up to him and eventually realizes that he’s not evil, just ostracized and driven to madness by loneliness.
Beauty and the Beast is about an outcast recognizing, and befriending, and eventually bonding with a fellow outcast over the posterchild for toxic masculinity in whom a lifetime of pandering and hero-worship bred entitlement and an inflated ego. If Belle inexplicably fell in love with Gaston after his repeated harassment and attempts to wed her by force, that would have been Stockholm syndrome.
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It tracks with real-life Stockholm syndrome, which was a lie made up by cops to explain how they botched a hostage situation so badly that the hostages began to hate the cops
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Really? I didn’t know that. Link?
Thankfully the wikipedia page on it is pretty good as an overview
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome#
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Also, we watched an episode of Sofia the First where Princess Amber cheats in a costume contest by asking the royal sorcerer to conjure her a costume, but he deliberately fumbles the spell to give her real butterfly wings instead (which she only learns later when she fails to take off the “costume”).
And then everyone treats it as a curse to break and is relieved when she’s brought back to normal.
And I was like… girl, you’ve just got wings that let you fly (which actually proves instrumental to saving the day). If it happened to me, I’d keep them.
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For real. If you polled people at random, I bet the most common super power most people would want is flying. It’s so practical even for normal life, not just heroic things.
The weirdos and pervs would choose invisibility.