Nothing wrong with that, I sometimes like a bad movie from time to time aswell. For instance I saw the Batman movie with George Clooney as Batman, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze and Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, and I still found it fun. I’ll also occasionally enjoy a monster movie.
Sometimes you just want to watch something with your brain turned off and just enjoy the laughs.
(cocks gun) Always has been
There’s gloriously bad fic, lots of it written intentionally which is my favourite when it’s done well
I don’t know, I think writing unintentionally bad prose (like The Eye of Argon) takes more effort than writing intentionally bad prose.
I still need her head.
This has almost definitely been a complaint in a peeves thread before but to me the worst part about the people who complain that things are too “woke” now is that they so rarely are able to define what “woke” means.
To me the only example of a series I can genuinely think of “going woke” was the previous season of Dr. Who - not because “omg Dr. Who is Dr. her”, but just how pandering it all felt.
“What do kids like? Stormzy? Yeah put that in for no reason.”
“Alright so we’re showing one of the single most important events in American civil rights history, how are we gonna depict this? Modern generic pop song - you’re a genius Larry!”
“You know what the kids enjoy? Greta Thunberg - quickly, make the Doctor perform an entire Captain Planet speech for the outro!”
Also sorry Meronspell for using your reply to springboard about the stupidity of people calling everything and anything woke as a critique
A great example. Reading some stuff, I just have to take a minute and reflect. This is a published (perhaps even recognised and awarded) author so what the hell am I doing?
At least I feel somewhat less bad about my awfully written characters and unremarkable RPing efforts.
Is cruise control for fast clickbait youtube money.
Something something Dunning-Kruger.
(Sung to the tune of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Woke is one of those words that used to mean something else ( original meaning being you were aware of racial inequalities and history of slavery in the US I believe) that then got taken to mean “everything I don’t like” by US conservatives. And so “woke” was put out to the same pasture as “Social Justice Warrior” , “Liberal” and “Socialist.”
Oh and how could I forget , “Feminist” fits in that line aswell.
Inadvertedly championing ignorance as a virtue.
50 Vig, 30 MND, time to catch my FTH up with my INT (INT is 34, FTH is 25)
What gets me about the ‘woke’ thing isn’t even the dog whistle buzzword it’s become, but the sheer, total and complete lack of self awareness the screaming baby crowd demonsrate.
i.e as low hanging fruit, “I can’t believe Rage against the machine took this stance, I’m never supporting them again”. As has been said… what exactly did these idiots think the message was all those years ago to begin with.
Dr Who has gone woke. Dr Who always had episodes centered around and taking a very specific stance in particularly social issues.
etc etc etc etc.
These are the sorts of people who think Al Murray is agreeing with them and it’s both bizzare and terrifying how incredibly, unbelievebly -stupid- they are. I genuinely don’t understand how they dress themselves, I really don’t.
Obviously the barking dogs at the head of the pack know what they’re doing… but the rest. It’s on the same level as flat earthers, it really is.
if they had even a shred of intelligence they wouldn’t be bigots
I will say to clarify my own criticisms of that season - I don’t mind the show including themes of environmentalism, racism, anything that typically gets the anti-woke crowd frothing at the mouth - but it was just the sheer unsubtelty of it all, like the writers were so proud of themselves for having included these difficult and challenging topics…
…that writers from seasons prior and decades before had already tackled in more interesting and creative ways.
Sorry, that wasn’t directed at you. I hadn’t read that post when I posted that.
I broadly agree the last series was… poor.
I think, perhaps, the funniest spoof of this entire brainrotted global cultural war is that ‘woke’ earns its terminology from Christian theology; to be “awoken” to the truth of God, essentially to become aware of Christ and His teachings and frankly, whichever way you look at it, its a bizarre situation that the group that insists on following God has turned a word meant to symbolise followers of Christ into a bad thing to call people.
Altneratively, for cross-culture comparison, look at at the Nirvana of Buddhism and Hinduism, the Enlightened State where one is awoken to the truth of reality.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single funny D&D comedy skit in my life.
This is not an invitation.
Dming you a 50 petrabyte zip bomb of crit role skits as we speak
I sincerely attempted to watch critical role after hearing the hype and I barely lasted an episode before deciding it wasn’t for me.
I’m happy other people enjoy it and I think it has been a great boon in getting more people into TTRPGs but if I never heard about them again that’d be just fine.
Also the Netherdeep adventure they made sucked.