Was she a Stalinist? She sure as hell never did anything wrong.
79 posts and 13 image replies omitted.>>43023Jack Slash's character just pisses me off, because on top of already being a boring character he also has a
bullshit secondary ability to explain why a reddit edgelord is able to do cross country murders with a mediocre power and not get instantly sniped by literally any cape, let alone convincing/forcing a bunch of other people to do it with him.
>>43025He could've been offed by any non-powered person, which could also have worked within the history. Just replace him with someone else who triggered with Broadcast.
His main power is really cool, and lends itself well to animation. Too bad there wasn't much fights with him exploring this.
>>43031In general the series seriously never addresses the fact that trained soldiers with guns should be able to kill most capes. The only people it wouldn't work on should be people with danger sense/precog/thinker powers or people with invincibility but most capes aren't like that even the ones in say S9. Most of S9 should have just been killed by like crack government death squads.
Also the idea that Cauldron is selling powers for as little as a million dollars or so yet the government hasn't been able to fund/recruit any cape teams directly.
I think one of the things that annoyed me the most though was the idea of the Undersider's 'territories', like how exactly were they making any money from this? Yes Coil was bankrolling it initially but surely even he must have wanted to monetise the process, and after he was gone, apparently Skitter et al still refuse to even sell drugs in their territories (which just comes off as parochial and absurd considering they're warlords), so how did they even make money for the next two years? Real estate? But that doesn't involve them 'controlling territory' at all unless somehow the ownership of the docks just defaulted to them. I mean I guess it does say that Tattletale took over all of Coil's investments but still seems silly idk. This might just be my personal annoyance though since I'm pro-legalisation.
Overall I don't really know why Worm is considered 'rationalfic' aside from just that Wildbow was apparently part of that group.
>>43009>>43010>>43022To be clear I wasn't talking about anything past Worm, I haven't read anything else, I just meant his decision to betray humanity as a whole and even his teammates and help Echidna even after she turned into a giant evil fleshmonster, like what the fuck seriously? I know that was his girlfriend but puppydog teen love shouldn't be that strong.
>>43038I think he submitted to Echidna out of fear more than anything else.
Also, NTA but
>I don't really know why Worm is considered 'rationalfic'Because it gets dark and edgy and "real". Honestly I reiterate that I find fanfiction of Worm written better and more compellingly than the actual Worm series. It's kind of like RWBY in that regard, where the initial idea had merit and pulled people in but then it slowly degraded into a complicated mess. Only in the case of Worm (and Ward and so on) they don't have the excuse of Wildbow dying and having someone else take over the project.
>>43022Perhaps, but my point is that I never truly hated the character.
>>43031>>43025Yeah I still don't truly understand how the fuck his powers work TBH.
>>43023>I can't even think of one instance where serial killers worked as a team in real life. Pic rel or any other US special ops team… or the interrogators of Guant*namo. Besides I found their dynamic interesting and it seemed plausible to me within the story's reality, even if not necessarily in ours, it's just how vile they were as people that made me loathe them. I would approach S9 as more of a criminal/merc group with a serial killer leading them, rather than a group of serial killers. The characters may have various serial killer tropes but most of them aren't like Jack Slash
>>43864Enjoyed how much the story gradually paints an image of a
US in decline (at least at a faster rate than it currently is) as the characters dig themselves deeper and how the characters are all handled in general. Makes me wish wildbow would do a few more shorter stories before moving on to the next big one.
>>43888Wonder if it'll have elements of that sci-fi short story called Sign he wrote. (
https://old.reddit.com/r/DoTheWriteThing/comments/hcvznl/episode_64_suppress_bad_east_goalkeeper/fw1ftsq/ ,for anyone who's interested in reading it) wish he compiled all the snippets he wrote somewhere convenient.
>>45438I'm
>>44200 and called it. Damn he's hit and miss these days. Hated the protagonists a bit in Pale but it was a cool world, didn't care about Claw, and now I dropped Seek.
>>45578Yes.
"complexity" and "media literacy" are just literati cope for the fact that hollywood censorship won't allow for straightforward depiction of genuine progressive ideals (communism)
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