i know this feeling. Official translations are...heh. I know the translators are doing the best they can. I know this. I have tried to stop being salty about most of the English-name-changes. But I will never forgive Viz for making us wait 10 years for the Detective Koshien arc of Detective Conan and then translating all Junya Tokitsu's dialogue as outdated l33tspeak. There were so many other ways to communicate that he spoke oddly...
Desperately wanting crossovers between two things which have very few fans individually and only I and one other person am familiar with both. (Redwall and Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes.)
(Also the fact that were I to do it, the lack of magic in one of those fandoms means a lot of the awesome moments from the other wouldn't work.)
The Imperium is a parody turned-up-to-11 version of basically all the fucked up fascism, religious fanaticism, xenophobia etc possible. Anyone who misses parody that fucking obvious is a dumbshit. But I guess some people just don't read critically and unquestionably accept in-universe justifications. Or they think the only problem with fascism is that it didn't go far enough. And quite apart from any moral or human judgement it is so stupendously inefficient that that enough is cause to condemn. It wastes SO MUCH.
Who's dumber though. The people who miss the satire of 40K or the people who think Swift really thought eating babies was the solution to Ireland's food situation,
I KNOW RIGHT That particular conversation also diverged into defending the Soviet Union and also claiming that Lend-Lease did nothing - I suspect he may have been a RT troll - but that's a whole 'nother issue. I could go on about How Fucking Dumb the Imperium is for days, yet people are always like "BUT IT'S NECESSARY BECAUSE WAR! THE IMPERIUM IS OBVIOUSLY THE STRONGEST!"
I recognized that it was fucked up, but not that it was satire, as it was not fuckin funny in the materials I read (Mostly, the Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader Pen&Paper rulebooks), what does that make me ::?
Pretty normal, the satire element has become less and less prominent as time went on. It was originally a big thing, but I'd say 40k is about 90% serious now. With the remaining 5% being pitch-black sorta humor, and 5% Orks.
I have a few friends who are in tabletop writing circles and even some of them were very unsure if the 40K writers were attempting to do a parody in later stuff or getting caught up in their own supply and forgetting the black humour. However, today I learned that there's a new CEO at GW and there's a lot of changes that point toward it potentially becoming good again.
Also I've been familiar with 40K since pretty early days and I'm a Brit; from that perspective, 40K is from the same chain of thought as e.g. Judge Dredd, which also has had problems with people thinking it's all for cops who are judge, jury and executioner as well, where really it's meant to be a parody of the American 1980s law and order attitude, taking things to their extreme. Like how the War on Drugs in Dredd extends to sugar and caffiene.
I like the Cain books, but honestly, I kinda have to consider it a different continuity from codex 40k. One where things merely suck, instead of being 100% terrible all the time. I've encountered 40k writers who aren't sure what it's supposed to be anymore, so...
Didn't early GW and early 2000AD have a fair bit of overlap in what writers and artists they were hiring for stuff? I seem to recall reading that somewhere, but now I can't find it.
Squinting at the person who reblogged my reblog-and-elaboration of a post Roach did about how the way Dumbledore fucked up during the series is practically fractal. Because their whole argument seems to be "no one who actually read the series would believe this, there's no textual evidence for it, y do u hate JKR, y are u trying to spread lies about Dumbledore?". Also saying their friend compared me to Fudge, which. Okay? Good for them? Why am I supposed to care what this friend thinks? (I mean, I am slowly working up a response-post for it, because the wrongness offends me, but I'm not expecting anything as a result of it. Just. Wtf. I didn't even tag that post.)
That wouldn't even have mattered, if it was a reblog. If they're not following you, they had to have either been looking through the notes or seen someone else reblog it and go back to reblog from you. And if the former, where's my angry reblog? I reblogged that same post twice with a list of things Dumbledore could have tried to get around the curse and shows no sign of having done. Getting an angry reblog that I'm interrogating the text from the wrong perspective sounds hilarious. I feel cheated. :::<<<
Anakin stans who act like they have the moral high ground over Kylo Ren fans are the Worst. "Bad fanboy who doesn't like the prequels" is definitely my favorite description of Kylo I've ever read, tho.
Sometimes, I really wish I could hit TFA fandom over the head with a sign that says "THERE WILL BE TWO MORE MOVIES AND YOU HAVE ONLY SEEN 1/3 OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN".
Like. This is the equivalent of analyzing OT characters after only watching A New Hope. It seems to me like that ought to be obvious, AND YET.
