Orphie Baby @ orphiebaby @lemmy.world

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UPDATE: I just created !freecompliments@lemm.ee! I couldn't create it on lemmy.world, sorry. Lemmy World can be weird like that. But at least lemm.ee is stable!

Edit: I would also like to say that after looking at r/freecompliments, their rules are over-explained TL;DR stuff and I get the vibe that they are overly controlling, enforcing a toxic level of positivity at all costs, and all that.

Edit 2: What sucks is I made this new banner for it, but lemm.ee has never let me upload images, even profile pics or banners.

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I tried posting this to trueoffmychest to dredge some sympathy for him, since that seemed appropriate and he was good with it, but they don’t allow ‘anger’ or ‘impersonal’ posts and that got quietly removed immediately

Okay, yeah, and this is why I'm happy I created this community. "Toxic positivity", "extreme safe spaces", and tangential mentalities are extremely harmful and suffocating and can die in a fire.

1. People get angry, and that's fine
2. Nobody's perfect, and that's fine
3. Bonus: Nobody should be able to ban you based on what other subreddits/communities you're a part of. I guess unless they're politically-insidious, hate groups, or otherwise promoting harm? But yeah

Edit: I would also like to say that after looking at r/freecompliments, their rules are over-explained TL;DR stuff and I get the vibe that they are overly controlling, enforcing a toxic level of positivity at all costs, and all that.

Okay, so all your stupid points are not worth addressing, but you should definitely know that Luke's goal was to join his friends Biggs and Wedge in the resistance, and he finally did. And everyone on Earth who paid attention enough to know he was trying to join the military knows whose side he was trying to join. Not to mention his goals in the first movie constantly align with rescuing the rebel princess and spiting the Empire. You seem to like to make shit up.

What the hell have you been drinking?

These aren't adults who need food and housing. These are a bunch of teenagers including rebellious sorts against a single asshole with very little actual power besides a title. Also they have (probably angry) parents?

"Wrong" isn't even a fraction of it. She kicked everyone off the grounds, changed all the rules, tortured students (and others knew it) and literally started hanging up Nazi rule plaques. It was a hostile takeover where she silenced, banned, and abused everyone. And you're going to tell me nobody— no students, no professors— are going to stand against her? Being appointed won't mean shit when you are literally torturing, backing into a corner, and banning an opposition with this much power and unhappiness. In any reasonable situation, they would fight back. She was just one stupid, powerless woman with no soldiers at her command against hundreds of powerful wizards and witches, many of them adults.

And stop comparing it to "2020". I don't even know what the eff that means.

Position, yes. Actual power to stop a bunch of angry, tortured teenage wizards— especially ones that have been learning to use defense magic in direct defiance of her— no. Also she pissed off all the professors, and they didn't stand up to her either, which is stupid.

This one bothered me pretty early. But I don't feel like the context given in the Harry Potter series would allow for anything like the corruption we see in real-life politics. For one, a couple people are professors of Hogwarts for power, but most are in it because they care about their jobs. There's no reason nobody stood up to Dolores— all students and professors hated her (except her new toady Filch, and maybe only a few Slytherin after she offered them power?) and Dolores was exerting power over the school that she simply didn't have. Any one of them could have just effed her up anytime for her literal, no joke Nazi rules and her torture. Let alone a full disgruntled school.

Nobody ever explained anything more than the likes of "Voldemort's back! You have to believe me!" If anyone actually gave account or explained anything at all, the good guys would have a lot more allies than they do. Hell, actually talking is how they convinced a bunch of people to let Harry teach them dark arts defense in Order of the Phoenix. It seems that actually talking is how every good event happens, and that not talking is how every bad event happens.

1. You don't have any imagination
2. Why the hell are you attributing your claim to heroes specifically? What does that have to do with anything?
3. Man have you not seen a lot of fiction. People react realistically in a ton of them all the time, including kids shows like Avatar: TLA and Steven Universe
4. My novel has people reacting realistically the entire way through, and it's a science fantasy
5. Luke Skywalker acted realistically. He wanted to leave and join the fucking resistance like his friends. Just like a lot of real-life people would, especially the oppressed. Hell, how many people did 9/11 cause to join the military? Hell, how many people join the military without having suffered tragedy?

It's FOSS. I'd imagine people would fork it, because fuck it

Linux doesn't work for most people, and Windows and Mac are corporate. I hope ReactOS succeeds.

I cannot overstate how much not only does Harry do it every movie, but all the other characters as well.

Hey look, there it is again in the one I’m at now. Hermoine to Potter: “What’s wrong with your hand?” Potter: “Nothing.” (This was the Dolores torture). Hermoine actually finds out, which is refreshing. "You've got to tell Dumbledore." Harry: "No. Dumbledore's got enough on his mind right now." Freaking stupid, Harry.

This “is anything happening?” “No, nothing.” exchange with Potter is constant in this series.

I'm autistic. Big hard drive, small RAM. And that RAM is being used right now to absorb this next Harry Potter movie while I also try to manage funds with my housemates in a crisis and prevent homelessness

I'd basically have to go and rewind right now, or go back to the movies I watched in the last week, and... blegh, I don't want to stop in the middle of the first third of Order of the Phoenix. It's already way better than Goblet of Fire (movies, not books. People say the GoF book is great, and I tend to believe them)

Edit: Hey look, there it is again in the one I’m at now. Hermoine to Potter: “What’s wrong with your hand?” Potter: “Nothing.” (This was the Dolores torture). Hermoine actually finds out, which is refreshing. "You've got to tell Dumbledore." Harry: "No. Dumbledore's got enough on his mind right now." Freaking stupid, Harry.

This “is anything happening?” “No, nothing.” exchange with Potter is constant in this series.

Well-said, and I make this argument all the time.

Steven Universe is a show for kids (and everyone). Nobody in that entire show's running time fails to talk like a normal person would or "holds the idiot ball". Everyone is smart and communicative, and the show respects its audience a ton. Avatar: TLA is in the same boat, and that's for kids too (and also everyone).

Yeah, there are a lot of movies and shows where people talk like human beings. Hell, as a writer, nobody in my novels holds the idiot ball nor fails to talk like a normal person, just because that would be convenient for the plot to move along.

Fair point. But I can't remember it all at once. I didn't exactly stop and take notes every few seconds throughout the movies like a proper reviewer xD