Hey, woah. I don’t want you to be right. I want to stew in my contempt of YouTube Shorts.

I would have preferred if they kept shorts off.

We could consider those politicians employees of TurboTax and H&R Block just with extra steps

More accurately it’s the republicans way of saying that.

I occasionally listen to a podcast that reviews basically any and all movies that are adapted from comics and they take their name from the exact issue you mentioned, Not Another Origin Story. I guess it shows that even among the people that really enjoy and are passionate about superhero movies constantly redoing the origin is a tired act.

I think it would help if I knew what definition you were using, I’m not sure where the equally likely part comes from. I think there would be a distinction between an omnipotent being being able to do a thing and choosing to do a thing.

An omnipotent god needs, by definition, be equally able and likely to be exceedingly cruel as wellwilling.

How do you figure that?

Not again? Last time was stonetoss. If you are this disconnected maybe do a quick “is this artist a well known bigot” web search before posting from here on.

For me, one drive somehow got out of sync on one location and proceeded to delete a bunch of files without notification or interaction on my part. I know my case is probably very rare but I just have never been able to bring myself to trust them again.

If they were just being informative they wouldn’t have led with “yeah it does”. Or they would have phrased it differently.

I think examples of the times that a race swap was the only thing that changed would probably have helped. I agree that without that you are kind of repeating yourself.

That kinda strikes me as backfilling a motive for the studios to fit a preferred view rather than being an actual insight. But supposing that’s true it seems like it supports the point that all the others changes don’t get that kind of response. The other changes aren’t considered pointless or lazy or pandering but the ones that do trigger the bigots, those do fall into that category it seems.

I dunno, I didn’t get much that was tangible about how race swap was a sign of bad writing. While I agree that Miles and Peter are different a great many don’t agree and insist that race swapping spider-man was lazy and pandering.

I’m still not sold that race swapping is any real indicator of bad writing. I think there are fewer like you than there are those who are coming from a racist motivation, whether they realize it or not. You taking care to make the distinction of new characters as you define them, and it’s a good take on what constitutes a new character, doesn’t change what most people mean. If you’re going to use such similar language to convey your take it’s kind of on you to make the distinction clear whenever you bring it up.

So you are one of the handful. The fine point that you are trying to make is lost when it follows up people saying that changing an established character’s race is purely pandering. The idea that most readers distinguish the superhero mantle from the alter ego doesn’t hold up. When they say established character they mean Spider-Man. You might not but again you are the tiny handful.

So if changing race is a lazy inconsequential element why is it an issue? Why not all the other lazy inconsequential changes?

Why is inclusivity the inevitable obvious outcome of focus groups?

Which doesn’t seem like a very helpful point. We all have figured out it’s a mixed bag. The more interesting question might be what’s the mix? Just because a handful of them are using race swap as a lazy filter for what they presume to be bland media we gotta handle the rest with kid gloves just in case?

It can signal one just like all the other little changes they make when rehashing a character right? Those changes are just as big of red flags right? They get the same out cry right? Cause if they didn’t, well that would seem like a red flag of it’s own.

Dude, focus groups? 6 slightly different spider-mans are not boring as long as he stays white but change his race and that’s the bland as shit part?

This take always seems a bit myopic as it ignores the fact that it cements in the exclusivity that already existed. Not allowed to change an established character’s race? Only option is to tack on a new character to the already existing cast and that certainly doesn’t seem like pandering. Of course maybe the new inclusive characters should only be in new content that isn’t established and has no following.

Or with the definition of a punchline.