/cow/ - Lolcows

I used to be a Homestuck fan pls no bully so I've seen some shit.

A lot of the stuff I have saved is just general autistic fandom wank that won't make sense if you haven't read the comic, like Sonic-tier self-insert OCs, but you can find:

1) People grossly misinterpreting the trolls' overcomplicated romance system and saying it "makes more sense than human romance" because it makes them feel special

2) People absolutely obsessed with anything and everything that could be interpreted as racist; the most famous example is "calloutstuck" which you can find here: http://calloutstuck.tumblr.com/

3) One time a character said that human reproduction is "strictly heterosexual" and tumblr lost their minds

4) One time a character was transformed and the transformation included peach-colored skin (as opposed to the usual #ffffff), and she said she felt "caucasian" and there was a meltdown like you wouldn't believe; the author had to change the word to "peachy" he had previously said on twitter that all such transformed characters are "canonically caucasian" and there was a smaller-scale meltdown

5) People getting mad at comics Hussie drew years ago because some of them are satirical and sort of look racist on a side note he took those down without a word a while back and seems to be turning into a liberal cuck, although I haven't been paying much attention

6) This video

>>197264

I only used tumblr for porn back then before ditching it, so I missed homestuck for the most part. Why do you lot think it attracted so many sjw's and retarded teens?

>>197570

That's about it really for screencaps. I don't exactly go on there to grab cocks from Kira Kira.

>>197797

I thought Rebbit loved Undertale?

I'm guessing the reason for autism is if the media has

-pastel colors

-supposedly deep themes that are just covering the surface and never go that far.

-too much shipping

-character and world are perfect for escapism.

-themes and aesops are simple such as "don't kill, be nice, don't be violent" and all that stuff.

-Conflict that isn't morally grey or it is and handled in an edgy way.

-Conflict is black and white but takes it too seriously

-Humor may be awkward humor with characters grinning sheepishly or something inoffensive as to not hurt feelings.

Anything else? I've also been wondering how Gravity Falls was able to escape a huge boom of autistic fans. Was it because of the way they executed their humor? I'm sure they have some but not to the extent of Steven Universe.

>>197938

Furry characters seem like a really important ingredient to the whole mix.

I mean starting with Sonic, you have MLP, FNAF, Undertale, etc.

That can't be coincidence.

>>197942

MLP isn't anthro. Cloppers are straight up zoophiles.

>>197931

Plebbit is overwhelmingly trendwhores. Just watch their voting patterns. It's now "trendy" to hate UT once more so they hate it.

If it weren't for gamefags, neofags, and the occasional /pol/lack shitting up the generals they would still be the #1 source.

>>197938

schedule fuckery was the primary reason, honestly. 3 seasons over twice as many years, and released sporadically.

You want to see what it would have looked like if it actually had one long season before defaulting to that, check out Gargoyles. (actually since TLK dropped at around the same time, for what it's worth they were moderately pig-free aside from the cons, and the one porn artist chick that became an ascended fan)

>>197942

You forgot the original

http://www.lionking.org

>>197945

I prefer just plain old be(a)stialist

zoos are the thin reedy faggots what get their intestines pulled out by the real deal, who are trying to get full marital rights for their horsewaifus to legal-marry them.

*tilts tricorn*

this has been your monthly historical fandom exposition, ta for now! (i'm sure some dizz ecksdee kids might have some memories from back then too.)

>>197978

Wait the tone of MLP shifted? What happened?

>>197942

Furries seem to be related to escapism, another autistic trait.

>>197337

no pic?

>>197988

I'm referring to the "Big Plot Points" (new characters, premiere & finale, the eps that introduce new elements have taken on a different tone though the middle is still simple SoL-to-moral fluff.)

seems like the big 3 have been paying attention to tumblr/roundstable, or have been getting fed information by Breckel.

They have to have known how the Big Mac Crossdressing ep would be taken, as well as canonising "princess big mac." (both getting everyone accused of transphobia for a month) Then there's ep100, Fanservice: The Episode, then they had references to numerous random fics in the s5 finale's alternate universes.

(I wouldn't be surprised if Equal Town/Glimmer was thought up after the Nameless Grey Horse fiasco)

there's also some very very odd ooc moments here and there, like Pinkie's treatment of the yellow one in Filli Vanilli. If you've kept up with the Jerry Peet threads you'll know how much this triggers them.

Also nuking shippings or promoting the least popular (Discord+Shy, Marble+Mac which nukes fluttermac/cheerimac, Lyra and BonBon being just BEST friends which triggered tumblr like crazy)

Characters and world have become increasingly fractured, like showing there is poverty in their world. (ie not the socialist monarchy paradise impression the first 3 seasons left on fans) as well as abusive parenting.

Cider Squeezy was supposed to be just a one-off "no moral" joke, but there's been four more since.

One of those four (Trade Ya) is utterly terrible in hindsight. Twilight decides to be a sentimental oaf and turn down the opportunity to pass on her favourite books to one such poverty-stricken downy, spends about a minute monologuing at the end about precious mementos and such rather than learn to let go.

Two episodes later, the entire library is destroyed.

Meghan's mentioned on her twitter all of these things and some others were intentional, or she noticed while vetting scripts then chose not to bring up to let run their course.

Only real failing so far has been letting that shitty Johnny Test guy (dusedau) write for the show, she had a bit of a Hotwheels moment there. He apparently used to be a pretty NiceGuy™ when they worked on JT together during the first few seasons. He since tightened that fedora and became an ironclad beta SJ dick. He even pulled an Anita when the second ep was met with more derision than the first. It'd take awhile to find the tweets but he also somewhat knew his episodes were shit and kept them away from Miller until it was too late. Miller warned people before they aired "it's not our best" and "it's only a guest writer don't get too worked up" (aka I'm not inviting this retard back)

I guess I should've said not just the show but the staff's tone has changed as well, especially after the paedo abduction falseflag at Babscon that Breckel busted.

There's this furfag named Murrison who shits his pants and does nothing but complain since the first season, and he used to be kind of Miller's pet pig. Recently, with regards to particular episodes and the IDW comics, he's been agreeing with his assessments. Kind of an interesting transition to watch. Like Greg Weismann from his Gargoyles days to his bitter defeatism during Young Justice but in the opposite direction.

Miller and Larson even pop into streams to shitpost IA-style sometimes.

(Also Vogel told one of the big mac ep complainers to essentially 'piss off because you don't buy anything from us anyway.' He seems to have gotten the arc.is guy to take it down since though, which I've been noticing happen to some non-GG-related tweets)

>>198034

ah, wholocks I think I remember that artist being a wholock.

I swear tumblr shipping is the simplest shit, no wonder their relationships IRL are screwed up.

>I have done x thing in the past

>this person does x thing now, is not even interested they have to do x thing

>ttly soulmates 4evr

or kismesis or whatever kind is being portrayed there.

also is it just me or does it seem like the non-tumblr appreciation of homestuck might be somewhat related to Duck Dodgers' return to TV around the time the hiatus ended on that. (Because Martian queen)

also I'm pretty sure a good litmus test to see if someone is srsbsns about their oc is if they do that list format with one or two random ginormous descriptive paragraphs. It goes all the way back to the age of 90s D&D larpers/RhyDin. (now there's an old /pig/ paradise I don't see mentioned often!)

so bummed all the sites that documented that shit have died. There was some insane Jerry Springer shit going on back then, even had a couple RL murders result from some ERP 'cheating.' (The original AOLien "jadeite" being one notable case I can recall. RP GF had a terribly easy password, rl boyfriend found out, posed as her, told him to go somewhere to meet up, he flew over to meet his e-date and got blackjacked and thrown off a cliff.)

ahh the golden era of the police being more inept at computers than 5 year olds. Wish I could remember the real names of the people involved in that.

http://hbreckel.tumblr.com/post/83544750526/that-brony-con-horror-story-was-fabricated

oh yeah, forgot the link, derp.

While ironically the smallest horsedrama I'm familiar with, barely lasted over a month, it had some wide-reaching consequences on some con scenes. Lots of bannings flying about, SacAnime's rep completely trashed, some staffers silently let go, dozens of con policies changed, a couple shut down in protest, east coast cons put the two table-runners on a "kick out on sight" list that sparked an east/west coast style rap war in some cosplay circles. Rather than one huge sweeping battle like DWM or Michael Morones vs Pinkie and Tinker, after one small ripple petered out it would cause another two elsewhere.

>>197562

I'm so glad I'm numb to this shit now.

It used to drive me up a wall trying to figure out how someone could be so retarded.

All fandoms are autistic.

No sane person over the age of twenty would ever describe themselves as being a part of a "fandom". They just discretely watch what they feel like watching, enjoy the experience and then shut up about it.

>>198229

>You can never talk about something you like or call yourself a fan of it or else you're autistic

That's a pretty black-and-white, autistic way of thinking.

>>198235

Mad nerds are mad.

The only "fandom" I could call myself part of is sex. Which is something none of you probably participate in.

>>198240

Tip for next time: don't lay it on so thick.

Does anybody have anything on the Robotech fandom?

>>197264

DEAR FUCKING GOD THAT IS DISGUSTING

>>198162

> just BEST friends

They did this in Madoka Magica too but it's obvious the main characters were lesbos.

>>198162

Isn't there an IDW horse comic that's a thinly-veiled reference to Ferguson?

Didn't a member of the furry diaper community use to post her on occasion? I'd really like to get his take on the mlp fandom.

>>198240

Ex "sex addict" here. Get help if you really are into any sex driven scene. Especially the fetish stuff. It probably relates to some childhood trauma, like molestation.

Also I'm absolutely convinced that anyone can get laid with minimal social graces in person. I come off on the internet a lot worse than I do in person. I'm sure we all do. People like Chris and the denizens of wizardchan who aren't softly trolling have all had sex. The average person loses their virginity by the time they finish high school to their sophomore year of college. And even with drop outs that age remains pretty consistent. So the odds of meeting an honest to god virgin who's not holding out for religious reasons are about as low as finding a Jew eating pork in bumblefuck Iowa after the caucuses. They're like unicorns. Even the religious ones don't always hold out. Look at Sarah Palin's daughter.

People have sex drives. You declaring that it's you're only interest though, that's a sign of addiction. Seek help.

>>198468

I meant to say people like Chris and the denizens of wizard Chan are the only ones who haven't. But come to think of it that's wrong. Chris had sex.

>>197978

What the flying fuck. I don't like saying this but someone needs to get /pol/ on this, that pic is retarded.

>>198470

Hooker sex doesn't count.

>>198503

Tell that to wizardchan.

>>198466

>one prince says she has "fair skin" and she hauls off and calls him a racist out of nowhere

Ha, I remember seeing this page.

The prince didn't say fair skin, he just said she was fair, because that's cliche fairy tale dialogue. She freaked out because the author thinks fair is short for fair skin. The character berated him for being racist enough to think that fair means beautiful instead of white.

I looked it up out of curiosity and of course fair actually does mean beautiful.

>>198511

Yeah, the definition warped thanks to the Norse, who associated beauty with being pale. In origin it meant even toned, as in not freckled or covered in zits and splotches. Skin disease was real common back in the old days. But if she knew that she'd call him… What's the phrase they use for people who judge others for their looks? These people can suck the fun out of anything.

I despise Dr. Who, Deadpool, and Undertale fans

>>198539

Okay but the real question here is are there any actual dedicated Deadpool fans and not just people who watch too much Big Bang Theory and pretend to like comics, because the only people I've ever seen who would call themselves a Deadpool fan fit into that category.

I'm not even going to get into people who cosplay Deadpool right now, I don't feel like writing a twelve page essay on how they are by far and away the worst people in any fandom ever.

>>198539

>>198541

I don't know much about comics, but it irks me that Deadpool is portrayed as a red, 'roided out Gir from Invader Zim rather than a badass immortal guy that carries around a shitload of weapons.

>>198541

I absolutely hate the big bang theory and primarily read Indy comics, and I adore deadpool. Especially the older stuff. Some of the new stuff with the multiverse deadpools is a little too much, but I'm actually excited for the movie.

Most people who read deadpool get that it's not meant to be taken seriously in any way whatsoever and is really making fun of other try hard comics. Unfortunately the ones who like to talk about it don't represent the average reader. It's like with politics. You have your "base" and then you have the average person. The base is always going to be spergy. They are the ones with enough free time and dedication to make their own costumes and stuff. The only exception to the rule I've encountered is horror fans who months getting ready for Halloween and even amongst them I know one sperget in her 50's who's just too much. She walked out of watchmen five minutes in because there wasn't enough blood in the opening fight scene.

>>198543

He's the merc with a mouth. It's all about the cheesy lines and over the top violence. So long as they stick to that it's golden. I think to really do it justice you'd have to bring in takashi miike as a technical adviser. Deadpool is a farce. That's the fun of it. What's going to piss me off is it it's all pg13 and toned down. Anything else is acceptable. Including the aesthetic of his outfit.

>>198553

Yeah. There is always that one who takes it way to far. The ones doing it right are trolling. Deadpool comics are basically industry trolling. The entire idea is that he's an over the top obnoxious unlikable douche. How does one cosplay that? And that's why those people suck. One person doing it and interrupting everything for a minute at a time would be funny. 10 is way too many and they have to know when to stop. Just like street performers. You have to play to the audience and you clearly were in no mood so I should have backed the fuck off. Playing deadpool would be a fine line indeed, and it sounds like that guy fell on his head one too many times.

>>198541

>>198543

I added Deadpool right before posting. My original thought is the Dr. Who fandom. That is stage 4 cancer

>>198593

Even worse than the fandoms of the 3 series themselves are those "Superwholock" autists. But at least they gave us Dashcon to laugh at.

>>198593

Every big Dr. Who fan I've met has been a total sperg.

>>198598

Every "big" fan of evrthing is like that. Millions of people enjoy doctor who, but it's the ones who won't stop talking about it that stand out. I mean if you ask them if they watched the latest doctor who they might be excited to talk about it, but they don't bring it up out of nowhere. That's the difference between a big fan and a "big fan". It's that way with every fandom. Except maybe the they might be giants fans. Never met one who sperged about it unless they were in town. Maybe they know it's niche or something about it wards them off.

>>197978

Sweet jesus its the pigpen of the gods

Speaking of mlp though, I've noticed that more than any other toy company, Hasbro has the most autistic fans. Trannyforms, Bronies, those very strange women that make soap operas by holding littlest pet shop toys in front of a camera…it seems like every major line they have is totally saturated with spergs.

Does anyone have an idea as to why that could be? I've never heard of any Masters of the Universe or Barbie fans being this crazy, and the Lego fans tend to be the more quiet and mumbling types of autists rather than the screaming freaks we're all used to. Could it be because Hasbro toys tend to come with stat sheets for everything? Like transformers have everything squared off from fire power to intelligence, same with gi joe.

>>198240

Billy, stop posting on your father's computer and come down for dinner.

>>198750

>the Lego fans tend to be the more quiet and mumbling types of autists rather than the screaming freaks we're all used to.

But Chris is the quintessential lolpig and he loves Legos,

>>198750

Cry more nerd

>>198760

Chris is the final form of autisim we've yet seen, so he's a screaming freak by default no matter what flavor of the month he's into at the moment. I'm not saying there aren't freaks into legos (like the people triggered by that spelling), just that there aren't many noticeable ones yet.

>>198761

Reported, filtered, and dismissed. Bye bye little boy.

Ignoring the obvious ones like My Little downy, Power Rangers, and Pokemon, I'll add two contributions that I noticed.

Since Jurassic World came out, there's been a metric fuckload of autistics who love it. Before the new movie came out the fan base was really small, mostly people like me who had a lot of nostalgia for the movies and loved the books. Now there's fucking furry artists drawing sexualized raptors and indominus rexes, people obsessing over the little kid who they claim is autistic, and just generally overflow with autism.

Next would be funko pop collectors. Go on youtube and search "funko pop hunting" and you will be met with a niagara falls of autism. They seriously think it looks cool to have giant walls of stacked funko pops in their house as decorations.

>>198774

>funko pop

The highest form of /toy/ cancer.

>jurassic world

I think this just has to do with autistic people having some gravitation to dinos.

>>198750

I collect TFs and I actually forgot they had those "tech specs", oddly. But I couldn't give less of a shit about Transformers "lore". Pretty much all the fiction tied to it is garbage.

>>198778

>All the fiction tied to it is garbage

Follow up question: why is religion such an important thing in the lore for space war bots that turn into cars and jets? Why does Hasbro encourage writers to keep shitting that stuff out?

>>198781

What do you mean, exactly? Like how Transformers are created?

>>198795

The Big Bang Theory-tier "geek" audience eats that shit up

>>198796

>>198795

>>198778

>>198774

I didn't know what a funko pop was so I checked YouTube.

They look awful. They all have the same facial expression and pose. Why would someone collect that?

I also noticed that the top 4 results for "funko pop hunting" are from "NerdBitesWeekly" (x2), "Nerd Therapy" and "Everyday Geek" so the claim that it's TBBT-watchers sounds spot-on.

>>198795

Homie it's awful and a literal cancer. I enjoy collecting some figures and most collectors are pretty cool. Everyone is pretty self aware and realize that the hobby is really dorky. The funko people are just fucking awful though.

They have absolutely no self awareness or taste. They legit think that a giant display of like 200 funkos looks good and happily fork over their cash for low quality shit that barely resembles the character that it is supposed to. It probably annoys me even more because the funko collectors are also the people that claim they're geeks but weren't geeky at all until like the avengers came out.

>>198809

>They look awful. They all have the same facial expression and pose. Why would someone collect that?

My theory is because the line covers a shitload of various IPs and everything in the line has a generally standardized style.

>>198811

Not to mention they're pretty cheap. What are they, $10 a piece?

>>198796

I figured that was probably the case. I know only know one person who has even a one of those and he fits that niche perfectly.

>>198810

That's fucking sickening. In a world where we are privileged enough to get very high quality figures - even cheap ones - that people would go for that shit.

>>198809

Like everyone else said, it ties into the fact that everyone that buys these (I had no idea people collected them, but I knew someone had to buy the fucking things because they're everywhere) these are reddit-tier Big Bang Theory fake geeks that only pretend to be nerdy because comic book movies are popular. My old room mate I mentioned above has a couple of these, but he buys tons and tons of plastic shit on his wall for series he doesn't even watch, just so that he can keep up appearances around his friends. He has a handful of GoT shit but when he tries to watch GoT with me he couldn't make heads or tales of the story. But once it got popular he put a fucking Daenerys funko thing on his shelf of plastic shit and immediately read the synopsis on Wikipedia so he could talk to people about it.

Tl;dr - People who buy these are the people who don't give a shit about the actual series and just buy plastic shit to make themselves look nerdy. It's like buying a nice car to show off you're wealth, only because you know shit about cars, instead of buying a Porsche or an Aston Martin you buy a very nicely done up Ford Pinto. That's my theory, anyways.

>>198795

People have been collecting useless crap for a long time (it's pretty much the same as collecting Beanie Babies)

>>198774

Funny you should mention it, I'm a dinosaur sperg and I thought that movie was terrible (not even because inaccuracies, but because it was poorly written, had over the top visuals, flat characters, and too many meta jokes)

It really blows me away that there are so many people out there who like movies like jurassic world, guardians of the galaxy, transformers and all these other sappy films that amount to live action versions of Saturday morning cartoons. Preferring something like that over a mature movie like American Hustle or Ex Machina is the hallmark of autism

On the side note, dinosaurs in general tend to be an autism magnet. I've always wondered why that's so

>>197591

From what I gather, Homestock is meticulously designed to drive its fans into frenzied autism and the author eggs on all sides indiscriminately

>>198836

>comic aimed at 8yo boys

Absolutely no one under 15 reads comics anymore, to be fair.

>>198820

You pretty much hit the nail on the head. I can't wait for this current nerd trend to be over so I can go back to liking Batman and X-Men without feeling like a faggot.

>>198851

There's nothing wrong with enjoying the movie, but obsessing over it like the spergs do is a bit much. The JPLegacy forum was like a spaghetti kitchen for a while. My favorite was how they all hated the older brother because he was constantly LOOKING at women and loved the little brother because he is supposedly autistic like them.

>>198886

Trips don't lie, but I meant the older ones. The modern ones are just sjw shitstew.

>>198890

>There's nothing wrong with enjoying the movie, but obsessing over it like the spergs do is a bit much.

I liked the first two jurassic park films, but jurassic world was TV Tropes Autism: the Movie.

>The JPLegacy forum was like a spaghetti kitchen for a while.

There's two types of people you'll find talking about dinosaurs on the internet. The first is paleontologists, paleo artists, and informed readers who are actually into the science. Then there's jp autists who do see dinosaurs as their "sonic" who have OCs and edgy deviantart shit

>>198900

Yeah, people who love arthouse movies are called hipsters.

In all seriousness, I don't actually know, but I know several cable dramas have pretty large followings on Tumblr. Can't think of any off the top of my head but they are out there.

>>198851

Dinosaurs and trains. I will never understand why autists gravitate towards those two things in particular. I mean, if we're on the topic of autistic fanbases, Thomas the Tank Engine has a mind bogglingly sizable adult fandom. I mean, on one hand I can sort of understand autistic fascinations with real trains and model train sets (you can make some cool shit with those), but I'll never understand grown ass men playing with trains with goofy faces. At the risk of hyperbole, it makes even less sense than bronies, since I think more bronies are part of the community than the actual show.

>>198932

>More bronies are part of the community than the actual show

Most bronies actually hate mlp with a burning passion that only a liberal manlet can muster, and even a cursory glance of /mlp/ and /pone/ will prove it. The "community" is mostly just adult children wondering which fad to hop onto next while spending time complaining about how background character #37's voice doesn't match their headcanon.

>>198939

Really? I know that autists like them love nitpicking to death but I haven't heard about this. Then again I try to stay as far away from their communities as possible.

>>198932

>not posting the theme song

>>187334

On the note of trains and horses, anyone know about TheNewStoryteller? He's pretty spooky. Autistic Australian guy who's near impossible to understand because he had a stroke or something a while back. And he narrates children's books in a Gumby suit, making his voice even more muffled.

Not to mention he has THOUSANDS of videos, as he posts new vids on Youtube almost daily last time I checked. >>198932

>>>187334

>>198948

The brony community is a vicious little war of headcanons mate; it's so bad that cults of personality form around the most vocal nitpickers–just look up digibrony and you'll have enough pig miIk for the rest of the year.

That particular flavor of autism aside, you've also got people commissioning furry artists to draw their OCs killing two main characters named Applejack and Rarity. 100 dollar commissions, just for some sad little man to express how much he hates an orange horse in a piggirl hat.

>>198951

I thought about it, but since there's that other thread up I didn't. Have this song though. A grown ass man singing a cover of a fucking Barney song. It doesn't get much worse than that.

Except for TheNewStoryteller. That guy is an autist of biblical proportions. What disturbs me more than anything about his videos is he films everything on a ghetto ass old camera that makes everything look like it was dug out of a serial killer's basement.

>>198963

TheNewStoryteller is fascinating, but unfortunately he's not really pig worthy. He's terrifying, but not really a lolpig.

>>198932

>>198900

Sure there are going to be hipsters who ride the coat tails of arthouse films, but generally you won't see OCs/r34/deviantardation for those types of movies.

I understand that some people would prefer silly adventures over artsy movies. The first two Jurassic park movies were pretty silly and I loved them. But Jurassic world is so shamelessly cartoony its painful to watch. The dialogue seriously sounds like it came out of a Johnny quest cartoon.

Ex machina r34 isn't that bad of an idea

>>198932

>Dinosaurs and trains. I will never understand why autists gravitate towards those two things in particular.

Nostalgia (For Thomas the Tank Engine and 90s Dinosaur documentaries)

>>199132

Tumblr: Not even once.

>>199127

But both obsessions in spergs predates that. I think with dinosaurs it's the fact that it's a rather broad category full of stuff for them to obsess over but we don't know enough for much of it to be concrete. So they can project on to them. I remember one particularly spergy professor who'd sperg out if you suggested that dinosaurs were flightless birds and likely warm blooded. This was in the last 4 years.

>>197337

Columbus here. It was probably Ohayocon. A shit show of a convention because there's no fucking way it was SOLELY for furries. Shit sucks.

>>199158

Is there evidence that dinosaurs were homeothermic?

Birds are, but birds have lost most of their saurian features. This is putting aside the semantic issue that technically birds are a type of dinosaur

>>199419

Depends on the dino. Massive sauropods were probably cold blooded since their surface area would keep them warm, but the little ornithischian theropods were warm blooded.

>>198890

Oh fuck I forgot that they wrote off the younger brother as autistic because he was a shit actor, easily the best joke in the movie and it was unintentional

>>198900

Not really, you get quite a few pretentious fans but they're very different. The big thing is that they tend to focus on movies or literature as a whole rather than focus on a particular work/franchise.

I'm not quire sure how to word this but I think sperg fans tend to dislike things with realistic-ish dialogue or certain kinds of ambiguity. To use high-end TV as an example in a lot of highly acclaimed shows (i.e. The Sopranos, Mad Men, The Wire, Breaking Bad, etc) it's quite rare for characters to say exactly what they think/feel mostly because the characters themselves don't really know. On the other side of the fence, arguably the defining feature of Joss Whedon stories is that the characters perfectly understand themselves.

I think easy to understand characters are a big draw for sperg fans and in the three things you listed easy to understand characters will generally be considered negatives.

>>199549

And as another anon said, this fucking explains why people get upset over a movie not being exactly like the book it was based on. It's two different fucking mediums, the way to explain action and motivations are completely fucking different.

>>199158

>But both obsessions in spergs predates that. I think with dinosaurs it's the fact that it's a rather broad category full of stuff for them to obsess over but we don't know enough for much of it to be concrete.

Also raptors are "humanoid" enough to warrant the creation of OCs

Case and point >>199874

>So they can project on to them. I remember one particularly spergy professor who'd sperg out if you suggested that dinosaurs were flightless birds and likely warm blooded. This was in the last 4 years.

I think it might be this guy. He's a paleo artist who has an obsessive argument that pterosaurs were closely related to lizards and were the ancestors of birds (both of which are incorrect). Apparently he's easily rustled too.

http://paleoking.blogspot.com/2011/05/strange-journey-of-david-peters.html?m=1

ITT: Everything but team sports, partying and wageslaving.

>>200049

Everything is cancer. Life is a killer.

>>198851

Did you just use Ex Machina as an example of a good movie? Really?

>>200079

Yeah, but did they get published?

>>200162

Don't they scream and throw things at people who've never seen the movie as well before the opening credits?

>>200162

I thought the guys who did Repo were going out of their way to make a cult classic by crossing Rocky Horror Picture Show with tim burton tier shit

>>200166

I think so, yeah. IIRC from the one time I sat through the opening five minutes of Repo it was something about "popping their cherry", something like that, like a cult initiation. I think they throw marshmallows for that but I vividly remember them also having tampons and condoms in the bag they handed out filled with the shit you were supposed to throw.

>>200171

I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised from what I've seen of it. Also, I'd like to mention that when I saw five minutes of the show, it wasn't a movie or even a stage show, it was a bunch of tumblr-tier obese women lip syncing to dialogue from the movie. And the crowd was packed with people who were very, very into it.

There's a reason I didn't stay more than five minutes.

>>200162

Rocky Horror has to have some kind of crazy mind control shit hidden in it, I fucking swear. People watch it once and before you know it they've seen it 100 times and dress like Franken Furter every time they go to see it.

Hell, I've seen it like twenty times myself. You don't get sick of it. You just find new shit you missed last time.

>>197591

>What's her name? I know her as Potato but I always figured that wasn't what she called herself.

Toradoki, real name: Emily Walker

Just found her instagram, no nudes (guess she finally learned her lesson) but holy shit the normalfagging posting is up to 11, she basically whores every trend out there, total clicktivist for every shitty cause out there even fucking mike "I died like a bitch stealing cigs from a convenience store" brown

That and she has the dumbest tats ever, a rick&morty quote? seriously bitch?

You would guess that being into a non-mainstream fandom she would be less of a normie retard than most but nope, she dumb as fuck

Also works at chick-a-fil, didn't see that coming…

>>198851

>over a mature movie like American Hustle or Ex Machina

>American Hustle or Ex Machina

You could've said 2001ASO, citizen kane, 12 angry men, even newer good movies like the original matrix (before the cancer) or even district9, but you have to mention two of the most overhyped tryhard movies in recent years

>>198810

>people that claim they're geeks but weren't geeky at all until like the avengers came out

So pretty much every 'geek' these days then? I mean its already getting old, TBBT launched in 2007, even the worst hipsters out there are leaving that shit behind

About time…

>>199421

>Massive sauropods were probably cold blooded

Actually, some palaeontologists think that Brachiosaurs needed the double pump four chambered heart of warm blooded mammals to supply enough blood pressure to reach their heads (but then again, Crocs have four chambered hearts)

I'd like to see a doco on how people see Pterosaurs

>>200497

>>200102

Whether or not they're good movies is a moot point, I was more getting at how their target demographic is going to be more mature than that of Michael bay movies, so you don't get autistic fandoms

Unless of course you count tarintino fanboys, who can get pretty annoying. IMO tarintino has some good gallows humor, but anyone who sees his films as serious rather than black comedy is a raging hipster faggot

And while we're at it, Donnie darko fans are pretty irritating too. Donnie darko was pretentious edgemaster drivel

>>200644

>so you don't get autistic fandoms

Its pseudointellectual drivel like ex machina or limitless(or the limitless ripoff with scarlet titties johanson) what gets the most spergs because it make them feel smart

>anyone who sees his films as serious rather than black comedy is a raging hipster faggot

Agreed, however tarantino has been shit ever since he jumped the shark with kill bill, and he's been trying to be taken more seriously ever since, specially with django

The only appeal of donnie darko is its bullshit 'brainfuck for kiddies' script, in that sense its a lot like inception

>>200748

Trying to be taken seriously, to impress the critic and the snob, is usually the death knell for every creator that I know of. Except Stanley Kubrick.

>>200644

Stop liking what I don't like.

>>200172

The fuck is it with freaks and 'initiation parties'?

>>200748

Tarintinos been pretty schizophrenic in the last few years as to whether he wants to do blatant comedy (inglorious bastards) or pretentious shit (django)

What exactly is wrong with ex machina? I know the presentation was drawn out, but the plot seemed sensible. Ambigous endings aren't necessarily bad.

Speaking of directors, tim burton might have some of the worst fans. They're Coldsteel the Hedgeheg tier edgy

>>201473

If I can play arm chair psychologist, I'd say it's because most of them are disenfranchised misfits and outcasts who want to add a sense of legitimacy to their circle of friends, fandom, club, whatever the fuck they're a part of.

>>201473

Don't fraternities, corporations, the police, armed forces, etc, also have initiations?

>>201521

Yes, and each of those groups is just as cringy behind closed doors as the people that use a tranny musical as a masturbation device.

>>197938

It is mostly escapism, furries are incidental because furry shows regularly are whole diferent worlds.

Autists use their imagination to daydream and escape reality, unlike normal people who just use their imagination for creative tasks, memory, and planning.

>>201590

>Autists use their imagination to daydream and escape reality

You mean like that walter mitty guy?

Am I the only person who really hate the Game of Throne/Song of Ice and Fire fandom? And if not, am I the only one who find the oldschool-type book-purist type neckbeard to be actually LESS annoying than the hipsters who watch it on TV and think they're nerdy for watching HBO shit? Not to mention most GoT fans seems to be hyper-SJW despise how that show is horribly offensive to their ideology.

>>201649

T.V. nowadays offers to the masses some slick, pretentious grimderp that makes them think they are being watching shit classy for watching shit like GoT, Hannibal or True Detective. The reading crowd is always more silent than the tv addicts.

>>201649

Most of these popular-yet-shitty shows rely on shock value and sex scenes, because the actual plot is the same old thing that everyone's seen a hundred times before.

The acting is also usually really bad as well, but the absolute worst part of it for me is that shows like Game of Thrones are completely predictable.

>>199132

I'm so sorry for your loss. At least I didn't turn out that way after my grace with tumblr

>>199132

Because a shitload of SJW are 'born again' edgelords. They feel shitty about their past behavior (usually being some sort of creep and spouting shit they regret in this CURRENT YEAR) so now they turn into tumblr snowlfake to keep being horrible but in a socially-accepted way in hope nobody bring back their past where they were into really sick shit.

>>202425

>SJW are 'born again' edgelords

Totally

>They feel shitty about their past behavior

Haha fuck no! I have a better theory tho: they are out of the race

These fucks got old, they can't compete with the new generations of shitposters with their dank memes, and besides most of these old goon faggots have to work for a living now so they devised a way to extract money off normalfags by guilt-baiting them into shit like patreon

>now they turn into tumblr snowlfake to keep being horrible but in a socially-accepted way

Yep

>>202426

"Race". No. They can compete just fine, they have more time than normal people to do so. Look at Peter Coffin. The amount of cocks he makes is insane. Horrible but insane. I'm sure the guys making the /pol/ memes are about the same age. All those infographs with made up sources and numbers pulled out of thin air. Donald Trump retweeted one.

It's not kids. Kids have homework, sports and band.

>>199549

Joss Whedons earlier work like firefly had characters who didn't know themselves until some catharsis halfway through and often those were just meant to be moments of clarity that they'd eventually shake off. His more recent stuff seems to pander to the autistic and or children. It feels like he's sold out. Or it could just be drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

>>202524

>>202524

>They can compete just fine

Nah, most of them are stuck in the last decade still using memes and terms from those times like dudebro and shit, just look at coffin here or the blob

>they have more time than normal people to do so

Than normies? sure, but I'm talking 15yo shitposters doing MLG videos, these little fucks have all the time in the world

>ll those infographs with made up sources and numbers pulled out of thin air

You just described what SJWs do

>It's not kids. Kids have homework, sports and band.

Every kid has a smartphone now so they get to shitpost at any time, anywhere

I can't think of a single thing that I'm in to that doesn't have some annoying fans attached to it. I'll just give a brief rundown of some random shit.

> Walking Dead

A ton of the fans are literally retarded. Another bunch of them pretty much come from tumblr and do not understand the show at all. When you're fucking "shipping" the walking dead you have a strong lack of understanding things. Then you get the people who claim they'll stop watching the show if x or y gets killed off. I feel like this can become a big issue for most shows these days though. Dexter is the only other show I have followed as closely as TWD and even for it there started to be some shippers and dumbasses creeping into the ranks towards the end.

> sports

It's bad when fans in the same fanbase as me makes me hate them. People are obsessed, obnoxious, and usually uninformed when it comes to sports. That's a highly toxic combination.

> Marvel

I grew up on the shit and one could even say it inspired my career choices. I get so fucking tired of hearing about how amazing Marvel is now though. The nonstop memes, dick sucking, and cries of EPIC are just too much.

Sometimes I just think i'm a hipster who hates when normies find the things that I enjoy and proceed to rape and pillage them.

>>202614

>Hipster

Here's the thing: hipsters avoid popular things and dig up obscure media because they're desperate to be seen as unique, where as what you're saying is that you hate the listed popular things because they suck and you've enough awareness to see the flaws in them.

>>198932

>At the risk of hyperbole, it makes even less sense than bronies

You could say the same for people who like washing machines like I do, Asko FTW!, it could be related to autism or a other mental disorder.

It's not as unsensible as it is though, AFAIK most people on automaticwasher.org (the biggest WM collector forum there is) aren't even autistic or have a disorder. I have autism+a fuckton of other mental issues myself though.

>>202709

Oh shit, 2027 GET.

Great mod for Deus Ex btw, you guys should really try it.

>>198958

>100 dollar commissions, just for some sad little man to express how much he hates an orange horse in a piggirl hat

I don't know what's funnier: the notion of spending that much money on hate art, or the c.o.w. wordfilter

>>197194

Yea

Is everyone ready for the deluge of deadpool spergs?

>>204465

I'm not sure if they're gonna be better or worse than existing lolsorandom Deadpool fans. (see Game of Thrones for a similar dynamic)

I wonder how many Negasonic Teenage Warhead cosplayers we'll see.

>>204465

Deadpool fans are already terrible, see >>198553

I don't think the movie's going to pull in that many new spergs, I've got no real justification for this but for some reason I'm pretty sure anyone who would sperg-fan for Deadpool already knows about him.

Also what was the release of GoT like for ASoIaF fans?

>>204465

I don't see any deluge.

>>198466

Can you actually like these pics without getting marked as a autistic fucktard/brony?

If so: that left pic is cute as fuck IMO.

>>206130

Her chin is to large to be cute.

To answer your question, people would have a hard time marking you as anything if you drop the tripcode.

>>206135

And this is how the thread will veere of to discuss the nature of tripfaggng.

>>206135

As much that I hate tripfagging, it makes it easier for me to keep track of my posts, my short term memory's all fucked.

But yeah, if you say so.

>>206137

Just wait for the zootopia miIk to flow in, then we'll be back on track.

>>206146

Just remember your ID number and you'll be fine.

>>206179

put your ID into a text file.

>>206185

Nah, I can't be arsed to do that. I guess posting a reaction image/that Carlos pic would be enough me thinks.

Anyway, back on topic.

>>197591

>that Hetalia story

You've got to saymore.

Okay, I'll throw my two cents into this thread.

You want to know a fandom that's autistic? Well how about the MOTHER/Earthbound fandom?

It didn't start out as Autistic. In fact they were one of the few fandoms that didn't actually tolerate bullshit - even from Nintendo. They got so sick of Nintendo not giving them MOTHER 3 that they took it into their own hands and translated the game themselves.

But that was about seven years ago, now the fandom is filled to the brim with sjws.

https://forum.starmen.net/forum

It won't take you long to find sjw activity on this forum. Ever since one of their members, Radiation/Toby Fox, made Undertale, tons of tumblr spergs have joined the site. What was once a pretty good community is now a sjw paradise, where you can't even breathe without someone telling you to check your privilege or telling you that your behaviour is problematic. They've even successfully brainwashed some of the male members into thinking that they're the root of the non-existent gender problems on the site. Hell, they don't even respect the users contributing to the fan works section any more, they just take most of the artwork from tumblr. It's practically a dystopia at this point.

I did eventually try to call people out on their bullshit, it didn't go down well. You could probably find the topic I made about it on the site somewhere.

>>206508

So Starman went from a productive site responsible for sharing a new title in the series with everyone to another liberal cesspool in one month, more or less?

How long do we have to wait before theories that Ness is autistic and Ana is trans start popping up like blisters?

>>206510

Oh believe me, they made those theories months ago.

Teddy was the only character that was considered to be straight because nobody likes him apparently.

>>201521

>>206508

It doesn't surprise me that it's full of SJWs. There was a clique of dorky hipster girls back in my high school who were obsessed with Earthbound.

For some reason Nintendo seems to have become an SJW magnet. I think it's probably because most SJWs are hipsters and 16 bit graphics are "lol so retro." That and the fact that most contemporary Nintendo games are pretty casual.

A surprising number of them buy into the moviebob mentality that Nintendo is still at the cutting edge of gaming

>>206528

The real kicker is that these people pride themselves on how "tolerant" they are of everybody else, and how they're not sjws or feminazis.

I suppose the reason why sjws play Nintendo games anyways is because they're for kids, and don't have as many triggers. But even then, they still get triggered. I still remember the shitstorm that ensued because Tomodachi Life only had straight pairings in it and it triggered sjws BIG TIME.

>>206528

>>206536

>I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about, yet I speak like an expert anyways.