#antis snark

[policemanofprincesspark]

The hilarious thing about some larries to me is they are still concerned about grown ass adults not being publicly gay bc evil management is suppressing their love but a child presumably being exploited to preserve someones straight image its not even on the top ten things in the priority list not even top 20. Im okay with child exploitation but I draw the line at homophobia

Most likely the closeting is by choice now.

They remind me so much of Dan and Phil, who both ended up coming out as gay and a couple. Dan used to lash out at "phannies" (the equivalent of larries; no joke, they were just as crazy) and pretended to be straight to the point where he'd get offended at the mere suggestion he was gay, inciting the idea that he was actually a homophobe. Hmmm... Who does that remind us of?

[soup-of-the-daisies]

obnoxiously loud marauders fanon is turning me into a snape stan actually and i’m a snape-bullied-harry-for-no-reason truther. what do you mean regulus is the poor badass morally grey meow meow with an horrible family life who got pushed into voldemort’s violent little cult through societal pressure but was secretly a good guy all along? hello? that’s literally severus snape put some respect on our dungeon bat’s name

[sluttypatrickstar]

[darkwingsnark]

If I wasn't so busy, I'd probably try to come up with an idea out of spite.

But outside of the initial confusion, I thought it was funny. This all came from the same man that openly talks about his wife's boobs in front of us. I think I would have been well within my right to UNO REVERSE the situation.

[snarksalon]

On Inzoi and AI

Not to snark on the Sims community generally, but the number of Sims YouTubers and Simmers who have spoken out against InZoi's AI usage without doing any substantive research on the AI the company is using is baffling. I won't name-drop drop of course, but I watched a video earlier where a large YouTuber went on a rant about how they would no longer be playing/supporting the game because of its use of GenAI. Firstly, I believe that the general critiques of AI are quite valid, especially when it comes to art theft but the studio behind InZoi has clarified (from the research I've done) that they have trained the game AI off of their own in-house assets/officially licensed content to avoid both copyright issues and art theft.

Even if you think this has the potential to put people out of jobs, AI in video games is not new. Ai has been used for NPCs in several video games before and can be useful when allowing devs to focus on fleshing out other parts of the game.

It feels a bit strange that a non-Western studio is taking incredibly harsh criticism for something standard. It bothers me that gaming YouTubers are willing to make claims without substantiating them or doing any research and it is especially strange to hear Sims YouTubers make claims against one of EA's competitors (whether they are affiliated with EA or not.

I get that AI is very controversial, and I think that large open-source AI projects like GTP and Google Gemini are stealing art and that is bad, but there are some AI projects which are very different in their aims and do not aim to steal from artists. We need to be able to make these distinctions and handle things with nuance.

[runawaymun]

I know before Rings of Power, Amazon had a young Aragorn series in the works; now I’m wondering if the script was sold to Warner Bros who revised it into films and then asked PJ to come direct but

A) why is it multiple “films”. I am not enthusiastic about the idea of Peter Jackson trying to stretch the hunt for gollum (??????) to MULTIPLE films. If anything this feels like it one of the times something needs to be a limited series or something. Also what even are they gonna do for a real plot?

B) why the fuck is Peter Jackson willing to come back to Warner Bros after how much he hated and regretted working on the Hobbit with them?

C) what the fuck. They really are out of ideas with the rights the Tolkien estate sold to them, huh?

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

welp since some of those shitty leaks turned out to be true, those rook's rest leaks are going to end up being true and from the very bottom of my heart i wish c*ndal a very never get work adapting anything again i hope by the end of this your reputation is worse than benioff's and weiss's because it's all you deserve.

[torchwood-99]

First Theloise, now Cressida/Eloise (Elossida?) Bridgerton, if you want me to give a flying fuck about Philoise, you need to stop presenting me with so much more promising alternatives.

[policemanofprincesspark]

This is more ridiculous than Taylor Swift dating a million different men throughout her thirty-four years of life. You're telling me that Harry has had around 15 relationships/flings in his lifetime thus far, and yet this man, who talks about his favorite thing in a relationship being when you've been together so long that you become like a team, who talks about wanting marriage and kids, who sings "you've got my devotion, but, man, I can hate you sometimes," can only make a relationship last about a year before breaking it off?

ROFL.

The longest relationship he's officially had was two years with Olivia Wilde.

You cannot convince me this man can't make a long-term relationship work. It just doesn't make any sense.

[ventingtendency]

Saying this on a burner because I absolutely do not want to deal with whatever reactions will come but

THE THING IS!! It is SHOWN in Bobby Begins Again that post-Gerrard, Chimney and Hen do hang out with Tommy AND Sal! They are genuinely upset when Bobby fires Sal! We see that they get drinks with Tommy! They make him a cake and have a party when he leaves!

And! In Chimney Begins we see that Tommy does warm up to Chimney after Chimney saves him

This DOES NOT excuse his behaviour, but it does lend credence to the idea that Tommy is capable of realising when he is wrong and owning up to mistakes, even BIG ONES like the racism and misogyny he participated in

You cannot convince that Hen would willingly go out to drinks with a coworker who remained an asshole to her & her best friend, I fully believe that apologies were said

ALL THAT BEING SAID — Lou severely fucked up in saying all Tommy was doing was teasing in Hen/Chimney Begins. It was not just teasing. He was actively antagonistic and racist and misogynistic. He didn’t step in At All even though he could have. Do we know now that he was deeply closeted and probably scared himself? Yeah. Still doesn’t excuse his behaviour.

I liked Tommy. I liked that in the Begins episodes he grew into a better person. I liked that he sent that air tanker when Chimney called him. I liked that he was willing to do a favor for Hen and Chim to fly a helicopter into a literal hurricane. I liked that he has shared interests with Eddie and that he is there to help Buck figure out a part of himself.

But after the weird ass reception he has had. All the fetishising and rabid obsession and his actor making bank spoiling shit and saying stupid things on his Cameo, I am eagerly awaiting the day that he is no longer on the show

[beevean]

Me, an amateur writer with poor english grammar thinking of dialogue for fanfics: hmmm i need to make sure i catch their personalities and particular dynamic here, otherwise it'd seem too generic

Netflixvania, acclaimed show done by professional writers: sassy girlboss and dumb moron man! Sassy girlboss and dumb moron man! And for you hmmm. Oh i know! Sassy girlboss and dumb moron man!

Hahahahaha

the implication that NFCV would care about personalities

they couldn't even be consistent with their own OCs 💀

The thing is that sassy banter is not inherently a bad dynamic. It can be fun, and it can show natural chemistry. Even the games had something similar: Maria gently pokes fun at Alucard for the way he talks (as in, barely), and Julia gives Hector some attitude when she plays coy about her identity. Or, not quite the same still, but Jonathan and Charlotte have this Red Oni, Blue Oni dynamic where Charlotte really wants to be Jonathan's braincell. It can work, it's fine, sometimes friendship and love is joking around each other.

But NFCV fails because it's much more meanspirited about it. And there is an audience for this, of course: for example, look at all the people who are positive N!Trevor and N!Alucard had steamy hot gay hate sex because they see their dynamic as homoerotic, but for me, it doesn't feel earned because they have just met and N!Alucard plays jump rope with the line in a way N!Trevor never matches. N!Sypha calls N!Trevor a deformed pet bear in jest, again without him ever matching her (and I'm not mentioning when she got genuinely angry with him over nothing, like when he made a comment about beer being better than sex and she got so pissed she froze that beer - it's played for laughs but still, it's mean). Greta jokes that N!Alucard is lucky that she's there to run his life for him, when again they don't quite know each other that well and she met N!Alucard when he was a traumatized mess (a trauma she made a nonsensical joke about, although he found it funny so I guess that counted as a bonding moment). And I don't think I need to tell you that Lenore is more than mean to N!Hector - but I can point out how incredibly tasteless the very idea of her spouting dick jokes to pass the time is, to pretend they have sexual chemistry, when not even two months prior she sexually abused N!Hector in multiple ways and she forced that sexual tension onto him. Again, you could have written anything else, you could have had her ask him if he likes his new uniform or some shit, but somehow you managed to choose the worst possible option. peak

But also yes, the sameness just hurts everything. Hector/Julia and Alucard/Maria are conceptually a similar ship, mostly because they share similar narrative roles, but they don't talk the same, they don't interact the same, Alucard and Hector are different people and Maria and Julia are different people and it reflects in their dialogue. Maria is more jokey than Julia, because Alucard is more terse than Hector. Jonathan and Charlotte poke fun at each other from time to time, but the whole game is about their friendship, how they help each other and support each other. Jonathan is angry about his father's death and Charlotte emotionally supports him, Charlotte feels slighted when treated like a girl and Jonathan treats her like a peer, not like a genius like she wants to be seen lol but not like a little girl either. They have each other's backs in every way.

Like. You have to have some substance behind the banter. That is what I'm saying. Chemistry can be shown by jokes and all, but you also need to convince me these people like each other. When you scratch under the banter of the NFCV couples, there is either nothing behind it, or something really rotten.

(and, as I said multiple times, I actually would have liked if N!Hector and Lenore sassed each other to keep up the façade that they're happy with one another, but N!Hector is quietly seething and conflicted and Lenore regrets that their chemistry is built on deceit and imprisonment, and this is why she snaps when he briefly breaks it: out of guilt she can't cope with. That would be a great way to subvert the cliché and actually play with the tragic elements at hand that had the audience interested. But S4 is cowardly on a whole another level, so the dick jokes are just to laugh at and I'm really meant to believe their love is wholesome.)

I'll just leave this here to cap it all off:

[sluttypatrickstar]

some people have a little too much audacity

[monmouthcastle]

Not max calling this race boring when it's not so different from most of the other races this season...

Why, because it isn't you in the lead? Lol

[coincidenceiscancelled]

Just saw a clip of Ooof tata in New Zealand and wow, if that's their music, they sound so good. Kudos to them for going out in public, taking a chance that they might be booed off stage, and presenting their music to a non-curated audience.

Also I saw that Rotimi just returned home after a month of promoting his upcoming album. Also to the general public.

Then there's Radio Company which doesn't do any of that. They perform in front of a curated audience, overcharging them to hear their mediocre songs.

[policemanofprincesspark]

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[gwyns]

I’m not gonna link the post so I’ll just type what was said because I want to know your thoughts/comments on this.

An E/riel said “It's funny how Az likes music so much but wanted to shut Gwyn up when she was talking to him about singing. Not very mate-like behavior if you ask me. If you're going to base the argument for your ship on hobbies, you may want to make sure both parties are actually interested in sharing said hobbies with one another. Compare that to him staying up past 3am to talk to Elain about her garden plans, sitting in the garden with her, staring out the window towards the garden. It's almost like interest in the partner is more important that sharing an interest.”

let me start by saying i'm flattered you'd want to know my thoughts on anything lol love you anon 🩷

firstly, my god they are all so bitter and hostile. they can't even make one post without sounding as if they're on the verge of a tantrum

secondly, if az wanted gwyn to shut up he WOULD'VE LEFT. HE HAD MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO. GWYN EVEN DISMISSED HIM BUT GUESS WHAT? HE STAYED AND BANTERED WITH HER. HE ENJOYS HER COMPANY. they want az to hate gwyn so badly because they're so threatened and it's genuinely hilarious. also gwynriel's mate behavior isn't their love of singing? it's the spark in his chest?? it's the smile he had to consciously erase at the thought of her joy??? it's them both being carynthians, making them LITERAL EQUALS????

thirdly, showing an interest in someone's hobbies is the bare fucking minimum in ANY relationship, platonic ones included, so uh... congrats i guess? you got me there?? that didn't stop az from avoiding elain, calling their almost kiss a mistake to her face, not giving one shit about a future together, treating her like a child and pouting when she didn't worship the ground he walks on for helping save her, now did it?

ok as someone who has actual experience with real life romantic relationships (unlike e/riels), how az has treated elain and his thoughts towards her aren't good. at all. it's not "couple goals", it's "he needs fucking therapy". he needs to work on himself before any kind of relationship, no matter who it's with. having things in common with your partner is good and healthy!! as is showing an interest in things you don't share!!! this is literally such a stupid argument, they're really being forced to scrape the bottom of the barrel!!!!

overall i think this e/riel (like many others) is scared and taking it out on gwyn because they're a major loser who makes a boring ship their entire personality. they don't care about canon because they'll just twist it to suit their needs, as shown time and time again. they literally give off cult behavior because absolutely everything sjm does is somehow "soft launching" their ship. they want to be the main characters so badly but the truth is they're not even fan favorite background characters :/

ps this was sarah's face when steph brought up an e/riel take. even she finds their nasty, mean girl behavior off putting