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anakinh · 18 days ago

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watching Arcane without fandom interaction is really interesting actually. I remember watching Jayce's Progress Day speech in s1e04 and being so relieved he did the right thing and listened to Heimerdinger (one of the only times I ever agreed with Heimerdinger lmao). I mean, did he see the inventions he presented? A giant fuck-off punch gauntlet and a death laser? And he didn't think that would harm people? I thought it was the peak of Tech Bro Bullshit.

(as an engineer, I've heard a lot of Tech Bro Bullshit and I'm a bit more sympathetic to it/the motivations behind it. The hextech inventions shown in that episode was a prime example of Tech Bro Bullshit: something created with the genuine intent of helping people, but in a way that addresses the symptoms of a deeper, societal problem. It never gets to the root of the problem and it addresses the problem in a way that helps the capitalists (now our miners can do their work safer and faster! oh, so their boss can make them work longer hours?) The inventors never seem to recognize that their invention can do significant harm and isn't ready to go out without more testing.)

The fandom reaction seemed to be... more negative, though? Or maybe that's because I'm in the jayvik sphere more and there's more Viktor stans? I think that was one of the fandom reactions that surprised me.

I just re-watched the episode knowing the prevailing(?) fandom opinion, and I ... hm. I understand Viktor's POV and the sense of betrayal much better. I'm impressed by how quickly Jayce salvaged that speech. I think the main issue isn't the choice that he made, it's that he should've made it before he got on stage. Impulsiveness has always been a Jayce character flaw, though. I still don't think he chose wrong.

Also, for the record? Every time I insult hextech and call the inventions tech bro bullshit I am also insulting Viktor. He is one of the two founders of hextech, he's an equal partner, and he deserves to be insulted just as much as Jayce. A lot of times I see people acting like the bad hextech decisions that were made was pure Jayce, but nuh-uh. This is an equal partnership, folks

#me.txt #arcane meta #other fandom reactions that surprised me: fandom perception of silco (he's literally a drug lord guys. please stop calling him marxist lmao #fandom perception of mel and jayce (if you hate mel and/or jayce you're wrong and you have terrible taste and that applies to all seasons)#reaction to jayce killing viktor in the commune (if you heal someone and they die when you die it's OBVIOUSLY evil non-healing. cmon)#how much people like jinx (that's on me i didn't know she was big in league)#wait i just realized that the pattern here is i'm surprised that ppl consistently sided with the white ppl and against the black/brown ppl #hm. much to think about #well. maybe not that much #i guess there's also the class argument but. i mean. silco is a drug lord. he's richer than everyone in zaun #he's getting that money by exploiting her people. jinx is his kid. he literally created and headed a council just like piltover #how much of a class argument is there?#i guess if you look at it on a ... overall societal level? eh. i'm gonna be honest i dont have the lived experience to critique that #silco's one of those characters i liked and then i realized how fandom thinks of him and now i'm just annoyed when he's brought up #shame

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