Now feddit.org has a rule for all admins to not travel to south asian countries.

I’m so confused how this is the takeaway for whoever is running feddit.org.

Like, did the admin fucking die or something? Or worse, did they start espousing leftist ideals (/s)?

Uh… STATE’S RIGHTS! Uhm… or something, IDK why MAGAts are

Texas is a third world shithole, they have to be proud of something

Nah, fuck Thor — he could have been the YouTuber pushing for coverage of Stop Killing Games, instead he decided to double down on his stupid bullshit.

Reminder — he was a Blizzard employee for 7 years. I think that, plus his ‘my shit doesn’t stink and if you think it does, you’re wrong and banned’ attitude should give you all you need to know.

That’s fair, I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said — except for Tom Bombadil, I love the flavor he adds to the story.

able to write interesting 3-dimensional female characters

Yeah LotR is a sausage-fest — there is no defending that.

However, this is ultimately a matter of subjectivity, and I don’t think I’ve referred to LotR as the greatest fantasy story. I don’t think there can be a ‘greatest’ of any genre, no more than someone can be ‘the greatest’ at any sport, skill, or whatever else you can think of. ‘Number 1 on the leaderboard’ is an ephemeral position and impossible to guage accurately.

In other words, to me I would be more likely to call Harry Potter overrated than LotR, and it isn’t like JKR didn’t have LotR to pull from. A Song of Ice and Fire, again — very overrated. Despite Martin’s attempts to seem like a modern day Tolkien (which he certainly is not).

You must be completely unaware of the kind of people who gravitate towards 40k.

I didn’t call you a Nazi. I said the fandom was infested with them. Odd that you’d go to such an accusation so quickly.

I’ve heard a lot of people talk shit about Hillary over the years, never once has it been about her being a woman. I’ve heard some misogynistic things about Kamala, however — she kinda opened herself up to it by dating a man who directly influenced her career. A man 31 years her senior. However, any talk about that has always been massively overshadowed by Gaza, or whatever else they had people spinning about at the time (I feel like it’s been years even though I know it hasn’t).

Idk, I just don’t buy ‘Hillary/Kamala lost because woman’. Doesn’t seem accurate.

I think that’s a lot like saying modern orchestral music stands on the shoulders of classical composers but that isn’t really accurate, is it? Moonlight Sonata is Moonlight Sonata. Many classic compositions are still utilized in modern media.

There’s a difference with being disastisfied with certain aspects of a story and that story being overrated. Gandalf and Saruman’s powers being vague was the point. Tom Bombadil is such a minor portion of the Shire, is that even something relevant to the narrative as a whole? Fantasy, specifically, has evolved over time through the introduction of power systems sure — does that make them inherently better than LotR?

Not every book is for every person. You simply cannot deny the level of effort that went into creating LotR on Tolkien’s part, nor that it is held in very high regard to this day. The books simply are not overrated.

Harry Potter, though, absolutely. 100% overrated.

Now where did I leave my 30000 lb bunker buster?

Great, what’s your solution?

Says a 40k fan.

At the very least the LotR fandom isn’t infested with Nazi’s that fail to understand the very basic themes of 40k.

If you want to put a little note saying ‘the movies are overrated’ sure, we can have a debate about that. Fantasy films really aren’t for everyone, and adapting LotR is definitely not an easy task.

If you genuinely mean the books as well, idk what to tell you. The history of the fantasy genre after LotR proves you’re wrong.

Problem is, hoping for one ensures the other.

They quite literally painted the picture as rich white people vs everyone else, including rich not-white people (see: Every other Socio-Economic group).

Getting real tired of people with bad reading comprehension talking shit about reading comprehension.

No, former Christian disillusioned with Christians. Easy misunderstanding to have, though — in these troubling times. I understand you.

What I’m saying is that Christians will accept MAGA because that is the point of Christianity.

Sinners are sinners waiting to be saved.

Edit: I’m not Christian.

And what I’m saying is that Christians will accept hateful people because they believe God’s love will change them.

So… yes, acceptance is kind of the point.

Edit: we’re saying the same thing, I’m saying that expecting any kind of worthwhile change from Christians is unrealistic.

You do understand that acceptance… is the point…

Altman be praised

(I’m not suggesting that unitarians are a space death cult, it just reminds me of unitology)

Unitarian… unitarian…

Getting some Dead Space vibes here