• SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
    60·
    22 days ago

    This display used to be the first thing you would see when you walked into my home.

    The only reason I moved them was because I replaced them to make room for my two massive bearded dragon tanks. 😎

    Any future partner better match my energy LOL

  • seemefeelme@infosec.pub
    50·
    21 days ago

    Joker poster beside other comic book posters: Stay, they’re probably cool. Joker poster beside grindset posters: Refer to counselling and taxi home. Joker poster beside Joker 2019 Poster: RUN TO FUCK

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    31·
    22 days ago

    a bit strange but I don’t really see the problem tbh. Are these references I’m not getting? I recognize joker and thanos.

    • 474D@lemmy.world
      68·
      22 days ago

      The Thanos poster has been “alpha-male”-ified and the joker is a cringe incel reference. The fact you don’t know is a good thing.

        • petrol_sniff_king
          26·
          21 days ago

          Incels scorn society and the world for making them ugly, no powerful jawline, no American Pie sex adventures in high school, and no nice suits to wear to their minimum wage jobs. To incels, they are the forgotten scum of the earth.

          Well, The Joker is a film about an abused, poor, and lonely comedian getting his face kicked in by teenagers about a month before rising up, killing a late night tv host, and vengefully breaking Society down into chaos and misery.

          So, they just think The Joker makes them look cool. That’s really it. Every time they think about shooting up an elementary school, they also think about Arthur Fleck gunning down Murray Franklin.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          18·
          21 days ago

          The movie itself isn’t a problem, But the kind of person that fancies the joker and Thanos *as role models are. It’s one thing to appreciate the dark side it’s another to idolize it.

          The movies aren’t the problem.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      21 days ago

      That sounds exactly like what someone who once faced consequences for one particular thing would say.

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        21 days ago

        He listed the highly inappropriate and unpopular movies that nobody ever heard of Full Metal Jacket and Fight Club.

        I think someone spends too much time reading posts on the internet.

        edit: i was right, yep, menslib subreddit reader.

        • KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca
          7·
          21 days ago

          Like did you evolve your entire personality around the disturbing characters? Or did you watch them a couple times, quote a few lines here and there?

          There is a line and if you are worried people don’t like you anymore because of these movies you probably crossed into the former. The movies are not problematic, but unfortunately the way some people get into them is.

          To emphasize: This is not automatically your fault because you enjoyed watching a show.

          Media is full of things like this and there a few people that take fandom too far. They are characters and we are intended to hate the characters. Should we feel empathy as we watch their journey? Yes but empathy shouldn’t forgive the crimes they commit. We can feel a connection to their pain but take the lesson and instead of idolize, try to do better.

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
            5·
            21 days ago

            The workaholic sigma grindset BS is totally problematic, and definitely hints at the wrong kind of Joker idolization, though personally, I like a good warning of bad choices type character. The Joker could’ve been that if the sequel didn’t crap all over the very notion.

            It’s also why I (used to) like Rick from Rick and Morty. He’s a terrible, miserable person, despite being capable of almost literally anything. He’s a great warning that happiness doesn’t come from things or power, but personal choices and outlook.

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
        2·
        21 days ago

        I dunno’ about OP, but quite a few things become “problematic” purely by association with dinguses. Sure, the sigma workaholic crap is problematic by itself, but the new Joker movie (NOT the sequel) _ was_ actually a good movie. It was all the weirdos who turned him in to some idol that made it cringe. (kinda’ like in the movie, even though the character himself enjoyed the recognition)

        Personally, I tend to really like flawed characters or tragic back stories and whatnot, and he had both. They could have had a really awesome sequel to show why going down the path of idolatry would be a terrible one, but nooo they had to do a weird “musical” where it turns out he’s not even the joker. Too bad everyone else had to ruin it, even the creators, so I can kinda’ relate to things getting ruined by external forces.

        Kinda’ like the US getting fucked by Trump despite every effort to get everyone I know to vote otherwise… Or how people like Johny Somali are giving Americans an even worse reputation as tourists. Some things that are supposed to be good really do simply get ruined by others, because too many people are judgemental guilt-by-association assholes.

      • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
        10·
        20 days ago

        I must be way too old. Being a nice guy is bad? Fuck, I’ve been living under a rock. Is this about “incels” or this sigma thing?

        Edit: Lol, why the downvotes? You guys aren’t nice!

        • DeLacue@lemmy.world
          37·
          21 days ago

          Being a nice person isn’t bad but “nice guy” is a term for someone who presents themselves as nice and polite (but only to people they’re attracted to) and expects romantic attention in return for being nice. Basically, they think the fact that they put so much effort into being nice they deserve that romantic attention. They’ll often talk about how nice they are.

          Of course, anyone who needs to repeatedly tell you they are nice tend not be.

          • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
            9·
            21 days ago

            Ok. Thx. I am not from the US and in my 40s. This whole thing of labeling people into categories is somewhat foreign to me. I mean my generation over here did this as well to a degree (and I admit I never got it), but it appears this has become much more dominant thin (at least at the other side of the pacific).

            I also tend to aggressively ignore things I deam stupid. But my children will be teenagers soo, guess I’ll have to put some time into researching these kind of things.

            • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
              3·
              20 days ago

              Bro yall labeled people too quit acting like it’s so :pinches nose: unthinkable! I don’t even know where you’re from and I know that’s bullshit.

              Here we are. Adapt. Take responsibility.

        • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
          15·
          21 days ago

          You apparently have been living under a rock because there is a world of difference between someone who is nice and also a guy and someone being a “nice guy”.

          Also the posters are red flags not because they reference nerdy things but because they show an unhealthy obsession with fictional characters who, though charismatic, are evil people who justify their violent actions with straw man arguments about power and corruption. The words on the Thanos poster put an especially fine point on that part.

        • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          20 days ago

          If I walk into a woman’s apartment, and one of the first things I see is something like “can’t handle me at worst”, and I <3 Dylan, posters I am probably going to end the pursuit of this relationship. I would do this because I have seen this common thread with people who do this. That common thread is that they have personality disorders, or are otherwise unstable. Pattern recognition is a survival instinct. Pattern recognition can be wrong, but this isn’t seeing faces in wood grain. This is seeing aspects of people’s personalities that they, themselves, value to the point where they spent money to display it on their wall.

          Beyond this specific situation, you know how many times I have seen “it’s just memes” turn into “I am now in favor of an ethno state”? The average person to white supremacist/whatever pipeline created by the social influence of fora for “it’s just memes/jokes” is real, I have watched it happen. Feel disaffected from society? Well I am here to ease you into the idea that it isn’t your fault, it is the fault of women, and brown people, starting with some casual jokes, and memes.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
    8·
    21 days ago

    If you don’t love me at my nerdiest, you don’t deserve me at my I get off eating my partner out.

    • Beastimus@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      21 days ago

      There’s nerd and then there’s Thanos grindset nerd. I do not acknowledge the latter as being a true subset of the former.

      Edit: It was bothering me so I have to point out that I’m making a No True Scotsman Fallacy here. This does not change my statement.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        2·
        21 days ago

        No. Grindset nerds are a cancer that must be excised for the health of the community.

        Like the kind of nerd that would let autocorrect replace excised with exercised.

        • Beastimus@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          21 days ago

          I agree with you, but I can’t recognize that I’m using a fallacy and then let it go undisclosed. I’m that kind of nerd… But yes, burn them out of the community with fire or empathy, whichever strategy works fastest.