*Superman reflects on how hard it is to be a hero while standing in front of a depiction of the crucifixion of Christ*

“These so-called heroes are nothing but vigilantes claiming they’re above the law! Who will WATCH these MEN?” *looks at camera*

And I think Moore is sympathetic to the heroic impulse even in Watchmen — Dreiberg is a schlub but he and Rorschach are shown to be a pretty good team back in the 70s (their yin and yang complementing each other). And Nite Owl and Sally Jupiter’s rescue of people in the burning building is straight-up heroism that…

We get why it would work but its a long way for a short cut when you have a perfectly good scapegoat right in front of you who you are trying to get to leave the planet. He spends so much time trying to ensure Manhattan isn’t there to bork his plans up but never considers that he could be used as the threat too?

I agree with your second paragraph, but Veidt’s scheme wasn’t about people wanting to fight Dr. Manhattan or surrender, it was about him never being able to blend in or be around anybody on earth since they all think he is the monster behind all the troubles. He already had one foot out the door, but by pinning the…

I really don’t understand people who say the squid ending wouldn’t work. It is, in Adrian Veidt’s insane logic, a pretty brilliant solution to the Mutually Assured Destruction problem: unite all warring nations against an imagined enemy. What’s so hard for audiences to understand?

I’ve come to terms with the Wachowski Sister’s changes to V for Vendetta. Mostly because they updated the story to from a criticism of Thatcher to a criticism of Bush.

I still think in hindsight that the Giant Squid ending to the comic is much better than what the movie cooked up. Mostly because it would make no sense for the people of earth to fight Dr. Manhatten when nothing can kill him. If anything they would just surrender to him.

What does it say about me that I’m perfectly willing to accept real-life videogame fights and superpowered vegans, but I can’t suspend my disbelief enough to believe that multiple beautiful women would be throwing themselves at Michael Fucking Cera?

Movie adaptations of Moore’s work generally miss the point. I think the “V for Vendetta” movie was even more off the mark. In the comic, V wasn’t really the “hero” — the 1984-ish British regime was implied as awful, but V’s terrorism wasn’t really helping matters. Which is kind of how the real world works — you can…

You can sit there and say it’s not ganking all day and night, but come on you’re not fooling me or anyone, only yourself. All those newbies that were so ‘stupid’ as to fly through that gate into a bubble without scouting it. Well of course it’s their fault. Don’t they know that’s your system? They don’t deserve any…

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It makes burning down the world more enjoyable.

I played pretty seriously for a few months in 0 sec in an alliance, got bored and quit. Came back a year ago and tried to get myself interested in solo action, got bored and quit. The gatecamping did trigger me a bit. I saw that the people were literally sitting at a gate for ‘hours’ hoping someone like me popped…

No it’s not. There’s gatecamps everywhere and people wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. It’s a fucktard troll’s paradise and everyone knows it. It’s a game best seen and never touched. That is, unless you have 100's of hours to invest in a survival of the fittest environment so that you can compete. Watching a…

Not so sure about Kackpappe’s actions though. Sounds like something that would be banned. Not sure they are banned, though. Nothing actually says that repeated ganking of noobs is forbidden, best I can find, but there’s a good chunk of circumstantial evidence to support the opinion. An example given of bannable…

What happened in Elite: Dangerous was one overpowered asshole harassing a bunch of people over a few hours and Frontier doing something about it as soon as they found out [there were actually a couple of other douches that night dragging people out of FTL travel to nuke them, but that’s another story].

EVE once again shows that there is virtually no barrier between wildcat capitalism and a mean-as-shit prank war.

This is a good lesson for trolls and other griefers. Gonna be a dick? One day, you’ll get fucked back.

Some Count of Monte Cristo shit there man.