• BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    They will deride anime as childish and absurd when they worship a movie whose premise is based on a godlike being that attempts to solve resource scarcity by erasing half the population instead of simply doubling the resources. I never understood how that ridiculous idea made it past the writers’ table.

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      I don’t think his plan is meant to be logical. All the other characters say he’s insane and he’s literally referred to as “the mad titan”. He’s just brain broke. It’s not like fascism in our world is particularly reasonable either.

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        Well, it seems more like he’s treated as mad because of the violence of the plan, not because it wouldn’t work, in the eyes of the writers.

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          Is that true tho, or is it more that the writers of the various films had to keep the shows rolling out rather than really explore the ramifications of what happened? I haven’t watched the TV series, but the movies after barely touch in the fact that half of the universe went missing in an instant. That sort of premise cannot behind by a perpetual slop machine.

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        The problem is that the protagonists don’t actually argue against his beliefs. In fact, the protagonists generaly do agree with him that there’s too many people in the world hogging up resources, there’s offhanded remarks about how nicer the emptier world is.

        They just don’t like his methods because he’s too mean about it and makes people sad in the process.

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          But if you suggest that ecofascist malthusians that complain about overpopulation start with themselves they get really mad for some reason.

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      the comic its based on had him doing it purely to impress the female personification of Death, which honestly makes a lot more sense lol. i hate how they have to make comic books into something ‘serious’ and ‘realistically sci fi’ these days.