Decided to read a few strips of The Nice Guy again, by way of the Bad Webcomics Wiki.
Goddamn. It's like reading Sonichu, except without the stupid expies or the hardly-veiled-at-all death threats. Just a guy who doesn't even try to tell someone he likes them. And since when are all women Real Housewives rejects? Do you seriously want to date a Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian wannabe, dear author? If so, then you're setting your sights way too high.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
It disappoints me that the term "Nice Guy" has come to refer to people who are pretty much the opposite of nice.
"Perhaps I should ask Imi: What if you had the perfect pair of boobs; would you ever want a relationship with another?"
I honestly don't know. I'd probably be content with my own for the most part, but would still entertain the possibly of relationships/whatever with others. Because there's no harm in experiencing other boobs too, right?
squid: From what I can tell, it's largely fear of their own sexuality, an application of the madonna-whore complex to themselves. It's not so much that they see other guys as jerks for having the balls to ask out women; it's that they're also afraid of becoming every negative macho stereotype in the book if they even try.
Not only that, but they're chasing shadows to begin with. The sorts of domineering, Snidely Whiplash-ish jerks they think are around every corner mainly exist on TV, in shows meant for teenagers and older grade schoolers. Once you're past high school, assholes tend to be weeded out relatively quickly.
Hamlet was like...say someone made a stairway, but instead of using wood to build their stairs they used bad decisions. And then almost the entire cast shows up because they can't wait to be useless pieces of shit all day and participate in some generic medieval aristocracy stuff, but instead they fall down the bad decisions.
And at the bottom of the stairwell is poison and stabs.
This is quite possibly the most accurate plot synopsis of Hamlet I have ever seen.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
my mama told me when i was young
we are all born superstars
...That song is kinda bittersweet now. I associate it with June and the last of the "fun times"
Also, on a blog I found complaining about The Nice Guy:
So, really, nice guys aren't nice. There's a deliciously nasty element of revenge in the nice guy fantasy, a desire to see the object of your affections get repeatedly hurt by jerks so that you can rush in to console her and pick up the pieces and PROVE what a great guy you are. A nice guy is convinced that he, and only he, will treat this girl properly. Every other guy in the world is a jerk. And what makes them jerks? Why, the fact that they might be forward in any way. The nice guy considers making any sort of sexual advances on a girl to be "jerky." It doesn't matter if the advances were consensual..in fact, it's MORE jerky if they're consensual because that would imply that the object of your crush has some sort of - gasp! - sexual feelings for another man! Nonono, that can't be! Your crush is pure and virginal; she would never feel that way!
That pretty much sums up every reservation I have about the whole "nice guy" phenomenon (as well as some of my own past behavior, for that matter). It's not only self-serving, it's sadistic in the same way a hurt-comfort fic is. And all because said Nice Guy fancies himself a Purity Sue? Really?
I'll be back in a while; I need to hit the road, then out with the folks for dinner (wil be checking in on my phone).
I used to be sort of offended by the not-really nice guy stereotype. Not so much anymore, since I think I'm comfortable enough with myself now that I don't automatically associate myself with every stereotype I hear about. I still sort of wish I could describe people as nice without coming across as sarcastic, though.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I try to be polite and respectful in general. I also know that I'm ill-prepared for sexual and long-term romantic relationships, so I probably wouldn't try any of those manipulative kinds of things even if I wanted to.
It still utterly infuriates me how some works pages on TVTropes are split into regular (full of flat lies) and DarthWiki (the actual entry) for no reason beyond "it enhances the experience".
I'm sorry, are we supposed to help a game be scary now?
It was never particularly widespread (I can name only three other examples, one of which I sort-of fixed personally some time ago) but it's still annoying.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
That, Eversion, and Ai to Yuuki (a very long title that I can't remember) are the ones that I recall off the top of my head. They didn't annoy me very much, but I can kind of see how they can be.
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I honestly don't know. I'd probably be content with my own for the most part, but would still entertain the possibly of relationships/whatever with others. Because there's no harm in experiencing other boobs too, right?
The only bad webcomic I want to read is Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.
This is quite possibly the most accurate plot synopsis of Hamlet I have ever seen.
Solely to annoy you.
we are all born superstars
...That song is kinda bittersweet now. I associate it with June and the last of the "fun times"
CORPSE FUCKING ART
Cannibal Holocaust
It's a meme picture.
HURR HURR I'M A HOERS
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
11.975 MHz was briefly on there.
That alone is enough to make me not trust its collective opinion.
It still utterly infuriates me how some works pages on TVTropes are split into regular (full of flat lies) and DarthWiki (the actual entry) for no reason beyond "it enhances the experience".
I'm sorry, are we supposed to help a game be scary now?
That is among the pages that uses that, yes.
It was never particularly widespread (I can name only three other examples, one of which I sort-of fixed personally some time ago) but it's still annoying.
It's just the internet, maaaaaaaaaaan.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I like how that page makes a big deal out of the eyes
which aren't really that scary.
I guess they might be in the actual game, I dunno.
Worst eyes I ever saw in a piece of media was that one Touhou doujin. Hell Mansion or whatever. I actually had to sleep with the lights on that night.
Irisu.
My first thought was of Ai To Yuuki Harukanaru Toki No Asobi Ni Iku Ginga Sengoku Ninomiya-kun Rokubou No Shichinin Gensou (old Trash Heap joke.).