ShardWarrior

^ This exactly.

None of which could have been accomplished by having her do any number of other things besides becoming a common criminal? She is supposed to be a super genius. Surely she can come up with other ways to obtain the funding she believes she needs other than crime? It seems to me the writers were trying to go for the Robin Hood "steal from the rich, give to the poor" type theme, but it falls flat and does not work in my opinion.

Right so, if you use a weapon of any kind to defend your life or those of your family or loved ones, you yourself are morally evil by your own standards.

Well no, you did not mention anything like that in your post. You included a video from Tim Pool and said that he did not like it and you are glad you did not watch this show. No, I do not believe that these items are equally dangerous as that is not the point. The point is just about anything can be turned into a lethal weapon, so at what level does the blame game start and where does it end? Do some research sometime and look at how many deaths there are each year in the US alone to DUI related accidents. Should the automobile manufacturer be held responsible because they built a car that allows someone drunk to drive it? Why draw the line at arms manufacturers only? Simply because they are making weapons and their intended purpose is to be used as a weapon? I do not like the idea of weapons and arms manufacturing either, but unfortunately we do not live in a perfect, harmonious, peaceful world and we never will. I hope we never have to use our weapons, but I am thankful we have them should we need them. Whether we like them or not, businesses like Lockheed Martin are legitimate business. I agree with you here. I did not find this to be as bad as these YouTubers say it is. While I find the story to be poorly written and the character of Riri to be unrelatable, I do think it better than Secret Invasion, which is a very low bar to hit. My main gripe is that despite Riri being this super genius, she makes very poor decisions and is not learning from the mistakes Tony Star had already made. That is one thing Stark always did - learn from his mistakes. Riri seems to be intent on making her own despite have the benefit of learning from Stark. It makes her look like one of those "so smart, they are stupid" types and I would like to have seen better than that.

No one in the history of the world has ever been murdered by a knife? Hammers can be used as weapons too. You missed the point completely.

To add to this, this applies to more than just straight up weapons. There are a surprising number of ordinary, every day items that can be used as lethal weapons too.

This is the thread for posting analysis from the likes of Critical Drinker and other YouTubers.

I understand the story perfectly fine and the moral of it. Again, he was under no obligation to help anyone. He chose not to and that had consequences he had to live with.

No, he was not ethically obligated to do anything.

Terrible characters can be related to and understood when they are well written. Magneto is a prime example. He does many terrible things, but you can absolutely understand his motivations given what has happened to him and his family. Riri Williams is not well written for the exact reason you point out. She is a very bright, very intelligent person who has many options open to her, and options that would not be available to the average person. She wastes her potential and opportunities. Spot on.

I can. Not quite the same thing as being a criminal stealing from others. This belongs in that other thread.

There is no reason it would have to be. It would barely even need to be mentioned. It certainly a better and more relatable profession than turning to crime.

This does happen in real life. Even if Riri Williams would not accept funding in exchange for an Iron Man type suit, she is intelligent enough to create other kinds of technology such as the vibranium detector. Surely there are other things she can be given funding to work on or invent other helpful and profitable technologies. She can use the money she makes from that to do her own thing. That is a far more endearing character than one who turns to a life of crime.

So allow me to be clear, I do not care for YouTubers like Critical Drinker or Nerdrotic either. I find their schtick formulaic. Having watched films that they completely pandered, I personally find them not to be as bad as they claim they are. Having recently watch CA: BNW, I did not find it to be a very good movie and it is very clear it suffered from extensive story edits, but I did not find it to be anywhere near as bad as critics like Critical Drinker made it out to be. They are certainly entitled to their opinion, but I disagree with the degree of it. I certainly will not allow them to be the arbiter of whether or not I will watch a film or TV show.

This is giving people like Critical Drinker far more agency and credit than they deserve. He simply does not have the power or influence to sink a film on his own. At some point, a bad film is just a bad film and if people are not turning out to see it, it is not because Critical Drinker told them not to. And you know this as fact? Every thumbs down on a movie trailer is from someone deliberately trying to tank a film just for the laughs? None of them cannot possibly be from anyone who just did not like the content?

For me personally, once. The trailer for the Shawshank Redemption comes to mind. It did not do the actual film justice With that said, it was a singular extremely rare edge case, and believe me, Ironheart is no Shawshank Redemption. I take it you never read product labels to see what is in the foods you buy or read the ingredients on menus at restaurants? If we see ingredients we know we do not like or cannot even pronounce, it is unfair that we do not buy the product and eat it?

Until you have various team members all using Fold Space without communicating so mobs are getting teleported all over the place. These new abilities were ill conceived in my opinion.

Help me understand you here. On one hand, you are suggesting it is toxic to post a negative review "before even seeing the product". That means anyone who has seen a trailer, but not the actual product in its entirety, who then posts a negative review is being toxic. Now, in your follow up, you are suggesting it is not toxic. What exactly can be "review bombed" if there is not even a trailer released to be reviewed or bombed? How do you know that these YouTubers you are so focused on have not already seen the product, or have seen enough of it to know that it is not good? I saw the trailer for Ironheart. I did not care for it and did not like it. I posted my observations and suggested that the story did not makes sense and I found the main character unrelatable. I did not care for her in Wakanda Forever either as I felt she was poorly written and developed. Am I toxic? Or should I have given the trailer a 4 star rating and a thumbs up because that is the nice thing to do? I can completely understand not liking a particular reviewer or their given modus operandi. Those people are very easily ignored.

Just so we are clear, does that include any trailers for said product?

So all of these fans who are not turning out to see the latest movie or watch the new streaming show are now "toxic" because they do not like badly written stories? Automatically ascribing the label of "toxic" to anyone who simply does not like poorly written characters, poorly produced content and poorly executed series or films is a statement too. You had several people in this thread calling others all kinds of horrible names in posts that have since been removed simply because they do not like a badly written character. That is toxic behavior. It reads to me that Glacier Peak did not care for how the character is portrayed. I agree. Does that mean we are toxic? Of course not. We are people who are intelligent enough to know a badly crafted story and badly developed, unrelatable character when we see it. The MCU is not doing as well as it used to and that is not because the content is getting better. The fans are intelligent enough to recognize that.

Having watched the first 15 minutes of this, I have no doubt you are right about that.

Right. No one is ever complaining about farming ever. HC has never made changes to the game because of farming. You have completely misunderstood my post regarding the use of Pylons and Trapdoor. Try reading it. How much damage and how fast a Tanker can clear the trapdoor map is a meaningless measure. I explained this already.

Right because there were just so many people complaining that some tankers can solo the Trapdoor map faster than a Brute or Scrapper can and that is just unfair..... Yeah... These measures are absolutely meaningless in a team setting. Most meta content runs do not even allow you to bring a tanker or melee in general. There are Hami runs going on all the time where people are discouraged if not outright not invited to the league if they bring something other than DPS. How fast or slow a tank solos the Trapdoor map is absolutely meaningless to them. I personally could care less how fast or slow one AT or the next solos a specific map. I could care less if tanks could farm faster/better/more efficiently than Brutes could. What I do care about is that my tankers now feel less powerful and thereby less fun and now take longer to run content that I like to run. These are disincentives for me, so as I said before, thank you for that. If the HC goal was to make tankers less fun, then well done. Mission accomplished. I can easily switch to a Brute or Scrapper, at least until someone decides their Trapdoor clear times are a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent too fast...

Of course it was.

A better question is why was this change necessary in the first place? Brutes are still farming just fine. If the intended goal was to slow down farming, then well done and thank you to the team here for making my non-farming solo play experience on my tankers more slow and thereby more boring. As I mentioned in the feedback thread, thank you for the disincentives to run my tankers.