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Apr 19, 2019

Notre Dame and outrage culture

I can't believe all the crap that has come out recently after the Notre Dame fire. That outrage culture has Been going on wild like wildfire after People decided to pay for the reconstruction.

" they have collected millions of dollars for Notre Dame but they aren't doing anything to end world hunger" and stuff like that. Seriously they have pulled out the Biafran children photos... as in the Biafra conflict from 1967. Seriously if there's all these issues with world hunger that they have all these ads on TV with the little sad children running on the streets drinking gutter water while they have this white person walking and talking about them and asking for $20 a month to help one child, Etc. But the only pictures they can use are from 19 freaking 67?

Then they shared these memes are acting like they are high and mighty because they "worry about the biafran children"... but the rest of the year they don't give a rat's ass about said children.

The comparison itself is stupid. This goes from comparing apples to 3D printers! The rebuilding of Notre Dame is one concrete thing it requires a single time donation.
Ending world hunger requires a lot more and it will require constant donations repeated maintenance and in some cases it would require military interventions in order to topple "evil" government and place "safer better" governments.

The Logistics of staving off hunger in a single country is complicated. Now multiply for the number of countries that are suffering hunger which includes First World countries and you'll see that it's logistically impossible to do. World hunger, fighting disease,  animal rights, protect the environment are vague Concepts. You cannot throw money at the big Concepts. For example fighting disease there's thousands if not millions of diseases in the world how can you get money to fight them all? Now fighting malaria it's a bit more achievable because it's one specific disease and research to combat it has received a lot of money by one Bill Gates.

I'm not saying that we shouldn't strive to end world hunger or 2 eliminate the Seas and all that no I'm not saying that we shouldn't do that.  I'm criticizing the downplaying of a tragedy to Showcase a different tragedy that the person showcasing doesn't really care about.

Different example I care about animals but I would never donate to PETA. I would rather donate to the World Wildlife Fund. ( I have to use the full name otherwise I would think about 80's wrestling)

There's also another one of these that's going like the last Black Horn Rhino is. Is dying and you don't give a rat's ass about it but sure you're going to donate to a building...

This one actually made me laugh out loud because okay it's the last Rhino off its kind and it's dying what the hell do you expect me to do? have sex with it until we can get a Rocksteady?

Also also I need to mention that many of the super rich donate to different causes each year. Sure, it might be a tax loophole but those tax loopholes get funding for things like: education to help fighting poverty to ecological needs to study diseases and how to get rid of them Etc.

But it's easier to post memes and pretty size while patting themselves on the back for being a good slacktivist...

Apr 6, 2019

It came from the Toy Chest: Stanley figure...

Exlesir! 'Nough sed! Well come two beliebers! Stanley hear!  No, I'm not mocking the dead... I'm mocking the bootleggedness of a Custom Stan Lee figure I bought online.

Remember the cancelled Stan Lee BAF? Someone got a hold of the head and apparently started reproducing casts of it, painting it and selling them online on random bodies.

Mine is on a McFarlane Toys body, specifically Mike's body from stranger things.
At first I wasn't sure where the body came from but when I opened the box where it came in, the stench of plastic that the figure emanated reminded me of the old McFarlane Metal Gear toys. One Google search later revealed me the owner of the body.

The head of the other hand feels Hasbro-like. I'm not sure if he's glasses were meant to be removable but since they don't plug into anything... I ended up gluing them to his head so I wouldn't lose them.

I will not do the standard review with articulation paintings called accessories because since this is i Custom figure based on on bootleg pieces. I can't really be fair with it. Unlike the infamous bootleg snake or bootleg Goku this is just a kitbash made out of random pieces so it kind of counts us a custom and it wouldn't be fair for me to criticize a custom figure that's literally a kitbash.

If you can find one in a Hasbro tuxedo body it would be a much better deal than having him on the stranger things body; but that's the only one you find go for it! I know it's a bootleg and some people hate that but it's Stan Lee!
What Stan put togethet shall remain together!


Mar 30, 2019

MOTU movie: roster, designs, and other stuff rant.

With the He-Man movie allegedly beginning production this August, I'm very worried...
To be honest I'm smelling a disaster I failure even bigger than Max Steel. I don't want it to suck but everything seems to be pointing out like it's going to suck.

So I began thinking: How are they going to tackle things?
 I knew that for skeletal they're going to do a computer-generated skull on an actor's face... but the thing is will the same actor doing the physical work be the one who voices Skeletor or will they do a Darth Vader?
Personally I'm hoping for the Darth Vader approach and that maybe they considered someone like Bill Nighy to do the voice of Skeletor... seeing that Alan Rickman is dead and Tim Curry is retired... could you imagine a Skeletor Voiced by Tim Curry ohmygod!

If they go the other route of one actor doing Skeletor and the voice I hope that the actor they pick is a classically trained actor maybe with theater experience. Because Skeletor needs to be terrifying but at the same time he needs to be a bit hammy something like Raul Julia in Street Fighter or again Frank Langella as Skeletor in the 1987 MOTU movie. That is precisely why my top three picks for using a different VA were: Alan Rickman Tim Curry and Bill Nighy.

Now picking rosters it's a much simpler task because they were worried turn the easiest besides Skeletor all you need is Beastman, Trap Jaw, Tri-Klops, Evil-Lyn, Merman and you're done!
The heroic Warrior Cesar bit harder but I would go with Teela, Man-at-Arms, Stratos, Ramman, and Mekaneck.
Obviously characters like Oracle king randor queen Marlena would appear but I mean those five as heroic warriors that are actually fighting alongside He-Man.

 the costume designs I know it's going to raise an issue with many people. I don't want carbon copy of the toys but I do want the designs to be as close as possible to them.
For example Teela and Evelyn I don't want them to be both wearing the same swimsuit only different colors. Think like the MYPseries where Teela and Evil Lyn had similar yet different outfits. I strongly believe the key characteristics of the character most remain us close to the toy: like say Tri-Klops with his big green visor, Trap Jaw with a big mechanical right arm and big red Jaw or Mekaneck with his angular red helmet with the shiny triangular lens glasses.

I think I've said this before but He-Man could have his Iron Cross without it being an iron cross. The crest on his chest could be simply a square coridite Crystal that has clams coming from the corner holding it in place and from afar it makes it look like he has a cross emblem in his chest. It's funny because Skeletor is the only character I could deviate a bit more from The Source material without making me angry. If they go the Fallen Prince Keldor route for Skeletor, then having Skeletor wear  a darker, twisted version of the royal clothing of Prince Keldor would would be an interesting route to take for him.

Two items that personally I think they should go straight up filmation versions of would be the power Sword and the Havoc staff. Okay maybe that Havoc staff could be a bit more tweaked having a realistic ram skull and all that... but the power source should look as close to the iconic filmation look or the vintage toy sword.

Who would have thought that 10 years later I would still be bitching about a He-Man movie... come to think of it this August will be the tenth year anniversary  of the House of Rants  and I'm still wanting a He-Man movie to be made... damn...