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I've been seeing a certain misapprehension on various RWBY posts, so I feel I need to counter it by re-stating the facts.

This inaccuracy is that learning the truth about Salem's immortality is what drove Ironwood mad. In turn, this leads to people claiming that Oz was right to hide the truth in the first place.

That is 100% wrong. When Ironwood learned the truth, he was undoubtably unsettled by it, but managed to keep his head. I've already gone on length over Ruby's decision to hold off telling him already, so I won't go into it.

What causes Ironwood to fly off the edge and down that slippery slope to madness wasn't anything Team RWBY or their friends did (Althought Oscar's "The city in the sky is held to a higher standard" clearly didn't help).

This is what drives Ironwood insane. This little reference to his most public and greatest military defeat, where he lost control of his entire army and was rendered impotent. The black queen chess piece.

And it was placed there by Cinder Fall, the woman who orchestrated the Fall of Beacon, for the sole purpose of scaring him into revealing the location of the Winter Maiden.

Lionheart said that the Fall of Beacon amplified Ironwood's worst flaws. And reliving that trauma by seeing the black queen only increased those flaws more so.

Ironwood takes his impotence out on Team RWBY, raging at past actions he would have accepted because his out-of-control ego needs an easy target to go after. I'll argue that even if Team RWBY had done everything he wanted flawlessly, he still would have turned on them because Ironwood NEVER trusted the heroes, the kill switches on their scrolls being proof of them.

The issue is time, budget, and production costs. The phrase "kill your darlings" exists in the writing world for a reason. Unlike in fanfiction land where you aren't beholden to any deadlines or budgetary restraints, in the real world you have a lot of limitations you have to work under

You have to budget out which scenes get which amounts of time put into it. You need to hire animators, environmental artists, voice actors, character designers, writers, and so much more. That eats away at your limited budget. Given the realities of producing a show, you are also put under deadlines. So you need to figure out what your story and characters are going to be while keeping everybody up to speed, while also making sure it's finished in a timely manner. And that's assuming everything goes perfectly which obviously it won't. There will be communication issues that need correcting which will only eat away at that precious time before your shareholders start demanding you release the product already

Celtic though, isn't beholden to any of that. He's his own boss, is the only voice actor for the entire project outside a few cases, has nobody to appease so he can take however long he wants, and there's barely any actual animation in this project. It's almost all just a bunch of still images with a few animated sequences for a few fights provided to him by his collaborators. And the length, holy shit it's so indulgent. Volume 5 is over five hours long, Volume 6 is nearly six, and Volume 7 is eight and a half hours long. Could you imagine CRWBY making an eight hour long season in the timeframes they had to work with? Of course they couldn't, Volume 8's the longest one and it barely managed half of that

Celtic blatantly cheats about this as early as Volume 1. By Celtic's own estimations RWBYV1 had 16 episodes that averaged 7 minutes long for a total of 112 minutes of screen time, under two hours. FRWBYV1 is intended to be 20 episodes that are 10 minutes long, or 200 minutes. Over three hours and nearly double canon's own runtime. Wow. Why didn't CRWBY think of that? What a brilliant way to fix RWBY. Just get more budget and runtime IDIOT

The fight Cinder and Raven had was mostly unchanged aside from a few bits of new choreography, so Cinder retains her canon power level. Keep in mind that Cinder was magically AND physically evenly matched with Raven, meaning even without maiden powers she's on Qrow's level. During her battle against Melanie Cinder is still injured and concussed from fighting Raven, is starving due to low food availability, her grimm arm is eating away at her health, and is cold from dealing with the rain that day. Meaning Cinder's nerfed pretty badly in this battle compared to her canon fight against Neo. Melanie also does worse than Neo did in canon despite these advantages and would have died before Cinder turned up the juice on her maiden powers, which pretty firmly puts her below that Qrow tier in FRWBY

Doesn't sound so bad right? Here's where it gets messy. Melanie in the Atlas arc repeatedly has playdates with Tyrian where they try to kill each other. Somehow, Melanie is surviving this and is evenly matched with him. Even though Tyrian's fight with Qrow was pretty much unchanged. And it's never stated or implied that Melanie did anything to improve since her battle against Cinder either

Then we have Clover. His first, and so far only, fight in FRWBY is the three for all against Qrow and Tyrian. Doesn't sound like anything contradictory so what's the issue? The problem is Clover's position in the Atlas military

In canon Clover and the rest of the Ace-Ops are clearly meant to be Atlas' equivalents to Qrow and Beacon's teachers given their status as the best huntsmen in Atlas' military other than Winter and Ironwood. Thus Clover being evenly matched with Qrow and Tyrian adds up. In FRWBY though, he's just a random huntsman as far as we're aware. On top of that in FRWBY Qrow is a legendary huntsman far superior to Beacon's teachers essentially making him the Maria of his generation

Normally something like this wouldn't bother me, the world is a big place after all and there has to be proper conflicts in your action series. But given Celtic's obsession with trying to make RWBY into a more "realistic and logical" series, a discrepancy like this needs to be called out. Canon isn't even TRYING to be realistic or super logical and Clover's power level makes more sense than in FRWBY

See..? This is why i want to date Tall Women...

The administration either got rid of or didn't listen to people who could explain the algae problem, and decided that the problem was because other administrations were just stupid and didn't know how to take care of the pool, and also saw an opportunity for grifting some money.

So they painted the bottom of the pool dark blue, which absorbed more heat from the sun and made the algae bloom faster than ever. So they dumped hydrogen peroxide in it, which only killed the algae around the edges and also made the new paint job peel.

Waste tax money on vanity projects

Ignore experts saying the project will cause numerous problems

Said project fucks up shit that was working perfectly fine beforehand

Claim the problems caused by the project dont exist

Switch to saying none of this was a big deal in the first place despite costing millions of dollars

By the time Obama rocked up and it became his issue, the initial issues had compounded with "it's old as balls" and "this was never designed to have this many visitors." Obama undertook a massive renovation that included stabilizing the pool structurally and rerouting the water source, as noted above. He was aware that this was only a partial fix to the problem--there's only so much you can do with a megastructure that was built improperly when cars were still a novelty and that sits in the middle of one of the busiest metro areas in the US--but he did what he could. Perfect is the enemy of "mostly right."

Now if you wanted to fix the pool properly, the way to do it would be to tear the whole thing out, go back to the original blueprints, and have a modern architect look at what needs to exist as substructure to make the superstructure viable. That is, understandably, not a cost we can really afford right now. And replacing it with a different form of monument somewhat less problematic, like a garden, would be extremely politically fraught. So "we're going to deal with problems as best we can when they crop up" is the name of the game.

TRUMP TRIED TO REMOVE OBAMA'S RENOVATION. Like. The thing that meant he had a pool to paint in the first place.

He took it out because it was installed by a black man.

Trump did this because he is a racist piece of shit who cannot stand anything that was done by a black man. It must be removed and replaced with something done by a white man.

And every time he does this he makes things worse.

This is chat gpt trash prompted to “sound Japanese” and it’s based off of racist old movie dialogue. There’s zero correlation here to Japanese grammar and how Japanese translates into English or how a native speaker of Japan uses English. It’s slop. It’s racist ai slop rehashing Western exceptionalism, fantasizing about a Japanese person being in awe of how great the USA is. It’s depressing that people fell for this. I know it feels good to think that other people like us, and sometimes they do, but this only works if you assume Japanese people have extremely limited experience and worldview. It’s mortifying.