i don't understand the criticism of opla being lame or looking stupid. as if all the late 90s/early 2000s-era goofiness isn't fully intentional. can one not appreciate the beauty in refusing to turn away from the camp of it all? do we still abide by the marvel belief that anything non-respectable to good taste must only by enjoyed satirically? are we so insecure we cannot surrender ourselves to the wwe kayfabe of a green-haired guy that fights with a sword between his teeth and is tormented by visions of his nemesis sir cunty renaissance-dracula?

it probably feels good as fuck to be gwin ashord having a birthday celebratory tourney thrown in your name... you're a 13 yr old girl wearing your nicest dress for the tourney and instead of some knightly jousting the heir to the throne is killed by his brother, two royals are mutilated (one of whom was being a menace and a little agent of chaos and slandering people left and right and got a massive hubris check by yielding in front of dozens of people), multiple nobles are dead all while there's a maniac with horns laughing in the background, and the realm is plunged into chaos in real time before your very eyes... wow...

pairs well with this one

it's always really funny to read reviews of the murderbot books that are like 'we eventually learn that the secunit is not a mindless automaton after all but a person, who hacked the module that controls its behavior and just wants to watch its tv shows in peace' as if that isn't literally the first thing we learn about it. like, the first sentence:

they look like the evil penguin from Wallace and Gromit