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  • Uruanna@lemmy.worldtocomics@lemmy.worldJob Interview
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    9 days ago

    Just by reading it frame by frame, yes. The first frame looks like a typical job interview. The second frame gives a twist about RPG weaknesses. The third frame gives another twist that the interviewer can “now” finally kill the interviewee, meaning he’s been trying but failing before, meaning that the job interview was a trap. The rest is just building on that story, and is not at all what the first frame seemed to be, having undergone 3 twists in a row into a full blown chess master manga.

    It looks like you got stuck on the context of the first frame and you’re still thinking the boss is weird for trying to kill his employee, and you’re not registering the new information and the changes in context that the following frames added and kept building up on.


  • I think he said multiple times that he found it very hard to spend his money (for good things) faster than he’s still earning it. He was the poster boy for capitalism in the booming tech market when it happened (with all the shitty business practices you can think of), but after he left Microsoft, he’s been doing good things and trying to throw as much money as possible on it. He’s at a level where his wealth hoarding happens on its own, even if he’s not greedy for money. He’s not trying to hoard it, he’s part of the group of billionaires who keep saying they need to be taxed more.


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    The joke is that the interview was a trap and this was an assassin trying to find out Harry Yagami’s weakness so he’d finally be able to murder him. But the shonen hero saw it coming, and he lied about his weakness to find the traitor, and he’s now about to beat his ass.











  • It’s well known that Marvel has done a wide variety of genres. The period piece/war movie, the Shakespearean drama, the heist movie, the space opera, the mystic stuff, the ethnic sociology piece, the spy movie - and then there’s the TV shows like Wanda’s literal sitcom, the mental drama in Moon Knight, surviving with general trauma in Hawkeye, a bit of classic horror with Werewolf by night, Agatha is doing pure witch drama, Falcon and WS was an international buddy cop show… Black Widow tried going hard as a super spy thriller (the Soviet style sleeper cell family that breaks up then reunites, the international assassin syndicate), it was just terribly done.

    A lot of these do have their own genre and just happen to feature someone with superpowers. Is Winter Soldier (Cap 2 I mean) not just James Bond with a frisbee and the muscles to hold a helicopter or punch a car? Is Ant-Man 1 really a superhero movie if you take him out of Civil War and Avengers? Sure, there’s some overlap, and it’s never really “pure so-and-so genre” but always in the context of this shared universe. But it’s definitely more varied than some give it credit for.

    It’s only in the latest phases that they don’t know what else to do while still introducing new faces (yes, there’s been a bunch of misses, but some are still working well). Would Blade as a gothic horror romance work? Is too much special effects the problem?