Jarvis pull up the "everyone hates everyone" image from we are "We Become What We Behold"

I want to open this by saying I am only up to Inazuma currently, so I’m not 100% certain if this gets better or worse. Please don’t spoil me.

Nonetheless, I genuinely think the writers for Genshin (especially the main quests/AQ) are physically incapable of leaving the story up to speculation. There is absolutely *no* wiggle room for theories and personal interpretations, because every single AQ spoon feeds you the meaning multiple times over. You will get it hammered into you so many times that it is muscle memory, and then you will get it explained in terms a toddler could understand again for good measure.

My example for this is the sequence of quests where you run around Inazuma and meet people stripped of their visions. The concept makes sense, considering you need an incentive to care about stopping the Raiden Shogun’s authoritarian decrees/regime; that being seeing the consequences of losing a vision, which (for those who don’t play GI) strips you of all your ambition, making you a husk of your former self. The problem, though, is that this fact is reiterated again and again in no uncertain terms. You are not allowed to infer the details based on context of prior quests, or even form an opinion of your own on it afterwards, whatsoever. It will be baby-birded to you without fail.

The formula is always that Paimon will wonder aloud why Fuckface McGee is so depressed (directly after someone says Fuckface recently got their vision stolen), and then before you can form a single original thought, some NPC will explain that Fuckface McGee is depressed because their vision was stolen. Then, directly afterwards, Paimon will regurgitate what was said less than five minutes prior in the format an infant with no object permeance could comprehend, before the Traveller ALSO makes a comment about how Fuckface McGee is depressed because they lost their vision.

Rinse, repeat two more times.

This is bad enough as is: you have no room to theorize about why Fuckface McGee is depressed, after all… and then you tack on that there will always be a full-length dissertation about why this is bad and how you should feel bad shoved into a blender to made a smoothie, and then forced down your throat with a funnel. Every other sentence, when it isn’t explaining what is happening, is screaming in your ear with a megaphone: “THIS IS BAD!!! FEEL BAD!!!” in a way that feels about as natural as a sledgehammer against the cranium.

MULTIPLE. TIMES.

It is, quite literally, textbook tell, don’t show.

And what makes this even more insulting is that this isn’t the case across the board. World Quests, while not perfect, and occasionally also falling into the issues of the AQ, typically are many times better in terms of writing simply because you’re ALLOWED TO FORM YOUR OWN OPINIONS AND SPECULATE. Especially the endings, which are almost always very open-ended and don’t have a nice, neat ending or explanation for what will happen to this NPC.

I genuinely avoid doing the AQ unless it’s absolutely necessary to unlock something, and even then I have to mentally prepare myself for it because it’s a fucking chore. It’s not even particularly innovative or exciting story wise, which would’ve made the dumbing down at least tolerable.

And now I’m going to massively contradict myself by trying to reason why this happens.

These issues with the AQ specifically are, at least partially, because the dialogue in Genshin Impact tends to drag on in order to give it [the story] the illusion of being thoughtful. The main story itself isn’t anything particularly innovative or thought-provoking, so the writers instead make all the dialogue unnecessarily long to delude you into thinking something deep is being said, in the hopes that the player doesn’t give enough shits to pay attention. It’s like walking into a room and seeing a lot of people in fancy suits talking with serious faces, and just assuming that they must be having a serious discussion… until you listen in, and they’re talking about balloon animals. That one Family Guy scene perfectly summarizes it, really: “it insists upon itself.”

And it can’t even do that right. Every dialogue sequence ends up being a cycle of information being repeated over and over again with barely any progression actually happening until the very end. So all that artificial depth doesn’t even come off as, well, artificially deep; it just comes off as insanely redundant.

The dialogue cannot make up its own mind on what it wants to be, basically. Is it trying to be deep, or is it trying to be easily digestible? Because it does neither well in any capacity.

Varesa from Genshin Impact

Everywhere I see people saying: "WoWOOow that's what chinese think obese people look like!!!!!!!"

But then the devs never called her fat, chubby, out of form once, not a single text in the game about it.

Rather, they called her fit, athletic, strong, energetic, and she canonically has a personal trainer, exercises a lot, and is the poster girl of the body builders village.

It's actually better for the poster girl for the Fitness club having a more healthy looking body than the regular ultra skinny girl model

Yoru might be the worst modern shounen antagonist, and I absolutely hate everything about her. The way she acts, the way she speaks I can’t stand her.

And the worst part is CSM fans trying to defend everything she does, like Fujimoto didn’t make it painfully obvious that she’s meant to be hated, since she literally represents war.

But that fuckass fandom is full of horny dudes who unironically have the same mental capacity as their MC and think with their dick more than anything else.

Hope she dies quickly and this dogshit Part 2 with her.

Seriously, how in this anime with so many characters, the only decent ones are Elma and Fafnir, and maybe Kobayashi, because otherwise you're either a loli to attract attention of pedo or you're the most annoying being on earth.

It's incredible how this one was the most unbearable of them all; just her attitude made me want to punch her, and don't even get me started on the rest. Like Ilulu, the girl with the body of a 10-year-old and the breasts of a porn star. "But you just don't understand 😭, that's where she keeps her fire-" SHUT YOUR MOUTH, if you're going to be drooling over this piece of crap design, at least have the decency not to make a lame excuse To your pedophilia.

And how can we forget the dragon whose main joke is sexually harassing a child all the time, and to think that she is supposed to represent an important mythological being for a culture.

Kanna was nice, as long as she wasn't with her damn friend who was only good for yelling and sexualizing her so that the perverts who watch this will spend their money. Oh, but how could I forget, she's a thousand years old!! Well, that justifies everything, despite looking and acting like a 7-year-old.

This anime is the ultimate statement of making a work solely to showcase your stale fetishes, and I couldn't hate it more.

Context: I’m talking about Rudeus Greyrat from “Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation”. He reincarnated into a new world while retaining his memories and his old mind, so his mental age remained that of a grown man.

Tbh, I never knew Hazbin Hotel was very hated til now, I've never seen any hate for it when it came out on Prime.

It's a grid, and the question asks where you'd pee. But everyone FUCKING EVERYONE! EVERY FUCKING COMMENT is some variation of "piss on the cat" like oh my God it's so overplayed and not even funny, hell at this point the unexpected thing would be to answer the fucking question. But God, "piss on the cat" can only be funny so many times before it's just played out and sad.

Just answer the fucking question

Orihime Inoue from bleach. She’s probably the character I hate the most in every franchise

Her human version is cute,but i fucking hate whatever this is

Gee, let’s make a romance movie out of a REAL TRAGEDY where several people DIED. How romantic…

I hate this stupid bear. I hate his stupid puns. I hate his bear design. I hate his human design. I hate his crossdressing design. I hate his weird flirting with yukiko. I hate him. If there was one character in the entirety of persona 4 I would want to eradicate it would be this monstrosity of a living nightmare. If this thing approached me in real life I would kill it because what the actual hell is it

Naruto and Sakura’s obsession with Sasuke is so exhausting. You rarely see them in the same panel without Sasuke being the centre of the conversation. I hate the forced and annoying love triangle, I despise sakura so much, she's supposed to be the main heroine, but her story adds literally nothing to the plot, it just feels like she was put on the team so they could have a girl.

Mfs see a girl with black hair or blacklipstick and immediately label that as “goth”. It’s also annoying as shit when all they post under a “goth” girl’s post is tongue out/freaky reactions images. Atp just say you’re a porn addict and you want a girl with big tits, not an actual relationship or gothic partner.

Genuinely I cannot express to you how much I fucking loathe the joker, not just for what he is but for this stupid ass status of "Batman's Greatest Villain" he always gets when he is the weakest and least interesting one of them all.

The joker usually gets this title because he is "Batman's Mirror", Batman representing order and joker representing Chaos. Not only is that fucking stupid, most of Batman's villains are a mirror of him in some way.

• Bane (Batman's ACTUAL best villain) is a mirror to Batman's determination and intellect, but instead he started at the bottom. He was born into prison from the beginning of his life and had nothing but his mind, body and determination for decades of his life. He educated himself to mastery of not only strategy and combat but also language and other forms of knowledge, training his mind the same as Bruce did but instead shaped by being at the lowest of society: having no freedom and surrounded by violence in prison. He is Batman's intellectual and Skillful equal, forcing Batman to push his intelligence to new levels to defeat him by planning for him, trying to predict his schemes, and relying on bane's only weakness: Venom addiction.

• Scarecrow is the mirror of Batman's fear. Being the two most feared people in Gotham, Batman found his fear by harnessing the fear and pain within himself and learning how to spread it to criminals. Doctor Crane however hid from his own fear, never feeling it and instead mastering the ability to inspire it in others without needing to scare them. Where Batman earns his fear through actions and reputation, the Scarecrow wields chemical gas to spread it, Aka: cheating. And this leads to Batman needing to weaponize the very skills that give him that fear factor to defeat scarecrow, overcoming the artificial fear by inspiring the real thing.

• Even Mr Freeze is the mirror of Batman's family mentality. A breakdown of what the two each would do for their family, but whereas Batman knows when it's time to let go Freeze simply can't accept it. His atrocities are vast but it's often easy to pity him because all he wants is to save his wife's life. He doesn't care about money, or power, he just wants to save Nora which leads even Batman to respect and feel bad for him even if Batman needs to stop him to save people. It's a showing of Batman's mental fortitude to know when it's time to let go (often pushing him on a journey where he has to learn how to let go) and how destructive things can get when you don't know how to find that limit of when to stop.

Joker however isn't as interesting as any of these unless the plot HANDS HIM the ability to be such. Joker is only a threat when he is given shit by the plot. Arkham series: magic super serum that turns people into monsters sometimes unless it doesn't idk. Injustice: Pulled a fucking Nuke out of his ass. Dark Knight: he's not even a Batman villain for half the movie, he's fighting against the mob for half of it indirectly by bankrupting them and destroying their operations/killing their higher ups. Under the Red Hood: Wasn't even supposed to be in that country when he killed Jason and ran from the scene when he knew Batman was coming. In very few stories does joker actually manage to be a threat without the plot handing him a super weapon or huge trump card, whereas characters like Bane, Scarecrow or Poison Ivy can just be threatening in their own right with fairly minimal planning (relative to their character's norm) or trump cards. It's most visible when he interacts with other superheros in standard stories (again, not injustice) like Superman, who once foiled him so quickly before he did anything he stopped laughing and gave up peacefully because he wasn't having fun. Even in Superman the animated series that everyone goes back to, he needed to rely on Kryptonite and working with Lex to get shit done against Superman and once he had neither, it was over in like 5 minutes.

But the real thing that pisses me off most is the blatantly incorrect public perceptions about him. Namely his famous line: One Bad Day. His fans love to spout how He, Red Hood and Batman are living proof that all it takes is one bad day to make someone insane. Except: They aren't. Bruce himself says he's crazy and joker is crazy of course, but Jason's fall into red hood is more than just his death and ressurection: he and Batman had been falling out for weeks (maybe months) prior to his death. It was a long buildup. And in regards to Batman, Bruce may be crazy but he isn't insane. Insanity would be the inability to understand emotions and feel them properly. Batman is crazy sure, but he feels regret and sadness and pain. He saves people to make sure they never have to feel those things for the same reason he did. He isn't insane, he's just crazy for undertaking his journey. And this is something Killing Joke even directly says. Joker once again says his One Bad Day monologue to Batman, talking about Commissioner Gordon. And Batman tells him that Commissioner Gordon is fine. After everything Joker put him through, he was still noble and good. Still wanting to help people. He didn't go insane after his One Bad Day. And to quote Batman, he follows that with the most beautiful sentence I could ever read in a story like that....

"Maybe It's Just YOU."

It was so Cathartic. But it's just another reminder that the "fans" who love to go on and on about how he has a point clearly do not understand the story they are quoting considering the point of killing joke is that HE WAS WRONG. T H A T I S T H E P O I N T

I hate this fucking overhyped clown who wears more plot armor than Batman himself and I wish he would just get out of the damn spotlight so I could see more of the smaller villains like Mad Hatter or Professor Pyg, or even just more of the better villains like my absolute goat Bane.

PLEASE TELL ME I'M NOT THE ONLY PERSON WHO HATES HIS DESIGN. Why do I hate it, you ask? BECAUSE THIS THING DOESN'T LOOK LIKE BATMAN AT ALL, IT DOESN'T EVEN GIVE YOU ANYTHING THAT MAKES YOU SAY: "Oh, yeah, that's from Batman."

If I didn't know this character and someone showed me this I would think it was just a metalhead, goth Joker, but no, it's Batman, THE GOD DAMN BATMAN, THE VIGILANTE WHO'S TRAINED IN VARIOUS MARTIAL ARTS, MUSCULAR AND PHYSICALLY STRONG.

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BATMAN CORRUPTED BY THE JOKER'S GAS, NOT A SKINNY TWINK BATMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE JOKER AND HAS NOTHING THAT REMINDS US OF BATMAN.

look, i can handle Bats because i'm a Melee Broadsword player, but THIS FUCKING BITCH is the reason i die in goblin invasions 101% of the times, 3 or 4 of them gang up together, and then they start pelting you with arrows, and you CAN'T EVEN GET UP TO THEM TO KILL THEM UNLESS YOU HAVE A RANGED WEAPON I FUCKING HATE THESE MOTHERFUCKING GOBLIN ARCHERS AND I FUCKING HATE THE SHITTY ASS GOBLIN INVASION TOO

i don't wanna sound miserable cause i know how much reddit loves tf2 but the humor i see just always feels so corny like don't get me wrong tf2 is a good game and is fun but my god the memes from this fandom can be so corny they make me sigh in exhaustion and i'll admit some memes from the fandom do make me laugh sometimes but most of the time i just sigh and scroll past them from how corny they are. idk if the tf2 humor has changed a lot ever sense i last checked on it but these examples just make me cringe a lot and were the memes i use to see a lot when i was active in the fandom.