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Witchcart does put the villains from Snow White and Castle of Illusion to mind

You may not have heard, but it's coming home.

I don't understand. Are they loud?

It's coming to Rome 

Well I hope the result means you are safe.

Italy will win the final.

Can't believe they have the audacity to do that

???

Jessie…what the fuck are you telling about?

...what?

Mermaids is a british charity that supports transgender youth.

Stonewall inn is a gay bar that was the site of the stone wall riots, one of the most important moments for LGBT rights in the US.

They are both in the news for coming out against the LGB alliance, a UK charity group recently legitimized by the govrnment despite the fact that they promote transphobic ideas.

Don't make comments like this about serious issues, it makes you guys look like pricks

@Wraith They legit just didn't know what the hell the OP was talking about. You can't come on a Sonic forum and expect everyone to be in-the-know about a completely separate issue that isn't getting an extreme amount of traction. 

Also I don't know why this was a status post. It's a bit of a heavy topic, isn't it?

@Wraith Thank you for the clarification, but nobody looks like a prick for asking for context here. I personally didn't know what Mermaids was until you just explained it, and simply saying "Mermaids and Stonewall are getting it in the neck" doesn't really mean anything. This post assumed more prior understanding than several people had, and doesn't really explain anything.

What Blue Blood said, i had no idea what the specifics were. Sorry.

Pretty much what Blue Blood said. With the way the update was phrased, it really is a confusing read if you don't have prior knowledge and know the specifics.

I half agree with both sides here - even without knowing what Mermaids and Stonewall are, you can glean from the word "transphobic" in the status that the issue at hand has something to do with injustice and/or harm coming to trans people, so the big silly meme pictures were a little out of touch.

Asking in general is fine of course, (although I don't think Wraith was suggesting it wasn't).

Siding with jez on this one. Context clues should be able to fill you in, or google. You might have to do some digging, but it’s roughly the same amount of time spent digging to get an image macro sooo yeah. 

I dunno. I agree that the context about transphobia is clear, but posting a memey response asking for more info isn't the worst thing ever. The responses are aimed at the lack of info. 

Definitely far from the worst thing ever, just something worth avoiding in future I think and therefore worth calling out (the pricks thing maybe a bit over-the-top although to me it came off as "I'm not saying you are pricks, it's just something a prick would knowingly do so be careful there" lol)

Sure. I normally tend to use reaction images in general, so personally it wasn't the intention trying to be malicious. I'll do what's been asked though.

I sometimes use heavier language than necessary when speaking frankly and I've learned countless times over the years that doesn't translate over to text well, so I'll own that, but the other excuses bother me. I also didn't fully understand what they were talking about so I looked it up.

Here's the problem with that movie(For the record I think it's just ok)    :  It could have been the "A Goofy Movie" of this new generation of kids: A heartfelt roadtrip movie where a father and his teenage daughter about to go to college who doesn't think too highly of him, but through the forced roadtrip imposed by the father, they reconnect by caving in equal shares and having a heart to heart about each other's concerns about the future.

But nope, that might bore the little kids, let's just throw in a wacky robot apocalypse hijinks side plot that clashes with the other one and causes it to not be as fleshed out as it could have been cause it has to share half the screentime with the robot plot.

As a result the movie is kind of a conflicting mess in its story.

It was enjoyable popcorn fun and it had an appealing artstye, but it could have been so much more if the film makers had trusted the intelligence/patience of their target audience more.

I recommend Pixar's Luca over it. Taking alot of cues from Miyazaki it fully commits to its pure character driven quaint friendship story on a small but very intimate scale.

Haven’t seen it yet but I noticed that even some of the positive reviews were to the effect of warning that if the film’s style of comedy isn’t your thing; the movie doesn’t offer much else for you to get attached to otherwise. 

Which actually makes the widespread amount of recommended/positive reviews on RT and Metacritic a bit surprising in that regard. It’s supremely easy to end up with a polarizing / “love it or hate it” film if your film is heavily built towards one particular element/format. Comedy especially due to how subjective humor can be received.

I gave it 4 stars for the animation alone but the actual joke writing cam be a hard pill to swallow

That, and I think the framing of Katie and her family as weird!!! Comes off as disingenuous when they're mostly functional and dont have any real problems besides the dad being kind of a dick