>>149993628
High tier strength with water environment making him beastly.
Electricity.
Durability
Flight w wings doubling for super speed
Magic trident that does what plot demands.

The horn shit is more a meme. He can talk to sea life but it isn't on Aquaman's level. Comics usually portray him more like a brutish fighter with Superman-ish power and is an asshole.

What MR did would be equivalent to removing all of Spider-Man's punching abilities and replacing it with spider gadget attacks but claiming you kept close to source because he still web crawls and swings around.

Hell being on this tism high I'm remembering he almost never uses a trident for day to day fighting.

>>149936595
>>149936641
The whole Thundercats Roar situation sticks out to me so much since it really feels like the first time in like 20 years that a show/movie/game's creators were openly antagonistic towards it's audience to such an extreme degree. It's only gotten worse since then.

Can't really think of any show before that did it outside of maybe animatics, and even then they had kids and normie adults as a fall-back. The only audience TCR could hope to attract were Thundercats Fans, who they blatantly villanized.

>>149719115
It's insane how true this is. Everyone's brain is fucking fried by nonstop dopamine input and constant exposure to the opinions of millions. If something they watch doesn't result in immediate joy chemicals, they might not care, but if they DO get the joy chemicals, they then check the internet to see if they think they'll be able to get more joy chemicals out of continuing to unironically enjoy it, or if it would be more fun to shit on.

This mindset was present before social media, but mostly just among self-styled entertainment critics. I knew a few such individuals who would always see movies with us, and often enjoy them, but then totally change their opinion once they got home to the internet (this was before smartphones) to assess the fansite/forum battlegrounds and decide which faction was more fun to join.

The problem is simply that the niche pastime of shitposting on dedicated movie review forums is basically encompassed and magnified entirely by what social media has become. Everyone is just a few screen taps away from being picrel, but with far less knowledge or passion required—in the 90s or early 2000s, if you wanted to be a retard on the internet, you at least had to be smart enough to use a computer.

>>714142974
Because at absolute fucking minimum I need stabilizers that aren't crap and hotswap sockets that aren't by Outemu. I've had better barrel stabilizers on Model F keyboards than I have the average cheap mechanical, and barrel stabilizers are scratchy dogshit compared to lubed wire stabs.

>>713926760
>Plus, being able to clearly see the tech inside would embarrass the manufacturers who keep cutting corners with their iterations.
I always assumed this had to be the case, figuratively and literal transparency would reveal how much objectively worse things have gotten