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  • Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
  • we're moving between continents so I decided the best use of my time was to spend a week and a half putting together a woke mario culture war response video. if you like the video and want to help out with moving costs, consider the support links below
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    Watch Shadiversity's Original Response Here: • JACK SAINT blatantly l...
    Tracks Featured (listed as they appear):
    Opa Opa - Nathan Welch
    Airship Theme - Super Mario Bros 3 OST
    Across Land and Sea - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
    Dire Dire Docks - Super Mario 64 OST
    Athletic - Super Mario World OST
    Koopa Beach - Super Mario Kart OST
    Underwater - Super Mario World OST
    Dwarf Fortress Main Theme - Dwarf Fortress OST
    Boy Meets Girl (Twoson) - Earthbound OST
    Ending Theme - Super Mario World OST
    0:00 A Fool's deceit
    6:41 Woke War Mario
    9:50 The Response Part
    14:11 The many lies of Shadiversity
    25:17 Squirely Tactics
    38:04 sir shad's context
    45:03 Twisted truths
    54:24 Woke Propaganda
    1:04:55 Conclusion
    1:09:41 Addendum
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  • @LackingSaint
    @LackingSaint  Год назад +1463

    hey we're in the middle of a cross-continential move -- if you like the video and want to help out, throw us a tip with the support links below
    I truly cannot overstate how serious I am about this duel
    also I'm on bluesky now lackingsaint.bsky.social
    Watch Shadiversity's Original Response Here: ruclips.net/video/2l5mIyiM9DY/видео.html
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    • @toastbeing1202
      @toastbeing1202 Год назад +83

      Shad is also a climate change denier

    • @danielheflin6658
      @danielheflin6658 Год назад +177

      Hey, if you need any practice ahead of your duel, hit me up. I, like Shad, am also a dedicated LARPer and am more than willing to show you all the fancy tricks to beat him in 1v1 combat. Offer stands, just need to make your way over to Washington state first. I await your call.
      I've been noticed! I am 4REAL bro. I used to fight 3+ days a week for years. I've been quoted saying 'Musashi's 5 Rings is my bible.' I can be the Princess Peach to your Mario. I'm a WAY bigger nerd than Shad is.
      Also, love the DF theme stinger, LET'S GOOOOOOOO

    • @juggaloclownpreacher
      @juggaloclownpreacher Год назад +3

      The people who watch this guy's channel should have known he was a because the guy was walking around with swords and dressed up in armor from the Dark Ages. There are only two kinds of people who study history the ones who want to learn and stop it from happening again and the ones who wanted to happen again because they want to be making history. Knights are famous for massacring Muslims and a whole bunch of other innocent people.

    • @sboinkthelegday3892
      @sboinkthelegday3892 Год назад +6

      Worse music track credits than Super Mario Movie, how dare you
      Justice for Koji Kondo

    • @zephyr8072
      @zephyr8072 Год назад +91

      I love how Shad's fans kept saying his response was some epic debunking of Jack when it's one of the most whiny, mean-spirited and juvenile response videos I've ever seen in my life.

  • @ThatOneGuy0006
    @ThatOneGuy0006 Год назад +5474

    Saying "bowser is a simp now" unironically as if that hasn't been his singular, primary character trait for almost 40 years now is insane.

    • @starmaker75
      @starmaker75 Год назад +652

      It like complaining darth Vader as a space fascist in the recent Star Wars mini series he in. Like that the point

    • @zestybomb
      @zestybomb Год назад +311

      That's like saying Eggman became a narcissist after the movies came out? Have you played the games?

    • @explody7836
      @explody7836 Год назад +186

      Robot Chicken made that joke when I was in college, and it was worn out even then. The only thing that changed is the terminology.

    • @Mygg_Jeager
      @Mygg_Jeager Год назад +14

      Actually he was never a simp. He was kidnapping Princess Peach the means to an end, and that end was to lure out his arch-nemesis, Mario. His role was previously held by Donkey Kong.
      Bowser has never expressed any sort of sympathy, empathy, or romantic leanings towards Princess Peach.

    • @shadowhunter0815
      @shadowhunter0815 Год назад +360

      @@Mygg_Jeager Paper Mario 1 & 2, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Odyssey and several other Mario Titles disagree with you on that one...

  • @xxplumplumxx
    @xxplumplumxx Год назад +2780

    All of this is because Shad didn't initially recognize Peach's mario kart Wii outfit. I think it's precisely why his reaction is so agitated. He has been exposed as a fake gamer, the worst dishonor.

    • @skeletonbuyingpealts7134
      @skeletonbuyingpealts7134 Год назад +449

      Not only that, he posted cringe on main

    • @fakegeek5462
      @fakegeek5462 Год назад +91

      I watched the review it was a 3 guys at a round table. 2 people hated Mario movie and didn't get all of the references. 1 guy did and loved it. It wasn't Shad 2-3 spent 2 hours saying how the movie sucked. Wierd that the movie didn't suck it was just a fun movie. Edit Shad said he wasn't a gamer at most he played a little bit of the NES games.

    • @skeletonbuyingpealts7134
      @skeletonbuyingpealts7134 Год назад +6

      @Calvin I aim to please

    • @manolgeorgiev9664
      @manolgeorgiev9664 11 месяцев назад +160

      He's stared into the abyss of anti-SJW politics for too long and the abyss stared back. He needs a break from political stuff and stick to his history and fentasy lessons.

    • @eagleleft
      @eagleleft 11 месяцев назад

      ​@fakegeek5462 he also made a stupid video called:is it woke or not" anyone who unironically makes that title is a grifter and dumbass

  • @patron8597
    @patron8597 9 месяцев назад +1806

    "Girls love to be weak and get saved. They will always prefer this."
    "My daughter would have absolutely loved seeing how cool and strong Peach is, but she isn't allowed to enjoy that."
    Galax brain right there.

    • @MaterialMenteNo
      @MaterialMenteNo 8 месяцев назад +249

      Also when he says that he's overlooking something really obvious: if you want to be saved, it means that you're in a situation where you need it. Does he think that women wish to be in danger, just to be saved? He thinks that someone would wish to deal with the lifelong repercussions of a damaging experience in order to yearn for a hero who could never come?

    • @pyerack
      @pyerack 6 месяцев назад +45

      Kinda sad that by knowing how my mormon uncle thinks and acts I'm honestly not surprised when Shad says this sort of stuff.

    • @CitBox
      @CitBox 6 месяцев назад +142

      @@MaterialMenteNo I think it's more that he believes that women being endangered and in unsafe circumstances is a natural occurrence that cannot and should not be questioned. Women must suffer so men can save them, ignoring that the danger that women are facing is men.

    • @MaterialMenteNo
      @MaterialMenteNo 6 месяцев назад +49

      @@CitBox good point. Bad dude takes the poor lady and good dude needs to save her, ignoring how the very idea that a girl/woman is something that can just change owner and be ok is the very motor of the violence.

    • @thomasmann4536
      @thomasmann4536 6 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@MaterialMenteNo idk what Shad meant, but I think a good phrasing would be: Women want to feel that IF they were in danger, they could be saved. (whereas men want to feel that they could save themselves) This ties into the (supposed or not) desire of women to have, e.g. a strong shoulder to lean and cry on. Those are obviously broad generalizations, but I think it's quite telling that for example the philosophy of stoicism appeals almost exclusively to men.

  • @explosion9815
    @explosion9815 8 месяцев назад +1305

    Cannot get over the lunacy of Shad claiming that most guys would sooner save a hot princess than their brother. Was everything okay growing up, Shad?

    • @truffeltroll6668
      @truffeltroll6668 7 месяцев назад +302

      No, he's Mormon.

    • @gokbay3057
      @gokbay3057 7 месяцев назад +264

      Even worse is that he actually has a brother (actually multiple brothers, I think.).
      Like I could perhaps see an only child make that comment (I as an only child wouldn't but y'know, I could see people who never experienced having a sibling think that). But the fact that Shad said that while he has brothers really is something.
      I suppose the fact that he is into AI art while (one of) his brother(s) Jazza is an artist and that claim could be interpreted together.

    • @Kuzka_
      @Kuzka_ 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@gokbay3057I envy your naive perspective. Or maybe you just happen to be so lucky. I've seen enough men being ignored by other men for a possibility of getting down to something.

    • @KrissFliss
      @KrissFliss 6 месяцев назад +179

      Poor Jazza...

    • @Hawkatana
      @Hawkatana 6 месяцев назад +87

      @@Kuzka_ There's naivete, and then there's not living in whatever fantasy world you're in.

  • @puppable
    @puppable Год назад +1846

    If shadiversity is so anti-woke howcome he doesn't change his name to sha

    • @jowysw
      @jowysw Год назад +366

      That name is just a letter away from "she" tho. Too woke.

    • @MrRancidity
      @MrRancidity Год назад +134

      Actually laughed at this joke. Fantastic

    • @zephyr8072
      @zephyr8072 Год назад +43

      He can change his name to "No".

    • @greatsword6365
      @greatsword6365 Год назад +155

      ​@@zephyr8072 "No", as in "No means no"? Too woke, sorry

    • @bookshelfhoney
      @bookshelfhoney Год назад +39

      Shadrition maybe

  • @kaedotmoe
    @kaedotmoe Год назад +3254

    Everyone is like "wtf the sword guys like this" but i want to point out how hilarious a guy in a knight cosplay complaining about the obsolescence of damsel in distress tropes is

    • @kaedotmoe
      @kaedotmoe Год назад +496

      Guy wearing plastic chainmail: "girls want to be saved !!!

    • @SheezyBites
      @SheezyBites Год назад +540

      ​@@kaedotmoe He's wearing a cotton hoodie with a chainmail print, he does own real chainmail but it's too heavy to wear while he's busy getting angry at fictional women.

    • @kaedotmoe
      @kaedotmoe Год назад +314

      ​@@SheezyBites i just finished watching the video, these people aren't jumping at ghosts, theyre shouting at windmills

    • @Gustoberg
      @Gustoberg Год назад +216

      ​@@kaedotmoe OMG Shad is literally Dom Quixote!

    • @Firegen1
      @Firegen1 Год назад +70

      ​ He is! I can imagine him singing the incel version of "The Impossible Dream"

  • @GregStraub42
    @GregStraub42 8 месяцев назад +1357

    "No one had isses with me being a religious conservative until I stopped hiding it and started screeching about it online"
    Imagine.that.

    • @OK-wm2mr
      @OK-wm2mr 6 месяцев назад +128

      He didn't hide it, he just showed that he was the worst type of religious conservative

    • @paulsmart4672
      @paulsmart4672 5 месяцев назад +156

      The lack of self-awareness is profound.
      He wants to depict himself as a victim, but complains that suddenly he's getting a lot of negative attention now that he's started picked fights and talking shit, whereas no one bothered him when he wasn't being a dickhead.

    • @hexlart8481
      @hexlart8481 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@paulsmart4672 Lets be honest he was always kind of a dickhead. Like even his non political opinions are based on kinda flimsy research and whenever someone has so much as raised mild disagreement with him he's gone on to make hour long rants about that person.

    • @MasterIceyy
      @MasterIceyy 5 месяцев назад

      Tbf to Shad, in his earlier videos where he covered Fantasy, History, Hema and Historical weaponry his personal ideals and beliefs were pretty well hidden, as someone that started following him for that kind of content, it's been really weird to see him get sucked into the culture wars nonsense.
      I guess it was his ego that dragged him into it too, he seems to think he is an authority on everything he does, he criticised Elden Ring's worldbuilding because he is a "writer" because he wrote a weird, creepy and boring fanfiction novel. He promoted AI art because he is apparently at a level of a "professional artist" despite his brother Jazza an actual professional artist, with one of the largest art youtube channels saying he obviously isn't.
      @@OK-wm2mr

    • @ed6705
      @ed6705 5 месяцев назад +93

      ​@@OK-wm2mrbefore he starte the Knights Watch thing, his videos were largely apolitical. He'd talk about castles and swords and shit and that was all dandy. No one gave a shit about his religious conservative views because he wasn't out there advertising them. Then he started harpingbon about them and got upset that people didn't like it

  • @hallamhal
    @hallamhal 8 месяцев назад +371

    About 10 minutes into this, I was wondering what Shad's opinion of Shrek would be... Where Princess Fiona spends half the film saving Shrek and Donkey from trouble, and ultimately chooses her own fate at the end regardless of the role society wants her to fit into.
    But then I realised, I don't really care what he thinks

  • @bobbybooshay5388
    @bobbybooshay5388 Год назад +2094

    The irony of the guy who said Anita Sarkeesian was easily offended by boob armor getting easily offended by Peach wearing pants. So thick you could cut it with a knife and serve it for dinner.

    • @swiftsteve8774
      @swiftsteve8774 Год назад +169

      He is so blind to his own hypocrisy ha can't see it even if it is in front of his nose.

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 Год назад +14

      To be air boob armor is fairly offensive i dudes et redicilous armor, i they get that get wild with everyone.

    • @Zectifin
      @Zectifin Год назад +110

      @@marocat4749 give boob armor to everyone.

    • @msjkramey
      @msjkramey Год назад

      Omg that is hilarious

    • @Hawkatana
      @Hawkatana Год назад +48

      You don't want to serve it for dinner, that shit has more salt than the dead sea.

  • @harmonlanager2670
    @harmonlanager2670 9 месяцев назад +2275

    “Mario never needed power ups before”
    I would like to remind everyone that the plot of Mario Sunshine was that, without the assistance of a powered up water pump, Mario was going to rot away in a Venezuelan prison

    • @justaghostinthesea
      @justaghostinthesea 8 месяцев назад +153

      Yeah, he has at least two games built around power ups. Sunshine, like you said, and Odyssey

    • @jamestomato1744
      @jamestomato1744 8 месяцев назад +243

      AND not to mention that Mario power ups, at least in my opinion, is like - a massive part of the appeal.

    • @justaghostinthesea
      @justaghostinthesea 8 месяцев назад +25

      @@jamestomato1744 Yeah, that too.

    • @0lionheart
      @0lionheart 8 месяцев назад +216

      @@justaghostinthesea let's also not forget that from the beginning, Mario has always started as a little teeny tiny guy until he found a mushroom. Dies in one hit, has no attacks. Powerups have been integral since the start, so their statement was just.. baffling

    • @martophrenia
      @martophrenia 7 месяцев назад +118

      @@0lionheart "little teeny tiny guy until he found a mushroom. Dies in one hit, has no attacks" very traditional male hero

  • @paulsmart4672
    @paulsmart4672 5 месяцев назад +502

    Shad's talking about how little girls don't have power fantasies or heroic fantasies and I'm like "Fuck, has this guy ever talked to a kid?"
    Shad: "My daughter..."
    Me: That's dark.

    • @paulsmart4672
      @paulsmart4672 5 месяцев назад +52

      I left this comment and the one about Mary Sues before I finished the video.
      Both situations got worse.

    • @iandegiovani4703
      @iandegiovani4703 4 месяца назад +23

      That's the point. He doesn't.
      It's the traditional values he follows. Throw the kid to the woman and open a beer.

    • @vaiyt
      @vaiyt 4 месяца назад +14

      The way he talks about hisdaughter, she probably earned very early on to nt share her fantasies with him, because he dismisses or ignores them

    • @deffientllynotjalenbutler1736
      @deffientllynotjalenbutler1736 Месяц назад

      Poor lady

  • @trolldrool
    @trolldrool 6 месяцев назад +347

    As a man who spent spent much of my childhood in a make believe world pretending to be a knight, I can safely say that rescuing damsels in distress was the absolute last thing I wanted. Because damsels were girls and girls had cooties.

    • @enzoarayamorales7220
      @enzoarayamorales7220 6 месяцев назад +84

      “Fuck princesses I wanna slay this dragon!!!”

    • @mateuszjokiel2813
      @mateuszjokiel2813 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@enzoarayamorales7220 "Fuck princesses" kid you're too young for that.

    • @pallingtontheshrike6374
      @pallingtontheshrike6374 5 месяцев назад +21

      i chuuni’d as a blacksmith. didn’t help that my favorite game at the time was jacksmith. fuck i’m so old

    • @jojorose1947
      @jojorose1947 5 месяцев назад +12

      @@enzoarayamorales7220 Or in Mario terms, "Slay princess, fuck that dragon!!!"

    • @jojorose1947
      @jojorose1947 5 месяцев назад +16

      I equally wanted to be a knight and a witch and fight dragons and piss off gods. But I guess playing D&D with my friends I should just make my character a damsel that needs rescuing lmao. "sorry guys I can't help out in combat, I don't want to seem like a girlboss, a bigot manchild on the internet might get offended"

  • @haflaen
    @haflaen 11 месяцев назад +3157

    Given Shad’s obsession with knighthood and his presumption to know what women want better than they do themselves, I’m reminded of one of my favourite Arthurian stories, “The Tale of the Loathsome Maiden”.
    Sir Gawain is riding through the woods when he comes to a bridge guarded by a Black Knight (sound familiar?) who challenges him to a duel and easily bests him, but withholds the final blow. He tells Gawain that he’ll be back in a year to give him that final blow, unless he can tell him the one thing every woman wants the most. Gawain goes on his way and asks every woman he meets what she wants the most, but they each give him a different answer. Finally on the last day of the year he meets a hideous old hag, who says she’ll tell him the answer to the Black Knight’s riddle if he’ll agree to marry her the next day. Not seeing any other option Gawain agrees, and she tells him that what every woman wants most is to decide for herself what she wants without a man deciding for her. The next day the Black Knight returns and Gawain gives him his answer, and he congratulates Gawain and lets him go. But before he does he says, “You know the answer to the riddle, but do you truly understand it?” That evening Gawain goes reluctantly to his wedding with the horrible hag, but when they retire to their bedchamber and she removes her wedding veil, he’s surprised to discover that she’s really beautiful underneath it. She tells him she was cursed by the Black Knight when she refused to marry him, so that she’s beautiful half the day and ugly the other half, and that the curse can only be broken by a man who truly understands the answer to the Black Knight’s riddle. She asks Gawain if he would rather she was beautiful at night when they’re together, or by day when other people will see her. But Gawain, finally understanding the answer to the riddle, asks her what she wants. The curse is broken and the maiden becomes beautiful permanently, and she and Gawain live happily together.
    The funny thing is, this story is hundreds of years old, but if it was written today Shad would say it was “woke”.

    • @Amitlu
      @Amitlu 11 месяцев назад +542

      I almost expected a more negative outcome given the period. But that sounds wholesome indeed.

    • @henotic.essence
      @henotic.essence 11 месяцев назад +432

      Sir Gawain was a real one💯

    • @drkreuzer670
      @drkreuzer670 10 месяцев назад +97

      I'll be putting this on my wall! this is beautiful! QwQ

    • @CalamityCain
      @CalamityCain 10 месяцев назад +57

      Wow, fantastic comment! Thank you, needed that today :-)

    • @autobotstarscream765
      @autobotstarscream765 9 месяцев назад +343

      If it doesn't work for Shad, show him the modern version, "Shrek".

  • @rinaejones2265
    @rinaejones2265 10 месяцев назад +1129

    God, him just coming out and saying that his daughter felt empowered by the movie and that's a bad thing because she should be accepting that her natural role is to be a damsel in distress
    Nightmare nightmare nightmare nightmare

    • @MadameSomnambule
      @MadameSomnambule 10 месяцев назад +193

      I shudder to think of how he'd treat his own daughter once she gets old enough to date. I see an estranged dad in her future if his mindset doesn't change for the better. Either that or a brainwashed woman in the likes of Girl Defined (and that's the WORST case scenario)

    • @Ben-fk9ey
      @Ben-fk9ey 9 месяцев назад +147

      @@MadameSomnambule There's a good reason that his brother Jazza who is also a RUclipsr seems to have cut ties with him.

    • @avlaenamnell6994
      @avlaenamnell6994 8 месяцев назад +10

      That bit just... Ugh....

    • @KarlSnarks
      @KarlSnarks 8 месяцев назад +42

      @@Ben-fk9ey You mean Jazza the drawing guy!? Would definitely not have noticed the family resemblance.

    • @gayanudugampola8973
      @gayanudugampola8973 8 месяцев назад +76

      What a terrible thing to say as a parent.
      Like what kind of parent would not want their child feeling empowered?

  • @FourDozenEggs
    @FourDozenEggs 7 месяцев назад +873

    I feel so bad for his daughter. Like, I am genuinely sad.

    • @Reed5016
      @Reed5016 7 месяцев назад +51

      Same

    • @oninaru
      @oninaru 6 месяцев назад +111

      Yeah, that is very vile and evil thing to say about your daughter. If I ever have kid and they happen to be girl, she can be as much warrior princess as she wants.

    • @dminasweater4868
      @dminasweater4868 6 месяцев назад +95

      Never met a fundie that didn't abuse their kids, and his main charachter in his book is a pedo with thousands of canonical victims....

    • @Reed5016
      @Reed5016 6 месяцев назад +78

      @@dminasweater4868 I was raised in a fundie household as a lesbian. All I can say is that it wasn’t fun. There wasn’t s*xual or physical abuse, but they were shitty people. Gaslighting, emotional abuse, and backhanded compliments were very common. Especially after I came out. In fact, it stopped being passive aggressive after I came out. I also wasn’t allowed to go to therapy, unless it was counseling with their incredibly homophobic church counselor.

    • @dminasweater4868
      @dminasweater4868 6 месяцев назад +1

      @Reed5016 Good thing you didn't go. when I took my father up on that I was tortured with fists and pliers as a form of conversion therapy in front of the congregation. They wanted to quote "exorcise the demon's of perversion and faggotry" I was 12.

  • @IanOPadrick
    @IanOPadrick 6 месяцев назад +243

    I cannot get over the idea of people being upset that the Mario movie featured power-ups. It's, like, the most iconic part of the games. The thing that people know about Mario is that he eats mushrooms and gets more powerful, or that he grabs a star and then he's invincible for a little bit. Like, I don't know what game they thought they were playing, but every Mario game has power-ups

    • @awandererfromys1680
      @awandererfromys1680 6 месяцев назад +53

      Also, the film was basically structured like a video game playthrough. Mario fails over and over again because that's the player experience. Games are no fun if you can speedrun them on your first try. And Peach being perfect is because she's literally the tutorial. All that perfection still didn't help her after that. It's Mario who comes to the rescue.
      Smart writing, fun worldbuilding, internal consistency, and it just goes _whooosh_ right over their heads.

    • @Pitchfallis
      @Pitchfallis 5 месяцев назад +22

      Exactly! Mario’s canonical story form is Mario having consumed a mushroom! They don’t put small Mario on the cover of anything.

    • @JJ-qo7th
      @JJ-qo7th 4 месяца назад +2

      And every mainline game that I personally know of, except for Lost Worlds and Doki Doki panic, introduces some new powerup to mess about with, with some new spin on the core mechanics. Fire flower, tanuki, frog, raccoon, p-wing, skip cloud, music box, warp whistle, hammer bros, cape feather, the wing, metal, and phase caps...even the GB titles gave him a superball in Mario Land 1 and flapping rabbit ears in Mario Land 2.
      Maybe it slowed down in later games? I wouldn't know, I haven't played past SM64, but I do remember he had a friggin' water jetpack in Sunshine.

    • @IanOPadrick
      @IanOPadrick 4 месяца назад +6

      @@JJ-qo7th Ice Flowers, Penguin Suits, Mini Mushrooms, Spring Mushrooms, Bee Suits, Cloud Flowers, Cat Suits, a duplicating cherry thing are all new since 2000 I'm pretty sure. It's a franchise about the power-ups and how they make the game easier

    • @Nemamka
      @Nemamka 3 месяца назад +2

      So, wait, let me get this straight - they are mad about Mario not being portrayed as a traditional hero, then they are mad about Mario using powerups... but... Every single "traditional" hero uses powerups. You know, the trials and tribulations they go through?? Luke goes through training! And he receives a lightsaber! Freaking karate kid goes through training, wax on wax off! And then he gets stronger and wins! ALL marvel heroes go through powerups, bitten by a spider, or building a nano suit with a nuclear reactor in the chest, or getting an axe instead of a hammer - this argument makes no sense! The Traditional Hero Journey is when a single guy goes out into the wild and Learns A Lot Of Stuff! With all these mental gymnastics you'd think he'd be a ninja by now, let alone knight lmao

  • @hoarsebard
    @hoarsebard Год назад +2533

    He truly has become a Don Quixote. So immersed in his medieval knight larping that he's making up battles to be in.

    • @saintbrush4398
      @saintbrush4398 Год назад +99

      Exactly lmao

    • @onepresence9460
      @onepresence9460 Год назад +87

      He would perfect for the role in a live-action Dom Quixote adaptation 😂🤣

    • @maybeyourbaby6486
      @maybeyourbaby6486 Год назад +158

      Clearly, Jack should've dressed up as a windmill instead of a fool lmao

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 Год назад +83

      Imao, go to skallagrimm instead, chill creator and actually could swordfight. No shame on doing it for fun.

    • @Kuhmuhnistische_Partei
      @Kuhmuhnistische_Partei Год назад +115

      @@marocat4749 Skallagrim is very chill, yeah. And honestly, people who actually spend time researching medieval stuff and doing reenactment and all that really tend to not like Shad, because a lot of the stuff he says ist just stupid.

  • @Malon2006
    @Malon2006 Год назад +1393

    I feel like men like Shad don't understand why a lot of young girls want to be princesses. It's not because they want to be helpless and stuck in a tower. It's more about being rich enough to afford all these nice clothes and having a certain amount of authority and power. Even the being saved element has a bit this in it because a princess is important enough to be defended against harm more than a peasant woman. It is a feminine appropriate power fantasy in a world were other power fantasies for girls are looked down on and not allowed.
    Young girls do not want to be princesses solely to be the helpless damsel to make boys feel like heroes. They want to be princesses because they want to be rich and important. The pretty dresses are part of the being rich part.
    Edit: I noticed I typed out feminism because of auto correct when I meant feminine. It is fixed now.

    • @janetestherina7169
      @janetestherina7169 10 месяцев назад +129

      yeah, that makes sense. no one wants to be helpless and just treated as an accessory in someone else's story, but most of us want to be important and have power

    • @vazzaroth
      @vazzaroth 10 месяцев назад +79

      Yep he/them cannot see the perspective differing from their own, the female side of the knight and princess dynamic. They confuse their perspective for hers, thinking her desire begins and ends at the saving, when for women it extends into the "being valued" just as the knight side isn't about the slaying of the dragon, it's REALLY about the glory and admiration/value afterwards.
      In both ways, they are stopping their analysis early and confusing the act for the accomplishment.
      (Which I theorize means they are still "questing" for the act, and have not lived the glory of accomplishment. Kind of sad but also not really their fault that their conservative culture set them up to seek a value that is so outdated, opportunities to enact that value are incredibly rare. Plus the patriarchal society assumptions that only certain, "worthy" men get to DO the act, and therefore the act itself is rarified as is the reward they all worship. It's literally the opposite of an egalitarian worldview, trying to withhold and throttle universal happiness + peace to dole it out only for "good boy" behaviour.
      These men (and women) are starved then thrown a scrap and told it's a feast, and they have to thank their abusers for the privilege. Extremely disheartening that they haven't realized they are being abused and instead dream of being the abuser.
      This is what we get when we worship the heros journey and totally disregard the following arcs of the king and mage, not to mention freezing women in the flat Maiden arc forever.

    • @sophitiaofhyrule
      @sophitiaofhyrule 10 месяцев назад +50

      As someone who loves princesses, YES! You hit the nail on the head!

    • @DocAcher
      @DocAcher 10 месяцев назад +68

      The ultimate fantasy for women? Personal agency.

    • @starmaker75
      @starmaker75 9 месяцев назад +27

      To me it seems the princess fantasy comes from more for being safe and having power than wanting to be saved.

  • @AN-jz3kf
    @AN-jz3kf 6 месяцев назад +269

    24:00 wait until Shad learns women horse riders wore pants 💀even among the upperclass (like, for instance, a princess)

    • @pallingtontheshrike6374
      @pallingtontheshrike6374 5 месяцев назад +21

      riding wear vs formal wear moment

    • @aralornwolf3140
      @aralornwolf3140 5 месяцев назад +46

      @@pallingtontheshrike6374,
      And... men wore dresses too....

    • @pallingtontheshrike6374
      @pallingtontheshrike6374 5 месяцев назад +12

      @@aralornwolf3140 very true

    • @fluidthought42
      @fluidthought42 4 месяца назад +20

      Well it was a controversial decision to do so in some parts of history. But ah in recent history Nintendo gave Peach a racing outfit for Mario Kart games... which is what she was wearing in that scene. Her official Nintendo form fitting racing outfit. I guess Mario Kart (and Mario Strikers, I guess) is too woke for Shad because... fuck man I dunno he's too in deep in the sauce to self reflect.

  • @animationunlimited2958
    @animationunlimited2958 8 месяцев назад +525

    So, basically Shad is less a modern knight and more of a modern Don Quixote not seeing things for what they really are.

    • @blackknightjack3850
      @blackknightjack3850 8 месяцев назад +48

      I never thought about it that way, but holy shit yes.

    • @jojorose1947
      @jojorose1947 5 месяцев назад +37

      My man out here tilting at windmills

    • @DavidSantosManuel
      @DavidSantosManuel 4 месяца назад +5

      you stole my exact thoughts

    • @vivazapata123
      @vivazapata123 3 месяца назад +21

      except that Don Quijote wanted to fight against the injustice in the world and protect the weak from the strong. I don't see Shad doing that.

    • @beesforbreakfast
      @beesforbreakfast 3 месяца назад +8

      Another important distinction is that, whilst it personally took a minute to get into the swing of the language, Don Quixote is a _phenomenally_ funny book

  • @Lambda_Ovine
    @Lambda_Ovine Год назад +912

    You gotta love the reactionary logic of "just because I'm ideologically invested on conservative ideas that are sexist and homophobic to the point I declare they are the natural state of the universe, it does not mean that I'm a misogynist and and a homophobe, and if you call me that, you're the ideological one and the one with a political agenda"

    • @swordigosung994
      @swordigosung994 Год назад

      The thought of "nature state of everything" really got to fuck off. Even if there is such a thing, there is no way we puny human beings could have known it. Treating your own ideology as absolute truth is a form of upmost hubris.

    • @swordigosung994
      @swordigosung994 Год назад +126

      The thought of "nature state of everything" really got to go. Even if there is such a thing, there is no way we puny human beings could have known it. Treating your own ideology as absolute truth is a form of upmost hubris.

    • @drmntpibb
      @drmntpibb Год назад +5

      ppl not hear the words coming put of their own mouth

    • @beebs4283
      @beebs4283 Год назад

      @@swordigosung994 we have manipulated our environments so thoroughly that i guarantee the vast majority of people crying over things just not being natural can’t recognize the fact that pretty much all the fruits and vegetables we eat look nothing like the wild forms of them once found in nature. no sir, those are god’s corncobs, he totally made them that way

    • @ThatOneGuy0006
      @ThatOneGuy0006 Год назад +53

      ​@swordigo sung that's what happens when church and politics not only mingle but fuse together. Christianity and conservatism have been mixed together so thoroughly that it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

  • @flyingratdog
    @flyingratdog 11 месяцев назад +2566

    Imagine calling someone "evil, vile and dishonest" and "truly despicable" because they thought your take on the Mario movie was bad.

    • @huykieu7775
      @huykieu7775 10 месяцев назад +1

      its so funny how they called the "woke" sensitive and fragile but they themselves are double B-Betas.

    • @namegoeshere8998
      @namegoeshere8998 9 месяцев назад +220

      Like over and over and over and over again too. Like he thought if he stressed it enough we'd take him seriously and go "Well gee, Jack Saint must be evil, nobody would say this many times if it weren't true!"

    • @Vooblebooble
      @Vooblebooble 9 месяцев назад +152

      Genuinely unhinged just how personal he got with it considering Jack's video was barely about him in the first place

    • @brendaspence1824
      @brendaspence1824 9 месяцев назад +55

      @@Vooblebooblenotice he pulled the same stunt with angry joe recently 😂
      But everyone hates joe so they let him pass on that I guess

    • @Mygg_Jeager
      @Mygg_Jeager 9 месяцев назад +70

      This is the most underrated comment in this whole comment section. I agree 100%. How silly these culture wars have gotten.
      40% the North American population fully believes that climate change isn't real, there's war on the European front, democracy is under attack on all sides, and people are arguing about **checks notes** *the Mario and Barbie movies...?*

  • @tylersimmons6524
    @tylersimmons6524 8 месяцев назад +279

    The funniest moment to me is Shad in the clip about how Disney is trying to raise your kids...
    "To fight back, teach your kids to love who they are..."
    Then he realizes how that is exactly what Disney is doing and immediately tries to course correct with, "teach boys to love being boys and girls to love being girls."
    But what if your child doesn't fit the gender norms Shad? Should you not teach them to love who they are still?

    • @aralornwolf3140
      @aralornwolf3140 5 месяцев назад +4

      There's a Disney movie with a gay kid in it... he spent time trying to figure out his feelings for another boy... So... Yes.

    • @leichtmeister
      @leichtmeister 4 месяца назад +10

      No that would be a sin of the highest degree and they would burn in hell for it plus some other mormon bullshit I guess.

    • @beesforbreakfast
      @beesforbreakfast 3 месяца назад +5

      And he _is_ talking about the same Disney that ran roughshod over The Owl House’s production budget and schedule, just so we’re clear?

    • @Nemamka
      @Nemamka 3 месяца назад

      Our government - Hungary, central eastern Europe - is openly, disgustingly, loudly transphobic, homophobic, and christian conservative, and listening to Shad was like listening to my own prime minister Orban Viktor. "Narual law is a man and a woman making babies" no other kind of family structure or partnership is acceptable in their eyes and they are adamant about protecting children from LGBT agendas and "woke/trans lobby", seeking out enemies wherever they can - meanwhile THEY are the ones dismantling the education system, the healthcare system, they are the ones pardoning p*dophile criminals (just now in 2024)... So this was honestly really wild to watch, I did not expect a guy who I started following for historical accuracy to turn into this absolute bigot. I too am sad for his daughter

  • @arempy5836
    @arempy5836 9 месяцев назад +157

    He's treating Mario like he's Luke Skywalker when he's not.
    Mario is Mickey Mouse, he's Popeye the Sailor Man, he's a goofy cartoon character in a slapstick routine. Mario was never meant to be a cool knight on a quest, he was deliberately modeled after old school cartoon protagonists. A character like Mickey mouse isn't cool or competent, he gets flattened and burned and beat but he always bounces back and tries his hardest to get the girl. A character like Popeye is more tough and strong but even he suffers ludicrous injuries when competing against Bluto. Popeye also iconically has his own power up in the form of spinach which gives the incredible strength needed to beat Bluto and save Olive Oyle. In the games, Mario can die in all sorts wacky ways but is able to pop back up and try again and the games are built around using any wild trick you can pull off to reachcthe goal.
    Shad is so obsessed with this Joseph Campbell valiant hero bullshit that he can't understand what a fucking cartoon is.

    • @screamingcactus1753
      @screamingcactus1753 8 месяцев назад +28

      The original Donkey Kong was supposed to be a Popeye game but they couldn't get the license so they changed the characters. Popeye became Jumpman, Olive Oyl became Pauline, Bluto became Donkey Kong and spinach became hammers. Mario literally started off as a knockoff Popeye.

    • @onionmctwist
      @onionmctwist 3 месяца назад +5

      Was just gonna say, has he seen any of the mario cartoons? He's always been portrayed like just a goofy, often schlubby plumber

  • @mariejuku
    @mariejuku Год назад +3660

    she's literally a monarch and he's literally a plumber like
    she is literally the boss

    • @j_117
      @j_117 Год назад +213

      You could even say she's a SUPER boss

    • @Naptosis
      @Naptosis Год назад +388

      It's especially ironic, as Shad has been subject of a queen for his entire life.

    • @vonbongen9363
      @vonbongen9363 Год назад +215

      @@Naptosis let’s be fair here, the Queen popped her clogs last year so it’s only *almost* his entire life

    • @NoName......
      @NoName...... Год назад

      ​@von bongen Come on, dude. Not fucking funny. You don't make fun of a dude's dead wife.

    • @andreymontag
      @andreymontag Год назад +45

      Didn't watch the movie, but did they address in any way that Mario has been more of a spec ops guy than a plumber for decades?
      Also a contender for a royalty, since he almost got married to Peach.
      I start to suspect that broader Mario lore may not be perfectly consistent

  • @littlelordfuckleroy3822
    @littlelordfuckleroy3822 Год назад +1158

    I know that on the surface this guy’s tantrum over “woke” Mario is funny, but as a woman this kind of phenomenon almost terrifies me. That there’s a growing subsection of men that genuinely don’t see me as a person, to the point that any piece of media that doesn’t portray women in the narrow box they think we deserve to be in is scary to me.

    • @swordigosung994
      @swordigosung994 Год назад +93

      I am sorry to hear about that. I can promise most sane people aren't like that. Avoid stupid people if you can, or kick their ass if you really can.

    • @markbaker4425
      @markbaker4425 Год назад

      Hes just a mormon theyre all fucking weird. Especially a aussie mormon lol. Imagine being in an american cult and not even be american.

    • @andrewdiaz3529
      @andrewdiaz3529 Год назад +29

      It's a self feeding fire, and we see where it's backlash is being directed, where and who they want to be burned by its inferno

    • @srtatropicalia
      @srtatropicalia Год назад +137

      Yes! This makes me extra sad because I know my father is engaging with this anti woke thoughts and debating anything nerdy with him is just hell. Because it fundamentally shows that he thinks I don't deserve to see myself as a hero, because these types of characters will always be mary sues and girl bosses, will never be genuine enough. It's frustrating to adore and see myself as a character that my father just dismisses.

    • @rattyeely
      @rattyeely Год назад +55

      It is scary, but if it's any consolation these people are mostly grifters who don't actually believe half the things they say. The instant they meet a conservative woman they suddenly go all quiet in order to not scare her away. They are sad and isolated people

  • @IBTL1
    @IBTL1 8 месяцев назад +351

    What’s funny to me about him constantly referencing Mario as “traditional male hero” is that he’s not lol. Mario’s usually is depicted as fairly short and round, has a higher pitch voice, and has the traditional male role of……plumber lol. The only real “traditional” aspect to him is that he saves a princess and even then him saving her is not reflective of him being a male. Like he’s so consumed by the fact he just wants woman to be submissive to a male role that he’s getting angry over nothing

    • @cousinted
      @cousinted 6 месяцев назад +106

      Look, the way Mario runs around holding his bum and shouting "OWOWOW!" when he falls in lava is a very traditional trait of the hero archetype in western society. I think that's actually part of the hero's journey...

    • @achehex
      @achehex 6 месяцев назад +82

      Good thing he doesn't actually play the games, or he would've had an actual seizure seeing the wedding dress outfit in Mario Odyssey.

    • @PineNeedle-Supreme
      @PineNeedle-Supreme 6 месяцев назад +66

      @@achehex He wouldve died if he saw Luigi's supportive response to said wedding dress outfit

    • @RandomComicEnjoyer
      @RandomComicEnjoyer 4 месяца назад +2

      Depends on the game you speak on, a traditional male hero acted very much just like Mario in a lot of contexts, it just depends on what our interpretation of a “traditional male hero” is

    • @rogirek3362
      @rogirek3362 4 месяца назад +22

      Fairly short and round... higher pitched voice... Nah, that's definitely traditional. When Shad imagines a hero, it definitely looks like him- I MEAN THAT! Definitely looks like _that._

  • @SuperCopyCat12
    @SuperCopyCat12 6 месяцев назад +235

    "Boys will want to save the pretty princess more than their brothers!" Really telling on yourself there Shad, wow

    • @CitBox
      @CitBox 6 месяцев назад +71

      Imagine not caring about your supportive and loving brother, but instead caring about an attractive woman you've barely met, at best.

    • @captainfluffypaws7068
      @captainfluffypaws7068 5 месяцев назад +23

      Clearly he hasn't formed a strong bond with his brother

    • @jojorose1947
      @jojorose1947 5 месяцев назад +17

      Shad is a bad brother and also I guess hates Luigi's Mansion, two huge Ls.

    • @dustrockblues7567
      @dustrockblues7567 4 месяца назад

      Shad really said "hoes before bros" wtf

    • @50733Blabla1337
      @50733Blabla1337 3 месяца назад +12

      @@captainfluffypaws7068 Im pretty sure his brother openly said he doesnt share shads political views when he got into his anti sjw phase. He also has a youtube channel Draw with Jazza, seems like a nice guy so obviously shad wouldnt like him.

  • @oshkeet
    @oshkeet Год назад +940

    You have to love someone complaining about the literal, apparently singular-ruling Princess of a country is acting like a 'girlboss'. Like... no, she is LITERALLY the boss.

    • @cwizard
      @cwizard Год назад +14

      Bowser is coming.

    • @OberynTheRedViper
      @OberynTheRedViper Год назад +90

      If Shad lived back in the day, you KNOW he would have been the one to start the whole has sex with horses smear campaign against Catherine the Great.

    • @optillian4182
      @optillian4182 Год назад +19

      ​@@cwizard I guess love really makes a guy come out of his shell.

    • @devforfun5618
      @devforfun5618 Год назад +36

      and anyone who played any mario game in the last 15 years knows peach kickass, she went from olive to lola bunny

    • @onepresence9460
      @onepresence9460 Год назад +26

      Exactly. She’s the leader of Mushroom Kingdom 🍄

  • @ColeYote
    @ColeYote Год назад +2121

    "No-one ever had an issue with the fact that I was a religious conservative, but now we have Knights Watch, where I'm more vocal about my beliefs: suddenly people DO have an issue with it"
    Yeah, funny how people have more of a problem with your beliefs when they, y'know, actually know what your beliefs are

    • @aetriandimitri190
      @aetriandimitri190 Год назад +1

      Yeah its almost like he seems like a fun chill guy till he revealed he was a hateful fear mongering bigot that got peoples opinions to change, such a mystery

    • @fakegeek5462
      @fakegeek5462 Год назад

      I'm republican and agree on his belifs he presents him self like idiot that its pure cringe. Also dude make react vids trying to get popular from there stupid podcast. Dude knows his stuff when it comes to ancient times. But when it comes to pop culture he is just a idiot who makes republicans like me look stupid.

    • @k-master973
      @k-master973 11 месяцев назад +309

      Yeah I used to binge-watch his videos and he would say something sus occasionally, but I didn’t pay much attention to it because - in the videos I watched at least - he kept his political opinions at a minimum. It was when he said he’s Mormon in a video is when I realized that he’s probably alt-right and I decided to stop watching because I wasn’t comfortable with
      Lo and behold like two months after I stopped watching he started getting more and more political in Knight’s Watch and I realized I dodged a bullet

    • @aetriandimitri190
      @aetriandimitri190 11 месяцев назад +241

      @@k-master973 yeah, it's like when a person casually says something racist and you're like "... Are they actually racist or am I seeing things, nah probably not, they seem fun and chill". Like I thought maybe he wasn't exactly hateful towards LGBT, just didn't understand it or participate. Then the light-year video came out and was clearly not the case. Then the Mario video came out and was clear he was also just extremely sexist to the point the others even tried to cut off his topics since they were just THAT bad

    • @yokaipinata1416
      @yokaipinata1416 11 месяцев назад +153

      ​@@k-master973For me, the first red flag that really gave me pause was his use of the R-word (which by that point in time should already have been common knowledge that it's an ableist slur, but I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he really didn't know) in one of his videos about the nunchaku. (I see from this response video that he still uses it, which is unsurprising).
      But it wasn't until his He-Man video, where he insisted on a need to instill traditional gender roles and disparaged discourse around oppression as 'an excuse for failure', that I realized he was reactionary/conservative, went away and never looked back.

  • @judeconnor-macintyre9874
    @judeconnor-macintyre9874 9 месяцев назад +391

    In Shad's book the main character's rape victims step forward and say they were fine with it because they got babies. So there's that.

    • @Waterseeker_
      @Waterseeker_ 9 месяцев назад +101

      WHAT

    • @judeconnor-macintyre9874
      @judeconnor-macintyre9874 9 месяцев назад +114

      @@Waterseeker_ The main character is like Hitler\Napoleon who won and had a redemption arc.

    • @Peasham
      @Peasham 9 месяцев назад +20

      He has the capacity to write a book?

    • @VelaiciaCreator
      @VelaiciaCreator 8 месяцев назад +17

      And here I thought it might be worth even a pirated read but damn...

    • @justaghostinthesea
      @justaghostinthesea 8 месяцев назад +110

      I really, really want Dominic Noble to read that book and tear Shad a new asshole

  • @hungryhedgehog4201
    @hungryhedgehog4201 5 месяцев назад +349

    "girls love to be saved, this is true" unlike boys who love dying alone. Pretty sure this guy is a father, I feel bad for that kid.

    • @Kingcrimson_1456
      @Kingcrimson_1456 5 месяцев назад +11

      He is

    • @bigmcdick4916
      @bigmcdick4916 4 месяца назад

      Gets worse, pretty sure he has a daughter. Guess there won’t be any pants being bought in the Brooks household

    • @hawkshot867
      @hawkshot867 4 месяца назад +13

      Kids - he has 5. Mormons, man. Feel bad for his wife, too.

    • @YEY0806
      @YEY0806 4 месяца назад

      ​@@hawkshot867 I doubt that any of those 5 times were consenual

    • @RainShadow-yi3xr
      @RainShadow-yi3xr 4 месяца назад +6

      @@YEY0806That's a pretty serious accusation, be careful with those

  • @fromthebackseat4865
    @fromthebackseat4865 Год назад +715

    It’s hilarious how like, 4 years ago, these people were complaining about SJW’s being offended over “every little thing-“ and now here they are going apoplectic about sneakers on an M&M and a literal princess being a “girl boss.”

    • @mikaelste-marie1275
      @mikaelste-marie1275 Год назад +150

      They were always offended. They are projecting

    • @onepresence9460
      @onepresence9460 Год назад +7

      How the tables have turned...

    • @joearnold6881
      @joearnold6881 Год назад +112

      It has _always_ been projection

    • @Talking_Ed
      @Talking_Ed Год назад +10

      Yeah it's normal people complaining about SJW, woke culture, the left, the LGBTQ+, they're just far right leaning people hiding in plain view it's kinda awful

    • @sumanoskae
      @sumanoskae Год назад

      It is a narcissistic, naval gazing way of engaging with culture: they treat everything like it was made to insult them specifically.

  • @occupyvenus4868
    @occupyvenus4868 Год назад +846

    I still can't believe we've returned to a point where women wearing pants needs to be justified smh.

    • @drmntpibb
      @drmntpibb Год назад +144

      we haven't, shad just lives in a larp fantasy irl

    • @JackgarPrime
      @JackgarPrime Год назад +61

      Especially because it's a friggin' motorcycle suit. If there's any time where it makes the most sense that someone wouldn't want to wear a dress, it'd be while riding a motorcycle!

    • @phrenological
      @phrenological Год назад +39

      he doesn't like them voting, not being pregnant, wearing shoes, or being able to drive either

    • @yungmuney5903
      @yungmuney5903 Год назад +28

      Women literally existing in a prominent role that isn't a love interest object needs to be justified lol

    • @jamespaguip5913
      @jamespaguip5913 9 месяцев назад

      ⁠@@drmntpibbShadiversity is a fat larper lol

  • @banbanthebandit4002
    @banbanthebandit4002 5 месяцев назад +89

    Shad basically saying that his daughter enjoying the film was “insufferable” makes me feel sick, it’s a movie for kids and he got upset that HIS CHILD would enjoy it for having a strong female character. Shad just said the quiet part out loud on that one huh (I say that as if he doesn’t say the quiet part aloud all the god damn time)

  • @Overl0rd888
    @Overl0rd888 8 месяцев назад +287

    The irony of his shitty last of us take is that his fantasy novel's protagonist is a "reformed" rapist war lord

    • @blackknightjack3850
      @blackknightjack3850 8 месяцев назад +69

      Lemme guess: Shad's the sort of person who thinks he's super smart because he's heard of the Epic of Gilgamesh before.

    • @jojorose1947
      @jojorose1947 5 месяцев назад +49

      And like the sad thing is there are good ways to do basically any character you can imagine, there's good stories to be told of someone that did atrocities and wants to make the world better, but they need to be written by someone that knows anything about sociology, mental health, morality/ethics etc.

    • @scheikundeiscool4086
      @scheikundeiscool4086 4 месяца назад +9

      @@jojorose1947 Hell you can have a good strorie about someone that did only good things but now want to make the world worse or annything in between the trick is beeing a good story

    • @leichtmeister
      @leichtmeister 4 месяца назад +29

      Most ironic: His protagonist is an ABSOLUTE Mary Sue. Of the worst kind.

    • @luccaladinig2783
      @luccaladinig2783 4 месяца назад +8

      ​@@jojorose1947I mean, "warlord who did atrocities but now wants to atone/do good" is basically Xena's backstory - it's not just possible, it ~has~ been done before.

  • @alburt02t
    @alburt02t 9 месяцев назад +2386

    "If my daughter were to be like Peach, doing her own heroic things, she would be INSUFFERABLE". -Absolutely a horrible person and father.

    • @vetreas366
      @vetreas366 8 месяцев назад +286

      Weirdest part is that with his medieval build proclivities I can believe he has a castle tower somewhere where he can lock his daughter up if she dares do something heroic like save a life, be a nice person or wear pants.
      That or ground her until a prince came to rescue her or some daft shit like that.

    • @gayanudugampola8973
      @gayanudugampola8973 8 месяцев назад +190

      Bro is literally an evil king.

    • @vazzaroth
      @vazzaroth 8 месяцев назад +161

      Reminds me of when my dad, recently on a trip, was musing about the 9 yr old nephew (my cousin) back at home and complaining about his behavior being so annoying all of the time. My mom was like "well we love him" and my dad was like "Hmmm... yea... Maybe" and we pushed on it and he admitted to not loving him because he's annoying some of the time.
      Like wow dad, REALLY makes me feel so good about how I used to act just like this kid. But I guess I didn't have to guess much, since you yelled at me then too. These self-styled 'patriarchs' who claim that tough love even exists have just found a deluded way to ride along with the rest of society all the while poisoning the well and throwing a baby-fit whenever someone notices their grift.
      Sorry you have to live on this planet with other sapient, independently decision making, different values and beliefs and personality having people. That's kinda the entire point of being spawned on this server to begin with, tho. Not trying to get a high score before the wipe and F everyone else.

    • @andiralosh2173
      @andiralosh2173 8 месяцев назад +64

      Perhaps a traditional male hero plumber will take him to task

    • @Dookieman1975
      @Dookieman1975 7 месяцев назад +44

      Really living up to knighthood. Fits the medieval time standard

  • @pablo.aranda95
    @pablo.aranda95 Год назад +741

    The paradox in all the anti-woke perspective when looking at Mario is that it is a film could be understood as uplifting masculinity. An average working-class man who is a goofball becomes a hero because of his bravery, tenacity and willingness to help others, but I guess that princess Peach wearing pants for about 20 minutes in the film is more important.

    • @kwameoliver2455
      @kwameoliver2455 Год назад +46

      I'll never understand why this idea that people are so starved for left versus right political narrative, that so much people ether see or flock to, the simple idea that anyone needs to have such a debate, especially for this type of movie Is insane.

    • @kwameoliver2455
      @kwameoliver2455 Год назад +4

      ​@R IP that's cool that they disagree but it's the simple fact that it's still a video soft after they've been woke or not woke is weird

    • @phrenological
      @phrenological Год назад

      The MRAs love holding dissonant beliefs simultaneously, it's why their skulls are cracked open and receptive to fascism.

    • @stormwarrior5362
      @stormwarrior5362 Год назад +31

      @@wardjunior1450 no

    • @OrdinaryEXP
      @OrdinaryEXP Год назад +70

      Women being subservient is more important to them because it takes effort to achieve the "classic male hero" masculinity, i.e. improving yourself through hard work, determination, kindness and the ability to accept failure; it is way easier to blame women for being "too strong" or "a girl-boss" than asking yourself why you failed to be the hero you dreamt of in childhood.

  • @knotsbygordion
    @knotsbygordion 6 месяцев назад +87

    Remember, this Mr Brooks is the author of a 500 page novel that espouses the opinion that victims of "sexual assault" will come to appreciate the event if they are forced to bear the resulting children because they are so attached to those children. LIKE IT IS A LOGICAL AND DECENT POSITION.

    • @leichtmeister
      @leichtmeister 4 месяца назад

      Mormon doing mormon stuff.
      Also, said rapist in the book the definition of a Mary Sue character.

  • @coffinmyface4237
    @coffinmyface4237 5 месяцев назад +88

    Theres only one person willing to dress as a jester and dance in the sewer in this argument, and I'm going to trust them because they have the humility to do that.

  • @nina9565
    @nina9565 Год назад +1955

    Conservatives: gender roles are biological, we're made this way for a reason.
    Also conservatives: we need to constantly reafirm gender roles so people don't move away from said roles.

    • @LadyLuck-rd5vi
      @LadyLuck-rd5vi 11 месяцев назад

      Almost like they know they're wrong and are trying, actively, to suppress education and voting rights by just putting up this barricade of noise (not the avg. person. I'm certain Shad has no idea that he's a useful idiot for the right) but politicians absolutely know.

    • @eagleleft
      @eagleleft 11 месяцев назад +206

      Why is she wearing pants? REEEE gurboss woke REEEE

    • @DocAcher
      @DocAcher 10 месяцев назад +12

      Exactly!! 😂

    • @orukarm
      @orukarm 10 месяцев назад +124

      If it’s biological, then why do we seem to biologically move away from them? 😎

    • @sebastianb.3978
      @sebastianb.3978 10 месяцев назад +33

      @@orukarm Congratulations, you got the punchline.

  • @argonianbum
    @argonianbum Год назад +554

    I was sad enough when I found out that wholesome sword man was so hateful and gatekeepy, but my heart fucking DROPPED when he mentioned that he thinks it is a sign of something bad when his daughter gets excited to see a strong female character on screen, that guts me. I was always a tom boy growing up and I just can't imagine how soul crushing and alienating it would be if my parents were actively annoyed or tried to discourage joy in seeing something like that. I'm 33 now, I think little me would've loved to have an actual superhero or something I could look up to, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if there's some correlation between that and the massive success of franchises like Pokemon where the focus wasn't on the human protagonists as much

    • @myrmepropagandist
      @myrmepropagandist Год назад +68

      Yeah. He went from being a potentially cool dad... to the biggest disappointment.

    • @thevioletbee5879
      @thevioletbee5879 Год назад +13

      Pokémon has plenty of focus on its human characters. And for a children’s series, they’re pretty damn great.

    • @marocat4749
      @marocat4749 Год назад +3

      I mean he isnt the worst but, eem yeah. sargon is a bad inluence, and ther are cool progressive mormons, no excuse.

    • @Shoyren
      @Shoyren Год назад +18

      @@marocat4749 considering there are parents who’re physically violent and go even beyond that, I think that’s faint praise. :/

    • @idontwantahandlethough
      @idontwantahandlethough Год назад +1

      @@marocat4749 "ther[e] are cool progressive mormons, no excuse." That's kinda true, but not really? I mean I'm sure they exist somewhere, but most of the time people think someone is a "cool, progressive mormon", they're actually just good at hiding their disgusting views when non-mormons are around.
      Don't get me wrong: mormons are generally some of the most friendly, helpful, outgoing people on earth. It's just that their public-facing and private-facing personalities are often night and day. That very well might not be true for the cool Mormons you know, but I figured I'd mention it so nobody gets surprised that their cool mormon friend turned out to be a super-bigot.. because there usually _is_ a super bigot underneath, unfortunately. It's a crazy -religion- cult.

  • @coolbanana165
    @coolbanana165 7 месяцев назад +149

    Charles Dickens would be called a woke communist today for highlighting the plight of the poor, issues with greed, and the state of society.
    Aren't almost all stories political? Some people just don't notice if they already fully agree. It would be quite meaningless if it didn't have anything to say about values, life, and society.

    • @CitBox
      @CitBox 6 месяцев назад +35

      Even in stories with no message, they still reflect the writer's worldview and all the baggage of it. Such as Tom and Jerry cartoons, they are mostly just slapstick but still reflect the time period's attitudes towards women, black people, and smoking.

    • @basedeltazero714
      @basedeltazero714 6 месяцев назад +14

      Charles Dickens was called a 'woke communist' *then*.

    • @shzarmai
      @shzarmai 5 месяцев назад +3

      exactly smh

    • @pallingtontheshrike6374
      @pallingtontheshrike6374 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@basedeltazero714the equivalent, yeah

    • @pallingtontheshrike6374
      @pallingtontheshrike6374 5 месяцев назад +2

      it reminds me of when i was a dumbass reading the (spaceship) mercenary isekai, and then when i tried to read it again a few years later and realized it was full of “lol fuck the poor” all over (not to mention literal monarchism)

  • @TheUnsightlyRF
    @TheUnsightlyRF 6 месяцев назад +70

    Wait, he got triggered over Peach wearing the same outfit she's worn in countless Mario Kart games in the past? I know it's a long-worn meme to point out how these grifters don't actually know or care about the things they focus on, but come on...

    • @n00dle69
      @n00dle69 4 месяца назад +22

      it’s DOUBLE funny because it’s like, in the strikers game she wears protective gear, because she’s playing soccer. and post playing Mario odyssey she dresses up in a whole host of fun outfits (that even have pants! or, shorts anyway) + ALSO also in her new game, she’s shown in a bunch of different clothes depending on what power up/scenario she’s doing.

  • @stalfithrildi5366
    @stalfithrildi5366 10 месяцев назад +541

    "Mario is a very traditional story"
    Boy meets girl. Girls gets kidnapped by gorilla. Girl is held hostage by gorilla. Custody is transferred to a reptile somehow don't ask. Girl is in another castle. Boy rescues girl.

    • @anenemystand5582
      @anenemystand5582 10 месяцев назад +101

      You forget boy meets toad.

    • @illiaflannery7312
      @illiaflannery7312 9 месяцев назад +42

      wait I thought DK had Pauline and Bowser was with Peach. so girl held hostage by gorilla. boy meet other girl. other girl abducted by reptile, don't think too hard. boy rescues girl

    • @SymbioteMullet
      @SymbioteMullet 8 месяцев назад +62

      ​@@illiaflannery7312and then they go cart racing

    • @CitBox
      @CitBox 6 месяцев назад +27

      Don't forget Boy cages gorilla and tries to kill gorilla's child

    • @johnathonharker266
      @johnathonharker266 6 месяцев назад +9

      Boy and Girl have brief aside to battle to the death alongside characters from other stories without permanent consequences or heavy narrative stakes

  • @ianm1462
    @ianm1462 Год назад +529

    Does Shad tell his wife to stop being such a woke girlboss anytime she opens a jar of pickles without his help?

    • @LPVince94
      @LPVince94 Год назад +79

      I think she might be the one to help him open that picke jar. But she needs to take his little ego into account so she only loosens it and hands it back to him saying "Oh my strong knight I can't do it because I am a helpless women. Please try again I need your strong hands"

    • @TimothyCHenderson
      @TimothyCHenderson Год назад +51

      He has ME/CFS so I think on some days he might actually need her help for real though. Maybe his issues are wrapped up in displaced anger over his health condition?

    • @jorymo4964
      @jorymo4964 Год назад +19

      I'm guessing she'd also need to write an essay if she ever plans on wearing pants

    • @SPDYellow
      @SPDYellow Год назад

      It makes me laugh whenever misogynists try to assert their superiority by talking about how men are better at hard labor like opening jars and lifting heavy objects. Because it’s not like humans have, over the centuries, come up with solutions that don’t require brute force and are easier on the body overall. I mean, who does that?

    • @ceeshnia
      @ceeshnia Год назад +20

      @@TimothyCHenderson It kind of fits into his religion; women are supposed to defer to men and be subservient to them.

  • @maxibo-nf5jg
    @maxibo-nf5jg 9 месяцев назад +85

    The fucking moment Shad is saying "Hoes before Bros", because the man would save the princess before his brother gives me the feeling, that he will be pissed if a friend cancels game night because he is having a date with his girlfriend.

    • @YEY0806
      @YEY0806 4 месяца назад +10

      Is it just me, but Shad gives me the impression that he would unironically call a women a "wenche" just for doing anything that inconvenienced him

    • @leichtmeister
      @leichtmeister 4 месяца назад +13

      I mean Shad gets outclassed by his brother Jazza in every way and seems very bitter about it.

  • @unrighteous8745
    @unrighteous8745 6 месяцев назад +60

    "The core of the Mario story is the damsel in distress. ... Most guys, especially young boys and everything like that, they're more interested in saving the pretty princess."
    So, I am "most guys," and the first time I played SMB when I was a kid, I had finally beaten bowser for the first time, and was greeted by Toad saying the princess was in another castle. My reaction was: "What princess? There's a princess? Why do I care?"
    The reality is that if a game is fun, the story really doesn't matter. In film, not every story needs to play out exactly the same way; that would be boring. You can have movies where the hero saves the princess and they may be good or bad, and you can have movies that do other things too.

    • @mikestrauss8613
      @mikestrauss8613 4 месяца назад +4

      I really liked Mario 2 where Peach is a playable character.

    • @yungmuney5903
      @yungmuney5903 4 месяца назад +8

      That's the thing, no one actually goes through the games for Peach, she's just a glorified flagpole/star so the conformity is asinine. Its just the fetishiziation of mainting tradition/status that goes far beyond Mario.

    • @leichtmeister
      @leichtmeister 4 месяца назад +1

      SMB is not the original Mario story. That's Donkey Kong, in which the female character (I believe her name wasn't Peach at that time) is a damsel in distress only there to be rescued by the player after she gets kidnapped by DK at the start of the game.

    • @unrighteous8745
      @unrighteous8745 4 месяца назад +3

      @@leichtmeister Never said it was, it's just the one I played as a kid.

  • @jogeran4955
    @jogeran4955 Год назад +519

    It's simultaneously funny and sad that in 10 years time, this guys daughter will have to explain to people that her dad didn't let her watch Disney Films because he didn't want her to see women in heroic positions, or nonbinary people.

    • @Dracobyte
      @Dracobyte Год назад +84

      Or gay people.

    • @drowningmerman4256
      @drowningmerman4256 Год назад

      "or nonbinary people."
      Oh, make-believe people?

    • @haydenlinkel3258
      @haydenlinkel3258 Год назад

      He took her to see the Mario movie

    • @Ugh-Fudge_Bwana
      @Ugh-Fudge_Bwana Год назад +39

      He's mormon, so she's also going to be talking about when the shelf broke for her.

    • @themyofmy
      @themyofmy Год назад +6

      ​@@Ugh-Fudge_Bwanaforgive me for sounding foolish but what does that mean?

  • @fritzophrenia3146
    @fritzophrenia3146 Год назад +712

    Imagine being a grown man, slapping a table and going "Holy crap this is fricking going woke?" in a shocked and appalled tone and not having some serious doubts about where your life has gone

    • @k-master973
      @k-master973 Год назад +51

      I luckily got off the train when he said on-camera that he was a Mormon. There has been some sus comments here and there in his videos, but that realization made me go “oh, so he’s probably a very deep conservative with those views. I think I’m getting off at this stop”
      Like a month after I stopped watching him, he kept saying his views more and more until he became known as that “conservative knight RUclipsr”

    • @Eat_shit--die_mad
      @Eat_shit--die_mad Год назад

      Honestly it changed woke to racist and I think this is a perfectly adequate form of outrage

    • @sobertillnoon
      @sobertillnoon Год назад

      Then imagine acting like it would be bad for you to say that.

    • @sobertillnoon
      @sobertillnoon Год назад +59

      ​@@Eat_shit--die_mad yes, but being woke is understanding and recognizing systemic racism. So like, it isn't the same thing as being racist even a little.
      "Murder is great" change murder to ice cream and I'd agree with that statement. You see how that doesn't make sense?

    • @onepresence9460
      @onepresence9460 Год назад +15

      I used to like Shad before, but i stopped following him when he started pandering so much to the Anti-SJW, far right-wing. Everything seems woke to him nowadays, Princess Beach being a new example.

  • @samuelburton302
    @samuelburton302 8 месяцев назад +72

    Shad is so worked up about all of this because the "woke" crowd is ruining his fantasies of being a "naturally gifted, doesn't need a powerup" hero because it is the opposite of what he is in real life. He's powerless in reality and now is powerless in his fantasies

  • @dminasweater4868
    @dminasweater4868 6 месяцев назад +66

    Dude also wrote a story where the main charachter is a mass pedophile rapist who falls in love with one of his child victims years later and in a different body seduces her...just saying it's kind of a trip to see. He justifies it all the way through between bouts of manipulative self shaming like a youtuber apology

    • @eldritchumbra9834
      @eldritchumbra9834 6 месяцев назад +20

      he what

    • @dminasweater4868
      @dminasweater4868 6 месяцев назад +3

      @eldritchumbra9834 look up his book shadow of the conquerer. Its his self published creep nightmare

    • @KeDe1606
      @KeDe1606 5 месяцев назад +17

      It seems Shad just likes the *optics* of a redemption story, but not the actual substance.
      He likes the idea of the story where a total monster gets a second chance at life and makes up for all the terrible things he did. But what he actually wants is a cookie-cutter male power-fantasy, where the tragic, misunderstood hero gets to prove just how good he is by defeating the evil guys in super duper cool ways. That’s why he and his story always tend to bend over backwards in order to justify all the abhorrent bs that character did and is still doing (like when all of the character‘s r-word victims basically said „no, you don’t get it, we’re glad that he r-worded us!“)

  • @tieflingrogue
    @tieflingrogue Год назад +439

    "Girls like to be saved," followed by "I have to preapprove everything my kids watch," tells me that he forced his daughter to think that the only role a woman can play is the damsel in distress, conveniently leaving out the fact that there are many female warriors in history (not to mention an entire freaking genre of anime that disproves his implied thesis that girls don't like to be the hero).

    • @bayardkyyako7427
      @bayardkyyako7427 11 месяцев назад

      Shad: "Stupid bitch you WILL be a helpless little discord kitten"
      Even jokingly saying that is fucking troublesome.

    • @zericle1
      @zericle1 9 месяцев назад +59

      I've seen female cops save other men's lives. I've seen those documentaries coming from Ukraine showing all those nurses stitching soldiers back up and saving their lives. When you see that kind of stuff it becomes clear that women are just as capable of saving people as men are.

    • @duncan1533
      @duncan1533 9 месяцев назад +38

      My eye can’t help but be drawn to the Wheel of Time series proudly displayed behind him. I recall a lot of the women in that series do not conform to traditional gender roles and can, at times, by quite the “girlboss”

    • @nebulon1017
      @nebulon1017 9 месяцев назад +33

      Man will be amazed when Joan of Arc exists 💀

    • @necrotic9433
      @necrotic9433 8 месяцев назад +7

      Marmon mfs when they hear about Julie d'Aubigny: 🤯😨

  • @ekuu8918
    @ekuu8918 Год назад +1118

    "Boys love to be heroes, and girls love to be saved." I about vomited in my mouth when I heard that. This take isn't just ragingly sexist, it's also fully denying half of the human experience to every single member of the population. Girls can love being heroes AND being saved, *and* boys can love being heroes AND being saved. Both are valid and healthy parts of the full spectrum of emotions that everyone can feel. Trying to lock everyone off into only being allowed to feel one half - or worse, saying that we're all only CAPABLE of feeling one half - is so harmful.
    I'm so, so disappointed to find out about this. I'm so tired of finding out toxic bullshit about people I used to be a fan of.

    • @scrollkeeper5272
      @scrollkeeper5272 11 месяцев назад +143

      Agreed, heck I'd be blushing like crazy if a girl saved me from danger and look up to her.
      Shad needs a major reality check.

    • @StormCrownSr
      @StormCrownSr 10 месяцев назад +52

      ​@@scrollkeeper5272sounds like a lovely awful friday.
      Because on the one hand, I was saved. On the other hand, I was in a really bad situation.

    • @idigamstudios7463
      @idigamstudios7463 10 месяцев назад +128

      @@scrollkeeper5272 I am a simple man, I want a woman who can benchpress me to carry me out of a burning building.

    • @spenshaa
      @spenshaa 10 месяцев назад +90

      When he said he had a daughter, my heart just sank.

    • @autobotstarscream765
      @autobotstarscream765 9 месяцев назад +53

      "I love a woman who can kick my ass."
      -Spike Spiegel

  • @EmileeAshe
    @EmileeAshe 9 месяцев назад +79

    I'm terrified for this Shad guy's kids, because if they ever decide they're not straight or cis, they will never feel safe or comfortable in their own home with their father, and probably too terrified to tell him, and that's so sad. He sounds like he would disown his kids for being different instead of supporting them

    • @bluester7177
      @bluester7177 6 месяцев назад +26

      Doesn't need to even not be cis or straight, judt not conforming perfectly to gender roles seems to be enough to have a bad time with this guy

    • @msjkramey
      @msjkramey 4 месяца назад +8

      "Decide"?

    • @gravehammer4095
      @gravehammer4095 4 месяца назад

      Nobody "decides" to be gay, bud. You're born that way. When you grow up in a household that says that's wrong, you suppress that part of yourself. The only "decision" being made is to **STOP HIDING WHO YOU ARE.** Not changing, or "deciding" to be different. The fuck.

    • @leichtmeister
      @leichtmeister 4 месяца назад +5

      They have a pretty nice uncle who I am pretty sure would be a help to them in such a situation.

  • @joearnold6881
    @joearnold6881 6 месяцев назад +215

    “People had no problems with me before they knew I was a fascist. Now that I’m open about my fascism they won’t even support me when I’m not actively spouting fascism at that moment!”
    Lmfao

    • @dagan8659
      @dagan8659 6 месяцев назад

      well, the concept it 100% right... if a fascitst say something right, you don't go against him just cause he is fascist... you are brainwashed.

    • @Fluffy6555
      @Fluffy6555 6 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@dagan8659what did he say right?

    • @andrejv.2834
      @andrejv.2834 3 месяца назад +4

      ​@@dagan8659that's not the point the op was making
      What they're saying is that it's funny how shad doesn't realise the reason that people didn't hate him for his views years ago is because they didn't know he even held those views

    • @rena_sukii
      @rena_sukii 2 месяца назад

      ​@@andrejv.2834so what's wrong w conservatism?

    • @andrejv.2834
      @andrejv.2834 2 месяца назад +2

      @@rena_sukii wanting society to never change, thus never move forward and develop
      And depending on where you're from larger or smaller amounts of bigotry and intolerance

  • @nunyabiznes7446
    @nunyabiznes7446 Год назад +570

    Dudes literally out here calling lgbtq people degenerates and telling his audience to embrace tradition, jesus christ

    • @frankiegutierrez3847
      @frankiegutierrez3847 Год назад +1

      Yea full on just saying ‘degenerate lifestyle’ like my god. It makes me sad that I used to watch him being a Bi man. Just knowing someone who’s content you once enjoyed years ago LITERALLY thinks you’re a degenerate

    • @swordigosung994
      @swordigosung994 Год назад +32

      Not surprising at all. Really.

    • @sideways5153
      @sideways5153 Год назад +53

      Just wait until you hear his thoughts on Goblin Slayer
      He literally equated depictions of sexual violence (exclusively against women) to murder and cannibalism. Because rape monsters are just as bad as murder monsters that eat people.
      Also he worked really hard to ignore the overtly fascist way Goblin Slayer depicts goblins as a sub-human race of cannibal monsters that procreate exclusively through sexual violence and need to be exterminated for their fundamentally evil nature

    • @nunyabiznes7446
      @nunyabiznes7446 Год назад

      @@sideways5153 absolutely devastating to find out some asshole hates the same show you do for all the wrong reasons

    • @TheBronzeDog
      @TheBronzeDog Год назад +70

      @@sideways5153 Never watched the show, so I can't comment on it specifically, but I've gotten sick of the "evil race" fantasy trope. Unless it's something like literal demons who don't operate under biological rules or if it's played up for comedy, it just bores me and breaks my suspension of disbelief. And that's before you add on the racist subtext behind it. Stories are about people and teach us how to deal with people, even if those people are elves or goblin or aliens.
      D&D meme I saw: "But the evil races have so much lore behind them!"
      Me: An excruciating level of detail does not make a weak premise interesting.

  • @TheFantasticJoe
    @TheFantasticJoe Год назад +1453

    It blows my mind that Shad talks about the kind of stories that emotionally resonate with him and empower him yet absolutely cannot fathom that people different from him might be similarly empowered by different types of stories.

    • @JackgarPrime
      @JackgarPrime Год назад +290

      He even talks about how his own daughter felt that Peach's role in the movie resonated with her emotionally.

    • @SemiIocon
      @SemiIocon Год назад

      Because he is conservative, he thinks only he deserves to be empowered by media and the people that are naturally beneath him shouldn't ever be. Conservatism is about worshiping a "god given" hierarchy.

    • @somedudeok1451
      @somedudeok1451 Год назад

      That's the thing with right wingers, they only want power for their own group. They think the world has a certain divine hierarchy to it, which they just happen to sit close to the top of, and they'll attack anything that they perceive as a threat to that hierarchy. Even when it's just women wearing pants.

    • @nina9565
      @nina9565 Год назад +245

      ​@@JackgarPrime That part is so wild. He's so close to understanding why representation matters but his fundamentalist indoctrination is just a little bit stronger. Hope he gets his stuff together before his daughter is old enough to realize how awful his views are.

    • @henryhaile1653
      @henryhaile1653 Год назад +89

      I remember he was also a big fan of rape and stuff as part of the damsel in distress scene, like defending the famous Goblin Slayer scene etc.

  • @ajmoore9758
    @ajmoore9758 8 месяцев назад +92

    You know Shad is the problem when he assumes all femme folks "want to saved"

    • @chelscara
      @chelscara 5 месяцев назад +4

      It’s the only way he could get a wife. Not to be rude to her, though I know it’s gonna come out that way, but there’s no way a woman with standards, self esteem, or belief in her own worth would choose this guy. She needed saving, he saved her (from what who knows, meh family, bad mental health, a horrible experience), and he knows he not have her otherwise and neither would his incel-esque friends. And you can’t change the world without forcing babies into it that vote your way.

    • @samkeiser9776
      @samkeiser9776 4 месяца назад +6

      ⁠​⁠​⁠@@chelscaraI feel it’s important to not view alt right women as caricatures, of people with zero sense who are self-sabotaging out of sheer ignorance. Because while on some metrics I think there’s some truth to that, people don’t believe these ideas out of pure self-sabotage.
      There’s a appeal to the ideology to women, just like there is one for men, and I’m not going to pretend that I understand what that appeal is, even in general terms, but I do think it’s important to acknowledge that that’s the case.
      Personally I don’t think anyone wins under alt-right ideals, men or women, so it’s really not actually that surprising when someone who has every reason to hate the ideology doesn’t.

  • @Kaosi
    @Kaosi 5 месяцев назад +54

    "I'm a cuckhold of house gay" made me laugh so hard

  • @InfiniteDeckhand
    @InfiniteDeckhand Год назад +1484

    Shad's behavior doesn't surprise me, honestly. He's a hardcore conservative who gets very easily triggered by anything even remotely woke.

    • @MrTheWaterbear
      @MrTheWaterbear Год назад +272

      And a literalist Mormon.

    • @InfiniteDeckhand
      @InfiniteDeckhand Год назад +208

      @@MrTheWaterbear I misread ''Mormon'' as ''moron'' 90% of times, lol.

    • @MrTheWaterbear
      @MrTheWaterbear Год назад +122

      @@InfiniteDeckhand Very similar in spelling and essence. I mean, have you ever read an outline of their beliefs? Wacky stuff…

    • @knowledgeanddefense1054
      @knowledgeanddefense1054 Год назад +62

      @@InfiniteDeckhand Easy mistake, in more ways than one

    • @zephyr8072
      @zephyr8072 Год назад +99

      @@MrTheWaterbear I mean Mormon mythology revolves around an angel named "Moroni".
      It's not as if convicted conman Joseph Smith was deliberately taunting his gullible followers as the term moron was coined long after his death.
      But it's an interesting coincidence.

  • @alanhorton7300
    @alanhorton7300 Год назад +488

    Paul Joseph Watson once wrote an article about how alpha men shouldn't wear sandals because they're gay or something, and people were responding "Imagine my sock!"

    • @MRuby-qb9bd
      @MRuby-qb9bd Год назад +84

      So we're confirming Gay Jesus with this right?

    • @reform-revolution
      @reform-revolution Год назад +1

      @@MRuby-qb9bd a smelly hippie with long hair being followed around by a bunch of equally smelly dudes in loose clothing
      dude was super gay

    • @raven3moon
      @raven3moon Год назад +68

      Quick! Nobody tell him about the Romans or the Greeks! The Legions or the Spartans!

    • @MrRancidity
      @MrRancidity Год назад

      Paul Joseph Watson was recorded saying he wants to wipe the Jews off the face of the planet. Let's not trivialise his bullshit. He's got monstrous views.

    • @zephyr8072
      @zephyr8072 Год назад

      This is the same guy who claimed soy based products were literally emasculating men while advertising soy based products.
      PJW is such an obvious and unintelligent grifter I truly wonder how he ever found a following.
      Oh right, the racism.

  • @ARDIZsq
    @ARDIZsq 6 месяцев назад +72

    Shad: "That is not the actions of a good person."
    Someone should have told him that about his book characters...

  • @MiraBoo
    @MiraBoo 6 месяцев назад +32

    Since Peach’s inception, she has been portrayed as both a damsel in distress and a capable heroine. She’s alway been sweet, but tough. Her femininity rivals her strength. The first damsel wasn’t even Peach, it was the beautiful lady Pauline.
    Quite frankly, Peach’s portrayal in the Mario Movie aligns well the games (both mainline and spinoffs), comics, two cartoons, and the old anime film. Anyone who looks at the Mario Movie and thinks “ew, Peach looks like a ‘woke girlboss’ trope instead of a pathetic princess” doesn’t understand who Peach is, and has always been, as a character.
    Also, yeah, the “girlboss” trope can sometimes suck and isn’t always good/positive female representation, but it’s not inherently bad/negative either. It’s all about the execution.

  • @thrownstair
    @thrownstair Год назад +905

    A man in a knight outfit mad that the princess doesn’t need to be rescued. Truly, poetry in motion.

    • @amberwingtundrawing776
      @amberwingtundrawing776 Год назад +58

      I literally just saw the movie she does get rescued so I'm really confused? She was like tied to train tracks or anything but he stopped her home from getting destroyed, I feel like thats a rescue

    • @LvLupXD
      @LvLupXD Год назад +41

      This knight guy is the kind of dude Cervantes wrote about

    • @lettersnstuff
      @lettersnstuff Год назад +22

      I mean, shrek 2 was like 20 years ago, kinda weird to still be mad but ok

    • @tenchimuyo69
      @tenchimuyo69 Год назад +8

      Well if he loses this duel, he can always just say "it was just a bit!"

    • @spamquisition4046
      @spamquisition4046 Год назад +19

      A shitty knight outfit mind you, most historical stuff people really doesn't like Shad lol

  • @retroboomer3197
    @retroboomer3197 Год назад +1628

    "I'm not a sexist. I just think women should get married and make me a sandwich. Stop being whores and more high value." - Totally not a sexist guy.

    • @streamerssaymyname
      @streamerssaymyname Год назад +181

      He's just being honest... about his sexist beliefs.

    • @butifarras
      @butifarras Год назад +28

      @@Jonontoast that's what happens when you do not get bullied enough in school

    • @AhsimNreiziev
      @AhsimNreiziev Год назад +89

      ​@Jonontoast Not a valid argument. Dressing up as a knight is more of a sign of being a nerd than being a misogynist. See the numerous other types of cosplay people do, and the fact that most cosplayers are actually rather Left-Wing at the end of the day
      Of course, being obsessed with Medieval Knight life probably didn't *_help_* Shad with dampening his misogynistic views.

    • @judjementine
      @judjementine Год назад +4

      haha let's misattribute ideology to people on the internet and call them a sexist. this is a wonderful use of my life.

    • @Zarastro54
      @Zarastro54 Год назад +91

      @@judjementine If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, why not call it a duck?

  • @lilbost4
    @lilbost4 7 месяцев назад +100

    Shadiversity, Mary Sue critic. Also writer of the biggest self insert Mary Sue I've ever seen.

    • @crazyscotsman9327
      @crazyscotsman9327 6 месяцев назад +8

      Exactly!

    • @mikestrauss8613
      @mikestrauss8613 4 месяца назад

      I haven't read his novels. In part because every time he discussed world building and writing it turned me more and more off the idea. Then I found out he's a chud.

    • @painovoimaton
      @painovoimaton 4 месяца назад +19

      I hope the rape part is not a self insert

    • @Enyavar1
      @Enyavar1 4 месяца назад +6

      @@painovoimaton or the "kill the family" part. This man.

  • @lulagoodwin5372
    @lulagoodwin5372 6 месяцев назад +34

    Why do they always misuse the term "mary-sue". Like just because a girl character isn't a useless pushover doesn't make her a mary sue. It's completely ironic how this guy literally wrote a mary sue character in his first book like holy shit.

    • @judeduval5724
      @judeduval5724 6 месяцев назад +1

      He wrote a Gary Stu.

    • @RelativelyBest
      @RelativelyBest 4 месяца назад +4

      Well, most people use that term wrong. It's actually a very specific form of bad writing characterized by authors developing deeply unhealthy attitudes towards their characters due to using them as coping mechanisms. Usually when people try explain what a Mary Sue is they just end up describing individual symptoms, not the considerably more troubling underlying problem.
      Now, I haven't read Shad's book and I don't plan to, but from what I've heard it may actually be a legit case. It sure sounds like some hardcore old school Mary Sueing.
      Also, Jude: "Gary Stu" in an entirely superfluous term invented by people who were, for some reason, apparently uncomfortable using a female name for a phenomenon that has nothing to do with the gender of the character. There's really no important distinction between a male and female Mary Sue, so the latter does not need it's own special label. At the very least, they're interchangeable.

    • @yungmuney5903
      @yungmuney5903 4 месяца назад

      Due to the idea of being over idealized defaulted to female (cause idk men are already the ideal?), its being weaponized by chuds to attack any women that doesn't conform to regressive roles.

  • @Rodomist
    @Rodomist Год назад +542

    I have an actual criticism of Princess Peach. She did not get to be as much of a goober as every other character. Not as many funny bits as all the male characters got to have. Too much of a straight man, which is a role that girls are often forced into in comedy stories so that boys can be funny.

    • @justaghostinthesea
      @justaghostinthesea Год назад +167

      See this, THIS is actual criticism

    • @AzureTheAvian
      @AzureTheAvian Год назад +95

      I can see that. I think Bowser would have been a better straight man, as he’s the actual villain. It’s funny to see a turtle dinosaur sing about Peaches, but I think a more definitive threat would have made the stakes higher.
      You can dunk people in lava all you want, but if we can’t stop laughing at you, then you’re not scary.

    • @Scroteydada
      @Scroteydada Год назад +19

      The combo of spoiled brat and noble monarch tropes was a highlight of the RPG's. I hope they bring that into the film world eventually.

    • @justaghostinthesea
      @justaghostinthesea Год назад +3

      @@Scroteydada Wasn't that, like, the biggest part of the first season of Game of Thrones?

    • @plufim
      @plufim Год назад +66

      If there is justice, Daisy will get to be the MOST Goober in the inevitable sequel

  • @madcountofdumont7742
    @madcountofdumont7742 Год назад +1418

    As a fellow Aussie and a former fan it's horrid to keep hearing him spiral into reactionary bs.
    I hope his castle falls over.

    • @gaiusjuliuscaesar8450
      @gaiusjuliuscaesar8450 Год назад +137

      I hope pestilence falls upon his House

    • @Imperials3nate
      @Imperials3nate Год назад +21

      I thought he was British

    • @zephyr8072
      @zephyr8072 Год назад +122

      May all his machicolations be forever misaligned.

    • @nerdsoftheherd69
      @nerdsoftheherd69 Год назад +129

      I was really upset when I found his knights watch channel, I grew up on Jazza and was really excited to support his brother and I have for years but he really has a horrible point of view on everything human

    • @Ricklyplinth
      @Ricklyplinth Год назад +5

      Same 😢

  • @OpEditorial
    @OpEditorial 6 месяцев назад +38

    Shad is ironic in how he's an overweight suburban dad from Australia who wishes he was a medieval English knight and is clearly suffering from *St. George in Retirement Syndrome*

  • @benjrc3611
    @benjrc3611 8 месяцев назад +101

    I actually think it’s WILD that he responds to your video with Wheel of Time, Mistborn and Stormlight Archive on the shelf behind him. Has he not read those books!? Every one of those series has girl boss characters and they ALL where pants!!!

    • @danscantland8066
      @danscantland8066 6 месяцев назад +13

      The weirdest part is that the scene he had a part in in Stormlight is about a knight who is surrounded by powerful women, and embraces it

    • @Cheskaz
      @Cheskaz 5 месяцев назад +11

      I'm genuinely so salty that he has all the cool hard cover Sanderson books...

    • @lankinmoon
      @lankinmoon 5 месяцев назад

      Invincible is full of women wearing pants and also has a gay couple

    • @atreides213
      @atreides213 4 месяца назад +12

      One of the main antagonists of the second mistborn book is a creepy incel who tries to use gaslighting and emotional manipulation to isolate Vin from her friends and have her for himself, whom she stabs in the neck as the culmination of her arc, symbolically rejecting the environment of abuse and toxicity she grew up in. Her boyfriend spends the first 2/3 of the series basically being the damsel in distress she must protect. When the god of destruction who wants to end the world appears to her, he literally takes the form of her abusive, domineering older brother. It really is just bizarre how Shad could unironically enjoy Sanderson's work with his worldview.

    • @leichtmeister
      @leichtmeister 4 месяца назад

      ​@@atreides213 I mean...Sanderson is a fellow mormon.

  • @Ghoulif
    @Ghoulif Год назад +1762

    Shadiversity fell off so bad in the last few years. My god he’s so embarrassing

    • @Ghoulif
      @Ghoulif Год назад +316

      @@zachryder3150 he should have just stuck to the medieval weaponry stuff exclusively. He’s good at that and not so much this

    • @zephyr8072
      @zephyr8072 Год назад

      He had absolutely no need to inject politics into his content, and whether he recognises it or not it will affect his Shadiversity content because people will recognise him as that guy making stupid conservative complaints and after this idiot tirade video.. well, it won't get better.
      I don't know if it's him or his obnoxious friends in Knightswatch (who give the Lotus Eater morons a run for their money in the ignorant smugness department) who are pushing this but either way he's only damaging his brand.

    • @veritasetcaritas
      @veritasetcaritas Год назад

      As a leftist member of the Historical European Martial Arts community, I can assure you he has always been bad, especially off-camera. It's just that in the last few years he has been increasingly mask-off.

    • @onearmedbandit84
      @onearmedbandit84 Год назад +148

      @@zachryder3150 The 'need'. My subscription list is filled with content creators that are able make a perfectly decent living pumping out weekly and even monthly video essays on a wide range of topics. His desire to pump out this content is purely ideologically driven.

    • @farrah1360
      @farrah1360 Год назад +210

      this is why i generally watch skallagrim instead

  • @silverblood9456
    @silverblood9456 Год назад +664

    Genuinely sad for his daughter after seeing how he dismisses her enjoyment of this movie because it didn't appeal to his and his sons' male power fantasy. You know she's never going to have the connection a child would want from their parent, because he's always going to see her as of lesser worth in comparison to his sons.

    • @JackgarPrime
      @JackgarPrime Год назад +151

      I bet his daughter gained way more out of seeing Peach being heroic than his sons "lost" from it.

    • @shrootskyi815
      @shrootskyi815 Год назад +9

      He doesn't dismis his daughter's enjoyment of the movie because she's a girl. It's because that enjoyment is based on a superficial power fantasy.
      In the Super Mario Bros. movie, Princess Peach is not a hero. I've studied The Hero with a Thousand Faces - probably the most foundational and authoritative text on heroes in storytelling. The Adventure of the Hero pattern can be summarised as the hero growing and self
      -actualising in the face of challenges, adversity, and failure.
      Peach's story barely resembles this; her character doesn't develop much over the course of the movie, so she cannot be said to have self-actualised. And crucially - and most pertinent to Shad's criticism of the movie - Peach doesn't really have to deal with failure. Hence, according to one of the best literary understandings of heroism, Peach is definitively not a hero.
      With all that explained, it's not that hard to see the real reason Shad dismisses his daughter's enjoyment of the movie; it's based on a shallow power fantasy instead of true heroism. Shad even stated multiple times in his video that he wouldn't mind Peach being a strong female character if she had been written better, rather than being desperately propped up.

    • @lazaroskarmaniolas7410
      @lazaroskarmaniolas7410 Год назад +2

      ​​@@shrootskyi815 tl;dr Shad is a cowardly scumbag and you're a simp for a LARPing idiot. "Guys, I totally read one single book once, and the parts I chose to remember say he's right! So it'stotally okay for that guy I like to not care about" his own daughter!"
      Sure, dude.

    • @carno.5911
      @carno.5911 Год назад +6

      @@shrootskyi815 Behold, a sane person who actually takes in whats presented before him, & takes the effort to comprehend it!

    • @carno.5911
      @carno.5911 Год назад

      He only dismissed her enjoyment of a shallow female power-fantasy, thats coming from a identity-politics based inferiority-complex thinking, from the political correct female side.

  • @cadejackson8665
    @cadejackson8665 9 месяцев назад +47

    it’s funny that he is a champion of meritocracy but a big reason for his success is that his brother shouted him out and collaborated with him

    • @YEY0806
      @YEY0806 4 месяца назад +9

      I always find it ironically amusing when merit advocates are actually the LEAST meritorious people I ever know.

    • @Enyavar1
      @Enyavar1 4 месяца назад +1

      Didn't know about that yet, good to know!

  • @ethanrabbitts9906
    @ethanrabbitts9906 4 месяца назад +13

    God, him calling peach more masculine is such a mask off moment where he seemingly views the concepts of autonomy and competency as exclusive to men.

  • @annabelle4655
    @annabelle4655 Год назад +455

    When shad starts going in on how princess peach isn't feminine in the movie (?????) it reminds me of a meme: "this is the butchest woman Twitter can handle" and it's a photo of a thin pretty woman with long hair and makeup wearing a motorcycle jacket 😂

    • @lekswig3316
      @lekswig3316 9 месяцев назад +28

      i think an actual butch would make shad have a stroke on the spot

  • @Maker_Az_Is
    @Maker_Az_Is Год назад +465

    I don't think Shadiversity could be a more comedically tragic chivalric romanticizer if Cervantes himself had written him. I can't wait for the video of him fighting a windmill.

    • @AM-kr4pv
      @AM-kr4pv Год назад +45

      I like a smart roast.

    • @naikigutierrez4279
      @naikigutierrez4279 Год назад +58

      What are you talking about? That’s clearly a giant.

    • @ava_marie_v
      @ava_marie_v Год назад +23

      I love a good Don Quixote reference.

    • @Firegen1
      @Firegen1 Год назад +11

      Does that make Jack and the jester and The Knight of the White Moon?

    • @andrewdiaz3529
      @andrewdiaz3529 Год назад +30

      Looking at the thumbnail Jack showed of Shad's Strange World video, which lists "Ecology" among its "Sins", he is not far off from charging a turbine farm

  • @JimRFF
    @JimRFF 3 месяца назад +20

    Woke political propaganda: "Women should be something more than just sex objects"
    Noble knight Sir Shad: "No they shouldn't" *big trumpets for big man, wow so heroic*

  • @pappanalab
    @pappanalab 5 месяцев назад +48

    He criticizes his daughter for liking Peach who he considers a “Mary Sue” completely oblivious to his own book which has the exact problems he accuses Peach of. His main character is also an over powered Gary Stu! He has no room to act like liking a Mary sue or power fantasy is bad (it’s not ) while also writing them! Are Mary sues good writing? Not really. But a story doesn’t have to be well written for someone to shamelessly enjoy it

    • @samkeiser9776
      @samkeiser9776 4 месяца назад +1

      I’m of the opinion that “Mary Sue’s” aren’t a character trope as much as they are an effect that a story has when one character is transparently the only character that matters.
      Like in “Into the Spiderverse” the alternate spider-mans are all incredibly competent, badasses who likely could destroy the collider on their own, like peter A was going to before Miles came into the picture, yet that’s fine actually, because the story is fleshed out. Characters existing and being competent with no explanation isn’t a flaw in story telling, it’d be worse if the spiderverse spider-mans all had to show arcs of themselves growing into their own roles to justify their competence when it’d just re-tread a lot of what Miles was currently going through.
      These “woke media” right winger bros are just mad that a woman is the competent one and that Mario has to go through an arc (I assume, I’ve never seen the mario movie.)
      So like, yeah, Princess Peach can just be competent and that’s not a flaw at all as long as the movie is still competent.

    • @lostsanityreturned
      @lostsanityreturned 4 месяца назад +6

      Just wait for his sequel, where he slaves over ai prompts.

    • @fluidthought42
      @fluidthought42 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@@samkeiser9776
      I think Mary Sues are more of a failure to be both interesting and believable, primarily as a consequence of a failed attempt to be more interesting. They're failed power fantasies fail to have any appeal. Can't have interest without stakes or real conflict, can't be emotionally believable when there's nothing to hold onto in terms of character flaws or growth. Normally a writer can get away with failing one or the other of the qualities in a character or story, but failing both makes a synergy of unenjoyable.
      Take religious or mythological figures, for interest. Typically they aren't believable in the least, and sometimes the universe does revolve around them. But they're interesting in their context of myth, legend and faith, along with cultural and moral interpretation. So It not that a character can't be impossibly powerful or unbelievably important, it's that they have to have a very strong basis for being interesting despite these qualities to work as a character.

    • @pappanalab
      @pappanalab 4 месяца назад +1

      @@samkeiser9776 I think you’re thinking of flat arc characters. Flat arc can be used to great effect like Princess Peach. The issue with Mary Sues are that they usually forsake the internal consistency of the story and bend the universe around the Sue, unfortunately breaking immersion in the process.

    • @samkeiser9776
      @samkeiser9776 4 месяца назад

      @@pappanalab yeah, but my point is really that “mary sue’s” aren’t a character trope, because a character can have all the stereotypical qualities of a “mary sue.” (Extremely powerful, really important, well liked, significant lineage, other quirks etc.) and still not ruin a story.
      Some definitions of the mary sue trope have to do with the superficial qualities of the character themselves, rather than how they’re just, in poorly written stories.
      And when you define mary sues like that, it’s not actually helpful to anyone because it doesn’t really mean anything.

  • @JeevesAnthrozaurUS
    @JeevesAnthrozaurUS Год назад +396

    I used to think Don Quixote was a bit far fetched, but now here I am seeing a real life wannabee knight tilting at windmills

    • @mikaelste-marie1275
      @mikaelste-marie1275 Год назад +35

      I feel even Don Quixoto will also find them weird.

    • @KramerKontained94
      @KramerKontained94 Год назад +7

      Shad Quixote

    • @Tsuruchi_420
      @Tsuruchi_420 Год назад +4

      Cervantes was right about everything

    • @Tsuruchi_420
      @Tsuruchi_420 Год назад +19

      ​@@mikaelste-marie1275honestly, while Quixote the character is depicted as a conservative idiot, the author of the book does show SOME pretty "woke" Views on the role of women, especially for his time

    • @Blizzic
      @Blizzic Год назад +1

      Underrated comment.

  • @as-valerie5717
    @as-valerie5717 10 месяцев назад +457

    Must've been awkward for his brother when Shad said he prefers stories where men save random strangers they find attractive over stories where they save close family members

    • @danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944
      @danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 8 месяцев назад

      Yeah I think Jesus would hear that and then starting throwing table and swords.
      I love when Christians have preferences that go against their holy books.
      Well he is a Mormon so...
      He is probably unhappy because he doesn't have 6 underage wives.

    • @judeduval5724
      @judeduval5724 6 месяцев назад +46

      Shad brother might feel the same about him.

    • @YEY0806
      @YEY0806 4 месяца назад +8

      ​@judeduval5724, and yet it would be justified because who honestly could stand someone like Shad?

  • @WeesloYT
    @WeesloYT 8 месяцев назад +53

    The funny thing is that my daughter’s favorite character in the movie is…Luigi. A male character. Shad’s head would explode

  • @TacticalOtter2
    @TacticalOtter2 5 месяцев назад +22

    I just can't get over the fact that he's an elderly Australian Mormon man larping as like a medieval history expert

    • @RitzOriginal1
      @RitzOriginal1 5 месяцев назад +2

      How is he elderly....? Hes in his late 30s.

    • @xXEGPXx
      @xXEGPXx 5 месяцев назад +7

      @@RitzOriginal1 In the youtube game approaching 40 does make you an elder

  • @Blizzic
    @Blizzic Год назад +817

    Really sucks that you can just stumble across somebody’s sword videos, enjoy a few, move on with your life, and then years later find out they’re one molecule in a massive vat of acid slowly disintegrating society.

    • @charliesage7004
      @charliesage7004 Год назад +74

      Watch Matt Easton and Skallagrim. Been their viewer for 10 years. There are more people to watch, of course, but I fell like Matt and Skall most newbie friendly out there. Other folks are a bit more specialized, like Matt Jensen focuses mainly on Japanese swords and destructive testing, and Sword Sage is all about Chinese armed combat.

    • @GeahkBurchill
      @GeahkBurchill Год назад +11

      Fantastic comment! Practically a poem!

    • @EndymionMhr
      @EndymionMhr Год назад +11

      *cough* Jean Bearnup *cough*

    • @Bobolotsoman
      @Bobolotsoman Год назад +40

      Could not agree more. His back scabbard stuff was neat, moved on. Then see his face on a Jack Saint video thumbnail to much confusion. Unfortunately all too common with historical content creators

    • @azazel166
      @azazel166 Год назад +10

      Skallagrim is pretty chill and always was.

  • @stalfithrildi5366
    @stalfithrildi5366 9 месяцев назад +429

    "Why do we have castles?"
    To... impose authority upon the Welsh?

    • @aralornwolf3140
      @aralornwolf3140 5 месяцев назад +22

      Well... I think it was "So Welsh could remain free from the English Yoke"... but it didn't work out well for them...

    • @extrams0
      @extrams0 4 месяца назад +22

      @@aralornwolf3140 one man's castle is another man's ... caslte, I guess ...

    • @intelli-gent9863
      @intelli-gent9863 4 месяца назад +4

      This is hilarious 😂

    • @DKdrop
      @DKdrop 2 месяца назад +2

      @@aralornwolf3140 It was both. Edward I famously built a bunch of castles to impose English rule and help his conquest, but the Welsh also built some to try and defend.

  • @masterpink6963
    @masterpink6963 8 месяцев назад +53

    RUclips Reviewer: “That’s Woke”
    Me: “you keep saying that word I don’t think means what you think it means”

    • @CoyoteSeven
      @CoyoteSeven 8 месяцев назад +5

      To be "anti woke" is to be "pro sleep". He wants you turn your brain off and keep your eyes and ears closed to reality 'cause that's the only way you're gonna be able to believe that schlock.

    • @squidfromtheloft7894
      @squidfromtheloft7894 6 месяцев назад +5

      At this rate, "Woke" gets used so often that most don't really know what it means anymore.

    • @vksasdgaming9472
      @vksasdgaming9472 5 месяцев назад

      If it is not past tense of verb "wake" it has no meaning. It is not an adjective.

    • @masterpink6963
      @masterpink6963 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@vksasdgaming9472 well yes but actually no

    • @vksasdgaming9472
      @vksasdgaming9472 5 месяцев назад

      @@masterpink6963 It has "meaning" so vague it has no real meaning. "Cool" has two clear meanings as adjective and one as verb. Everything can be said to be woke.

  • @judeconnor-macintyre9874
    @judeconnor-macintyre9874 9 месяцев назад +32

    "...Robbed of certain heroic moments"
    What heroic moments? What was Mario robbed from Shad? He got to beat up Bowser at the end, what more did you want from him?

  • @jowysw
    @jowysw Год назад +285

    "Mario nails it because of his natural ability"? I want to remind people that if a woman had a "natural ability" to do something really well, she'd probably be called a Mary Sue by them.
    Peach was living in the Mushroom Kingdom for years and Mario was new there, of course she had more experience. The whole point of her is that she is Mario's guide and the adventure is one where both have to watch each other backs and defeat Bowser and there is nothing wrong with that.

    • @zericle1
      @zericle1 9 месяцев назад +23

      Exactly, and it's shown that Mario has to learn a lot to get used to the new world he's in. What's ironic too is that in the final confrontation in the movie, Mario and Luigi are the ones who take down Bowser and Peach literally says that they're heroes. They literally save Peach from Bowser. But Mario wouldn't have gotten to where he did without Peach. In my opinion, watching the movie I felt like the obvious main character was Mario, and Peach seemed like a major supporting character, so I don't get why some people were so pissed off. Like, Mario is still the main character and nothing's really changed that much aside from Peach getting more characterization, which I believe is a good thing.

  • @jussts
    @jussts Год назад +435

    It's wild that Shad's whole thing is that women need men to provide for them and protect them, but when he sees a similar dynamic presented between two gay men in the Last of Us, he loses his shit and calls it rape. Make it make sense.

    • @vazzaroth
      @vazzaroth 11 месяцев назад +65

      Cult Membership is required to proceed.

    • @samniel
      @samniel 10 месяцев назад +41

      Wait, HOW is it rape? Like, gosh now I'm thinking it I can see how one would be so unfair with media criticism to sort of see it if you're looking for it with a microscope but to actually reach there on your own...

    • @jamiel6005
      @jamiel6005 10 месяцев назад +49

      So he understands the deep power imbalance in that type of relationship? I bet he has just the most sane beliefs about marital rape.

    • @sebastianb.3978
      @sebastianb.3978 10 месяцев назад +35

      @@jamiel6005 Would be surprised if that was even a concept to him.

    • @itcouldbelupus2842
      @itcouldbelupus2842 9 месяцев назад

      Wait, what?!
      He did that?
      Wow this man is a loser.

  • @MatecaCorp
    @MatecaCorp 9 месяцев назад +66

    Shad is a Mormon. He is absolutely capable of being mistaken about really basic concepts

    • @timothywilcox1539
      @timothywilcox1539 3 месяца назад +1

      Please don't rope all Mormons into this.

    • @MatecaCorp
      @MatecaCorp 3 месяца назад +5

      @@timothywilcox1539 I refuse to give cults any legitimacy

    • @timothywilcox1539
      @timothywilcox1539 3 месяца назад

      @@MatecaCorp I know mormons who support LGBTQ people.
      Just because people are in a group who's policies you disagree with, doesn't mean there aren't people inside those groups that aren't good, and wanting to make the group better.
      If it was a cult, I'd be silenced from proclaiming my love for people that break gender norms.
      Please have a more open mind.

    • @MatecaCorp
      @MatecaCorp 3 месяца назад +5

      @@timothywilcox1539 “if it was a cult it would be slightly worse” lmao keep piling money onto their hoarde, you’ll make it to super heaven someday

  • @daneofdanger
    @daneofdanger 8 месяцев назад +42

    I really like Mario shown as failing much of the time. That is the experience of the actual players, especially young players. You lose A LOT, especially when new to the game. You get hit by bullet bills and you fall in holes and you start over. The final, complete narrative of the game is Mario succeeding, but the human experience is of you failing _as_ Mario. Your experience is very much bumbling and akward. If Mario was a super Chad who breezed past everything, it wouldn't feel anything like the games

    • @JJ-qo7th
      @JJ-qo7th 4 месяца назад +3

      And throughout all of it, at least ever since he gained a voice courtesy of Charles Martinet, he's had this vibrant, upbeat attitude about all of it. It doesn't matter that he just got chucked out of the painting after dying in that world and failing to get the star. He jumped right back in with a cheerful, _"Let's-a-go!"_

  • @pedroocm
    @pedroocm Год назад +413

    I can't get over him saying "Teach kids to love who they are" right after quite explicitly stating he wants to see "princesses being saved by princes", screw the girls that would like to be the heroes in the movies, because "that's not who they're supposed to be, that's the boy's job".

    • @andrewdiaz3529
      @andrewdiaz3529 Год назад +85

      He says teach them to love who they are, and then immediately says they must be taught they must be taught only a rigid definition of what they are allowed to be

    • @onepresence9460
      @onepresence9460 Год назад +29

      I can’t get over it too. It reminds when people at the internet said that will cancel Disney Plus and will never allow their children to see anything Disney related just because a gay character exists.

    • @beebs4283
      @beebs4283 Год назад +7

      man i don’t even have a problem with stories where princes/knights saving princesses but that’s such an awful justification for wanting them

    • @Gloomdrake
      @Gloomdrake Год назад +44

      ​@@beebs4283 it's a valid story _option,_ but he wants it to be a mandate. This seems to be his take on media in general. He struggles to comprehend that media can appeal to people who aren't him.
      Like, his opinion on Elden Ring's story is that it was objectively bad because he had to go out of his way to find it. It didn't tell a story the way he would, so it was just bad

    • @BaneHydra
      @BaneHydra Год назад

      By "teach kids to love who they are" he means "teach kids to love the roles I impose upon them". Conservatives desire absolute control over their children, it's a very common theme and they don't particularly try to hide it either. Imagine how far gone you have to be to block your kids from watching Disney movies, kids movies literally trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

  • @EnriqueMaxx
    @EnriqueMaxx 9 месяцев назад +223

    As someone who is a bit older, I have to say that people like this really get to me. This man is out of shape, has an obsession with Knights and the middle ages, and spends his time worrying about what cartoon characters are doing. He's a HUGE dork. As a kid he was absolutely picked on for his interests and now that we finally live in a time where being yourself is a little more okay, he chooses to be like this? Progressive ideology and "wokeness" has saved this man's life and he turned on it as if he's EVER been considered "manly". Its like, my guy - you play with swords in your backyard all day, you dress in chainmail unironically. In the 1990's and early 2000's you be a joke. Your life would be SO different if the world was the way you pretend you want it to be. 🙄

    • @conormurphy7017
      @conormurphy7017 4 месяца назад +23

      Underrated analysis that doesn’t get talked about enough

    • @boonsaplenty3924
      @boonsaplenty3924 3 месяца назад

      Regressives in nerd/geek communities don't realize or purposefully ignore that they are the benefactors of inclusive ideologies they claim are ruining "their communities". Unironically gamers and hobbyists ARE persecuted under the ideology of capitalism and fascism for being "unproductive"

    • @Nemamka
      @Nemamka 3 месяца назад +19

      This, thank you, is my favorite comment here. The nerds - who were also forced to hide on the internet because IRL they weren't accepted - saved him when he was just making videos about stuff like, could Kratos actually put his axe on his back, could you physically draw a sword from this and that angle, etc. And he turned his platform into a space of dogmatic bigotry about what boys and girls should act like?? Jeeeeez.

    • @lemagicbaguette1917
      @lemagicbaguette1917 2 месяца назад +2

      TL;DR: We need a society free to express themselves, not a society fractured by fantasy.
      I'm a bit of a dork myself, and I absolutely agree with this. He is a joke, and I might be, too, and I'd not mind if others were allowed to express their distaste once more. It's how one can learn, how they can adapt to become a part of society, preferably without sacrificing themselves in the process. It's selective pressure, plain and simple. I only got criticised for my obsessive interests recently, for instance, and I believe that that pressure might have saved me from ruin.
      Sadly, what saved him wasn't pressure, and it sure as hell was not progressivism, but a corrupted, bastardised version of it that is set to create "1984".

    • @leonrussell9607
      @leonrussell9607 2 месяца назад

      I don't think he wears chainmail all the time, just for his videos

  • @ondenbern
    @ondenbern 8 месяцев назад +23

    Family values (?) are under attack. But also I don't want mario saving his brother (family) because he should care more about princess peach (not family) . Boys are naturally inclined to value pretty things over family?? Make it make sense

  • @lucasmatiasdelaguilamacdon7798
    @lucasmatiasdelaguilamacdon7798 6 месяцев назад +26

    Shad is getting shunned by the rest of Hist-Tube. Matt Easton cut ties publicly in a post denouncing his racism, sexism and homophobia. Didn’t mention Shad by name, but then Shad responded to it disillusioned with the comments, implying he was the one targeted by the post. Other people in Hist-tube have been cutting ties with him too. Skall already did. The only one remaining is Metatron, who I think is somewhat at the fence on most social issues, and is not outright conservative, but does use some pretty bad 2016-esque anti SJW language and titlecards for clickbait. He does make some interesting points every now and then, but at least he’s not outright racist and bigotted.

  • @RedHandedGod
    @RedHandedGod 11 месяцев назад +463

    The worst part of the entire thing is Shad talking about how he really connects with the hero character that's a father willing to sacrifice for his children. Like, Shad is entirely bankrupt of that form of heroism. He won't even protect his own daughter from his own misogyny and bigotry. If he's so moved by the idea of fathers sacrificing for their children, he should start by sacrificing his own pride and trying to be a better person. For them. Poor kids.

    • @silverhawkscape2677
      @silverhawkscape2677 11 месяцев назад +2

      What are you even talking about? This guy was a Better father than what most Liberals ever had.

    • @nexthoudini
      @nexthoudini 9 месяцев назад +88

      ​@@silverhawkscape2677 Yeah! You tell 'em the evils of loving, accepting, and supporting your children! (though I might not have Capitalized enough Random nouns and adjectives for you to understand).

    • @nuuttik
      @nuuttik 8 месяцев назад +47

      he 100% thinks he is the hero here, saving his daughter from the evils of wokeness 😬 he would have to upend his whole world view to even begin to see it as bigoted...

    • @danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944
      @danubeisreallypeculiarrive7944 8 месяцев назад

      ​​@@silverhawkscape2677As someone who was raised by extremely Christian conservative parent I must say you are full of it.
      God, what I would give for having liberal or left-wing dad.
      Did you have conservative daddy that brainwashed you or did your liberal daddy disown you after you shared your f*ed up opinions with him?

    • @sporeham1674
      @sporeham1674 6 месяцев назад +20

      ​@@silverhawkscape2677funny thing, since he's Australian, liberal is right leaning. So you're right!!

  • @sadpotatohours4846
    @sadpotatohours4846 Год назад +185

    one of the things that always annoys me with people like shad is that argument of "hmmm curious, conservative households who dont let their kids interact with queer stuff dont have any signs of gender dysphoria or gay people!!!"
    like my brother in christ- thats because for those children its a matter of survival to not let it out that they are gay or trans, if they were open about it they'd get fucking beat

    • @luthientinuviel3883
      @luthientinuviel3883 9 месяцев назад +53

      As a trans adult who grew up in a conservative home I can confirm. No, "woke" shows didnt trans me (they DID make me not hate myself)

    • @bohd3
      @bohd3 8 месяцев назад +24

      I like to point out to these people that Jesus said, “Love one another and love God, That is the whole law.”

    • @topogigio7031
      @topogigio7031 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@bohd3that's why so many "Christian" now worship Mary instead, claiming that her being a virgin is more important than Jesus being Christ. Just so batty.

    • @Kuzka_
      @Kuzka_ 6 месяцев назад

      Trans is a social construct, so your point is invalid right away. I will say, though, that the strict life of expectations based on what you have between your legs CAN make you want to be something else, because, maybe the grass is greener on the other side. Or you envy the interactions that you were told are not for you. Or any other, similar, reasons (childhood *trauma* because a girl was invited for gaming instead of your male ass).
      When it comes to roles - I'd say, in most circumstances, they don't matter much who does what nowadays, as physical labour is not as solely required as it used to be. HOWEVER, as much as Shad is into AI, it has the capacity of eliminating jobs that an average person can do, making them go back to physical work. And you wouldn't want your wife digging holes when pregnant, would you. But hey, it's going way too far, because almost nobody wants children anymore.
      Anyways, live your life the way you want, just don't force me to accept your self-identification, nor penalize me for not going with it. For me, surgically removing or shaping your body parts is wrong, unless otherwise your body would die by itself.

    • @bluester7177
      @bluester7177 6 месяцев назад +3

      They also stop their relationship with their parents at the first chance they get, so yeah, there is no gay or trans because they leave

  • @numberonedad
    @numberonedad 6 месяцев назад +27

    "girls don't like to be heroes"
    -genius shad take