RWBY - The Hindenburg on which Rooster Teeth rests its hopes, dreams and future

Sayon said:
Don't forget Weiss being a necromancer. And really, the wall between magic and Semblances is poorly done since:

A. They made Semblances too much of a kitchen sink situation where the users have whatever powers the showrunners thought wuz kewl or do whatever they needed for the plot. How is something like Qrow or Robyn's Semblances not magic?
B. What we see of magic from the Maiden isn't different enough from Semblances.

I already posted about this but they would have done better if they had the Maidens and Relics be one. Give a Maiden something more abstract.
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Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
Thing is, having a kitchen sink situation is not really a bad thing if you know how to do it right.

- One Piece has Devil Fruits of all kind
- HxH has a whole concept of Nen
- Jujutsu Kaisen has highly complex powers
- Chainsaw Man also has unique powered characters
- Ma'Cademia has a unique powered people everywhere
- Black Clover has unique magic for all

If one's just a bad writer anyway than it's on the writing of the show than the concept itself. If you're just a shit writer who doesn't know how to write, let alone make shit coherent. Than you'll always be fucking called out.
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Pixy Misa said:
I think the Nasuverse is also a good example.

I'm not that well versed in that universe, as I only really play the phone game, so forgive any mistakes, but they do make the distinction between two types of magic work.

You got a literal "mage association" and people throwing spells all day, and yet the existence of "magic" separate from that is still made impressive because there is a clear distinction between the two.

The key difference being that "Magecraft" is what normal mages do, but is limited to what science can do. In other words, magecraft can achieve what's already possible via impossible means.

Whereas "magic" can do what would otherwise be impossible like resurrect the dead.

RWBY doesn't make that distinction so "semblances" and "magic" are functionally identical, except that Magic users can do more than one trick. That's it.
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Honestly, one of the problems with the show after volume three is that the show plays REALLY fast and loose with the rules for its powers, or at least it used to and now they’re trying to reverse engineer things to insert rules. Hell, I contend that back when Monty was around, aura was just Monty’s way of hand waving blows that’d potentially kill someone. And now, a broken aura is probably the only thing separating a fight where you’re supposed to care about the outcome from a bunch of flashy bullshit.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
I think someone said a few pages ago that Adam only existed from day one to give Blake an adversary. When you put it like that....damn that’s rough.

Also, someone on Reddit ranked ships. https://www.reddit.com/r/RWBY/comme...anon/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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To this day, I will forever be mad about Adam's death for many reasons, but also can't help but chuckle to think that M&K swept the literal runaway slave under a rug even after revealing his brand.

Also on the list thing, besides BlackSun being in the "evidence against" section and Bumbleby being in the "evidenced" section (because apparently V4-5 is not a thing anymore and Blake and Sun didn't have chemistry), I am glad that the married couple was Kali and Ghira because fanart and fanfics (and some other art unrelated to this show) have made me more appreciative for those two.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
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You triple-posted the 2nd pic & the convo is still incomplete. I'll post it, link the tweet

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Fine, I'll do it myself

Archive: http://archive.is/KgxpY

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Xenomorphs Are Cute said:
You triple-posted the 2nd pic & the convo is still incomplete. I'll post it, link the tweet
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Chilson said:
I can't tell what is more autistic. The twitter rambling of what is, almost undoubtedly, an insecure landwhale or the way you chose to show us it.
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This should be better. Or at least not worse.
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Random Internet Person said:
An interesting question. https://twitter.com/cj_black0/status/1245124519661985793?s=21
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I've read on some those replies already and it seems like it's less "There are so many stories to tell" and more The fact that the writers are clearly stalling to keep their audience hostage.

I get how they are hyping Salem to be this ultimate evil, like this show's Voldemort, but I don't think it's working.

This might be unpopular, but I also think Voldemort was nothing more than a one-dimensional villain, but at least with him, it made sense it took 7 books/8 movies to beat him because he was also at a huge disadvantage until he was able to return to human form and scheme his way to the top until he was strong enough to win by force.

Salem feels like she is just stalling because the plot says so.
 
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I already posted on how Salem doesn't work as RWBY's Sauron since among other things they made her way overpowered in proportion to her setting but at the same time made her way too lazy for her intended goal (world conquest). Someone like Aku Mumm-Ra either has obvious limitations (Mumm-Ra being a decrypt old mummy without the support of his dark masters, Sauron dumping much of his might into his ring) or can just be beaten by the hero/es early enough (Aku almost getting killed by Jack in the pilot).

As for CJ's question, eh, well. Ruby doesn't really have an arc currently that roots in her beginnings (she's just suddenly hating/distrusting adults and got a forced journey to becoming the messiah with a side of my mom is dead from Salem). Yang's arc of mastering herself just kinda ended confusingly (she's still belligerent). Blake's whole thing with the White Fang was never actually relevant to RWBY's activities AS ONE TEAM and they obviously won't have the faunus racism be anything especially important, and Weiss' arc was finished I guess except it was done in the most atrocious way possible.

They (the showrunners) have marched into a rock and hard place for Salem. The only believable outcome that fits Salem's hype (recall that both Lionheart and Raven fear her such that neither even considers taking her on, the latter having Maiden Magic) and applies suitable consequences for RWBY's actions is for either:
A. Salem just butchers them.

B. Salem plays a game where she offers to spare Atlas/Mantle if the citizens hand over RWBY and Co. with all Relics/Maidens the team has with them. If Ironwood/Robyb refuses then she puts him/her/both on the list.

C. They all run away into the sunset living as fugitives. If not from Salem then from what's left of Atlas/Mantle spreading word around the world.
 
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Random Internet Person said:
You guys need to read this. https://www.reddit.com/r/fnki/comme...heir/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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This isn't an April Fool's joke, it just shows how pathetic these sad little cocksucking NPC losers really are just like the company they're currently dickriding to high heaven.

And to the surprise of absolutely no one (Even Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder could see that shit coming), they mention Vic and straw man more than anything I've seen in a while from RWBY'S FanDumb when it comes to Vic~ Better hope appeals don't go his way bitches, because if they do then Cuck Teeth is gonna look even more stupid.
 
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Rondo Richter Belmont said:
This isn't an April Fool's joke, it just shows how pathetic these sad little cocksucking NPC losers really are just like the company they're currently dickriding to high heaven.

And to the surprise of absolutely no one (Even Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder could see that shit coming), they mention Vic and straw man more than anything I've seen in a while from RWBY'S FanDumb when it comes to Vic~ Better hope appeals don't go his way bitches, because if they do then Cuck Teeth is gonna look even more stupid.
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If they ever backpedal, than we have Archives
 
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Dumpster dived waifu said:
You guys need to read this. https://www.reddit.com/r/fnki/comme...heir/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
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But he is right tho. Of course, that conspiracy theory about them making a convoluted plant to wokeify Rwby is stupid and nobody should believe it.

... Because they are not that smart. It wasn't a plan, it all happened as a result of them being incompetent and horrible people in general and that includes what they did to Vic.

Saying it was a plan of theirs is giving them too much credit.
 
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