Knightfall

[@LackingSaint]

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[@toastbeing1202]

Shad is also a climate change denier

[@danielheflin6658]

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]

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]

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

[@zephyr8072]

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]

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]

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

[@zestybomb]

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

[@explody7836]

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]

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]

@@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]

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]

Not only that, he posted cringe on main

[@fakegeek5462]

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]

@Calvin I aim to please

[@manolgeorgiev9664]

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]

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

[@hallamhal]

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

[@RisottoNero-z1w]

Nice.

[@gasterg.continent3118]

As again Shrek is unironically the best film of all time (on accident)

[@danielbroome5690]

Oh that would be totally fine, because for these people there's no consistency in the criticism. It's purely, old things were good, but these new things go too far. Shrek is fine because to Shad that was something that was status quo in his youth, but now anything, even the same thing, is bad.

[@jafaral-z1090]

i wasn't really old enough to have a grasp on the concept but people weren't crying woke back then were they? this conservative brainrot is more recent so even if he hates shrek, he'd say he likes it cause it's basically a classic

[@bluebaron6858]

​@@danielbroome5690oh goody the Shrek 5 discourse will be something

[@AN-jz3kf]

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

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

riding wear vs formal wear moment

[@aralornwolf3140]

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

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

@@aralornwolf3140 very true

[@fluidthought42]

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.

[@AshleyBreads]

Yeah, I live in an area with a lot of horse trails and riders, and I remember being told to wear the thickest jeans I had before going horse riding for the first time, just in case. It was good advice honestly, and I cannot imagine riding in anything from thin pants to, god forbid, a fucking dress or skirt. Ouch. Ouch x 10^10000.

[@annabelle4655]

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]

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

[@pretzneko]

@@lekswig3316he would think it was a trans person

[@TheFantasticJoe]

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]

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

[@SemiIocon]

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]

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]

​@@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]

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.

[@kaedotmoe]

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]

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

[@SheezyBites]

​@@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]

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

[@Gustoberg]

​@@kaedotmoe OMG Shad is literally Dom Quixote!

[@Firegen1]

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

[@banbanthebandit4002]

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)

[@AmazingMrMe123]

Mormons do that a lot

[@vfanon]

When his kid likes something he doesn't want her to she's being brainwashed, when she likes what he wants her to it's because she naturally connects with it.

[@Mad_Possum]

Shad just never used to be like this. His old content was never political and he was like super chill back then. Just feels sad watching him collapse in on himself. And it isnt lost on me that nearly all the other guys in his sphere doing the anti woke grift are like 45+ in age. We are just watching the mid life crisis epidemic lately. He seems really unhappy.

[@gaylorvader]

She's sending him to the old folks home and NEVER visiting ain't she? Good for her.

[@bluebaron6858]

​@Madd_Possum adequate way to put it 😈

[@Rodomist]

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]

See this, THIS is actual criticism

[@AzureTheAvian]

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]

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]

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

[@plufim]

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

[@jowysw]

"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]

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.

[@alanhorton7300]

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]

So we're confirming Gay Jesus with this right?

[@reform-revolution]

@@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]

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

[@TheFridgeasaur]

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]

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.

[@coffinmyface4237]

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.

[@oshkeet]

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]

Bowser is coming.

[@OberynTheRedViper]

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]

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

[@devforfun5618]

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

[@onepresence9460]

Exactly. She’s the leader of Mushroom Kingdom 🍄

[@argonianbum]

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]

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

[@thevioletbee5879]

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

[@marocat4749]

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

[@Shoyren]

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

[@idontwantahandlethough]

@@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.

[@Sheepyhead]

me, a sword guy, when i see a women wearing a pants 😡😡😡

[@b.parker1740]

History buffs when the princess of a land of mushroom people wears a skintight racing uniform and not a pink dress out of a Disney Princess movie (It's not Historically Accurate) (Woke Illumination/Nintendo Gone Too Far). (Imagine if Shad gave a half of a shit he's giving about this nontroversy about a kids film over Nintendo trying to legally body modding streamers for gameplay footage they should, hypothetically, be allowed to stream in the era of Twitch and You-Tube gaming. Ridiculous).

[@zephyr8072]

I wonder if Shad hates Mario Odyssey for this too. "Pauline used to wear a dress but NOW she has pants and a suit like a MAN! Women wearing suits part of the western woke agenda! Wait the game was made where?"

[@streamerssaymyname]

Sexist men are of two minds: "Women can't ever NOT be sexualizing themselves, look at them possessing buttocks while wearing pants." And "Women wearing pants are trying to be men and is very not sexy."

[@EtherealDoomed]

As a sword guy, sword guys give sword guys such a bad goddamn name.

[@GrinninPig]

🚽💪

[@knotsbygordion]

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]

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

[@abdqs853]

I once read a Novel in which the Female Lead was the result of rape. The Female Lead went through abuse and neglect that would leave most cps workers horrified.

[@ryancraig110]

Put this man on a list now

[@ulisessalduna4351]

every new thing I learn about shad makes me despise him more and more, and to think his brother is jazza, one of the loveliest and least controvertial youtubers i've ever seen

[@sydliminal]

maybe this is excessive and kind of morbid of me, but as someone who is 1) tokophobic and 2) non-binary: were I ever assaulted, became pregnant from that assault, and could not terminate the pregnancy for whatever reason, I would very probably self... die(?) (idk how to word it so this webbed site doesn't get mad at me).

[@Malon2006]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@DocAcher]

The ultimate fantasy for women? Personal agency.

[@starmaker75]

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

[@harmonlanager2670]

“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]

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

[@jamestomato1744]

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

[@justaghostinthesea]

@@jamestomato1744 Yeah, that too.

[@0lionheart]

@@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]

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

[@trolldrool]

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]

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

[@mateuszjokiel2813]

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

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

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

[@jojorose1947]

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

[@jojorose1947]

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"

[@ethanrabbitts9906]

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.

[@idiot_rat]

No, no, u see, it’s because women are just too good at being rescued, and, actually, women are just made to want to be rescued, so it’s good for them. It’s only natural. (/s btw)

[@Koebalt]

Makes sense in his book his self insert rapes over 400 women and only the ones that don't give birth are the ones that are upset. And why he gets off Scott free in the courts cause "he has a bright future ahead of him"

[@yungmuney5903]

That's always the point of terms like "Masculinity" and "Femininity", they're tools of oppression since day 1. Without misogyny, without the oppression of women, femininity doesn't exist, let alone masculinity.

[@hoarsebard]

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

[@saintbrush4398]

Exactly lmao

[@onepresence9460]

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

[@maybeyourbaby6486]

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

[@marocat4749]

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

[@Kuhmuhnistische_Partei]

@@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.

[@as-valerie5717]

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]

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]

Shad brother might feel the same about him.

[@YEY0806]

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

[@bigboybandon6113]

Shads biggest insecurity is that his brother got all of the dominant genes

[@tieflingrogue]

"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).

[@blastortoise]

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

[@zericle1]

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]

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]

Man will be amazed when Joan of Arc exists 💀

[@necrotic9433]

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

[@Kaosi]

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

[@coolbanana165]

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]

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]

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

[@zhcultivator]

exactly smh

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

@@basedeltazero714the equivalent, yeah

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

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)

[@stalfithrildi5366]

"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]

You forget boy meets toad.

[@illiaflannery7312]

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]

​@@illiaflannery7312and then they go cart racing

[@CitBox]

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

[@johnathonharker266]

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

[@rinaejones2265]

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]

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]

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

[@avlaenamnell6994]

That bit just... Ugh....

[@KarlSnarks]

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

[@gayanudugampola8973]

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

[@paulsmart4672]

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]

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

[@RisottoNero-z1w]

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]

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]

Poor lady

[@mudcrab3420]

Shad on someone else's live stream - why people invite him on is anyone's guess, he brings nothing and talks over people, I guess maybe it is the 'funny accent'... go figure - was talking about the quality of some of the movies only 10 years ago compared to today. Or something. He claimed he often would let his three year old watch dvd/BluRays to keep him occupied and his son now starts picking out the Nolan Batman movies by preference. Okay: One - You babysit your three year old son by getting him to watch movies? Two - You are leaving your three year old son with a movie that is rated as M (Mature) in Australia? Mature is the highest rating before you get into legal restrictions. What they are saying is "We can't stop you from letting a minor watch this, but we REALLY don't think you should let them." Now Shad, cause Shad knows best, laughs it up as "Look at my son, three years old and already a Batman fan!" while I hear this same story and think "Wait, you are self employed and work from home and you are NOT SPENDING TIME WITH YOUR SON?! What sort of can't are you?" Shad is... different...

[@stalfithrildi5366]

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

[@aralornwolf3140]

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

[@extrams0]

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

[@intelli-gent9863]

This is hilarious 😂

[@DKdrop]

@@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.

[@ComedicLetter]

⁠@@extrams0 well, you can’t go wrong with castles. They never go out of style

[@OneFaintingRobinOld]

I love the idea that 'Mario saves the princess' as a core story is this deep, important story as if Shigeru Miyamoto hasn't gone on record saying that the framing story was entirely unimportant and the reason he used almost the exact same framing in The Legend of Zelda was BECAUSE it wasn't important and was always just an easy excuse to get to the gameplay.

[@TheBronzeDog]

Appropriately named TV Tropes entry: Excuse plot. The whole point is that it's a flimsy excuse for the action to be happening. Might as well be talking about the wonderful writing of your typical "aliens invaded and now you have to shoot them down with your spaceship" game.

[@OneFaintingRobinOld]

@@TheBronzeDog That idea makes me a little disappointed that the environment that brought us the 'Battleship' movie didn't bring a gritty Michael Bay-style 'Space Invaders' movie. It would have been terrible, but it would have been great.

[@TheBronzeDog]

@@OneFaintingRobinOld Never saw Battleship, but it's so perfect an analogy from what I've heard.

[@autobotstarscream765]

And then Zelda exploded into having actual stories, so Uncle Shug dug his heels in and fought people like Yoshiaki Koizumi bringing story into Mario.

[@deddrz2549]

​@@autobotstarscream765yah, we pretty much have koizumi to thank for adding story but by bit into the series, sometimes in direct opposition to what miamoto wanted lol

[@fritzophrenia3146]

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]

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 KZbinr”

[@Eat_shit--die_mad]

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

[@sobertillnoon]

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

[@sobertillnoon]

​@@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]

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.

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

"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]

He is

[@bigmcdick4916]

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

[@hawkshot867]

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

[@YEY0806]

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

[@RainShadow-yi3xr]

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

[@puppable]

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

[@jowysw]

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

[@TheFridgeasaur]

Actually laughed at this joke. Fantastic

[@zephyr8072]

He can change his name to "No".

[@greatsword6365]

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

[@bookshelfhoney]

Shadrition maybe

[@bobbybooshay5388]

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]

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

[@marocat4749]

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

[@Zectifin]

@@marocat4749 give boob armor to everyone.

[@msjkramey]

Omg that is hilarious

[@Hawkatana]

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

[@Blizzic]

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]

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]

Fantastic comment! Practically a poem!

[@EndymionMhr]

*cough* Jean Bearnup *cough*

[@Bobolotsoman]

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]

Skallagrim is pretty chill and always was.

[@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel]

"My daughter would grow up to be super annoying, thinking she can be some kind of hero." Shadiversity is upset that his daughter might get ideas about being a protagonist, when in his world view, her gender clearly marks her as an NPC.

[@fuqu-k2l]

God, I hope that girl gets away from him ASAP. There's no way a parent like that can be good for a child of any gender.

[@explosion9815]

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]

No, he's Mormon.

[@gokbay3057]

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_]

@@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]

Poor Jazza...

[@Hawkatana]

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

[@JeevesAnthrozaurUS]

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

[@somik-i3x]

I feel even Don Quixoto will also find them weird.

[@KramerKontained94]

Shad Quixote

[@Tsuruchi_420]

Cervantes was right about everything

[@Tsuruchi_420]

​@@somik-i3xhonestly, 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]

Underrated comment.

[@SuperCopyCat12]

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

[@CitBox]

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

[@captainfluffypaws7068]

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

[@jojorose1947]

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

[@dustrockblues7567]

Shad really said "hoes before bros" wtf

[@50733Blabla1337]

@@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.

[@pappanalab]

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]

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]

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

[@fluidthought42]

​@@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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@heavenly2k]

sword man: peach pants is woke sword man: *is embarassed* sword man: actually I didn't say that you were cherrypicking

[@thrownstair]

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

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

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]

This knight guy is the kind of dude Cervantes wrote about

[@lettersnstuff]

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

[@tenchimuyo69]

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

[@spamquisition4046]

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

[@Mewobiba]

"I'm a cuckold of House Gay" why did that make me chuckle so much. Excellent delivery.

[@CosmicJubatus]

04:08 for anyone who, like me, missed it 🤣

[@FrancisR420]

I chuckled ...Of the house gay

[@JimRFF]

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*

[@eliasmg9144]

Now that's good enough for a monty python sketch

[@ryanratchford2530]

Speaks volumes that Jack never said a single insult directed towards Shad's character in his original video. Whereas Shad went crazy with 2 hours of uncalled for personal attacks. Even all the "insults" Jack said to Shad in this video were either requoting Shad's insults in an ironic way to accuse Shad of all the things Shad was accusing Jack of. And then there's all the joking Shakesphere insults which I look forward to see Shad either get triggered by or pretend to be offened by.

[@magicalgirl1296]

What a guy, you just quote what he says and that reads as a malicious portrayal to him. Shad really needs to chill out.

[@motorcitymangababe]

We need to keep some of those Shakespearean insults frankly lol

[@zephyr8072]

Shad is, like all fundamentalist Mormons, extremely self-entitled, conspiratorial and easily offended. In that the truth greatly offends him. I think he took many by surprise because he generally projects a vibe of this easy-going Aussie nerd when the truth is he is an extremely spiteful and nasty person.

[@Porcuponic]

I think a lot of those were just regular insults. I don't think them being pointed jokes makes them less of an insult. If it's intended to "trigger" shad, which I agree it is, that makes it an insult. See 37:55 "like I'm obligated to be respectful of someone". I don't think he feels obligated to be respectful towards shad. Comparing their character feels a little like it's missing the point. The point is shad doesn't have an argument, his use of disrespect over serious arguments is just evidence of that. Jack's disrespect in return serves the same catharsis for his audience (us) as shad's disrespect does for shad's audience. I don't think there's any need to get up on a high horse about Jack's character. I can appreciate the superiority of Jack's argument while acknowledging a parity in creative shit flinging.

[@AWearyExile]

Conservatives generally feel insulted when you accurately describe their beliefs to them. On some level, I think, they realize they're wrong and stupid and should feel embarrassed, but they lack the tools to respond with anything but outrage since they are incapable of self-reflection.

[@patron8597]

"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]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

​@@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.

[@fromthebackseat4865]

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.”

[@somik-i3x]

They were always offended. They are projecting

[@onepresence9460]

How the tables have turned...

[@joearnold6881]

It has _always_ been projection

[@Talking_Ed]

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]

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

[@LonrtaGigante]

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

[@RitzOriginal1]

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

[@xXEGPXx]

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

[@bluebaron6858]

​@@RitzOriginal1i see the Grey's

[@Lambda_Ovine]

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]

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]

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]

ppl not hear the words coming put of their own mouth

[@beebs4283]

@@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]

​@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.

[@joshuathemememan8425]

"most guys would rather save the pretty princess than the brother" Mans must have been a single child, I've always protected my younger siblings when they were in danger like the vicious bullying my middle sibling got all through highschool. Skipped dates and flings specifically to protect my siblings at every turn lmao

[@TripleS-Reviews]

He has at least one brother who I guess he wouldn't save if it was a choice between him & a pretty woman

[@joshuathemememan8425]

@@TripleS-Reviews tbh that is even worse lmao

[@JackgarPrime]

Yeah isn't it more emotionally resonant that someone would be willing to risk their life for their sibling who they've loved all their lives than some noblewoman who they've never even heard of before, let alone met or had any sort of relationship with?

[@Alzir-n9m]

@@joshuathemememan8425 oh it's worse, I think he mentioned he was adopted.

[@martianscienceenthusiast]

Important note: His brother is popular KZbinr draw with jazza

[@pedroocm]

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]

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]

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]

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]

​@@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]

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.

[@VexytheWolf]

I think what gets me is that Shad has kids. These kids are being monitored, surveyed, and kept from media HE deems "woke," ignoring all his homophobia, sexism, racism, and bigotry, hes inflicting an extreme level of harm apon his own kids. I pray that his son or daughter isn't LGBT because I believe he would flip out and try to "fix" them. He's a pathetic winer who doesn't care about the things he talks about, just of his faith and his ability to inflict harm on those "beneath" him. He's no father or a knight. He's a monster, a coyote deluded into thinking he's a wolf. A wannabe alpha who hates freedom and passion, a soulless worm who will hurt anyone just to be the "bigger man" in short, he's a coward, and the opposite of what knights stood for.

[@IanOPadrick]

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]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@viridianacortes9642]

Shadiverse truly believes the whole knight saving the princess from a dragon is the only story that exists. Doesn’t he?

[@kayakat1869]

The interesting thing is that these stories were some of the first instances of coppaganda. In those days, especially before they had the codes of chivalry, knights would go out and rape women all the time. They came up with these stories, so that they would look better in the eyes of the public. So yeah, it's just awful.

[@rustnok12]

😂

[@pantalaemon]

helps explain why he's so phobic of literally every other story huh

[@vksasdgaming9472]

I wonder what he might think about story in which dragon saves a knight from princess.

[@SkilletTRO]

​@@vksasdgaming9472the dragon is Andrew Tate saving him from Twitch girls

[@pablo.aranda95]

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]

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]

​@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

[@spiralswithinspirals]

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

[@stormwarrior5362]

@@wardjunior1450 no

[@OrdinaryEXP]

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.

[@MiraBoo]

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.

[@curtiswatson4192]

shad is continuously the worst of the "sword" community, him and metatron really, skallagrim and scholagladatoria are carrying

[@InfiniteDeckhand]

Metatron isn't as bad as Shad by a wide margin, but he still comes around with sussy and ''anti-woke'' takes every now and then.

[@curtiswatson4192]

@@InfiniteDeckhand im referring mostly to the time he got really wound up about black romans in a children's cartoon or something and made like 3 videos dunking on some girl on tik tok about it with really logically flawed arguments

[@curtiswatson4192]

lindybeige is goated even though im 100% sure his politics probably suck i dont care because at least he doesnt talk about boob armour

[@williamgeorge2580]

​@curtydwurty i have heard some of them in the early days and they did suck but he has since kept it out of his content

[@curtiswatson4192]

@@williamgeorge2580 yeah ive always wondered if he's changed his views on climate change, he made a video about Scottish independence too but being a privately educated Englishman i wouldn't expect him to have the most woke of opinions on the subject of Scottish nationalism anyway lol

[@InfiniteDeckhand]

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

[@MrTheWaterbear]

And a literalist Mormon.

[@InfiniteDeckhand]

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

[@MrTheWaterbear]

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

[@knowledgeanddefense1054]

@@InfiniteDeckhand Easy mistake, in more ways than one

[@zephyr8072]

@@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.

[@Maker_Az_Is]

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]

I like a smart roast.

[@naikigutierrez4279]

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

[@ava_marie_v]

I love a good Don Quixote reference.

[@Firegen1]

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

[@andrewdiaz3529]

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

[@xXSamir44Xx]

I'm glad Shad spends so much of his time proving that conservative Christians are the kings of projecting their own flaws and insecurities on others. I also find it hilarious how he has the gall to complain about "the woke agenda" or "the gay agenda" while straight up saying he doesn't let his kids watch KIDS SHOWS without his approval. Definitely no agenda there at all. No sir.

[@mariejuku]

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

[@j_117]

You could even say she's a SUPER boss

[@Naptosis]

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

[@vonbongen9363]

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

[@NoName......]

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

[@androgenius_alisa]

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

[@FDSignifire]

This was sublime, and that point at the end about seeing ghost is pretty important

[@j_117]

I'm not convinced the problem is that we have to be kinder to the enemy. Still quite useful as opposition research though.

[@Firegen1]

Yay FD!

[@direthered1260]

Ayyy! Now this is the cross over i wanna see! Love your videos FD

[@feistygheisty]

Am I dyslexic or was your name always spelled like that?

[@kylecook7187]

Hey F.D, love your content.

[@bobdolesrevenge]

Sitting through a two hour Shadiversity rant must feel like the modern equivalent of surviving a siege.

[@mp5enthusiast]

I still have flashbacks when I hear the word "woke"

[@0lionheart]

got a physical lol out of me for that one, bravo

[@StarryxNight5]

Less a siege and more just being on a patrol and having some dude constantly chucking pebbles at you. They rarely hit, and even when they do they don't hurt very much, but goddamn is it grating. You have two hours left on your shift, and you just have to endure this

[@pandemicphilly60]

But less fun because you don't get discover all flavors of wallpaper

[@SupramanRambled]

I noticed this particular tic that Shad has of ending the sentence on 'okay' and 'alright' and 'you know' whenever he does an alt-right take. I've usually seen it - and on occasion have done it myself - whenever a person makes a contentious point based on how they feel but don't have the facts or data to push back against the counters that they know are coming. In such instances, the 'okays' and 'alrights' and 'you knows' and 'I thinks' and 'I feels' are more than just linguistic fillers. They serve as unstated beseechments to the audience to accept the arguments being put forth at face value, as well as a subconscious assurance to self. You see similar linguistic patterns with other alt-right media personalities such as Ben Shabubu and Jordan Baronet Pwederson, especially in their older videos. These fillers become less prominent as a person becomes more convinced that their arguments/opinions are correct and, therefore, are both less reliant on the audience's agreement with what they say and less in need to assure themselves that they are, in fact, right. Or maybe that's just the way he talks, I don't know. I haven't watched his videos but the way he speaks - and the little wiggle he did when he said biologically male and female people "are quite literally meant to go together" - does give the impression that he is not himself convinced that the arguments he's making are 'correct' but is too emotionally attached to his assumptions to change his opinions. Thank you for coming to my linguistic psychoanalysis 101 lecture. I shall wait on Munecat to debunk me and my entire linguosphere.

[@Grumppant]

❤ linguistics are cool!

[@donsanchodelapanza]

It's hilariously ironic how in your original vid shad came off as the "least bad" of the mentioned channels, seeming possibly more "ignorant conservative" than "malignant conservative". But with this response he's broadcasted that he's just as lacking in integrity, and unable to take criticism, and maliciously misogynistic as every other conservative.

[@davidtaylor142]

It's always upsetting to see swordsmen/martial artists who like their art specifically because they wish they were living in the middle ages

[@TheWonkster]

Completely ignoring the fact that anyone like him would be dead within a month because he needs a complex medical device to see and isn't nobleborn.

[@Romanticoutlaw]

they always seem to suffer from the delusion they'd be the ones using those weapons, too. Sharpest thing homeboy would be likeliest to touch would be a scythe

[@davidtaylor142]

@@TheWonkster idk about that. Shortsightedness isn't always a death sentence.

[@TheWonkster]

@@davidtaylor142 If he wished to fulfill the role he wants, it would be. Though he'd likely never get that role in the first place given the not being a noble thing.

[@angela_merkeI]

Where did he every say anything about wanting to live in the past or wanting to be a men-at-arms in the Middle Ages? Critizes him for what he says, not for what you fantasize. Just because somebody is interested in history (and in his case also reactionary), it does not mean that they want to live in the past, ffs.

[@danielwagner2034]

Breaking News: Manchild in Discount Bin "medieval clothing" who only consumes escapist power fantasies has his feelings hurt by a female video game character wearing pants. She was wearing those pants already in Mariokart btw.

[@streamerssaymyname]

Maybe he never played mariokart because it had women driving in it.

[@danielwagner2034]

@@streamerssaymyname yeah women drivers is too much of a fantasy, even for a guy who only reads Fantasy books.

[@zephyr8072]

Shad's daughter: "Dad can I buy Mario Kart?" Shad: "NO! IT HAS WOMEN DRIVERS. You're a girl, you let men drive for you! I forbid it." Shad's daughter: "But I want it for my Switch. :(" Shad: "When did you get a Switch!? I'll be confiscate that. Nintendo is far too woke. Zelda is full of crossdressers!"

[@angela_merkeI]

Why do you see it as necessary to attack his clothing and assume his taste? That's very low, especially when his statements and behaviour give enough good fodder?

[@zephyr8072]

@@angela_merkeI Because it's utterly hypocritical of him for one thing. For another, if he wants to sit there and insult everyone who goes against his narrow-minded, magical beliefs then turnabout is fair play.

[@Norrsky]

You should look at Shad's book "Poorly disguised rape fetish" I mean "Shadow of the Conqueror"

[@RedHandedGod]

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]

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

[@nexthoudini]

​@@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]

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]

​​@@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]

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

[@coleray1413]

The moment when Shad starts talking about how "some girls like to be saved" and both his co-hosts laugh at him is golden

[@dumbumbumbum8649]

I have no idea what their personal opinions are, but just by looking at them they seem to constantly be in disbelief at him. Like, ‘oh my god, this is my boss.’ I know they verbally agree with him sometimes, but they give me strong sucking-up-to-stay-employed vibes.

[@kayakat1869]

I mean, maybe as a kink kind of thing, but I don't want to be just passed around as a prize for men. In what situation irl does he think a knight saving a damsel would actually be applicable? Maybe in some disaster situation, but all genders need to be saved and all genders can do the saving. If there was a flood in his town and a woman on a boat can to his house to save him, would he turn her down??? Very odd.

[@espeonevie]

@@kayakat1869i think he’d say yes to being saved but then ask if there’s a man on board

[@flyingratdog]

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

[@huykieu7775]

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

[@namegoeshere8998]

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]

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

[@brendaspence1824]

@@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]

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...?*

[@noriyakigumble3011]

As a history student; it actually shocked me when people were going “noooo sword guy is le bad but his videos were so good!!!” And uhhh, no. No his history content is kinda bad too. It’s kinda the same pop historical dogwater you’d get from kings and generals or metatron

[@ButIamAStick]

He is a lolcow for the r/Badhistory community

[@noriyakigumble3011]

@@ButIamAStick I don’t even browse reddit. But practically every history tube channel I respect or academic voice I know, if they mention him at all, always refer to him as a benchmark for uninformed popular conceptions of history. “Now history voices such as X, Y and Shadiversity say this; however it’s actually a bit deeper-“ “You may have heard from people like Shadiversity that (X) but actual historiography on the matter-“ “Fans of Shadiversity might recognize (X) but there’s actually more to it-“ Even if we are being kind; Shads content is only notable in how unremarkable it is historiographically. Which is FINE. If it were up to me; I would personally like if history on KZbin was held to a higher standard and didn’t cater to popular trends such as “culture war” or pop history for 8th graders; but the bar for history content is low all around, and it still offers starting point for those who want to get into history, it’s ok to be a little uninformed if you’re self aware and encourage further research. What bothers me about Shad as a person (not just in his history content) is that he will have a surface level take on a topic and then act like he’s an expert who has carte Blanche to dictate what’s correct and what isn’t to people who are far better read and vetted on the topic. It’s ok to be uninformed; but it’s dangerous to be CONFIDENTLY uninformed

[@bewawolf19]

I like you do an entirely ad hominem insult on credibility whilst citing your extremely laughable authority being "A history student", and then write a paragraph failing to cite anything specific but more blind unsubstantiated insults.

[@simoneidson21]

K&G and Metatron are nowhere near the level of Shad.

[@noriyakigumble3011]

@@simoneidson21 facts- Shad went off the utter deep end and by no means are Kings and Generals and Metatron similar in that respect. However; Kings and generals is VERY surface level history; it’s meant to be content to be consumed; and that’s fine! It’s pop history, it’s meant to give you a taste of a topic before you go deeper- I also consider Shad to be pop history. Metatron is not as bad as Shad, but his channel also incorporates a lot of silly culture war discourse and tries to “own le libs” and it’s just kinda silly. I think reading actual books from the past and from respected authors is just a better use of ones time than hearing “this WOKE professor doesn’t know what they’re talking about” or “BARBARIANS is now a BAD show!!!!”. But AGAIN- for as much as I dislike Metatrons content- it’s also just gateway drug history

[@subjectdelta44]

"little girls love to be rescued" this dude would start weeping if he saw the princess peach t-shirt I had when I was 6 or 7 that said "this princess saves herself". Wild that the woke agenda goes back well over a decade to the early 2000s... the mind virus claimed me young, despite me not knowing how to use the internet & smartphones not existing to infect my mind 🙄(also, as a catholic... this is the type of dude that makes me want to go join a convent. off to the nunnery where there's nun of this nonsense)

[@justaghostinthesea]

Back in the 90s, Nintendo released some official comics for Mario. In them, Peach saves herself, then saves Mario, AND wears pants. Read it, it's great.

[@Appletank8]

Also Super Princess Peach exists

[@nanaya7e433]

That's the funniest part. People like him believe that the "woke mind virus" claimed Hollywood recently and is destroying our "traditional values" in a giant conspiracy known as "culture war", but cirticism they levy against those movies have been made since the dawn of cinematography. It's true that Hollywood has changed and progressed since the days when blackface was ok in movies, but the whole argument of "They're just trying to push their liberal agenda in my enertainment!" has always been there and was just as bad then as it is now. This so called "culture war" is a process that has been constantly happening throughout centuries as societies and societal norms changed and continue to change. It's really nothing new and he should know it as a history nerd.

[@donaldhysa4836]

Its clear by the media they consume that girls do indeed want to be saved. Thats what Twilight was all about.

[@tylersimmons6524]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

that concept does not exist in Mormon brains...

[@swordigosung994]

Jack: Offhandly mentioned Shad's reaction for less then a minute as a example of a greater phenomenon he is talking about, not even knowing Shad's name and his deal, never once insulted him, and potrayed his words as genuine. Shad: Made a 2 hour long video losing his crap, calling Jack stupid and evil, dismissed him as nobody, and accused him of not doing research on context and lying while doing the excatly same thing himself. Then kept on rambling about those things ad nauseam with additonal sexism and homophobia, plus the good ol' "just joking" card. Jack: Made a vid to calmly respond, directly presenting all of Shad's contradictory, exposed his past nonsense as "context" to show how terrible he truly is, and systematically destroyed his lies, rhetoric, logic, wordview, and integrity. Also used Shad's own response to further reinforce his initial point about the irraationality of "anti-woke" community. And challanged Shad to a duel. Shad: 🤡 Why are you all laughing at me????

[@swordigosung994]

Shad: You always act like you are better then me.

[@OhNotThat]

@@swordigosung994 Sir Knight Shad, you are arguing with the court Jester. Logeth off sir knight and caress grass.

[@sebastianb.3978]

I really want the 10 Bucks I donated him back. I feel retroactively dirty having financially supported a backwards -moron- mormon like him.

[@Diego-zz1df]

Shad made two long videos attacking the crew of The Angry Joe Show because they mentioned him for a few seconds.

[@neoqwerty]

@@Diego-zz1df Wow, I think he may have a bigger ego than Cassandra Clare and MsScribe. Can't believe someone's worse than Harry Potter big name fans, but he's vaulted over that bar.

[@DivineOb]

I made my wife watch that episode of The Last of Us (she doesn't like sci-fi). She agreed that it was beautiful and touching. Can't we just enjoy art once in a while?

[@void-creature]

No. Happiness is woke.

[@itcouldbelupus2842]

Hey, don't worry, normal people still enjoy art, and so do leftists occasionally. We just don't screech about it like the freaks do. That episode was poetry, one of the best and most beautiful episodes of television ever made.

[@tommylakindasorta3068]

Apparently, the gambeson and chainmail is to protect Shad's ultra-thin skin.

[@arglebargle23fnord]

It's not even chainmail in the indoor Knightwatch segments, it's a hoodie with a chainmail print.

[@ealusaid]

masterful burn

[@arempy5836]

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]

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]

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

[@hypotheticaltapeworm]

​@@screamingcactus1753I think the original commenter knew this and is why they decided to bring up Popeye

[@arenkai]

Kingdom Hearts Mickey Mouse would like to know your location.

[@WacoPaco]

My man shad and so many other KZbinrs haven't moved on from the last Jedi it's actually insane

[@julphines]

"This guy pointed out my irrational anger over a female video game character wearing pants and now I'm must call him a scumbag and evil and vile because I care about truth and decency." Bro what

[@m_29]

It's really funny that the "let them embrace being a girl" crowd also gets mad when the charecter embraces not being traditionally girly. Like: "I'm happy with your freedom of choice... If you pick what I wish that you will pick"

[@hithedragon7842]

I'm sure they will be very happy if that makes the kid in question decide that if they aren't traditionally girly, they aren't a girl. Or if they feel that way for any other reason of course.

[@AmeriChrisTheMage]

Say something dumb -> Get called out for it -> Change your opinion to be slightly less extreme -> Pretend that was always your opinion -> Call your critics evil liars for getting it wrong -> Double down on your own stupidity because the other side is clearly so evil -> Say something dumb

[@iggsolo]

The conservative art of the motte and bailey

[@IBTL1]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@RandomComicEnjoyer]

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]

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._

[@Ghoulif]

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

[@Ghoulif]

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

[@zephyr8072]

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]

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]

@@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]

this is why i generally watch skallagrim instead

[@kikireno5189]

"if mario nails it because of his natural ability" man wtf is shad on about. Thats the exact same fucking thing that crowd complains about when it's rey, or any other female protagonist that doesn't appeal to them through sex or being helpless

[@breadguyyy]

as you know your worth should be determined by your natural talents (this is character building)

[@TheNEOverse]

@@breadguyyy If Rey were a dude, these guys would glaze him lol.

[@ColeYote]

"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]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

​@@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.

[@ianm1462]

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

[@LPVince94]

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]

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]

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

[@SPDYellow]

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]

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

[@TaylorRussell_TheAnimator]

The bit about him talking about his daughter was a really big tunaround moment for me. See, I made a comment in Jack's Mario video that Shad becomes a bigger piece of shit with each passing day, but honestly, seeing all this, it's just more pitiable than that. Dude's straight up saying "my daughter's gunna love Peach in that movie" and he's disappointed by it. Bro's over here thinking his daughter is gunna love something, derive joy from something, and his reaction is to condemn it. He doesn't want his daughter to be happy, he wants his daughter to be HIS kind of happy. He and folks like him like to spout that "mind virus" shit constantly but it's pretty clear where the actual head-problems are. Pathetic, truly.

[@WackyJack322]

It's very common for conservatives to not see their kids as people with their own thoughts and opinions, but as just tiny versions of themselves, meant to embody their own virtues.

[@ceeshnia]

He doesn't want his daughter to question their belief system; women are subservient in Mormonism, not the leaders.

[@scarymonsterzz]

I grew up as a little girl with a father like that. We don't speak anymore.

[@alisonpurgatory85]

@@scarymonsterzz glad for you. hope shad's unfortunate kids end up being able to say the same

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

My dude frothing at the mouth over his boys "not having a hero to relate to" while his daughter is happy over having a hero to relate to. Real strong parenting hours here. I'm sure there's bias in his parenting methods at all!

[@Likhos1]

I love how whenever Shad is on one of his homophobic tangents you see his cohost slowly dying on the side.

[@StuartValentine96]

I'm Australian and it's cool to finally be a part of the discourse! We're awful too!!🎉

[@Owesomasaurus]

I'm just speculating here, but I'm sure Shad has *excellent* opinions about Australian indigenous race relations.

[@lazaroskarmaniolas7410]

Between Sky News and all the deadly animals of Australia... yeah, I believe you.

[@Marksman3434]

I mean, duh. You guys gave us the spawn of the underworld that is Rupert Murdoch, lol

[@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk]

I guess I can say I agree, even since/when watching Bub Games. (I think he's cool)

[@danielmacdougall2697]

ozi ozi oi oi oi :)

[@madcountofdumont7742]

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]

I hope pestilence falls upon his House

[@Imperials3nate]

I thought he was British

[@zephyr8072]

May all his machicolations be forever misaligned.

[@nerdsoftheherd69]

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]

Same 😢

[@animationunlimited2958]

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

[@blackknightjack3850]

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

[@jojorose1947]

My man out here tilting at windmills

[@DavidSantosManuel]

you stole my exact thoughts

[@vivazapata123]

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]

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

[@mad-dash6448]

When you showed him saying Ellie was supposed to be a gentle character, I was absolutely floored lmao

[@JinStreams]

Literally, her entire series arc is rough kid that softens a bit, then becomes a blood psychopath who ruins her life. for all my hate of part 2, it is very good at emphasing violence is basically the only way she knows how to show emotions

[@TwinSteel]

Geez, Jack! You’ve ruined everyone’s ability to engage in constructive media criticism by engaging in constructive media criticism - way to be an honest and good person

[@meltedWax169]

I didnt get this until now... so sad.. its like people think that when you expose or show someone in a different or critical light, they just arent allowed to speak back, while speaking back? But also mainly just laying there like a dog and whining that " he showed what i said in a different light than what i want what i said to be shown in! Waahhh!"

[@trampoline11x]

@@meltedWax169 In this day and age sir, it is nigh impossible to deduce whomst it is you may be referring to... There for I must timidly applaud you for your latest feat of abstraction... Good day

[@CollinBuckman]

It's like how conservatives have basically defined "free speech" to only be when they get to speak- when other people counter their points those people are trying to "suppress free speech"

[@SickOfItAll1988]

Yeah editing clips that way is truly some squirely behavior; of one whomst hedgeborn at best and a phob at worst

[@Prnnce]

It is so heartbreaking to see this kind of parent so pathologically terrified that their child might deviate from their exact prescribed notion of what they should be that they entirely bar them from certain media and get frustrated when they see themselves positively represented and draw joy and entertainment from it. Purely broken on a fundamental level that you see your daughter react with joy and awe but you're so blinded by your biases that you're upset at your own child's joy.

[@andrewdiaz3529]

I worry for her, just as I worry for any of his sons that might fail to meet his standards of manhood

[@jonathanmarth6426]

For a guy talking about the joys of fatherhood it's going to be really heartbreaking when his adult kids stop showing up to family holidays cause they don't want to listen to his takes on the female heroes in Marvel wave 12.

[@onepresence9460]

Heartbreaking indeed. I hope Shad’s children will be alright.

[@scarymonsterzz]

I grew up with a dad like that. Yeah we don't talk anymore.

[@coatimundi69]

not done with the video so idk if its mentioned, but its especially gross that he insists that mario should be the MOST hero and should save peach and NOT the other way around because his sons would love it and hes "sure his daughter would like it just as much". like her enjoyment is an afterthought and his sons should enjoy it the most

[@wolfgalleader]

As a woman who grew up loving the knight saving the damsel stories, and pretty princess dresses, and those romantic ideals of princesses and their knights…. I realized I wasn’t straight or even bi, I really liked other women

[@dumbumbumbum8649]

Revolutionary girl Utena?

[@coolbanana165]

Nice. How do you view that now with this context? 😁

[@Ladyjuliet-uv5qt]

Julie d'Aubigny Type

[@hithedragon7842]

Same...I have grown up to be a certified girl lover and I still have a big soft spot for chivalry tropes. They're cute, and you can find stories like that where the girl actually has characterization and agency. Unfortunately that part goes over some people's heads. People will see what they want to see in a story I guess. Also, girls in fancy old dresses (or armor) are pretty. I've never felt gayer than when I'm people-watching at the ren faire

[@dityacivilizacii]

As a damsel, I have to say: I don’t want to be saved. I would just simply prefer to not be in distress in the first place, you know

[@ekuu8918]

"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]

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]

​@@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]

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

[@spenshaa]

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

[@autobotstarscream765]

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

[@FischerFilmStudio]

How is Peach a Mary Sue? Mario is new to that world and Peach has lived there since she was a child. Of course she saves Mario several times. She’s a princess in a dangerous world and Mario is literally just a plumber.

[@yungmuney5903]

She's a competent and skilled female just because she can, that's all you need to be.

[@chasesigler9885]

​@@yungmuney5903 yeah but she also loses and doesn't save the day.

[@yungmuney5903]

​@@chasesigler9885 like i said, it's all you need to be in their eyes

[@slimetank394]

They will literally just throw Mary Sue at any (mostly female) characters they don't like. That term can't even barely grab on its original meaning at this point.

[@arempy5836]

Yet he wants Mario to just be naturally good at the obstacle course, so good that he's the only one who has ever completed it. Somehow that's not Mary Sue behavior (well of course it's not Mary Sue behavior because they only ever use that term to mean "Woman who is competent and doesn't need help with something") Also, having Mario being the only person who has ever completed that obstacle is very similar to the white savior who beats the natives at they're own games and becomes their leader.

[@BarkleyBCooltimes]

The idea that presenting alternatives to "traditional roles" is an attack on "traditional roles," says a lot about the people that hold such values. If simply having a separate option is enough to destabilize and destroy your idea, it might not be a good idea.

[@msjkramey]

Exactly!

[@PeterSchmuttermaier]

Well, that's the thing. Ultra-conservative views are contrary to how the world and society works - it progresses. Always. Ultra-conservative movements always implode in a catastrophe. So, holding onto conservative ideas for too long leads to them being more and more fragile, because they make less and less sense in a changing world. So, yes, by just presenting the option of a more reasonable alternative suitable for the modern times, conservatives crumble, because their views are outdated and make no sense anymore.