If you support free speech, you must support people pinging other users. It's completely legal speech. If you won't defend pinging as free speech because you or someone else finds it disgusting, then no speech that you or anyone else views as disgusting is safe.

if it is in fact on shaky legal ground it's reasonable to not want to be the case that establishes it as illegal.

It's not, The reddit admins are straight up lying to the ignorant (like yourself) to justify their prejudice. Pinging being protected speech has long since been estabilished, as it has undeniable artistic merit. The only time it's been included under any obscenity laws is when someone is being charged with possession of harassment, so the state can slap them with more charges. The courts have been very careful to not charge anyone for pinging, because they'd get their asses fucking annihilated by a higher court due to the firm precedence of pinging being completely legal speech. /r/Drama had nothing to worry about, this guy was just making shit up to fool people into thinking his censoring wasn't entirely personally motivated.

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I’m cool with this flopping if it means no Godzilla vs. Kong.

Dude is really on here white-knighting an American Kaiju movie. What a pleb.

The first one killed off Byran Granston too early and the King Kong movie couldn't decided wether it was a monster movie or a Vietnam War movie.

Pretty much yup.

You know, even though I like Godzilla (2014), I just hate they kill a main character too early in the film..

Shooting wrapped for that in April so its gonna happen

Ugh. Fine.

GvK is the last one before the license ends

Weirds me out how they did something new and then remade the 5th and 3rd movies from the 60’s.

Then again, I didn’t think the Anime trilogy was that bad, so my G opinion prob sucks to most.

I was good with that Anime because it was basically a giant middle-finger to Godzilla fans.

See I don’t get how it was, and that’s how I know I’m not le true fan, I guess. They took some huge risks, most of them didn’t pay off all that well, but at least they fucking tried something. There was plenty of more subtle fan service that I think most people didn’t even catch, they just wanted dumb monster fights.

The human plot was pretty carbon copy of Anime arc #2308, but it was more interesting than the human shit in 97% of these monster movies.

they just wanted dumb monster fights.

Which the show intentionally went light on, instead turning Godzilla into more of a living natural disaster (neat way to modernize it for an era where global warming is way scarier than nuclear winter).

Although the human plot felt muddled and ungainly at times, and ham-fisted or derivative at others, I still liked it because it decided to see if the filler shit in Kaiju movies could work if fleshed out and (somewhat) grounded. It didn't really, but it was fun to watch them try.

I agree with those points. I’m always more sympathetic to projects that try something totally different.

Godzilla into more of a living natural disaster (neat way to modernize it for an era where global warming is way scarier than nuclear winter).

i mean if you're a retard you believe that

Why would you not want GvK

Idk man it just seems dumb for a major effort. I’m fine with cheese obviously but I have no idea how they are gonna handle it.

I want to see the monsters fight.

Honestly, we're too focused on capeshitters. Godzilla fans are an untapped well of autism

This is the best monstershit drama since Shrek 3.

I feel bad for him. It's like people who watch the Death Race series it's just a constant let down.

The movie wasn't that bad, this kind of cope isn't necessary

Here

Currently in talks to ban people who submit context-less drama.

My man

What about the talks on who's going to suck off my foot long schlong?

This is the best monstershit drama since Shrek 3.

The movie was aggressively stupid buta, although they didn't stray much from the plot of baby's day out, the monster fights were a huge improvement.