/wiz/ - Wizardry

>>226398
It's true that female characters get more interesting as an adult (especially if you're a lonely wizard in contact with anime culture) but it's also about male characters not being interesting anymore. Most kids like superhero protagonists like Batman, Goku, Spiderman, Finn, etc., because they're powerful and admired by everybody and you want to be that guy someday. Now as an adult I just don't care about that shit or about having adventures, all I want is to see cute dumb 2d succubi doing cute dumb 2d things because all my adult brain can think of is sex. Making a likable male character is hard since if you don't give it an interesting and well-written personality only kids will like it, for female just make them cute and quirky, the flesh is weak.

all the elementary school kids on TV have soap opera dating lives. of course they are written by and for adults.

I'm glad I made it through all those years without noticing succubi. The latency period as Freud called it. It would suck to never get a break from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_stage

>>226404
well, at this rate, I must be a chosen one, as "cute 2d doing cute 2d things" isnt interesting to me …

>>226416
Personally war stories have stuck my fancy as of late. Whatever romance is often short lived or has a real purpose. No retarded annoying squealing succubi stay around unless they are being graped. Thoroughly a male-centric genre with minimal nonsense imo

I'm always shocked that people don't remember what it was like being a kid themselves, and what appeals to children.

Adults make this mistake all the time with kids shows in general. Kids don't actually want to see children in kids shows, they want to see adults and teenagers, because they themselves want to be adults and teenagers. Yugioh for all its faults, gets this right, it's a bunch of adults and teenagers obsessing over children's card games.

>>226404
Meh, I always think of sex or succubi even if I can't have them, but I don't like them in fiction.

When I watch series, it's only stuff like Sopranos or Dexter which focus on complex male characters.
I can't stand watching female lead shows like Bridget Jones diaries for more than 10 minutes without being enraged at how bad it is.

It has nothing to do with misogyny. I'm straight and have nothing against succubi.

I just think they're boring as characters and the more you go overboard in making them "bosslady" and "bad bitches" the cringier it gets, like the widely ridiculed Sand Snakes in Game of Thrones.

Who were the universally most liked female Game of Thrones characters? Yeah, Arya and Brienne, because they got no free ride in life.
They had to fight male knights and psychopaths to survive and often got their face smashed in as a result. But they still survived not due to being damsels in distress but because they were capable, extremely loyal and unafraid.

>>226507
i tried to watch emily in paris for 2 episodes because it was the highest rated female lead category show on netflix, and my brain almost melted at her retardation and unbearable lack of personality

>>226508

Yeah I couldnt get past the 2nd episode. There was some big shot hitting on stick figure MC. She has absolutely no redeeming qualities

>>226503
>I'm always shocked that people don't remember what it was like being a kid themselves, and what appeals to children.

say, a BOOMER would be slightly ashamed of his biker days. Would consider his old good days to be too dated. Would fail to recognize his 1960's fantasies are derived from the same archetype modern zoomers/alpha generation boys tend to enjoy.

>Adults make this mistake all the time with kids shows in general. Kids don't actually want to see children in kids shows, they want to see adults and teenagers, because they themselves want to be adults and teenagers. Yugioh for all its faults, gets this right, it's a bunch of adults and teenagers obsessing over children's card games.

Ah. A successful fella doesn't get his role models from TV. Neither books work though.
So, a guy who MANAGES is probably raised by a family of boring people.
(In layman terms: for such managers, white collar cushy position = success, respect; BUT, ALL WHILE a cool guy soving problems = silly bloke that comes and goes, no respect.)

>>226503
I think boomers were probably the last ones to understand this in the case of TV. I have been subjected to sorta watching kids shows here and there since 2014ish and holy shit they are bad. It's like if they made every show into some maddeningly braindead shit like teen titans go or fagventure time but for all kids to watch until they are like 15. Guess that happens when children's media is made by lesbians