u/neongrayjoy

I'm an OG fan, when I first discovered Rex in 2010, I wasn't much older than he was. Back in the day Rex was being pushed hard as the next big thing on Cartoon Network on Foxtel, Australia's cable television. Does cable TV still exist anymore?

I had been a fan of Ben 10, but something about Rex connected with me on a deeper level. I think I was drawn in by the way it was always skimming so close to darker themes without flagging the censors. I soon got my friends into the show and we were often amazed at the things Rex was allowed to get away with. It was much like X-Men, what resonated most was seeing kids about my age clearly dealing with trauma. I spent countless hours imagining what Rex's past must have been like, and needless to say, what I imagined was not what we got. It was probably too dark and too Evangelion.

Ben 10 was about an average kid with a normal family, and possessing the Omnitrix seemed mostly like inconsequential fun. But Rex was a weapon, a child-soldier, being wielded in a realistic world with familiar politics. But at the centre of it, he had his found-family, that was an appealing fantasy to me. What kid wouldn't want to run away and be adopted by Holiday and Six?

Sixteen years may have passed, but Rex always occupied some small corner of my mind. I never forgot about him. I recently started rewatching the series and it's put a lot of things about my teenage self and my home life into perspective, I see why I latched onto Rex so hard. I used to relate to him as a peer, now I watch him as a concerned parent.

I'm glad to see he's not been forgotten here either, it's nice to see young fans still discovering Rex. While it is a shame Generator Rex never reached the level of success and fame that Ben 10 did, in a way, I'm glad. It's retained its dignity, no endless reboots, remakes, revivals, and enough microplastic shedding merch to fill an island. No, it was just three tight seasons, a story with a beginning, middle, and end. A story that despite all the goofy, cartoony antics, seemed to always have a melancholy resting under the surface.

In her first run she got to give birth, then it's "return to shadow".

On her second run, she got to raise an infant, then "return to shadow".

On her third? Let's hope she gets to raise a child to toddler age at least.

Please ignore the flare, there are only two in this subreddit and they are both inappropriate here.

Are there any books, interviews, articles from the perspective of abandoners? There's a mountain of literature on abandonment trauma and people who have been abandoned, but it's not hard at all to empathise with the victim. I want to understand the perspective of the perpetrator. My father abandoned our family, faked his death to have an affair. And I've been abandoned by many male friends since, usually because their jealous wives or girlfriends felt threatened by me, even though I am a lesbian. As for romantic relationships, they usually end up with ghosting as well.

I suppose I am looking for a kind of closure, how can a human being say they 'love you' and 'will be with you forever' one day, then betray you the next? How do they justify that to themselves? Was any of it real? And if not, what was the point of the deception? Is it just complete cowardice about having the break-up talk? Or does it run deeper than that?

Has Kojima ever explained why he names his characters the way he does? Most go only by codenames; Snake, the Boss, the Sorrow, etc. And then there are the more blatant and outrageous ones, Hot Coldman, Dr. Strangelove, Die Hardman, Amelie/Am a lie, etc.

I've never heard him discuss this choice.

I am a frequent patron of the arts; I go to see movies at Luna and the Revival House. I go to art galleries and exhibitions, I got to concerts, and I've had great experiences with like-minded fans. But at His Majesty's Theatre? Awful, awful audience behaviour.

I am shocked, you'd think the price of admission and the niche nature of the performance would filter out all the riff-raff, but no. Every single time I've attended, I will be very invested, it will be reaching the climax of the story, then I am rudely pulled out of it by my neighbour continually checking her phone at full brightness. The first woman was this young Kardashian looking thing, and at the dramatic climax of Madam Butterfly she was looking at Google Maps. I politely asked her to put it away, you know what she said to me? "Can you please fuck off!" I was in tears.

Thankfully, when I complained to the staff, they gave me two free tickets to Il Trovatore and I had a good time. Though it was disappointing that someone's phone went off the moment the curtains went up. His Maj needs to confiscate these stupid little devices at the door. I hate them. I only use a flip phone, never needed anything more complicated, I've got my brain for that. It also makes me sad that a lot of people will attend these shows wearing gym clothing, young or old, they will be there in thongs, track pants and Under Armour t-shirts. Some bars won't let you in dressed like that, but the opera house will?

Last night I saw Dracula and the older couple sitting next to me were restless, continually checking the time and then, when there was only two minutes of the show remaining, they push past me to leave.

I simply do not understand it. What's the rush? Why pay such high prices to attend a show you clearly hate? If you aren't a devoted fan of opera or ballet, why sit through these shows that run for at least two hours on average? Do they just want to cosplay as cultured and classy for a night? I cannot believe that the audience of children I watched Sonic the Hedgehog 3 with knew how to behave themselves better than adults at the ballet.

I haven't experienced this in other countries, have you?

I'm 34, and I have a little brother who is 28, I've noticed that he and the rest of that generation and younger are mispronouncing certain words. It's not that they are speaking in a more rhotic/American accent. They will otherwise have a strong Australian accent then all of a sudden they will say pronounce 'news' as 'nooz', instead of 'nyeooz' as everyone my age and older does. Anyone else notice this?