i just remembered one time in the 2000s when some pop culture website i read was like "watch this Batman fan film. trust us" and there was a hyperlink to a file download for what i believe was a QuickTime mov, which for you post-youtube readers was basically the highest quality video you could get back then that wasn't also super huge in terms of file size, but also, it was still very huge in file size compared to anything that was usually way smaller and looked way shittier. anyway the point is i guess i trusted these writers or was intrigued enough by the mystery that i downloaded the file, which took maybe something like an hour even on my DSL connection, and then settled in to watch. lo and behold, it's a 10-minute live action short, admittedly very slickly produced, about Batman fighting the fucking Predator, a premise i find so bafflingly pointless to consider that i think then and there i turned against the nerd industrial complex for the rest of my days
in reply to @lutz's post:
Batman vs Predator was a real comic! I know because I found it in my local library when I was 10 or 11 years old. It remains the only Batman comic I have ever read.
that premise is baffling, obviously mr. freeze should fight the predator
I love that it wasn’t even like a prank or a lie but it was just as big a waste of your time as if it had been
The internet has always been this way
Man I almost forgot this short existed, and now instead of remembering my niece's birthday I will instead remember this thing's existence. I'd hold you responsible for this, but it's really on me for watching the damn thing in the first place like a decade ago or however long it's been.
back in my day you could have a thread about Batman fighting ________ that'd go for hundreds if not thousands of pages (multiply that by 20 to get roughly the number of posts, ye who do not remember the pre-feed era) that you could just routinely ignore if you weren't interested in The Worst Nerd Culture Had To Offer. It was contained, and could be muted. Tag culture means it routinely breaks containment. Retvrn to phpbbs.