Expression of exasperation used by comic book fans in response to the terrible creative decisions made by corporations, especially in regards to Marvel and DC comics.
"They're making a new version of Gwenpool that's actually resurrected 616 Gwen Stacy? Tom King is writing for the HBO Green Lantern show? Fuck it, it's unsalvageable, Sell Da Company."
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The term is inspired by the sitcom Three’s Company, where entire plots revolved around cascading misunderstandings driven by missing context.
The term is inspired by the sitcom Three’s Company, where entire plots revolved around cascading misunderstandings driven by missing context.
After hours of arguing with my wife over my internet history, we discovered we’d been Three's Companied when it came out that my brother had borrowed my laptop.
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Companions that are linked together through life and death, a synonym is a married couple, often used to describe Yoo Joonghyuk and Kim Dokja
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"I pointed out similarities between Western foreign policy and actions we condemn in other nations. Response: 'You can't compare us to them—we're completely different!' That's Fallacy of Prohibited Comparison—shutting down comparison rather than engaging it. All comparisons have differences; the question is whether the similarities are meaningful. Prohibiting comparison altogether is just a way of avoiding uncomfortable parallels."
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Trying to compare the stress levels of a kindergartener to a college student is just an apple-to-orange comparison—sure, they both "only" go to school 3 hours per day, but the responsibilities are worlds apart!
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