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Unpopular Opinions and (Friendly) Rant thread
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There are worse reasons to ban discord than annoying people who interrupt your streaming
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Wanna play together sometime?
I went to the moon.
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I doubt it. I like to be secretive about which people know my Minecraft account. Also, I don't know how to set up servers and I don't want to go through the hassles of making a server and playing multiplayer because I am lazy and I prefer to be an introvert alone and away from society.
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You don't need to make a server, you just gotta make your world multiplayer accessible. I don't play often and I have 0 people to play with so I'm about as safe as it gets.
I just kinda wanna play with someone and chill and I have nobody to do it with cause nobody I know plays Minecraft.
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Would you talk to them in the in game chat or in a vc or somethjng
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Maybe you should go on Minecraft discord servers and ask people to play with you. Idk
Tbh, out of all my friends there's only 3 people who know my Minecraft account, and I have like 20 friends/people I regularly talk to so yeah,
There's also the issue that I just don't like playing multiplayer Minecraft that much, or well, multiplayer games in general
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I mean you're right, my complaint was mostly directed at authors who use a tragic past or drama as coupon of sorts and call it a day, thinking that makes a villain sympathetic or well developed just like that.
That said, there are plenty of well done tragic villains, like Magneto. But also, there are plenty of ways to make a villain interesting or plain fun to watch that don't really need to make them sympathetic. For example, Makoto Shishioh from Rurouni Kenshin has a well defined world view and objectives, in which he wants to make Japan a darwinist state because of his dissatisfaction of the post Meiji era, thinking the loss of the old ways made the country weak, but he's never shown as tragic or anything, he's constantly shown as a crazy extremist even if his belief is well intentioned.
And of course there are villains who are like because of how evil they are. I mean, look at Dio Brando, Shuma Gorath or Judge Frollo, none of them are sympathetic in the least (well Dio, gets some stuff in Part 6, but most fans liked him from parts 1 and 3 where he's the devil incarnate), but either have style, smarts, competence or just sheer callousness (and meme potential), that makes them interesting.
An interesting case I remembered is Lusamine from Pokemon, who in the original Sun and Moon games she was a horribly abusive and egotistical mother, and people really liked that to the point her portrayal in other installments that made her more sympathetic and less evil were divisive.
That's perfectly fine, though. IMO there's not a right or wrong reason to like a character. Could be because you think they are the pinnacle of the victorian epic novel representing the abused working class or because you think they are attractive and funny. Both equally valid.
That said I wouldn't dwell too much on hating a character. Been there myself and just spoils things for you. The best thing is to let go, it's a major relief.
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I think the overall thing that is needed for a character with a tragic backstory is something that shows the effects of it on them as a whole.
Like here's an example. Goro Majima encounters many wild people throughout his life and finally breaks free of his torturous enclosement in Osaka, he still has regrets and the trauma from being tortured for a year straight before. Result? He fully changes his life and goes completely wild, immitating the style of the people he met before who were living freely without regrets.
Like here's an example. Goro Majima encounters many wild people throughout his life and finally breaks free of his torturous enclosement in Osaka, he still has regrets and the trauma from being tortured for a year straight before. Result? He fully changes his life and goes completely wild, immitating the style of the people he met before who were living freely without regrets.
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I think so as well, make the hardships meaningful to how the character changes and grows or at least have an impact on the character, both for better and the worse.
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Holy crap, Yakuza 0 was incredible.
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I can't speak for any specific story or work, but I know a lot of amateur or aspiring authors tend to follow the "suffering builds character" mantra without understanding it is not meant to be taken literally. Suffering, on its own, does not make one more wise, stronger, or more interesting, inherently. It's what one does in spite of and because of trauma that can build character. With the popularization of art and fiction which covers darker, traumatic subject matter, there are people who don't understand that it's not the inclusion of tragedy that makes a story compelling but rather how the author grapples with tragedy through their story.
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The way certain verses are wanked here is just ridiculous man.
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Gravity Falls, need I say more?
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Genshin too,they are 8-C at best..all of them
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Batman: Caped Crusader is a decent show that has a lot of room to improve.
There’s a surprising number of people that genuinely think it’s on par with some of the best Batman animated shows, like B:TAS or Brave and the Bold, and I’m just like….huh? There are quite a few massive issues that I really hold it back, like the weird direction it takes a lot of characters, and the semi-episodic, semi-serial style that I don't think it does particularly well. Still an enjoyable watch overall, but definitely not some new modern masterpiece or anything.
There’s a surprising number of people that genuinely think it’s on par with some of the best Batman animated shows, like B:TAS or Brave and the Bold, and I’m just like….huh? There are quite a few massive issues that I really hold it back, like the weird direction it takes a lot of characters, and the semi-episodic, semi-serial style that I don't think it does particularly well. Still an enjoyable watch overall, but definitely not some new modern masterpiece or anything.
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I think Xenoblade is wanked to hell and back. Early keys at 1-C are a sin in my eyes. If end-game characters scale to that I'd be fine cause at the end of every game you always fight some universe destroying being but early game characters pretty much always fight people who are relatively normal. Some bosses you end up facing end up being just animals in this world and normal dudes without any special power. Instead the characters in vsbw go from bottom tier 8 or 7 to tier 1 in like a single boss fight.
I find this very disingenuous but I have only played half the Xenoblade games so I can't really argue against it, not to mention I just let Clover have his fun just out of courtsey since we're on good terms.
I also find Sonic being Low 2-C in his base very sus. It maaay have worked if Sonic was just game sonic and nothing else since somehow it can end up being consistent to some extent, but when we talk about sonic we also talk about the IDW comic sonic who is about as tier 2 as I am.
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Late answer but my job is to only observe animals in the wild including this wild strym.
I only attack in self defense.
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That looks like my friend David. Pleasant fellow.POV: You're Strym being 'observed' by Arto
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I cried today after reading this
Context: manga about two girls who are the last humans on the planet crosses over with hatsune miku
Context: manga about two girls who are the last humans on the planet crosses over with hatsune miku
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I remember this manga and it’s one of the saddest I’ve seenWe going on a Last Tour with this one
This crossover is fitting just it feels sad that almost everything is gone of humanity including music
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Oh yeah and the story itself if you want to read
vsbe doesn’t allow ********?!
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Unfortunately, I never watched this show.
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I know you're there bro I'm just being perfectly honest
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I got my own opinions on that ngl, but I'll just leave it at this: the statements and the like are legit right there and are being taken directly as is with no added extrapolation. So I don't see how that's wank. Seems more like incredulity imo
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I don't really agree cause of Book of Bill, but this kinda runs into a scenario that I'm starting to get wary of; that of supplemental works coming out years after the mainline works have finished and inflates the verse in question's ratings.
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Clover what brings you here?
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I've been following this thread but sometimes notifications get turned off and the like, I wanna follow the thread again
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Gravity Falls is a peak show but idk why people try to make it look as if it was the most complex show ever
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I can understand concerns. I also personally do not like it when RPG protagonists have it where even early game keys have scaling that are typically things not seen till end game. It looks better writing when they have Tier 8/7 early game, Tier 6/5 stuff mid game, and then Tier 2/1 doesn't appear till the Final Boss. Which is what XB1's formula used to be.
But, there are evidence that even as early as XB1, we have Tier 2/1 stuff apply mid game. And Tier 6/5 stuff was just casual size of their avatars and not some hard feats. The DLC expanded stories are just extended power ups of things they already had mid game. As for XB2, they were pretty much just Tier 5 early/mid game then we get to Tier 1 stuff end game with Conduit. The real issue that bothers is XB3, which is the magnum opus in terms of gameplay and story if we throw out battle boarding. But when it comes to it, XB3 is like Dragon Ball Heroes/Fire Emblem Heroes level of fanservice right there. Shulk and Rex reappear in Future Redeemed where they're even stronger than their Future Connected and End Game counterparts respectively. Then it's full of characters who are officially comparable if not superior to Shulk and Rex. Then we got even early era XB3 cast who are even stronger than that.
I also personally dislike the idea, but the fact remains is that even early era XB3 have too many lore dumps to just ignore. And it's just a common issue with plenty of big fan service heavy multiverse settings; it's not an issue with XB exclusively.
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Isn't that readers response? Finding deep complexity and nuance in a plot that either doesn't exist or wasn't intended by the author in order to usually gatekeep? FNAF and Danganronpa have fandom's that are gulity of this while the KH fanbase used to do it but eventually accepted (mostly) the overarching plot was merely convoluted not complex before the remasters and platform streamlining (remember when important canon lore was in a JP only mobile game?).
As for Gravity Falls it's just a fun time that's not afraid to tackle mature subjects while still balancing the humour. I mean it's still a show that's about two siblings and their friends/family fighting essentially a cool ranch flavoured Nyarlathotep as well as other chaotic horrors, that just so happens to be a cartoon (animation really is still fighting the "for kids" stigma).
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