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I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.
the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.
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For which please send me my grog
It kind of feels unfair that the Legend of Zelda franchise exists because it takes so many fun hypotheticals off the table. "Which video game series would be the worst if you had to invent a timeline where all games occur in chronological release order" no bet, it's Zelda. It's always fucking Zelda.
That's why I love Zelda.
I've never seen another series be so openly contemptuous of canon or continuity, like it was purpose-built to screw with fastidious nerds who are allergic to non-Watsonian reasoning.
Forget the timeline, just look at the geography! Is Kakariko village a Western European hamlet bordering a forest? An Edo-period thatch-roof village high in the mountains? A tin shack ghost town in a desert slot canyon? Is Lake Hylia to the south, southwest, or southeast of Hyrule Castle? How do entire provinces just materialize, disappear, and jump across the country between installments? How many continents does Hyrule span across? The obvious Doylist explanation is that Hyrule has vastly different geographies depending on what best serves the flow and pacing of the game. The Watsonian explanation is that there is no Watsonian explanation.
It is, as an intellectual property, disinterested in maintaining continuity to a degree that is nothing short of impressive in today's media landscape. What events from prior games are canon? The minimum necessary to contextualize the immediate plot of the game you're currently playing, so somewhere between none of them and all of them simultaneously. What Zelda game is [Insert Zelda Title] a sequel/prequel to? Throw a fucking dart.
The fact that its nominal genre has it bumping shoulders with Tolkien is just icing on the cake.
I wasn't going to add anything, but then Tolkien got name dropped and I got to thinking. There IS a non-traditional Watsonian explanation, one I think ol' Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien T. himself would approve of: Every game is a retelling of the same legend, from different places and different times, and the different details reflect that.
Why does the building styles change from game to game? Those are the styles the Story Teller chose to describe, either to be familiar or exotic. Why does the geography change constantly? There IS no set geography in the legend, only vague relative positions, so the Story Teller fills in what's relevant when it's useful to do so. Why do the residents of Hyrule change from game to game? The Story Teller added or left out a group, or altered a group's culture, or expanded or reduced a group's role in the story. Why are the Goddesses directly invoked in some games, and never mentioned in others? Some Story Tellers still follow that religion, and some never knew the religion to begin with. What prior events are canon? (What events ARE prior to begin with, as opposed to a variation on the events being shown now?) The ones that are canon to this retelling of the legend.
It's not an oral history, it's a festival's entertainment. Every Story Teller gives their own embellishments and flair, focusing on and changing different things to get the best reactions from their audience. As did the Story Tellers that they learned from, and the ones that they learned from, and so on and so on. Changing every generation is a feature, not a flaw.
Which is a lot of words to also say "openly contemptuous of canon or continuity". But like... constructively so.
I'd say there are too many explicit sequels and prequels for every game to be a retelling of the same legend. Some of them are very much part of a timeline with each other, but I could maybe see them as different "groups" of retellings:
Adventure of Link is a direct sequel to the first Legend of Zelda. It's the same Link, and the first game's area is part of its overworld.
Link's Awakening is a direct sequel to A Link to the Past, and the Oracle games take place after them with the same Link. Ocarina of Time is a depiction of the events ALttP's lore, and Majora's Mask is obviously a direct sequel to OoT. Wind Waker and Twilight Princess also have several in-game indications that OoT happened in their past as well. Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks are both definite sequels to Wind Waker.
The Minish Cap and Four Swords games have their own thing going on, but are connected with each other to some degree.
Skyward Sword kind of only makes sense as a prequel to other games.
And of course, Tears of the Kingdom is a direct sequel to Breath of the Wild.
making luke skywalker a disillusioned old man who turned his back on the galaxy and worst of all his friends was such a bad take bc yes it could be happen. put that much trauma / burden / loss on a person and realistically they’ll lose their spark. want to run away and give up. but star wars is a story of HOPE. it’s characters are larger than life. luke skywalker’s biggest superpower wasn’t his ability to use the force, it was his heart. he turned away from the jedi code for his friends. he brought his father back to the light with his love. the odds are never in the hero’s favor. they shouldn’t be able to win. the bad guy is stronger, the weight of responsibility is crushing, but the good guy prevails nevertheless. it’s not a character type that is supposed to be edgy or unpredictable or gritty. it’s meant to be a little cheesy and optimistic and hopeful. even when it seems impossible for them to be strong enough, they are. and they took that from us
I often used to see people use realism a defense of the sequels’ premise (maybe they still do, I wouldn’t know). That never worked for me, though, because there are MULTIPLE ways that things could have realistically shaken out after RotJ. Yes, it’s realistic that Luke would lose his Jedi school and ditch everyone… but it would be no less realistic if he hadn’t. Likewise, it’s realistic that Han and Leia would have separated and that the galaxy would have ended up falling into a virtuous rebels vs evil regime conflict again, but it’s not like those are the only things that could have ever happened. There is not one true realistic path for a plot to take. This is the story that they chose to tell, not the one they were beholden to.
PSA DO NOT USE PORTABLE GAS HEATERS INDOORS!!!
Hi this psa is brought to you by my boss nearly killing us via carbon monoxide poisoning.
Heaters like this are labelled for Indoor/Outdoor usage, however that indoor label is misleading af.
Indoors in this context means a drafty garage or car port, not your living room or bedroom. Unless the room you're in is well ventilated with fresh air, don't use this fucker indoors.
Please reblog for visibility, this could quite literally save a life.
in this fantasy world, theres no homophobia or sexism! but the governments are still patriarchal monarchies and everyone still adheres to the standard nuclear family, two things that have absolutely no relation to homophobia and sexism whatsoever
In this fantasy world, there’s no homophobia or sexism! But there’s still racism, because that one’s just human nature, y’know? /s
The fact that the purple worm isn't classified under the Dragon type shows a frankly embarrassing lack of knowledge about the game's history by WotC.
Why so?
I'm so glad you asked. Chainmail rules for medieval miniatures by Gary Gygax & Jeff Perren, 3rd Edition, page 35:
but they never got referred to as dragons in any AD&D book that i'm aware of. within this context, it's not even clear whether or not this version has legs or not, while the AD&D versions are all definitively worms rather than wyrms.
that said, i will certainly back you up that there is continuity between this Purple Dragon and the later Purple Worm due to the venomous tail sting, as well as the reference to Mottled as an alternative name. in 2e, the Mottled Worm became the term for the Purple Worm's aquatic variant
Note that even the text above refers to the purple dragon as a worm, so one would assume no legs, and the worm/wyrm distinction doesn’t enter the picture either.
And sure, they’re not called dragons again after this but, like, come on!
fun little malware ridden true finale conspiracy
"... despite having literally never been true for any piece of media ever."
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Everyone Else, I give you Tommy Westphall.
I think they’re talking about the “secret finale” part, not the “it was a dream/illusion” part. Plenty of stories have ended with the latter.
when sentai trademarks drop you get a fun preview of what the next season's theme will be, when kamen rider trademarks drop you go through the five stages of grief
they introduced rikuo as someone who gleefully scams his elderly fans and then everything after that was like "he's actually super niceys" i think he should've been a bit scummier. like yeah he gave the vase back so he was niceys from the jump, but someone who's genuinely kind while still willing to get their hands dirty would've been an interesting wrinkle to his character, particularly as something he learned from rei
I can’t help but wonder if they had a change of plans with him partway through. The Oto reveal happened pretty abruptly, and while the grey contacts were almost certainly a fake-out from the beginning, you’d think they would have milked it for more drama than they did. It seemed like an obvious setup for Sumino to begin suspecting Rikuo, but instead, it kind of ended up not mattering at all?
One of the issues with wanting to run 0D&D with just the White Box is that the alternate combat system isn't actually all that fleshed out, so it all but necessitates the use of the layer supplements which actually added some depth to it but took it away from its Chainmail roots. The issue with running 0D&D with the White Box and Chainmail is that the interaction between the two systems isn't actually all that fleshed out,
0D&D is not a game for those without a DIY spirit in them. You gotta pour a bit of yourself into it to claim its bounty.
IntSys: we are releasing fire emblem shadows
"of Jugdral, right?"
IntSys:
"of Jugdral, right?"
Right now my thoughts are with the family of Melissa Hortman, a democrat from Minnesota who was assassinated along with her husband and her dog in the dead of night. Senator Mike Lee (from Utah) made a joke about it. There was no moment of silence, no national response. MAGA extremism kills people.
ishabana looks so beautiful this time of year
Spiny mushroom comb-footed spider, Phoroncidia sp., Theridiidae
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The humble Styracosaurus
Mega Flygon has always been that golden goose of the fandom, spurring countless designs and iterations on the idea that while spectacular, I never felt quite hit the mark.
Flygon finds success in its simplicity: just the right amount of color and just the right amount of shape balance. Adding too much paradoxically takes more and more away from what made Flygon such a stand out.
To do the Mega justice, I feel like it needs to be bold and surprising, even derailing the english name "Fly"gon as it brings back a part of itself long forgotten. Something reminiscent of the fact that the pre-evolution Trapinch has the exact same base attack total as its final stage with a whopping 100, and in need of more power it calls back to that stage of its life once more.
Wait, are you saying tornadoes should be made illegal or that should cops drive into them?
why not both?
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Closest match: Plusia putnami genome assembly, chromosome: 17 Common name: Lempke's Gold Spot Moth
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