pontius pyrite

a pomberanium, on the internet

[evilscientist3]

sci fi is when it's called a "mission" and fantasy is when it's called a "quest"

[pontiuspyrite]

cyber-elf: i have a question for you

[pontiuspyrite]

you can tell Dungeon Crawler Carl is good because he managed to write a worldly cast and did it without any British characters at all.

[old-bird]

is this anything

[pontiuspyrite]

i don't know if any of my followers have read Gideon the Ninth but I finished it last week and I know all of my followers would love it.

[gamechangershow]

⏳TONIGHT! ⏳

An episode of Game Changer over a year in the making - "One Year Later"

Premieres at 7pm ET / 4pm PT, only on Dropout

Starring host Sam Reich and contestants Jacob Wysocki, Vic Michaelis, and Lou Wilson

You have never seen anything like this

[pontiuspyrite]

My broken-ass millennial brain reading thrice daily news stories about how embarrassing our American government has become: Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

[averyterrible]

read a dogshit isekai. however, it at least recognized that if you let someone solve all the core action story problems magically, the only drama of the story comes from trying to resolve complicated social problems you can't use instant kill magic spells on

[shoomt]

that slime manga?

[averyterrible]

nope, worse. utterly generic, too.

honestly, i know slime isekai focuses on the challenges of being a leader, but i put it down long before it actually got there. painfully dull story, y'know.

[anarchocolate]

the speedrunning one maybe ? or the engineering one ? I've finished neither

[averyterrible]

oh, no, nothing anyone would actually know, probably. utterly generic one i found on mangadex. kid has to rescue his entire grade using ridiculous Do Anything Powers after it was summoned into an alternate world.

[pontiuspyrite]

isekai is a dogshit pseudo-genre that should have ended with digimon

[pontiuspyrite]

WHAT are you WATCHING?!

[pontiuspyrite]

just finished voting for joe biden ama

[pontiuspyrite]

I'm only going to vote for Harris if she makes at least one solid progressive policy commitment. Otherwise I'm finding a third party candidate

[dimension20official]

Hey - all cholesterol is good cholesterol! It's the 80s! 😎

[pontiuspyrite]

i gotta give props to tumblr, its the only social media site where the worst posters on it do not darken my timeline

[pontiuspyrite]

i dm'd my first d&d session today. almost TPK'd, but they pulled through. then they crit my toughest encounter to death in two rounds.

[makesomenoise]

It's time for NAME THAT SWORD ⚔️

Watch the full episode on Dropout

[pontiuspyrite]

what if watching all that television really did rot our brains

not mine, obviously, i'm still smart and sexy and cool but i mean the average member of my generation, who has really shown an aptitude for poor judgment.

[pontiuspyrite]

I didn't illegally vote for Joe Biden 14,000 times across 13 states just for him to be a one term president

[pontiuspyrite]

FFXIV Dawntrail's Early Story is a Parallel of FFX's Summoner Pilgrimage Storyline

I haven't seen this put forth anywhere so I'm going to put it forward myself: the early portion of the Dawntrail story is meant to parallel Final Fantasy X, specifically the concept of the Summoner Pilgrimage. Each of the claimants must journey to specific locations and perform trials to prove their worthiness, in a bid to claim glory (ushering in a new Calm).

Our four claimaints also mirror the various summoners encountered during the pilgrimage in FFX:

Wuk Lamat is, of course, Yuna. Both are journeying with a large squad of allies, which attracts some derision from other candidates. Strong judges of character, both are always willing to stop their journey to help those they encounter, and unknowingly recruit the finger of god to their squad. Wuk Lamat cut the overt racist from her team, though, and is ultimately stronger for it.

Koana is Isaamu, an ultimately ineffective summoner who chose his allies by questionable criteria. Koana just grabbed the first two Sharlayans he met, and Isaamu just grabbed his two brothers. Ultimately harmless.

Bakool Ja Ja is Dona, an absolute asshole who really only causes problems, and also has some unresolved sexual tension with her guardian (the other Bakool Ja Ja). Stops being an asshole eventually, or at least a problem causing asshole.

And of course, Zarool Ja is Seymour. Both cross serious ethical boundaries with little trepidation and cause some serious problems for everyone for no reason. Also they both killed their dads.