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[showcollection]

Sarmenti: *doing sleight of hand tricks*

Hamlet denizens: He produced a gold coin out of thin air! Is he perhaps a witch?

Sarmenti: *plays music that makes you go faster and see better*

Hamlet denizens: Ah, yes, the entirely normal effects of inspiring music upon the soul!

Alhazred: *stares tiredly at the camera*

[showcollection]

Out of curiosity, in what order do you guys think Qifrey started mentoring the girls?

[tpwrtrmnky]

Like. Look. Listen. I have taught introductory quantum physics at a university level, and I need you all to incorporate this into your trans advocacy: There are situations where you need to make a decision to prioritize being comprehensible to your target audience above being The Most Unassailably Correct.

[peppermintquartz]

You can try to teach a toddler about germ theory or you can get them to wash their hands because "yucky"

[tpwrtrmnky]

Teaching a toddler to wash hands because yucky when the Ethics Understander crashes through the roof. "STOP RIGHT THERE," the Ethics Understander shouts at me. "The disgust response is not a legitimate substitute for a considered value judgment, and in fact, weaponizing disgust instead of grounding those judgments in a more rigorous framework is fundamental to reactionary rhetoric!"

The toddler looks at me. "You are a fascist, auntie. I have seen the light and will now go eat chewing gum from the pavement, unless you can educate me on a rigorous framework on the microbiology of pavement chewing gum this very instant."

[criticalrolo]

losing my mind at this amazing story from r/dndmemes some people’s dnd adventures are just. So Fucking Cool

here’s the link and the story, it’s Amazing

[showcollection]

Old cat lady Audrey. She doesn't need a man, she needs one cat of every color and pattern.

Josephine is allergic and she can't even come close to Audrey's house.

[feminist-space]

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[baddywronglegs]

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

[pawfulofwaffles]

"AI is smarter than a human!" -> AI is smarter than YOU. YOU feel it is smarter because YOU lack the free-thinking needed to recognize its errors and your own dependency

[showcollection]

Characters with unusual speech patterns my beloved

[skodasforge]

“It’s photoshopped” honestly in the age of AI that has a homey sort of nostalgia to it. Remember when people used to put effort into faking things?

[kaosuqi]

photoshop fakers are like the villain with moral standards now

[marsnolias]

Dd2 backstory shrines: (multiple snippets of a voiced narrative mixed with game play elements that present a coherent story)

Fans: ugh... these are so stupid and badly written...

Dd1 backstory comics: (a single page comic with no dialog presenting a very vague scene)

Fans: wow! This is great storytelling! I especially like how [insert generally accepted fanon not present in actual comic] is done!

[showcollection]

#darkest dungeon#I agree the dd2 shrines aren't great#But how do people think they're WORSE than the crumbs dd1 gives us???

"More" simply doesn't mean "better". Some stories are less coherent and cohesive as narratives as a result of having more details and being spelled out more explicitly.

[marsnolias]

I guess. But I'd be hard pressed to consider any DD1 comic a cohesive narrative. Most hero backstories are really just 99% fanon

[showcollection]

I don't see why not, unless you only consider longer verbal narratives (written or voiced) as "cohesive" . The way the original post describes it, one would think that we can consider one better than the other simply because of the medium each one uses.

I can't be sure what you are considering fanon here, but one of the reasons at least some people liked them is that they provided some context and let the reader fill in the gaps. And like I said, leaving negative space can be a good thing, especially when compared to having the same story retold in a way that fills those gaps in an unsatisfactory or stupid manner.

[marsnolias]

I guess it's because I see the comics as being too vague to be useful, while the shrines (which are also vague in some aspects) seem universally hated. And also the comics are... completely pointless? Because you can have more than one hero in DD1, does that mean all heroes of a class share the exact same backstory? Are there multiple leper kings taking up mercenary work?

It seems like a bad decision to have that and permadeath while also trying to individually characterize the heroes. At least in DD2, you can't have duplicate heroes.

[showcollection]

"Useless" is a strange way to put it, since I don't see how background material would need to be useful, and not just interesting to the intended audience.

And of course there aren't multiple people with the same backstory. That's what you call ludonarrative dissonance. The same way in Slay the Spire your character isn't literally using a deck to fight their way up, even though a lot of in-game events involve getting or discarding cards. Or in DD2 you shouldn't imagine there is a straight road cutting through the world with just a couple of bifurcations here and there. Or how the way loot drops work in most games.

I'd argue that the individualization is a bonus, but the narrative in DD1 is exactly trying to make you treat your "heroes" like expendable minions, letting them die or dispensing them when they are not useful anymore. It starts by selling you an idea of redemption, but then pushes you into really becoming the Ancestor's "heir" in the worst way possible. The cosmic horror aspect takes precedence to making a character piece on all hero classes.

[goobk123]

not starvin with frieieindzzz

2025

[showcollection]

Don't Starve and Darkest Dungeon sure are fandom tags that cause uh... Misunderstandings. Don't Starve being a worse example because Darkest Dungeon usually just jumpscares you with misplaced kink.

[marsnolias]

Dd2 backstory shrines: (multiple snippets of a voiced narrative mixed with game play elements that present a coherent story)

Fans: ugh... these are so stupid and badly written...

Dd1 backstory comics: (a single page comic with no dialog presenting a very vague scene)

Fans: wow! This is great storytelling! I especially like how [insert generally accepted fanon not present in actual comic] is done!

[showcollection]

#darkest dungeon#I agree the dd2 shrines aren't great#But how do people think they're WORSE than the crumbs dd1 gives us???

"More" simply doesn't mean "better". Some stories are less coherent and cohesive as narratives as a result of having more details and being spelled out more explicitly.

[marsnolias]

I guess. But I'd be hard pressed to consider any DD1 comic a cohesive narrative. Most hero backstories are really just 99% fanon

[showcollection]

I don't see why not, unless you only consider longer verbal narratives (written or voiced) as "cohesive" . The way the original post describes it, one would think that we can consider one better than the other simply because of the medium each one uses.

I can't be sure what you are considering fanon here, but one of the reasons at least some people liked them is that they provided some context and let the reader fill in the gaps. And like I said, leaving negative space can be a good thing, especially when compared to having the same story retold in a way that fills those gaps in an unsatisfactory or stupid manner.

[marsnolias]

Dd2 backstory shrines: (multiple snippets of a voiced narrative mixed with game play elements that present a coherent story)

Fans: ugh... these are so stupid and badly written...

Dd1 backstory comics: (a single page comic with no dialog presenting a very vague scene)

Fans: wow! This is great storytelling! I especially like how [insert generally accepted fanon not present in actual comic] is done!

[showcollection]

#darkest dungeon#I agree the dd2 shrines aren't great#But how do people think they're WORSE than the crumbs dd1 gives us???

"More" simply doesn't mean "better". Some stories are less coherent and cohesive as narratives as a result of having more details and being spelled out more explicitly.

[showcollection]

I think we need to admit Baldwin is a bit of a dramatic diva, which comes with the territory as a tragic religious king. The man is doing so much to romanticize his own life as a cope, he is basically a tiktoker.

[system-of-cells-interlinked]

i am very weak for the “ruthless person who develops one (1) ounce of ethics because the person they are obsessed with wouldn’t approve of murder” thing.

[showcollection]

Losing my shit at a channel I follow that talks about health issues because the latest titlecard says "Pay attention if the blood is grey". Doc I love ya but that goes without saying.

[showcollection]

Ngl, DD2 could have gotten away with so much more if it simply chose to make its climax say "Face Your Past" or "Face Yourself" instead of "Face Your Failure". It would make a lot of strange npc enemy choices unnecessary. You could simply use their past skins with a filter. No need to retrofit every character story as a personal failure either.

[showcollection]

Sometimes facing your past just means to say "Damn, you really didn't have a clue what was to come. But I'm the version of you that could survive."