#just griping

[zarekthelordofthefries]

People who act like everything in the "wholesome indie games" space is insincere and vapid are vastly more annoying than the overemphasis on "wholesome" as a genre actually.

[kvothbloodless]

Hmm, I think a major issue I have with the two wildbow settings ive read is that things are like...ontologically shitty. Both Worm and Pale (and to my understanding, Pact as well) have foundational themes of like, how systems become corrupt or unethical, how those in power accumulate more power, and how systems become shitty not because they Have To, or because People Are Bad, but just by the natural accumulation of power. And that this can and Should be resisted.

Except. A Lot of the shitty systems in worm are shitty because cauldron set them up that way. And cauldron set them up that way to combat Scion, an inhuman godlike entity. The systems suck and the world is falling apart not because of any reasons that happens in real life, but because god showed up and made it happen, and then the Endbringers showed up, completely out of anyones control. And yea you can maybe argue it works on an allegorical level, but even then its kind of a stretch. For most of Worm, the focus is like. On the PRT and Coil and such, and how everything is set up such that they are what they are. And then thats not true! Both are in power literally only because of Scion and Contessa and other shard nonsense.

And then in Pale (and probably Pact), it starts implying the Seal of Solomon was supposed to be something like an equalizier, or at least a workable treaty, and its beeb twisted over time and power has accumulated and done further twisting. But like. Solomon was forsworn! Right from the beginning! And the rules Originally set down have violence and the worst rules of human interaction at their core. And the Seal didnt like...emerge from consensus or anything. Solomon had a fuck ton of power and sat down with others who had a fuckton of power, and they just did it. Ill admit, this one is Significantly less bad thematically compared to Worm, but at the end of the day. Its still a setting where just the base rules of magic are objectively and irrevocably Fucked Up, and all the Possible alternatives we see (i.e. Charles going back to pre-Seal ways) suck almost as badly.

Idk really, I guess im going back to my usual gripe of, it just feels like his works would be better if they didnt Also need his signature "everything sucks and this is built in and theres no real way to make things significantly better on any real scale"

[death-rebirth-senshi]

kh1 had the best mp bar/mana regen mechanic death to the mp drive gauge

[youngerfrankenstein]

“The Eng*ge art style is just closer to modern-day common anime style”

Cool, that is also one of the many, MANY issues I have with the anime industry at the moment.

[jerzwriter]

As I continue reading Wake the Dead I am already pissed off this is a standalone. It is the first PB book I have read in ages that is, well, good!

But mierda like Surrender gets a sequel? I will never understand Pixelberry.

[vagrantblvrd]

While I’m glad Bungie fixed the One of Many Triumph, I wish the Lost Sector RNG was better?

I haven’t seen the moon LS since the first step of the FotL quest - which naturally doesn’t count towards the Triumph or Title and it’s like, y’know.

:)

[mbrainspaz]

tbh I wish I’d been excommunicated from my family and the church for finding a gay lover and not just for being too goddamn single and vaguely socialist in my late twenties. They never even needed to know I was queer. The bar for non-conformity is way too low. My uncle had his fantastically wealthy husband and that guy’s whole extended queer-accepting family for the ten years he was outcast. Meanwhile I’ve got three dogs, a very expensive elderly horse, no home, and undiagnosed health conditions. 

[azure-steel]

When you ask your new client to send their references to the shop Facebook. But they find your personal FB and proceed to pester you for the next 40 minutes...

Like, what do you think we pay the receptionist for??? 😭😭😭