#late night posts

[cod-dump]

Ghost: did you see that fall Soap took on the course?

Gaz: That was rough

Ghost: Seems to be handling it well. Haven't heard a word out of him

Gaz: ... wait, you know how he acts when he stubs his toe?

Ghost: Cussing out everyone that looks at him while also beating whatever he hit?

Gaz:

Ghost: ... oh... JOHNNY-?

[artbyblastweave]

I think when it comes to what TVtropes terms The Superhero Paradox there are two levels:

On the Doylist level, you've got the obvious metatextual, editorial reality, that all of the threats that the superhero fights only exist because the writers and audience want the hero to fight cool things, therefore the superhero is "responsible" for the state of their setting by virtue of their existence;

But then on the Watsonian level, you have the actual specific reality of what the characters have done in the story- these massive, sprawling soap operas littered with high-agency, low-accountability yahoos who often can be literally implicated in the current mass-casualty event of the week, if only in a convoluted rube-goldberg way. Giant crossover events extrapolated out of some throwaway careless act committed in the silver-or-bronze age- eg. Reed Richard's stunt with the Skrull Cows eventually contributing to the casus belli of Secret Invasion, or Hank Pym designing Ultron in a storytelling era where that was only allowed to end so badly, only for that character to then survive into an editorial period where he was allowed to kill whole cities on-panel. A situation where purely in terms of depicted behavior it becomes obvious that the continued survival of a setting that's this thoroughly composed of time bombs and unswept land mines is also evidence of editorial interference, usually when that editorial interference abruptly cuts out (E.G. The Stamford Incident.)

And these are actually two separate editorial thumbs positioned on slightly different arteries of plausibility, but they're both technically ways in which "heroes are responsible for the problems they solve," so they get conflated by writers who're in a hurry. Leading to "Deconstructions" that bank on general audience familiarity with shape of the (fairly facile) Doylist argument and forget to check their math and make sure they've actually created an in-universe situation where a character trying to make this argument won't come across as a raving lunatic gesturing wildly at a doylist context that's only visible to them, Deadpool and She-Hulk

[daydreamingbambilesbian]

I will literally just bite my future partner to express love.

I just have that urge sometimes and its hard to not feed into it.

[ultimatesideblog]

Centricide characters as animals (imo)

AnCom - Cat

Tankie - Horse

Nazi - Dog

AnCap - Weasel

Christcon - Bunny

HomoNat - Sparkledog

Mod Lee - Deer

Socialist - Crow

Progressive - Llama

Libertarian - Boar

Minarchist - Gazelle

Hoppean - Vulture

Nazbol - Raccoon

Posadism - Dolphin Roach

Monarchist - Lion

Transhumanist - Alien

AnQueer - Ferret

AnPac - Lamb

Mutualist - Snake (2 headed)

Anfash - Rat

Insurrectionist - Hyena

AnFem - Cheetah

Horseshoe - Highlander cow

RadCen - Chicken

Nihilist - Sloth

Ape - Human

[wildcreativemastermind]

Reading no Order 66/no Empire AUs is an experience.

On the one hand, yay these characters I think deserve better get to have a better fate! It's so good! Everything and everyone is so happy!

And then I remember that Luke and Leia are coming along, and there's generally nothing stopping Anakin and Padme from trying to raise them, and I realize that there a couple of characters that are going to suffer in ways they don't deserve to.

[twisteddanid]

Gonna warn the gaslight district fans that Mud is referred to as Ken's older brother, so PLEASE DON'T SHIP KEN AND MUD BECAUSE THEY'RE RELATED!!!!!!!!!!

[gagagone]

If sun were to wear a party hat...

Would he wear it like this

Or perhaps like this

Maybe even like this...

Definitely not like this.

Any way you slice it, he'd look super cute

[squishycat330]

What's your opinion on dmc 2? I was playing it but I decided to skip it

my opinions on Devil may cry 2: ooooh-oh-oh-boy~ you do not know what you’ve done by asking this.

There’s really not much your missing story wise if you want to skip it, nor are you missing much with the combat. it sucks you can kill every thing with just the guns~

Now unlike most people I actually don’t hate it. I Dreaded this game when got close to playing it tho in retrospective I actually Liked it, which I didn’t realize until after I finished it. I wouldn’t say it’s the worst game I’ve played/bash it to all hell but it is the most disappointing Dmc game.

it’s story falls very flat as flat as a soda left out for days heck it’s been left out so long it’s turned to Syrup! but thats not to say it didn’t have potential, it Could have been a good game and have an amazing story. And that’s honestly kinda sad. I wish it was better but it’s not. the game is bad. and way to easy Surprisingly I actually wouldn’t discourage not playing it play if you want to play it play it and don't if you then don’t. it doesn’t matter story wise, it’s a matter of opinion and if yur willing to suffer a bit for the Potential of enjoyment.

Now I would describe the Game as- if you want a casual pass time that you can just zone out completely and play, this is it. It needs no focus and very little attention! This is Not a good thing! XD the game itself is not interesting nor really fun. I repeat the game is not interesting when you play. but dispite all of this I actually liked it~

A necessary explanation- you essentially have to make it interesting for yourself by goofing around a bit wall playing,

it’s similar to Sonic ‘06 in this way people Hated that game for so many reasons but there are some people who actually Loved it. Not because it was a good game or had a good story but because it was just Fun, it’s glitches could make for funny moments and it was enjoyable when you have friends with you to laugh along with,

it’s an awful game but it Can be enjoyed.

and for this reason I think it Devil may cry 2 Can be kinda fun. for this reason I actually Enjoyed it even tho wall I was playing I kept bashing the game anytime I brought it up, yes there are some boring and annoying bits but there’s also parts

I Genuinely found Fun. Because I made it fun for myself just like some people who played Sonic ‘06. You take the awful game and you just goof around with it, mess with the bosses- Because most boss fights have easy cheesing you can figure out some amusing ways to fight em by finding there blind spots.

and another thing if you want to make it more fun try not to use the Guns so much, their horribly overpowered weapons and it’s more entertaining and a bit ‘harder’ when you use the other weapons.

this is not me saying Dmc 2 is good, I’m just saying it Can be entertaining. it’s know-where near as redeemable as Sonic 06 is. I believe Dmc 2 was done as a ‘hey we need to get another game out because people loved the first one so much!’ I think it was made to capitalize off of the popularity of Dmc 1 and I believe it was probably rushed. and I’ve heard people say it had some issues behind the scenes but I donno. I think if given the developing time it could have been good. But it was probably not given a chance to even think about being good (random note Dante has like 6 lines in the whole game, despite haveing So Many Moments where Dante would say something witty. what the fuck man)

The game is awful but eh, I surprisingly liked it And hey maybe I’m just horribly wrong and the only one who thinks this. maybe I’m a bit of a Video game masochist for enjoying it, maybe I suck at explaining all of this! And you don't understand a thing I’m saying! Maybe I’m being way to Generous on the game! (I am)

so what I’d suggest is once your done playing throught the Dmc games maybe comeback to Dmc 2 and just Goof around a bit.

I know you probably weren’t expecting this when you sent the ask but I am horrible at rambling and will go on and on before I stop myself or before someone stops me.

If anyone wants to understand why I’m using Sonic ‘06 as an example here’s a good Video about it it’s short but it gets the point across,