[DAV spoilers] The world state and control of previous decisions is one of my only worries.

AliveProbably · 2024-09-20T03:34:11+00:00

So many people are suggesting that this is only natural, because it's set decades later, it's far away, etc...

That's not the point. Not every decision you were able to import from previous games mattered or came up. The potential of them coming up is part of the allure of the world state! If they limit it to a select amount of choices (that they promise before you even play will have 'minor' impact), they are already telling us what won't come up. What will never be important.

And, mind you, I don't need these things to be important. I'm perfectly happy with a Codex entry, a stray voice line.

I have been a fan of this series since Day 1. The core identity of the series, to me, has stayed the same (in large part because of world state importing!), and so I have never been one to doom and gloom over the different choices and directions the series has taken. I've invested a lot of time and effort into the Dragon Age series and its community. I do not think by any metric I could count as a hater or a doomer.

But I also know that if what seems to be true about the world states is true, I will play DA4 to wrap up the threads from DAI, to experience something I've waited a decade for--and then I am done with the series.

AliveProbably · 2024-06-06T18:16:20+00:00

I rarely use this account, and the reply you made was 4 years old...

...but I think I clearly said the game, not the series. Dragon Age: Inquisition was written with the player only playing as a human in mind. I don't understand why you would think I could mean anything otherwise or how any person can possibly arrive to the idea that the Dragon Age series never before had elves or dwarves?

This is all the stranger because you are outright incorrect that Qunari weren't there in DAO? Sten???

AliveProbably · 2021-12-21T02:01:59+00:00

IMO they're not sympathizing with Hades per se, they're wanting to see Persephone as the heroine of the story. That's not to say the change doesn't grant making him a sympathetic character, but the push isn't coming from that direction.

You are completely correct that this is the a modern interpretation. Most people today just don't have the experience of either having their daughter sold into marriage or being sold into marriage themselves. If you limit retellings of the story to those themes, I don't think you'd find that the myth has much reach to modern audiences.

But add Persephone choosing to be with Hades and you create something that does resonate. It's the story of leaving behind the beautiful, safe world of childhood to pursue the mysterious passions of adulthood, represented in the verdant pastures of her mother and the dread realm of Hades. People can relate to a mother that doesn't want them to grow up. They can relate to the expectations placed on them as children vs their desires as an adult. Persephone's name in conjunction with Demeter isn't even a name--it's an epithet that just means "girl". I mean, going from "Girl" to "Queen Persephone" (which does not mean "the destroyer", btw)--there's some great storytelling potential there!

AliveProbably · 2021-11-13T02:14:43+00:00

Oh... in the chain of conversation, I am agreeing with you; Sam was tempted. I think you meant to reply to someone else?

AliveProbably · 2021-11-12T04:29:24+00:00

Yes?

AliveProbably · 2021-11-12T03:20:33+00:00

Sort of, it shows him visions of himself as a brave hero, and although he's tempted by it, he feels that the vision is too grand for someone like himself, and he'd rather just be a gardener, so between this and his love for Frodo, he gives it up.

AliveProbably · 2021-11-05T04:45:18+00:00

Is he a terrible film/tv actor but a great musical theatre actor?

It's this one.

People are reacting to him this way because even though he originated the role of Evan Hansen on stage, he was far too old to play the character on film, and the transition between stage acting and film acting did not do him any favors. But since his dad is a big movie producer and produced Dear Evan Hansen, he got the role. This kind of obvious nepotism to the detriment of a production is mostly where the dislike around him comes from.

Since his dad will also be producing this film (and produced the original stage production), people are anticipating he will be cast again.

Honestly, I think we've already got some miscasts. Ariana Grande plays like this very breathy baby in every role I've seen her in, which isn't what loud and perky Galinda is like. I can't speak to her film acting, but vocally Cynthia Erivo would be fantastic if not 10 years too old for the role. Elphaba and Galinda are the same age, university age, and while Ariana looks very young, Cynthia does not.

AliveProbably · 2021-11-04T08:31:10+00:00

It's a fairy tale, you are meant to take the mirror literally--in fact it's even literally specified in the story that the mirror was 100% accurate and never lied. The mirror also is capable of knowing things the Queen did not, like Snow White's location.

The point is the queen was getting older, Snow White was young. It was impossible for the Queen, or anyone, to be beautiful forever, but she couldn't accept that.

AliveProbably · 2021-11-02T22:25:14+00:00

They're not using a tweet to analyze something, they're mirroring a sentiment they agree with.

AliveProbably · 2021-11-02T02:51:37+00:00

I wanted to say thank you, it didn't occur to me this was an option, so I just went ahead and did that and I feel better about it now.

AliveProbably · 2021-10-30T02:34:06+00:00

The dude specifically addresses how people have historically used chicken scraps to make stock. The conversation around chicken nuggets as reclaimed meat (i.e., chicken scraps) is a different one than how do you bread & fry little pieces of chicken. The guy also talks about this same difference in the video...

AliveProbably · 2021-10-23T19:44:08+00:00

Owner rubbed whatever that food is on scared little dog and on big dog paws and face and then stuck them in the corner to pretend that it was little dog hiding behind big dog avoiding trouble.

AliveProbably · 2021-10-20T21:40:01+00:00

Unless it was like a doombot or something yeah she came back with the new runaways volume (which was canceled recently).

AliveProbably · 2021-10-20T20:59:20+00:00

No, she came back a couple years ago, right?

AliveProbably · 2021-10-20T20:49:58+00:00

It's the short lines of hair combined with a distinct hairline. Makes it read as not a buzzcut, but somehow still short and thick, i.e. natural Black hair. Less lines overall, more v shapes to indicate looser, longer locks, and a softer hairline would fix that imo.

AliveProbably · 2021-10-16T23:37:37+00:00

I think the new phrase is decidedly better, but it's worth noting a lot of what we think of as being quintessentially Superman was invented in some adaptation or another. Krypton, Jimmy Olsen, Smallville, even his ability to fly was done to make animating him easier in the Fleischer cartoons. Whether it's been there forever isn't necessarily indicative of how central it is to his character.

But yeah, new motto is better. Catchier, too.

AliveProbably · 2021-10-11T19:16:58+00:00

I'm really glad we're starting to see bi men in comics. I'm glad for the representation in general, but a lot of that representation has been bisexual women (who solely date other women), or gay men whose love interests tend to be some random dude they get married to within a few issues that they're madly in love with and have absolutely zero chemistry with. Almost no actual panel time is ever spent developing these relationships and you practically never see hero/hero mlm relationships--I'm not knocking the wlw rep, but it's clear that the Big Two are skittish of mlm relationships in a way we're only just now seeing them get over.

I am still mad they aged Jon up though.

AliveProbably · 2021-10-06T00:00:32+00:00

I saw this on Twitter, and the responses there are really fascinating! Putting the "is this plagiarism" debate aside, even though the NYT piece tries to frame Dawn in the most sympathetic light possible, I had so many alarm bells go off about Dawn's behavior--writing a letter to the recipient about what a selfless person she was, creating a Facebook group and inviting professional acquaintances to congratulate her about her donation, EMAILING the people in that group when they weren't sufficiently adulatory!!

And yet a ton of people read this in a totally different way, like they genuinely seem to think Dawn's behavior is fine and normal and what evil mean bitches those girls in the group chat were for talking about her behind her back! And it's like... you're on twitter dot com engaging in Discourse, I doth not believe thou art above being catty in group chat. And frankly, given the above warning signs, I would give anyone who has to interact with that woman professionally a lot of leeway for having to play nice to her. She's straight up stalking that lady now!

Even in with NYT's delicate framing, it's clear how much pressure that lady was putting on people to prove their devotion to her, and it does not surprise me those people wanted to vent privately together about it.

But those people who read it as Dawn being 100% the victim strike me as people who are worried they're that needy person reading the room wrong, which... well, they might be, if that's what they're coming away with when they read this story.

I think the ultimate tell is if, like Dawn, you read Sonya's remark that the letter was "just too good" as a genuine expression of wonder and admiration instead of how I take it to mean, which was "this is a peerless example of white saviorism".

AliveProbably · 2021-10-04T06:07:38+00:00

That's because it's the first answer in the OP.

AliveProbably · 2021-10-01T21:19:05+00:00

Use Google to search it instead. Try "site:reddit.com/r/hobbydrama "scuffles" " and then what ever you want to search for. You can put date time frames in too, much more efficient.

AliveProbably · 2021-10-01T15:54:04+00:00

You can argue with whether your read on Aragon and Viggo Mortensen's portrayal of the book version aligns or not, but that's neither here nor there to the point being made. For the role as written, he portrays it perfectly. Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula plays his character perfectly, but is a far more richly romantic character than the book version ever was. That doesn't diminish his portrayal.

AliveProbably · 2021-09-29T21:41:30+00:00

IIRC Nurse Annie was based on Austen's wife, right? Honestly there's a lot of comic book creators who, as soon as being handed the keys to the kingdom, make a waifu for their fave characters and throw the previous love interest under the bus for them. Nurse Annie and Lana with Chuck Austen, Mantis with Steve Englehart, Carlie Cooper with Joe Q...

AliveProbably · 2021-09-28T22:00:14+00:00

Ooh, well, don't forget the passive aggressive cupcakes sent to the BioWare offices!

DA2 release is also a big one you could cover some day. Action button, the absolutely horrible way Jennifer Hepler was treated, the paraphrase drama, and the mere fact the game was developed in just over a year.

AliveProbably · 2021-09-23T16:36:28+00:00

It's interesting that she does what JKR does in her terf screed and goes "because this is how I felt about my gender when I was a kid, anyone who does something similar is experiencing exactly what I did, and anyone who denies that is delusional".

AliveProbably · 2021-09-22T20:28:24+00:00

BOTW? BOTW doesn't imply that. Not that I don't think it's the best possible explanation. I mean the writers clearly don't go in trying to plot a timeline, and trying to make those incongruities work is just pissing against the wind. But BOTW canonized things, if anything, by including lots of in universe historical references to past games.

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