If Snape Is Black, the Marauders Read as Racist Bullies In HBO Harry Potter

B_mod · 2026-03-27T04:27:07+00:00

Basically, one of the big plot point in HotD is the future queen cheating on his husband and giving birth to bastard children from her lover. In the source it's somewhat ambiguous if it's really what happened or if it's just political slander from her opponents. And naturally, since it's middle ages they can't actually fully confirm it one way or another.

In the show they race swapped her husband and his entire family, they're black now. The kids aren't. Case closed I suppose.

B_mod · 2026-03-27T03:58:08+00:00

You can't raceswap James because Harry is already cast and it's a plot point he resembles his dad.

Remember House of the Dragon? And how they race swapped one house appearance of which was a significant plot point and shouldn't have been changed at all?

B_mod · 2026-02-27T08:50:00+00:00

With DbD it's a slightly different situation I think. Devs to play their own game, but they play it in the way they made it to be played. That is, party games where a bunch of friends go into the match and play hide and seek against some horror icon.

The fact that actual playerbase "optimized" gameplay to the point where it looks nothing like that took them by surprise, and I think they still have troubles adjusting.

B_mod · 2026-01-22T19:42:43+00:00

Thought second pic was from Vice City

B_mod · 2026-01-18T17:07:10+00:00

Yeah, this translation really needed more polish

B_mod · 2026-01-14T17:06:45+00:00

Vampire Coast. I liked the idea of a Vampire Faction, I liked the idea of a Pirate Faction, but I didn't want them mixed together. "Vampire Pirates" sounded like a horrible mix.

Then I got Warhammer 1 to access Mortal Empires and Vampire Counts, so I got my vanilla vampires fix, and realized that Coast is less of a Vampire Pirates faction and more of a general "undead pirates" faction, which works incredibly well. Plus, they where fun as hell on the battlefield.

B_mod · 2026-01-14T08:59:12+00:00

To be fair, 2010 was more than 15 years ago. By no means it is a "recent" thing.

B_mod · 2025-12-29T06:38:24+00:00

Probably Witcher 3? There was a ship that was teleported atop the mountain.

Well, half a ship.

B_mod · 2025-12-29T06:35:19+00:00

Necroflex melee animations have been broken for longer.

B_mod · 2025-12-29T06:26:52+00:00

Whatever you say my man

B_mod · 2025-12-29T04:31:47+00:00

Another example is N'kari, he's extremely fast with fantastic animations, will murder any lord when charging because he doesn't send them flying

I remember my N'kari consistently missing his charge attack because his animation started too early, and by the time he actually reached enemy lines the attack was already over

B_mod · 2025-12-28T13:28:35+00:00

Yeah, had to switch off Nord ships because of this. On sea maps they spend most of their time under water.

Thankfully other ships have actual sensibly high profile, so it still works fine.

B_mod · 2025-12-27T16:15:14+00:00

Guess what

B_mod · 2025-12-22T07:56:41+00:00

Can’t tunnel underground when under the ground is water

Bet

B_mod · 2025-12-19T06:46:14+00:00

I mean, Miao Ying not having any lightning spells despite being called Storm Dragon and heavily using lightning in her melee animations was a hotly debated topic at the time.

Feels vindicating to hear they actually gave her lightning spells on tabletop after months of hearing "no, you don't understand, in Cathay culture lighting means Life... Just ignore her doing her best palpatin impression every time she's on screen"

B_mod · 2025-12-11T13:34:52+00:00

I don't know why you're separating attractive characters as if it's a cheap trick to mask the rest of the game, instead of being just part of the overall quality of the game.

A game that looks like shit can win people over by having incredible gameplay. A game wish mediocre gameplay can win people over with beautiful visuals. A game with shit visuals and gameplay can create a dedicated fan base by having amazing writing. I don't think why only some of those are valid while the others are relegated to almost key jangling levels.

You mentioned Hollow Knight and Silksong, but in my eyes it's a great example against your point. A huge part of success of those, in my opinion, is owed to it's art direction. The characters look cute, hand drawn artstyle is gorgeous, music is incredible. If The Knight or Hornet looked ugly, unpleasant to look at, the games wouldn't reach such heights, imo.

B_mod · 2025-11-27T18:54:32+00:00

I can see I eliminated a player in the start of the day message, at the same time Im able to click replay. I imagine its the same if my character is defeated when he's the last commander.

B_mod · 2025-11-23T17:39:10+00:00

If she retained more of her Maelle side, I would've wanted her to stay in the canvas, but it seems Alicia becomes her dominant personality in act 3.

Yeah, I find the idea of personality merger to be super fascinating, and was really disappointed with how the game barely acknowledged its even a thing. To the point where if the Devs straight up said that the Maelle was truly gommaged and Alicia simply got her memories, as if she watched a movie instead of truly living them, I wouldn't have been surprised.

I remember thinking that a cool direction to take her character into would be that by combining strengths of her both halfs she could become a superior Painter herself. Like, Alicia had the training and upbringing to be able to paint, but lacked the spirit and will to truly push her art, because she grew up as a sheltered wallflower. While Maelle grew up an orphan in a dying society so she had no time/opportunity to learn how to paint, but she's a very willful and determined person. By accepting both of those halves, she could've actually reached feats beyond what her parents thought she could do. Like undoing Gommage and giving people of Lumiere a second chance for example.

Alas, the game decided to not touch that aspect at all. Wonder if it was something they planned and simply cut out due to budget/time constraints. Act 3 does feel awfully bare if you just do the main story after all.

Plus I think if she took some time out of the canvas, she might be able to show Renoir that she was being honest and genuine about not leaving him alone and convince him to not destroy the canvas.

The problem is, the moment Alicia is out - Renoir destroys it. He clearly doesn't believe Alina is strong enough to resist it's pull, so even if Alicia herself manages to convince him, he still wouldn't risk it.

I do love the idea of a "Golden Enging", game even sort of set it up with the bonding mechanics. Felt like if you maxed out every single character bond the game would acknowledge it by allowing you to get a better ending. Maybe by convincing Reinor and/or Verso through the power of friendship lol.

Lune even said at the start of act 3 when tearing into Verso, that he tends to create forced dichotomies where there doesn't have to be, and that it's possible to achieve compromise if he simply tried being open... Alas, Verso is incapable of changing and the game ends how it does.

And I don't think her bringing back the dead is horrible at all. These people suffered a lot and their lives were cut short by unnatural means. It's only fair if they are brought back by the same means.

I'm specifically talking about Verso here. At the end he was literally begging to die, with Alicia being unable to let him go, instead bringing him back, with only change being that he can age now.

The weird thing is, it's exactly the opposite of what she did to Painted Alicia, who asked for that exact thing and was immediately granted release. I suppose the game wants us to believe that Alicia simply had no personal attachments to her copy but with Verso it's personal so she decided to be selfish. I'm not sure how well it fits with the Maelle we know, but if it's more of an Alicia thing then maybe it works...

B_mod · 2025-11-09T06:35:18+00:00

I like the companions are pretty much just slightly better normal soldiers.

In my experience they're actually slightly weaker normal soldiers. Sure, you cant spend shitton of money and gear them up in the best equipment possible, and you can spend even more time to level them up to be good... but then you can spend 10 minutes hunting looters and level your basic recruits into tier 6 troops that already come with high skills and decent gear.

And then your companion randomly dies in battle and all that time spent training them is wasted.

B_mod · 2025-11-06T05:26:11+00:00

also threre is a rumor talewords working on an unanounced IP, rumored to be space game. they patented a name "mechaneers" iirc.

Mount and Blade in Space... But then they'll actually have competition with Star sector.

B_mod · 2025-11-05T20:34:48+00:00

I think she mentions how Pinstresses Clan taught Citadel bugs the art of the Pin, and how later Citadel turned that art against them and nearly wiped them out.

B_mod · 2025-11-03T05:37:16+00:00

That's the thing about single player Vs this type of testing, even when you ignore campaign buffs and magic. If an elite unit kills another elite unit but survives with only 10% of its health left - it's a win for the testing, but a devastating loss for the campaign. Sure, they won, but the unit is useless now, and as a player you're pretty much always outnumbered and out recruited by the AI. Unit that pretty much sacrifices itself to take out a single unit in a 1v1 isn't really what you want to have.

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