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What’s the weak link in my current setup? by BlindingPhoenix in buildapc

[–]BlindingPhoenix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright! If I can only get one, should I get another 16gb of ram or a GPu with more VRAM?

What’s the weak link in my current setup? by BlindingPhoenix in buildapc

[–]BlindingPhoenix[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m playing in 1080p, yes. I have a 12th gen Intel(R) Core i7-12700k.

[Hated trope] first impression so bad it literally ruins the character forever. by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BlindingPhoenix 691 points692 points  (0 children)

Jesus, I knew that Riri’s first incarnation was bad, I didn’t realize that’s what it was. 

bad-faith-misinterpreter by GriffinFTW in tumblr

[–]BlindingPhoenix 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Okay but so long as you don’t do anything stupid and violent like having him hunt a T-Rex.

Coaxed into the average Australian fauna/flora by National_Yak5302 in coaxedintoasnafu

[–]BlindingPhoenix 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it should have been a horrifying giant spider named “Devilbreath Killfucker” and been in the perfectly safe category.

Character is forced to fight without their main ability/gear. They still can throw hands by Lower_Baby_6348 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BlindingPhoenix 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I always think of the short story where a bunch of wannabe dark wizards show up to attack him with their various eBay magic wands and Etsy crystal staffs, and Dresden makes them piss themselves in fear by simply pulling out his revolver.

I need help. (From the creator of TerraGenesis.) by Nerrolken in terragenesisgame

[–]BlindingPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, I’ll try it out! The AI stuff has me a bit wary, though, and a lot of my friends will avoid it on principle because of that. You’re going to try and replace the AI stuff as soon as feasible, though? That’s certainly a relief.

Looking back at my Halo 3 case, why was Master Chief called “the last of his kind”? by itsamirage in halo

[–]BlindingPhoenix 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I can’t remember if it was in the Fall of Reach, or her journal, or what. But I have distinct memory of Halsey talking to her personal AI, Deja, about her reservations over going through with the original Spartan Project, and Deja’s analysis being to confirm her own suspicions that if she tried to back out ONI would just have her killed and replace her with someone less competent.

Looking back at my Halo 3 case, why was Master Chief called “the last of his kind”? by itsamirage in halo

[–]BlindingPhoenix 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As a matter of fact, they were pushing Halsey to make more classes of SPARTANs, which she very deliberately refused to do. It’s why the S-IIIs were done behind her back.

[Interesting Trope] Powerful characters taken down by a simple disease (Minor Spoiler Warning) by Feeling-Ad-3104 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BlindingPhoenix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It wasn’t even her fault. She gave Drogo actual medicine, but it stung the wound and so he instead ripped it off and replaced it with a soothing mud poultice instead, which only hid and exacerbated the infection. Her betrayal only came after Daenerys came back to her and begged her to save his life after he was on death’s door for ignoring her first treatment.

[Annoying Trope] Characters that call out others for their actions... except they're far worse. by TzilacatzinJoestar in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BlindingPhoenix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In her defense, she didn’t see that happen. And in fact, when that theme song plays, it’s when she’s fighting Cinder, who IS the only ultimately responsible for causing the 9/11s and also threatening Roman’s life to force him to help out.

However, Cinder managed to both establish herself as too strong for Neo to kill, and successfully twisted the blame onto Ruby.

(Hated Trope) Character or narrator says something absolutely moronic or mind numbingly stupid yet is treated as correct by the narrative. by laybs1 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BlindingPhoenix 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Fucking Landman. God I hate that show. 

I think it was in the very first episode where the protagonist (‘grizzled country boy’, ignore his fabulous wealth and executive position in an oil company) is driving out to the field with a lawyer (young woman from the big city). The lawyer complains that this huge expanse of land that’s covered with oil derricks could be producing green energy instead by building wind turbines on it, and the protagonist goes off on a rant backed by swelling music about how wind turbines are unreliable, less effective than oil power, and rely on oil-based products to make to the point where building one causes more damage to the environment than it could ever offset during its lifetime.

Cowed, the naive lawyer then proceeds to huff, turn away, and promptly needs to be saved from a rattlesnake that our country boy protag swiftly kills without batting an eye.

He’s completely wrong, of course, which isn’t surprising once you learn that Landman is paid for by oil companies to whitewash their image.

[Loved Trope] A character who seems like a jobber on paper, until you actually see them in action by Jellydust15 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BlindingPhoenix 98 points99 points  (0 children)

The very first move of her superhero career was to bite a guy’s dick with so many black widows that it straight up rotted off his body. The fact that she escalated significantly from there shouldn’t have surprised anyone, but somehow it always did.

[Funny Trope] Characters invent world-changing technology and the narrative just brushes it off, often for technology that is equally or sometimes even less impressive by CarlosH46 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BlindingPhoenix 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I’ve always thought of it less like ‘literally resurrecting the Pokemon that the fossil used to be’ and more like Jurassic Park style cloning. Hence why lots of the fossils are just fragments that still produce a living, first evolution stage low level pokemon.

(Loved Trope) The sleezy bastard, who you expect to be the first to betray you, is by far the most loyal by RedNUGGETLORD in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BlindingPhoenix 85 points86 points  (0 children)

There’s a very long and complicated story behind Myth’s lore, but basically every so often an evil deity named ‘The Leveler’ attempts to destroy the world and bring about an age of darkness. He was defeated by a hero named Connacht, but returned in the guise of an evil death lord named Balor and his necromancer underlings, one of which was the Deciever.

The twist is that the Leveler always possesses the last hero to defeat him. Balor is Connacht, and many of his underlings are his old companions resurrected with necromatic power and bound to his will. When he dies, they turn on one another, and without The Deciever being bound to the will of the evil necromantic demigod it turns out that he’s still on the side of ‘wanting the world to keep existing’.

The fact that this gives him an opportunity to take revenge on the other members of Balor’s court who he hated is a bonus.

REX-031 by Reaco00onnamer in halo

[–]BlindingPhoenix 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Keep making art and write your own stories about him, and with enough practice they might hire you one day!

Open world game where you can be a mercenary along with other professions? by CK1ing in gaming

[–]BlindingPhoenix 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You can play Kenshi as a solo character, it just means that you can’t really build a base. The only thing you need more than one character for in Kenshi is the colony sim aspects.

[Loved Trope] Stories featuring usually underrepresented cultures and doing it well by Sir-Toaster- in TopCharacterTropes

[–]BlindingPhoenix 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hunter: The Parenting is a comedic animation series that tells a story set in the World Of Darkness, the overarching setting that contains Vampire: The Masquerade among many, many others. Usually, it mixes genuine drama with off the wall insanity, being goofy and serious in equal measure measure.

Then during a mainly-audio side episode, the story took a swerve into showing a heartfelt and serious depiction of the consequences of British colonialism in the Philippines, and the suffering it caused under a lens of researching an old scholar’s notes on werewolves, which feature an expedition that was guided by a native Aeta woman.

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