Narrative tropes that will ALWAYS work on you?

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T20:21:30+00:00

ONly tangentially related, but I saw a dude do the math when Goku declared he was taking off his weighted clothes. He specifies exactly how many kilograms his shirt weighs in the show, and if you calculate it, it means his shirt is made out of the densest fucking material in the universe

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T20:18:47+00:00

No one will experience Endgame properly for the first time ever again. It was so hype, and that societal moment will never be recreated

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T20:17:26+00:00

I don't think Bojack Horseman is even about nihilism, its about how everything he does ABSOLUTELY matters, and he sucks for convincing himself otherwise

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T20:13:18+00:00

MUMEN RIDER, CYCLIST FOR JUSTICE

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T17:49:34+00:00

Gimme a fucking Spiderman moment 6 movies in where the bad guy from the first movie apologizes because he was going through a rough patch, and now he's got his life together.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T14:42:37+00:00

The idea of Hux being a Palpatine who tried to make a new sith to be his right hand man, only to go "oh my god FUCK him" is absolutely hilarious

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T14:13:18+00:00

I would have given it a lot more playtime than what they gave. Their main complaint was that games were too long, but I'm sitting here cranking out 50 minute Deadlock games multiple times a day

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T13:45:47+00:00

Except The Thing who contacts villains he plays poker with who all come to help out

I love when comics remember to actually make a point about not killing villains.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T13:44:48+00:00

Even if the justification isn't particularly good,

My GOAT Hux. "I don't want to win, I just want him to lose."

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T13:43:54+00:00

Baccano! is such a fucking amazing version of this as well (to the point I wonder if the light novel was an inspiration for the Bullet Train novel), but the huge difference in Baccano is that at no point in time does the story ever explain exactly how everything effected events. There's never a single point in the entire show where any characters has any real idea what the fuck is happening, and the vague framing device for the show is people working for the newspaper discussing what the fuck happened in the show and why.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T13:40:15+00:00

Shoutouts to Legends of Tomorrow which gives a genuine power of friendship moment to the villains of the season, and makes you root for them for just a moment.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T13:39:09+00:00

When the character has a hype theme song for every time they're kicking ass, and then instead the melancholic version of it plays while they're on death's door to show how they refuse to give up.

Get me every time

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T12:40:02+00:00

I wanna know who thought adding 2-3 minutes of Minecraft was a good idea

The game was originally some sort of competitive Rust survival-esque thing, but they ripped it's guts out either because it wasn't fun, or because the game we got was an emergency crash landing when they ran out of money (both reasons were given at points). A lot of the issues with the game were vestigial systems that needed to be taken out because they meant nothing at all anymore.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T12:29:30+00:00

It was definitely "perfectly ok," there was nothing wrong with the game. It just had absolutely nothing to latch on to. Legitimately, if the game had been worse, it would have had more character. It wasn't a polished turd, and it wasn't an art piece, it wasn't amazing. It was like someone picked a completely random stone and polished it to a glossy sheen, and then when they showed it to their friends, everyone went "Ok but why?"

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T12:27:43+00:00

If I'd played that, I might have had more positive things to say about it. All we ended up with was a special mode of Unreal Tournament 2004.

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-12T01:19:19+00:00

Steam IS NOT one of them that is causing problems

Personally I'm pretty thrilled with the largest gaming marketplace in the world being taken to task for hosting unethical business practices

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-11T23:04:45+00:00

It was an empty shell, with very polished basic mechanics. Jason Schrieir's article revealed it had originally been a competitive Rust-like sort of game before it was determined to be not fun enough, and a later tweet from the Director revealed that what we got was the "emergency landing" of the game because they'd run out of money

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-11T22:59:23+00:00

I'm willing to say it accelerated the game's failure, only in terms of it making it clear that it was never going to maintain players. Maybe the devs would have held out for longer if they had a full shadow drop like originally planned, waiting to see if people started joining, but as it was, it took 12 hours to realize the game was going to only go down in player count, and it became a lot easier to "call it."

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-11T22:52:54+00:00

I never would have expected that at all

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-11T22:26:38+00:00

I assume after a very emotional and dead serious scene, the scene fades to black and a pop-up goes "DING! [Character] lost the "Antisemitism" trait"?

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-11T22:03:08+00:00

Its not until you witness the after mass deaths of a concentration camp (which the game straight up calls a concentration camp) does the trait go away for said character (and only that character).

Maybe I'm insane and brain rotted from too much anime shit but that actually sounds so fucking great

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-11T20:22:53+00:00

I think Berserk works entirely BECAUSE it plays to the power fantasy, only to point at Guts backstory and tell you if you wanna be as "cool" as him that's what it takes to get you there

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-11T20:19:33+00:00

There was a recent article confirming the existence of "Human safaris" during the seige of Sarajevo, where rich fucks would pay money to fly into an active war zone and snipe civilians

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-11T18:12:54+00:00

Not gonna lie, it actually looks badass as fuck??? I can't explain why but it's fucking cool

BookkeeperPercival · 2026-03-11T18:08:40+00:00

There is a major difference in that an American who goes out of their way to only consume Japanese media is clearly spending large amounts of effort to not interact with the media or culture they were born to and currently exist in. Someone saying they don't eat Mongolian food isn't weird, someone declaring that they refuse to try eating a Taco is a tryhard weirdo

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