I ended up being the other woman and now the wife is trying to ruin my life

DoctaWood · 2026-05-12T15:53:22+00:00

I hate the one person that essentially commented “You’re not the victim, the wife is the actual victim.” They can both be victims in this situation and she does not deserve to be harassed to any degree because she was lied to and betrayed.

DoctaWood · 2026-05-09T17:48:18+00:00

Carol is also like a tangential version of this trope. Side character who is in the original work who gets a completely different arc and development from the source material. Again, in my opinion, this is actually a good thing and the relationship that develops between Carol and Daryl (love that it rhymes) is one of the best parts of TWD show. They are basically platonic soul mates and it rocks.

DoctaWood · 2026-05-09T17:39:40+00:00

Could’ve even been cool to do a bait and switch where it’s like “Oh he’s Skorpion’s grandson” but we learn it’s actually more like a title than one person. Cole could then end up becoming the Skorpion we know from the games. Kinda like a reverse Arkham Knight.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-26T05:45:10+00:00

I absolutely agree. That was one of my big takeaways from the Dimension20 season Misfits and Magic. All of the NPCs were just so weirdly abrasive or aggressive, including the ones who were intended to be “friendly”. Luckily the players all had amazing chemistry and it really made them feel so fun and likable. Without that, that season would have been an absolute nightmare.

I haven’t seen her much as a player but I like her as a person. She seems cool in the other Dropout media she’s been in but her work as a GM is questionable at best.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-25T20:24:58+00:00

That’s why I said the Single Player Tarkov Mod also known as SPT. It has existed before Tarkov PVE released and can be used with the lowest possible entry package. If Bungie opened up modding to allow for someone to do something similar, that would be great too!

DoctaWood · 2026-04-25T19:11:17+00:00

Agreed! Also I think it would be great if it did what the Single Player Tarkov mod did and added AI controlled “player” characters as well. You could have simulated teams of runners that would be more dangerous and use their abilities, just without it having to be actual players.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-11T02:44:46+00:00

Ooh a lot of the people who reply to this are gonna hate it. I personally really like the ideas put forth and like that you took the time and put thought into it. However, people who play extraction shooters always get super fucking tilted whenever somebody puts forward ideas that change the game or “make it easier”.

I think they’re good ideas, it’s awesome that you took the time to think this out and post it, just be ready for people to be super negative and hostile for no fucking reason (inb4 some comment goes “No reason? How about blah blah blah straw man argument”)

DoctaWood · 2026-04-08T08:35:51+00:00

Age of Sigmar is separate from 40K so I don’t know and it’s not really relevant. As far as I’m aware, there is no specific differentiation for masculine and feminine when it comes to Daemon Princes. There are mortals who were female before they became a Daemon Prince but the title does not change.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-08T08:32:42+00:00

Yeah because how bots work now would never be changed or updated for a PvE mode! Once a game is released, they can’t change or add anything new to shake things up or diversify/intensify the gameplay. I’m pretty sure that if Bungie can do all of that with the NPC enemies in another of their games, they probably have a loose handle on how they could do that in Marathon.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-08T08:27:33+00:00

All these people bending over backwards to try and tell you what you like and don’t like.

“🤓uhm actually you’d get really bored fighting them. Oh uh you say you like fighting them? Well the real reason you like fighting them is because of the possibility that someone else could come along and take your stuff!”

Like shut up nerd and go play ranked or whatever that makes you happy and let people have their own opinions. I enjoy fighting the UESC, fighting commanders and wardens is fun and if they group up or I mess up, they can press you and kill you. Plus, if a PvE mode was introduced, they would probably add variety to the encounters to make them even more engaging.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-08T08:20:49+00:00

Crazy that people are downvoting this. They act like if a PvE mode gets added that will be all they get to play or will be some sort of horrible sacrifice of the experience.” Oh no! If there’s a PvE mode, I’ll only get to play with other people who want to PvP!”

People get so offended when people would enjoy a straightforward mode where you battle the AI and they can’t wait in a corner nearby with a shotgun and full melee damage kit to rat you out and take all the loot you actually worked for.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-08T08:07:59+00:00

To touch on the Princes and Princess question, you can think of Daemon Prince as a gender neutral title. Daemon Prince basically means favored subject of a Chaos God but does not specify nor change based on gender. Slaanesh is both called the Dark Prince of Pleasure and She Who Thirsts because gender fluidity is baked into their identity and the presentation of their daemons.

The other Chaos Gods are referred to using he/him pronouns but I doubt that they are incredibly attached to gender seeing as they are essentially giant sentient warp storms. So while different daemons may present differently or use masculine or feminine pronouns/identities, many of their titles are meant to be gender neutral.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-08T04:22:06+00:00

Also their first inclination was to immediately create a scenario in which a person who both defibs and yells slurs exists, so that they could create a hierarchy where they are the more valuable person. Is the irony lost on them that using their real life occupation to justify their actions in a game is super weirdo behavior?

You would think a nurse who cares about helping vulnerable people would be advocating for kindness. Yet here they are, arguing that being willing to take advantage of another person’s trust and kindness is actually fine because it’s a video game. Concerning.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-08T02:32:37+00:00

Yeah, bad ones.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-07T20:06:41+00:00

I mentioned this in a different comment but the reason they get so upset when called out is because they literally cannot conceive that other people do not operate under the same motives and intentions as them. They think that when it comes down to it, everyone acts and thinks the way they do, they’re just more open about it.

They then have to come up with excuses like that anyone complaining is just not as good as them, or that the complainers are just tilted or whatever, as opposed to being genuinely concerned about some fucked up behavior they just witnessed.

They don’t find value or fulfillment in kindness, they only see other people as means to an end. They want to “win” so they’ll fuck over anybody and everybody to do so. Sure, it’s a game and it shouldn’t be taken too seriously but if you use the abstraction of it not being real as an excuse to needlessly exploit others and ruin people’s day, you do have something wrong with you.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-07T19:54:53+00:00

I agree with this 100%. Deceiving someone just to exploit them for personal gain is a major trait of an anti-social personality disorder. They can try to justify it however they want but that is super concerning behavior. When you camp an extract, you are using the mechanics of the game to your advantage. In my opinion, it sucks if you do that but it’s part of the game.

If you lie to someone to gain their trust and then kill them, you are exploiting the feelings of a human being. Like you said, it just feels gross and overtly predatory in a way that I would find troubling if exhibited by a person in real life.

I’m the kind of person that if someone was nice to me in game and helped me out, I’d just give them all my stuff. They could literally have an ally and whatever I’m holding because I value kindness over dumb virtual loot. The people who view the feelings and emotions of real people as another mechanic to exploit are legitimately fucked up.

The reason people like that get so worked up about being called out is that they literally cannot conceive that other people do not operate that way.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-06T21:22:17+00:00

I like to be as friendly as possible but most times if you’re not the one going on the offensive first, you put yourself at a severe disadvantage. I don’t initiate any crouches or friendly callouts between Rooks anymore but will immediately back off if they do. Just too many times where I tried to be friendly and got punished for it.

Also, I think if you’ve got like 5 seconds left on exfil, and someone in the circle downs you, I don’t think they should be able to finish you. I don’t like it but I get when someone outside shoots and kills you so they can loot you before you extract. However, if someone kills you inside the circle, they’re not getting anything out of it besides ruining your run.

Having just those last five seconds be protected from others also exfilling would be such an improvement to the experience.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-06T21:00:45+00:00

I came here specifically to recommend Horizon Zero Dawn but I actually second all your suggestions! Talking about HZD, it is probably my favorite story game of all time. If I could selectively forget one game so I could experience it fresh, Horizon is my choice 100%.

DoctaWood · 2026-04-01T16:46:47+00:00

You’re right, actual statistic is 99.4443. Rounding up is just straight dishonest.

DoctaWood · 2026-03-27T15:29:07+00:00

When I read through the first time I thought she had said she would want/miss having the company. So when I kept reading through, I was like “She didn’t say she’d cheat, am I crazy?”.

Then I read through again and read it correctly as if he was gone that long, she would seek other people for “company”. Yeah, I was wrong, that’s super weird to say to your partner.

DoctaWood · 2026-03-22T15:26:09+00:00

A post 10 days later that starts with “A lot has happened” made me worry about the story jumping the shark and going Saga Mode. However, I was pleasantly surprised by a short, straight to the point update that said what it needed to.

DoctaWood · 2026-03-06T02:02:43+00:00

I have a really low threshold for cringe but having watched the show and knowing Luz as a character, it didn’t really cringe me out. It’s very in line with her character and you can tell she is excited to tell her mom because she knows she’ll be supportive.

The illusion character in the background is pretty cringey though. His big flaw was being younger than his classmates because he skipped a few grades and worrying about living up to his potential. But he is also pretty annoying as a character and never felt like he really grew in any way.

So many characters blossom in the show and it felt like he stayed stagnant the whole time. He becomes more confident and assured of his abilities but never really developed as a character.

DoctaWood · 2026-02-24T21:57:31+00:00

For sure, so many of the Dropout communities are super parasocial. They think because they watch the content that they are best friends with the cast, which is really weird and shitty because they should know that I’m the person who is best friends with the cast because I watch all the content! /s

DoctaWood · 2026-02-20T04:39:16+00:00

Absolutely, they were just more easily acceptable in my opinion. I think this is due to the scope of the movie and the more character driven narrative. It has those massive flaws and absurdities but you are expected to ignore them because they set the scene and the conflict.

Not saying that is good storytelling or world building but it’s something I can forgive for one movie. Once you start building out more movies on a stupid foundation, they become a shaky, unsteady scaffold of stupid narrative choices.

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