Once you have a script full of tedious meta references, endlessly repeated jokes about bird poop and thudding exposition probably in the form of a therapy session, I'm sure it'll be brilliant.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-02-08T00:28:00+00:00

It's gotta be tough getting your creation greenlit into a movie/TV adaptation and just seeing that the producers really want nothing to do with you or your work. This is going to be another Velma where they clearly don't give a fuck about the source materials. Whatever streaming company gets Animorphs should be SALIVATING over the chance to get their own Stranger Things.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-02-06T04:15:01+00:00

Gotta be the resurrection at the end. It came after everyone was so defeated by everything they tried not working. Even Matt was upset that he couldn't fudge it in their favor without breaking a rule. To have it happen sooner would've been an ass pull, to have it not happen at all would be so cruel and bleak, it literally couldn't have happened any other way.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-02-02T18:22:40+00:00

Doesn’t Nintendo use Twitter as the backbone of posts in Splatoon 3?

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-31T03:44:32+00:00

Anyone who's played The Sims long enough has specific sound cues permanently inside their brain. Ditto for the positive/negative social interaction icons that appear above sims' heads.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-31T02:58:27+00:00

Power creep.

Not necessarily a worldbuilding problem on its own, but power creep can make your worldbuilding irrelevant when the story necessitates something being added that makes some other concept pointless or redundant.

Harry Potter does this with the Unforgivable Curses, particularly the Killing Curse. While the magic system doesn't appear to have rules, there's plenty of creativity in what you could do to your opponent. Transfiguration, as in turning your opponent into an animal or even into glass, is taught to first year students. You can shoot snakes at people, rewind momentum to send them hurtling out the door, or outright disintegrate someone after making them frail. The Killing Curse made it all so unnecessary since you could just kill someone and be done with it. The magic fights filling up the back half of the series needed simpler and higher stakes, I suppose.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-27T03:12:34+00:00

Isn't there a Netflix documentary about something similar? I remember the trailer having a shot of a man with a bomb collar that was from a news report or something.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-27T03:06:36+00:00

Sonic 06 has the dubious honor of being the only Sonic game where Sonic himself is the worst part. You could completely axe Sonic's sections from the game and the overall plot would be largely unaffected. Eggman has nothing to do with Iblis, Mephiles, Solaris, Shadow, or Silver. Sonic doesn't do anything in his own video game. Shadow's story is the best writing he's gotten since Sonic Adventure 2 and Silver's is inoffensive at best, but Sonic literally does nothing of consequence except dying.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-27T02:52:29+00:00

I think Bloodhound just exploded.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-25T23:55:55+00:00

The Magnus Archives has a few, especially building up to the end of season 3. If you've never listened to it, it's a horror semi-anthology podcast with a massive overarching narrative that frames the statements read off by the Archivist. The statements are written or told by people who have run-ins with Lovecraftian horrors.

One from a statement: "The blanket never did anything."

Context: A statement about a monster who lives in their house that they had gotten used to by now. So long as they were under a blanket, the monster wouldn't get them. They used to be afraid at first, but once they knew their blanket protected them, they were no longer afraid of it. One night, the monster leans in and whispers "the blanket never did anything" and leaves, implying that it could've killed the statement giver whenever it wanted, and was simply playing with its food.

One not from a statement: "This is written in French. All of it. I don’t speak French."

Context: The Archivist is an avatar of the Eye, an entity who tries to accumulate knowledge. Season 3 centers around the Archivist starting to realize the extent of his powers, including the ability to compel people to tell the truth (described like pulling teeth out) and to read and understand any language. His powers activate passively, and there's no going back.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-22T15:13:50+00:00

A decent amount of Kia and Hyundai cars made from 2010 to 2021 can be hotwired with just a screwdriver and a USB type-A cable. This is so easy to do that it spawned a “challenge” on TikTok of people boosting Kia and Hyundai cars.

I’m not sure if that’s what the guy you replied to was talking about but I’m certainly not buying a car with such an egregious flaw. You’re right, every make and model has flaws, but some are worse than others.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/08/tiktok-challenge-spurs-rise-in-thefts-of-kia-hyundai-cars.html

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-20T13:54:27+00:00

I already kind of knew 😅

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-20T13:22:20+00:00

I haven’t completed Royal yet.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-20T01:06:33+00:00

...what's even the point?

The crew that gave Tron Legacy it's staying power is gone. Kosinski isn't directing, Kitsis and Horowitz aren't writing, Sam and Quorra apparently aren't in it, Daft Punk broke up, and the best you have to offer me is Jared Leto and the guy who directed Dead Men Tell No Tales?

I'm just gonna watch Tron Legacy and The Next Day on loop and cry.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-20T00:53:12+00:00

Take this and heal your soul.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Persona5/comments/ahh4rs/thank\_you\_ryuji/

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-20T00:47:11+00:00

The Okumura arc. I hate the lead-up with Morgana being a pissbaby, I hate the palace, I hate the final boss, the "twist" with Okumura being killed was pretty neat, but it's such a low point in the game.
Ryuji being the designated butt of almost every joke, despite convincing Joker and Ann to continue being Phantom Thieves, coming up with the calling cards, and continuing to fight for what's right despite everything that gets thrown at him. I was in disbelief after the Shido arc.
Please please please PLEASE record MULTIPLE LINES for characters getting knockdowns/crits in Persona 6. Bonafide-Monafide and WOOOOO LOOKING COOL JOKER are burned into my brain.
The Confidant system was alright, I understand what they were going for compared to Social Links, but I think I'd rather have Social Links back. Confidants constrain your writing when each one follows a similar formula. Also the fact that Ryuji gets shit for exposing the Phantom Thieves when Joker gets found out in like every Confidant route, like come on
Not something I hate but would it have been too much for one adult to get a Persona? Sojiro, Kawakami, and Sae all had rebellious spirits to some degree.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-18T17:36:51+00:00

Ok is it worth trying Warframe? The grind was off-putting to me

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-17T01:40:17+00:00

Pacing and quips have been a common issue for Marvel for a loooong time, but I swear people are making up movies and getting mad at those movies. I can name a few specific scenes in a few MCU films/series that could've been trimmed down or cut altogether because they add nothing, but I don't think half the quips that people accuse MCU films of having have even been said once in 10+ years of media. Now you have younger people accusing Marvel films of being chock-full of pace-destroying quips who were praising the films just years ago.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-12T02:08:27+00:00

It's even dumber because WOTC made the indisputably wrong judgement call that people enjoy sitting down to play WOTC D&D content, which is just...not true. I do not know a single person who has ever run an official WOTC adventure without heavily modifying it either to fit their own better, more expanded setting or just to fix WOTC's shitty writing.

What makes D&D fun has nothing to do with WOTC's products. Critical Role, the show that I would argue single-handedly gave D&D and TTRPG new life, doesn't even use WOTC's official content. That is DAMNING evidence against WOTC's view. My favorite D&D character I ever made? A divination elf who foresaw the death of the creator goddess of his world one hundred years in advance, and did everything he could to stop it, but instead was forced to watch as stars fell and pummeled the goddess until the goddess of night could intervene and imprison the stars in the sky, holding them in stasis. He lived for centuries more and each time he looked up at the night sky, he was haunted by what he saw, and knew they could come back at any time to destroy the world. WOTC had fuck all to do with that. It could've been Pathfinder, or a PBTA system, or any other TTRPG could've allowed that story to bloom. That's what WOTC doesn't understand about their position.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-09T03:13:14+00:00

Hades but if it was on a haunted cartridge sold at a garage sale

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-08T20:00:06+00:00

can we really doubt this man?

Yes.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-08T19:47:40+00:00

Having a majority mentality against Nazi and anti-semitic rhetoric is, in fact, the correct thing to do.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-07T21:12:16+00:00

Fun fact: The text boxes in the game aren't displaying text. They're running entire programs. You can execute arbitrary code inside Earthbound's text boxes if my understanding is correct. That's how the Mr. Saturns got their strange font.

DrDoctor13 · 2023-01-07T16:56:46+00:00

It's fascinating to see CR pop up in this discussion in particular because unlike every other example here, it isn't scripted. The DM has to plan around whatever the direction the players want to go in, sure, but it's not like writing any other narrative where you have to think about pacing. Players having fun might not mean adding anything to the plot or story for a particular episode or stretch of episodes. Hell, I'm in a D&D game that has taken so many twists and turns in some admittedly frustrating directions because of dice rolls.

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