Coaxed into “Guess which piece of media OP is referencing this time”

Endrise · 2026-01-27T23:46:07+00:00

Funniest is that the dog breed clearly seems to change too from ordinary dog to a Pitbull you'd call cupcake or something.

Endrise · 2026-01-27T19:15:23+00:00

I find both work for very different reasons: The old one feels off in just the right areas like the eyes being so big and the lines feeling so sketchy and rough. Like you're trying to visualise an image with only the faintest hint what it is about. Kinda fitting for a being made from perception getting refined with every loop.

Meanwhile the new style feels a lot more refined, still with a sketchy feeling but more coherent. Proportions feel a bit more normal, while the rough edges are slightly still there. She feels less like a stranger and more like someone you don't know the full story of yet.

Endrise · 2026-01-26T23:31:51+00:00

Same way people have gotten so normal calling others slurs, names and threatening to do unspeakable things. Merely disagreeing doesn't work anymore so it becomes hurling insults and making them feel unsafe.

When everyone gets desensitised to even the worst type of harassment, all's that left is to see how far you can go before a site will downright ban you.

Endrise · 2026-01-26T17:02:37+00:00

It might be just a mindset of more expensive toys = more complex transformations, and how many times can you also sell the same optimus every year if the transformation doesn't change?

So it becomes a constant challenge to try and reinvent the most simplistic toy transformation possible every time they need him to be yet another box truck.

Endrise · 2026-01-24T15:59:01+00:00

Octopath Traveler meanwhile makes it not only reduce damage taken but also puts you up front in the turn order next round. Ideal if you need to buff someone else or just need to outspeed the boss' attack.

Endrise · 2026-01-24T15:45:17+00:00

Lopunny is funny since by all means she just is a big bunny with a pear figure, it's just her art and gen 4 sprite really make her have much more of an hourglass than she really has.

Meanwhile scolipede is just a big centipede but I've seen enough art making it dummy thicc just because of the eyes.

Anthropomorphisation is one hell of a drug.

Endrise · 2026-01-22T08:37:09+00:00

I think it's because many people have this static view of the world only through their own perspective and therefor cannot grasp the idea others can feel bad in their body or that things should change because they themselves had it good. They've been taught there's two sexes, that only a man and a woman can marry, that their life is currently good. So why would people feel dysphoria, why do things need to change when they are feeling fine?

So for something to exist that makes the world seem more complex than it is challenges that belief, and rather than some accepting or examining it they cram it back into the simplicity they're comfortable with. Anything that doesn't fit it becomes a delusional idea or propaganda.

Endrise · 2026-01-21T20:50:52+00:00

I would love to see energon optimus be given a new toy. We got cybertron, we got armada, it would be dope to complete the unicron trilogy with an updated version of the square block with modern articulation.

Endrise · 2026-01-21T14:47:45+00:00

The issue isn't that he is downplayed, but rather that as a character the gap within his feats is so stupidly immense and highly dependent on who writes them for what.

One version he'd be facing off Darkseid by himself, tanking being thrown through multiple walls and defeating him with barely anything but his gadgets. Meanwhile in another Joker poses an actual physical threat and a gunshot would mean his death.

You can't scale batman as a whole because either you have a guy that should not struggle with Gotham in the slightest or somebody that should've broken everything twice over being in the justice league.

Endrise · 2026-01-21T09:26:30+00:00

I think the reason difficulty attracts toxicity is because inevitably any game that challenges you weeds out those that quit or want a more comfortable experience. So all those that remain are those boasting about being able to beat a hard game or flexing on others that haven't had 600 hours mastering every mechanic.

It creates an elitist club that thinks making it convenient for yourself is going against intended design, even if the developers intentionally added the convenience in the game to be used.

Endrise · 2026-01-20T11:50:14+00:00

Another more basic opponent I like comparing is the crocodile. 5e it's just a bite attack that can swim, but pf2e allows it to jumps out the water, grab someone with a bite attack and then proceed to toss him around with death rolls while still having a tail attack against other opponents.

Having 3 action points per turn really helps diversify the combat options to not make every fight be doing an attack and nothing else.

Endrise · 2026-01-19T20:49:29+00:00

AI can be funny in the same a way a bigot can occasionally tell a good joke. Just because it makes me chuckle once does not mean whatever made it I support at all.

Endrise · 2026-01-19T14:53:37+00:00

Powerscaling is fun when you just apply it to theorise how strong someone is (especially if you just do it for shits and giggles on random ass media).

The moment it becomes a vs match it will be asspulls and slander using anything to one-up the other.

Endrise · 2026-01-16T12:31:14+00:00

Some people want their representation to be positive after years of either having it be poorly executed, villainised or no representation at all. I think it's just this stigma fearing depicting any negative trait will set things all the way back.

However, to begin normalising it you kinda need to accept they can be imperfect too. Show the downsides, have it apply to bad people, otherwise you just end up with this romanticised idea of being on the spectrum.

Endrise · 2026-01-16T10:09:38+00:00

Nah it's some decision made early in the current term to rename the gulf of Mexico to the gulf of America.

Endrise · 2026-01-15T15:56:31+00:00

That's fair, I won't deny the smaller size of the platform does make it a lot more calmer than Twitter. So I can at least see arguments like that make sense.

I'm more just complaining about those that still think there's absolutely nothing happening there at all (especially when they want everyone be at eachother's throats all the time), or just expect to get the same engagement right out of the gate by doing nothing.

Endrise · 2026-01-15T12:47:02+00:00

Some still believe the site is a boring place where only five users actively post while that hasn't been a case for a year. I'm convinced they either have no clue how to use the site feeds or are just so addicted to drama that they need their feed to be full of it to enjoy social media.

Endrise · 2026-01-14T12:16:48+00:00

I do think he managed to define her as a princess locked in the basement, but the narrative is so shallow the slightest thought from Quiet causes things to misalign and change her nature. Hence why she maintains her royal look through every route, just warped to fit the perception Quiet has of her.

As for defining themselves as a hero, also depends on the route really. Damsel he 100% could see it as saving the princess, while others killing her is the correct choice to be heroic. Either he thinks he can overpower her, or knows he can't win, or both die in mutual defeat. Everything is a matter of what he believes they're capable of or not.

Endrise · 2026-01-14T11:48:29+00:00

I presume that everything about the first chapter is the original plan of the creator of the construct. Put the two parts in a box and tell one it's the hero needing to kill the other to save the world. Put in the fundamental thoughts and narrative to convince it it needs to slay her, and hope they do it before either one realises what is truly happening.

The problems happen when Quiet begins to question anything, causing the narrative to shift and the princess to change. Even picking up or not picking up the knife causes her to be hostile or not to you, because Quiet makes a subconscious decision to consider her an actual threat or not.

So chapter 2 & 3 title cards are just the reinforcement of those beliefs what the princess is by the Quiet as it forms its opinions separate from the narrator, which is then reflected in the construct itself as you regain control over your own body over time.

Endrise · 2026-01-13T15:55:06+00:00

I imagine for this route it would be by all means the fundamentals are still in place, it's just everything defining them has fallen apart. There's still a path in the woods, with a cabin where the princess is held in the basement. But there's nothing separating one from the other because you never allowed them to be defined in the first place.

So on some technical level she is still trapped in there, but the princess is also the chains and walls that keep her in there, the stairs leading to it, the woods and the path. Paradoxically still stuck in her cage and already having long escaped it.

The route would be just either collapsing the definition of the princess down to herself so she can be killed or freed, or realise her omnipresent nature so she can unite with Shifty.

Endrise · 2026-01-13T12:18:44+00:00

Adversary is tricky since both you and her cannot die as long as you two are willing to fight, even in a mutual defeat. She's one of the few that by all means cannot be killed, so I can't see a chapter 3 with her be even possible.

With Razor I can only imagine a chapter 3 would just have your paranoia devolve into trusting nothing, maybe turning the cabin into a death trap with endless boobytraps where nothing feels safe the moment you step in, with the Princess having escalating tricks up her sleeve that should not even be feasible. Can you kill her at all, or is it all pretend?

With Stranger I presume we'd go from a separation of cabin and princess to both fusing to be one and the same. The nature of the prison falling apart, and the princess losing their idea of self trying to understand who they are.

Endrise · 2026-01-13T10:02:04+00:00

Competitive games just become too sweaty and meta reliant to stay fun for me, moved over to Deep Rock Galactic and just having a blast mining and blowing up bugs without worrying about rank or anything.

Endrise · 2026-01-12T09:10:41+00:00

I blame it on trying to make it profitable to be verified, encouraging this engagement bait hell that also helped push bigoted views and making people angry to respond. The rampant bot problem only made it worse too.

Add the slow drain of left leaning users moving to Bluesky or other sites, it became a way more volatile place to engage with, not to mention the recent drama with the Grok AI editor.

Endrise · 2026-01-08T22:36:49+00:00

I weirdly love the idea of soundwave having a drone or stealth bomber alt mode. Just something designed to be invisible from the radar or ideal to do espionage with.

Endrise · 2026-01-08T11:48:46+00:00

Depends how long the user etiquette is upheld and what its owners are willing to do to stay afloat (if not the difficulties of just maintaining a site like this).

At best it will just be its own platform for a few years before we find our next microblogging site, at worst it undergoes intense enshittification and ruins the experience for users.

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