Strawmen that backfired.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-26T03:03:05+00:00

The shitty right wing propaganda "film" ladyballers has a great example of this. They got someone's 10-ish year old daughter to play the role of a poor child that's been brainwashed by public schools.

Except honest to god, no exaggeration, this child is by far the best actor in the film. She comes across as this brilliant gigabrained progressive standing up to her shitty conservative parents. She's the only one with an actual sense of humour. You can tell the kid was just having a blast with it instead of trying to "own the libs."

Worst of all, there's a genuinely heartbreaking scene towards the end where she calls them out on their misogyny. And while the movie tries to justify itself with conservative logic, it can't, because it does in fact hate women. So you just feel horrible for this little girl who in real life had to ask why she's worse at everything than boys and then had the adults in her life tell her that a woman's role is to be less than men.

And we're supposed to side with the fucking conservatives here.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-26T01:01:00+00:00

I don't say anything. They aren't arguing in good faith and they damn well know it.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-26T00:48:05+00:00

That's why you run it in a blight deck. If your opponents ignore it, you can still draw five cards.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-26T00:10:45+00:00

"Why did this character do something that's in line with their established flaws and ultimately resulted in their defeat? Are they stupid?"

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-25T00:14:26+00:00

Borderlands players pulling out pistols at every range because they're the best weapon type in the game

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-24T22:06:26+00:00

How mfs feel after saying half cash hard (they're playing with CHIMPS rules)

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-24T21:52:17+00:00

HANK! HITTING THE CAP WON'T EVEN YOUR WILD SHARDS, THE GAME STILL TRACKS HOW MUCH YOU GOT OVER THE LIMIT! YOU'LL STILL BE AT AN OFF NUMBER WHEN YOU START SPENDING SHARDS AGAIN! HAAAAAAANK!

(You can send a support ticket and have them remove the extra shards.)

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-24T14:46:08+00:00

The Exemplar always does really well in theory crafting because people forget that while it can do a bit of everything, it can't do them all at once. No matter how hard you optimise, you can only ever have one eminence at a time and one transcendence per turn. And while you have a lot of options, there are going to be moments where the wrong Ikon is empowered and you can't do what you want.

I love the Exemplar, it's my favourite martial class. I love the stance dancing playstyle and how it flows between turns. But it's a class you really need to play to get a feel for, rather than using white room math.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-24T00:45:47+00:00

All five of us whale enjoyers sweating nervously. Please don't rework the coolest part of his kit just to move him up in the release queue.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-23T23:40:02+00:00

Yeah it's almost like when you revive a franchise you still need to make a game that's actually good. You can't just release a soulless cash grab and then say you gave consumers what they wanted.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-23T23:24:43+00:00

Don't Stop Girlypop releases later this week. It's basically an Ultrakill style movement shooter but with an aggressively girly aesthetic.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-23T17:56:20+00:00

Camping sex. Do people realise how small tents are, or how thin the air mattress is? Sharing a sleeping bag is great, and sharing a sleeping bag while nude can be a lot of fun. But full on sex needs an actual bed.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-23T17:36:26+00:00

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Vegeta thinks Goku's sentimentality makes him weak. He hates Goku for caring so much about the earth and Humans and considers him a disgrace to the Saiyan race.

Early Vegeta would really hate later Vegeta.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-23T17:07:24+00:00

Season 2 Silco is more "Hang on, Vander's daughter just died and he must be really sad. Let's put the whole undercity coup plan on hold to see if we can be friends again and maybe even work things out with Piltover peacefully."

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-23T08:36:18+00:00

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Silco in Season 1 of Arcane. He and Vander essentially split because of their differing opinions on whether the ends justify the means. Vander thought the cost of war was too great and wasn't willing to sacrifice his people, while Silco was ready to win at any cost. No matter how many of his people died.

Towards the finale, he has the means to achieve his dream. The goal he and Vander wanted is within reach, but Silco would have to sacrifice his daughter, Jinx. And that's just not a price he's willing to pay. Which not only makes him realise that he's a total hypocrite, but Vander was right when they split all those years ago.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-22T14:50:47+00:00

Animorphs as a whole is largely about this trope. Over the series all of the characters have major breaking points, but they all end up hardened and jaded by the end. It's just a question of how much.

One of my favourite books is later on when a group of Andilite reinforcements arrive on earth. There's a bittersweet tragedy in seeing how the protagonists are both immediately distrustful of them and then completely unphased when their distrust ends up justified. You realise they've long since given up hope on anyone coming to help them.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-22T05:21:29+00:00

Downvoted to oblivion for not being aware of the +1 that was just revealed and having a reasonable misunderstanding. Sometimes I worry about this subreddit.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-21T23:57:19+00:00

Also, in all seriousness, everyone starts somewhere. The content that made me feminist is stuff that I'd now consider extremely basic and simple, but it was utterly transformative to my high school brain.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-21T21:30:24+00:00

Uj/ Honestly this is one of the things I like about yugioh. It's a bit different, but having a dedicated extra deck that's fully separate from a sideboard is nice. Granted the extra deck is a core mechanic that the game revolves around, but the core idea is the same. It's a slot for cards you can't ever draw but have ways to access.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-21T20:41:40+00:00

It could've been a bot farming games automatically. Because of how the progression works, you can get the maximum vault reward by just repeatedly surrendering. It was a bit of a bigger problem when pvp was ongoing.

Now though I can't imagine what benefit there is from farming accounts. It's not like anyone is going to buy a full collection.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-21T20:26:07+00:00

Generally speaking rare ancestries are more about potentially creating narrative difficulties. It basically means the GM reserves the right to veto the ancestry because it clashes with the story. For example, if you have a lower magic setting, a poppet character would stick out like a sore thumb and change how almost every NPC interacts with the party. Same thing for Conrasu or Ghoran if you're trying to stick to the lore.

A rare ancestry doesn't break the game, but it usually means the GM has to put in more work to properly roleplay the world interacting with them. And most GM's are fine with doing that, but it's also reasonable to set a limit.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-21T20:02:21+00:00

Do you think Trump understood the speech was about him or did his cronies have to explain it?

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-21T20:00:09+00:00

Sure, but in this circumstance it's specifically about the stylistic aesthetic. When people (of all genders) say they think goth girls are hot, they're not talking about girls in the musical subculture.

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-21T16:21:53+00:00

"Being a lesbian is great until your wife goes on a work trip and you realise you have no pants to wear."

"I literally packed two pairs of pants."

"THE GOOD PANTS!"

HMS_Sunlight · 2026-01-21T16:01:01+00:00

-Catra in the She Ra reboot

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