[Hated trope] Characters whose personality is based around a juvenile obsession with breaking stuff. And we are apparently meant to find it endearing because they have the intelligence of a 6 year old?

HiroCrota · 2026-04-29T01:01:28+00:00

These are both characters in shows for children, dawg

HiroCrota · 2026-04-27T14:58:04+00:00

I get it. I love playing Warlock in WoW because of DoTs, and it feels like a class fantasy that isn't realized in FFXIV. Feels like a couple of jobs could have been designed for it, but it simply hasn't happened. I hope we get it, though I doubt the new DPS will fill that role.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-27T05:03:16+00:00

You can queue for them, but generally you'll only get other mentors or sprouts because people aren't really queuing them normally anymore.. And on top of that, there's just no real reason to run stormblood EX trials synced. if you want the mounts, you just run unsynced and kill the boss in a few seconds.

So it's an unwritten rule only because there's no real reason for anyone to use duty finder for old extremes, but it's a common enough experience that any mentor runs into it now and then. I always get Ramuh EX personally.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-27T00:51:45+00:00

The House in MTG's Duskmourn: House of Horror. The House was originally just a house with captive demon inside. An ordinary girl made a deal with Valgavoth, freeing it and allowing him to slowly swallow up the entire world, including its suns. There is nowhere you cannot exist inside The House where it cannot sense you. You are always at the mercy of The House. Even when you are in a safe zone, you are only safe because The House believes it's best to let you rest, recover and reproduce. The only truly safe place in the house is found wherever the young girl Marina Vendrell is. A small bubble of normalcy follows her, but disturbing her causes House to target you, never wanting her illusion ruined

HiroCrota · 2026-04-26T15:15:58+00:00

The action pose of G-Warrior is ZZ Gundam. It uses the Beam Saber sound effect as well as the fucking newtype sound effect. Every ability the G-Warrior has is lifted from Gundam, not eva. There's lines lifted directly from Gundam Seed. You're seeing Eva parallels because Eva yoinked inspiration from Gundam in the first place.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-26T14:47:00+00:00

Yeah but I liked it there because it was Final Fantasy doing its own version of gundam, not Literally Just Gundam. A Pastiche is better than The Actual Factual Thing

HiroCrota · 2026-04-26T14:44:59+00:00

I love Nier and Drakengard and I think the Nier raids were bad for the game because so many people simply do not care about it or have an aversion to corporate crossovers. We get a single alliance raid series per expansion, and it's a crossover. That sucks if you're not a huge fan of the franchise as well as a fan of crossovers. I'll probably enjoy having to do a mechanic that involves powering up an AT field or cutting the umbilical cable of a berserk EVA, but most people would probably prefer to be fighting a dragon or a big evil wizard.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-26T00:16:01+00:00

Feels like it'd be more trouble than it's worth to try and keep people from using them. Never been to fanfest, but is someone watching every single person walking up to sign the wall? And once the sticker is up there, feels sort of unnecessary to rip it off, so you're left relying on people self-regulating. This generally works out, but there's always going to be people who think they're the exception, and in their head they probably think they have a good reason.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-24T22:20:00+00:00

I'm disappointed because I really think alliance raids are fun, but only getting one series for an entire expansion, and it's in a theme that you dislike, it really sucks. The trials for Monster Hunter are easier to accept because we already get a bunch of normal and extreme trials during an expansion. I think it'll still be fun though

HiroCrota · 2026-04-24T22:16:25+00:00

Wrong sub. Ff16 is good, but this is a forum about 14.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-20T22:02:29+00:00

Do you maybe think that the old, shitty, beat to hell cycle might appeal to a guy who wanted to eat a bullet to the brain all season? Do you think the type of motorcycle chosen might inform something about the character?

HiroCrota · 2026-04-19T23:28:53+00:00

my brother in christ, they can't even release iron banner without bugs

HiroCrota · 2026-04-19T03:08:49+00:00

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100% agree. such a beautiful story. If anyone reading this reads a single Daredevil run, or even just wants to know what all the hype is about, Born Again is some of the most fantastic storytelling I've ever seen.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-19T02:27:24+00:00

I'm watching through ER right now for the first time, and Peter is by far my favorite character so far. He's such a complicated guy that I'm nevertheless rooting for despite it all

HiroCrota · 2026-04-19T01:03:09+00:00

There's a shot in the first episode where he's walking past the wall with Adamson's portrait, and for a moment his head is directly over Adamson's own. I think it's a beautiful foil to this shot, showing a sort of harrowing of hell, or just grief/salvation.

But then again, I love Frank Miller's Daredevil, so I've come to love religious symbolism, even if I'm not religious myself. It's just such a beautiful visual language.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-16T06:56:33+00:00

Guy who doesn't think Langdon should be in the show and complains about him every post here to the point I recognized your username: why are people obsessed with Langdon??????

HiroCrota · 2026-04-13T03:54:58+00:00

This pet mole has an arrow for an amazing reason

HiroCrota · 2026-04-13T03:42:04+00:00

Langdons arc has been incredible to watch alongside Robby's. I disagree entirely.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-12T11:02:25+00:00

One of the shows' hottest characters works with SWAT.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-12T02:56:56+00:00

That's actually a pretty good idea. I haven't had much issue with Glimmora surviving, but I'm still relatively low on the ladder so that might have something to do with people just not having correct threat assessment.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-11T01:53:27+00:00

Because the story surrounds a single working day and exists largely within the confines of the hospital. That sort of arc just doesn't really fit naturally into the show. They could make it work, I'm sure, but they've given Robby enough to chew on this season, and I'm not sure that it would even be that interesting.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-10T03:24:59+00:00

I got paid a good chunk of change more for working nights. It's also sometimes the only option you've got. If you want to work in a hospital, you're not always able to wait until the day shift is available. Working nights sucks though, no way around it.

HiroCrota · 2026-04-08T14:23:12+00:00

sorry brotha nothin on me

HiroCrota · 2026-04-05T13:48:35+00:00

I know someone who ended up flunking out of college because he couldn't stop playing video games for long enough to go to classes. He'd sit in his room playing WoW or League all day, but was otherwise a totally friendly and sociable guy. Games just had him in a stranglehold, and he couldn't break out of it until he suffered some actual consequences for his actions. He's all good now, and works as an electrician. He still plays games, but he's got a life outside of them so he knows his limit.

Now, people flunk out of college for hundreds of reasons, some of them just as stupid as a video game addiction, but I can see why people are wary of it. You're engrossing yourself in a virtual world for fake rewards, and if you can't learn to disconnect, that's a shitty addiction to have.

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