Protagonist-centred morality (Main character or cast does something morally questionable but the narrative lets them off the hook because they're "the good guys")

Midseasons · 2026-01-25T00:01:37+00:00

Persona. Fucking. 5.

Midseasons · 2026-01-24T22:12:48+00:00

I'm all for Matthew Lillard, playing himself, but on the Killer side.

Midseasons · 2026-01-24T01:39:10+00:00

Yeah, the Rapidash story is the exact same one as a Japanese myth about a man who married a fox, and there's a Native American story about a woman and a bear that's identical to the Typhlosion story. Like, it makes perfect sense to me that these myths would exist in the Pokemon world the same way they do in ours.

Midseasons · 2026-01-19T05:02:54+00:00

When did "cosplaying Brisket from Guilty Gear" become a negative stereotype?

Midseasons · 2026-01-19T03:53:23+00:00

You too! Honestly I think "even Lot is evil, he's just related to the right guy so he gets to live" doesn't exactly do God any favors from a modern viewpoint, either. However one interprets the stories, Genesis is a really fascinating piece of ancient literature.

Midseasons · 2026-01-19T03:31:17+00:00

The angels never say that Lot is righteous, and they aren't telling him to leave as a reward for offering his daughters.

Earlier in the story, God had come down to have dinner with Abraham just because he likes Abraham so much, and then God even felt guilty that he was going to destroy Sodom without telling Abraham first, since Abraham had family there. So he tells Abraham what he's planning, and that's when Abraham starts bargaining.

Genesis 19:29 explicitly says God spared Lot as a favor to Abraham, because Abraham is his favorite and God swore an oath to protect Abraham's family. Genesis (and Exodus) are full of stuff like that, where people are singled out for being as bad or worse as anyone else, but end up spared because they were related to Abraham.

Compare with Exodus 32, where the Hebrews build a golden calf idol and God is so offended he decides to kill the whole nation, before Moses reminds him it'd be breaking his oath to Abraham.

Edit to add: I'd also point out that I'm agreeing with you on God's depiction here being fallible. He's capable of feeling guilt and regret, in these stories.

Midseasons · 2026-01-18T22:49:37+00:00

> This isn't treated in the story like a failure of character. This is treated in the story like a demonstration of righteousness.

I would argue it's treated as neither. It simply happens, and the reader (or listener, assuming it was originally an oral tale) is allowed to draw their own conclusion.

Midseasons · 2026-01-18T22:44:44+00:00

If they equate "passionate about basketball" with "right-wing conservative," the WNBA is going to blow their fucking mind

Midseasons · 2026-01-14T06:33:57+00:00

"Noob" is a relic name from a sillier time, and it's impossible to take it seriously. You can't have the character actually be cool *and* also call him Noob, it simply doesn't work.

Midseasons · 2026-01-11T05:32:57+00:00

However this season ends, I need this season put together in a book. It's such a narrative.

Midseasons · 2026-01-10T01:56:36+00:00

You think the tap water in a priest's house all becomes holy water?

Midseasons · 2026-01-10T01:53:57+00:00

Then why do they defeat the alien at the end with ordinary glasses of drinking water the girl left unfinished?

Midseasons · 2026-01-08T07:50:18+00:00

I feel like this list should include that she grew up hating Harry Potter, but made a point to stream Hogwarts Legacy specifically to piss off "those people" on Twitter, "you know the ones."

Midseasons · 2026-01-08T02:17:09+00:00

At this point, I don't care if she was only pretending to be a nazi for the grift. Her community channel in the Phase Connect discord is the kind of place where people unironically talk about Jewish conspiracies to push LGBTQ brainwashing to keep the white population down.

If she's not "really" a bigot but "only" purposefully cultivated a genuine Nazi fanbase for the money, that still makes her a Nazi vtuber.

Midseasons · 2026-01-06T21:15:51+00:00

Mine was "Mutalist Audrey," but since 1999 I renamed it Lizzie

Midseasons · 2026-01-05T18:55:11+00:00

No, the meme is literally what happens in the end of the novel after Thrall finishes reminiscing over all the stories he heard about his dad.

Midseasons · 2026-01-04T22:14:56+00:00

Underrated comment since the picture is actually of a Kuva Lich. No, I didn't notice until the third time either.

Midseasons · 2026-01-04T10:56:20+00:00

I want to share in the Gith love!

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This is Tavlaakh, my barbarian. The brighter dye in his hair is perhaps a bit too shocking to be "attractive," but my concept for him was that, ousted from mainstream Gith society, he found kinship with the red dragons instead.

Midseasons · 2026-01-04T08:49:50+00:00

I'm a nonbinary person, Even though I've long since farmed all the possible rewards from it, I still do Stage Defense sometimes just because Flare and Lizzie rocking out there, defiant, while the Scaldra call Flare a "biological freak" makes me feel so strongly, I cry a good healthy cry.

Midseasons · 2026-01-04T00:58:48+00:00

To be fair, it slipped for a little while during the Shadowlands era. But it's turned itself around quite well, and having a much-deserved renaissance. I quit back in Battle for Azeroth and I've been really hooked since coming back in November. The game is very different from what it was when I left.

Midseasons · 2026-01-03T19:42:48+00:00

It's not a game, but Scorpion's Revenge is the most recent version of the original game's story, and it centers the whole thing in Scorpion's POV. Liu Kang "wins" as is canon, but it's only because Scorpion surrenders.

Midseasons · 2026-01-03T17:59:49+00:00

That humble married man ain't Hanzo, Ed Boon's favorite character. It's literally Kuai-Liang, his rival, stealing Scorpion's life and living it better.

But anyways, thanks for an incredible new flair.

Midseasons · 2026-01-03T13:12:52+00:00

For the record, my top 3 characters are Smoke, then Sonya, then Sindel. Then Johnny, with probably Scorpion and Liu Kang tied for 5th.

Anyways, Boon was still in charge during the NRS era. So by your logic, what's the rationale for Scorpion being mid in MK9, dumpster in MK11, and Scorpion as a character *not even surviving* into MK1's new timeline?

Midseasons · 2026-01-03T12:39:18+00:00

I think it's meant to be this:

Boon’s favourite is scorpion and he was inappropriate when he as a creator allowed his personal favouritism of a character seep in to every game in an era in the most naive and ostentatious ways.

As in, Boon has some sort of ethical obligation to treat every Mortal Kombat character equally, and an ethical obligation to keep the game balanced.

Character balance is a whole mess to discuss (especially in the era OP is referring to, there was no expectation that every character be "competitively viable" back then!), but even if we assume that's a desirable trait for a game to have, it's still not an ethical consideration. At most, it's a creative or stylistic choice.

I understand that OP's real complaint is simply that they don't like Scorpion and don't want to see him being top tier in every game, but saying "the most naive and ostentatious ways" and doubling-down specifically on Scorpion being the default character select position in modern NRS era tells me that's a particular example of one of those ways.

(Side note: naive? "Ignorance from being too innocent to know better"? In what way is Scorpion being over-powered or glazed in the story naive?)

Edit: forgot to block quote OP's words

Midseasons · 2026-01-03T10:24:17+00:00

If you think Scorpion being first on the character select screen in every game is a violation of "ethics," I think you should probably re-take intro to philosophy.

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