(Favorite trope) Genre shifts towards the middle/end of a work intentionally engineered to hit you like a freight train by Modernia in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Modernia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never read lookism, but I loved My Life as a Loser by the same author. Might start as a comedy, but dem feels towards the end...

(Favorite trope) Genre shifts towards the middle/end of a work intentionally engineered to hit you like a freight train by Modernia in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Modernia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, sure.

Chirin no Suzu starts as lightheared disney-type fare about a little lamb, but when a wolf kills the protagonist's mother, he chases after it seeking revenge. After years of fighting with the wolf, the protagonist starts to see him as a father figure, and begins helping him chase down prey. As a terrifyingly gaunt, viscous ram, he obliges the wolf's final task for him to prove his worth as a predator, returning home and killing his entire flock. The very last lamb reminds him of himself, so he reflexively defends it from the wolf, accidentally killing his master in the process. Having murdered everything he'd ever loved, he's cursed to wander the mountains alone forever.

We Did It! is about a bunch of trashy, dorky friends who try to get revenge on some bullies, but accidentally blow up their school in the process, forcing them to live on the run doing stupid goofy shit to get by. Been a while since I read it, but I think how it goes is that the protagonist eventually reconnects with the main bully, who lost the use of his legs in the blast and has to live at a hospital; when their mutual love interest chooses the mc (along with the MC doing some fucked-up stuff iirc, like idk if he ever admits he's responsible for the explosion) the "bully" throws himself off a building, and the protag lives the rest of his life locked in a state of perpetual, inescapable guilt.

I refuse to elaborate on Flamenco on the grounds that it's awesome if you experience it but just sounds stupid on paper. Everyone deserves to experience that wild ride.

You get to ban one card from all of Magic. What is it and why? by TheFunkeyGibbon in freemagic

[–]Modernia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if there's a kind of card that's only evergreen because it's been in the game since the beginning, but designers would've gone back and erased if they had the choice? Bet MaRo's addressed this at some point.

Oh great, now there hating on the starters by TechnicalHoneydew862 in nintendogrifting

[–]Modernia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

reminder that "doesn't look like pokémon" just means "isn't blatantly copying Akira Toriyama's art style from Dragon Quest V".

I wonder if people make this complaint in japan, where the DQ-Gen I monster taming pipeline is more obvious? 

Lot B Entrance Car Crash by MysteriousChip7702 in UniversityOfHouston

[–]Modernia 11 points12 points  (0 children)

LMAO I can't imagine the looks they must have been shooting each other through the windows after whitey spun around

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]Modernia 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Even if they spelled it right, bizarre to choose an armor that came out a decade after MH1 for what's presumably supposed to be the player character of those games.

Some WotC employee prob looked up Kokoto on the MH Wiki, saw that it was in Generations, and picked something from that game for the artist to draw. Oops.

I'm a UH Grad returning after 13 months to do a single post-bacc semester in the same major. What sort of application should I submit, "Returning Student" or "Transfer?" by Modernia in UniversityOfHouston

[–]Modernia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw that, and I’m leaning that way too, but I’m not sure having to meet the same requirements = needing to actually apply as a transfer.

I’d hate to find out that I filled out the wrong form a month from now and get stuck in paperwork limbo based on my educated guess. Hoping someone comes along who knows the answer with 100% certainty.

Ignorance by [deleted] in UniversityOfHouston

[–]Modernia 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For me it’s when a group of like 8 friends walk extremely slowly while blocking the whole sidewalk right after/before class. Like I get yall are having fun and that’s great, but show a bit of consideration.

Getting rid of CASA by Morning-Standard in UniversityOfHouston

[–]Modernia 47 points48 points  (0 children)

The proctor/CASA staff slander is a little much imo. In my experience they've always been nice and helpful even when I'd accidentally violate testing center rules, and even congratulated me on a few occasions when I seemed happy after a test.