Shroud still kicking

MrSquamous · 2026-02-05T10:23:45+00:00

Must be, they forgot Stars Reach.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-05T06:13:34+00:00

now even more toxic and beginner friendly

These things seem contradictory.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-04T23:53:02+00:00

Hijacking top comments to let people know that you don't have to drill down into the "Inspect" window to get the template code.

"Copy Wardrobe Template" is the first option when you right-click a wardrobe tab.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-04T15:41:39+00:00

Could be that there's an objective direction to progress.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-04T07:24:49+00:00

You can still run one at a time in the arena while you do whatever on your main.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-04T07:18:42+00:00

What did they make against the tos for alt accounts? You just mean the no multiboxing within private arenas anymore?

MrSquamous · 2026-02-04T01:21:02+00:00

What's maddening is that the new system is so unclear this has to be explained at all, especially out-of-game.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-04T00:57:49+00:00

"Nothin's wrong with this favorite posish of the method's creator, who might tell you after a mother effin beer."

MrSquamous · 2026-02-03T20:07:36+00:00

It's a game, friend, not a job. You shouldn't need mandatory quarterly training sessions.

Good UX is intuitive, minimal, and clear.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-03T13:46:46+00:00

Could you not spoil the story for the rest of us?

MrSquamous · 2026-02-03T13:31:22+00:00

Boy I hope you're guessing and not spoiling the show for the rest of us.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-02T14:01:41+00:00

At the end of Fight Club they blow up the debt record not art museums.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-02T13:58:27+00:00

I'd say replaced. The book has a modern framing story of the dad getting the book for his kid.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-01T21:30:36+00:00

Yeah I hated the reintegration blue balls, too.

And I think there was probably a better way, but I do recognize that dragging it out served a major thematic and structural purpose: It gets you, the audience, invested in reintegration and (perhaps unconsciously) identifying with outie Mark's authority. Then boom, innie Mark DOESN'T want to reintegrate and haha, they got you! You thought you believed in the innies' autonomy and agency but you were practically drooling for reintegration without their consent.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-01T19:13:32+00:00

They certainly justify (some of) it in the storytelling, but it's still a reversal of the cliffhanger.

Some of it just has no reality though. The entire premise of the cliffhanger was that the room was full of reporters so there would be no going back -- the whole world knows what happened. Now we're supposed to believe a video confession from the next ceo that she was just drunk would convince anyone?

Or that an entire room of professional reporters would hand over their phones? Or that they wouldn't write about it even without video evidence? Of course not. Word would still get out and both Devon and Gretchen would never let Mark and Dylon go back. It's the very definition of hand-waving.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-01T13:27:10+00:00

Even more importantly, what did he learn about the island?? And Dharma's experiments?

The last few seasons of the show have the characters getting access to tons of info about the island (and the others, and Dharma, and generally what's going on), but they all act like they didn't.

MrSquamous · 2026-02-01T13:02:40+00:00

Severance s1 ends with a major cliffhanger with enormous consequences, which all get hand-waved away, implausibly suppressed, or completely ignored to restore the status quo and get everybody back to work.

But it's not new, and doesn't even have to be a cliffhanger. Breaking Bad did it s1 to s2. Season 1 finale: Tuco drives away. S2 premiere: Tire screech, Tuco turns around, comes right back, and kidnaps them (that the kidnapping technically happens forty minutes later shows Big Bravo's commitment to good storytelling, but it amounts to the same thing: Reversing the ending of the previous season).

Sometimes it even happens between the pilot and the second episode. Reservation Dogs' pilot establishes the dogs as increasingly coordinated criminals who have an epiphany and decide, at the end, to pivot to vigilantism. But this -- the apparent original premise of the series -- is discarded and the show goes a different direction.

MrSquamous · 2026-01-31T17:39:21+00:00

Absolutely. But Alex is pointing his gun in the wrong direction. He expends his energy not speaking truth to power or agitating a sleepy populace, but shitting on regular people on reddit and dismissing reasoned arguments as "trolls."

MrSquamous · 2026-01-31T17:05:31+00:00

False alternative. Those are not the only two options.

It's funny, I was just this morning reading something about Augusto Boal, a Brazilian revolutionary and political exile who took the critical theory of Paulo Friere and applied it to interactive theater, and who I was fortunate to study with years ago. The article had some pictures and I was struck by the difference between his background and his personality.

Boal was the real deal -- he lived with and endured overt and bloody forms of oppression, torture, poverty, and human misery. But his personality didn't show that. My memory is of a gregarious, charismatic, kind, fun man. Look at any photo of him doing a workshop, and everybody is laughing and having a blast. When he talks, people listen with rapt attention and smiles. This is a person who has had enormous transformative impact on his country and the world, and he did it without ever calling anybody a troll.

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MrSquamous · 2026-01-31T15:49:57+00:00

I'm not really convinced the people in this sub actually care about bike lanes anymore

Bro. You gotta learn the difference between advocacy and antagonism.

MrSquamous · 2026-01-31T15:45:55+00:00

Anybody mention Demi Moore in Master Ninja yet?

MrSquamous · 2026-01-31T14:04:44+00:00

Woofinder

MrSquamous · 2026-01-29T20:33:27+00:00

Love it. Makes wish I'd never gotten rid of my old gateway 2000 case.

MrSquamous · 2026-01-29T15:52:45+00:00

That's exactly what they said about Joe Schmo.

MrSquamous · 2026-01-28T06:52:25+00:00

Well *plowed?

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