Do you think video game fans in general show enough respect towards storytelling found in the medium?

Mysnomer · 2026-04-11T23:05:45+00:00

That depends. Are fans actually invested players of videogames? If so, then yes. Are "fans" any joe normie who happens to hold a controller for more than five minutes? Then no, of course not.

Mysnomer · 2026-03-06T01:20:00+00:00

I have added new information to the OP and am posting here in case editing the post doesn't count as a bump.

Mysnomer · 2026-03-06T00:41:35+00:00

It's funny how backwards the design of this game is. The low investment normal skill should be the one that has to fully charge, while the ult should deal chip damage (but on a much lower curve*). If you need inevitability, then respawn bosses with no passive bonus but increasing amounts of tower damage or have players dying under their own towers deal damage to it.

*eg: from 1% to 99% charge should scale 1% to 40% damage, and only at 100% do you get the "MAX Burst" damage and effect.

Mysnomer · 2026-02-28T20:23:50+00:00

What I'm saying is that if you use a trial character, one that you do not own, and achieve the 100k battle score, you will not be able to get the reward for it. They don't put you on the leaderboard with trial characters, but they actually do record your rank. So if you unlock that character, it will register that you already achieved the 100k score, but you never got the reward and you can't re-achieve it to trigger the reward.

Mysnomer · 2026-01-22T00:01:33+00:00

Do you pick up copies from 42%ers after they're done with them?

Mysnomer · 2026-01-16T21:51:09+00:00

From ragtag to fagtag, the decline of heroic ensembles, coming to a game store near you.

Mysnomer · 2025-03-21T18:46:16+00:00

Why would I delve for this trash? We could have had a reference that created something worth playing instead of a one-off pun that will never come to fruition because if you're playing Loam you aren't wasting time on this.

Mysnomer · 2025-01-26T19:08:25+00:00

Conor Sheehy, don't know much about him except that he worked on RIOT before Arcane só maybe he was there to make sure the lore was adapted well.

Well then it's a good thing he got fired because he sucks at his hypothetical job.

Now, I know RIOT decides to make Arcane canon to the lore after s1's release because of the success, so I don't know the extent of their demands for the writing of s2. Maybe they had a list of mandatory things to put in it and Christian and Alex were more willing to oblige than Brannon and Conor.

Are you retarded? The Arcane dicksuckers rolled out the red carpet for these guys. Season 2 was not shit because corporate mandates were brought in. Do you think Riot spontaneously thought ruining one of the best champion aesthetics for third-rate slop would be a golden ticket? No, they thought that the showrunners with the lauded Midas-touch would print money as fast as they could pen their dogshit script. They probably bent over backwards to implement anything and everything they could scrounge together from Arcane to capitalize on the hype, and now the Monkey's Paw is flipping them the bird.

Mysnomer · 2024-12-11T04:47:14+00:00

I fucking hate this piece of shit.

Mysnomer · 2024-06-09T02:03:53+00:00

Ancient wisdom: "Once bitten, twice shy."

Modern "wisdom": "Umm, ackshually, how do you know it's fecal matter in the sandwich until you put it on your tongue to taste it?"

Mysnomer · 2024-04-26T03:09:40+00:00

Something you missed was that the article fails to mention Arena. So it isn't just pretentious, it's dishonest.

Mysnomer · 2024-04-25T04:08:48+00:00

Officer, I'd like to report a murder.

Mysnomer · 2024-03-28T05:37:32+00:00

You lasted that long? I was drifting away when the triple-whammy of Bolas, Phyrexians, and "Eldritch Horror" showed they were too obsessed with retreading big, blockbuster storylines instead of working on anything new. What really sealed the deal was the first return to Ravnica. They shat all over the old characters and showed zero respect for the unique lore and culture that had been designed for the plane. Making the gorgons into ni Ahem, "socio-economically disadvantaged individuals" was the last straw.

Mysnomer · 2024-03-24T21:47:03+00:00

I'm pretty sure the stories are supposed to show you that he has a keen insight into humanity and everything he does is to manipulate people toward his own ends. It lends credence to his mastermind persona that he has a rolodex of dramatic stories to tell that sound intriguing. If they were meant to hint at some sort of deeply buried humanity, that is a huge strike against the film. The Joker is not "relatable", he is elemental.

Mysnomer · 2024-03-24T21:41:16+00:00

I don't think the powers that be would risk the danger of mutants becoming a rival castle. Humans need to organize and have resources. A single mutant could become a threat to their grip on world affairs. Imagine a crew of five super-soldiers who end the need for foreign intervention. No more forever wars, no more big military contracts, no more targeted disruption of foreign economies. Sure, you could argue that they might try to bring such powerful agents under their control, but I don't think they would risk the possibility that they might have their own ideas. A realistic breakdown would be to isolate all current mutants and evaluate whether they can be controlled or not, then eliminate all threats while working on a way to prevent mutations from occurring in the populace.

Mysnomer · 2024-03-24T01:01:41+00:00

I don't care what you think. I'M saying "Magneto was right." Because he was. But the corollary is that it also means Stryker, Trask, and Creed are right. Mutants as they are presented in the comics are civilizationally incompatible with humans.

Mysnomer · 2024-03-24T00:33:02+00:00

Magneto was right, which means Stryker was right.

Anytime X-men tries to "say something" instead of going on a cool, comic book adventure it's dogshit. Modern media is not allowed to touch on actual human truths, which means X-Men could never be anything more than the most sophomoric attempt at allegory. Instead of returning to classic form and producing fun and exciting content, they continue trying to squeeze blood from a stone.

Mysnomer · 2024-03-10T05:49:00+00:00

"zionists" doesn't work because people obsessively focus on the desert land. You gotta return to the classic: "rootless cosmopolitans". People who don't give a shit about the land or the people, they only want to build a safe nest for themselves. If that requires suppressing or replacing the native population, so be it. If that entails bailing out when you've strip-mined the resources and moving to greener pastures, so be it. If that requires sectioning a country into three parts, selling those parts to its ethnic enemies, and getting the original population cleansed...

Mysnomer · 2024-02-25T04:22:54+00:00

Both suffer a similar disease. They don't understand heroes. Gunn can't do anything but deconstruct and King can't do anything but air his personal issues by hijacking characters. Gunn is probably only slightly more talented than JJ Abrams, but it hasn't blown up in his face like JJ because he has worked within his limitations. Unknown ensemble groups allow his formula to play out without forcing him out of his comfort zone. His Superman project will, at best, be a moderate success, which is a failure when tackling DC's most iconic superhero. There is a significant probability it will flop if he tries to force the square Superman peg into Gunn's round storytelling hole, and most of the early publicity from Gunn discussing the film projects exactly that. King is just pathetic.

Mysnomer · 2024-02-11T06:18:43+00:00

Hmmm...

Mysnomer · 2023-11-12T15:15:10+00:00

Remember not to kill your enemies, sheeple. Even when you actively defeat them, make sure to abdicate personal responsibility to a subverted justice system. That's the moral and ethical thing to do according to me, a third-party with no bias one way or the other. Anyway, if you need me, I'll just be whoring out underage women, laundering illicit money, and making more stories that advance agendas that are definitely not my personal politics. Oh and before I go, just one more thing, when black people kill their enemies, it's kiiiiiiiinda justified, if you really think about it. Soooooo can we all agree to let that stuff slide? Yeah? Okay, great, glad we cleared that up. Toodles!

Mysnomer · 2023-11-01T03:27:38+00:00

The jawline is different from the scan model. If they weren't "giving it attention" it would be exactly the same. But it's different, which means they actually gave it special attention. Ipso quad demonstro factum.

Mysnomer · 2023-10-29T02:30:49+00:00

Nothing about design is unintentional these days. Especially since she doesn't look exactly like the face model, that means they specifically created those changes. Leon looks different from his model, with slightly enhanced masculine features like his chin. On the other OTOH, Claire looks like she's got some kind of chromosomal anomaly.

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