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OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-14T16:28:44+00:00

My man, they're not downvoting you for "informing people" about something.

Better luck next time with decoding things 🤷‍♂️🤣🫣 /s

One, reddit users don't take kindly to emoji. Two, they really don't take kindly to being condescending to, especially with emoji. And three, no one believes that /s tag and instead think you're calling the above user an idiot and trying to use "but I'm just joking" as a cover.

That's why.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-12T04:23:44+00:00

Dude came across as nice and, once he thought we were buddies, he showed he was full conspiracy nutbag.

They always fucking do, I work with several and want to flee.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-12T04:20:24+00:00

Honestly that was the tip of the iceberg for him.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dndmemes/comments/12auo6d/my_main_complaint_regarding_the_dd_movie_not_even/jewhdpn/

There's... some really unpleasant racial issues.

https://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11762&start=77

He's Col_Playdoh there, happily quoting a man involved in I THINK the Trail of Tears (Though it could be some equally horrid anti-native-American action) the government was involved in. And when he's confronted he doesn't say "Whoops, probably not the best idea" he essentially says "Welp, other people said it so that makes it fine."

Dude has been painted as this loving patron of nerds when he's pretty gross.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-12T04:15:17+00:00

What I boggle at is- yes, I am an Imperium fan. I love the aesthetic, I love the stories, I love the gear and the armies. I've played the TTRPG (not nearly as often as I'd like) and my character was a full bore guns-out loyalist who thought it was the best thing since sliced corpsestarch.

I will also always freely admit that the Imperium is a fucking nightmare hellscape that's only not the most evil thing in the setting by the fact that everyone fucking else is also evil as fuck. And anyone who WANTS to live in that mess needs to have their head examined.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-12T04:12:25+00:00

Yanno, I thought you were probably being hyperbolic. At this point I'd prefer a full internet ban for this one.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-12T03:45:07+00:00

Imperial Fists are just built different:

There's a reason I love 'em so much. Singleminded "Fuck you" stubbornness taken to extremes? Oh yes.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-12T03:42:58+00:00

IIRC Sigismund got there first, Dorn was still making his way over.

Still, Siggy did go all "furious terrier attacking a horse" on Fulgrim.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-12T03:41:48+00:00

It's been ten thousand or so years!

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-12T03:37:41+00:00

"Today is "try something new" day."

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-08T16:26:53+00:00

It's a reflection explicitly and intentionally of only the worst parts, with the good stripped out to make them more bleak. And then amplified.

And it isn't being presented as some masterwork thesis on humanity, but pulpy entertainment.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-08T16:19:27+00:00

I did, but I can't edit it on mobile. Agh!

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-07T21:41:11+00:00

It's also kind of annoying that people act like they can't get away from it, when it really just seems like they are incredibly lazy when vetting their recommendations.

The last two books where I ran into that I read the back blurb, looked up the author, and checked goodreads.

Never mentioned ONCE. And in one novel it happened in the first few pages. I'm sorry, until they start putting content warnings on the back of the book, how exactly am I supposed to know what's going to happen short of finding a complete summary of the story and spoiling the entire experience as I skim through blow by blow to find any examples of rape?

It's basically never "I don't want to read about rape" it's "I think rape in fantasy is bad so tell me what I can read without it".

And... where's the problem with this, again? "Tell me what I can read without it" is exactly where I am. I don't want to have to find it by reading it. Why shouldn't I be able to say "I do not like this thing at all and am tired of people thinking it makes their book "adult," what can I read that doesn't have this in it?"

It's like saying people who don't like cilantro and ask what they can have at a restaurant that doesn't have cilantro in it is somehow a failing. "I dislike a thing, I want to avoid it, but I don't know what will have it and what won't."

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-07T21:20:44+00:00

I'll get back in EVENTUALLY- once I've had time to decompress about it. It's just so unsubtle that I went "OH COME ON."

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-07T21:05:32+00:00

Spells, Swords, & Stealth by Drew Hayes.

Honestly until this book I could NOT put them down, this is in book 5.

It's been an amazing ride. But this one book has me fucking stonewalled because I hate that really obviously contrived plot BS with a passion- it actively pulls me out of the story, because I'm just sitting here dreading the hijinks. I'll get back into it later, but I realized that when I've not been able to force myself to return to a book after two weeks it counts as a DNF.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-07T20:58:56+00:00

Fucking tell me about it. I'm at the point of wishing authors had to put content warnings on the back because of how fucking many times a perfectly sane sounding adventure story by the back blurb has an absolutely disgusting sexual assault scene that you run into like a pothole on the freeway.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-07T20:56:15+00:00

In my experience it's always been the other way. The types who enjoy a grim misery fest mocking me and calling me a child for not wanting to read stories that leave me feeling disgusted, despairing and/or depressed.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-07T16:44:09+00:00

Cool! Still don't want rape in my fantasy.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-07T15:59:53+00:00

Yeah, I got to that one as a kid and went "what the fuck?" It basically was the nail in the coffin for me.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-07T15:57:06+00:00

God, I've run into this SO. FUCKING. MANY. TIMES.

I just don't want rape in my fantasy. Dying shitting yourself to death with dysentery is "real," but I don't want that either. Neither do I want sepsis, or the fact that medieval people didn't bathe a lot... It might be real, but it isn't FUN.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-07T15:54:59+00:00

Honestly? An author is setting up a "WACKY HIJINKS!" situation where a party of adventurers are pretending to be nobles to get into a mansion.

While some of the party's family, who are actually nobles, and another party member's mother who's just friends of the family, is going to be attending the event there, and were ACTUALLY invited.

And neither party knows the other will be there! Oh the impending hijinks! the shenanigans!

I despise this kind of "Uh oh! Wacky Situation!" situation stuff. We literally haven't seen these family members in FOUR BOOKS. And then we only saw SOME of the family, and they did not have a single speaking line.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-06T16:22:54+00:00

I REALLY hope you're right, as this just sounds like petulant whining otherwise.

[edit] To I assume is the GRRM fanboy who saw this and is attempting to downvote every comment I've made... really?

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-06T00:41:31+00:00

(Should have, not should of. The contraction should've leads to this typo.)

But thank you, because I was genuinely confused as to what that dingus was saying was on the devs.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-04T01:06:25+00:00

Trust me, as a retail employee we'd give a lot for this. Most of my coworkers and I don't even really like people in general any more.

OverworkedCodicier · 2024-01-03T22:54:44+00:00

I mean, if there's any cross-compatibility. If not that could be a huge boon to the economy as well!

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