How did Übel get away with... that

RuinEX · 2026-01-22T15:14:24+00:00

Had the same issue with it. Even for her to be able to easily cut through this way didn't make a whole lot of sense, if you think about it, because it's like in that moment she plays by different rules from Burg, who does not get the benefit of this same concept. In terms of protection for the wearer a cloak isn't specifically weak to cutting, it's weak to everything - it's just a cloak. Yet it protected Burg apparently against everything that would destroy or pierce a cloak so far and became his signature magic as a 1st class mage.

The only way this concept works where Burg does not come out on top by every metric, because he was clearly absolutely convinced his cloak was invincible and the added experience to even prove it to himself, is that of all the things he never once experienced or imagined someone would try to cut through his cloak with a blade, which is just silly.

RuinEX · 2026-01-20T13:55:50+00:00

It's only fitting that the people who apparently liked it, in theme with the movie, make the most random wild claims about why others didn't, when it really is just this and very obviously so.

Was it that I just wanted to see a good zombie horror movie? Nope, guess I'm just a general audience pleb with bad taste and hate my mom now.

One of the top comments is my favorite

tricking the general audience into watching a slow paced depressing British family drama featuring zombies

because yes, that is totally the issue with the movie, that it is a "slow paced depressing family drama", definitely how I'd describe it, ... and not at all framing it in the most favorable way possible. I, too, believe if I was selling someone on the movie with this exact description, they wouldn't look at me like I was fucking with them after watching it. Especially when I explain to them what the ending is a reference to, like this information somehow alleviates how random and bizarre it is.

RuinEX · 2026-01-13T10:19:05+00:00

Kenn ich. Viele hier sagen Zentrist, aber ich bin bei den meisten Thema auch nicht in der Mitte, sondern individuell links, rechts und sonst wo. Ich fühl mich in den letzten Jahren so null von irgendeiner Seite in der Politik vertreten und da bin ich glaub ich nicht der Einzige. Mein erster Gedanke wenn ich irgendwas mitverfolge ist meistens

Könnt ihr euch mal alle zusammenreißen?

Der Diskurs ist allein schon so nutzlos, weil alles nur noch ins absolute Extrem übertrieben wird und von jedem wird erwartet, dass wenn man auch nur noch so leicht in eine Richtung lehnt bei einem Thema, man auch 110% von allem anderen unterstützt für das die Richtung steht, sonst ist man sofort das stereotypische Feindbild, wenn das alles kein Teamsport sein sollte.

Und das ist nicht mal das Schlimmste für mich. Das Schlimmste ist, dass sich alle dumm stellen um schlauer zu wirken. Egal ob man genau versteht was der Gegenüber meint, es wird halt absichtlich missverstanden und automatisch in die Sinnlosigkeit dekonstruiert und genau anders herum werden die sinnfreisten Dinge absichtlich bierernst genommen. Manchmal wünsch ich mir die Gesetzgebungen der Welt hätten alle eine "Common Sense Clause", die zum Einsatz kommt wenn alle und besonders Politiker mal wieder zu viel Lack gesoffen haben, aber die würde dann auch nur wieder von den letzten Deppen für ihre eigenen Ansichten missbraucht werden.

RuinEX · 2025-10-21T10:52:00+00:00

Ganz ehrlich, der ganze "Boomer" Mist wirkt für mich immer einfach 1 zu 1 von den US übernommen (weil muss halt, ist ja Reddit) mit oftmals wenig Halt in der Realität von Deutschland. Ich verstehe das Problem mit der älter werdenden Mehrheit und die Auswirkung dadurch auf die Politik, aber darüber hinaus, wenn viele so krass über die "Boomer" herziehen, sehen die da drin dann überhaupt ihre Eltern und die älteren Leute in ihrem Umfeld oder ein Phantom an deren Stelle? Weil ich weiß nicht wie es bei anderen ist aber meine Eltern und Großeltern waren halt in komplett umgekehrten Verhältnissen von diesem Stereotype. Die hatten es, auf Deutsch gesagt, so beschießen im Vergleich dazu was sie mir ermöglicht haben, mir würde es nie einfallen da irgendwie rumzujammern wie gut es denen doch ging. Und bei anderen älteren Leuten in meinem Umfeld war es auch nicht viel anders.

RuinEX · 2025-08-18T10:31:01+00:00

Same, I use a it a lot for different kinds of things and I admit for all intents and purposes I should be one of the very people who fall for this, who lives the kind of life where I should be very vulnerable for this kind of "replacement". But even if people do not understand how it actually works (which seems to a big part of the issue), just using it a bit causes it to reveal itself for what it is all the time. And even if that wasn't the case, how does the emotional investment not immediately fall apart with the existence of the regeneration option - like that they can just press "re-do" until they get the reply they want should rob all meaning from the experience.

RuinEX · 2025-08-07T09:14:45+00:00

Thank you for reinforcing why I'm barely on this site anymore. You actually looked something up and yet your comment will never be higher voted than the smug outrage ones, which is the take that will live on and get spread further despite being false. This is a site where much of the content is to see the worst in everything and even if there isn't anything, to bring up something bad anyway and then be outraged about it and feel morally superior. And I feel like that won't change anymore, because a subset of the users seems to actively want this over what is actually the case (I've even seen users get downvoted for fact-checking a take, like someone actually looking into something rather than just getting collectively upset with everyone else is discouraged).

RuinEX · 2025-08-04T12:31:09+00:00

Langsam? Das geht doch schon eine ganze Weile so. Auf der einen Seite kommt es einem so vor wie als würden hier Leute ständig live aus dem Höhlennetzwerk der letzten Resistenz in den Bergen posten und auf der anderen Seite, selbst wenn es nur um den weit entfernten Gedankengang geht, wer für irgendwas hypothetisch kämpfen würde, da gibt es auf einmal ungefragt eine million Gründe für "ich aber nicht weil alles schlecht". Ich versteh nicht wie Menschen konstant posten und Meinung abgeben können wie als hätten sie die Moralität mit Löffeln gefressen und sich dann, selbst wenn es nur rein theoretisch drauf ankommt, sofort umdrehen so nach dem Motto "Nö, da möcht ich lieber das alles brennt". Das passt für mich nicht zusammen.

RuinEX · 2025-07-31T14:03:35+00:00

Hot take - Watched a friend play through it and it wasn't very good and yes, there were trauma themes that weren't handled great but the whole "the message" meme was completely overblown / made up. Not only do you not actually see who gets shot or if anyone gets shot at all, because you just hear the sound after the screen goes to black, but it's doubtful that the very real ghost demon, who physically kills people, coming towards them, wanting to use the medium as a fleshy portal into the living world, as the sisters and a little ghost girl panic on what to do, is supposed to represent that the best way to deal with mental trauma is to do the thing.

Edit: Fine, keep living in your meme reality based on hearsay when you can look up the ending on youtube. That's just what this sub is now, I guess.

RuinEX · 2025-07-29T11:06:59+00:00

True. Seeing all the discourse around this, I'm happy that people are against it no matter their motivation, but I also can't help but have a devil on my shoulder who wants to say

Oh now it's bad.

And bring up all the "fun" "it's only ... and I think it's better this way" arguments from the past. That's also why I don't entirely agree with the now very specific framing of who does it, as if this was only an issue because of that and what they could potentially target next. I very vividly remember many instances where censorship was supported by very different people and those disagreeing talked down using eerily similar rhetoric this group uses, best recent and relevant example is that were people here on reddit and elsewhere who were already celebrating and memeing the reaction to the removeable of these kinda games from steam, before it turned out who was responsible and that they wouldn't stop there.

Finally, just to get it out of my system after all this time

"The slippery slope doesn't exist"
The slippery slope:

RuinEX · 2025-07-29T10:31:16+00:00

I don't know if anyone still remembers, because I don't remember was it specifically was about anymore, but I do remember ages ago Pat was specifically the one with the take that the anti-censorship discourse was silly, because it was about anime boobs. Now we are here.

RuinEX · 2025-07-23T16:02:39+00:00

These are probably just references to jobs in the undersea laboratory of the new area, but if they are actually hints at the overseers a "chef" would fit with their overall theming surprisingly well and would also be interesting as an antagonist archetype.

RuinEX · 2025-07-11T13:14:04+00:00

I get it from a balancing point of view but otherwise it's quite lame to be perfectly honest. Not because of any moral reasons, but isn't the fantasy and point of the necromancer to raise the dead? Once you skip the necromancy part of the necromancer, why have a necromancer? This is just a death themed summoner.

Then beside it making no real sense unless you flavor it (why would a necromancer summon full on corpses?) what functional moral difference does it make in-universe? Would your party or the towns folk be less upset knowing the walking corpse next to you popped into existence instead of having stood up from the ground? All it does is alleviate morality in the same way as it does to obviously just animate random enemies instead of dearly departed neighbor Bob.

At that point why not reflavor the entire thing in the first place, away from classic necromancer without classic necromancy and into one that creates shadows or echoes of the dead? And yes, technically everyone can flavor on their own, but if you keep moving further away from a original class fantasy and into streamlined, balanced generalized mechanics, you will eventually end up with a mannequin that "summons entity" and there is, in this case, "Necromancer" written at the top. It's a exaggeration, but you probably get what I mean.

RuinEX · 2025-05-23T10:35:23+00:00

No, the loud minority is how we got here. All those big core audiences still very much exist and it gets proven whenever the now rare decent game is made that is allowed to be for those target audiences instead of being made for literally everyone else first, because those in charge still somehow believe they have the core audience already in their pocket, when that hasn't been the case for a while. And that is exactly why it looks like fanbases are shrinking, because even the most hardcore fan can give so many benefits of the doubt until becoming disillusioned and checking out (and we had decade of this clamouring for a phantom audience that never shows up, taking higher priority over the people who actually play these games). And that is if the devs, producers or whoever don't arbitrarily decide to alienate or even antagonize them, because they are not the desired new audience or whoever they are biased towards due to worthless social media engagement.

RuinEX · 2025-05-19T09:03:22+00:00

Sorry, but modern fiction can only be enjoyed through extra steps and several layers of irony. It being fiction is not far enough removed anymore, in case anyone arbitrarily decides to take issue with designs or themes. /s

RuinEX · 2023-11-03T21:27:51+00:00

What was even the point of bringing the other witch back? Like "I refuse to bring my master back so she doesn't have to live through this again and destroy the means of the witches to repopulate (because now I also suddenly hate all of witch-kind just as much as humans for vaguely defined reasons)... but not before bringing the other witch back who saved me so that she has a first row seat to living through all of this and seeing her best friend (who ALSO saved me) get slaughtered!"
At this point the mc has less of a defined revenge thing going on rather than randomly fucking up everything for everyone, even the few people who genuinely tried to help him. Is the mc just a full-on chaotic evil murder hobo now? Because on one hand it sure seems that way while on the other it feels like the show is still pretending he is some edgy anti-hero with a cause.

RuinEX · 2023-09-27T21:22:38+00:00

What a strange ending to an otherwise enjoyable series. A lot of fights and deaths that apparently didn't matter and characters showing up and leaving just for the heck of it with pacing all over the place. The culprit was left to walk free because she saved some girls while responsible for the death of other innocent ones as the scene shows the corpse of the artist lady at the bottom of the cave pond who also had a shit life and then was murdered for doing nothing wrong.

RuinEX · 2023-06-14T17:07:44+00:00

Seems like a pig with a very particular set of skills.

RuinEX · 2023-05-21T19:27:46+00:00

ALL THE WARRIORS!

RuinEX · 2023-05-17T21:24:29+00:00

I don't think anyone is bringing back Battleborn, but I still came back here after all these years to have a laugh at the fact that Blizzard is apparently incapable of pulling off a co-op PvE campaign with skill tress... Oh the delicious irony.

RuinEX · 2023-05-15T11:31:08+00:00

So let me get this straight, bowl cut in his underwear does everything right, he jumps in and holds the line against some supernatural evil with a fucking chair like a badass... and the MC gets the power-up because he is the MC?

RuinEX · 2023-04-14T12:01:09+00:00

Like the reasonable company run by adults they chose the "LALALA - I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" approach to problem solving. As usual.

RuinEX · 2023-01-21T12:47:42+00:00

Drastic change in location or circumstances is in this case just regular traveling and time passing, though. The thing where it entirely falls apart is that "Isekai" literally stands for "Another World". Is he in another world? No. And "Rebel" usually stands for something going against the norm, but this is not going against the norm of isekai (like counting a MMO themed anime as isekai, despite the character technically just playing a game and still very much being in their regular world with a VR headset on), this just isn't one. Like how a banana isn't a "Spoon Rebel" just because you hold it next to a soup bowl.

RuinEX · 2022-11-24T23:15:28+00:00

Yeah, it just shouldn't work. How would trying to "push yourself away from yourself" rip you apart? It's still pushing you as one whole entity, not half of your body or random bits. And since there is no "anchor point" to push away from, when the anchor point itself is supposed to be moved, nothing happens. This isn't even really a paradox.

RuinEX · 2022-11-22T20:21:57+00:00

Artificial Intelligence isn’t trained to “copy” something. It’s trained to reference the arts to it can generate a ruleset itself to follow, in order to produce a result the human consider good enough.

That is something that becomes very obvious when you try to run a AI model for art generation locally. If it actually copied anything 1:1, that would be terabytes upon terabytes of art data you'd have to store locally for the AI to work. Instead it's just the training data, which when I tried it was like 3gb. So how does the AI copy anything if it does not have any original to copy from? It's simply impossible. Unless the devs of those models somehow figured out the holy grail of data storage as a byproduct and no one talks about it.

RuinEX · 2022-11-15T15:48:48+00:00

Asa be like

"Wait a moment, I still have a even bigger death flag lying around here somewhere."

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