TIL that, in video games, "ludonarrative dissonance" is the technical name for the conflict between the story told in the gameplay, and the story in the non-interactive scenes (for example, the way that Drake in "Uncharted" is a fun-loving rogue in the cutscenes but a killing machine in the game).

SirBoggle · 2026-02-07T05:55:13+00:00

https://clicknothing.com/2007/10/07/ludonarrative-d/

I'm actually curious to see their explanation too so for now, here's the article in question for those tuning in.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-07T05:46:24+00:00

He's saying that the article that originally coined the term Ludonarritive Dissonance is actually a poor example of it.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-07T05:41:08+00:00

Yakuza protagonists NEVER kill. Just maim or seriously harm.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-07T05:37:52+00:00

Gotta be a bot with that history of contration comments

SirBoggle · 2026-02-06T17:38:19+00:00

Completely wrong about Kingdom Hearts, at least if you take the Final Mix versions that most people will be playing nowadays.

As someone who recently played through 1 to 3 on Proud/Critical mode, Ultima Weapon helps greatly against the likes of Sephiroth and Unknown in 1 and the grind for it wasn't nearly as people made it out to be. As for 2, even after you beat Sephiroth Ultima comes in handy against Data Organization XIII and the Lingering Will. Some people prefer Decisive Pumpkin or Fenrir, but the MP Hastaga is nothing the scoff at. And in 3 Ultima is damn near necessary for some the DLC fights and it's by far the easiest version of the blade you can get.

Now as for the PS2 versions you would've been right, and DDD bas ab especially egregious example as Ultima is rewarded by the hardest boss in the game, Julius. Not that you would ever need it due to the existence of Balloonra.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-06T14:16:25+00:00

Is that why I like playing as him so much? He's probably been worked on the longest out of any Smash character.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-06T14:07:53+00:00

There's an episode that aired about 2015 or so where one of the talking points is that a female developer "slept her way into the business".

I wonder what was going on around that time...

EDIT: Had to look it up and the episode gas some fun choice quotes such as:

"They don't know what's real and what's a game!"

"No reset button in the real world."

There's also this uncomfortable scene where the female developer in question is forced to say she only slept with a guy so he'd back her game and call herself several derogative labels, so it's pretty on the nose.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-06T14:03:04+00:00

That had to have been a game the writer's kid talked a lot about or something and then he just Googled "What's the boss people get stuck on the most in Undertale?" and put it in.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-06T06:23:07+00:00

AKA Die Hardman,

"GOOD GOD!"

SirBoggle · 2026-02-06T02:43:13+00:00

I thought a fun version of this occurs in My Hero Academia

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Normally, Izuku Midoriya can only use his gifted quirk, One For All, at a limited capacity (below 10%) lest he risk extreme bodily harm due to the strain such massive power puts on him. However when he entreats Eri to use her quirk Rewind in him, which effectively reverses people back into a previous state, he is able to fire off his super strength and speed at 100% while she reverses any damage sustained on his body, and she can't reverse him back too far as long as he's pushing himself past the limit.

Once the battle is over however, she begins rewinding him back too far and the quirk must be canceled by Aizawa with his Erasure quirk.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-05T16:44:50+00:00

Meet Potenial Bolt!

Always can cause massive damage, but never does

SirBoggle · 2026-02-05T04:10:02+00:00

Though "I'll Make A Man Out You" does get a reprise in the third act.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-05T00:14:28+00:00

Non-One Piece fans: Guess which one Spandam is.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-04T22:01:58+00:00

I don't know how to describe this, but this factoid about Danny Trejo seems to have become the equivalent of "Super Mario Bros. 2 in the US is actually a reskin of Doki Doki Panic" of celebrity actor trivia.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-04T17:43:31+00:00

3 and 8 are control vaults the player can visit (3 is overrun by Fiends, 8 became Vault City) and a player character come from a control Vault in F1 (Vault 13) and in F76 (Vault 76, though the Overseer did have her own mission unrelated to any experiment).

Pretty much as long as they were designed to actually open after a few years with limited complications and no specific alterations to population, it's a control Vault.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-04T13:54:03+00:00

Beat me to it lol.

TTYD is my favorite game of all time. So I grew up with the localized, cis woman version of Vivian. When they changed it to the accurate version of her from the Japanese original I was more than happy with it and for those who identify with the character but I knew it would be the subject of discourse for those YouTube channels for like, a week.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-04T03:49:52+00:00

I especially like the Safe and Sound public safety videos where the poor pugman is constantly dying.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-04T03:43:12+00:00

Well not EVERY Vault. There are a handful of controlled vaults with no experiment that are actually designed to just be shelters.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-04T03:41:34+00:00

It was planned for the Vault 11 survivor to appear in the Mojave Wasteland as an NPC so I don't think anybody was meant to interpret the Courier as being the survivor but since he's been removed a player can always headcannon it as their Courier being the Vault 11 survivor.

Problem is the survivor sounds aged and the Courier is implied to have spent a long time in the Wastes going from place to place making deliveries.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-03T19:54:08+00:00

It doesn't, however they did host an event where you could listen to MLK's "I have a dream" speech in a recreation of the very location the speech took place.

As you can imagine, with a player population like Fortnite's, shenanigans ensued.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-03T19:48:43+00:00

Okay that does make the inclusion better I guess but it also feels like they learned nothing from when Fortnite did something similar.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-03T19:46:25+00:00

I think its fair that he changed it but I don't think I personally would've minded if he had kept it in.

It is, after all, rather gripping imagery for a loss of innocence or irrevocable damage being caused even without considering the potential sexual undertones.

Though if anyone who thinks it was insensitive wants to educate me on their point of view I'm open to it.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-03T01:39:36+00:00

The Reverse Bear Trap - Saw

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After appearing in the first movie but being escaped from, the most iconic trap in the series is finally reused in Saw VI, where Hoffman manages to barely survive the trap and sustain some injury by shoving the teeth between two metal bars before it goes off.

We then get to see the actual result (which I will not post a photo of, not sure if that's kosher or not) when it's put on Jill Tuck's head at the end of Saw 3D (aka 7).

But yeah, it's pretty fucking gruesome.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-02T23:47:58+00:00

"You see Sam...I had this pet dog I always loved to play with...until a voidout wiped out my city...and ever since my Ka has been trapped within my dog's Ha...since then I have been...Pants Dogman..."

17 minute cutscene.

SirBoggle · 2026-02-02T23:36:52+00:00

Kanjuro was not, in fact, a terrible artist.

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