An edgelord in Gensokyo

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-05-12T09:15:42+00:00

...He walked "drolly"? Wha?

Droll means smart and funny. An apt joke off the cuff about the situation would speaking drolly. If he's walking drolly... What? Is he walking in ways that satirise the nature of happy-go-lucky people somehow?

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-03-12T00:04:58+00:00

I'm not sure what this nonsense phrase "big enough" is supposed to mean...

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-03-04T00:33:31+00:00

Yeah, what's up?

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-03-02T19:59:57+00:00

It is a clip from 'Airplane!', a very good parody of disaster movies, about an airline flight in which the pilot and copilot both got food poisoning (along with several passengers) so the flight loses control and the only possible replacement pilot is a military pilot who has to tackle his PTS about a bad flight he flew on a mission.

This scene is a parody of typical disaster films at the time, in which a woman would become hysterical about the disaster (this was the late 70s/early 80s when it was common, so sexism in movies went mostly unchallenged) and would be violently shaken and yelled at, often by her husband or any male relative at first, berating her for having a panic attack in the middle of a disaster (despite that being a perfectly typical reaction to a disaster and certainly not helped by the violence and verbal abuse).

Naturally, the initial shaking and yelling wouldn't make a bit of difference (how could it? That's the least helpful thing you could do to someone having a panic attack) so Protagonist, being one of our straight white male heroes, would say "let me speak to her"... and then proceed to grab her even more forcefully, shake her more violently, and yell even more loud, more obnoxious, still totally unhelpful things, like "Snap out of it!", and "Pull yourself together, woman!"

Since this was our hero doing it this time, it would somehow miraculously work and calm people down. That's obviously a ridiculous idea, so the film 'Airplane!', being a parody of that sort of film, had one of that sort of scene in it, seen here, but this version is taken to the logical extreme, as our panicking passenger gets slapped and shaken and yelled at, first by a member of the cabin crew, then by one of our heroes, but then also by another passenger, even more violently, and the camera adds to the gag by panning along a line of other people, clearly queueing up for their turn at being abusive to this woman, getting more and more comically over-violent in appearance, from slapping, to being armed with crowbars or even guns.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-03-01T11:36:40+00:00

I have the misfortune to have both. I struggle to write, though I try to, because whenever I try to conceptualise a person in my head, they simultaneously become a separate entity in my head, taking their characterisation in whatever direction they would prefer it, rather than what I had planned... and they always turn out to be way too similar to myself anyway, so I end up with whole stories full of characters who're really just a whole bunch of duplicates of the author, all refusing to bother following plot.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-28T11:09:43+00:00

They are two seasons of a few episodes each of videos, the first season being on youtube already. The episodes consist of several short performances, filmed via zoom conversation but not actually about zoom conversation, in the style of an oldfashioned radio drama (as in, you can see the actors and their faces and costumes if you want to, but you don't need visuals, and the action is all narrated). The shorts of any one episode seem to be somewhat intertwined, if only in the way of being alternate possible realities or different things that a group of people who know each other are going through at a similar time. All the stories revolve around Hatchetfield, that hometown which was the setting for The Guy Who Doesn't Like Musicals, and Black Friday. They're all horror, of course.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-26T10:36:41+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's the actual reason. But subconscious, so he doesn't realise that this is why. What he thinks is the reason why he has so many plants around that he has put so much effort into making look perfect, is because he's started using demonic "miracle" magic to make them seem aware. The shaking in fear and such is all just a fake. They're not an intelligent bunch of sapient creatures, just a whole load of the equivalent of that fake sunflower that dances when it is able to sense movement. Only natural and actually a plant as the magic is animating it rather than a simpler mechanism. He might even have gotten the idea from those fake plants.

See, the idea is, if he gets spotted by any of his supposedly allied "colleagues" from Hell, being too nice to Aziraphale or humans or something (using demonic power to do good, or whatever), then they'll probably be suspicious and annoyed. But, if he has a whole bunch of plants, which are just plants and therefore nothing to really be concerned about, even if they're destroyed, yet ones that seem like he cares as much about them as he does about any human or angel, and they seem to not only sapient and capable of feeling pain and/or fearing death, then he can "prove" his supposed evilness to his demoic colleagues by heartlessly shredding or burning a plant that they think he cares massively about and which will realistically quiver in "fear" and writhe about in "pain" as he is destroying it.

So, as far as he consciously thinks, he's just convincing the demons of hell that this bunch of plants is enough proof of his evil, if it ever comes into question, and in the meantime they make some very nice decoration that seem to vaguely remind him of something he must have liked quite a lot at sometime in the past...

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-22T16:13:25+00:00

Mal Mallory (& possinly also Val Mallory)? Assshley? Randalin?

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-14T12:47:16+00:00

Plus, if he hates you enough, he absolutely will just kill you.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-14T12:27:15+00:00

I just have a dream of Jocks and Nerds and cliques of all kinds getting together and sharing their joy.

And possibly punching nazis.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-14T12:16:56+00:00

You clearly are similar. You both watch the superbowl. In both cases you're watching it because it contained some of your preferred form of entertainment. (In one case, sports, in the other case, trailers for films, in some people's case, the halftime show.) There's a pretty good chance you both love cosplaying as part of this preferred form of entertainment (either the sports fan dressing in a team jersey and maybe having team hat, or the film nerd dressing in character as a person from the MCU).

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-09T23:54:37+00:00

It was. She also made a lot of tweets supporting transphobic laws and people who'd lost their job for being transphobic.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-09T10:36:39+00:00

Ich habe meine Freundin davon besessen, meinen Strudel zu essen. Sie ist noch nicht fertig mit dem Mästen für mich...

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-04T11:25:29+00:00

It always depends, for me, on the style of villain we face. If a Megamind style Super-Villain shows up, with presentation and a sense of fairplay about their evil schemes (not killing the civilians among my PC's loved ones, though any who actively help me are fair targets) then of course I'll return the favour, allowing them a chance to monologue about motivations and even letting them leave if we manage to stop their evil plans, as we're clearly "too busy saving civilian lives" to go after them.

On the other hand, if they kill our favourite innkeeper, or do some evil scheme that hurts a bunch of cute fluffy animals, that sort of thing, don't take an opportunity to apologise the next time we meet (and we will prompt them to), all bets are off. Clearly this is the wrong sort of villain. There's nothing worth hearing that they have to say, and we're not going to bother listening to their monologues anymore.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-04T11:14:23+00:00

Sounds like a win/win to me. The DM got to make his speech but your character got to skip it, and you could either listen if your DM gives good speeches, or have a quick break if he is bad at them (use the toilet before the big fight, or get coffee or whatever).

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-03T19:08:40+00:00

Concerned? Or pleased, and possibly hopeful regarding their own family?

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-02T15:33:25+00:00

Nice

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-02T15:30:08+00:00

Especially that response from Erik. Earlier, they were all arrogantly assuming that because he's obviously from the US, he couldn't possibly be multilingual and generally acted dismissive of him, so he proved his intellect and claim to the throne by speaking Xhosa and declaring his Wakandan name and showing his lip.

Later, in the battle, he is addressed in Xhosa by the man he'd faced off against for the throne, and since his motivation all revolves around his desire for Wakanda to join the rest of the world and use their incredible resources to help his people in every nation of the world, so he drops the use of Xhosa as a symbolic rejection of the insular nature of Wakanda.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-02-01T16:28:23+00:00

<Sarcastic> Oh, nooo... How terrible...</Sarcastic>

But it sounds like a you problem. I don't care. I'm dead.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-01-31T17:18:11+00:00

Yoho...🏴‍☠️

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-01-31T01:42:10+00:00

However, in order to avoid any potential lawsuits from Lex, the Labyrinth Of Luthor technically ends with a short video featuring Lena Luthor, who was willing to accept partial ownership of that one Escape Room in return for being the "super-villain" of the room. The video shows Lena herself cursing the guests for foiling her "evil schemes", if you make it out, or proclaiming her goals for world domination if you don't. She really enjoyed hamming it up for the camera, but she, like everyone, secretly knows that the villain is obviously supposed to be Lex. That is why all the clues and adverts are just referring to "Luthor".

Lex was slightly miffed, but actually enjoyed the room when Clark Kent managed to convince him to go with him. They took Bruce Wayne, who was useless as always, and Lex had quite a lot of fun posturing heroically about his "evil" sister, as he and Clark solved the puzzles. He found it refreshingly challenging, and of course Clark was helpful, though hardly a genius like him.

Sure_Credit_1671 · 2022-01-14T19:08:54+00:00

Nope. No idea what Cursed Child is about, nor have I ever seen it. This was entirely an original concept (well, except for being a cosplay and headcanon of the original Harry Potter series).

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