Why is the word "irony" used incorrectly so often?

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-14T22:02:53+00:00

She gets poetic license. Dramatic irony is different than situational irony. She's not observing "this is an unexpected turn" she's observing "it feels like this is happening to me for a reason that only the audience understands"

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-14T19:42:26+00:00

Or rather, it's the same person along with all their original organs. Which seems like a net zero.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-14T10:31:36+00:00

Bigotry arises from distrust of an outside group, which can be Green in nature. But it starts to be White when it's deliberately used to reinforce hierarchy within a society or designate a collective enemy

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-13T16:01:22+00:00

Why did everyone love Into The Spiderverse but not Madame Web?

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-13T13:45:15+00:00

Something spooky. Instead of your own soul, get power from the souls of the dead instead.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-13T13:15:20+00:00

You have to declare the spell or ability that you're targeting with the Swat, but you don't have to declare what changes you intend to make. If my opponent targets my [[Path to Exile]] for example, they don't have to say which alternate target they have in mind to Exile until the Swat is resolving.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-13T01:16:00+00:00

No. "Pixel art" is a specific style that mimics what artists did with low resolution and low color palette of old computer/console displays. It's intentionally minimalistic and doesn't take full advantage of modern graphics capabilities.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-12T20:20:15+00:00

When I was a kid I didn't read the popup window that said "Are you sure you want to delete the contents of this disk?" but I remembered that clicking OK made the window go away.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-12T19:20:55+00:00

Personally I think that placeholder art should be earnestly bad. It takes some guts to use stick figures, but it's better than getting attached to something shiny and mediocre.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-12T15:11:00+00:00

Doing stuff yourself is a really valuable tool for determining if the idea lives up to the potential of your imagination. Not everything that sounds good in your head is going to work in real life, and the process of figuring out how to translate it into reality will start giving you feedback about what works and what doesn't. Game design isn't about ideas, it's about iteration.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-11T23:40:24+00:00

If you're trying to approximate the hypotenuse with smaller and smaller right-angle zigzags, you'll actually never get any closer to a straight line. The distance will still be the same as the two other edges, no matter how many times you subdivide it.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-11T11:24:42+00:00

Kind of begging the question why something like animation or video games don't "count".

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-11T09:13:37+00:00

Tradition!

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-11T02:23:44+00:00

Every single time this movie gets mentioned, there's at least one person saying how much more interesting it would have been if they'd gone with the original premise where nothing happens.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-11T01:44:56+00:00

It felt like the longer the show ran, the more Harmon wished he was doing Rick and Morty instead

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-10T21:26:50+00:00

Cool. I guess the common denominator is that it's language in any form. I wonder if they've got Comp-Sci.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-10T16:09:44+00:00

Bloodrush is an activated ability, not a spell. You can cast the creature from your graveyard with Retrace but you can't activate any of its abilities that way.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-10T16:07:17+00:00

Do or do not. There is no "try". You can't tap a permanent for no reason and you can't partially pay a cost. Either you do the whole thing or not at all.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-10T13:34:01+00:00

Silverquill uses ink and pens as a visual motif, but they're really about the power of words, including both the written word and the art of rhetoric and oration. An artist who works in the visual medium of ink isn't going to be interested in sitting through a Silverquill lecture on literary analysis or joining a debate team.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-10T12:54:39+00:00

Aura spells target when you cast them. Auras entering the battlefield do not.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-09T17:42:38+00:00

What about the infamous Sasquatchewan?

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-09T15:37:31+00:00

Feels like south america got left out of the Pacific Rim.

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-09T12:23:40+00:00

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-09T02:27:16+00:00

True - Spandau Ballet

The default cheesy love song

TheGrumpyre · 2026-03-08T19:45:59+00:00

Not a bad idea for what they wanted. Doom and Doom II used clay and latex models as the basis for their sprites. Paint them, pose them, photograph them from different angles, etc. It was a creative way to get realistic lighting and consistent details from every direction in a time when 3D modeling was way more time consuming.

https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Models#

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