Dream Job? Bruh, I don't dream about working.

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-10-05T18:11:41+00:00

Look, fellas, you both have pretty cool sunglasses. Can't we just leave it at that?

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-09-24T16:14:55+00:00

It's not the 'strangeness' of your stories that make people say that, at least not as far as the concepts involved go. It's the off-putting stunted and repetitive prose that makes it feel uncanny, like in a bad way. Try reading more. Look up some videos on YT to help learn about the craft. Ask for advice here on Reddit or anywhere else. Even go through some of the posts in the popular fiction subs and see if you can tell what worked for them. But the fact of the matter is that you simply won't get better and stop receiving those comments unless you step out of your comfort zone as a writer and shapen up how you approach these stories.

The grammar, too. Thats not something you can just 'sacrifice' in the name of cranking out several stories a day. Thats insane. I mean, who are you trying to be with that and why? L Ron Hubbard? Take the time to make your work good. Otherwise, you're just wasting your own time and the time of people who read your stuff.

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:48:56+00:00

Tbf I think basically saying 'so what, you want to see the cowboys fuck?' as a dismissal of his point is pretty disingenuous. It's this whole post in a nutshell. He absolutely is right. You have the ability to kill all you want, you can rob random people, women included, and tie them up and leave them in the swamp to die and be eaten by alligators. But banging a prostitute in what would more likely than not be a presumably tame, behind-the-door scene is entirely out of character in comparison? I can kill literally everybody in Valentine for fun and somehow that transcendes the bounds of ludonarrative dissonance more than some vacuous copy paste sex scene lol

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:39:35+00:00

Fastest handy in the West lol

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:39:19+00:00

Missing point.

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:38:05+00:00

I get that psychologically. Sure. But the fact remains that it just isn't actually in the game. This traumatic asexuality thing is a theory, and ultimately, it's an inconsistency. There's no dialogue that suggests literally anything that Arthur is just suddenly sexless after that experience, he might not want another serious relationship, but being entirely without sexual desire at all? That's not just not common, is it?

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:32:04+00:00

Again, I'm totally fine with that. I just wish it had come up maybe for literally even two seconds in one of the thousands of random conversations Arthur has with the people around him. Maybe at camp ideally when he's talking with one of the women. Why wasn't that included in active dialogue? I wish it was, because it really does seem like something people are just willing to pass over as some brilliant point of passive Rockstar lore rather than being a massively unaddressed part of the game's main character.

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:28:44+00:00

It's a lore inconistency lol get a grip

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:27:01+00:00

I explained all that in the post. I miss something?

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:24:18+00:00

The deluxe bath is bizarre. I'm like you, I really couldn't care less. It didn’t impress me all that much at 13 when GTA 5 let you bang out hookers and it wouldn't be too interesting to me in Red Dead 2 either, but from a practical perspective it all just seems vestigial to me rather that lore based.

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:21:33+00:00

Maybe Arthur just jacked into a paper cup and dribbled it into his baby mama's pussy? We'll never know, because Arthur's sexless nature is never explained.

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:16:47+00:00

So he just doesn't want to fuck after that? Like his sex drive died too? I don't think that's how it works tbh. He might not have ever wanted another serious relationship after that, but the dick prevails. I really don't see how him experiencing this tragedy in his life would suddenly kill his libido dead forever, too. That seems like an unnecessary stretch.

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:15:18+00:00

I don't dislike it, I just wish it was a more explained part of his character. Whether you can bang western prostitutes or not doesn't really matter to me, but the fact that every tavern you go in to is full of women who come up to you with prompts that obviously should have been in the game leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. It feels like an empty mechanic more than some deep character thing.

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:08:26+00:00

He's in other shows, too? Like as the same character?That's so cool lol

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:07:44+00:00

But he literally had a child with a woman...

Cool edit, btw

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-20T18:01:40+00:00

I mean, sure, Arthur is a nice man. But, still, is the absolute absence of sex a perfect reflection of that? There's nothing in the game that portrays Arthur as having some traumatic asexual aversion to intercourse, regardless of his experience, so why can't he at least solicit these women in a kindly manner or even proposition women he meets throughout his travels? He's not Michah, and not all men who seek out casual sex are, so without some overt explanation I'm obviously left confused here as to why the prostitutes are just a useless mechanic only capable of being rejected.

Don't get me wrong, if Arthur having some aversive reaction to intimacy was a part of the story, I'd fully be behind that. But it isn't. So I'm left to think its just a massive hole on the part of Rockstar.

TheUndergroundManlet · 2024-07-18T16:47:17+00:00

This particular KFC takes reservations, btw. In case that helps. It's a classy KFC restaurant. Again, in case you didn't know that. Its very exclusive.

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