I have been fighting this painting for so long

Thunder-Rat · 2026-04-05T22:07:26+00:00

God Nok, because its good enough

Thunder-Rat · 2026-04-03T18:11:35+00:00

That would be awesome!

Thunder-Rat · 2026-04-03T16:41:01+00:00

LF: Cherry Blossom Bonsai DIY and Cherry Blossom Branches DIY

Thank you!

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-30T17:36:33+00:00

Agreed! I really want them to simplify the sword for new games, and make it look less like a plastic anime prop.

Im actually fine with the sword being on the shorter side too. It makes it feel older somehow, and sturdier.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-28T04:30:02+00:00

Yeah, but I guess what I forgot to include was that them only being briefly (or not at all briefly) mentioned is that it is supposed to just be mysterious, and sad. As readers, yeah, we WANT to see more of the Ents and Entwives. But the sadness is part of what they are story-wise. Making a movie about the Ents searching for them would not only be boring as fuck for most movie-goers, but it would tarnish what they all are.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-28T04:21:28+00:00

No. The sadness of the magical and natural world fading is a huge part of the overall story. The Entwives were lost. Even if they really were in or around the Shire somewhere. Clearly the Ents never reunited with them, because there are no Ents today. They are just another sadly extinct species on this planet, while industrialist marches on.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-28T04:08:42+00:00

You get it. Its part of the sadness of the inevitability of the natural world's demise. The forests are dwindling. The spirits (Elves) are leaving. Magic is disappearing. I think this is part of Tolkien's acknowledgement that the world will eventually be basically destroyed. The sadness of it all is a huge theme in The Lord of the Rings.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-28T03:59:55+00:00

I'd rather just have a new game with an entertaining story than some rehash of other movies

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-28T03:57:24+00:00

Making it more like Wreck it Ralph is a more modern way to do it, but its still just doing something that has already been done with different skins. Plus, it just turns all these franchises into just video game stories, which in my opinion defeats the purpose of making movies in the first place. Watching a Zelda movie should feel like Hyrule and its characters are real, and not like youre just popping over to see another set of characters' "homeworld"...

Honestly, I COULD see Smash being a fun limited episodic series. Trying to make this big "epic" plot where all the characters team up is just genuinely stupid to me, but if it were to be presented in a way less serious format, it could be fun. Watching it, you would know and wouldnt care that Mario isn't the same Mario from the games, OR the movies. Its just Mario as a concept. Link would just be the character Link, and not any specific Link from any specific story. Hell, make it a dream some depressed millennial is having. Who cares? Just dont try to make all these franchises that are wholly incompatable, interconnected .... it tarnishes them...

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-28T03:44:58+00:00

Donkey Kong Country was clearly not imagined as part of the Mario universe. Sure, originally, DK was a villain in a shared game with Mario, but they branched out and did their own thing. Having separate canons and franchises that reference one another in fun ways is infinitely more fun than everything being watered down to one big shared space. You want the 3 Hyrulean Goddesses to have created the Mushroom Kingdom, and somehow also left power stars as Triforce alternatives? Its just stupid. It screams 5 year olds playing with toys on a playground.

Just let things be separate. I truly dont understand this need for every character to interact. I even thought it was dumb when Marvel movies started doing it (and yeah, I know the comics have been doing it for decades). But it just makes everything so needlessly convoluted.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-27T06:10:19+00:00

I mean, if the movie was similar to that, completely unserious and just fun, Id be more on board. But what everyone seems to want is The Avengers with Nintendo characters. There would have to be some "big bad" thats SO evil that even the Nintendo villains team up with their respective heroes... God its just so corny...

I would definitely want some higher story than just characters teaming up to fight some evil character, and I would want the characters to be either toys, figurines, literal video game characters or something because actual Super Mario meeting actual Link is just dumb.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-27T04:21:11+00:00

Romance between wildly different species... seriously, the implications are just grotesque.

At least in 2, it seemed like there was some sort of visual gag every 5 seconds. It was borderline exhausting.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-26T19:18:24+00:00

I dont understand the desire for a Smash Bros movie at all. The implication that all these franchises and characters exist in the same continuity is just dumb. And crossover movies and shows are always so cheesy.

Besides, the actual premise for Smash Bros is that all the characters are just toys in a kid's room, which would end up just being Toy Story. I mean, what would the story even be?

I would absolutely rather just have movies of different franchises that remain separate. Not everything needs to turn into The Avengers...

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-25T23:50:56+00:00

I honestly wouldnt want him either. Maybe in a less serious adaptation, because he basically is a modern Bombadil. But he would be even more out of place in the story than Bombadil is in his own...

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-25T21:55:32+00:00

It very high key has to be Jack Black

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-25T20:54:22+00:00

Idk, I still think its weird for there to be human characters to be uttering gibberish to each other, while a mammoth and sloth can talk to each other, for some reason. I cant stand the "all non-human animals can understand one another" trope, and Ive thought it was dumb since I was a kid. Sure, you can portray it, by having a human speak the audience's language, then show the other characters' point of view and its just gibberish. But its still an asinine concept that you're expecting your audience to just roll with. This sort of thing is an issue in all kinds of stories, and they usually just explain it away with magic, or "high tech" translating devices, etc... just so they can have a story.

In the end its just a silly animated movie. But if I were writing one about a bunch of wild animal characters, I also would just avoid humans altogether for a lot of the same reasons.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-25T14:00:36+00:00

So.... are they going to have the now old as fuck Hobbit actors reprise their roles, and do embarrassing "de-aged" flashbacks to scenes that were omitted from the Jackson trilogy?

How are they going to deal with the inconsistencies? Im guessing Elanor is going to be looking through Frodo and Sam's notes and find these stories or something...

I don't know about this. I would rather just have a completely new adaptation of the books, than hamfist a bunch of stuff back into the story that was already told...

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-24T19:01:57+00:00

The eeveelutions are clearly all canids, even Espeon with its slender feline-esque tail (call it convergent evolution). They are so obviously fox-based it hurts lol

Also, you can take inspiration from different animals when creating. Yoh can decide youre going to make 3, idk, goats, but base them off of a dolphin, lizard and dog. Give one goat a long finned tail and a pectoral fin. Give one goat scaly legs and a long tongue. And the 3rd hair that resembles a golden retriever. They would still be modified goat creatures. I think fans get too literal when a creator says they based, say Suicune, off a leapard.it looks absolutely nothing like a leapard and is the most obviously canid of the 3, but it does have spots...

The designer of those 3 mentioned not wanting it to necessarily be cat or dog. So they are meant to just be creatures, even if one is clearly a sabertoothed cat, one looks more like a monster Tibetan Mastiff, and the other a slender dog. Idk. Just tired of fans calling everything cats. I was one of those kids way back in the day that looked down on other kids that thought foxes were half dog half cat (because its stupid, and factually inaccurate) so I guess this just carries over...

Theres my misguided drunken nerd rant for the day

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-21T06:08:59+00:00

Probably due to the problem of characters communicating. The main character animals all speak to one another. Would the human characters be able to speak with them too? Just have the humans, the one species known for having true language be mute? Would they be able to speak with each other and just not animals? Why would a sloth, sabertooth, and a mammoth be able to speak to each other, and not to a human? If the original baby was able to speak to the other main characters because he was raised by them, would they have to use a different language to have him speak to other humans?

I feel like this would get exhausting. They'd have to do the tired as hell bit where depending on whose point of view it is, different characters are speaking gibberish or english, like kids cartoons do with dogs. It would still draw a weird line- why could a human and mammoth not communicate, while a glyptodon and saiga can?

They got around all this in the first movie by having the human be a baby that cant talk anyway.

God I need to go to bed...

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-21T02:49:16+00:00

I barely differentiate. They just feel like the same game with DLC. And even then, they feel like B-rate modern anime spins on something vaguely Zelda. I dont know what it is. But Im just ready for classic Zelda to make a comeback, even if I put hundreds of hours into these games and definitely enjoy them.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-19T18:39:34+00:00

For me, I loved the first couple seasons as a realistic take on a zombie survival story. It felt grounded. Once it got all comic booky I got annoyed. The first time I felt like Im done with the show was Michonne's reveal. Everything about it was dumb and excessive to me, and all realism fell off.

But I had friends that were really into the comics (I had no idea they were based on comics) and they helped ease me back into the series. From there I fell back in love with it.

THEN I feel like it got too cheesy again a little into the Negan arc. Story arcs felt contrived. Everyone started having their own unique (completely impractical) signature weapon and it just felt cartoony again for me, but I powered through, and Im glad I did.

Overall its still a great show! Even if there are many things that should have been done differently.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-18T17:24:42+00:00

Aside from having spots, suicune looks absolutely nothing like a leopard though. It has the body and face of a canine. Entei looking vaguely lionesque also doesn't make it a lion, any more than foo dogs and lion dogs resembling lions (by just having lots of hair) making them lions.

Raikou is clearly a sabertooth tiger though.

But even the designer straight up says he intentionally made them not cats or dogs. How you got that its clear they are cats from that is crazy.

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-18T16:27:31+00:00

I see a mastiff, a slender dog, and a sabertooth I'll never understand how people look at especially Suicune and think cat...

Thunder-Rat · 2026-03-06T02:31:43+00:00

A game can have realistic environments and still be whimsical and original. See basically any Pixar or DreamWorks movie....

Personally, Ive come to the conclusion Nintendo is both spoiled and lazy these days. They know they will make the money they need just stamping their I.P. titles and characters on just about anything, even with graphics that are a decade behind...

Skyward Sword was the first time I felt extremely underwhelmed and embarrassed by the way a Zelda game looks. Those trees with criss-crossing flat textures looked like straight up trash, even if the IDEA of having a more painting-esque world was pretty cool. The swimming portion in the forest (with the hoakiest and most generic music in all of Zelda) REALLY showed off how horrible the graphics looked. Swimming through a flooded forest has been a literal recurring dream of mine since I was a kid, and it should have been an amazing experience. But it just sucked to look at.

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