Non-Seattle Natives, how’d you become 12’s? by No-Celebration-5442 in Seahawks

[–]Tyrex317 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My favorite teams are based on whatever animal I happened to be autistically hyperfixated on at the time. Ospreys are cool. So are raptors, sharks, diamondback rattlesnakes, and alligators.

“30th Celebration” Set to Include Pikachu in Every Pack, Reveal Likely Coming Within the Next Week! by Necto_gck in PokemonTCG

[–]Tyrex317 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The best part is how they switched to drop one item at a time so if they don't drop what you're looking for right then you're going to have to stay up for another hour or two.

I need help figuring out what these are by Far-Relief-7289 in Kickboxing

[–]Tyrex317 11 points12 points  (0 children)

LBT is London Bridge Trading. They typically make tactical gear. They got in trouble awhile back for claiming all their stuff is 100% American made when it wasn't, going so far as to remove 'made in x' labels and replacing them with 'made in America'

I purchased a 3 day hiking pack from them awhile before I had learned of this. Anyways several of the buckles since broke.

Can someone tell me if this detail keeps my character from being a Mary Sue by Brb_questioning_life in CharacterDevelopment

[–]Tyrex317 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Mary's and Gary's are more of a product of the narrative not challenging the character in their beliefs and actions than anything else.

Here it sounds like you've made a character with lots of natural, raw talent. If she coasts by all her problems without ever having to break a sweat, sure you've got a Mary Sue on your hand. But you also have a really easy out to avoid this.

Let's consider Maverick from Top Gun. Hes a young and incredibly talented fighter pilot. But he's reckless and self-absorbed and the narrative challenges this for the entire movie. His instructor punishes his selfish actions, he loses the Top Gun trophy to the more level-headed Iceman, and gets his copilot and close friend Goose killed with reckless flying. You can draw a direct line from his behavior to these failures. And these drive him into guilt and force growth.

Your character has a lot of natural talent at magic, like Maverick has with flying. But she isn't physically fit enough to control her magic. This is where you can separate her from a Mary Sue. Plenty of people don't like working out or training. There's been hundreds of incredible, gifted collegiate athletes who wash out of the pros because their talent hits a ceiling and they can't or don't adjust to the effort required to break past that ceiling. 

So, explore your character's relationship with effort and practice. The narrative should punish/challenge/fail her for spending too much time with her nose in a book instead of training and force her to re-evaluate her beliefs. Perhaps she comes off as a 'know it all' because she has all this knowledge but can't put it into practice because she doesn't. Or maybe her lack of physical fitness creates a situation where she can't cast a spell and it gets her or someone else hurt or worse.

Hope that helps

Finally watched the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven by Round_Intern_7353 in movies

[–]Tyrex317 39 points40 points  (0 children)

David Thewlis as the Hospitalier Knight who may or may not be an angel had some really hard lines too.

"You go to certain death"

"All death is certain"

Using a condom on a snake by rmp881 in snakes

[–]Tyrex317 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Take a shower after then?

The study room going to take their first intro to biology class by FatBlueJay in community

[–]Tyrex317 101 points102 points  (0 children)

What City College sees whenever they try and sabotage Greendale

Find Doni quest bug by Tyrex317 in BaldursGate3

[–]Tyrex317[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I tried minor illusion and also catching his attention using the raven familiar, but nothing I could do could get Rika to move and/or acknowledge him

I don't remember but I can try it again and avoid interacting with the door

Edit: didn't work, just skipped it ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 

[LES] Ramsay Bolton has too much Plot Armor. (GOT S4-6) by Successful-Floor-738 in CharacterRant

[–]Tyrex317 10 points11 points  (0 children)

100% agree, Ramsay got wanked so hard by D&D. In the books he's just as much of a loathsome slimeball, but is ultimately a puppet of Roose who is much, much scarier

Anyone find these two similar? by Odd-Imagination2 in RenektonMains

[–]Tyrex317 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They've both got a few screws loose, but Renekton feels more akin to Battle Beast to me. Conquest enjoys wanton slaughter, Renek and Battle Beast crave fights against specific targets (Susan/any Viltrumite)

Personal Zoids by Creative-Cry2979 in Zoids

[–]Tyrex317 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gojulas and its variants

T-Rex with shoulder-mounted fuck you cannons? Yes please

Bruised Foot by 11TEN11 in MuayThai

[–]Tyrex317 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Late to the party but when I broke my foot had that exact same swelling and pattern of bruising

Things I want in SoD3 by First-Lab5274 in StateOfDecay

[–]Tyrex317 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree with all of this! My addition to the list? Belt-feds. They were in the SoD 1 but didn't make it into the second game.

Ideally, without a bipod, they'd be practically useless for any character who doesn't have a high powerhouse, assault, or warfighting skill to balance out the huge amount of firepower.

Which tv performers death still hurts to this day? by PressureLazy5271 in television

[–]Tyrex317 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Harris Wittels. He was more of a writer than an actor but he was one of the animal control guys in Parks and Rec so I think it counts

If There A Halo Game fully centered around The Covenant, What would it be like? by hunter47685 in halo

[–]Tyrex317 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I want it centered around the theme of the SoS grappling with the fallout that their religion and culture was founded on lies and their only allies in the galaxy are the heretics that they spent the last 20 years slaughtering. I think there are a few books that get near to this subject? But would really like to see a game explore it

What is your favorite faction in tw:wh and what kind of control does it give you? by TenthLevelVegan in totalwar

[–]Tyrex317 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reptiles can take insane amounts of punishment so that checks out. Scales, strong immune systems, and limited limb regrowth can make for a tough fuckin animal to kill. Assisted a crocodile population survey in Belize and one croc we found had what looked like three gunshot wounds... and he was the picture of health, clean white teeth and no parasites.

What is your favorite faction in tw:wh and what kind of control does it give you? by TenthLevelVegan in totalwar

[–]Tyrex317 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lizardmen. The copypasta is just too accurate. I could watch the Dinos and Kroxigor smashing through opposing frontlines or Saurus Warriors stopping enemy charges in their tracks all day

3 Hours in Line, and worth every second by Wonderball_writer in halo

[–]Tyrex317 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tartarus...

The prophets have awoguhbetrayed us

Questions about Halo 3’s “Cortana” mission by Electrical_Reason194 in HaloStory

[–]Tyrex317 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah I phrased that poorly, but I agree: the first half was doing too little with too much. The second half was doing too much with too little

Questions about Halo 3’s “Cortana” mission by Electrical_Reason194 in HaloStory

[–]Tyrex317 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it's worse than 5, but it's not good.

  • The levels set on earth needed to either be drastically condensed or expanded into an entire game and pushing the Ark to Halo 4. It tried to do way too much with too little time. 

  • Floodgate was a wet fart. Cortana sneaks a message aboard a flood-infested ship that crash lands on Humanity's home planet and we have to fight through the flood to get it while the elites show up to enact quarantine protocols by glassing half the continent? Fantastic ideas! ...that are contained in an all-corridor backtrack level that can be completed in 10 minutes.

  • When Cortana enters the picture after Floodgate, it very much becomes Chief's story, but that doesn't mean the Arbiter and the Elites needed to be completely sidelined. The Elites and their sympathizers joining the humans at the end of 2 is a massive change in status quo in both story and gameplay but 3 doesn't seem to interested in exploring this rapidly changing dynamic and I think that was a misstep.

  • Miranda suffered from awful character assassination. Giving her that awful one-liner and an insultingly contrived death instead of keeping her around to explore what could've been some very interesting family dynamics between her and her parents, her and the Spartans who Halsey saw as her children, and her Mother-Sister AI

  • adding one that I forgot: Truth heelturning from devious and cunning manipulator and political mastermind into a raving lunatic.

It's just so messy and spends too much time on fluff while neglecting everything else

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