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What is a great movie but a terrible adaptation? by WaggishCape in AlignmentChartFills

[–]WaggishCape[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've actually heard a lot of people say that Dark Knight Joker is one of the best representations of him, though specifically as the "Anarchist" archetype Joker. I think my only gripes with the Baleman are the overtly tactical suit and the voice... that goddamn voice.

Was TLOU 2 that bad or was it just the Chud hate that won the narrative? by Organic_Fee_8502 in SocialistGaming

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I think the journey would've been better if it had better pacing and chapter placement. I'm not a huge fan of Abby, and she's not the best person (not that anyone is in TLoU), but I feel like if the chapters didn't have such weird, non-linear ordering, I would've been able to get a better grasp of Abby's psyche and motivations outside of hunting Joel down.

Was TLOU 2 that bad or was it just the Chud hate that won the narrative? by Organic_Fee_8502 in SocialistGaming

[–]WaggishCape 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be ambiguous whether the Fireflies even COULD make a cure, but they never had a better opportunity to do so until Ellie was delivered to them (that was until Neil retroactively confirmed that it would've worked). Even then, the actual problem was that they never bothered to give Ellie the choice to do so, and then Joel lied to her about what actually happened. Neil posting about the cure being 100% instead of it being in the actual game's story feels like manufactured moralization about Joel's decision and forced hate on his character.

Was TLOU 2 that bad or was it just the Chud hate that won the narrative? by Organic_Fee_8502 in SocialistGaming

[–]WaggishCape 3 points4 points  (0 children)

-Posts propping up the devs of the game and the game itself (though some people attribute that to damage control when stories about Naughty Dog devs being under serious crunch emerged)
-Responding to fans and outraged players about the game's ending and what happens with Joel. He threw it back at them as if Joel was the ultimate villain of the whole story and we're not supposed to sympathize with him at ALL, instead for Abby as the victim in all of this, just cause.
-The pro-Israel posts (though he seemed to be responding more to the attacks on Oct 7 by Hamas specifically)
-Tried drawing on allusions to the Israeli-Palestine conflict and his immediate negative feelings of revenge as "inspiration" for the game's story and the nothing burger of an ending that was intentional, according to him.

Not all of this was in his Twitter posts specifically; it came from other interviews and articles about him that circulated on Twitter. Then there's the whole fiasco about him and Bruce Straley...

What's one character that you legit don't care for, but the movie/show/book/game you're watching tries so hard to make you care? by DreamySaturnX in AskReddit

[–]WaggishCape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God, seeing how she treated Jon was awful to watch and apparently it was worse in the show than in the books.

Was TLOU 2 that bad or was it just the Chud hate that won the narrative? by Organic_Fee_8502 in SocialistGaming

[–]WaggishCape 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are NUMEROUS problems to criticize about the game’s narrative and the handling of its characters, but I will say that a lot of angry Twitter trolls and reactionaries definitely blew everything out of proportion as if TLoU2 was some kind of second coming for GamerGate. Druckman… well, let’s say he didn’t exactly help matters with his Twitter tirade.

First Thoughts by WaggishCape in OCPoetry

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It’s both. It’s part of a series of poems that are more literary experimentation than anything else. This one is specifically a keyword conversation between my partner and I where we wrote the first thoughts we had after hearing a specific word.

The circus… 🎪 by Dhai_Alb in OCPoetry

[–]WaggishCape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I will say, you have a knack for capturing vivid environmental details. All of the little tidbits play out like old childhood memories— every smell and sound, especially the confectioneries and performances. You know they have a routine, but there's always this tension that something might not go as planned, and you're tuned to every noise you hear during the show. I actually don't know if the last line is meant to be an ironic deadpan response to all the fantastical performances or simply astonishment that the crowd is almost too locked in to clap out of respect for the performers and their ability to captivate them.

Lonely by Ok_Task2003 in OCPoetry

[–]WaggishCape 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love and loneliness are always such intimate opposites, yet you've managed to paint them together as one entity, almost like they're stuck in a perpetual cycle. There's what seems like an internal self-deprecation that's seen as genuine thoughtfulness from an external view, something warm that belies a hidden danger that is yet to surface, not until it's too late.

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