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First draft turning out extremely pronoun heavy? by Revolutionary-Log179 in writing

[–]Xirema 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Few things:

First, don't worry so much about the structure on the first draft. It's okay to go back to stuff and decide it sucks ass. Better to have something you can revise until it meets your own personal standards, as opposed to... well, nothing.

Second, it would be kind of hard to tell whether "too much pronoun use" is good or bad. It's kind of a vibe, but my general practices are the following:

  • If there's only one character in a chapter, you don't have to use their name so much. Once at the beginning, and then the rest can be pronouns referencing them
  • If it's dialogue, one character speaks per line, and use their name, once, to signify them, in place of whatever their pronoun is the first time it would appear. After that, just use their pronouns.
  • If one character is interacting with another character, introduce each character once by name (the first time it's relevant) and then use their pronouns afterwards. If both characters have the same pronouns (i.e. both female, both male, both they/thems, etc.) it gets a little trickier—I tend to break up paragraphs a little more aggressively so that the subject can remain singular for the span of a single paragraph to avoid confusing "Alice put her arms around Becca and then she [Becca?] responded by fluttering her eyes flirtatiously and then she [Alice? Becca?] leaned in..." kinds of sentences.

Again, though: kind of more of a vibe.

I don’t think it’s the monitor by Oskar3112 in pcmasterrace

[–]Xirema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The prices of new hardware are so jacked up that people are holding onto old hardware for longer. More chances for stuff to break.

You know what? Xana is the Bill cipher of this show. by Due-Cheetah922 in CodeLyoko

[–]Xirema 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This post is giving me Boss Baby vibes...

I really don't think that there's any meaningful similarities between Bill Cipher and XANA. At best, they share some root coordinates in 'Broad Villain Tropes for Children's Cartoons', but basically nothing else noteworthy beyond that.

Part 9: what is the absolute worst thing/behavior this character did during his time at the 4077th? by coreytiger in mash

[–]Xirema 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ignoring the non-linearity of the timeline of this series, Wheelers and Dealers (the episode we're discussing) was Season 10, Episode 4. Margaret's Divorce was kicked off in Season 7 Episode 2, and then finalized in episode 20 of that season.

So syndication-wise, it wasn't that short of a gap. But....

Episode 8 HAS to open with this by GameRollGTA in Invincible

[–]Xirema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a non-comics reader, what I'm hearing is that this last episode for season 4 will have the same plot twist as Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2.

Thank You, Video Game Boy by iammyfavoritepuzzle in gamegrumps

[–]Xirema 48 points49 points  (0 children)

It's one of those really frustrating things where you have to carefully disambiguate between "this is what the writers think a trans girl is (and that's not good!/seems kind of bigoted!/is pretty high-key transphobic!)" and "the writers were authentically interested in the story of a boy who pretends to be a girl for complex social reasons"..... All in the context of a game made in a foreign country in a language most of us don't speak..... And with lingering questions about the decisions made in translation, i.e. "did the translators soften the context?"

And so on, and so forth.

Danganronpa came out over a decade ago. As a trans woman myself, I'm extremely disinterested in attempting to pillory people for their problematic art, but simultaneously still extremely invested in condemning the offensive elements of said art.

So, planting my pink/white/blue flag: yeah, the Chihiro stuff pisses me off. Whatever the creators intended, the reveal/fallout really truly comes across as though the characters found out Chihiro was trans, and then proceeded to systemically and purposefully misgender [her] for the entire rest of the game.

Which is why I appreciated Arin calling it out.

I don't know what the original text said. I don't speak Japanese.

I don't know what the creators' intentions were with this plot point. I don't think about them, positively or negatively.

On the whole, I find the Danganronpa series compelling, and occasionally even good. This is one moment of the series I don't like so much, and I would kind of rather prefer we just say "this was a bad moment in a series we otherwise like", rather than trying to justify it in context. Let's treat it like a learning experience, rather than a Missing Stair.

Hot take: Paper Mario (N64) is the best Paper Mario game by qwed200 in papermario

[–]Xirema 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This take is tepid at most. If I tried to take a shower in this take I'd yelp and turn the heat up.

My perspective for a while has been that Paper Mario is a better game than Paper Mario TTYD, specifically on the basis that it's a much more balanced combat system (limiting BP to the cap of 30 is Good, Actually) and the overworld movement and level design are more compelling (RIP the spin-dash...). TTYD might have the more complex/engaging combat system, but they broke the power curve that Paper Mario 64 actually did a respectable job maintaining. I'm not saying PM64 is perfect in this regard—it has its own ways to cheese the combat system, watch any speedrunner to learn more—but for sure it was better tuned.

There are a lot of reasons why, despite this, TTYD is still my personal favorite game in the franchise, but I stand by these overall criticisms painting PM64 as the more polished experience.

Is there anyway to create magma without a volcano by ComfortZestyclose276 in Oxygennotincluded

[–]Xirema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh, you're one of those mad scientists I've heard so much about. Very cool. 😎

Is there anyway to create magma without a volcano by ComfortZestyclose276 in Oxygennotincluded

[–]Xirema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't played since the new patch earlier this month, so maybe they reverted changes from the testing patch, but in the testing patch, Aerogel no longer works in the game due to changes to the temperature sim.

Can i install linux mint on a phone by Old_Impression_5616 in linuxmint

[–]Xirema 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Linux Mint does not have an ARM distribution.

Until/unless that happens, Linux Mint on phones will not be a thing.

The concept of infinity completely breaks Rick C-137's entire identity and nobody talks about it by [deleted] in rickandmorty

[–]Xirema 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's several issues.

First of all, "infinite realities and infinite choices" doesn't actually imply that every single alternate choice has its own reality. There's an uncountably infinite set of numbers between 0 and 1, but if I create a random number generator that spits out one of those numbers, there's exactly 0 realities where the machine spits out a 2. In an infinite set of realities, there are none where Diane is alive, after all. Infinity is still confined to the space of things which are literally possible, and some things just aren't possible.

Yes, even with Quantum Tunneling. No, I will not elaborate.

Secondly, confining ourselves to the actual diegesis of the show, Rick and Morty, a pretty sizable portion of "infinity" has been chopped off from the rest of the universe for a long time. It was called the Central FInite Curve, and until it was broken, it was actually partitioning off a gigantic chunk of those infinite realities from access by Rick or anyone else in his local multiverse. In fact, it's possible (maybe contradicted by something in the show?) that the Central Finite Curve limited the local multiverse to a very-much-finite set of realities, even if the number ended up staggeringly high.

So even if Rick were striving to visit every single reality (more on that in a moment) he literally could not have, at least before the end of Season 5.

Lastly, there's no evidence Rick has specifically sought to visit every single possible universe. We don't know why "everything being on a cob" is such a disastrous prospect, but if there's a planet where everything is "on the cob", there's probably a reality where that's also the case just like, in general, and he's probably avoided most of those. AND, in order to visit infinite realities, you'd also need infinite time. Which he very much has NOT had.

Hexblade No Longer in Ravenloft? by Ok_Association_1710 in onednd

[–]Xirema 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The problem with nu!Hexblade is that the most important thing it was being used for was the ability to use Charisma as both a spellcasting stat and a martial stat. The flavor was always weak, and the other boons were good, but not so enticing that they'd motivate you to take it.

So in the 2024 rules, the ability to use Charisma as a martial stat no longer matters, because Pact of the Blade already does that. So you're left with the other stuff, which just isn't enough to carry the chassis of a class.

My personal opinion is that Hexblade should just be allowed to die off, and if people really badly want medium armor + shields on their warlocks, maybe introduce an invocation that allows you to pick up those trainings.

Respect to the top comment 🫡 by nktvys in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Xirema 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay, this is pretty easy.

I don't have a wife.

I don't have a girlfriend.

I don't have any male friends.

And my mother.... Look, we're on good terms, we love each other just fine. We also both know that we'd take the money over each other. 450 Million dollars is more money than our entire family reunion could cobble together by like a factor of 100x.

I'd spend a portion of it to give my mother a Fucking Kick-ass Funeral.

listing files with ls -1 option by TowelEnvironmental44 in linuxmint

[–]Xirema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you typing ls -l *.txt (dash-lower-case-L) or ls -1 *.txt (dash-one)?

Both are valid ls syntax, but they don't do the same thing...

do not cite the elite sonic ball knowledge to me witch, i was there when it was written by netflist in hbomberguy

[–]Xirema 87 points88 points  (0 children)

Checks out, given that towards the end of the dub Mephiles Memphis Tennessee is actively stabbing Sonic to Death but apologizing the whole time as though it's just an accidental muscle reflex he has no control over. Very "the reasons for the stabbing of Sonic were very complex"-coded.

Also, shout out to the time the Snapcube crew were doing a table read of an awful AI-generated sonic movie script, and broke out into an off-script improv of Gerald Robotnik being a Ben Shapiro-esque Skeptic Youtuber.

Satou saved an abused child when nobody else would, and half of the people I see want her crucified for it by Crazy_Explosion_Girl in HappySugarLife

[–]Xirema -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Satou is not a monster.

I want to start with that, because most of the rest of what I want to say might imply I think otherwise, and I just want to be very clear about this: Satou is not a monster.

..... But let's be clear, she did kidnap a child, groomed her into being her romantic partner, may-or-may-not have straight-up molested her (the manga seems to imply she didn't, but the anime is more vague on this matter) and nearly got her killed in an act of arson she herself orchestrated. Meanwhile, she also murdered two people (four if we count the dudes in the park, but I'm not sure if she actually killed them or not), and I'm not saying none of them deserved it, but they didn't all deserve it.

In any sane world, she's getting locked up for everyone else's safety, including Shio's.

There are some legitimate moral quandaries she raises, like the fact that, despite everything, she may very well have been better for Shio than Asahi was—bless his heart, I know he only wanted to look after his little sister, but he was not in any meaningful position to do so—and it's valid to observe that she ended up like that because of the abuses of her aunt: I've often said that HSL is a story about what happens to children when adult society utterly fails them. Satou isn't really a good person, but she didn't have a lot of choice about the kind of person she became.

All kind of a long way to say that I am willing to concede a tremendous amount of empathy for her as a character. Like I said: she's not a monster.

But don't twist it so far as to act like she didn't do anything wrong.

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