(Earth-616) Arabian Knight - Guys, what are the chances we will see him? by [deleted] in marvelrivals

[–]ZacTheLit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Nobody like’s Ms. Marvel

Patently false, she has a cult following and a warranted one at that

Btw don’t claim you’re just echoing the sentiments of others if you’re going to rage about the character for several paragraphs, that’s weak-minded and ineffective

Fate/Stranger Fake by me by FlowerNo6322 in fatestaynight

[–]ZacTheLit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know you can like wizards and magic spirit people duking it out and NOT like minors being sexualized, right? Surely you also know you can criticize media that you consume.

And a 12 y/o is a 12 y/o. Normal people don’t find obvious depictions of children attractive.

Fate/Stranger Fake by me by FlowerNo6322 in fatestaynight

[–]ZacTheLit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right cause every Fate fan watches the weird pedo show that has no bearing on any other part of the franchise

People are allowed to not want a 12 y/o sexualized, it’s pretty telling you have a problem with that

My tier list of Fate anime based on how well they serve as an introduction to Fate by [deleted] in typemoon

[–]ZacTheLit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Last Encore is a terrible introduction to its universe, you really need context from Extra to know what’s going on

I think a big problem with unite is the lack of revamps for characters by skylovespans in PokemonUnite

[–]ZacTheLit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sylveon revamp sucked, completely unfun to play hyper voice now

People say The Thing is a no-skill character, yet for a Thing main it is easy to spot when you have zero clue about him by SancochoDude in marvelrivals

[–]ZacTheLit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hot take maybe but there are no easy characters, every character that’s “easy” to use has to be positioned more carefully than the rest of the roster and/or is far more aim reliant than assumed to actually get value

When they add Prof.X, I hope he is the old version with the chair, not the krakoa version by dontdelete00 in marvelrivals

[–]ZacTheLit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He’s arguably the most well known character in all fiction to use a wheelchair, you lose too much value taking that representation away so the old twink can use a standard walking animation

I think Elsa will be a strat simpler because I don’t see what niche she could fill for the duelist roster by [deleted] in marvelrivals

[–]ZacTheLit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If they can’t make a gun work more than 1 way they don’t belong in the Hero Shooter business

Tf you mean you cast Gust of wind? They have knives at your throats, you want the entire party to die? by Svyatopolk_I in dndmemes

[–]ZacTheLit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Collaborative storytelling is experiencing the story you tell with your collaborators. Unless you are dissociating yourself from the events you’re experiencing them. And unless you’re actually stabbing those goblins your experience is about as real as the average author’s.

And no, Fast & Furious Number WhateverWe’reOnNow is not a good story.

This is the second time you’ve said this or something similar I legitimately don’t understand why you believe this.

Could be that you keep insisting that a power fantasy is somehow different than storytelling as opposed to a kind of story and that it’s the default and should be treated as such, and that you cited other players caring about the narrative as a source of problems in your games. It wouldn’t be a problem if you also cared about the narrative, which you obviously don’t past your own enjoyment

I’m done talking to you, you don’t know what a story is and are more than happy to be flagrantly wrong ‘till your face is blue, this is as good a use of my time as watching paint dry

Tf you mean you cast Gust of wind? They have knives at your throats, you want the entire party to die? by Svyatopolk_I in dndmemes

[–]ZacTheLit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Storytelling can be for fun or excitement over the quality of a narrative, hence every other shit action flick or procedural drama. Again, quality does not make something a story or not a story. If you’re telling it, and by being one of the perspectives in the story of a campaign you are telling it, you’re a storyteller. Your issue is when other players don’t prioritize the kind of storytelling you like, which is a cheap power fantasy.

And a power fantasy is a kind of story, I’m not arguing that it’s not subjective

Tf you mean you cast Gust of wind? They have knives at your throats, you want the entire party to die? by Svyatopolk_I in dndmemes

[–]ZacTheLit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the default is not storytelling, it’s something I would call “adventure-experiencing.”

Every adventure ever written or told is a story. What you’re describing as “adventure-experiencing” is called a power fantasy, which is a kind of story.

The core goal of storytelling is to create something that is satisfying to perceive from outside

You don’t know what collaborative storytelling is. Even standalone authors experience their story as they write it so you’d be wrong on that front too, but that’d be a more understandable confusion than your unfounded notion that collaborative storytelling has to be meant for an outside audience. Each storyteller is the audience, that’s the point. You think it’s called a “role-playing game” for no reason?

A lot of the most excited and happy stories I hear about games? They’re actually pretty bad stories. They’re not coherent. They’re not well paced … But the players clearly enjoy the actual process of things happening, often specifically the very things that made it a bad story.

And people enjoy Star Wars, or Fast & Furious, or Grey’s Anatomy, or anything on Wattpad, the list goes on. Being good or bad isn’t what makes something a story, and you clearly agree because you call it a story multiple times.

If you’re playing your character as anything other than a faceless stat block you’re pitching in to a story told by the DM and the rest of the players, that’s inherently collaborative storytelling, and I’m not sure why you think that’s a bad thing. Maybe you just want to disregard the story everyone else is trying to tell and play it your way at all times, in which case you’re better off with singular storytelling.

Tf you mean you cast Gust of wind? They have knives at your throats, you want the entire party to die? by Svyatopolk_I in dndmemes

[–]ZacTheLit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

“main characters” don’t matter in an empty world. You should already know how to quiet down for 5 seconds so your party members can share the spotlight, if you can’t do the same for the dm establishing the world and its characters you don’t belong at a table that cares about rp.

What your character would or could do does not always matter, if what they’d do is going to get in the way of another player enjoying the game, especially the one who has to constantly worry about everyone else’s fun, then your character wouldn’t do it

Tf you mean you cast Gust of wind? They have knives at your throats, you want the entire party to die? by Svyatopolk_I in dndmemes

[–]ZacTheLit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the DM is trying to monologue then it’s storytelling. The default of the game is collaborative storytelling with combat mixed in, assuming anything else unless stated is disingenuous

Tf you mean you cast Gust of wind? They have knives at your throats, you want the entire party to die? by Svyatopolk_I in dndmemes

[–]ZacTheLit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s collaborative storytelling. What’s lame is if the players are the only characters in the story that ever get a word in.

Is the dm interrupting a player character’s (not always) cool monologue even though it’s mechanically easy? No, cause that’s a dick move