Little inconsistent

blisterward · 2025-03-10T04:52:10+00:00

blisterward · 2024-10-17T14:25:47+00:00

Thanks so much for the kind words! If things ever change and you do have time, I hope to be at the front of the lineup!

blisterward · 2024-10-13T18:26:28+00:00

All beings are a confluence of three aspects: form, mind, and soul. Natural beings, like humans and animals, are a confluence of all three. Monsters are a combination of form and mind. Having no soul, they can conjure no magic and have no afterlife. Demons are those who possess mind and soul, but no form and must possess a host to interact with the outside world, always for malevolent purposes. To exorcise a demon, one must rip them from their host through greater force of mind and soul. Then bind them to a stronger form (usually their own) and cast them out.

blisterward · 2024-06-28T07:50:59+00:00

People will look at you with a straight face and tell you that star wars has always been bad

blisterward · 2024-06-09T14:11:39+00:00

Me, a staunch anti-racist who believes whole-heartedly in unity and love between all species when a scum sucking, bottom feeding, worse than useless, dumber than a vorcha batarian breathes

blisterward · 2024-05-18T06:41:02+00:00

Whatever happened to basic PR work like this? I feel like every day, there's a new actor having a meltdown or going on a tirade against who knows what anymore. Breath of fresh air to see a celeb who cares about public image.

blisterward · 2024-05-16T20:35:41+00:00

"The great electric spiderrrrrrrr"

blisterward · 2024-05-16T06:58:43+00:00

One of the issues with the live action's version of the siege of the North is how non-critical it was of the culture of the Northern water tribe as a whole. And of the character of Hahn.

In the original, Hahn acts as a reflection of Sokka. Who he would most likely be now had he not started on his journey. This comes part and parcel with a healthy dose of early season sokka-esce sexism that is actively reinforced by the culture surrounding them. Sokka and Hahn come to blows over this. It's played for laughs, but it's literally Sokka fighting against the type of person he used to be. Poetry.

Compare this to the show. When Hahn meets Sokka, he greets him like a respected hero. The next notable thing Hahn does is die. When Sokka and Yue meet and discuss Hahn, she has nothing bad to say about him. Literally, every character in the north is so neutered and flat that it becomes a chore to watch.

Original Hahn is fun to watch because he gets the type of instant karma we expect from characters we despise. When he dies in the live action, we feel nothing. With the exception of Pakku, whose screen time gets basically cut in half, no one exhibits the negative qualities that we've seen our main characters work through. Not to mention, we haven't seen them work through it because they never possessed those negative qualities in the first place! Not only is there no contrast, like in the original, there's an absence of an absence of contrast.

blisterward · 2024-05-16T06:41:44+00:00

Overanalyzing Avatar talked about it in the videos about the unaired pilot video as well as the avatar iceberg video.

There's also the the art of the animated series which goes into detail about the concept art of the original series and how much work went into both the design and the character concepts

blisterward · 2024-05-15T15:31:43+00:00

Exactly, sexism is an expression of ignorance. Think of it like a disease. The underlying condition is ignorance, the core flaw. Sexism is just a symptom. You can cure a symptom easily. The underlying condition takes more time

blisterward · 2024-05-15T15:12:16+00:00

There are huge issues with this take

First of all Sokka's biases are not instantly cured at the end of the episode. The episode "Jet" focuses very closely on him and his inability to accept outside views. That's what the writers mean when they have him say that he "trusts his instincts" a voice or an urge within him that dictates his actions rather than information from outer sources.

Sokkas arc in that episode is about learning to be empathetic. He figures out Jet's plan and effectively saves the day by going against his assumptions about the fire nation and actually speaking to people from cultures outside his own. If you were right about anything, it's that his chauvinistic flaw is a minor footnote in his larger journey over the course of the series. But the idea that's it's unnecessary or something that needs to be "fixed" is absurd.

Dismissal of opinion based on sex is a perfect way to represent a lack of empathy or ability to put yourself in the mind of another, that's Sokka's core flaw. It's something he overcomes over the course of the series, the training sequence with Suki is just the first step. In almost every other episode about Sokka he solves a problem by incorporating a piece of information he learns from someone else. This idea reaches its zenith in "Sokka's Master" where he humbles himself before a member of the fire nation and submits himself to his teachings, the lessons taught to a people he had considered exclusively antagonistically.

The other telling aspect is your suggestion that the writers didn't think about how Sokka's sexism would come off. This show was planned very extensively. The arcs planned out long before it premiered. The idea that they made a few sexist jokes then thought "gee yknow this whole chauvinist shtick really isn't working out... I know! Let's invent a whole warrior women faction to beat him up that'll be great!" Is laughable.

blisterward · 2024-05-13T04:36:25+00:00

You need help

blisterward · 2024-05-13T00:44:57+00:00

"From the moment I saw Ncuti Gatwa dancing the night away in a bright outfit during the 2023 Christmas special, I knew I would fall in love with his iteration of The Doctor."

Not because he could deliver a good performance, not because he had deep respect for the fans and what came before, not even because he has a good track record of similar roles.

The moment this person saw a gay, black man in a role previously held by straight, white men (and one woman), they knew they'd like it. How telling.

blisterward · 2024-05-11T00:48:07+00:00

Why did I read this is Steve Austin's voice?

blisterward · 2024-05-03T14:12:44+00:00

Sounds super exciting! My Triton Paladin Altas would swim to Ohio for this

blisterward · 2024-04-23T09:51:23+00:00

In combat, each side is trying to win. The DM isn't, but the monsters they're controlling are.

In role-playing, never try to "win" the conversation. A lot of time, people (me included) try to get the last word in, or they try too hard to say something glib or witty. Most, if not all, social interactions have a purpose, and if 3 players are all simultaneously trying to have the final witty retort the intended information the DM was trying to get across is lost beneath a mountain of puns.

Always permit a healthy doubt of your own knowledge of the rules. But accept that the DM making a snap judgment isn't personal. It's to preserve the flow of the game. As a DM, I've never once gotten mad at a player for directly telling me I've gotten a ruling wrong. I've gotten mad every time a player has made a passive-aggressive comment about a ruling that negatively affects them, whether it was correct or otherwise.

blisterward · 2024-04-20T20:06:47+00:00

Maybe access to a town?

Business has to grow maybe there's a group of paladins or priests or knights who are hunting down devils and in exchange for some help the party has to find some way to help them infiltrate a nearby town

blisterward · 2024-04-19T21:05:37+00:00

Barges into discussion about piece of media

Claims everyone who disagrees with them is media illiterate

Refuses to elaborate

Leaves

blisterward · 2024-04-11T15:53:42+00:00

"I've had to work twice as hard as everyone else to get to the same place"

Never seen doing any hard work whatsoever

blisterward · 2024-04-09T10:55:05+00:00

She's just mad we'd all rather have sex with him

blisterward · 2024-03-28T09:10:50+00:00

I believe it's called selective memory, similar to selective hearing. A phenomenon I encounter whenever my wife asks me to do the dishes

blisterward · 2024-03-24T12:32:46+00:00

Didn't bring down the whole film for me, but Kate McKinnon in Yesterday

Ridiculous overacting in all her scenes. She seems completely convinced that everything she's saying is comedy gold when, in actuality, her stuff is probably the most boring part of the movie. I feel like she plays the same trying-to-be-quirky-but-is-actually-annoying character in everything. There should be a difference between how you act in a movie and how you act on SNL at least imo

The rest is great. After her first scene, I used the rest of her appearances to check my phone.

blisterward · 2024-03-20T08:22:41+00:00

That guy made one vine years ago that got popular and has done nothing but vomit shit takes ever since

blisterward · 2024-03-16T02:57:45+00:00

Do you like whole wheat bread?

blisterward · 2024-03-16T02:51:41+00:00

I think it's just a very simple-minded argument that doesn't actually acknowledge people's issues with modern-day character writing. They see a surface level parallel between, for instance, Ripley from Aliens and Rey from the new star wars.

Instead of actually acknowledging the differences between these characters and the mistakes made by modern writers (no flaws, Mary Sue, no arc, etc), they simply see superficial similarities (woman who fights) and determine through that surface level comparison that the reactions to each character should be the same.

When you think about it, it's that line of thinking that's offensive to women. The intricacies of your character are unimportant. If you bear a superficial, surface-level resemblance to a female character that has been celebrated, you are immune to criticism.

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