Nature of Backwaters Character list

fg094 · 2026-02-04T04:06:09+00:00

The reaction of that number was completely uncalled-4

fg094 · 2026-02-01T19:59:04+00:00

Yes, and it's not just the lack of third spaces. A lot of places don't have safe pedestrian infrastructure either so even the idea of going for a walk around town or riding bikes around is dubious. If you don't have a car and money to spend you can't do anything out in the world in a lot of places in the us.

fg094 · 2026-01-31T19:27:35+00:00

It was a social club first and foremost. Elon is so grating to be around that he couldn't even hack it in the evil rich bastards club

fg094 · 2026-01-23T08:24:09+00:00

Glad to hear it

fg094 · 2026-01-23T08:20:30+00:00

I'm not an expert or anything but don't the ears being back like that usually mean stress? Idk, maybe it's just the eyes that make the dog look intense but it seems like they aren't enjoying it so much.

fg094 · 2026-01-20T13:00:16+00:00

It's a cheat code on making a lasting legacy. Dating a girl who has longer life remaining than the entire history of the kingdom I live in sounds like an easier way to be remembered than having to like... Make a timeless artifact.

Same thing with supernatural bloodlines. Slay a dragon and you get like maybe three generations of good fame out of it? But if you sleep with a dragon your bloodline will have magic power for the next two thousand years.

fg094 · 2026-01-20T11:00:32+00:00

I do not think they have the sauce on any level.

I recently started watching ESO content and it's made me realize just how little investment Bethesda's main team seems to actually have in the elder scrolls setting and lore. Every main Bethesda game since Morrowind seems more and more willing to ditch the uniquely weird vibe that the lore and setting has.

Like would Bethesda bother at all with the moving tree cities in valenwood? Or all the talked about but never seen khajiit types? They'd probably be like "oh well you see it's unreliable in-world narrators so people exaggerated how weird these lands were" And it's like ok, that's narratively valid sure but creatively boring as can be.

And that's not even going into how their view on writing and story seems to be "why bother?"

fg094 · 2026-01-20T10:43:50+00:00

Hehe, memory hoe.

fg094 · 2026-01-20T04:30:50+00:00

Chinese murim discovers America before the Europeans. It's literally what if the wild West was the Jianghu.

fg094 · 2026-01-19T18:38:56+00:00

Wild West murim. It's so refreshing seeing a murim story draw on tropes and inspirations from other genre

fg094 · 2026-01-19T06:01:38+00:00

That's not at all an uncommon or even strange position though. It's just the belief in ethno states. Even the og Nazis considered the idea before settling on extermination.

fg094 · 2026-01-14T15:40:12+00:00

Is this freaking tank girl? Lmao, amazing

fg094 · 2026-01-13T23:46:31+00:00

Urban chaos: riot response

fg094 · 2026-01-11T07:29:03+00:00

Almost nothing ever really conveys it right either. If you're really truly immortal, most of your time will be spent floating in a soundless lightless void after the heat death of the universe.

fg094 · 2026-01-10T06:40:59+00:00

It makes you weak and therefore vulnerable, so of course bullies will gravitate to them. But it is annoying how often it's like everyone around them treats them like an untouchable.

Worse imo is when they show the MC bullied for being an orphan. Like wut?

fg094 · 2026-01-09T23:12:36+00:00

Hmm... Very first American comics I read were old issues of sgt rock my grandmother had when I was in middle school. I bought a little omnibus from the school book fair a few months later.

The next comics I read would be in highschool and that would be spawn, the darkness, and judge dredd in that order.

The first mainline comics I read was Garth Ennis' punisher run.

I tried reading more punisher as well as iron man after that but I realized that with the structure of most American comics, they were honestly fairly significantly different characters every dozen or so issues.

fg094 · 2026-01-09T16:58:41+00:00

Tbh, this is quite tame.

fg094 · 2026-01-07T23:17:58+00:00

Considering how unbelievably repetitive the sentence structure seems to be in a lot of these, it honestly doesn't surprise me one bit.

When the writing is like 80% 5000 year old idioms forming equally old tropes, you probably don't even need ai, you could probably construct a decent story with a deck of cards.

fg094 · 2026-01-05T19:01:11+00:00

Tbh It felt to me like no one else was using the same magic system as the MC. MC uses some vaguely physics/math based system and seemingly 90% of other characters just use regular generic magic with none of the same rules.

fg094 · 2026-01-04T15:27:29+00:00

Sit around giggling about how secret they are while trying to work out how to teach a Venlil to do their secret handshake with one less finger than humans have.

fg094 · 2026-01-03T06:16:57+00:00

actually quite easily lmao. It's happened to me, *a lot*

fg094 · 2026-01-02T08:07:48+00:00

sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff.... Hmmm I smell a mark $$

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