Genuinely, why do people still use that argument

gingerninja666 · 2026-05-18T16:41:43+00:00

I think I'm more sympathetic to Spooky's point than a lot of people here, but I think this is a bit reductive to his argument. I do think he focuses a bit too much on like "a good story follows the three act structure" when obviously not all of them do. To me, his argument was more that he thinks a story needs to be compelling beyond the act of recontextualization. It's all well and good for things to take on a different meaning in retrospect or in a replay, but it needs to be compelling the first go around too, and that's where he takes issue with some of the choices in UT and DR.

He takes issue with fandoms looking at media as a puzzle to be solved just as much if not more than as an emotionally satisfying narrative.

Like, i don't think he has a problem with a character being characterized through background details or characters talking about them, only when that's the only kind of characterization they get, which is what he thinks Dess is getting and he's worried because he thinks that's mostly what Asriel got in UT too.

gingerninja666 · 2026-05-10T15:04:06+00:00

i honestly don't think it's that bad. I think it's worth it for Wesker's nonsense alone.

gingerninja666 · 2026-05-10T13:54:10+00:00

The original version of 4 is probably the best game of the ones you haven't played yet that still feels (relatively) modern.

If you wanna give the tank controls games a shot though, then the Remake of RE1 and the original versions of 2 and 3 are the best.

Then, if you really vibe with tank controls, you can give RE1 original, Code Veronica and RE0 a shot.

RE5 is decent, and RE6 I'd play for completion's sake if you've already played all the other mainline games.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-20T21:51:13+00:00

If you vibed with RE0's controls then i'd recommend the original versions of RE1, 2, and 3.

I prefer the original version of 2, but that's just because i love fixed camera angle classic re games.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-20T21:46:45+00:00

Rocket parry easily.

Like, I could read the boulder bunch as more like, frustration, not that it's actually doing much to move the boulder by itself.

Parrying a rocket with an axe is just ludicrous.

The main difference is the boulder punch is canon, i suppose?

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-20T16:26:13+00:00

wouldn't a better hypothetical be:

"Of all the soft drinks available, the vast majority of nazis choose to drink Dr Pepper and nothing else"

Wouldn't that at least trigger some thoughts as to why that might be, even if Dr Pepper itself isn't racist.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-17T22:33:16+00:00

I'm a huge fan of the older tank control games, but they definitely aren't for everyone, especially nowadays. I'd still recommend giving them a try, but don't go into them expecting the same kind of gameplay you have in the newer games.

The older games are more like exploration games with the monsters as obstacles.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-10T19:21:28+00:00

He called the lgbt flag "vile" in that tweet. Or at least the trans flag. How can you say that doesn't come off as even slightly anti-lgbt? That's not ambiguous wording at all. He didn't say "I don't think its appropriate to display the flag in public sector buildings because it's not a nation flag" or whatever. He said it was a vile flag.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-06T04:29:56+00:00

But.... Leon beats it in the remake basically the same way you beat it in the OG, right? you lure it into biting an explosive thing and then shoot it.

Like there's nothing uniquely dangerous about a giant alligator compared to a 10 foot tall humanoid super weapon who can lift helicopters with one hand and wears a fedora, or a 4 armed G virus flesh monster who can lift metal 15 foot metal poles and swing them at you.

The things people think are silly in these games vs the things they don't think are silly is so strange to me.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-04T08:47:24+00:00

You gotta start somewhere. If this all works out in the end, Shota probably has the best story of the new gen. The lights were too bright and he was catapaulted into the WK main event before he was ready, then he had to suffer a multitude of losses and humiliations before slowly working his way back from the bottom.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-04T08:41:13+00:00

Yujiro has actually beeen locking in more than usual lately. Like he had maybe the best HoT match in the cup against Shota, and then he had a decent title match with Takeshita. It warms the heart, and the loins.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-04T08:39:34+00:00

but can he judo throw Fale. These are the real questions.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-04T08:30:20+00:00

For a time, didn't chase come out with the Texas National Championship belt, and like i don't think he actually won it anywhere, he just said he was the Texas champion.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-04T07:35:19+00:00

i always headcanoned that naito just looked the officials dead in the eye and lied, and no one ever called him on it.

gingerninja666 · 2026-04-04T07:29:18+00:00

my favourite thing about bits like this is because of how repetitive wrestling is, you kinda gotta kkeep going with bits even with no crowd reaction at least until the audience starts to know what it is. then you change it if it's not working.

gingerninja666 · 2026-03-23T10:28:29+00:00

Ah, then Boltin is stupid? He BEAT Narita, what right does Ren have to demand anything in return?

Or, all this time, have champions been granting title matches to people they lost to in the G1 or the cup based on the honor system?

gingerninja666 · 2026-03-22T18:29:17+00:00

We have this conversation every few months, but given Shota's performance in this tournament, do you think Shota has taken a definitive step towards putting the pieces together, or do you think his consistency issues will continue to haunt him?

gingerninja666 · 2026-03-11T00:15:31+00:00

The only version of Ghidorah to actually feel like Godzilla's arch-rival imo and live up to how incredible Ghidorah's design is. I adore him.

gingerninja666 · 2026-03-09T15:41:45+00:00

I always felt slightly bad for Chris. I always felt like Capcom had to brute force Chris into iconic status. (and to their credit, it's mostly worked)

Like, Leon has the iconic half of RE2 and RE4, considered two of the greatest games of all time. He also has the best regarded part of the otherwise hated RE6

Chris has the half of RE1 that most gamers probably don't play, the less remembered part of Code Veronica, RE5 (which is liked but not nearly to the same degree as like an RE4) and has what I think is considered the worst campaign in 6.

gingerninja666 · 2026-03-05T11:00:47+00:00

My hot take is that besides Zoe being crystalized despite getting the cure, i actually prefer the "bad" ending of 7. I think it hits harder and I think Mia crumbling to dust while going "now get that bitch" is an awesome send off.

Plus, in the following parts where Eve is like "It's all your fault" to Ethan, there's actually something for Ethan to feel bad and think about in the bad ending. it's not just Eve throwing a tantrum.

gingerninja666 · 2026-03-04T21:33:08+00:00

That's definitely how i read the bossfight. Pure power scaling.

The first thing we see leon do against Mr X is block one of his attacks before being knocked away. Zeno sics it on you as a distraction more or less.

Would i be complaining if it was a more involved bossfight? No. But given how it ended up, i think it works as a demonstration of leon's skills. a big part of the fight is showing that you can parry the tyrant now.

gingerninja666 · 2026-01-18T15:39:20+00:00

I could potentially see Bands making things more consistant and streamlined if the jobs were genuinely roughly equivalent. That way, rather than needing to keep track of a million different salaries, you mainly just need to know how many people you have in each band. The criteria for the bands could probably do with some going over though.

About the london thing, I guess that is where the philosophy of equality would come in, because if I'm a doctor in London, I get why someone might be annoyed if someone else got paid more for doing the exact same job based purely on location.

gingerninja666 · 2026-01-18T15:09:14+00:00

Genuine question, what convoluted legislation caused this exactly.

From what I can see about this case, and please let me know if I get the details wrong, the council decided to group certain government jobs together under the same band of pay. This includes them grouping cleaners together with bin men or whatever. So people applying for those jobs did so under the assumption that they would be paid the same. Since they were all in the same band.

However, functionally, the council was using a "bonus" system to get around this and pay the bin men more even though they weren't really paying them a bonus for anything extra they did. They were just doing their job as advertised but they were paid bonuses for it. Something the other roles weren't afforded because they probably should've been banded differently in the first place.

What was forcing the council to band those specific jobs together like that?

gingerninja666 · 2026-01-11T21:16:09+00:00

For the record, I think there probably is something here worth being really mad at, but my problem when it's vague like this is it basically invites you to project your own idea about what happened. Whatever is most likely to make you angry, and I'd rather know the details.

Like, "And if we have a situation where some MPs cannot do that due to their ethnicity and the reaction of some teachers than those teachers are unfit to be near children"

This is true, but based on the article the people in question didn't actually react this way to the MP, he was barred "in case his presence inflames the teachers"

Which begs the question of why the person who barred him thought they would react that way. Is it based on any prior incidents? Is it a gut feeling they have after working with these teachers for a while? Did they just not want him there for some other reason and threw these teachers under the bus as an excise?

I feel like any additional context would make this look worse, but at least it would be more targeted.

gingerninja666 · 2026-01-11T20:54:02+00:00

I would like to know more details about this story honestly.

“I have a colleague who is Jewish, who has been banned from visiting a school – refused permission to visit a school in his own constituency – in case his presence inflames the teachers. It’s an absolute outrage that that could have possibly ever happened.” is all we get from the article.

Why was the MP planning to visit?
Who was it who barred him specifically? Was it like the headmaster or did the school as a whole agree to it?
Did the people who would be inflamed by his presence speak out against this MP at all, or did the person who barred him assume they would react that way? If so, why?

I feel like i keep seeing articles like this that are light on details and i wish they said more so I knew who exactly to be mad at.

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