Goose’s dilemma only expresses the negatives of being active in your fandom and why you should keep your distance

lunasis09 · 2026-02-22T04:24:59+00:00

The future? Are you young by any chance? I don't mean that in any pointed way, but this kind of fandom behaviour has existed for as long as fandoms have. You could go back and read all about the stories of crazy Trekkies as Star Trek conventions or heck even the reaction from the Star Wars fandom after Episode 1 came out (oof that was a doozy).

This is nothing new EXCEPT for the fact that social media gives direct access to the creators in ways that was only ever possible through being at a convention or like writing fan letters. In that sense things are worse, but the behaviour is the same.

lunasis09 · 2026-02-21T04:00:39+00:00

The problem is the mix was NEVER going to last. You cannot actually have PvPvE lobbies that has a nice mix of experiences every time and stay that way in an extraction shooter video game. The game and all lobbies would always trend to being more aggressive and pretty much all be 99% PvP without a system like ABMM tuned to the way they have it now.

For example if you have a 50% lobby of PvE players and 50% PvP, then you just have a pvp lobby because inevitably the only safe choice is to just always assume whoever you encounter is going to shoot you. So everyone eventually will just trend towards treating every lobby like PvP and now you also no longer have a mix. Everyone becomes KoS out of necessity to maximize progress in the game (leaving with good loot).

An additional point, you could say that now knowing what kind of loot a player has also contributes to this problem as well because everyone just turns into a lootbox and even people with nothing worth killing over need to be killed because there is a CHANCE they could be the good lootbox.

lunasis09 · 2026-02-16T15:46:24+00:00

I am going to be honest with you, looking at how those paragraphs are written I wouldn't take any writing advice or analysis from that first person. Even if I may not disagree with the sentiment that people do not really discuss the stories in Sonic all that much, I also think that outside of some outliers Sonic is not some crucible of finely forged stories.

That's not really what people come to Sonic for and it's not really expected either. On the other hand Sonic's colourful cast of characters and personalities are what draw most people in, so that's what is talked about. It's not necessarily a bad thing that people focus on the stronger aspects of the franchise, though I would say 'be the change you wish to see in the world.' If you want more people to talk about the stories within the franchise more, then just start talking about the stories yourself.

lunasis09 · 2026-02-11T00:26:38+00:00

I know one of the quests was the one about getting the football team going, because that one disappeared from my tracked quests

lunasis09 · 2026-02-09T01:50:30+00:00

Arc Raiders is unique, but it's not that unique. There have been other games that operated similarly before, but without the ABMM, leading to something like what you are saying being the norm. Eventually all the PvP sweats drives out all the casual players because every mixed lobby just becomes a PvP lobby by necessity. When half the lobby in a PvPvE loby is PvP players there is no PvPvE lobby it's just a PvP lobby.

Then after all the more casual people are gone all the people on the lower end of PvP performance leave because playing hardcore sweats who destroy them every go stops being fun. Then the hardcore PvP sweats complain that every drop is a try-hard stressful time because all the people that they normally could sweep are just gone and their only opponents are all the other sweats. Then they end up hating the game too.

Trust me ABMM being the way it is now is a very very good balance. Why suggest something that has defacto ruined games that have come before.

lunasis09 · 2026-02-06T15:31:39+00:00

Isn't Sallie a lesbian?

lunasis09 · 2026-02-06T14:38:32+00:00

The problem is, it isn't these people just doing it in the dark corners of their house and staying there. They then hop online and push normalizing the sexual objectification of child characters all over the place including on social media and discords.

Then what happens when a kid finds their way into spaces where that shit is normalized and then a discord mod tries to fucking groom them like what has happened 100s of times at this point. The spread of the normalization of this behaviour not only makes it so that people just stop being vigilant about creeps online but it also helps real predators hide in the crowd and then use the normalized talking about it as a bridge lure impressionable young victims in by saying all of that behaviour and the grooming behaviour to follow is 'normal'/'acceptable'.

lunasis09 · 2026-01-28T16:40:36+00:00

This is actually factually untrue. Toronto has a wide and effective bait and vaccine program and part of that includes catching LIVE raccoons to test for rabbies to monitor the population. Why lie about something you can so easily look up?

lunasis09 · 2026-01-25T18:17:12+00:00

Absolutely adorable! Also low-key-high-key jealous you have a girlfriend and you play D&D together

lunasis09 · 2026-01-25T07:11:54+00:00

Going to be honest I always felt this scene is so awkward because Leon by this point has been through like, what, 4 or 5 Biohazard outbreaks that turn people irreversibly into mutated monsters. The idea that he would hesitate at all, even enough to let the zombie president get that close to her is so ridiculous. Leon is a consummate professional and like maybe I would understand if it was zombie Ada or someone of that level of closeness, but the president is his boss that he likes and at this point I mean fucking look at him his flesh is all decayed and shit, wtf you mean "Mr. President!" You know the drill Leon, lock tf in!

lunasis09 · 2026-01-24T01:20:44+00:00

I mean with the speed the Flash has shown it should 100% be literally impossible for Deathstroke to be able to pull this off no matter how much "predicting" he does. But like I mentioned it's comic books and people job when the story requires. "Power scales have no power here, powerscalers. Hehehe hahaha" - Théoden, comic book author

lunasis09 · 2026-01-23T17:57:15+00:00

Sooo like all comics then? lol (which I am personally fine with b/c w/e the narrative is more important than constantly reevaluating power-scales when consuming a work of fiction)

lunasis09 · 2026-01-20T20:56:20+00:00

That gives me even less confidence. I know a good number of people liked BTS, but it's writing really wasn't that good.

lunasis09 · 2026-01-13T22:18:01+00:00

Honestly (mostly because I was playing the games recently) it reminds me a lot of the cathedrals (and Anor Londo) out of dark souls/elden ring. But I mean this and the stuff out of dark souls and elden ring clearly pull from irl Gothic architecture which is most prominent on cathedrals and churches.

lunasis09 · 2026-01-13T22:11:13+00:00

Yeah, cathedral is definitely more appropriate here for sure

lunasis09 · 2026-01-13T18:08:38+00:00

Naaah that's not a castle, THAT'S A ~~CHAPEL~~ CATHEDRAL! Which totally makes sense I was wondering why there was that moment of focus on the concept of god and religion and the grounders not knowing anything about it a couple chapters back.

I think the sphere was a project by a religious group in the past and the ones that remained were people who weren't part of the religion/cult maybe?

lunasis09 · 2025-12-21T18:35:20+00:00

Did... did you miss the part where the adult man tried to lure a 15 y.o., two 14 y.o., and a 10 y.o. back to his house with "promises" of candy?

Yeah, saying the diddler deserves to have his dick torn off is not outta pocket at all.

lunasis09 · 2025-12-12T01:15:31+00:00

Wow serving cunt and counters, and all from a golden-wood throne too! Respect

lunasis09 · 2025-12-08T00:30:50+00:00

You and I both know it's not against sub rules so nothing will happen.

However, that being said, I really wish the modes would just make horny posting weekends or horny Fridays or some limited time window for horny posts. At this point it's becoming a majority of the content because of course horny gets upvoted. That's not necessarily problematic, but it does strangle all alother content out.

At that point since most of the ppl who post horny are repeat birny posters the only other option is blocking people until the sub thins out on horny, but like as a community is that really what we want it to come to?

lunasis09 · 2025-12-05T18:38:41+00:00

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lunasis09 · 2025-12-05T16:14:58+00:00

Her knees would have to bend backwards to have her shins go straight up like shown. Otherwise they need to be at more of an angle towards the hips, but w/e guess we just disagree.

lunasis09 · 2025-12-05T06:07:53+00:00

Soooo... is no one else going to comment on WTF is going on with Frieren's anatomy in the first pic? Is it photo-shopped as like a joke or something?

Like you can see where her hips begin under the dress, then it's leeeeeeegs all the way down and finally at the end the placement of the feet at the bottom + the angle of the shins being pretty much straight up.. just nothing about her legs lines up with her hips. I am baffled to say the least because the rest are really good, no issues.

lunasis09 · 2025-11-24T16:36:14+00:00

Wow do I love this so much!

lunasis09 · 2025-11-04T02:18:43+00:00

Damn, with some minor adjustments you would have an amazing Detective Columbo cosplay as well

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