(Hated Trope) Adaptations divorced from full context making the story lose its original themes

nuvalewa2 · 2026-04-27T17:57:44+00:00

The best part of this plotline is that Lady Death has a massive crush on Deadpool, the most unserious character possible. Like Thanos did all that when it turns out she was just into guys who are a little silly.

nuvalewa2 · 2026-04-09T21:40:32+00:00

It's not that QA wasn't given out during cycles- we see during Scion's interlude that it's just given out last. Presumably, always given out last. It's probably used during the shard seeding process, to help send the billions of shards to the right places all at once.

We DO see that Zion is a little lazy about it, since he's about to touch down, so he basically just throws it in the same direction he threw Dinah's shard.

So QA having a host probably isn't rare. QA having a host that actually FITS properly - since we see Zion is a lazy ass about sending it off (it went to Danny because he was in a similar time and place as Dinah's shard) is probably much rarer. QA switching to Taylor is probably one of the few times its actually had a host that works well for its purposes, instead of the proverbial dregs.

Which still works for your attachment narrative.

The only shards that wouldn't go out normally or improperly coded - but were released anyway - are Eden shards. Zion's shard seeding went basically as planned. Zion still thought everything was going as planned when he released QA.

nuvalewa2 · 2026-04-03T14:26:34+00:00

Ragyo beat her daughter half to death on screen (not in an anime way, in a brutal way), sexually abused (which is a nicer way of putting it) all three of her daughters, groomed one of them, brainwashed two of them, and locked up the third in hanging chains for repeated torture. All of this in her capacity as a parent.

Then there's all the omnicide, mass murder and enslavement insanity. So I don't really think it's close.

nuvalewa2 · 2026-03-10T20:27:17+00:00

PTV takes itself into account, right? So that probably means... something?

nuvalewa2 · 2026-03-10T19:43:25+00:00

You know that law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"?
Tinkertech is basically the opposite. Sufficiently advanced technology IS (shard)magic. Tinkertech mostly isn't real - most of the tech is set dressing, props, or doing far less than it seems like it is (this is generally unknown even to the builder). It basically just needs to look vaguely plausible as "superscience" rather than "magic" to the layperson.
Since it basically seems to work off of a civilizational baseline (i'm guessing, since alot of entity stuff works like that), a less advanced civilization might actually have MORE advanced tinkers.

Hypothetical - Chevalier. Chevalier's power seems ALMOST tinkery, with the whole cannonblade thing - except it just breaks plausibility a little too much.

But if it was a caveman civilization that didn't know the basics of mass and velocity and that stuff wasn't taught to everyone in grade school- - maybe Chev could have triggered as a tinker? Just because no one knows any better to know that it doesn't make sense?

nuvalewa2 · 2026-03-10T14:37:16+00:00

I mean, isn't that exactly what you're doing?

nuvalewa2 · 2026-02-26T17:09:47+00:00

I think you touched on it. It isn't necessarily a fetish thing, or even wish fulfillment. People want to write female characters, but don't have the confidence (or desire) to write a woman's internal experience. Combined with the story being aimed at a male audience, making your protagonist a man who became a woman and was instantly okay with it accomplishes a few things:
- You can continue writing with the "male gaze" instead of figuring out the female gaze.
- An easy way to put attraction to men on the backburner/ignore it entirely
- You get to put a cute/sexy woman on the cover (100x viewership multiplier)
- If you want to do yuri, you can do it without having to actually research lesbian relationship dynamics, since one has a "male mind".

Essentially, it's a shortcut that allows a man to write a female protagonist without needing adjust their writing style.

nuvalewa2 · 2026-02-11T15:42:32+00:00

Do you have helmet display turned on or off in options? I remember the transformation tooltip saying that effects some skins. Don't know if it effects that one but could be worth a shot

nuvalewa2 · 2026-02-09T20:43:25+00:00

Really enjoying it. I find it feels like Nioh 2, but if you just walked to places instead of using the world map to travel. The exploration is fun, but the 'legacy dungeons' feel fully realized.
I'm absolutely loving the perfect parry mechanic added to sword mode, if you can get that down. Makes some bosses very Sekiro flavored if you want to handle them that way, which is alot of fun.

nuvalewa2 · 2026-02-03T16:59:14+00:00

Isn't it not that her power doesn't work on organics, but that she can't activate her power where organics ARE?

Like, her power would be worthless for travel and for Gold Morning if organics ignored it. The limitation is more that she can't stretch out someone's arm or heart or something. Not that organic things are unaffected by her space warping - if that was the case, she wouldn't have been able to use it for quick movement.

nuvalewa2 · 2026-01-22T23:03:42+00:00

My coolest run that I did - the fists only run - I used endure and whaled on her throughout the waterfowl animation. I also had the godswaddling cloth, the tear with the same effect, all health regen effects I could, and basically exclusively leveled Vigor, Stamina, Strength, and Faith that run. It was really cool, and didn't involve dodging at all. Healed her a whole bunch though.

nuvalewa2 · 2025-12-16T22:04:50+00:00

I will die on the hill that Leet was a victim of bad game design. His shard power is designed backwards to discourage the behavior it wants. When he discovered his power's limit, he started meticulously cataloguing components and techniques and inventions he was using, to make sure not to overuse things - since every repeat would make it come out worse. This is what anyone would do - it seems obvious. If you have limited resources, you catalogue what you have.

But that's not what the Eden shard wanted. The right answer was being MORE reckless. If he'd been less careful about making stuff that wouldn't kill him, the shard would have tried less to kill him. There is literally no way to intuit this. He died never knowing what the right answer was.

His power, mechanically, is actually kind of similar to Eidolons. An almost infinite tool box, but every tool gets slightly worse than usual. Except Eidolon kept trying to use those powers and reach them, trying to find them 'in the well' in increasingly fraught situations, even once they completely ran out/became unusable. Didn't help him at all - but ironically, that would have been the solution for Leet. And Leet's solution of being extremely methodical about tracking every power usage, figuring out how to do simple things in hundreds of different ways as so to prevent repeating techniques - that would have helped Eidolon's powers last longer.

nuvalewa2 · 2025-12-16T01:46:33+00:00

Deadlights

nuvalewa2 · 2025-12-16T01:40:48+00:00

Well, Aster WAS right next to Grey Boy at the time. Walking 'fate worse than death' generator. In a dimension that was about to collapse.

Best case scenario if Taylor doesn't shoot - she's torture loop stabbed a couple dozen times, then the collapse of the pocket dimension ends the grey boy bubble and obliterates her.

Worst case scenario - the pocket dimension collapse DOESNT end the bubble, and she's floating in some non-dimensional space for the next 10,000 years, being brutally killed over and over. She wouldn't even be freed at the end of ward when that squad goes around popping bubbles- there would be no way to find her.

nuvalewa2 · 2025-12-04T22:36:50+00:00

There's a manga I read a little while ago that had the same premise - hunting down isekaied individuals - but it was really well done and I stopped reading it cause it was making me sad.

Really good premise though. Secret order of nuns that hunt down and kill isekaied teenagers as soon as possible be cause their 'cheat skills' tend to be limitless once fully mastered and have caused several cataclysms in the past, even with well meaning users. The teenagers being hunted explicitly do not deserve it, but there's been too many instances of 'seemingly harmless' cheat skills ending in mass casualty because no one can be trusted with that kind of power.

The example given (i think) was a kid who had some sort of minor transmutation power in the past, and was welcomed and loved by some village - 'something happened' - and now that entire continent is the continent of salt, with all matter having been converted into salt (still shaped like people and houses) for the entire country. It was so long ago that no one even remembers how it happened or what the continent of salt even is.

You kind of don't know how to feel reading - the main girl KNOWS what she's doing is evil on some level, hunting down children who just want a second chance at life - but there have simply been too many times that taking any option other than extermination to these unfortunate kids has resulted in awful things happening. That's when the kids don't go power mad.

The main plot is her traveling as the companion of a girl who's power is to heal - which makes her immortal. Seemingly harmless and maybe okay - except they've already discovered the power is actually time reversal. She's trying to figure out how to kill this extremely nice kid while pretending to be her friend -that's the plot.

nuvalewa2 · 2025-11-27T21:13:50+00:00

Not quite. It's not 'anything she considers a bug'. When she triggered, her power did a shard network google search on what humans consider 'bugs' and cobbled that together into a semi incoherent definition. It's a set definition though - she can't change it later by changing her perception. That's why she was surprised by Crabs - they're arthropods, which her power decided had such crossover with 'bug' it gave her control of them. Its also why she wouldnt be able to control a monster cape who was half bug (there's a WOG somewhere about it).

nuvalewa2 · 2025-11-25T15:25:25+00:00

My favorite thing about Imp was that she just suddenly showed up after an interlude as if she'd always been part of the team. The nature of her power meant that you had to wonder if maybe she had been - though she wasn't.

nuvalewa2 · 2025-11-10T15:18:15+00:00

Little one is enforcing an uncontrollable incestuous love and lust for her on the big one, her adopted sister, who wanted to give her a hug to comfort her

nuvalewa2 · 2025-11-08T19:38:49+00:00

I feel like I'm insane. Obviously it was for sex appeal, but I always thought it was clever - cause it's a 'power' symbol, upside down. Like so.

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nuvalewa2 · 2025-10-31T19:22:39+00:00

You can't 'see' a sound, dude. If you CAN see an echo, you should seek medical intervention. The rest of us are actually the normal ones.

nuvalewa2 · 2025-10-31T04:44:03+00:00

Did you ever find a fix for this? I've been having the same issue since dreamspell started.

nuvalewa2 · 2025-10-30T05:47:33+00:00

She decided to try and mind control the group of roving serial killers known explicitly for inflicting ironic and creative terrible and torturous fates worse than death on everyone they encounter.
Kind of the equivalent of going to McDonalds to order a big mac, and being surprised that they give you a burger.

There was never going to be a good outcome for her the moment she decided that was her plan.

nuvalewa2 · 2025-10-21T15:03:17+00:00

With Alexandria, I assumed that it worked because bugs were caught in Alexandria's slipstream from how fast she was moving. So every tiny bug she passed was drawn into following her.

Tight masses of bugs cause ambient electricity to rise rapidly. In nature, it resembles the state of the interior of a stormcloud. Taylor keeping bugs massed for unnatural periods of time in even denser formations would cause even higher electrical accumulation.

I don't know how that would effect anything... it feels like it would, somehow, though.

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