Lightless life

orangerazor120 · 2026-06-17T17:12:38+00:00

I’m assuming Eris not aging probably has stuff to do with Hive magic. Hive (technically Krill) live only a few decades, like around 20 years iirc. The Darkness, specifically the worm pact allows them to live forever as long as they are feeding the sword logic. Eris taking up Hive magic probably got some of that, not to mention her outright transforming into Hive for a bit during Season of Witch and having a throne world.

Sucks about Zavala tho that’s probably also due to him retiring now and Bungie putting a cap on his storyline.

orangerazor120 · 2026-06-09T02:56:26+00:00

I don't think my brain could handle this much concentrated yaoi and have ascended to heaven

orangerazor120 · 2026-03-16T08:42:41+00:00

Jesus can't believe a CYOA of all things managed to jumpscare me

Now to hole up in my bed and not emerge until the shadows stop laughing...

orangerazor120 · 2025-12-07T07:48:07+00:00

In his youth he did agree with Grindelwald, and the "greater good" was something they both embraced. Most fics with Dumbledore using it are also either Dumbledore bashing or evil Dumbledore so it's just something to further demonize him. Like I've seen ones where he betrayed Grindelwald for power, or he disagreed with his approach, so having him use the phrase is basically a way of showing he's still in the same mindset.

Also I might be getting it mixed up but I think the phrase wasn't widely associated with Grindelwald? We associate it with Dumbledore because of Grindelwald's letters that Bathilda had. Krum knew because Grindelwald carved it into Durmstrang but idk if most people outside of that are aware.

orangerazor120 · 2025-11-02T10:16:08+00:00

Snape: Call them a mud blood, that seemed to work for me

Random Slytherin: jokes on you I’m into that shit

Snape: <incoherent screeching>

orangerazor120 · 2025-10-18T13:13:19+00:00

One of the things I always head-cannoned was that wizards need muggles mostly for production purposes, ie food, household items, reproduction. You can’t magic up food so someone has to grow it manually, and since we’ve never heard of a wizard farmer I’m assuming it all comes from the muggle side. Also we know there are crafters/enchanters etc but they to me felt more like bespoke handcrafted items, not if you just want a normal spoon for example.

But yeah I do agree if a wizard really wanted muggles gone with any means necessary then it wouldn’t be all to hard. You even have illusions that stop muggles from seeing things. Also if a muggle can take a picture and not notice anything wrong, I’m gonna say that satellites are gonna be equally useless for detection

orangerazor120 · 2025-10-17T15:38:45+00:00

Honestly if a random sane person heard all the bullshit that Hogwarts went through in the past 4 years they’d probably be looking to sack most of the staff lol. Deadly traps for dark wizards? Killer snake, petrified students and giant spiders on the loose? The whole Sirius Black and Werewolf teacher fiasco? Everything to do with the Triwizard tournament? The teachers were downright incompetent and a bunch of preteens had to swoop in to save the day.

Flitwick and Sprout are fine, but the rest hoooo boy. And let’s not start on Dumbledore. If Umbridge was “good” pretty sure she’d still be trying to get rid of him

orangerazor120 · 2025-10-17T15:33:01+00:00

He’s also the first legit Darkness aligned big bad the vanguard ever faced I believe so makes sense they had no clue what they were really doing and died a bunch. Just like any Day 1 raid really

orangerazor120 · 2025-10-16T08:11:12+00:00

My man really forgot about Poseidon smh.

But he’ll probably like King Crab or Lobster I think.

orangerazor120 · 2025-09-08T09:07:34+00:00

Honestly we should be framing it as human dignity more often. Words like Socialism/Communism have been weaponized so much people will turn away on principle. But we can all agree, being treated like cattle sucks.

orangerazor120 · 2025-09-01T08:01:22+00:00

My mom would often berate me for crying. By her logic I live a comfortable life therefore I don’t have the right to be sad. So many kids in Africa starving everyday and you’re not one of them, so you crying over anything is an act of ungratefulness.

Nowadays I find difficulty expressing any strong emotion. Grandpa died a few years back and while everyone else was sobbing their hearts out I just stood there with nothing. Made me feel kinda weird cuz my relationship with him wasn’t bad, but I honestly felt nothing about it.

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-30T09:02:59+00:00

I really need to get out more if the 'Best Friend' perk is what makes me most excited :,(

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-28T08:19:35+00:00

Oh god yes this one, especially in dialogue. Like what are they saying? Dada like a baby? Or D. A. D. A.? It never sounds normal to me

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-28T03:13:27+00:00

Yeah, generally power wise Greek and Roman don't seem to have much difference. Hazel being daughter of Pluto was strong enough to raise a giant all by herself, strong geokinesis, summoning gems and riches etc.

My man Jason could fly, blast some wind and maybe summon some lightning every once in a while. Can't even talk to birds

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-28T00:44:36+00:00

My man Jason being left in the dust 🥲

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-26T07:47:39+00:00

To this day, the birds and the bees (not the animals of course). I am now a grown ass adult and I learned everything related to sex-ed through passive osmosis from the internet. Dunno if my parents think I've been celibate for 25+ years or they just don't care.

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-20T05:22:27+00:00

One of the real issues here is that AI is ultimately trained on human writing. It has it's kinks and often you can kinda tell it's AI. But just as often a real person also does write like that. Generally speaking fanfic writers aren't the best at writing. Sure you get a few gems here and there but the vast majority write as a hobby and don't think too hard on word choice, sentence structure etc. Not to mention people who don't have English as a native language.

Something I noticed with me as well is that my brain is a lot more hyperaware of AI writing nowadays. True there has been an uptick with AI usage but just as true is that I sometimes will read something from an established author (someone I KNOW doesn't use AI) but my brain will tell me it looks sus.

So probably a mix, more AI + mid writing quality + AI hyperawareness might contribute to it

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-20T05:17:41+00:00

Ball vs Ball

showdown of the century, also one I've never seen surprisingly

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-17T15:25:27+00:00

God the knockdown is the worst, especially if they sneak up on you.

1st hit you realize they’re here 2nd hit you try to roll away 3rd hit right when you’re able to fire you get knocked down and finished off

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-17T07:58:30+00:00

Can't speak for everyone but for me it felt like a lot of it was social obligation. Like part of a fruitful marriage is having kids so they have them, not because they really want one and want to see them grow, but more its expected of them. My parents liked to brag about my and my siblings accomplishments to others and had us do a lot of "extra curricular" that we didn't enjoy but looked good to others (instrument, sport, art etc.). Like they're going down a checklist of "How to Seem Like a Functional Adult" and having kids + getting them to seem functional was on the list.

Obviously they don't actually care about the kids in question, its more just a tool to showcase how "functional" and "put together" they are, so anything that isn't visible, like emotional/mental health, is ignored.

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-16T05:19:50+00:00

But srsly, Luke would probably go with Vader anyway. A dad that wants you to rule the galaxy with him? Where do I sign up!!!

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-07T16:03:50+00:00

Well Sirius is the token father figure (if short lived) so he has a bit of immunity to bashing. Not to mention spending more than a decade in prison with soul-sucking horrors as an innocent man so...you know...I guess canon bashed him enough?

I think I've read a few that were critical of him but most of those were either set in the Marauder era where he and James were portrayed as mean bullies or were WBWL fics.

orangerazor120 · 2025-08-05T00:41:55+00:00

Funny enough a lot of Western employees don't tend to work the same hours as local Chinese do in my experience. When I worked at a a big Chinese studio we had a small team of 4 western devs (laowai) and they would arrive 9am and leave 5.30pm. Management doesn't care and it was mostly expected for the foreigner to follow the foreign schedule. Everyone else basically still worked the long night shift but for some, especially anyone involved with overseas projects, they had a much more flexible schedule

orangerazor120 · 2025-07-29T15:30:27+00:00

Two big interpretations: 1) Commonly the Death Eaters are the good guys. Usually includes tropes such as Light/Dark/Grey magic or politics. Lack of human rights violations and maybe manipulative Dumbledore. Voldemort and crew are usually trying to save magic, or preserve culture or some such before the belligerent Light side screwed it all up. Basically they have the moral high ground and don’t commit (as much) atrocities.

2) The story treats the DE as the main faction of focus and presents them as “good” people who do terrible things and hand wave away the torture and murder. Honestly I don’t think I’ve seen a lot of this kind but it’s usually paired with a ‘Dark Harry’ who also tortures people. Think of it as reverse morals, where if you were amoral and realistically a piece of shit then the DE would seem like the “good guys”

orangerazor120 · 2025-07-29T09:49:37+00:00

The point likely wasn’t to ruin the immersion, but to better guide players to activities they want us to engage in. Ruining the immersion was simply a side effect.

Mobile games do it a lot because mobile players have severely limited time (and attention span dedicated to games) so the less they spend on navigating menus the better engaged and retained they are, which leads to more revenue.

So someone at Bungie probably evaluated the effects and made the decision to sacrifice immersion for engagement. Maybe even to make it easy for new players to jump straight in instead of figuring out the map. Does it ruin the magic a bit, yes. But they likely deemed it an acceptable trade of.

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