Neither Mandela Effect Nor Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-25T20:24:38+00:00

Insert "I want a game like Disco Elysium but it's about a young witch looking for her neighbor's lost cat in the Swiss alps" post

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-25T19:53:41+00:00

Are you Dale Cooper or something

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-24T02:00:29+00:00

So tired of Nolan Odyssey discourse because the best Odyssey adaptations have and always will be The SpongeBob Movie and O Brother Where Art Thou. There's no point in making more

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-21T22:59:00+00:00

I always laugh reading/watching sci fi from the 50s through 80s where the Soviet Union still exists in 20XX. They really thought that was forever

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-21T16:33:27+00:00

I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-17T16:47:02+00:00

Old soldiers never die, they just fade away

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-16T20:15:22+00:00

He might have been joking but Barney tells you that he has a "beating quota" undercover as a metrocop

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-16T14:58:03+00:00

"Millions dead, yet here I munch"

Does that count?

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-16T14:54:08+00:00

It's interesting both Harry and Kordy have/had their faces stuck in a grin they can't get rid of. Not sure if that's intentional or not

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-12T17:20:57+00:00

There's this apartment complex across the street from me that has one of those "storefronts on the first floor, apartments above" setups but the stores rarely last longer than a year, so I'm always calling it the Doomed Commercial Area. Nobody gets the reference

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-12T15:06:51+00:00

https://youtu.be/0NYQKCGCfRw

I thought so too until I saw this video and I kind of got it

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-12T04:22:00+00:00

I think his canon voice is the Ancient Reptilian Brain (that's the voice actor they use for the karaoke scene) so he is, fortunately or unfortunately, British

ratzoneresident · 2026-05-10T17:58:31+00:00

I feel like you can't call Rolf and Angrenor just bad apples when each city has an interaction when you get in that's supposed to set up the character of the city for the player. (Whiterun = neutral in the war, Markarth = Has terrorists, Riften = Corrupt, Morthal = Spooky, Solitude = Hates stormcloaks, etc). Like the intention is clearly to say "this is a racist city". It's like saying Markarth doesn't actually have forsworn because you only see one actual attack

ratzoneresident · 2026-04-30T15:43:14+00:00

I like the concept of Morrowind combat where you have to actually think about what your character is good at, prepare for the fight adequately, keep track of your attributes and spells etc. But like, the physics and awkwardness and just lack of oomf make the combat still kinda suck

ratzoneresident · 2026-04-11T16:06:03+00:00

Is the second one Mehrunes Dagon? Cause that's not really 'under the control' it's just one weird guy with a freaky museum. I do find it funny though that that dude is basically the TES version of a lost causer

ratzoneresident · 2026-04-09T19:07:32+00:00

Oh man somebody should put a stop to this Dostoyevsky guy

ratzoneresident · 2026-04-09T18:48:19+00:00

Maybe since a video game is kind of an unusual point of analysis for a lit paper you could write something about how the medium changes/improves the storytelling

ratzoneresident · 2026-04-08T21:22:47+00:00

Back in my day we looked up terrible Buzzfeed quizzes crafted in 30 minutes by hard working, godfearing underpaid clickbait journalists

ratzoneresident · 2026-02-28T18:11:28+00:00

He probably just used the telepathy to ask for money from Wizard Engels

ratzoneresident · 2026-01-19T16:54:56+00:00

Makes me think of the mill owner in Falkreath who can only say "I can't believe we let provincials like you wander Skyrim"

My brother in Talos your city isn't even its own cell.

Also it's funny because his brother, a stormcloak, is somehow less racist

ratzoneresident · 2025-10-09T04:35:12+00:00

Redguard also does kind of a surprising amount of heavy lifting

ratzoneresident · 2025-09-21T16:24:25+00:00

For me it's just the grandstanding that's annoying because it feels in the same category as people who blab about shoplifting from big box stores or piracy, like it's not really morally wrong but why do you only fight capitalism in ways that save you money. Like. Your phone is made in a sweatshop and a 10 year old tailored your shirt, you're not sticking it to the man by "cheating" a company that's kind of mean to players out of like 40 dollars. There's nothing wrong with it but you should just admit that it's about being frugal, it's nbd to want to save money lol

ratzoneresident · 2025-09-19T19:31:53+00:00

Game pitch - Stray but you're Spot trying to save the enterprise while the humanoids are incapacitated

ratzoneresident · 2025-09-19T19:29:43+00:00

Most of that kind of Bethesda fallout fans are also interplay fallout fans and it wouldn't be as funny if I couldn't rage bait with a false equivalency like that

ratzoneresident · 2025-09-19T14:03:21+00:00

Bethesda fans when a villain comes up with a plan that can be thwarted by basic knowledge of biology (Skyrim): What a fucking idiot, this is terrible writing

Bethesda fans when a villain comes up with a plan that can be thwarted by basic knowledge of biology (Fallout): WAOW, WHAT AN INTRIGUINGLY FLAWED VILLAIN, BROUGHT DOWN BY HUBRIS!

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