Snowskeeper

@Snowskeeper

Our souls will be turtles together. Or not.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Joined May 2009
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    If we needed coats to not freeze in the wintertime we would be born with them, like the majestic woolly rhinoceros, I declare very Intelligently as my extremities turn black and drop off from frostbite to own the libs

    We’ve arrived at the inevitable conclusion: anti-maskers taking the evolutionary bio route to make their final stand against having to temporarily take a basic precaution. Truly a wonder to behold.
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  2. Jul 29

    --of those elements shouldn't be attacked on the basis of the character's apparent person-ish-ness.

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  3. Jul 29

    This isn't to say that the *characters* should be perfect robotic thinking machines who always make the correct choice for their situation--that's not interesting either--but it does mean that their mistakes or misunderstandings should be in service to the story, and criticism--

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  4. Jul 29

    The audience, on the other hand, *is* people, and if your characters consistently make frustrating decisions or misunderstandings, those people are going to start getting frustrated. They're not going to get all mechanical and go "this is within acceptable person-ish parameters."

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  5. Jul 29

    Characters *aren't* people. They're characters. They're being written by people to appear to be like people, and it's important to maintain that feeling, but the decisions they make are being chosen by storytellers who're attempting to decide what actions make for the best story.

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  6. Jul 29

    There's a response to criticism of characterization re: mistakes and misunderstandings in stories which I find deeply frustrating, which is "characters are people, and people make mistakes like that sometimes, so it's fine."

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    Jul 28

    The police provide no evidence of this. The police’s evidence of this comes from the FBI, which itself got from a “collaborative source with indirect knowledge.” In short, the police are feeding you bullshit from a game of bullshit telephone.

    Even the cops admit the initiation of rioting & property destruction in Minneapolis was due to the actions of a white racist trying to stoke division and foment violence. Police: 'Umbrella Man' was a white supremacist trying to incite George Floyd rioting
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    Jul 28
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    but Emily the cops said all the vandalism traced back to white supremacists accepting this at face value means not having to analyze whether or not property destruction might be an acceptable means of protest

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    Jul 26

    "Technology is neutral" isn't a new opinion. It's also not an exoneration of science, but a condemnation of the intent of people who seek the power of technology and its applications. I would think this is something materialists would just sort of get. but hey guess not lmao

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    Jul 26

    Belief that breaking windows is violence, but letting houseless people die on the street next to empty homes is not, is a form of sociopathy core to capitalist ideology. "Property over people" endangers not just our communities, but our entire world.

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    Jul 26

    i...

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  12. Jul 24

    9 times out of 10, rather. Character limits and clarity.

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  13. Jul 24

    --It's just... Not a good way to tell a story, to pretend to give the player freedom w/o actually doing that. Would rather have something more linear 9/10. Disco Elysium does a much better job IMO. //videogames whining

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  14. Jul 24

    --Then there's the whole thing at the end which is treated as judging you for your choices, except when a bunch of those "choices" are things the game--not the story, but the game--forced on me, I don't feel invested in my character; I just feel frustrated.--

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  15. Jul 24

    --Tyranny's especially bad about this; it constantly gives you the option to switch between factions--except when it actually matters, in which case you have no choice, not because of in-universe circumstances, but because the game doesn't give you a choice popup.--

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  16. Jul 24

    Not a fan of how Obsidian does storytelling in PoE 1 and Tyranny. It mostly just feels like being jerked around, to me. One second you have like 20 choices, w/i limited parameters, and the next you have none, no matter how stupid what you're being asked to do might be.--

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    Jul 22

    ALSO, THIS ABSOLUTE CHAD RHITAHTYN SAS ARVINA DOUBLE GUN SHIELDS IF YOU DON'T THINK THAT'S THE TIGHTEST SHIT THEN GET OUT OF MY FACE

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  18. Jul 21

    Like if your LG character genuinely believes that somebody should go to prison for stealing a loaf of bread because those are the rules, and wouldn't do anything to stop that happening, that's not LG, IMO.

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  19. Jul 21

    Like this overall, though I don't necessarily agree that a lawful character has to care more about rules than people. Would say that even a well-intentioned person who felt that way would be stuck in LN or LE; see also: Javert.

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    Jul 21

    July 21, 1964 – Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) blueberry pickers went on strike near Grand Junction, Michigan, USA.

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