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@theWellRedMage @joshcarlosjosh At least this and asking people to answer whether or not Boromir was a good man provide an easy litmus test for whether or not I should take their opinions seriously.

@joshcarlosjosh It's always peculiar to me that folk will say LOTR is a simple black-and-white tale when there's literally a central titular object that tempts people to cross and blur lines of black and white constantly.

Imagine so misunderstanding a story that the author says you must not have read it all or read it very thoroughly. This quote from the article about why LOTR is "difficult to watch today" (lol) is a criticism of Tolkien so old that he himself responded to the first versions of it! In letter 154, he says this sort of thinking is excusable in those who read LOTR "in a hurry," or had "only a fragment to read," and who have not read The Silmarillion (the "unpublished Elvish histories"). But Saruman, Boromir, and Denethor are all examples—identified by Tolkien himself—of characters who don't fit neatly into this "the heroes are always good and the villains are always evil" framework. Lord of the Rings is hardly a tale where the heroes are always good and the villains are always evil. Rather, it is a story where there are clear standards of morality external to the characters by which they (and also the readers) are able to evaluate the failures and achievements of the imperfect characters. "'How shall a man judge what to do in such times?,'" Éomer asks Aragorn in The Two Towers. "'As he ever has judged,’" Aragorn replies. "'Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.’"

@theWellRedMage Sometimes you ignore things like authorial intent, context, themes, and so forth for the sake of whatever asinine point you're wishing to make for engagement.

Some of it IS when its antagonist wants to be worshipped as a god (Tolkien's own words) but obviously this kind of commentary is a ridiculous oversimplification designed for the internet age when rage clicks keep brands afloat. How to go viral but ruin your reputation.

@theWellRedMage >"Very high encounter rate" >SNES RPG I'm going to be fighting for my life every two steps like it's SMT1 aren't I?

Today in RPG history... HAL Lab released Card Master: Rimusaria no Fuuin (AKA Arcana) on Mar 27, 1992. Japanese take on Western-style 1st-person dungeon crawling albeit with card-themed characters & enemies with a very high random encounter rate. 1st in-game appearance of Kirby!

@RoyceIsaacs Kaasa was so cool. Bums me out whenever I randomly remember him because I thought for sure he was going to be a massive star.

Peter Kaasa would be so white hot over if he was around these days Basically Rob Van Steiner Jr

@farlesbarkley62 @TrevorDame Solid choice. As a vintner, he should be able to recommend a good wine pairing.

@DangerSnally @TrevorDame Erick Rowan

Stop this world, I want to get off.

@theWellRedMage I believe SE said themselves last year that they were going to double down on remakes/remasters for the new few years. Probably because they don't have faith in anyone there to be able to head up a new FF after XVI and the VII reimaginings.

Very interesting that every game on this list is a remake or remaster of some kind.

@FGCSupers Looked more like his Cousin Clapper to me

Alex's "Stun Gun Headbutt" from "Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars" Eighting/Capcom/2008 #Tatsunoko #Capcom #FGC

@serphsin Unmuted and heard the Limp Bizkit. Lore accuracy promised and delivered.

Lore accurate Jack garland #strangersofparadise

@KXNGAO He's Erivomaxxing

LIO RUSH MAKES HIS FIRST EVER AEW ENTRANCE AS “LIO BLACKHEART” #AEW #AEWCollision

@AlmotsGraps Okay but how's he going to prove the last one wrong? Hang out with Yuto-ICE more?

“Overrated” “Ospreay clone” “CRACKER” time to prove them all wrong, 23 💫

@shadydoorags @kevinbolk Good point. A natural bald would carry too much spite and resentment for the world to properly play Aang.

@kevinbolk No, Aang should be voiced by a SHAVED guy. If the dude is naturally bald, it won't sound right at all.

Aang better be voiced by a bald guy and Zuko voiced by a burn victim or we riot!

@theWellRedMage Chrono Cross has one of the best RPG soundtracks ever. So many excellent pieces like Another World, Bound by Fate, The Dead Sea, Scars of Time, and so on. All these years later and it's still one of my favorites.

Chrono Cross had one of the best PS1 RPG intros EVER! Here it is on an old-fashioned TV 📺

@TrevorDame But he does still have to handle the burden of being Irish

Rovert will be the only Trevor standing in wrestling. No one else can handle the burden of this name. At birth it makes you say dumb things if you are also into wrestling. It's like feeding a Mogwai after midnight, a disastrous combination.

I'm sure a lot of people are weaponizing this and practicing phony outrage but saying you're glad someone suffers from a debilitating disease because they said your acting is bad is bringing a nuke to a knife fight. It ain't the move.

@Daisector4444 @TrifGaming @ForTheWinTCG Every now and then, I look at the Amorphages and think "is there some cheesy bullshit I can cook with these".

@TrifGaming @ForTheWinTCG Yugioh is a safe space for all arthropods

Bees don’t waste time telling flies why honey is better than shit but in your exception I will do that. I welcome @ForTheWinTCG to join my live stream on Thursday to superspeed your yugioh training. I will coach you and within 1 hour of advanced training I will make you better than @FarfaYGO. (For the pokemon players out there farfa is our 7x yugioh world champion) Do you accept?

@discoque92 Book It was the only way I ever got Pizza Hut as a kid, we couldn't afford that. I think the strength of the program was that it wasn't just tied to classics, you had plenty of contemporary books across multiple genres. So for a kid into fantasy and sci-fi, had plenty of choices.

When I was a teacher in DC, the Pizza Hut "Book It" program was gold. My students were reading books like crazy. They wanted that Personal Pan Pizza.🤣

@thomdotartz I'd love wearing that Gym Lizard art on a workout shirt!

Which one ya got? #shimo #godzilla

Title of video "Solasta 2 Early Access..." Thumbnail in large text size "Early Access Review" First minute of the video "early access" mentioned 10 times... literally Comment section "Is it early access"? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@orsonscottcard @thomas_garrard Created the character at 24, wrote the book at 33. That's reassuring. I don't feel like I've wasted my time now whenever I throw something out because I hate the story but like the character I'm working with.

Thanks for caring about a character I created when I was 24 and a book I wrote when I was 33. I'm old now, still trying to come up with truthful stories, and glad to know that you've taken Ender Wiggin to heart. @thomas_garrard *I’m also happy to see how many fellow humans have volunteered to replace Grok in a book discussion. **And speaking of being old, I first posted this incorrectly. Grok may have to replace me.

@ReviewsPossum It's even worse than just going off "vibes". They tossed out phonics because it wasn't inclusive enough for teachers. time.com/6205084/phonic…

"Wow, phonics really works! We've achieved 99% literacy!" "Hey, I have a new theory on how to teach reading that's completely untested and based on nothing but vibes! It's called whole language learning!" "That's great! Fuck phonics, implement that new theory immediately!"