DerFexer

After drawing these about a year ago, I can now post them after FINALLY revealing them to my players yesterday. The only time in my life that a #DnD group actually stayed together for almost 5 years now.

@tykjen @Banebdjedet @fandompulse That's the whole point of the ring, it WILL get to everybody. It would've gotten to Sam as well, and it is impossible for anyone to willingly destroy it. If Tolkien intended for Frodo to be the one guy that can destroy it, he would have written that. But tFrodo fails.

@Banebdjedet @fandompulse Frodo was pure hearted which is why the Ring never got a hold of him. So for Frodo to turn 180 at the edge.. after SAM CARRIES HIM speech...was a MAJOR WTF to me. Still is.

George R.R. Martin on the brilliance of The Lord of the Rings: "As I read Return of the King, I didn’t want it to be over. That last book blew my mind, particularly the scouring of the Shire. I didn’t like that when I was in high school. The story’s over, and they destroyed the ring — but he didn’t write 'and now they lived happily ever after.' Instead, they went home and home was all [expletive] up. The evil guys had burned down some of the woods; a fascist-like tyranny had taken over. That seemed anticlimactic to me. Frodo didn’t live happily ever after or marry a nice girl hobbit. He was permanently wounded; he was damaged. As a 13 year old, I couldn’t grasp that. Now, every time I re-read The Lord of the Rings — which I do, every few years — I appreciate the brilliance of the scouring of the Shire. That’s part of what lifts the book from all its imitators. There was a real cost to Tolkien’s world. There’s a tremendous sadness at the end of Lord of the Rings, and it has a power. I think that’s partly why people are still reading and re-reading these books." Was it a mistake to not include the scouring in Peter Jackson's films?

@nautieval @girlfailsansa @belladonnafeli They know that @NotGlidus would come for them

@belladonnafeli Any Targaryen can refer to themselves as a dragon but the Dothraki (who's spirituality includes a horse-formed deity) can NEVER refer to their prophesied hero as a horse!

@egoraptor *magical world

@egoraptor "Ah I see, they're using a muted palette at the Dursleys' so the magical works can explode with colo- oh wait no, it all looks like that, ok"

how smart to make it look terrible on purpose to appeal to their target demographic of idiots with no taste

@fantasyfooty "There's also an irony nobody seems to be talking about" mate EVERYONE has been talking about this since the casting announcement, under what rock are you living?

I'm not against Snape being black in the new Harry Potter series. I'm not against it on principle. There are obviously some pretty awful things and memes being said/shared that are clearly just racist. But it isn't necessarily racist to be a bit annoyed the character has been changed from the book's description, because his appearance carries meaning. 1. Snape is specifically and deliberately described as having "sallow skin" and being "pale." It mirrors the same pale complexion Voldemort has, which is partly why Snape always feels suspicious. They're designed as visual inversions of each other: Snape has a big hooked nose, Voldemort has a flat snakelike one. The whole point of Snape is that he LOOKS like the villain. Everything about his physical description screams untrustworthy. That's Rowling's deliberate misdirection, teaching readers not to judge by appearances. Change the appearance, you risk losing the power of that twist. 2. There's also an irony nobody seems to be talking about. By making Snape the suspicious, untrustworthy, seemingly villainous character AND the only prominent black actor in the cast, you've actually created the exact optics you were presumably trying to avoid. The one black guy is the one everyone's supposed to distrust? How is that progressive? 3. People are making a false equivalence with Hermione being black in the Cursed Child. That's completely fine because the books never say she's white in the text, and it doesn't affect her story either way. Snape's appearance is different. It's written into the plot. 4. The writers now have a real issue down the line. How are they going to portray Snape being bullied when younger? How are they going to portray James Potter suspending Snape upside down with Levicorpus? Surely they aren't going to force racist undertones onto Lupin, Potter, Black and Pettigrew? PLEASE do not turn this into some politically driven TV series where the Marauders' cruelty becomes a racial storyline. That would ruin both Snape AND James.

@AwesomeNRW @max_kirchi Fotze, Fotze, verzieh dich, Mann Ich will an deine Olle ran Ich wasch für die ab, ich spül mit Pril, denn die Weiber finden sowas hat echt Stil

@max_kirchi Check meine Mütze, meine Brille, meinen Look! Check meinen langen Bart und mein Rhymebook! Du bist Scheiße, ich bin geil! Du bist hässlich, ich hab Style! Davon ganz viiiiel denn Dumbledore hat echt Stil!

Werde nie deine inhaltlich fragwürdigen Rap Songs Anfang der 2010er vergessen #CancelFreshD

@PolishCarsFanV2 @JackEllisVO @NebsGoodTakes Absolutely not, the children I teach will devour this once they find out about it (if they haven't already)

@JackEllisVO @NebsGoodTakes No, the only people who watch this are childless millenials

this may sound extreme but I am fundamentally superior to those who watch this

@kingpminch Haunter (probably taken already)

I'm gonna prove something. I have a Google Doc of every single Pokémon, from 1-1025. COMMENT YOUR FAVORITE and I'll add your name until we've found someone who likes every single one!

@kingofwinterss @TwasBrillig1 That isn't contradictory at all? Rhaego wouldn't have been dangerous because of the prophecy (which Mirri still believed, if we're considering her POV that's still a factor), he obviously would have been dangerous because of the power he would wield as a Khal.

@TwasBrillig1 this you..?

"for the low price of ruining the planet and eliminating the concept of a *personal* computer, you can make your games look ten times worse and ruin the entire concept of art direction!"

@Antepantebkh @Olympian_137 @nocontextmemes If the mass doesn't change, neither does gravitational pull, so everything stays roughly the same.

@Olympian_137 @nocontextmemes Why are you assuming the mass changes? I only made Earth bigger, not heavier.

@kilianhekhuis @wendifications @historydefined I am aware. That doesn't change what reportedly happened. Most composers have a team nowadays, one composer will still get credited for the score

@DerFexer @wendifications @historydefined Klaus Badelt was the credited composer, not "a team of composers".

Hans Zimmer had trouble timing the score for Jack Sparrow and Will Turner's fight in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl," until an assistant making coffee asked to be given a shot, and that's how Ramin Djawadi ("Game of Thrones," "Iron Man," "Pacific Rim") got his career.

@wendifications @historydefined But all accounts I've seen agree that Zimmer would not have worked on it that way. Apparently he wrote out the main themes and then a team of composers very hastily had to actually score it.

@historydefined Omg, so glad someone finally gets the weird history of that movie's score. Really refreshing compared to hearing that it was only Zimmer or only Klaus Badelt. This thing was a big collaboration among several composer'se.

@jamie_onair @arvalis @historydefined He mostly wrote the main themes. And while there's different versions of what exactly he did, none of them claims he actually scored specific scenes. Even if he was acting as music supervisor that would also not be his job.

@arvalis @historydefined He was music supervisor and helped write most of the score.

@etsijatuhoa When Zarya reloads while she walks forward

me when the enemy rein is suspiciously aggressive and there is no cover in sight

@otherside_X42 Clocking into my shift as a 9-5 mathematician. I will have to determine x in 200 calculations today, hope I can keep up my quota or they will put me into the "find volume of complex bodies" program.

People REALLY don't know what mathematicians do, do they

@weberju5 @OF_Schroedinger Ich kann ansonsten anhand dieser Definition (die nicht widerspiegelt wie das Wort allgemein genutzt wird) keine handfesten Aussagen machen, weil sie extrem vage und subjektiv auslegbar ist.

Oh, das ist simpel: "Woke" bezeichnet einen ideologischen Memplex, der Ungleichheiten primär auf gruppenbezogene Unterdrücker-Unterdrückter-Dynamiken zurückführt und darauf zielt, besagte Ungleichheiten auf Gruppenebene durch "positive Diskriminierung" und gezielte Manipulation des Diskurses zu beseitigen. Insofern ist das zentrale Merkmal aller "woken" Ideologien, dass sie im Kern kollektivistisch sind; mithin auch einen nicht auflösbaren Konflikt bzw. Kampf um Ressourcen und Diskurshoheit zwischen Kollektividentitäten postulieren und darüber hinaus als Prämisse voraussetzen, dass Individuen quasi deterministisch durch nichts als ihre Zugehörigkeit zu diesen Kollektividentitäten Teil des Kulturkampfes werden. In einfach: Woke heißt, Leute erstmal als Vertreter irgendeiner Gruppenidentität zu betrachten und dann zu behaupten, dass alle Gruppen sich gegenseitig marginalisieren. Es steht damit analog zum Klassenkampf, aber übertragen auf eine prinzipiell unendliche Anzahl von Dimensionen menschlicher Unterscheidbarkeit. Im Gegensatz dazu sehen nicht-woke Werke wie Avatar ihre Charaktere primär als Individuen und nicht als Platzhalter für eine Gruppenidentität; der philosophische Ansatz ist demnach klassisch liberal/individualistisch und nicht kollektivistisch. Woke Machwerke stellen deshalb auch idR gruppenbezogene Benachteiligung in den Vordergrund; ihr Ziel ist es, Repräsentation und Sichtbarkeit von "unterdrückten" Identitäten zu schaffen, auch wenn das auf Kosten der Darstellung der konkreten Charaktere geht. Der Charakter wird zum reinen Pappaufsteller und zur Projektionsfläche degradiert, während seine individuellen Eigenschaften, Stärken und Fehler in den Hintergrund treten. In Folge wirkt der Charakter generisch und austauschbar - er wird von der Person zum Avatar einer archetypischen (behaupteten) Identität irgendeiner Gruppe, womit seine eigene Identität ironischerweise verkümmert. Das ist exakt das, was zB Toph aus Avatar von "generic lesbian girlboss character no. 3552" in der CW-Show "Batwoman" unterscheidet. So... und weshalb genau war BG3 deiner Meinung nach jetzt "woke"?

Wir hatten früher jeden Menge „Repräsentation“ in unseren Medien. Warum es uns nicht gestört hat? Es waren gut geschriebene, vielschichtige Charaktere und Story.

@weberju5 @OF_Schroedinger Welche Charaktere in Acolyte vertreten denn eine Gruppenidentität? Und in welcher Welt ist Toph nicht ständig sehr rudimentärer Stand In für körperlich benachteiligte? Wir haben eine ganze Episode in der Katara nicht lernen darf weil sie ein Mädchen ist.

@weberju5 @OF_Schroedinger Du weisst grundlegend nicht, was Worte bedeuten, deswegen benutzt du auch "woke". Aber sag mir gerne, was woke genau bedeutet und welche Elemente der von dir genannten Sachen das repräsentieren. Und ich garantiere dir, Andor, BG3 und vor allem Avatar haben die alle auch.

@DerFexer @OF_Schroedinger Andor ist weder "links" noch "feministisch", und BG 3 ebenfalls nicht. Lächerlicher Unfug.

@weberju5 @OF_Schroedinger "anstatt einer coolen Star wars Serie haben wir acolyte". Wir haben eine gute star wars Serie. Mehrere sogar. Und es gibt auch schlechte. Cest la vi.

@DerFexer @OF_Schroedinger Und wo genau habe ich angeblich behauptet, dass Andor schlecht oder woke sei?