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@GenghisConnThr3 My favorite thing about the discourse surrounding the ZX games is the cope about them being “metroidvanias” as some weird attempt to gaslight outsiders into trying them out.

I hate BN and Starforce because they were the start of the oversaturation that killed the series and I hate ZX because the games just suck.

@V_E_R_G Emil’s comment in that one conference about players making paper airplanes when he’s trying to write “the great American novel” lives on

After they released Broken Steel they had every opportunity to re-record the ending to be less hostile but Emil wanted a generic sacrifice story and you're going to pay the price for playing with his toys wrong.

@GMango99 I completely forgot how horrifically awful Wii Sports Club’s pricing was. No wonder I didn’t mess with it at all during the Wii U days.

they charged you $2 a day for wii sports

@Critical_Scribe I think Nynaeve from the Wheel of Time is a good western example of this. Not just in her affections for Lan but also in her protectiveness towards the other Emond’s Fielders. Oh and I’m obviously referring to the books and not the cringe cancer that is the Amazon show

The concept of “gap moe” is lost on a lot of writers in the west. The sudden shift in someone’s demeanor that reveals another side to them is a great form of emotional titillation that serves as a huge hook for the reader. It’s why a tsundere blushing makes men interested. It’s also why a usually cold blooded man cracking a sincere smile makes women’s hearts go aflutter. To go beyond just that attraction, an effective use of Contrast lets you create greater depth for your characters with minimal “effort”. Rather than a full on flashback to show why something is important to someone, showing them touching an object and smiling in a different way than they normally do creates that mystery and also creates a new layer to the character that the reader/viewer gets intrigued by. You can add so much with a single sentence placed effectively at the right time, and it can serve as a sudden jolt to keep the reader not only interested, but now even further invested in the tale. I won’t say that Eastern works do this consistently, but they do it much more often than Western works at the moment and that’s why people get so invested in the works in the long run. Currently, the mainstream West conflates loud with emotions, and as such they don’t really have room for contrast due to everything being exaggerated or explosive all the time. Its why the general audience often thinks stoic characters are emotionless and “aren’t actually characters”, because our mainstream writers don’t use the contrast or “gap moe” to give brief glimpses of their humanity effectively. You’re either hot or cold, and that’s not very good for long term writing.

@Technicals_ How tf has “dark woke” not already died off for being one of the corniest things imaginable lmfao

The same guy who dropped this banger while defending TO's immediately banning people for fake allegations. All I saw was people rightfully calling you a dumbass

That MLS “we’ll take it from here” ad campaign is so funny. I don’t even think there’s an MLS diehard who seriously believes the interest for the sport in the US will last more than a second after the final whistle blows in the WC final.

While on one hand I'm down with clowning on live action remake slop, the fact remains that the Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon remakes made loads of money so I don't see that trend disappearing anytime soon.

Disney:

Using FNV key art is pretty funny because the Obsidian of today is practically unrecognizable from the studio that made that game.

@spacerunaway_ People saying Mother 1 sucks would never survive Megami Tensei 1 or 2 (not saying those are bad either)

More so than any other genres, people seem to treat “fantasy” and “sci-fi” as mere aesthetic descriptors.