The amount of times a character is like "ooh a shiny object, I bet of you shine it over there we can get through" as if we haven't already done that multiple times and know now. Also THOSE ARE VERBATIM WORDS.
The way I've decided to think about this writing is that it's writing written for people who have never read for fun. You can't tell me any of these writers ever read any good fantasy books. It's writing for people raised on superhero movies, TikTok videos and twitter.
No one puts themselves into the shoes of another. It's all the writers' highly uninteresting shoes and feet and their perspectives. Martin wrote that a reader lives a thousand lives. I'm not convinced that the single one these people are clinging to is even worth the effort to be put on paper
Right but that's all they do. All. Because they're not trained to be creative writers first. If they even have the ability to be that. They're there to deliver a message to you that, apparently, no one but them and half the goddarn internet, could possibly provide.
They're there on a self imposed mission to get illusory points for delivering it. I'm all onboard for the darn message largely but I'd very much prefer if actual writers would go along with doing their jobs of expanding our perspectives instead of limiting them. You have this awesome gift of making entire new realities and have them resonate inside millions of minds and all you idiots can come up with is the same shit we see everywhere? You're fired or should be. Get me some real writers.
The game is pretty much going out of its way to not upset anyone, which quite naturally helps flatline the overall vibe because you NEED polarizing characters with very strong personalities to add variety to the ensemble
Don't you know it's unacceptable these days to put yourself in anyone else's shoes? Imagining yourself to be someone else is very close to appropriation, if not actual colonisation. Everyone must confine themselves to speaking from their own lived experience.
Martin wrote that a reader lives a thousand lives. I'm not convinced that the single one these people are clinging to is even worth the effort to be put on paper
goddarn that's amazing.
I give it another week at most before the media illusion about this game's "positivity" and "success" is shattered.
I completely agree with this. It feels like a CW YA supernatural tv show. I am by no means saying that's a bad thing. I'm actually really enjoying the game. It's very popcorny and easy. The stakes feel super low. Everyone is so goofy and earnest.
Yeah but they'll be like, "I'm doing pretty well considering my God is in a heckin tizzy and is trying to unalive the planet! Yikes....he's right behind me, isn't he?"
When I was a teenager, what I wanted to see was edgy writing, s*x and violence. It may be made for teenagers, but it's certainly not made for male teenagers.
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It's a legitimately sad development these days with media. It's a business, crewed by incompetent employees advancing up a ladder made by even more incompetent ones. It's no sole act of creation of talented and wild minds.
No one puts themselves into the shoes of another. It's all their, highly uninteresting, shoes and feet and their perspectives. Martin wrote that a reader lives a thousand lives. I'm not convinced that the single one these people are clinging to is even worth the effort to be put on paper.
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the comments are brutal
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@kaamrev watch redditors dance around saying woke
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goddarn that's amazing.
I give it another week at most before the media illusion about this game's "positivity" and "success" is shattered.
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9/10! Masterpiece
~Luna, IGN
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You mean Leana, chud
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Isn't the plot that some gods want to destroy the world plus the old Darkspawn thing from previous games?
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Yeah but they'll be like, "I'm doing pretty well considering my God is in a heckin tizzy and is trying to unalive the planet! Yikes....he's right behind me, isn't he?"
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Um let's not compare this pile of trash to Supernatural.
At least Supernatural had Dean...
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Supernatural was better written than this.
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Bigger stakes feel smaller once you get above 6 people at risk.
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the game is clearly designed for teenagers. which makes the HR obedience training aspect more insidious.
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Are you saying this is grooming?
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virtual finishing school, preparing them for kidulthood in rat utopia.
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When I was a teenager, what I wanted to see was edgy writing, s*x and violence. It may be made for teenagers, but it's certainly not made for male teenagers.
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If you're too old to play with dolls, you're too old for video games.
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And kitty
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Ew, cringe. Imagine how many warhammer toy soldiers he could've bought with that money
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About a hundred if we're being honest.
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So I guess he will be buried with the funko then.
Or he will die by funko related incident.
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Those Funkos will last 100,000 years and be dug out a glacier by sentient AIs long after we're gone.
It will be all that is left of our civilization- that and that God-awful laserdisk of mutt children on the Pioneer 10 probe.
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Everyone is always told to save plastic for the environment but this is fine
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People be putting truthnuke under any dumb shit these days
@Gruesy_Spoon stand with israel
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Fine, I removed it.
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↑Truthnuke↑
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I like how in order to dodge downmarseys they all have to say it's good at the end
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Any place thats about one thing only. Having negative opinon is no no. You have to make provlamation of faith. Only then you can mildly criticise it.
In reddit its partly becouse companies run subs and kill any negativity.
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This guy is so close to getting it.
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He understands that a more diverse team would have a wide variety of experiences to pull from
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I was promised 72 virgins but I got 72 incels.
Snapshots:
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Meh I don't even get these games, I played thru one on ps3 and just quit like halfway bc I was bored with it. This was like 15 years ago lol
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