https://x.com/ZODIAC_MF/status/1854976308813742267
JESUS CHRIST. A FANTASY GAME WHERE THE THIEVES GUILD DOESNT ACTUALLY STEAL BECAUSE ITS TOO PROBLEMATIC pic.twitter.com/CLvDOYerX5
— ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER (@ZODIAC_MF) November 8, 2024
I'm not fact checking this because it's really funny.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Seeing "crap" used that way in a fantasy setting just feels so incredibly wrong. Why are current writers incapable of writing in any vernacular besides contemporary American coastcel?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
That's a big reason I can't watch the supposedly
good 
NuTrek show (Strange New Worlds).
All the dialogue sounds like it was written by Joss Whedon.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
That's because none of the writers have been in the military. Or know anyone who has.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
These are supposed to be disciplined Starfleet officers running a highly sophisticated starship, not high school kids who just learned how to drive a car.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Because they have never left their coastcel bubble.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You've never left your favela and yet your speech is composed primarily of quirked up 'teen speech. It's a lack of exposure of other manners of speaking, or even a lack of confidence in being able to execute it. Or maybe an obsession with accessibility has gentrified the fantasy setting for normalfriends. They've torn down the whorehouses and skooma shacks and put up craft breweries and now serve hazy IPAs and play gender inclusive gwent-clones on the bar counter.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Why were their no prostitutes in skyrim? Were they all at the imperial army camps I never visited? Did the vampires and serial killers eat them all?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You clearly didn't have the right mods.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
With mods like those. You dont pay to them
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
The devs must have been biased against s*x work. Can you believe that in our day and age there's still people like that?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Because Skyrim is barebones as frick because Todd really wanted the 11.11.11 release date.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Also they haven't been exposed to anything in school from outside their bubble. There's no need to read the works of dead old white men.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Matt Groening ruined a generation of writers
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Matt Groening? !kino, this is clearly Joss Whedon's fault, with honorable mentions for Greg Berlanti, Rob Thomas, and Ryan Murphy.
Whedon pioneered this sort of dialogue by having every character he's ever written speak the exact same way. Doesn't matter if they're a teenage girl in 1990s SoCal, the clone of an alien-killing ship's officer in deep space, or a comic book superhero of any conceivable age or backstory; they all sound the same.
Along with Whedon, Berlanti and Thomas made certain this style of writing was the standard for UPN, WB, and CW shows. Murphy and Whedon allowed it to breech containment via Glee for television and The Avengers for films, both of which were far more successful than they had any right to be. No longer was this dreck relegated to teen dramas and terrible sequels. It became the standard for everything.
Now here we are, almost 30 years after the premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and people who spent their 20s and 30s hearing nothing but dialogue they should've left behind in their teens are running writers' rooms. Of course every character speaks like a perpetual child. They're all written by perpetual children.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Whedon has done such multi-generational damage to writers it is actually sad.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Whedon is really skilled and the reality is that HE can pull off a story full of rarted quips and literally nobody who tries to ape his style can
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
He used to be, but he hasn't been able to pull it off since 2010.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Yeah, he's good at what he does. I just want that to be in TV shows on CW that I don't watch, not taking over all media everywhere.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Reasonable and fair!
His shows were a lot better than current CWslop
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
At least the CW knows that people want hot actors
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
The only whedon thing i ever saw was avengers in like 2013 and the whole thing was so lifeless, like an overlong superbowl spot. I was baffled as to why it was getting critical praise heaped on it
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
The real problem is that reading shit as banal and basic as Kurt Vonnegut is considered revolutionary. A trick to good dialogue is to listen to how real people talk. Go watch real court cases .
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Is it becouse schools dont force people to read anymore. Not even higher education? Its wild how stuff like Naipaul and Céline is rarely talked about. When they should be must read for anyone who wants to write anything
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Whedon style is undercutting everything with joke. No matter how serius situation or moment. You break it up with joke. Whedon is really good at that stuff and stuff he did was mostly camp. It was lighthearted fun even if it was serius.
Whole thing breaks apart when someone else tries to do serius story. And yet eveything gets undercut with quips. I have no idea why they do this. Someone said it was becouse they know their writing sucks or are unsure about it. Making it comedic is way to shield it. You dont comit to it.
Its joke. It suposed to be funny.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Seek help.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I would if I could, LP. Unfortunately, the !writecel ping group can only do so much. Which is to say, nothing at all.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
I was reading through my meemaw's cooking book from 1916 the other day and it's just written so delightfully
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
While I do think it's kind of odd how the genre convention is for fantasy people to sound overly format, it's really weird when they go the entire opposite direction into sounding insanely contemporaneous.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
It just sounds inorganic. We know it's translated from an alien language for our convenience .
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
It is translated from canadian.
Aperently french and German localasations are nuts. I wonder how crazy that must be.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
But it's so relatable!!
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
The way I do it is to figure out two regions and eras I want to use as inspiration and rip them off after doing a lot of research. The more dissimilar and weirder the better. Like Zimbabwe-era Rhodesians and Imperial Prussians Rhodesian Ridgeback-Cockatiels. Or Navajo-Hopi-Mormon-Chinese Victorian spiritualist cat griffins. Then work backwards from them. You can't be accused of cultural appropriation if you end up with the weirdness of Morrowind. I found combining a culture's mythology with their actual history does weird things. Supposedly the Navajo and Hopi are descendants of bird people and once lived in a world with cat people. They also hate when outsiders talk about their rituals and religion so I substituted victorian spiritualism and Chinese ancestor worship for most of their real religions and customs because both the Navajo and Hopi fear the dead and avoid talking about them to attract attention. So flip it. Do the opposite. Instead of fearing the dead they never shut the funk up about them. They carve kachina stye statues of them and the weird science mummy have their own pueblos where they unlive and guard the secrets of their original homeland. A good fantasy setting should have a healthy dollop of fever dream.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
That sounds like a lot of work when you can just rip off Jack Vance
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
One man's crap is another man's treasure
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
This is canadian studio. They are so california brained its insane
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context