Western Europe’s weird “we all learned our lesson after 1945 and now we’re all nice progressives who don’t do icky things like racism and sexism anymore 😇” superiority complex is straight up one of the biggest enablers of the rise of the militant far right here
Vengeful dragons, evil Liches, nightmarish Mind Flayers
D&D Party:[yawns]
Unlocked doors, waist-deep rivers, small groups of rats.
D&D Party: [breaks into a cold sweat]
shout out to my players who have deafeated a wizard furry, a literal reaper, a balrog, a colossus and a skeletal dragon but almost died because they fell into some snow.
Gravity Falls, proof that you can have an emotional, heartbreaking, heartfelt, amazing story without killing any characters. Other shows/stories, take note. Killing isn’t always necessary, if you are only doing it to make someone cry or to make it more “real” or “edgy” you are doing it wrong.
You’ve forgotten, they did kill one character. A kind character, who heroically sacrificed himself for the sake of his community, and met a tragic, heartbreaking end.
absolutely nothing in a video game has set a tone as well as asgore smashing the mercy button at the start of his fight and thats just a fucking fact
Please elaborate. I want to hear more about what you think of this.
not to be serious about epic divorce man but like. the asgore fight is more or less the payoff of the advertised theme of undertale - “you don’t have to kill anyone”, and he does the most to challenge this theme, not just to the player but on a personal level, since the running motif of undertale’s monsters is that they don’t want to kill you either, but they have to or less they will never be free.
the scene beforehand, where small shock plays, is given additional context on replays and knowing how chara, flowey, asriel, and frisk all relate to each other - asgore is looking at someone who looks identical and acts identically to his child who, from his perspective, died of an illness that he could not prevent, and he has to kill them again
it is as equally “you cannot spare me” as it is “i cannot spare you”, which when juxtaposed against how asgore never uses attacks that are aimed at the player directly, creates the mood that is “neither of us want to be here but we have to be for there to be a future at all so someone needs to fucking die already” and its really fucking good
what i wanna know is how captcha technology went from having to type in a barely readable code, to just. clicking a button. how does this tell you im not a robot. can robots Not press the big funky button
I know this is a shitpost but just in case you don’t know, it actually tracks the way the cursor moves. Bots can click it instantly and moving in a perfectly straight line, people take a few milliseconds to react and move the mouse imperfectly. If the computer’s still not sure whether you’re a human or not, it makes you do the 3x3 photo grid thing I never seem to get right
I don’t think people realize it enough but this is the most iconic trio of all time. Naruto, Shikamaru, and Gaara having a verbal sparring match in a hospital room. Like we’re talking the future Hokage, the future Kazekage, and the future hokages advisor all in one room duking it out for the first time. Not to mention Gaara and Shikamaru become brother in laws and Naruto becomes both of their best friends. You know during random Kage meetings Naruto will get sentimental and be like “wow this takes me back guys, remember the first time we were all together and you tried to kill Lee, talk about memories..” and Shikamaru is just like “naruto no one wants to talk about that.”
