#Empire of Signs

[ruinedholograms]

Masahiro Sugaya

[fatehbaz]

weekly navel-gazing update: this week is most consequential event in long time. keyword search: "scared" "is it ok to be scared" "beaten and tortured by the ogre"

[teddytoroa]

the thing about joe hills of nashville tennessee is that on a server of folks roleplaying mad scientists and zombies and kings and creeper-goats and kakashi of naruto and mayors and businessmen and slimes and iskall and dungeon masters and doom guy and dwarves and elves and aliens and whatever the gigaverse is, you have Joe Hills The Regular Human Guy From Nashville (Tennessee), and yet his normalcy is frequently more bizarre somehow than whatever else is going on. and this never ever fails to enchant and delight me.

[insidebrianshead]

Not Pointing at Sutekh, but pointing at Ruby's name

[eighthman-bound]

So this is basically how the ending of Empire Of Death with Ruby went right?

[mcyt-fic-swap]

Sign-ups

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Sign-ups will be open until 1:00am UTC on June 7th.

[katjapetersart]

Some of the Kroot Kinband chat.

Fregth is the pistolier.

Signs used (NGT):

GEWEER (rifle)

GEBAREN (signing)

PANNENKOEK (pancake)

It is actually a detail on that model head, some sort of reciever in the ear with a wire leading into the skull.

[wardensantoineandevka]

I will admit I'm a little salty that people, in an effort to prove that there is no good dialogue in Veilguard at all, keep comparing mission exposition to the high point narrative set pieces of prior games. I agree that some of the writing related to plot mechanics and mission exposition in Veilguard is a little too utilitarian, but that doesn't mean none of the dialogue is good or that prior games didn't also sometimes have this issue here and there.

I also generally dislike when people put the bar for good writing — and all writing too, not even just dialogue writing, ALL writing — at mic-drop sentences that still sound good completely divorced from context, because that really just reduces "good writing" down to like fake-deep philosophizing or witty quips exclusively. sometimes, a really good bit of dialogue sounds like a completely normal sentence out of context.

[marilynshamu]

Look at this vascular man signing for Empire.

[emaadsidiki]

Vegas, baby, Vegas! ⁀Vince Vaughn‿

[djr3x]

This shirt has been through so much

[hermitcraft-shifter]

Joe's rant about the beauty of Hermitcraft being that it's unplanned and therefore more genuine/impactful because the Hermits' real reactions can be used as fuel to entertain... Like, paraphrasing here, but—

"When you're an artist in a collaboration, you're opening yourself up to opportunities to be upset. […] You should want us to really be feeling things; that's what makes Hermitcraft art."

—and going on to use Scar blowing up Doc's tunnel machine last season and the whole wood permit ordeal with Doc this season as examples...

I'm not saying I'm surprised at how mature they are (because they're an adult who has been at this for years and literally a single parent), but sometimes you just get hit with the reality that these content creators are, you know, mature adults who can take care of themselves. It's a nice reality check when there's so much content infantilizing and defending them, especially with how their 'characters' can range from very defined— Ren and Grian pulling story arcs and bits out of nowhere —to not defined at all —Joe who has spoken very recently about how they don't define what is 'canon' or 'lore' because that'll question aspects of their personal life in uncomfortable ways.

This pairs nicely with yesterday's stream about Joe talking about how we learn through public humiliation (after getting the definition of nether wrong) and that, paraphrasing again, "literally my entire life has been getting humiliated for being ignorant. If I thought that was a bad thing, I wouldn't be streaming".

Like, damn. They chose this. They knew what they were getting into, and they continue to choose this to the point they make it their gimmick. (Ex. The stream thumbnails literally being 'laugh at me'.)

There's definitely a thin line Joe treads with self-deprecation, but people have been using humour to cope for decades. Low self-esteem and negative self-image not included. You recognized you messed up, and rather than getting stuck on it, you use humour as a way— a tool in your arsenal —to move on.

You make mistakes and move on.

[lowkeloki]

[thekintsugidyke]

even liam knows they’re cain and abel this. cable and abel that. when are we going to talk about all the romulus and remus implications.

[sweatandwoe]

love that Krennic just shows up to be a nuisance in everyone's lives

[lafaiette]

Irelin: "How can we trust you, Lady Morrigan? Solas is your friend."

The last thing Solas told Morrigan: "You are a glutton drooling at the sight of a feast. You cannot be trusted."