agentnoun

[agentnoun]

Her highness told me dragons keep eating her knights so i asked how many knights she has and she told me she just goes to the mead hall and gets a new knight afterwards so I said it sounds like she's just feeding inexperienced knights to dragons and then her maid started crying.

[agentnoun]

didn't want to make this post because i thought it was self evident. if you're an aspiring martial artist on a quest to confront the clan who burned your village down as a kid, you shouldn't be worried about people named shit like sun biling with flying loops, the heavenly foot of ten thousand swords clan, or even weeping demon of the forbidden devil's palm technique. you should be worried about jianfei, the guy who dresses and looks completely normal and doesn't boast of his clan or technique. this guy will absolutely rock your shit. i know you think you're invincible after learning 5 of the 10 silent palm techniques but this guy is why your shifu no longer teaches the remaining 5. submit or be cut down effortlessly like the reed you are.

[agentnoun]

[agentnoun]

beginning to suspect one of my four elemental generals may be showing sympathy to the heroes and allowing them a fair fight instead of following my orders to destroy them at any cost

[agentnoun]

Detect evil but it becomes increasingly clear that whoever calibrated it had some really weird moral stances.

[agentnoun]

Made when Re9 was announced

[agentnoun]

maybe the single funniest twitter comment I've ever seen

[agentnoun]

[agentnoun]

[agentnoun]

Hi, I noticed your story has conflict in it, and I was wondering why you didn't just write people who are right doing everything correctly with a note saying "I enthusiastically co-sign everything in this story"? Must be some kind of mistake haha

[agentnoun]

Speef is real to me. I'm sorry for that.

[agentnoun]

On top of this, the baseline assumption that the player character in a video game must be a player stand-in gets really annoying, and it leads to a lot of eye-rolling takes like:

The one above, writing off characters if they're mean to the player character, because that means they're mean to me, the player, and anyone who does that is bad

Getting angry when the player character makes choices the player wouldn't have made, regardless of whether those choices still make sense for that character

Being extra-sensitive to any flaws or sharp edges the player character has, because if they're supposed to be you, shouldn't they be as palatable as possible for you, specifically?

And so on.

It also goes hand-in-hand with a sort of refusal to engage with character development. The amount of times I've seen people write off a character for being mean, abrasive, selfish, short-sighted, etc. at the start of their arc is honestly surprising even to a cynic like me. Lots of that with the Baldur's Gate 3 cast, for example--there are a surprising number of people who have proudly killed characters like Lae'zel or Astarion in every single playthrough because they're mean to you when you meet them and so fuck them.

Maybe it's not the most important literacy crisis in the world but the lack of narrative literacy is certainly aggravating for anyone who likes stories, tells stories, or wants to talk about stories.

(It's not lost on me that there's a sort of "purity politics" aspect to all of this as well, a real-world belief that certain types of people or behaviors are irredeemable/not able to be rehabilitated/not deserving of understanding/etc.)

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

[agentnoun]

When I (M29) was a young boy (M7) my father (M35) took me into the city (X167) to see a marching band (M23, M21, M22, F22, M24, M25, F21, M

[agentnoun]

Officially licensed 2000 Donkey Kong Country cartoon series plush with a unique expression, from Japan.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Small Findings | Source

[agentnoun]

the biologist: the linguist dropped out last second? lol cant handle the heat huh glad we don't have to carry any dead weight on this mission [notices strange incantation written in bioluminescent moss spiraling down tower staircase] actually maybe we shouldn't have been too hasty here

[agentnoun]

The message that Akira Toriyama left for his kids in Chrono Trigger

[agentnoun]

From a state hearing in Texas