#game that hates me in particular

[narwa]

sims 3 hyperfixation........ god save me

[socialbunny]

im not rockin with the ts2 rerelease tbh. but i am so curious about what it really entails tbh....

[gingermintpepper]

Why did Apollo favor the trojans in the Illiad?

So, dear Anon, I've been thinking about how to answer this question since I got it a couple days ago and I think I kind of want to make something clear before I get into it.

The Iliad by itself as a poem only covers some of the events that occur in the final year of a long protracted conflict that had been brewing for at least two decades and was an active war for ten. Within the space of the Iliad itself, the motivations and affairs of the major players are often referenced but there are many, many parts of the story that are not there because they belong to a different story cycle that has been since lost or was never recorded with words. In the space of the Iliad Apollo's motivations are questioned a lot - his pride is questioned by Poseidon who thinks Apollo should be just as angry at the Trojans as he considering Apollo was treated equally as poorly by Laomedon while they worked together. His honour is questioned by Hera who chastises him for taking the Trojans' side when he'd proclaimed that Achilles would live a long life and prosper at Thetis and Peleus' wedding. His own sister calls him a coward for refusing to fight when Zeus gives permission for the gods to go wild on the battlefield. For all that there's this image of Apollo in the Iliad as some staunch and unwavering protector of the Trojans, believe it or not, I largely think of Apollo as neutral in the war.

Which, I suppose, comes back to the question - why did Apollo favour the Trojans? The truthful answer is that I don't know. The Iliad and all its connected stories isn't something I've done enough research on to have an answer or a reference to an answer off the top of my head. The reasoning I'm aware of is that Apollo was a Patron God of Troy and really a god doesn't need any reason besides that to protect his people but it's not like Apollo abandoned the Greeks either. Calchas is the biggest example of that I can point to - descended directly from a priest of Apollo and one who attributed his mantic power to the god, Calchas was pivotal in ensuring the Greeks even got to Troy in the first place.

From a personal perspective however, I think Apollo was more dedicated to the house of Priam than he was the city of Troy itself. Apollo's affection for that house and all its members ran deep - from his admiration of Hecuba and Hector to his love and attempted courtship of Cassandra to his blessings given to Helenus, Deiphobos, Cassandra, Troilus and even his partnership with Paris - Apollo loved the house of Priam. When you think about the times Apollo lashes out against the Greeks, it's generally because they've done some nonsense to earn his ire. The plague was caused by Agamemnon disrespecting his priest, his aid in the slaughter of Patroclus was because he didn't respect him, his minor grudge against Diomedes too was because he tried to test Apollo's mettle and well, the less said about Achilles the better. Apart from his obvious favouring of Hector in the skirmishes, Apollo doesn't really oppose the Greeks. He has a ton of reasons to by the time the Iliad rolls around, including avenging the death of two of his sons, but he remains mostly satisfied with conducting his father's business and overseeing the war from a somewhat professional perspective. To me, it's always been less about Apollo caring about the fate of Troy as a city itself and more about him just really wanting to protect the people in the city that he's come to love and respect.

Of course, I encourage you to take my words with a big tablespoon of salt - like I said, I don't really know enough about the facts in particular to give a solid, confident answer but I can give you my interpretation of it. Maybe consult someone like @littlesparklight for a more comprehensive and grounded response 🤔

[tea-cat-arts]

Actually, I hope Jiaoqiu stays blind (at least for a couple years in our time) and just bullies the Xianzhou alliance into inventing disability aids and treating disabled people better

[afterlife-2004]

“people are actually insane because did you really think we were going to see Jim fucking Carrey executed by firing squad in a kids film”

yall do this to the most tame shit, he's literally just sitting in a chair monologuing about destroying the world.

This is some Saturday morning cartoon energy lmao

this sort of thing wouldn’t be out of place in a fucking Disney movie lol

Children can handle these kinds of dark subject matters

Kids are smarter than most people give them credit for.

Also… It’s pretty disrespectful to imply such a good actor like Jim Carrey can only and ever act as himself as if he doesn’t have the range to pull off a serious character lol

Jim Carrey can play the most depressed guy and the funny crazy man

Lowering someone like that, is kinda disrespectful. He's a good actor. Don't pretend he's not

you can tell people like this have not watched The Truman Show…

[gil-notskajla]

every time i watch that final shape zavala cutscene with safiyah statue im speechless over how good it is. Lighting (Danny o'hailey i owe you my life)?? Expressions and animation?? It has movie worthy cinematic value to me i would DEVOUR a series like this cutscene.

[timegears]

zygarde getting cropped out of the box art for its own game is so fuckin funny to me like first its game gets cut in favour of sun and moon and now it finally gets its own game and this happens to it.

[clea-dessendre]

decided I'm going to 100% clair obscur and I only have 4 achievements to go:

1. the mime in Lumiere that I somehow missed in the prologue

2. that one last optional boss (and technically the expedition journals but the last one comes from beating them)

3. reaching level 99

4. and completing all of those fucking gestral beaches

can you tell which one I'm frustrated with lmao

[jackass-jones]

What if I was your servant and you promised me a better life and I believed you and then you used me and resented me I saw you at your worst and I held the attention of someone you loved despite the fact you treat them like shit and so you took out your anger on me all the cruelty in the world and as I suffered you sat back with a cup of tea and smiled and you killed your beloved in front of me just to prove a point that they belonged to you and all I can do is watch and then when you just can’t stand the sight of me anymore you cry loud enough for the world to hear you that I’m the dangerous one, a wicked seductress, a witch, and I burn and burn and burn and you go home and laugh, relieved of this burden, the world sings your praises yet you are nothing but alone and miserable and I crawl my way in i appear in your mirror I breathe down your neck you bleed all my blood and you drown in it and it’s funny really how for someone who’s supposedly so evil all I have to do to provoke you is stare with honest eyes and that sight just pushes you over the edge and you have the fucking audacity to scream, plead for help, to actually sob about it like you’re the victim like you’ve always been the poor little victim and you tighten your rope and breathe your last breath and I embrace you from behind and drag my teeth across your neck and dig my nails into your chest and you wait for it to fade to black but your eyes refuse to close and I squeeze over your heart and feel it beat faster and faster and we laugh together and we both know I can see how pathetic you really are and I just keep holding you tighter because I don’t want to know what’d happen if I let you go I don’t think I could ever take my eyes off you again and you could’ve apologized to me even once but you never fucking did and you never will and the world will always see you as the beautiful tragic victim, the hero this town needed, and when they think of evil my face will always be the one they see every fucking time and so I refuse to let go and let you go on believing you’re a saint, committing every atrocity imaginable and using my name to do so, you’re going to hell with me and we will burn and burn and burn and we’re literally both girls 😳🙊🙀

[bewitchingbloom]

I truly don't get character bashing. Admittedly I like most characters and the few I don't I keep my mouth shut about, so I just don't understand this incessant need some people have to put their hate in the tags or make entire Reddit posts about how much they don't like a character. Are you all right? Because there's being a hater and then there's whatever this is.

[edgepunk]

I know some of you people have been taught to think in a very black and white way, but someone saying "it's not for me" doesn't mean they hate the thing. sometimes a show/book/movie/game doesn't click with you and you move on without having any strong feelings about it. you don't have to hate or love something, feeling neutral about media is very much A Thing.

personally, I don't see the point in engaging with it in neither a positive or negative way. I just don't think about it, at all. that doesn't mean I hate it.

[dropespeon]

god. god. sasasap. ogd

[indigo6f00ff]

apparently my gf is opps with the person who made forsaken . and i continue to stay 5000 miles away from all of that

[jackass-jones]

My appreciation for iris and ota as characters increases every time I play aitsf like I think the side characters in aini are more likable but they don’t have as much depth cuz you have to remember them in all these different points in time and their different relationships with all the protagonists and it gets really wishy washy but in the first game it’s just like. Here’s iris and ota, they’re fucking annoying and sketchy as hell. Please spend all your time with them 🥰

[sunspinecity]

50$ to print 10 of the same skin has always been so insane to me. you're telling me it's 50$ to print....only 10.....of a single skin....and that's normal. And not only is that normal, that's what's required for a skin shop. where ppl may not even sign up for 10 runs. and then you're left in the shitter with at minimum 1-4 skins nobody wanted (not to mention if some people decide not to pay afterward) that you have to just pray someone finds & buys on the auction house. And it's 50$. Uhuh. And then that's just the artist's issue and fault and we're gonna blame them instead of the fact that a 10 print run costs as much as groceries.

[cryptidcalling]

Posting more abt Cosmo and him yelling at ppl because for some reason I still have more to say

I think maybe “yelling at” isn’t the right way to describe it when it’s applied to 99% of people. There’s one specific character that Cosmo gets into genuine arguments with and who he doesn’t directly apologize to after, but that character is truly the only exception.

With anyone else, I think “lashes out” might be more accurate. It’s very brief, happens when he’s already feeling overwhelmed or very insecure, and after it happens he reverts to fawning and apologizes. He doesn’t stay mad at people and the anger doesn’t last long enough to be a real argument. It’s not prolonged yelling. It’s more like a lightning flash followed by a rainstorm.