#and they dont do dialogue marks correctly

[tytonnidaie]

people who are starved of stories that make them feel things to the extent they groan and writhe like a worm HATE being told that they might have to read technically poor writing. like grammar is that important

[vigilskeep]

omg wait what are the gendered differences for lucanis and spite in the recruitment quest? i only ever played as nb rook so far!

this is in the convo back at the lighthouse, after bellara and lucanis say that the usual option to get rid of a demon is to kill the host. if i recall correctly, if you ask if spite can be reasoned with instead (the diplomatic option) spite says “he doesn’t want to hurt you. how rare. everyone else does” for he/him rook and “she doesn’t/they don’t want to hurt you. how sweet” for the other two. and if you say oof that’s awkward (the purple option) spite says “he’s fun. you’re never fun” vs “she’s fun. i like her/they’re fun. i like them.” so overall it avoids hitting men with the one you could call a bit more flirtatious. which is the kind of tactic classically intended so straight man players don’t get uncomfortable

i dont know if there are any differences with the stoic option or even what the stoic option is. im too niceys :(

it strikes me as really startling for veilguard’s usual approach to gender, but very reminiscent of whatever the hell da2 used to do lmao. which makes sense bc lucanis is mary kirby’s, and merrill and varric’s dialogue were riddled with differences like these. this is the REAL mark of having more of an old guard writer jghsjskks

it’s even more baffling to reckon with in-world than usual though bc usually you can be like “well, thedas society is still heteronormative, maybe there’s contextual reasoning why a character responds differently to different genders, blah blah blah”. but spite is a spirit so unused to the mortal world that it has no sense of its own appearance and doesn’t understand why it and lucanis collectively need their skin. where did SPITE get this. lucanis what gender norms have you been inflicting on that creature

[loopy777]

Would you agree that a huge part of what divides the pre disney and post disney star wars fandom is those who only really care about star wars in the context of the Skywalker family as the protagonists, and those who want to move beyond them?

I've always regarded killing off the skywalker family as a massive narrative mistake, but it's only now these years later that i have come to the realization that even if i thought disney star wars was good or great(which i do not), i flat out am not interested in a Star Wars universe withouth the skywalkers and the themes of family in that they represented being the main focus.

As far as im concerned, any story not featuring them(or their supporting casts) is at best an interesting sidestory. But i dont really come to star wars for side stories.

Anyway, as a disney era star wars fan what do you think?

Well, I don't know about divides amongst the fans. I don't engage with the Star Wars fandom. That said, I understand your perspective and can respect it, but it was going to be trouble for Disney at some point regardless of what they did in the sequels.

For how long can they keep telling stories about Skywalkers? The story really ended with RotJ. The prequels were a handy way to squeeze some more money out of things, but how poorly the details line up goes to show that Star Wars was never designed to be a true multi-generational saga. Even 'The Clone Wars' has big details which clash with the prequels! (Obi-Wan canonically fights General Grevious on Utapau a week before 'Revenge of the Sith,' to name one of my favorites to laugh at.) George Lucas couldn't even stick to a plan across 3 movies, never mind an Entertainment Conglomerate with no consistent creative vision. Lucas was good at improvising and didn't have to answer to anyone else about the story (just the budgets). Jumping to Luke Skywalker Jr to tell a new story, and then Luke Skywalker Jr Jr to tell another story, and then Luke Skywalker Jr Jr Jr- for how long would that really work for something like Disney, which canceled New Ducktales to make a Darkwing Duck cartoon they never actually made?

At some point, the audience would catch on that The Adventures of Luke Skywalker the Fifth are indeed just cheap side-stories, but with one character in the cast named after someone George Lucas invented. Having someone who the writers claim is descended from Shmi Skywalker doesn't guarantee that they'll actually get the themes right. Or, in the case of the sequels, even keep the themes consistent.

I mean, 'The Acolyte' could have very easily altered a few lines of dialogue to turn one of the main characters into Shmi Skywalker's mother. Would that have that made it any better? (For my part, I think 'The Acolyte' was overall mediocre with great action scenes, but as usual for Disney was failed by mindbogglingly weak storytelling.)

Some stories just can't go on forever, whether or not you can get Mark Hamill back for 20 movies. Disney didn't realize they bought a franchise that was the equivalent of a car with 200k miles on it, but they did, and now they're stuck with it. They couldn't even keep Marvel consistently knocking out hits past its 'ending' because Corporate Needs demanded more content than its creative team could manage, and Marvel is a franchise designed to expand infinitely.

Personally, I think Star Wars has had a good run for a darker-and-edgier spin-off of a comedy television series starring two celebrity comedians. It's like someone made a massively successful, 50-year-spanning serious horror movie franchise out of original elements from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. But I get that I probably had a uniquely beneficial introduction to Star Wars which lets me enjoy any of it that uses the setting correctly, achieves the proper vibes, and has a sassy robot character. Everything else is optional.

[spector]

im too old for ship wars or whatever but if i wasnt id be making posts like ‘yall got any nice dinl*ke gifsets to reblog ohhhh waittttt i forgot they cant share a shot together because one of them is a cgi monstrosity SORRY 😭’ but im too old for that so i just keep it in and keep smiling ....

tho this is genuinely an interesting thing to consider, this is how i know that luke cannot be a regular because if they put a cgi’d mark hamill next to a normal human being, the uncanny valley is gonna jump OUT ... and its already very prominent, especially every time he talks. so he CANNOT share a scene with another human being next to him and it definitely won’t be a dialogue scene... bc the mouth movement that is the hardest part to nail when animating a face. this is why deepfakes are so much more successful than whatever disney is doing, they seem to be doing a little bit of that, there definitely is a real human face they filmed and then slapped the cgi young mark hamill face onto... but theres still something very uncanny about it, like they havent rigged everything correctly OR the young cgi face itself is just ... OFF . 

so if luke does show up again, hes gonna have the shot all to himself and if he is shown next to another human being, hes gonna be in the distance fghifhg bc from the distance its harder to see all the fine details of a face that together create the uncanny valley effect. 

OR. or disney is gonna pour all of their kenobi money or whatever into their CGI FACES department and they’ll work on improving the animation. or they wont and they wont care that it looks like shit , they definitely didnt seem to care about tarkin or carrie fisher in rogue one. 

but there is a reason why theres not a single shot with din and luke sharing the frame and the reason is that luke is pixels. hes pixels bro. like yes, a dramatic conversation usually is conveyed thru individual close up shots but at some point you’d expect a shared shot from the distance to remind the viewer where the two characters are and how close they are standing in regard to one another. but you cant put pixels next to a real human being bc then you see the difference very easily. luke can share the scene only with 2 other non human beings, grogurt and r2d2 bc they dont call attention to his Fakeness

[velvetsehun]

What are your pet peeves as a writer and a reader? Also I am in love with BTD like it is one of the things making me go insane while still safeguarding my sanity💗💗

a lot of things lmao.. I don’t overstep my place as a reader but sometimes from a writes POV, stories can be very difficult to read for me! 

my pet peeves:

 i’m very much someone who needs to be gripped in the first chapter, i cant be reading through multiple chapters just to get to the good parts of your writing 

inconsistencies in writing, i can tell where you’ve REALLY tried in parts of your story and let the others fall off - it makes me feel like you’ve only planned scenarios and bridged them together rather than planned a cohesive plot

Grammar doesn’t bother me, but misusing or not understanding/not bothering to look up words does; do not use big words for the sake of making your writing sound more ‘educated’, it just looks flowery and out of place if you don’t know how to use the word your using, id rather a very well thought out and “basic” sentence than misusing something. It can also be very unhelpful to ESL people if you’re not using words correctly - don’t just use a thesaurus and hope for the best!

Characters doing things that are out of character just for the sake of a shallow “plot progression”, don’t misuse your characters because you didn’t plan - its infuriating to readers to see a character they’ve read for so many chapters just do something not like them without a VALID reason. 

I don’t like mary sues and thats that on it tbh, no one is unrealistically free of weaknesses. Stories are an escape, but idealised self-insertion doesn’t make an interesting story, believe it or not you’re human and you are not without faults. 

people that use ‘special fonts’ from fancy text generator in stories, its ignorant of people that use screen-readers, make your story accessible to everyone 

this may be extreme but nothing sets a fire under my ass and gets me heated like people who don’t use speech marks (””) for dialogue, don’t give my of this (,,”) or use (- [text] ) or even (‘’), please JUST USE SPEECH MARKS FOR DIALOGUE IT MAKES YOUR WRITING UNREADABLE

Trigger Warning....Using things like rape/non-con/sexual assault for a quick plot device, its distasteful to actual victims to reduce their problems as a quick plot trope that you quickly get over, this goes hand in hand with the mishandling/misunderstand of abuse/PTSD 

Romanticisation of toxic/abusive relationships, i’m not your mother but i will sit you down and explain why that isnt okay.

I honestly have so many more... but ill keep it short and sweet 

im glad you’re enjoying BTD, dont worry it has the same effect on me ;) 

[tinkerer-of-terror]

Heres me talking about nearly shitting myself playing a horror game + spoilers (Call Of Cthulhu 2018) 

STAY TUNED!

UPDATED: 1.12.19 @ 4:44pm  PST

FINAL UPDATE + LAST WORDS 1.13.19 @ 6:54pm PST

and yes that is a picture of Jacksepticeye. He’s my bae.

1.12.19

I don’t do well with horror games, so I am in the mansion, an very old half burned down mansion. The mother, father and son dies. I investigate the little boys room using a special power in the game and he drew monsters and hanged them on his wall, after the special power drains out the drawings are gone. 

I go to walk down a very dark corridor (mind to the fact I HATE CORRIDORS) and I couldn’t get 2 doors open so I was walking up and down the stairs in the corridor and noticed the markings all of the walls are actually 3 scratch marks which if you dont know means its the most evilest form of daemonic creatures in lore. 

I go into the mothers study and shut the door, first thing I noticed was there is blood in a weird cult circle made of green glowing stuff, second thing I noticed is that there is scratch marks all along the walls, third thing I noticed is an very daemonic drawing on the ground, you leave the room and then there is a bang. You call out to the police officer who came with you and no answer.

I AM SHITTING MYSELF YALL

1.12.19 again but later.

The door I so desperately wanted to open finally opened ... by itself. I no longer want it open. 

1.12.19 again but later.

For years I have waited for this game, its made on a fantastic engine. The same one that made Far Cry 5 but a lot of the character motions of the NPCs are very unrealistic. It’s sort of bothersome. But the story its so rich, I love this game despite the jagged movements. I have yet to encounter my first real monster, 0% of me is looking forward to it. I love how it has an Amnesia feel to it. There is way too many horror games that shrug off the trauma like its normal for the character you are playing as, I love that there is a sanity meter and based off of it you can actually imagine the creatures there when they really arent. Plus the fact that the lantern runs out of oil is cool.

Oh and one other thing, the paintings are cursed.

1.12.19 again but later.

The Shambler is being a lil bitch. I literally can’t get past it no matter how hard I try. I ain’t even scared of the lil bastard anymore. I just want to get the dagger and stab the painting. 

Heres a little funny thing my best friend said to me and that picture is for privacy. (dont mind the texts that start with “I hate it” and “that sounds great” unrelated to the game)

1.12.19 again but final log of the day.

The game is starting to really get to me after hours of gameplay, the light is leaving and it’ll be dark out soon. I have a major migraine and stomach ache. I just got to the part where the Shambler randomly appeared and now you are running around with your lantern light trying to escape the teleporter. 

1.13.19

I really don’t know what to say. I played the rest of the game at once and I started picking up items, not paying attention to the dialogue cause there was too much going on. I am very confused on the end that I got. So I preformed the counter spell correctly and ended up in the insane asylum not being able to sleep. How do you keep your sanity well? What the hell was up with Sarah? I had such high exceptions of this game cause I waited so long and I am so disappointed. I didn’t understand half of the game and I really do not want to redo it 3 more times. The game puts a lot of pressure on you too quickly, the Shambler I expected to be in it a lot more so I was disappointed but relieved at the same time. During the lantern puzzle I was so annoyed but as soon as the wall faded and I saw the outline of the Shambler I got scared, I turned the corner and expected a jumpscare and I got it. 

That weird battle between Sarah and the Shambler was very plastered. It was probably one of the worst battles I’ve ever played. 

In the end, I must say I am very disappointed in the ending and how everything turns out. I waited years for this game, I became very annoyed and confused by everything up until the point where you had to go to the book store. This game is not worth the 60 dollars. I would say 30 at best.

[brilliantsprout-blog]

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