#rant about the wiki

[novankenn]

ANNOYED!!

This is just a rant, so ignore it if you don't care, or offer counter opinions if you feel up to it.

Anyway... I like RWBY, it's a neat little show, and has some interesting ideas, and I'll be honest even though I stopped watching it after the Haven Story Arc... I love writing using its world. Yes, I know, shocker. But when you consider nothing I really have written uses anything after "the Fall"... it was probably obvious.

Anyway, I like the potential of RWBY. Which is what brings me to this rant... I DETEST the lack of information, not only on the Grimm (biology - physiology) but Remnant's history. Case in point, I want to do a story about Jaune and a Tank (BTW thank you to everyone who voted... Jaune is going to be using the Sherman V "Firefly") sort of along the lines of "Girls Und Panzer". I wanted the hook for the tank and Jaune to be that it was used by a member of his family during the "Great War".

Okay that is doable... except according to the Wiki the great war... fought over 80 years ago... was fought using bows, arrows, swords, axes and the like. IE Medieval style warfare. Okay... so maybe... but nope. It seems there is no "technological" timeline... we go from simple weapons like Crocea Mors to mega-mechashift like Crescent Rose. We have airships and cars (I think) with Atlas showing off having a Mech (the Paladin) but there's nothing in between.

To me, the progress from soldiers on horse back to mech-suits needs some in between tech... maybe like tanks? I know the "weapons" in the show are more to be "cool" than anything. I get it... but it bums me out when I have an idea and I have to either totally ignore the wiki, or scrap my plan.

Case in point, I have a story on my FF.net profile called "Monster". There is a MASSIVE battle/grimm attack during it, where I basically had to create Atlas' military forces. I was forced to pull things from our real world that would be good "stepping stones" for the stuff shown in the show.

I mean, the battle was massive... I had Atlean forces attacking the encroaching horde for hours before they reached the walls, using A-10's, Spooky gunships, and some WW2 fighter planes. Likewise, I mean when the horde was closing on the walls, I had to make "jumps of logic" due to some of the tactics I had Atlas use to defend itself (IE Nerve Gas, Mustard Gas, Fuel-Air-Bombs).

I had to totally ignore the "Great War" Tech, and go with things I felt a military superpower would have in its arsenal... even throwing in a tidbit about how the "chemical agents" were in violation of the Vytal Peace Treaty.

I know in fan-fiction we take creative licence... but there is a part of me that wished RT had done more world building. I stand by my choices in "Monster" but I still feel like I'm doing a disservice to the core material by having to add so much.

Like I said, this is a rant just to vent, not a serious discussion, but if you feel like pointing out things I have missed/overlooked, feel free to do so. Or ignore me. It's going to take me time to work out how to do the "RWBY-Girl UND Panzer" in a way I like or makes sense to me.

Thanks for letting me blow off some frustration. Much appreciated.

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

[theminecraftbee]

okay now that i'm no longer trying to keep a project secret from certain people i can complain publicly about a thing i've been losing my mind about:

why the fuck is the evo wiki like that.

listen. i know. i know fandom wikis being decent entirely relies on whether there are people who both want to obsessively categorize things enough to fill out the wiki, with the free time to do that kind of obsessive categorization, and the desire to manage it all as a wiki. believe me, i know. but please i'm just trying to do research please, please at least bigb's page was just Entirely Empty so i knew i had useless information and just left. why the fuck did the mafia's page, by contrast, have this:

a sentence that is actively LESS USEFUL THAN IF IT WERE NOT THERE.

and then grian's page - GRIAN'S. GRIAN'S. THE ONE PAGE I THOUGHT MIGHT HAVE A SHOT OF BEING FILLED OUT. JOKE'S ON ME I GUESS.

BECAUSE IT HAS THIS????? I'M LOSING MY MIND. WHY ON EARTH IS THE WIKI LIKE THIS. WHY IS IT THIS BAD. PLEASE I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT EVERYONE'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH JIMMY AND MARTYN WERE PLEASE,

anyway thankfully i had friends who could help me with their own knowledge and who also found the evo recap but in conclusion i have been being driven mad by this for weeks, thank you for coming to my ted talk.

[spookberry]

Saw Inside Out 2 today and when the high school hockey team was introduced I briefly got really excited cuz I was like "firehawks like the University of Albuquerque Basketball team thats in all the high school musical movies??" Nah the UofA team is called the RedHawks.

Also UofA is like technically fictional? closed in the 80s, but their sports were all cut by 69. And they were never the Redhawks, but rather "the dons". So in the world of High School Musical, University of Albuquerque is still around by 2008 at the latest, but also they have a well known basketball team dubbed the Redhawks.(also their colors seemed to be red and white like east high, but irl it was blue and gold)

That being said UofA was a liberal arts school so Troy easily coulda been doin music and sports im just saying he did not need to make a big deal outta the whole "having to pick" thing

[waywardmillennial]

in today’s episode of “What Are You Angry About?” this quote from an interview Steven gave in Feb 2020 that BF originally wasn’t going to let him host Worth It:

According to Lim, Buzzfeed's original plan was to feature two white hosts while Lim wrote the show's scripts. (x)(x)

further proof that the BF company can perish now, thanks

[night-eyes1]

Stardew valley is a cozy and relaxing game they said, it's a cute farming game they said.

It's a lie. If you are not in bed before 2 am you will black out. You have 2 damn years to finish the community center, reach level 120 in the mines and get the skull key, donate 60 items to the museum, befriend half of the town, become level 10 on every skill, upgrade your house and get married cause your dead grandpas soul cames back on the first day of the 3rd year and rates your farm. If you fail he will HAUNT you.

[aria0fgold]

I just realized that Loop's dialogue icons have rock, paper, scissors hand signs, with rock and scissors modified in a way that resembles the sign itself instead.

Rock

Paper

Scissors

[tovalhallaandback]

I am once again thinking about how we were ROBBED of seeing more of the Danish/Norse/Pagan culture in TLK. We occasionally got the juxtaposition when the Danes raided towns/strongholds, then the stuff with Skade (S3)/Brida (S5).

Also still wondering why we had Rumcofa celebrating Blood Month but not Eoferwic?! Like can you imagine how much more impactful Brida's attack would have been had it coincided with their preparations for Blood Month as well?!

[socially-awkward-chocobo]

Just a passing thought - but you know how Ayano has bad grades? And how it was so bad she was in summer school even though it was the start of her high school year?

How much of that was because she was genuinely having trouble with school and how much of it was because of Kano replacing her so nobody would notice? Kano - who to my knowledge, didn't go to school.

I could be wrong, but I don't remember Shintaro saying anything about her grades becoming bad in high school, it's safe to assume she was already struggling beforehand, but would she have been getting grades as low as 56 (a grade seen in Toumei Answer) if she were attending school regularly? Or would they at least be passing?

Just a stray thought that keeps bugging me.

[fishyvamp]

I have a confession to make, I haven't seen a single scream movie in my life in fact the only horror movie franchises I have seen are Saw and Chucky... I vibe with both for different reasons.

This spooky season I am slowly rectifying this, but I feel so bad because I feel like such a poser. I talk about loving horror, but I don't know the classics hell even my horror games are abysmal. I only got into horror things as an adult after leaving the cult I grew up in, but there is so much out there it's borderline overwhelming. (Well I have been watching Markiplier since 2014, but that barely counts) If anyone has any good recommendations I'd love to hear it.

[bumblebee-chimera]

Y’all where the beans did JTTL get Hartfelt as Alastor’s surname like genuinely bc he does not have a canon one 😭

[rick-ety]

WAIT YOURE TELLING ME THAT THERE MIGHT BE A REASON THE DOOR DISAPPEARED IN THE SKIP BUTTON ENDING??? AND THAT TK MIGHT HAVE DONE IT? AND THAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN TO SABOTAGE THE NARRATOR SO THEY COULD TALK TO STANLEY??? AND THAT THERE WAS AN EXPLANATION FOR THE SKIP BUTTON ENDING???? I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH AND I LOVE THE LORE AND I LOVE THE CHARACTERS AND I LOVE THE HIDDEN SECRETS AND I LOVE HOW NONE OF THESE QUESTIONS ARE FOR SURE ANSWERED AND MAKE ME THINK FOR SO LONG UHGJTROKWSS gonna rant more in the tags because

[wackpedion]

remembered the term Highly Sensitive Person pops a vein

[dragongirluvula]

just found out about the hdg and I definitely don't vibe with it. It almost captures my interest but the hard stance opposition towards exploring the implications that come with a self designated benevolent empire that can solve the inherent problems that come from cultures who are supposedly inferior in some way by nature really like, both rubs me the wrong way and feels like a disservice to the setting itself.

idk just looking at every empire in history it's like, that's literally what they all say and how they justify colonizing others. It's kinda really fucking hard to just take at face value. If imperialist colonizers who just happen to be legimately nicies to the people they colonize is like, ur thing then absolutely jack off to it I'm not here to judge that, just like, own that I guess? But if your argument for them is just that narratively speaking it's just true then my interest in your setting, horny or otherwise just does not exist.

The contradiction of the setting also bothers me, 25-45% of any given species will be domesticated on average but the space between that and rebellion just doesn't seem to be accounted for in the wiki, what is the life of someone not opposed to the empire but also who doesn't volunteer for domestication? How much of their own cultures are retained within the empire? It really seems like the only option for any autonomy in the setting is rebellion but that's also only ever seen as a bad thing.

I just get caught on the whole "affini are imperial" and "affini are benevolent" thing in the axioms section of the hdg wiki. My mixed race ass cannot really look at an invading empire calling itself the good guys without my own personal baggage about it weighing in, ya'feel?

[lacunazai]

every time I see a bsd roleplay blog my day is inevitably ruined

[triglycercule]

me when i find the PERFECT mtt song (yamitsuki,,,,,,,, maretu my king how did you do it,,,,,,,,,,,,, literally HOW did you do it why is this song weirdly accurate wtf and its for a completely different character 2??? HOW DID YOU DO THIS??? THE ENTIRE FUCKING SONG FITS??? THE ENTIRE SONG COULD BE MADE TO HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH ONLY MILD REACHING??? HELLO??????) (this translation!!!) (the translation is not.linking i will be shooting myself. its the on on the vocaloid wiki NOTthe video....)

literally like. 1/3 is horror. 1/3 is dust. and then the last is killer. in that order. the first 2 verses talk about bloodshot pain (bloodshot EYES.... HORROR'S EYE) and a rotting fatal wound (THE FUCKING HEAD CRACK!!! HIS GODDAMN HEAD WOUND!!!!). commiting brutality. i dont think much else is needed. wrong/right and judging biases,,,,, jesus fuck wtf. AND THEN in the next verse there's a mention of "starving for necessary evil" HELLO!!!! HELLO!!!!!!! him starving himself while also feeding snowdin human which totally sucks,,,,,, horror sans,,,,,,???? chorus of shrill voices (duh snowdin. or also could be undyne and royale guard. i like snowdin more). and then the last line of the second verse mentions sadism. nothing more to say. horror sans i mayhaps perchance mightve just encountered you in a song. or maybe the translation is freakily accurate and the song itself isnt that specific (probably but hey i can dream)

and then th next 2 verses r dust except i dont really know about the first verse but also a line that says "this is the death of the conflict, come and see me" could be referring to the human's death which like. man. and then the next verse is just dust sans but in a single verse. give me more excellent pain could be interpreted as LV but also the mental pain that comes with yk..... killing all you love.LOVE. LV. he needs more LV... anyways. mad off the beaten track. MAD. MENTION OF MAD LIKE CRAZY LIKE MAD TIME LIKE DUST SANS!!!! echoes of a haughty voice resound,,,,, phantom paps,,,,, "severe punishment, 100 renouned sights, i long for pure pessimism" i cant explain this one well i think but just think about it okay. this time you get to be the one coming up with the ideas (σ´∀`)σ

killer only has one verse that i can link this song 2 but i also think its th most freakily accurate. verse 1 is "through instantaneous joy, entertain me for my whole life, i'm cunningly"LUCKY". i get completely bored. give me pleasure without worry. and now, right away." and then "i'd rather head to eternal darkness. i'll abide by you always, emptily "HAPPY". i shed tears from my clear white eyes. come and show me your best smile!" HELP HELP HELP THEYRE SHOOTING ME HELP HELP!!!! THEY JUMPING ME (these lyrics) because WTFyhis isFREAKILY accurate. the entire first verse and its spiel on boredom and having someone else manage the entertainment/emotions,,,, and the cunningly lucky part is just. i think the word cunning is just really good to describe killer (sneaky little bastard) and then he's "lucky" emphasis on quotes because idk he got chosen for whatever the fuck his chara wants. what luck. really bad luck but whatever. and then MORE on the following another person and EMPTILY!!! EMPTY!!! KILLER FEEL NOTHING EMPTY!!!! fake happy too,,,, and killer has white eyelights sooo IM NOT REACHING!!! also he literally cries

in conclusion MARETU is a god amongst men and somehow this song managed to fit the mtt i have no idea how. next coming up: how NAMIDA fits horror. how thirst fits dust. how i'm high fits killer. idk if i already said this one probably did BUT JUST IN CASE maretu also has maegamist,,,,, maretu i knew i listened to you for a reason. so i could make totally irrational and unreasonable connections of your songs to the fucking murder time trio of all things. what joy