#rant tag

[tategaminu]

I'm so sick of these live action remakes. "This one actually looks good!" no it doesn't??

Where are the vibrant colors? why is Stitch so pale? why does he looks like a french bulldog? why is his animation so stiff and not good at all? Why is the pacing so weird? This looks terrible.

[starry-eyer]

i guess i’m stronger than all of stark stan twt bc why are they still flipping out over someone’s opinion about wanting dany to not have perfectly peachy feelings about ned :/

[birdofmay]

Some low support needs™ autistic yet again: "VeRy OfTeN wE dOn'T mIsS sOcIaL cUeS, wE jUsT tHiNk ThEy'Re StUpId" [plain text: very often we don't miss social cues, we just think they're stupid].

Man, honestly.... Shut the fck up and stop throwing us under the bus yet again. I hate it here. I hate expressions like this.

"We just choose to ignore social cues because we don't like social rules." "We don't lack communication skills, you're actually the one making communication unnecessarily complicated." "We don't have obsessive special interests, you're just lacking passion." "We very well understand your jokes, we just don't think they're funny."

Shut up shut up shut up. Thanks for ignoring us again for some shitty laughs. This happens all. the. time. and you're actively spreading misinformation in ignoring more than half of all autistics. You're a minority with this, but most autistics with more severe symptoms aren't on Tumblr so they can't talk about their life.

We're constantly talked over with jokes like this.

I hate this.

[devildarlindumbass]

DOODLE + RANTINGG

I saw a really cool looking bendy rp/hangout game with exact models and polished animations ON ROBLOX and it looks SO COOLLL but the majority of my online friends aren't into batim? So I ain't got no one to play it with and I do not have the balls to go solo into an rp game <\3

I think it's only really since I started this blog did I start building a little community in the bendy fandom but I still need to stop being so socially anxious and actually talk to people and keep up with mutuals to make friends

I've questioned making a kin or even just general fan server but I already KNOW I wouldn't end up using it because of how awkward I am when It comes to joining let alone starting a conversation

stuck in 'i love this community and want to interact with it more' but 'ohhhhmy god everyone hates me fr'

[tx0r1a]

MURDER DRONES FINALE/EP8 SPOILERS

Not to rant on main but I know I did NOT just see several people being like "omg Uzi and Cyn are the same person,he's dating his sister ehehe xDD"

YA'LL

IT'S SOLVER

CYN HAS BEEN DEAD D E A D FOR A WHILE NOW (Solver was using Cyn as vessel/host for god knows how long) , THEY WERE NEVER THE SAME PERSON

HOW DOES ONE COME THIS CONCLUSION WHEN IT'S EVEN IN SUBTITLES RIGHT IN FRONT YA'LL EYES

I honestly wouldn't say anything but the amount of rancid takes I saw from MD fans (on twt mostly) is crazy

media literacy save me,,,media literacy,,,save me media literacy

[shiutsu]

People who say "revenge is for the weak" are the same type of people who defend horrible people, blame victims for their abuse & throw a tantrum whenever someone doesn't wanna be near others anymore.

[astral-herald]

on arcane and the sin of naivety

ripped this from a twitter rant i had:

another arcane observation bc i'm watching ep7: obv we have to prepare for some both side-isms come season 2, but i think a way that the writers can (and have) circumvented this problem is thru how/why arcane characters are punished: their naivety.

everybody (save for ambessa and silco, and maybe mel too) operates from their own place of well-intentioned ignorance. jayce is the most obv example of this, but the contrast between cait and ekko is even better, i think re: their meeting in ep7.

cait sincerely thinks that there can be healing between piltover/zaun bc of her inexperience, whereas ekko is sure it's impossible bc he's bore the brunt of the enforcers' abuse - he's the least naïve character in the whole show. how the writers dealt with this is Crucial.

if the both side-isms were implicit in the writers' ethos, we wouldn't see the enforcers stand idly by while marcus *almost* kills 2 innocents in cold blood. it goes Beyond the bad apple cop and into a full anti-establishment ethos. thru violence, cait's naivety is broken just like ekko had insisted! and THEN they have a showdown between the 2 most jaded/hurt characters, ekko and jinx, to contrast the cait/vi relationship that is still underscored by blind hope. jinx and ekko don't have that luxury, and it foreshadows vi's s2 alliance with piltover.

and this theme is everywhere, beyond ep7. jayce's entire arc hinges on his insistence that he is still naive, so he can't be blamed for his very consequential choices. viktor insists that knowledge for knowledge's sake still exists and that's why he's destroying himself. and mel falls back onto her childhood self to explain away her own penchant for manipulation/bad choices. she's fascinating though because she's the closest of the bunch to undoing her role in this dynamic when ambessa returns (which is why i hope sm that she isn't dead in s2).

also, this transition from ignorance to jaded understanding is done SO WELL via the timeskip, and that's why i'm fairly certain that they'll have another in ep4 of s2. it makes so much sense. there is a lot of painful learning to be done post missile attack.

TLDR: arcane punishes characters for their ignorance and naivety, and their unique realizations of this fact will lead to their undoing in season 2! i love this show so much.

[teatitty]

Looking back on the early Naruto arcs really does make it obvious that Iruka was supposed to be a far more consistent character and role throughout the series. Not only did Kishimoto confirm he was the second character he ever made for the series, but he shows up a lot during those early arcs, the first betrayal we get is from his childhood friend, he's close enough to Hiruzen to have some kind of assistant role to his duties, the first databook put him and Kakashi as only a year apart in age, his stats have always been consistently on par with the jounin instructors' [especially the tokubetsu], Kishimoto said in one such databook that Iruka was hiding what he could really do because he didn't want to stop being a teacher [implying his skillset would've forced him into a different position which is very ��👀👀] and it was stated that he could've become either jounin or ANBU himself if not for him wanting to be a teacher

It's just fascinating to look back at all of that subtle setup and then see Iruka just get completely forgotten about after a while and reduced to a super minor role by the time we hit part 2/shippuden. Part of that is definitely because of how hard it is to juggle a large cast of characters [a flaw in a lot of manga and novels, where inevitably some characters will just get left behind or completely forgotten about] and part of it is probably just Kishimoto himself changing his ideas as he wrote things out [with the help of his editors of course] but it does make me SO SO SOOOOO curious to know what the hell was going on with Iruka back then

Was he supposed to have a more active role in helping out Team 7? Was it a politics thing, hence his close assistant nature to Hiruzen? Why would he have to stop being a teacher if he revealed what he could really do? Drives me up the wall sometimes whenever I think of all the possibilities

[tategaminu]

I'm genuinely devastated about how unfairly TDP and the team are getting treated. Years of work in the game to get it shut down after four months in a one day notice is miserable and cruel. Shutting it down two days before S7 is miserable and cruel. Netflix is miserable and cruel. I seriously hope the crew finds better partners‚ with the main series, with the game and with the books (because fuck schoolsatic as well honestly)

[starry-eyer]

i know logically that rhaelya being a love story hasn’t been confirmed and therefore no one interpretation is the correct one, but it’s a bit sickening when the most misogynistic takes about this relationship are oftentimes framed as the more feminist counterparts to the stupid romantic version that’s unrealistic and superrrr weird

like damn. sorry you can’t stand whimsy but it 100% pisses me off when These annoying folks’ white knighting ends with lyanna #heldhostageinatower omg sO sAd she Was Used as a WOMBbbbb.

like whattt. why have Some ppl created an issue (literally all of That prophecy womb shit is just a reallyyy popular headcanon) and then get Very very offended when i dm them a screenshot of george’s commissioned artwork of rhaelya.

suddenly im the bad guy even tho you dared to put your weird prophecy womb kink onto my timeline?

someone explain this conundrum to me pleaseee

like i sadly will never get over all of this even tho it literally Does Not Matter at all. i’m just mad that we could’ve had nuanced discussions about the age gap, about the cheating etc etc fking etc but honestly it seems like that door has long since been slammed shut when this fandom collectively decided to repackage misogynistic rhetoric as feminist and somehow it caught on like fire

i hateeee this buzzfeed-esque faux feminist rhetoric pls pls pls how do i manifest its demise

to be more coherent!: ignoring the LOVE because you refuse to engage with uncomfy topics like “cHeaTing” and an age gap is Pathetic because i know for a fact that no other asoiaf relationship is scrutinized to such an extent even though many other romantic/sexual relationships have the same exact issues (or worseee)

call it what you will, but this is pure hypocrisy only made worse by those who want lyanna to have been rhaegar’s Victim… and not his partner in crime like we all know she was #knightofthelaughingtreeSlay

[thehomelybrewster]

How Much Do Systems Matter?

This post is directly inspired by the video "You shouldn't use DnD for narrative campaigns." by Questing Beast (aka Ben Milton) about the Polygon article "Worlds Beyond Number is teaching me things that no D&D book can" by Charlie Hall.

The video and article basically posit the following:

TTRPGs can use concretely designed procedures for certain types of challenges and scenarios while having much looser procedures for other types of challenges or scenarios

Just because a TTPRG has less thorough rules on a type of challenge or scenario than a different RPG tackling the same subject matter doesn't automatically make the former worse at being used for these scenarios than the latter

Depending on the preferences of the table, having a robust mechanical framework for one element of gameplay while lacking that for other types of gameplay may be preferrable than having robust mechanical frameworks for both

Having distinct game mechanics for narrative progression and character interactions is uncommon in D&D and derived games, but is very common in story games, e.g. most Powered by the Apocalypse games.

The Polygon article includes this quote by Worlds Beyond Number's Brennan Lee Mulligan: "[People say that] because D&D has so many combat mechanics, you are destined to tell combat stories. I fundamentally disagree. Combat is the part I’m the least interested in simulating through improvisational storytelling. So I need a game to do that for me, while I take care of emotions, relationships, character progression, because that shit is intuitive and I understand it well. I don’t intuitively understand how an arrow moves through a fictional airspace."

This intuitive knowledge on handling emotional beats, narrative, and characters of course stems from years of experience Brennan has as a writer, actor, improv teacher, comedian, camp counsellor, and professional TTRPG GM and player.

Using Ron Edwards design language (s. his 1999 essay "System Does Matter"), Brennan wants to run primarily narrativist games, while 5e would fit Edwards' idea of a Gamist system, i.e. one which involves the pursuit of "winning" against NPCs.

Now let's look at 5e: it's generally agreed upon that 5e is opinionated on combat, while also being vocal that exploration and social encounters, while less fleshed-out, are still part of its pillars alongside combat, meaning the game is still encouraging you to pursue these types of play.

Combat is a very fleshed-out series of systems. The action system is centered on combat, both in terms of time and types. Spellcasting is very distinct and allows for casting mostly offensive or defensive spells. Class progression usually focuses on improving one's combat capabilities.

Exploration and social interactions are much more bare-bones.

On the social side, a few more recent supplements have reintroduced the classic Attitude table present in earlier editions and which are a mainstay of the OSR community. Additionally the DMG spends merely three pages on how to run NPCs, mostly using fairly general advice instead of concrete game mechanics. Interaction between player characters is also barely discussed in 5e rules.

Exploration is similarly simple, mostly related to the omnipresent but simple skill system, as well as some relatively simple rules on weather, hazards, overland travel speed, and tracking rations.

5e's shift towards simplified rules for these two pillars, including simplifying the skill system into a mostly binary failure-success affair is a shift away from earlier D&D editions and some of its direct competitors, e.g. Pathfinder, Rolemaster, GURPS, and The Dark Eye, which often would involve subsystems for various aspects of social or exploratory encounters, s. Edwards' "System does Matter" essay and his point on simulationist games.

So if Brennan wants to run a narrative game where we can realiably use his knowledge of narratives and character writing to create a compelling story while having a set system as his backup to run situations where violence becomes a factor... Using a game like 5e is a decent choice.

Of course other systems might be even better for that. Shadowdark for example may just be the perfect fit for someone wanting to run a narrative game with occasional combat. The combat rules are thorough enough to cover the fundamentals. Sure, you may just need to get rid of real-time torches, the key mechanic which sets Shadowdark apart from other OSR games, but subtracting a mechanic, instead of modifying it, is a relatively uninvasive procedure.

Personally I too like it when my TTRPG, especially stuff intended for medium- or long-term play, doesn't touch social and narrative elements much mechanically.

Meanwhile games like Ironsworn and Heart - The City Below, which are much more narrative-focused, do have issues where their resolution mechanics clash with the fiction in ways that would pull be out of the story we're trying to tell. Heart has the issue with the Supplies resistance not being shared within the group, and Ironsworn's fulfillment of vows can be glacially slow (s. A. A. Voigt's "Ironsworn: A Narrative Dilemma" video essay).

Ultimately, it all comes down to preference. Personally, if I wanted to run a fantasy game with magic and a strong narrative (like Worlds Beyond Number), with the clear goal of not getting bogged down in combat or minis, I'd legit use Shadowdark as described above. If I knew I wanted to tell a specific type of story and knew of a game that was designed for these types of stories, I'd definitely give it a read and talk about it with my players before we adopt it.

However, I do implore folks to not Ship of Theseus a game with tons of homebrew and houserules so that it's no longer recognizable as its original game. If you ever feel compelled to do that, ask other players what systems might be a better fit for your needs.

[devildarlindumbass]

(Tw fatass rant on my personal opinion on batdr and biggest annoyance with it that I think about forever)

Forever thinking about how the bendy games were meant to convey a theme of how seeking perfection and trying to erase mistakes always resulted in the worst

Alice going mad seeking a 'perfect' cartoon face, Sammy spiralling and leading himself down terrible places in search of returning back to his 'perfect' human body, Overall Joey creating monsters and harming the entire studio trying to create 'perfect' cartoons, Wilson trying to make his perfect cartoon character and attempting to harm Audrey in the process and ending up dead himself, ect. (Even in smaller cases like Jane wanting her character getting into the butcher gang to go 'perfectly' and presumably killing herself to get her way somehow)

And batdr seemed to have an excellent setup to follow this theme, with exploration of the ink demons abuse, In the studio despite being nonhostile being rejected for not being 'perfect', and growing aggressive when rejected and hurt- and then batdr follows off of this, how hes experimented on and tortured into being 'perfect', how despite the cartoon form is visually appealing and the desired perfection, it is quite literally achieved through torture and subduing.

The ink demons speech towards Audrey is very clearly projecting, and is explicitly with the line "You're a mistake, a monster, like me." He's ashamed of himself, but only because that's what he's been taught. Regardless, he feels powerful and truest in that form, and the cartoon form just isn't him, even if it's what was desired or expected of him, it causes harm.

And then after they team up and use the end reel, starting everything over after defeating Wilson (and his torture machinery), prepared to do the cycle right, what form of the demon do we see?

... Ah.

Gotta love being marketable (internal screams of agony)

Anyways I just find it interesting how after all the themes stressing how seeking perfection no matter the cost is BAD and HURTS they switched it around at the end. I think it was purely for the omg cartoon so cute hype because there doesn't seem to be much else reasoning to just do that as the ending to wrap up a story trying to follow this theming.

Anyways I have probably ranted about this before.

Tldr: personally (personally) I want to kick the child

[doodlebug091]

rant post time, yippee! (disclaimer, this is not targeted at anyone, i promise)

why do people not reblog art. whenever i post art on my art account i’ll get plenty of likes, but only like 5 reblogs, one of them from me. i’ll usually get like 5 times as many likes as reblogs, which would be nice if likes did anything at all. they do nothing! ah yes thank you for letting me know that you saw my art but didn’t want to reblog it, you couldn’t imagine putting that on your own blog. that would be terrible, wouldn’t it. putting some mediocre art on your blog, that would be awful wouldn’t it. so terrible. but thank you for liking it, that’s amazing, so wonderful, doing something that does nothing but tell me you saw my art and don’t want to share it that’s great yeah (sarcasm, if that wasn’t obvious)

[im-dripping-in-finesse]

GANG IM NOT DEAD‼️‼️ BUT I DO LOVE A GOOD RANT SO LETS GO

Ok so ik we all have watched Deadpool and Wolverine and we ALL know it changed all of our lives. The soundtrack was great, I love how Deadpool talks to us through the screen and the little "the proposal" scene, very smart. BUT. THE INE THING IM STILL ON ABT IS HOW EVERYONE WAS DEAD SILENT ABT HUGH BEFORE THIS MOVIE AND NOW PPL WONT STOP TALKING ABT HIM. Please... My dad showed me the first X-Men and I SAW that fine ass man in the fighting arena thingy in the bar and I went:😦😦😦. I've loved that man since I was 7 years old and then FORGET IT WHEN HE WAS ON THE GREATEST SHOWMAN???? ARE YOU JOKING?? I may not have watched all of his movies but from the ones I have watched I have been crazy for him for such a long time and I know there are ppl who have made edits of him before Deadpool came out and I may have not just been seeing it but for it to be like none on my fyp, like no edits or nothing to ALL I SEE EVERY 3 TIMES I SCROLL IS CRAZY. I didn't even lay that big of a brick on my ftp for it to do that that's the thingggg😥😥😥. BUT yeah I think Hugh Jackman deserved more hipe before this movie and thank you to the ppl who was making those SCRUMPTIOUS EDITS of that man bc I will forever love you. BUT for now I will keep adding edits and slideshows of him in my Hugh Jackman folder shared with my friend on Instagram 😘😘

I saw him right here btw and I wanted to ride without even knowing what that meant- WHO SAID THAT THAT WAS CRAZY.

Ok bye😘😘