Nacarbac

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[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Well that's just it - it isn't easy at all. You need to have destroyed your self-esteem or narrowed your circle humanity or beaten down whatever quality prevents us from preying on others without suffering for it.

Like the call of the void - standing at the edge of a cliff, or behind someone who is, that misty sense of how easy it would be to jump or to push is a warning of a horrible potential that our deeper structures want to make sure we're alert to prevent.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If it's just a remake of Civil War, but everyone is dipped in gold leaf, half the soldiers are Really Very Big, the white house is like the Mines of Moria after a jetwash, the president is the size of an oil tanker, and the photographers are actually making magic paintings, it'll be a masterpiece.

Edit: and to step closer to the lathe, the story is told by the descriptions on each Elden Ring themed snack you can get from the concessions. Radahn Rum Punch, Malenia Mint (and blue cheese) popcorn, blah blah blah.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Shadows of the Erdtree, the DLC, is noteworthy for actually having a plot where things happen.

Even then I'd say it's still a pretty weak plot, and the delivery is awkwardly struggling against their usual style. Which is still an improvement Elden Ring desperately needed, and understandable when I have no doubt the direct writing style has suffered some atrophy.

Huh, saying that has actually made me a bit more optimistic for this adaptation, since they do show a consistent desire to improve and experiment. Not for the adaptation itself, but it might be a good learning experience if there's a lot of back-and-forth with A24?

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Garth Marenghi never said a goddamn thing wrong in his entire life.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

It was always really inconsistent. Some authors treated Alignment as "just kinda your vibe", some as "a combination of cultural factors and divine meddling", and some as "intrinsic cosmic morals", some both but for different things (humans vs Outsiders, etc). Negative Energy and undead as being an Eeeeevil Spookyforce or Basically Just Radiation.

That kind of unaddressed inconsistency fuelled, and still fuels, endless repeats of the "Is Necromancy evil? What if my skeletons are used as agricultural robots to allow for a higher standard of living?", where everyone talks past each other based on what part of the texts they read and settings they play in.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Check out the fan comic. I remember it being "rad as hell". The archive links seem to work okay - it's also on their deviantart, but that interface seemed appalling.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150211002826/http://www.snowflamecomic.com/?comic=snowflame-01-01

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The STALKER film is absolutely worth a watch, but it has even less in common with the games!

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

It's a typo, they meant Zetan. The Zetan male busy flying their little UFO, stealing cows, because they're on such a high level their actions are incomprehensible to mere pyramid-males.

posad

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

It happens, and it wasn't your fault. Microsoft software is like an evil pearl - a tiny kernel of functionality wrapped in protective layers of insulting bullshit.

I have a folder on OneDrive named FUCK ONEDRIVE. I created it after hours of panic as I couldn't find my writing folders, or their backups, and I now cannot delete it. Luckily I found the folders in a parallel backup structure made so it could roughly interface with a different program.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

I don't know necessarily that a tree is actually sentient but if we seriously consider it, perhaps that might lead to better environmental conservation practices as a matter of ethics.

They most likely are not sentient, as we currently understand or can perceive, though the complexity of the networks formed within a forest might, might, allow for something like it in aggregate. Consciousness is deeply strange, for something that should be so familiar.

But as Angel says, here it's just a paralytic deflection. Like saying that eating plants is stealing from the animals that could eat them, therefore we're already sinners, therefore we might as well sin some more.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

I guess they finally decided to go harder on the Earth Defence Force angle.

[–] Nacarbac@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

Define religion.

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