Smeagolicious

It's always a bit funny when singularity techbro types start talking big ideas about megastructures and Dyson spheres like dude, we aren't even harvesting a fraction of a percent of the energy that is being hand delivered to us on earth right now. Maybe we should try capturing a little more of that

kill whitey

Despite the huge market share PS is so much worse & less convenient than my usual digital art program, Clip Studio. What do you mean you can't non-destructively mirror a canvas in PS?!?

That too - same reason why racism allegories like don't work so well. When you try to write a story as 1:1 parallel to real life using species with vast inherent physical disparities, things tend to get messy.

That's not to say you can't draw upon the history of racism, colonialism, etc., for your scifi or fantasy ofc, but it requires a little more effort and consideration than that to make a compelling story

Yes, that demon is literally a concept of Evil given physical form

Even then, in my worlds I still occasionally like to include the edge cases of outsiders rejecting the evil of their archfiends (or overlords, what have you) and, if not redeeming themselves, sometimes being a little bit more chill (sometimes still morally dubious but in a more fun way).

I think my tendency towards a historical materialist lens has really affected my worldbuilding lol. I always like to logic out how outsider societies would work in my settings given such concepts as soul-corruption, damnation, souls as currency, immortality, and on and on. I find it much more interesting that way.

Yeah a fiend society and most fiends are "evil" in a similar way to any of the truly evil empires in our world and their supporting people are - with the added fun factors that a large percent of the population may literally be harvesting damned souls, or be born from the greed/hate/lust/jealousy of former mortal souls. I like a demon not having to be 110% inevitably bound by their origin

I've always used "species" or "people". Pathfinder using "ancestry" for species and "heritage" for the subspecies/ethnicity is cool too.

I always found it weird when I'd get online comments about how using "species" is supposedly too scifi and I honestly don't get it.

That's not even getting into the extremely tired rhetoric of "if you think the orcs/goblins/kobolds/etc are stand-ins for black/indigenous/etc people I think that makes you the real racist huh"

FREE KURTULMAK! DOWN WITH GLITTERGOLD AND THE GNOME OPPRESSORS!

Was the old HxH any good? Big fan of the later reboot but I've never watched the original or the OVAs.

One Piece is very good but I can't blame anyone for not wanting to approach it lol. It reads very quickly but it's still 1000+ chapters. Also I hadn't heard about him being buddies with that sicko - I'm disappointed but not surprised considering the nature of the manga industry...

I have no idea, because I also just killed everyone lol

From what I remember, the reviews around the Berserk musou game were kinda mid, but the game journalism industry tends to hate on the subgenre so idk. The latest One Piece musou game is supposed to be very good though

I love XV2 for the fanservice slop but I'm also mark for dragon ball. My main complaint is the terrible monetization and nickle-and-diming of character & move expansions but that was mostly before I learned how easily you can mod stuff in and not get banned.