Leftism teaches you that the most annoying people in the world can have the exact same opinions as you. And they'll still get on your nerves

Other leftists will say some shit you fundamentally agree with but phrased in a way designed in a lab specifically to piss you off. Like you're right but shut the fuck up

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Okay, so I know the reason the physics in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom have so many weird exceptions and edge cases is because the games' designers are concerned foremost with puzzle-crafting, and only secondarily with producing a coherent world model, and nearly every bit of weirdness can be explained by the fact that some puzzle mechanic required the games' physics to work that way. There's simply no deeper unifying logic to be found, and trying to find it is a good way to give yourself a headache.

One of those pieces of weirdness lies in the relative weights of various objects, particularly in relation to Link, the player character. Some objects are incongruously heavy or light for their size because the puzzles in which they appear require them to be, and Link himself is weirdly lightweight, presumably because that was the easiest way to cause him to experience the exaggerated knockback that many puzzles require without making the forces involved ridiculously strong.

Most objects and characters which recur among the two games are at least consistent in this respect. However, it has been empirically determined that in Breath of the Wild, Link weighs the same as 8.5 apples, whereas in Tears of the Kingdom he weighs the same as 10 apples, and now I can't stop myself from wondering what fucking puzzle mechanic required Link to be exactly 1.5 apples heavier.

I'm more interested in the team meetings that likely resulted from this, considering Nintendo's fastidious approach to polish. I can imagine one camp bringing in chart after chart defending those extra 1.5 apples, and another more or less going "No, this is New Zelda canon, it cannot and should not be changed. Link is 8.5 apples heavy and any change to this base equation will run the risk of endangering the entire product line."

“A modern retelling” oh so you mean worse

“A Muppet retelling” oh so you mean better

Modern retellings are often bad because they have no clear sense of why they are a modern retelling. They often have no purpose other than being a cash generator without the cost of making a period piece.

Muppet retellings however always have a clear sense of purpose. It is baked into the very idea of the muppet retelling.

Back in the ps2 days I would have gotten a booklet with game instructions and lore, a booklet on how to not have a seizure while playing the system, and a coupon for a gaming magazine that doesn’t exist anymore.  

it makes me sad as hell. I use to pour over that little booklet 5 or 6 times before even starting the game. I’d look at all the little concept art and lore. I’d try to imagine what the game would be like in my head based on what the game prompted me with. I’d imagine being in the world myself and what the heck the dash button meant.

There have been a lot of reblogs insulting me about this, but nah. I stand by it. It’s not a giant sadness, but a tiny tinge of feeling like something is missing in the same way that I miss cd booklets with lyrics sheets, art, and listed credits or dvds with features. Somehow I as an adult move on with my life. Fuck, I even make my own art y’all.

For me it’s about presentation of it an an experience. Going to see a movie in a theater vs. watching it on netflix. I like the presentation. I also have a fondness for pop culture ephemera on a layer beyond that. Booklets often had lore and art that helped you get into the mindset of those creating it. It was interesting to see what they thought to be important lore, or trying to cram in stuff they couldn’t fit into the game itself. Also, less universally, it was cool to read credits. See who worked on what. The little dedications and special thanks. Credits exist in games still, but it was like a theater program for your game. it was neat and a reminder that it was people that made the things I like, not corporations or some big auteur.

I used to get so excited about the art in the booklets!!! I’d copy them all the time trying to get better at drawing. And the booklets would have little character info profiles with fun facts and stuff!!! I miss it.

reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

I reblog  the money pigeon because I love him.

I reblog the money pigeon because its a dinosaur

alex hirsch, trying to make a fucking cartoon in peace in like 2010: mabel pines canonically thinks alexander hamilton is hot. this joke is funny because of its absurdity! imagine if preteen girls were crushing on alexander hamilton haha.

history: [has its eyes on him]

about adhd

it concerns me that people really don’t know that adhd isn’t a personality type or behavioral problem.

adhd isn’t someone who’s personality is driven by fun and disorder.

adhd is someone who’s brain goes all over the place looking for dopamine, because it doesn’t make or register enough of it, and when it finds a source of dopamine, it hyperfixates on it. it’s about deregulation of attention as well as emotions.

it’s not a person who can’t behave. a person with adhd can look like a lot of things. misconceptions about what adhd looks like kept me from even looking for a diagnosis, and it also kept myself and others (professionals, even) from taking my suspicions seriously.

everyone’s encouraged to reblog, but if you don’t have adhd, keep your additions to the tags.

Smart people can have ADHD. And a lot of the time, they compensate for the ADHD with intelligence- until they reach the point where they just can’t overcome it anymore, which is why a lot of gifted + ADHD people have good grades their whole lives and then “suddenly” crash and burn. For some it’s college, for some it’s grad school, for some it’s postgrad or professional exams like the bar. Whenever the things they have to do can no longer be brute-forced at the last minute.

ADHD is often lumped in with learning disabilities but it’s really a DOING disability. We know what we should do. Probably we know six ways to do it. The trouble is actually getting our brains to activate so we CAN do it. Sometimes it’s like you’re being controlled by aliens or something because you say “I need to do X” and you’re going to do it and you just. Don’t.

People complaining that the checks ruining the formatting of the website have forgotten their roots! This is the shitty formatting website and always has been

In retrospect this is almost definitely the reason why putting your response in the tags is so common and popular

My take on "why there are many adults that only read YA novels" is pretty simple

The YA book explosion of the mid 2000's-mid 2010's was mostly scifi and fantasy genre, and trying to "get into" adult SFF is a punishment from hell

Sci-fi, fantasy, and other spec fic is collectively a very heterogenous group and poorly organized.

Want to know the tone, mood, themes, narrative style, level of worldbuilding, scope of the plot, pace, qualities of the main character(s), central tropes, and sensitive content within the book you just pulled off the library shelf? Step 1: Put an end to your paltry life

Like yes there are great books out there that you will love, but if you go through a list of the most popular adult fantasy books and read them, there's a good chance you will have the worst book experience of your life

If you just pull a random fantasy book off the library shelf, there is also a good chance you will have the worst book experience of your life

I love SFF books and prefer adult SFF over any other genre or category (I haven't enjoyed YA in a long time) but i'm not going to lie, a lot of the people writing it hate fun and/or MUST rub grime and sexual violence on every page or otherwise make it scrungy and gross and require eyebleach

I think one major thing former YA lovers are chasing when they try to find new books to read is that playful, adventurous, interest-grabbing way of exploring an unfamiliar world where the story shows you glimpses of just a fraction of the fascinating creatures, magic, settings, etc. that exists and makes it so fun to imagine encountering or experiencing those things. Basically asking, "Wouldn't it be COOL if THIS was real?"

And it's always clear that what you the reader are seeing is just a glimpse, and there's SO much more out there in this world, and it makes you want to pry the book open and jump inside just so you can learn about all the cool stuff in this richly drawn reality

And I've found some adult SFF that totally has this (The Divine Cities trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett is one of my faves) but so many of them abandon fun and fascination and it's sad.

Another note—

At the same time, adult SFF is getting YA-ified—newly published adult SFF books resemble YA stylistically more and more.

Which I HATE, because it just homogenizes a bunch of writers' potentially unique styles and makes everything sound the same.

I encountered this while trying to read Robert Jackson Bennett's newer book Foundryside. While the book shares the clever and absorbing worldbuilding of the Divine Cities trilogy, I ultimately didn't enjoy it as much because the writing style seemed very generic-ified.

One of the most noticeable things was the swearing. The Divine Cities trilogy had characters say "fuck" and it made sense and it fit. Foundryside replaced the fuck word with...some nonsensical Fantasy Swear Word that was like "skiffing" or something. It was silly and felt so weird and condescending like...just use grown up words okay

Also a lot of these newer adult fantasy books have young/teenage protagonists and a "coming of age" type story anyway?

When I read summaries of books like The Poppy War it sounds like a YA book that was made "adult" by including graphic rape scenes and genocidal violence.

Which I'm pretty sure is the opposite of what readers struggling to transition from YA to adult fiction actually want!

We want to read books with adult characters and plots that are more applicable to adults, with more emotional and stylistic complexity, but with an engaging approach to worldbuilding and less of the sad presumption that a Serious Mature story has to be painful and unfun. Not a book that is stylistically and characteristically YA but with more grimdark.

I posted this mostly because I'm just getting...exhausted with trying to find books to read that I will like.

Like yes yes read reviews, do research on authors, find recommendations from people who share similar tastes, just put aside books you don't like, use StoryGraph's content warnings...but consider this. I am tired. The amount of work and practiced skill it takes to narrow down a pool of potential books that I have a chance of liking is EXHAUSTING.

I don't like reading reviews, because I don't like having random other people's opinions shape mine before I read a book. And not only are reviews downright useless for lots of recently published books because all the top reviews are by youtubers who got ARC's, even reviews by presumably impartial random people fail a surprising amount of the time to warn me about things like "this book talks about characters peeing themselves like 30 times and there's a scene where the love interest licks a puddle of pee in the street"

btw it's fantasy, you really don't need to worry about your world map making "sense" geologically or whatever. make that river flow backwards from the sea into the mountain.

Wait are you saying I don't have to take plate tectonics ocean currents and mineral deposition into account when I make this map? But how will I know where the mountains with gold mines are, or what shores would have the best fishing spots? If I don't map out this entire world in intricate detail, how will I know if this kingdom falls on a major trade route or is sidelined to the periphery of the classical empires?

TOLKIEN SPOTTED!!! C.S., OBLITERATE!!!!!!

oh to have a fraction of the swag the average background character in sleeping beauty does

youre right im sorry

theyre so fucking color and shape bro

this was supposed to be 15 note post but im glad everyone sees my vision.

Alright, time to bust out this outfit for the summer.

shaking six year old me by the shoulders YOU WERE RIGHT. YOU WERE RIGHT ABOUT LOVE AND ABOUT FAIRNESS AND ABOUT SHARING IS CARING. YOU WERE RIGHT. THE ADULTS DON’T KNOW ANY MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN YOU DO. KEEP BELIEVING IN THE FAIRIES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GARDEN. NOTHING IS “JUST THE WAY IT IS”. I AM SORRY THEY EVER CONVINCED YOU TO FEEL SHAME. YOU ARE REAL AND A PART OF THIS WORLD. YOU WERE RIGHT.

VIOLENCE!!!!

Wishing all of you a very merry "I suddenly have the motivation and time to write a minimum 10k fic"... please

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