I decided to get in on the nostalgic, hyperspecific website making of yore and made a Neocities page!
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Featuring:
- Bios for pretty much every game/MMO character I have
- A pretend TV Tropes page for the fanfic I’m writing
- Shiny pokemon giveaway open to ANYONE
he’s like god did you put me on a team with my fucking mom
my big beautiful son who hates wheat
i’m not even a sylvari person myself and i believe that people looking into guild wars 2 for the story experience should select sylvari. the sylvari personal story has IMO the most seamless emotional tie-in to the earlier main story. you will know trahearne and your trust in caithe is something that will have more meaning and weight to you. heart of thorns (elaborates no further). plus sylvari are kind of gay. if you are a furry disregard everything i just said and select “charr”
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Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game, 2013)
Scoring at an adjusted 45.1% of approximately 688 scoring votes, Final Fantasy XIV HAS MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT women!
i think video game housing systems should let NPCs live with you or visit you more often. I want them to sit in my chairs or sleep in the guest room. I want to be able to lead them downstairs and brick them behind a wall. i want them to bring me a bottle of wine or a watermelon when they visit. i want my video game pet cat who is circling mindlessly through my home instance to push them into a wall and for them to clip into it and vibrate in place violently with thrashing sfx. i want them to say “you live like this?” with a faint air of pity no matter what your house interior looks like
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Can you buy this. That’s crazy. Free to play MMORPG One time purchase 3 expansions. No subscription fee
gw2 you could get probably a burger for 20 dollars OR (although it's not all the story bc LW seasons are like expansions in their own right without combat gameplay additions) (but you can get the entire complete set for like 40 bucks instead i think) (and that's still a gigantic amount of content for the price it's a good ass sale) 125 notes5 days ago | 27 June, 2024NEW STREAM EDIT VID OUT. Our most disastrous yet hysterical stream to date: The Time My Internet Died and @fivetail Tried to Play Signalis I Mean Whoops It’s Frog Detective.
Okay this is looking ridiculous
ArenaNet says by the end of the expansion’s year-long cycle, around 800 decorations will be available.
It acts as a showcase for your in-game collection of skins and cosmetics. Any alts that you leave in your Homestead—they’ll get bonuses for resting in it, including for WvW and sPvP—will still be chilling there when you log in with another character. There’s also a stable for your mounts to hang out—great news for anyone who’s got a fancy Jackal skin that they rarely have an excuse to see. Even your skiff is docked in a little pier, with some fishing spots available along the river.
With an armour stand, you can make a statue of their character that inherits your current fit—dyes and all. And the weapon stand will let you display any weapon that you’ve earned.
Any resource nodes that you’ve bought will be carried across to your new home, available for the daily gathering. And while it won’t be available at the launch of Janthir Wilds, a new auto-collect feature is planned for one of the quarterly updates that will instantly gather every node attached to your Homestead’s mine, logging camp or farm.
Ok so you know when you’re presenting a scenario in the narrative that your audience is supposed to disagree with. and, you know, ‘shaking my head while reading on the train so everyone knows I don’t agree’ etc, you aren’t presenting this for children, the audience is supposed to know what’s going on.
good writing doesn’t have something in-universe that points out when bad things are bad.
but there is a loophole.
if you want to make sure, if you feel like adding a failsafe to make sure nobody starts throwing accusations, you have the character with the incorrect view say something else, earlier or in the same scene, that is wildly, brutally obviously incorrect.
you brand them with the idea that they are Wrong and the audience will absorb that trait and apply it to everything else they do.
There’s a great example of this in the Sopranos episode “Christopher”, about christopher columbus and how defensive people are about him, where Tony disagrees with his son’s columbus-critical school book. Tony rants “he discovered America, is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer”, with absolute conviction. But just a moment ago, Tony tried to excuse columbus’s actions by saying that 500 years ago everyone was less aware - “people thought the earth was flat, for crying out loud”, when arguments about the shape of the earth belong to ancient Greece, around 300 BC.
He also then mentions something about “remember when we went to Florida - the heat? and those bugs?” seemingly implying that mass murder is as excusable as swatting annoying insects. an abhorrent, disgusting view - informing us in concrete terms that Tony’s impassioned defense of columbus is based on flimsy logic and his mentality is flawed.
another example I like is The Nicest Kids In Town from Hairspray. a toe-tapping number about the vast opportunities for young people in 1950s Baltimore - as long as you’re white!
You’d better come on down and meet the nicest kids in town!
Nice white kids who like to lead the wayOther than a little zoomed-in emphasis on the singer, it’s just baked into the song. It’s got the same jaunty beat as everything else. So just in case you somehow didn’t get how amazingly racist this situation is, Corny Collins goes on to sing:
Every afternoon drop everything,
Who needs to read and write when you can dance and sing!
Forget about your algebra and calculus,
You can always do your homework on the morning bus,
Can’t tell a verb from a noun-
They’re the nicest kids in town!Playing it as a joke is a good way to couch the meaning, but this is no holds barred irresponsible in a way that explains why parents don’t want their children watching Corny’s show. But the link is there - this guy jokingly insists that children should watch tv instead of learning to read and write. With that in the same song, are you going to trust him on any other topic? On the racial divide of 1950s america? He’s the face of the show, and given the time period, what he sings isn’t shocking in-universe - but it should be outside of that, and his regressive humour clues you in that the correct stance is opposing this guy.
so there you go. if you want an audience to be assured a character is in the wrong… just… make them unbelievably wrong about something unrelated.
fianly.. i have a charr
love when mozart ends a piece by doing a whole finishing chord, then another up an octave, then back down to the first one. you KNOW that bitch is over