I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
The Ghost Houses have shown up beyond SMW, though...but still, the Dry Bones tend to be exclusive to Bowser's strongholds in the main series (I wonder what makes them so loyal to Bowser that they continue to serve him even in death).
The instruction booklet for the original Super Mario Bros. states that the Koopas have black magic. I don't think this was ever mentioned again. Although the Magikoopa could be a sort of reference to it.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Right...that...
That manual is, apparently, not canon anymore (if it wasn't just something Nintendo of America made up to begin with). Bowser himself doesn't seem to have any inherent magical power, at least...
So, I completely completed FFIV and am now playing the sequel, After Years. So far someone has stolen most of the crystals and the moon is back. Well, didn't see that one coming, what a totally original plot-line.
Hahahaha, last night I was playing Edward's tale on FFIV and ghost Tellah called him a "spoony Bard" again. I've decided to bring back the word "spoony" as I wasn't there for it the first time.
Most of what he says seems to indicate that he really cares about Link and Termina but can't do anything to stop the moon for some reason. When you show him your masks, he also seems legitimately grateful for all you've done to help people out.
My personal theory is that he's a god that originally sought power but when Majora's Mask was stolen from him he felt guilty, so he called Link to his realm.
After replaying Portal, I’ve realized something. At the end, where GLaDOS calls Chell a murderer, she’s often right.
The first time you go through Portal, she’s lying. You’re simply a captive, her own captive, trying to escape the labyrinth. You may have killed her, but you had no choice.
But, it’s different when you already know what’s going to happen. If you’ve already played Portal, or had a friend spoil the ending for you, or heard about it on the internet, you’re going into Portal knowing that the end result is the death of an AI. Artificial, and insane, but programmed to think like a human. When you take your first steps out of the Relaxation Vault, you’ll have prior information, or walkthroughs, or a friend’s advice so you’ll know, more or less, what you need to do. Then, it’s just a matter of connecting the dots, escaping the pit of fire and destroying an AI who’s completely incapable of stopping you.
It’s not brave. It’s an assassination.
Lazuli: That is a very strange way to look at the game.
It’s not that insane, really.
Consider this. The characters in the stories that we read and watch, they’re generated by an artist’s input (words on a page, the machinations of an actor, etc.) and our thoughts. Without the viewer’s participation, the Doctor and Korra and all the other characters that Tumblr worships would just be words on a page, or a series of drawings, or David Tennant playing pretend (admittedly, David Tennant would still be David Tennant if no one was watching).
So, it’s not too far-fetched to say that we’re responsible for these characters’ deaths as well as their existences. When a character dies in a novel or a play, they become dead because we accept their deaths. Romeo and Juliet must die, or the play that features them becomes pointless, and the viewers won’t allow their time to be wasted on a pointless play. Aang is dead in The Legend of Korra because the fans wouldn’t allow him to live; the rules that govern the show say that Aang must be dead for Korra to live, and those rules are more important than his life. Same with previous iterations of the Doctor. Eggleston must die to beget Tennant, and Tennant to beget Matt Smith.
Likewise, a fandom’s rejection of a death allow the deceased character to live on in a non-canonical sort of way (i.e. headcanons). They can even shift the will of the character’s artist, changing their fate. You could even say that comic book characters, e.g. Superman and Batman, can only die temporarily because their fandoms wouldn’t believe that they’d been killed off permanently. (In contrast, Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben will always stay dead because none of the fans would believe it if he came back to life).
Lazuli: I’d say that all that is is the death of the author concept taken to an extreme.
It’s a bit more accurate when applied to videogames, I guess. That being where this thing was extrapolated from. Videogames are all about having varying degrees of control over the story
I mean, depending on the game, you’re actually responsible for the lives of characters. Heck, in Fallout 3, you can make almost everyone’s story end with “and then this one person stabbed them with a switchblade until they died. The End” or “and then this one person reverse-pickpocketed them, giving them enough money and food to last them for the rest of their lives. The End”. The story is the gamer’s to manipulate as he/she wishes. Even if the developers don’t include the option the gamer wants, well, a few game mods will fix that.
From that, it’s not hard to see that fans of non-video-game fandoms, whether it be Homestuck or Batman or ‘shudder’ Glee, have the ability to manipulate stories as well. It might not be as clearly presented as it is in videogames, but it exists.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
Right now, I'm arena grinding in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. This is never a bad idea, no sir.
Hopefully by the time I'm done, I'll have enough money to buy the arena.
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The instruction booklet for the original Super Mario Bros. states that the Koopas have black magic. I don't think this was ever mentioned again. Although the Magikoopa could be a sort of reference to it.
I have a .pdf copy of that manual, it gives me the nostalgias.
it looks...ok
A hundred times
What about Dexter the serial killer killer?
#mai husbando
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Except for Fouria's.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
If you want him as a husbando, you'd have to be capable of dealing with late nights in the laboratory, a robot, or both.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
You're fighting against the absence of a ship.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Why are you crossposting our discussion about DoTA?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
...you don't have a problem with it, do you?
Not really. I was just confused is all.
I'm generally not considered an authority on these subjects.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Kind of dazed right now myself. Can't tell if it's from being awake for so long or the buzz from having a post with more than 3 notes.