I can’t speak to MMOs because they’re too far outside my realm of experience, and Bethesda games... are there even characters in those? I thought it was just you and the endless wilderness and maybe your horse. Final Fantasy, does anybody ship any FF that isn’t XV? Like... maybe VII, but Cloud/Sephiroth has to be at…
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M/F still dominates in a lot of fandoms
My two largest concerns are the fan-wars and the way they come to define properties, and the attacks on female characters. The toxicity of certain fan communities drive people away from that media, and can affect whole corners of the internet. Like, I hear people talk about tumblr now in the same hushed “decent people…
To what extent would you say that shipping in fandom is dominated by same-sex relationships, these days? I feel like there used to be more space for mixed-sex shipping, but now when I see these kinds of stories, or watch what’s up with various fandoms on tumblr or twitter, it feels like there isn’t really any interest…
My whole point with Sauron was that you didn’t need to take the Silmarillion into consideration with LotR. He’s well established within that world. We know that he’s been the Dark Lord terrorizing Middle Earth for hundreds of years. That is set up in LotR itself, you don’t need any extraneous material to know that.…
It’s been, what? 25-30 years since RotJ in-universe? Snoke could’ve been around for 20+ years. Is that established enough? We don’t know the backstory of everything that happened between the OT and TFA - only what the story deemed important enough to tell us. And it told us that Snoke was the leader of the New Order,…
Snoke dying breaks zero rules. Really powerful dark siders rise to positions of great power and then die by their apprentice’s hand all the time in Star Wars. I’m not sure where you’re going with this rule logic.
Firstly, the fact that Snoke is similar to Palpatine is clearly intentional, and precisely why killing him off was a good move for the films. It’s a subversion of a trope established in the franchise - you looked at him and assumed you were watching one kind of movie, then the creators surprise you by showing that…
1) Most of the characters have never been mentioned anywhere before by anyone. That doesn’t matter. Virtually none of the characters in A New Hope had any kind of “special history” - didn’t matter then, either. You get what you need: Palpatine is the evil ruler of the Empire who turned Darth Vader; Snoke is the evil…
You’re looking at Palpatine in retrospect, not the way he was actually portrayed in the films, while simultaneously making a lot of assumptions about Snoke.
I’m commenting here because I’ve nowhere better to say it, but I’d like to see one of these “State of...” articles on the State of Single-player Gaming. So much action is going into multiplayer games - online-only games, MMOs, MOBAs, and loot grinders, while it feels like single-player focused games are withering a…
Is that like how northern Florida is South Georgia?
My gender (and my race and my sexuality) never stops finding ways to disappoint me.
RIGHT?! Me 10 years ago would be going bonkers right now, but I’ve long since realized that I never break out my art books to look at anymore.
Really truly. And I don’t hate having an online presence - I just hate Facebook.
I know! I ditched the parka and he still wound up looking like Captain Cold! My intention was that he’d spend most of the time with the visor up, but it goes down for “battle mode.” It just... looks cooler that way.
He’s one of my favorites! Really shows the range of what I was trying to accomplish. I was planning on doing something similar-but-different for Hard Man if I ever got that far.