Dylanrockin
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I like TVTropes, I do. But, one thing that really grinds my gears is when people direct it at me saying "you can't write a good story if you aren't being 100% original, these days."
... what? Guys, not everything has to be a classic and novelty for novelty sake is in-itself a trope. Also, to say that you have to be completely original would mean that you'd have to basically make the story as uninteresting as possible, by removing themes, characters and narratives.
There is a sense of familiarity with certain stories that people, believe it or not, ACTUALLY enjoy and prefer recognizing. Like themes of love, drama, adventure etc. It's how you write those scenes and how well delivered they are that ultimately sticks with people.
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My issue with TVtropes is basically everything written on there has turned into an impression that it's a bad thing. It's a good thing to kick back and learn a new term, but honestly you really should never go there or even use it as a source when talking about writing or giving feedback for writing. In actuality, tropes are a really good thing and there's no shame in using them as that's why tropes are tropes in the first place.
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I think the common misconception with tropes is that people believe them to be cliches, which are a completely different beast. Tropes are tools for writers to use and it is impossible to write a story without them, unless you are an alien who has never been to Earth before.
An architect builds a house with four walls, a bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, etc. If an architect decides "you know what, this bedroom and bathroom shit, I'm getting tired of it. Let's make a house without those." then that would be the equivalent to saying you are going to write a story without tropes. There are big houses, small ones, ones with gazebos, pools etc. The point is: there are tropes that are necessary to the plan of your story and those that are nice, but not necessary, that you can add. They are tools not a "way of life that you must deviate from for originality sake."
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Welp, today I am officially 23 and feeling old af. The next time someone calls me "sir" is when I jump off a bridge. XD Also, this feeling when your friend makes an amazing render of a scene from my game as a birthday present ;A;
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I have a "real-talk" kind of question here. How many of you have been falling out of playing video games, due to work/school/personal life stuff/hobbies/activities? Because I have not played any video games since this summer and haven't felt the want or need to play games as much as I used to.
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If anything as I've gotten older (turning 30 in January), I feel my desire to play video games growing. I work a full time job, own a house, am married and have a family, but video game are still my biggest hobby. Sure I go fishing or hiking or something during the week, but I'll still always gravitate to my games. Games are just my way to unwind and experience stories and other worlds that I don't get to normally.
It's also a great way to keep me in touch with my friends! We bond over our love for gaming and when we all hang out that's where conversations usually turn.
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Similarly, even tho i'm 30, i'm still gaming strong, although due to my different lifestyle i have diferent ways of doing it.
Some years ago, i would be melting my brains off 10 hours per day gaming on the PC.
But now i have to cope with playing games on mobile (real games, like chrono trigger, final fantasy, various pokemon romhacks, golden sun. not toilet garbage like candy crush) during work, and invest my free time at home playing PC games (pokemon fangames tend to be many of those recently, because PC is getting too old for some of the new fancy stuff)
It's not a bad balance. I am thankful i have it better than most other working people. Some days are busier than others of course, but thats to be expected.
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Incoming dumb question, since I don't keep up with modern trends, like at all.
Okay, I'm a bit late to the whole Projared cheating thing, but my main, big, question mark is this: since when has polyamory started becoming a thing in the past 0 years? Did I blink and miss something? I was less taken aback by the whole scandle as I was the whole "it's okay to be poly-amorous in an America society" thing and just shrug it off like it's no big deal.
Am I late to the party of knowing this or is this just a very niche thing?
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I think it's just acceptance of different genders, relationships, just way of living (as long as it doesn't hurt anyone) in general.
Personally I don't find a problem with polyamory as long as all parties have consented to do so. Many people actually are polyamorous, but channel their desire in the form of infidelity and that's what would not be ok imo
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I suppose that makes sense. I'm very old-school and religious so I am not exactly one to get on the polyamory train, myself personally. But, if someone wants to do so then who am I to decide who can and can't be happy? I just prefer to have one relationship and call it a day. Given my track record with women one is absolutely where it stops. More than one and I'll lose my mind, haha.
But, at least now I know it's a thing in the US. I just thought it was exclusive to other countries, due to their religious and cultural practices.
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I think it's frowned upon more in "Christian countries" because it's just not what we're used to culturally or religiously. It's similar to how we weren't used to anything other than heterosexuality once upon a time, and some prolly still have issues with that. But whatever someone else does in their spare time doesn't affect me and as long as they maximize their happiness while alive and don't take away others' happiness, I'm all good. And ditto about having more than one person in a relationship. I can't even maintain one relationship, I'd be a mess if I had more than one
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Can someone ELI5 Cancel Culture to me?
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Can try!
Okay, so. Basically, to "cancel" someone in the discourse sense of the word basically means to boycott them. Essentially, it's like this: famous person does a bad thing, people point out bad thing to others (often referred to as "callout", i.e. as a "callout post" that compiles information on the incident(s), ideally with sources/proof), and ask others to stop supporting famous person because of bad thing. As more people pick up news about it, social media spreads it, and more and more people pull their support from the person to show that they are displeased w the shitty thing.
Sometimes cancelling is meant as a tool to get the person to re-evaluate their actions or views - "hey, this thing you did was awful, please apologize and consider what you did, or I won't support you any more". Other times cancelling is meant to be final - "jfc this person abused their children, no way I'll ever give them money again and neither should you".
Originally, "cancel culture" was a term that people used to criticize a rise in behavior where people started making callouts over far-fetched things, like going years through someone's social media to point out a minor ploblematic thing the did a long time ago (think 'said something offensive and has since expressed different views', do NOT think 'murdered someone in cold blood').
The issue was that with how accessible everyone's past has become through digitalization, it was easier to find out about past mistakes than ever, and people rightfully pointed out that people deserve to have some room for error before you try to outright destroy their base of support.
However, in recent years the term has become a little... contested, because it got picked up more and more by people who applied it to cases where "cancelling" the person was wholly justified.
I think part of the blame simply lies in the structure of the internet: it's so easy to spread news now, and there's so many people that do crappy things, you certainly FEEL like every day there's a new scandal happening. And that gets tiring, processing this much information is tiring. So it's easy to think "ugh, what happened NOW".
So you've got a climate in which a lot of people are already ready to say "man, stop it with the callouts, you're going overboard". Now add to that that there's a tendency for fans of famous personalities to be willing to defend them no matter what, for various reasons. And now add to THAT that there's actual bigots out there who find it very much convenient to cast themselves as the victims of "cancel culture" and censorship.And voila! You've got the recipe for what's going on now:
People whining about "cancel culture" whenever someone gets called out for shitty behavior, even if that shitty behavior is actually something very serious.
So what I was trying to get at here:
- Cancel Culture by itself refers to criticizing a perceived over-reaction to people making mistakes, basically disproportionate retribution
- However, when someone complains about cancel culture, it's worth looking into why that particular person is complaining. -
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Update:
Good news: Not cancer. Bad news: I have to get surgery on my mouth and excise it, because it's really freaking huge.
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Good lord today has been boring. Just someone, please show me something funny or entertaining - lighten the mood of this otherwise droll and boring day.
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So, how 'bout that Mario Odyssey?
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This isn't edited, it's the actual fight in my headcannon:
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I'm 22 years old now, and the only thing going through my mind is that I am 1/5th of the way to dead. That's a great way of looking at it, I think.
That said, someone on the internet, one day, will claim my life, sooner than my age will.
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I tend to get made fun of a lot by friends about how many, or lack thereof, of games in my steam library. I am an avid PC gamer, but... I didn't know that in order to be a "Hardcore PC Gamer" you needed to have 1000+ games on steam. I'm like... "guys, I'll buy games if I'm gonna play them. That and I have a shit ton of expenses to cover - I don't have the money or the want to horde steam games that I'll never play anyways." Also I spent 3000+ dollars on building my recent Super-Gaming PC anyways, soo... yeah, hurting for money atm XD
But really tho, does anyone else get that same kind of flack from friends about how small your steam library is? Literally all the games in my steam library.
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I scored a paid internship, next semester and summer (possibly all next year as well), working at a public school, 48 miles north of where I live. My job is basically networking, IT, and occasionally MySQL programming (the last one is mandatory, since I have 3 criteria that needs to be met for this internship, and that's learning MySQL).
Never been to that particular school before, in my life, but from what I hear it's a humble school, in a humble, little town.
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Depressed at my incompetence. Sometimes I question why I am even a game dev.
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Reborn Pixelmon Server will be live very shortly
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Am I the only one who really likes PokePark 2: Wonders Beyond?
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I quit, I quit. I'm done with dealing with this...
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If there is anyone who knows magic, could you use a spell on me that makes me not bored?
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Probably the cutest gif I've seen in a long time: https://33.media.tumblr.com/08477f2a1fa15c37b221e4164b1f137b/tumblr_mo6ur7fym91r70duco1_400.gif
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My face when I go back and play Dragon Quest 8 and forgetting how bullshitly hard it can be:
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The cutest Raichu, known to mankind: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=55114896
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SO. Who else here is excited for Tales of Berseria? Because Velvet looks like an awesome protagonist, tbh.
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My face when Dark Souls 3: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cg81TBAXEAA7N1O.jpg:large
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For what profit is it to a man if he gains the world, and loses his own soul?
