Shoblongoo
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Warning you all right now: This is the round I go full grimdark
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2 minutes ago, Ottservia said:
I mean I have just not here. It’s all in this thread should you want to read it
Maybe the reason the game’s story has been critically panned by virtually everyone is because it’s shit, and not because there’s some hidden depth to it that you found but everyone else missed 🤷🏻♂️
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12 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
What the fuck are you guys doing they're Fire Emblem plots why are you defending any of them. The best ones are the least offensive.
Tellius is legit, and I will defend it to the death against all naysayers
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7 minutes ago, Ottservia said:
Again at least fates is thematically consistent.
If the theme is who needs writing when you have underwear models—sure???
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10 minutes ago, Ottservia said:
Thou shall not defend the writing of SoV
Fates is SoV if every character in the game were written with the cartoony tropiness of Faye.
No contest.
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Thou shalt not defend the writing of Fates
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Y’all are terrible at time management—u know that, right?
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12 hours ago, Ottservia said:
Just take one good look at the current state of America and there’s your answer. Though that’s more nationalism than patriotism
^^^
There’s a fine line between good and praiseworthy patriotism and the perils of nationalism, and exploring it could have been a cool idea for this prompt.
Bu oh well 🤷🏻♂️
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19 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:
Birthright Xander
Yessir.
(And Ryoma ain't exactly lacking in strong nationalist impulses himself there--the guy literally shouts "FOR THE GLORY OF HOSHIDO!" when he's about to kill a dude) -
8 minutes ago, Ottservia said:
Bold of you to assume I haven’t written a 27-page analytical tirade on the game
I have counseled often in this very thread with respect to the virtue of brevity. Say not in 27 pages what can be said in a single sentence.
i.e.
"Fates had a budget for tit-jiggling animations where its story-writing should have been." -
1 hour ago, Ottservia said:
But fates isn’t about patriotism though. It’s certainly an element but the story is a lot more about trust between family and friends if anything
Bold of you to assume fates had a story
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ehhhhhhhhh.
Doubt Kanye gets enough traction behind him to make a statistical difference anywhere that it matters.
But I'd imagine he cuts into Trump's "Yes; putting a notorious entertainment industry narcissist with no experience in public service or working knowledge of government and his reality TV family in charge of the highest executive office in the land is a great idea" vote, as much as any demographic Biden appeals to. -
All I'm saying is that if ever there was a round to pull a I can write Fe:Fates better then that game's own garbage writing team, and here's what the themes they were trying to hit could have looked like if they weren't incompetent
...this is that round... -
Figured this was one where anyone who wanted to get in on the action could at least do something fire emblemy with it
On 7/4/2020 at 7:10 AM, Anacybele said:Kieran
Perfect
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Guys—imma make this real simple for u.
...white privilege doesn’t mean your life is easy.
...white privilege doesn’t mean you’ve never encountered hardships.
...white privilege doesn’t mean you’re gonna succeed at everything you try.
...white privilege doesn’t mean you’re never gonna get screwed by the system.
...white privilege doesn’t mean you’re never going to struggle.
———
White privilege means on top of all the other shit you have to deal with—the color of your skin hasn’t made your life harder.
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39 minutes ago, AnonymousSpeed said:
God bless America.
Surrrrrrre. Why not.
The Theme for the next prompt is: Patriotism
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1 hour ago, FrostyFireMage said:
I've always hated the term "white privilege". It implies that white people are spoiled and considered an "elite class" instead of being considered the "default" citizen and makes it sound like white people have never truly earned anything on their own merit or have ever suffered.
"Black hardship" sounds like a better term that wouldn't make people defensive.
The same people currently complaining that they don't like the use of the term "white privilege" would still find the term objectionable, and still throw out the exact same gripes about "playing the race card" and "acting like victims"
Its the content of the message they can't accept + respond negatively to when confronted with. Not the packaging.
(The content of course being that systematic racism still exists as an oppressive force against people of color in America, and requires further action to remedy) -
22 hours ago, MacLovin said:
I'm half-filipino but I'm tan enough that random people think I'm hispanic. However, I can confirm that in South Asian cultures, lighter skin is considered a sign of beauty and that's why skin whitening creams and treatments exist there.
Additionally, yes Asian Cultures are kinda more judgmental but that's a nuanced topic and I only really have in-depth knowledge of the Filipino culture. The gist of it in the Philippines is more to do with the country being a really mixed shebang of cultures from all over the world blended together. However, the class stratification in said country revolves around people with very strong caucasian or mainland chinese(or japanese) blood where their skin is lighter and facial features less Australasian iirc. But yeah, being lighter skinned is also kind of a weird status-symbol on some level there.
From what my wife has told me, racism in East Asian countries is something akin to common attitudes in the Unite States towards Mexico and Latin America.
i.e. There's a segment of wealthy and privileged people in the lighter-skinned, more economically developed region to the North that is Japan, South Korea, Mainland China and Taiwan.
Those people look at the poorer, darker-skinned, less educated populations in the region to the South that is the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.
And they basically just treat them as an exploitable source of menial labor (i.e. housekeepers and maids for rich businessmen, gardeners and landscapers, janitors and trash collectors, etc.)
While viewing their culture with distrust and not wanting too many of them in their countries, because they see them as sources of drugs and violent crime. -
11 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:
My only question is how she ended up with ‘Aunt Lissa’ if Cordelia never hooked up with Chrom.
I was wondering that too.
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Being “nuetral” in a battle between the status quo and reform by default means you’re on the side of the status quo.
Because when neuteral sentiment prevails, maintaining the status quo is the default outcome.
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@Lord Raven
...The Court reached the correct opinion today--but holy shit--its scary that this was a 5-4 opinion...
[All Warning Signs Flashing]: 87 year old, cancer-survivor Ruth Bader Ginsburg's health holding out until the next Democratic president takes office is the only thing standing between modern American jurisprudence, and the Supreme Court taking us backwards a full 50 years. -
28 minutes ago, Armchair General said:
And being tried for murder isn't enough of an fear for them?
...almost never happens...
(and even rarer that if it does, the case results in a jury conviction at trial)
See Tamir Rice.
See also Philando Castile.
See also Freddy Grey.
See also Breona Taylor.
See also Alton Sterling.
See also John Crawford.
See also Stephon Clark.
See also Eric Garner.
Etc., etc. etc...
Being tried for murder is enough to fear, if it happens consistently and consistently results in murderer cops winding up behind bars.
As of now--it doesn't.
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18 minutes ago, Anacybele said:
What really needs to be done is more proper training and such.
I...don't think so...
My experience working with cops + trying to take down the crooked ones (and i do this ALOT in my profession), has led me to a saddening but inescapable conclusion:
Police in America are adequately trained to know how they are supposed to act.
The problem is not that they lack effective training.
The problem is they have become accustomed to working in an environment where there's no real civil or criminal accountability for police misconduct. And where they feel confident nothing bad will happen to them, if they just ignore their training and do whatever-the-hell-they-want.
...and so thats exactly what many of them do.... (there's no disincentive)
Training cannot achieve the desired result of making officers behave professionally, unless failure to follow training has real criminal and civil penalties.
And that is the reform that is needed.
Bad cops don't need more training. They need more fear of punishment.
SF's "Write Your Butt Off" Competition HD II.5 Remix
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Posted · Edited by Shoblongoo
The “round I go full grimdark” became “the round my wife went into labor 2-and-a-half-weeks early”
Son was born yesterday.
Will almost certainly be contributing nothing here for the foreseeable future.