Post B76VCJET7RZoz5chaS by bonifartius
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(DIR) Post #B76J8Kaevh76aUL6DA by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T20:20:25.177508Z
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if you don't like it you're an incel chud who needs to respect market and focus on game you do like. when I don't like it I systematize it to a social problem with no actual evidence and it is now an issue for the United Nations.
(DIR) Post #B76JPTy9JQWGbAVMuG by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T20:21:29.350Z
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@sun@shitposter.world lol is there a new controversy?
(DIR) Post #B76JPUtDtEAnSBCwro by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T20:23:30.265131Z
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@anemone people are just full of shit as usual, can't even keep their story straight between two game videos a couple days apart
(DIR) Post #B76JYjnhovE6J028Js by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T20:25:11.615834Z
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@sun When will the 19th be repealed ?
(DIR) Post #B76KvfMUaeQJ9Xnl0S by Ree@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T20:40:32.471974Z
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@sun if you like current thing you're a pedophile if you don't like current thing you're a nazi
(DIR) Post #B76QeLCYtKYLQgHKVM by icedquinn@blob.cat
2026-06-07T21:44:36.608358Z
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@sun @anemone i chuckle sometimes at the "it's not for you" defense. like alright, accepted, but then when a polish dev doesn't add gay sex they riot when he says "it's not for you" back at them :ablobcatgooglytenor:
(DIR) Post #B76QjLa0udVc3BdR68 by mischievoustomato@tsundere.love
2026-06-07T21:45:31.812449Z
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@icedquinn @anemone @sun things should be for who they're aimed at
(DIR) Post #B76QotLMo6BwDNQb1k by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T21:46:32.768609Z
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@icedquinn @anemone remember the Witcher discourse? you can't call out completely egregious things that take you right out of the fantasy genre because the game also shows them eating potatoes and potatoes weren't introduced to poland yet
(DIR) Post #B76QtsSTWgTouu88VU by icedquinn@blob.cat
2026-06-07T21:47:25.090961Z
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@mischievoustomato @anemone @sun it turns out humanity went a long time somehow understanding the concept of "target demographics."i have the same argument when the feminists crow about "male gaze" and just point at the entire genres of female written fiction about billionaire playboys coercing women and this is considered goodbanks and the state can fuck off is what they can do. but people can make whatever, long as everyone making it signed off on it :comfyshrug:
(DIR) Post #B76QxBIdvlQGDm6g8u by icedquinn@blob.cat
2026-06-07T21:48:01.510794Z
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@sun @anemone > weren't introduced to poland yeti don't think the witcher is even IN poland :blobcatgoogly:
(DIR) Post #B76QyeplbmzO6rIuuG by pettanko@tsundere.love
2026-06-07T21:47:50.755917Z
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@sun @icedquinn @anemone these people are instintively dishonest.
(DIR) Post #B76R0oC1map1iPk4ZM by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T21:48:41.922318Z
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@icedquinn @anemone it isn't, it's a fantasy universe but it is based on ancient poland
(DIR) Post #B76R2mtrYqNOHhBnpg by icedquinn@blob.cat
2026-06-07T21:49:02.290121Z
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@pettanko @anemone @sun ancient carrots were however purple. funny to see who does and doesn't get that one right. also they didn't log forests for firewood, they had firewood trees and coppicing.funny to see who does their ye olde times by vibes and stereotype and who actually reads the books that they were actually pretty smart they just didn't have the shit we do
(DIR) Post #B76RAxMkX68h3ob16m by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T21:50:32.045118Z
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@icedquinn @anemone so, basically this:
(DIR) Post #B76Rtn7dSvsQJyuCVk by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-06-07T21:58:26.026332Z
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@sun @icedquinn @anemone not really. It has Slav mythology elements, but at the same time it has elves and dwarfs and those are of Germanic origin. And the Elvish language in the books is a kind of Gaelic. The Witcher is a mishmash of things.
(DIR) Post #B76S8g5lsxoerU8FFY by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:01:19.178121Z
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@newt @icedquinn @anemone we have already established that it is not a perfect fit for anything
(DIR) Post #B76SCE4dzxdP7hIS2K by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-06-07T22:01:53.190937Z
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@sun @anemone @icedquinn at the same time, I personally regards games and films as a kind of fan fiction. The Witcher story ended with Geralt dying in the last book. The best thing is to just disregard crappy fan fiction.
(DIR) Post #B76SMXUceb66FJMikC by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T21:58:53.578Z
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@icedquinn@blob.cat @mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @sun@shitposter.world target demographics doesn’t work when you need infinite growth
(DIR) Post #B76SMY9OD1huHkRHHs by pettanko@tsundere.love
2026-06-07T22:03:36.829583Z
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@anemone @icedquinn @sun @mischievoustomato This and the astronomical cost of game development driving out mid-sized companies are the biggest problems.
(DIR) Post #B76SOFLl50zSYW28e0 by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-06-07T22:03:58.023740Z
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@sun @icedquinn @anemone I mean, true. If you want more historically faithful stuff to read, Sapkowsky wrote The Hussite trilogy and it's much better than whatever he wrote after the games got famous.
(DIR) Post #B76SS4e2p5RGVrPaYC by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T22:02:18.197Z
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@newt@stereophonic.space @sun@shitposter.world @icedquinn@blob.cat who cares
(DIR) Post #B76SS5o0VX0C7353ia by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-06-07T22:04:44.425717Z
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@anemone @icedquinn @sun I do? I had read the witcher books as a kid.
(DIR) Post #B76SU8Snb2Uyw38PnE by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:05:12.307643Z
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@newt @icedquinn @anemone fantasy tropes are arbitrary that is why you have to accept a black gay elf that talks like a zoomer
(DIR) Post #B76Sjua2ytPIVk30s4 by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-06-07T22:07:52.554110Z
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@sun @icedquinn @anemone the word you are looking for to describe the opposite of what you mentioned is verisimilitude
(DIR) Post #B76Sqkhq5lZbugxDsm by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T22:07:21.269Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @newt@stereophonic.space @icedquinn@blob.cat the question isn’t about historical accuracy, it’s about internal consistency. Arguing on the grounds of historical accuracy is already partly conceding the point
(DIR) Post #B76Sqlpfu7R3PHczjc by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:09:16.565535Z
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@anemone @icedquinn @newt its not really about the material conforming to historical accuracy and probably more about the cultural heritage of the fantasy genre, I would never say that fantasy has to be historically accurate internally unless there is some kind of claim like that about a specific work.
(DIR) Post #B76SzVwULuvsjMz5bU by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:10:52.087328Z
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@newt @icedquinn @anemone "I am obsessed with games as art but I literally cannot comprehend verisimilitude when it means I can't force you to accept black gay zoomer elf"
(DIR) Post #B76T8BXbZchM3zToVk by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-06-07T22:12:21.237106Z
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@sun @icedquinn @anemone oh that's another problem. The kind of games we're talking about here aren't art, just as a hollywood film isn't art. My rule of thumb here is, if there is a board of directors involved in literally any decision that went into a game, it's not art.
(DIR) Post #B76TCjemfq051v0Wqu by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:13:15.928026Z
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@newt @icedquinn @anemone it's never useful to say something's not art, just say it's commercial art or corporate or "bad art".
(DIR) Post #B76TFMIPz7xfRknT7Y by Ree@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:13:42.431090Z
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@sun @newt @anemone @icedquinn video games might be art. But I think the soys in the culture bullshit should be necked. If some of us were normal we wouldn't give a shit.
(DIR) Post #B76TQGZTbtH2sPydYu by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-06-07T22:15:30.511377Z
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@sun @icedquinn @anemone but yes it is. Otherwise we can say that literally anything is art. My definition for art is it is something that can or at least has a chance to put me into the state of sublime. Note that so-called "corporate art" almost never does that with people.
(DIR) Post #B76TUKExuUbJPmJoZs by icedquinn@blob.cat
2026-06-07T22:16:24.693280Z
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@sun @anemone @newt :comfypeek: mm free cities posting, the game where you can turn people in to black gay zoomer elves against their will for profit
(DIR) Post #B76TcVJmbihm5XTJya by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T22:13:42.634Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @icedquinn@blob.cat @newt@stereophonic.space even that is less important imo. You need some sort of logical world building (why would an elf have the same ethnicities as a human) otherwise everything collapses into meaningless Fortnite sludge
(DIR) Post #B76TcW4Dp3qsPZCPMO by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:17:54.444774Z
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@anemone @icedquinn @newt it's inescapable that fantasy genre is western european.
(DIR) Post #B76TlP9wsGpLat7GHg by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:19:31.608685Z
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@newt @icedquinn @anemone if you say something isn't art it turns into a worthless diversionary argument about exactly what art means instead of zeroing in on why the specific thing sucks aesthetically
(DIR) Post #B76Txe2lMT41EOajxY by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T22:20:40.053Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @icedquinn@blob.cat @newt@stereophonic.space what? Fantasy stories are common across basically every culture on earth
(DIR) Post #B76Txeue88AJvVnlwm by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:21:44.047288Z
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@anemone @icedquinn @newt I am talking about common "elves and wizards" fantasy, the term is generic and not useful globally, like the "alternative" music genre name
(DIR) Post #B76ULj5uEbgzqUXpdg by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-06-07T22:25:51.988233Z
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@sun @icedquinn @anemone art can suck aesthetically though. I personally find most of Hieronymus Bosch's works appalling, as I do with pretty much the entirety of Dutch Renaissance. But what he or the Bruegels or the entire rest of those degenerates did was art, no doubt about it.
(DIR) Post #B76UhMnBpi79346pma by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:30:00.303336Z
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@newt @icedquinn @anemone it wouldn't be useful to just say that bosch "isn't art"
(DIR) Post #B76UqZlUyD2VtAi2vA by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T22:30:23.494Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @icedquinn@blob.cat @newt@stereophonic.space I think “lotrlike” is an even less useful definition for fantasy lol. It’s also ridiculous to demand that a story must adhere to arbitrary “European” tropes. The actual issue is cohesion. There are a lot of implications created plopping a black zoomer gay elf into a Europe inspired world. There are ways to integrate that in a coherent and story relevant, way. But the media we are discussing has no interest in doing that
(DIR) Post #B76UqawWahSBXesMkK by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:31:37.930954Z
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@anemone @icedquinn @newt it doesn't have to but if you do break from it you are approaching territory that is understandably going to take people out of the immersion. you are right, but they are each different things that affect immersion.
(DIR) Post #B76Uvzr7ORBEFtvHKS by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:32:36.567178Z
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@anemone @icedquinn @newt sometimes it is really really simple, why would a wizard be in a wheelchair, why would anybody in fantasy genre that can use transformation magic be in a wheelchair. I get it, you want inclusion, which is a real thiing to care about, but you're literally breaking the god damn product to do it
(DIR) Post #B76UwCB3a8G8TDLN4a by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T22:31:00.551Z
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@newt@stereophonic.space @sun@shitposter.world @icedquinn@blob.cat L take Bosch rules
(DIR) Post #B76UwD0SV1NN2dOQC0 by newt@stereophonic.space
2026-06-07T22:32:28.592410Z
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@anemone @icedquinn @sun he does rule when you want to visit the Netherlands, then look at what living there inspired, and book tickets to Thailand instead
(DIR) Post #B76V1bRd49ZCHcfpui by Ree@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:33:39.484855Z
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@sun @anemone @icedquinn @newt you think a wizard could use a healing spell to fix things
(DIR) Post #B76VCJET7RZoz5chaS by bonifartius
2026-06-07T22:35:36.504017Z
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@sun @anemone @icedquinn truly optional, only 50¤/month rental fee to flip the switch in the computer!
(DIR) Post #B76VrNxWRyP7W6HdHk by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T22:40:44.487Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @icedquinn@blob.cat @newt@stereophonic.space yes this is the kind of thing I’m talking about
(DIR) Post #B76VrOxui0JMdbTSXA by icedquinn@blob.cat
2026-06-07T22:42:57.073898Z
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@anemone @newt @sun that was part of what i didn't like about Orville. mcfarlane is used to doing skit shows that always reset and then he'd just so shit like a whole episode about deep faking evidence for some trial and then just...not go anywhere with the implication this is something that federation scout ships can just casually do in three minutes. this has no effect on society whatsoever.
(DIR) Post #B76Vsjkeua1fOWuXtg by jeffcliff@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T22:43:15.878502Z
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@sun @anemone @icedquinn @newt tfw
(DIR) Post #B76Y4BUkIpF2X63Q1o by anemone@ebiverse.social
2026-06-07T22:39:56.208Z
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@sun@shitposter.world @icedquinn@blob.cat @newt@stereophonic.space again, lack of cohesion is what breaks immersion. Relatively few people get up in arms when a story breaks from a few common tropes and it’s done well. Most decent stories don’t follow their genre template exactly. What you’re describing is the “obvious” justification people jump to after the fact when their brain notices the story doesn’t make sense and the author thinks they’re an idiot
(DIR) Post #B76Y9n85nztehc8F28 by sun@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T23:08:45.470581Z
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@anemone @icedquinn @newt it is not just lack of cohesion it is definitely also not met expectations. Which is okay, you can do that artistically and actually end up with a better work of art. Or worse! It depends on what you do!
(DIR) Post #B76YOowHMOE0erly0u by nerthos@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T23:11:28.645410Z
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@newt @icedquinn @anemone @sun About half of the things in it are explained in-universe by the "conjunction of the spheres" which just means "planes overlapped and all sorts of shit fell over, including humans" so it's entirely possible they have potatoes
(DIR) Post #B76Yhw1vDhqS9WWhpQ by nerthos@shitposter.world
2026-06-07T23:14:55.893107Z
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@sun @anemone @icedquinn @newt Extra funny when it's the same universe where a dragon got crippled by being retarded with magic and just threatened a fuckload of goblins to bolt a life support armor onto him so he could still do dragon things