Ok but Seraphim work for God.
Massive? It wasn’t a disagreement, I’m pretty sure he corrected me on speed vs agility (which was very nice, and was my mistake.) Meanwhile, massive is the hate boner a certain someone has for me.
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Things get… iffy. If I recall correctly, Iluvatar only shows up after the singing of the world to chastise the earth Valar for making the dwarves (even though, according to Iluvatar himself, the Valar didn’t have a choice on whether he’d make the dorfs or not), so Mandos isn’t acting on Iluvatar’s command. The Valar are left to their own devices once they go down to Ea (dorf-making not withstanding).
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Me, I prefer my dorfs with gun in hand, proclaiming the glory of Rock and Stone (and Karl, and booze that isn’t watered-down shit, and mining, and shooting alien bugs in their big ugly faces).
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Yeah. They invented beer that turns gold into even more gold.
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Clear evidence that DRG dwarves are the superior beings, here.
Please remember to keep this conversation civil. If someone is calling someone else a “fucking idiot” in DM, the appropriate response is to flag that DM and let the mods get involved.
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Exactly! The Elves there made a machine specifically to kill Dwarves, and it didn’t.
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One trope I really hate is when Cyberpunk stories (or any stories really) act like the problem is the tech and not the companies, or even if they do say it’s the companies, they offer no real solution to fix things.
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Hm, I don’t read/play much cyberpunk (just not a genre I have much interest in), but I’ve always gotten the impression they were blaming the companies. But yeah, they never offered solutions, just said it was inevitable.
Oh yeah, the punk and counterculture movements have huge anticapitalist roots, but since it was comprised of a lot of different people who hated modern society, you also got people who were far-right or primitivists who thought cybernetics ate your soul.
That trope is another one I hate because it basically states that amputees and other disabled people are less human than other people.
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Sounds like I just never got deep enough into the genre to find those examples.
You got lucky.
Hooooo, the amount of bile I have to bite back whenever I hear an NPC harp at me for having bionic body parts in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Yeah, right, Adam Jensen totally got emergency cybernetic surgery on a whim, it’s not like he’d just had his kidneys liquefied and his skull bashed in and also been thrown through a wall by a cybernetic super soldier or anything.
Granted, the NPCs don’t know that, but it still aggravates me whenever I hear one fire off with, “you used to be so handsome - why’d you do it?” or other tripe of the sort, which I guess was what Eidos was trying to make the players feel in the first place, so hey, kudos.
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I mean yeah, I’m pretty sure those people are supposed to be the assholes. Deus Ex is the only cyber punk story I know of where it’s actually the luddites who’re pawns for the big conspiracy.
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Although, I have found fake leftists (actually Democrats who think Democrats are leftist) who believe that CD Projekt RED is leftist, because they included LGBT representation – despite the fact that their LGBT representation is so horrendous that it made major news because of how pissed transgender people were at how they were represented.
Yeah, I totally get what the story was going for, and (in my eyes, at least) they did a good job of making the central conflict of “human versus augmented” feel like a forever losing battle for both sides.
If I wind up getting pissed at an NPC spouting one of several biased lines they’re programmed to say at me, that must mean I’m invested to some degree in the story.
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I remember some people were upset that Mankind Divided said anti-augmentation thing was like apartheid, calling it insensitive, then one of the developers got outraged because he himself was a black man and didn’t like other people telling him what he could and couldn’t compare to his own experiences.
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Oh lord, I remember that debacle. That was some nasty business.
Golem City certainly helped back up MD’s apartheid claim, tell you what.
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Yeah like, there’s tons of issues with fantasy racism allegories but the idea that you just can’t use them is idiotic.
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