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Fact: i tend to ramble in a vain attempt to make it look like i know what i’m talking about
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i wonder if there’s a limit to adding “slop” to things
live service games are liveslop, fast food is foodslop, making smalltalk is conversationslop, charities are kindnessslop, being awake is wokeslop, dreams are sleepslop, everything is thingslop
and this post, too, is just contentslop
idk where you get that impression from, you can definitely find nice streamers if you look for them.
take RTGame. no controversy whatsoever. swears a bunch, but only as a result of being irish. fantastic community. but he streams on twitch, so i guess he’s trash?
is it because streamers ask for donations? because they play games as a job? i’m genuinely curious.
Mr Beast.
not because he’d be particularly good or competent at running a country; i’d like to see if/how he would milk being the president for content.
me, personally, i wouldn’t want to open up a comic where two characters are having sex while i’m at work, which makes it not safe for work. you could argue it’s not that obvious until you look closely, but the same can be said for an NSFW text post.
this in general feels like a non-issue, though. the post is a sonichu meme, not a news article, not an OC you spent months on, nor an interesting discussion post. either you give in and tag it, or the mods give in and remove it, then we all move on with our lives.
if moving on involves you not posting on certain communities anymore, sure, go for it.
yeah, i’d say there’s a difference between borrowing a word from another language/dialect and using a word that was invented to be racist.
English specifically has a ton of loanwords - “tycoon” is from the Japanese 大君 (taikun) meaning “great prince/high commander”, “balaclava” is from the name of a settlement in Crimea (Балаклава), “pet” is from the Scottish Gaelic “peata” meaning “tame animal”… and that’s just three words out of thousands, from a little digging on wikipedia.
so i’m not sure if excluding AAVE from contributing to the development of English as a language out of ‘respect’ is strictly good or not.
now, i don’t speak AAVE, and i haven’t done any reading about if AAVE speakers mind their vocabulary making its way into broader English slang - if so, then i rescind what i said here. i just think it’s interesting to think about.
another reason to not just use the elytra is always a plus, and another bit of regular, tiered gear is great - hoping they do that for armour next, which tends to be really samey compared to the tool/weapon variety the game has.
it’s unfortunate that both the Nautilus and spears were both leaked beforehand, since it got people speculating about a much larger ocean update which was never gonna be the case. Mojang’s official teasers also basically confirmed the Nautilus leak, which didn’t help.
while i’m fine with them doing smaller updates and touching up old areas of the game, i did find myself saying “cool, but that was it?”, like i did when the happy ghast was announced. really hoping they have something good planned for 1.22 - i would be satisfied with something similar in size to 1.21, but it feels like the community will implode if they don’t do an end update at some point soon.
edited to add: there will probably be more stuff added in snapshots than what they’ve announced here, like there has been for every other “game drop”, so that’s probably not it. still, wish they at least said that… unless they did, and i missed it…
Still doesn’t explain the reaction from my friends
I think it’s just really easy to want to backseat-game there with how things are set up, unfortunately.
Once you know for certain you can save literally everyone, all Neutral endings can seem like failed Pacifist runs, and people get up in arms about “messing it up” because they don’t want new players to miss the “real ending”, not realising that the game accounts for failure and expects you to be imperfect.
To be honest, I had no idea that this through-line existed until I watched a fully blind Neutral playthrough, but now that I do, I wish there was less policing about how to do things “right” so more people could experience the game like this.
I also think this is the reason why Toby Fox said he couldn’t “make another Undertale” when describing Deltarune - the secret that you can spare or kill every enemy is so out there that it’s put front-and-center in Undertale trailers, so another game with the same gimmick would be less impactful.
(side note; Deltarune is it’s own can of worms that I can’t wait to re-open once I actually have time to play through chapters 3 and 4)
a new player isn’t really supposed to find out that you can progress without fighting Toriel?
I think that goes for all major bosses, but it’s certainly easiest to kill Toriel. Papyrus’ fight takes a while, despite Undyne’s hints about “running away” it’s hard to connect that to having a red heart, Muffet literally wants to eat you, and you may not figure out how Mettaton’s popularity chart works.
As Flowey says (if you spare everyone in the Ruins), “But what will you do if you meet a relentless killer? You’ll die and you’ll die and you’ll die. Until you tire of trying. What will you do then? Will you kill out of frustration? Or give up entirely on this world…”
I agree with your point in general - there’s no use in being skeptical if you call stuff fake at the first sign. Innocent until proven guilty or whatever.
You’re right that the image could be clipart, and a human could have made those typos, but there are some non-human tells in here other than that.
The P in protection is a lowercase capital, and one of the r’s in irŕritation is accented. The latter could’ve been mistyped on a phone keyboard, but in that case it would’ve been autocorrected, and that still doesn’t explain the P.
There’s also some weird GPT-like descriptions that are thrown in for no reason. Why does the bandana being “fashionable” matter? How are arm warmers “subtle”, exactly?
As another commentor pointed out, a T-shirt with a graphic is more likely to make you recognisable, so that part’s just wrong. I also don’t get why “tactical/military bags” should be “avoided”? Seems like the kinda misinformation AI would spout.
What I really don’t get here is why someone would use AI to generate the entire thing, rather than only using it for the graphic (still morally questionable but excusable) and adding the text in manually (something you can do in MS paint).
This was, apparently, the wrong move
Well, not exactly. Keep in mind that Undertale was never supposed to get as popular as it did. The player isn’t really supposed to know about how to get the ““true”” endings from the get go, or that they exist.
Undertale is designed to naturally guide you through all 3 routes - Neutral, Pacifist, then (optionally) Genocide.
This is why some of the sparing mechanics can be so obtuse, especially with Toriel, who you don’t hear about until the Asgore fight when you’re like “oh damn I killed his wife”. There’s even a Froggit NPC in the Ruins who says you can spare enemies at low health, which could trick you into trying that with Toriel - doing so doesn’t work as your last hit does a lot of damage.
The game wants you to earn some EXP to increase LOVE until you learn what the acronyms mean.
If you spared Flowey at the end of a Neutral run, he comes back and tells you he won’t kill Asgore if you can get there without killing anyone, basically telling you how to do the Pacifist route.
Then, when you re-fight Toriel after killing her once, the Talk option explicitly mentions that you’ve killed her, and hints that you can “show mercy without running away”, making it easier to do a Pacifist run on your second go.
Characters will also mention feelings of deja vu on a second playthrough - Toriel has “a feeling” about your pie choice and Papyrus thinks you look familiar. And you won’t have to re-fight Omega Flowey.
Of course, it’s possible to figure out all the spare mechanics on your first try, which is why fighting Omega Flowey once and seeing the Pacifist phonecall is mandatory to unlock the final sidequest needed for True Pacifist.
And if you happen to boot the game up again after the True Pacifist ending, Flowey tells you that you’re the only threat left, with the power to reset everything, hinting at Genocide.
There’s some extra wrinkles, like how you can just reload your save if you killed Toriel and try again (which Flowey calls you out for), or how doing Genocide first changes things, but I think this was the main intended path - to do a run before you know you’ll be judged, then decide if you wanna be nice or evil with that in mind.
TL;DR: Get it twisted, you’re meant to kill Toriel once.
friend, you have won the internet argument. i say that with no sarcasm whatsoever. the other person misunderstood you, then politely conceded after you made a more detailed comment, adding that this being a crosspost might have caused the bug.
they didn’t say “oh huh, must be my app”, they said “ohh yeah, it probably is my app, thank you.”
what more could you have asked for? what response would you rather have gotten?