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When I was a kid watching Digimon I learned an important principle: characters being mashed together is the surest sign that an author is out of ideas.
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Feb 3, 2018 19:37
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Scarodactyl posted:When I was a kid watching Digimon I learned an important principle: characters being mashed together is the surest sign that an author is out of ideas. See DBZ
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Feb 3, 2018 19:40
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Scarodactyl posted:When I was a kid watching Digimon I learned an important principle: characters being mashed together is the surest sign that an author is out of ideas.
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Feb 3, 2018 20:06
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Eh, Steven Universe made it work.
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Feb 3, 2018 23:09
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Scarodactyl posted:When I was a kid watching Digimon I learned an important principle: characters being mashed together is the surest sign that an author is out of ideas. gently caress you, Tamers was and still is awesome
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Feb 3, 2018 23:21
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Rand Brittain posted:Eh, Steven Universe made it work. you can't run out of ideas if you never had ideas in the first place
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Feb 3, 2018 23:23
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Rand Brittain posted:Eh, Steven Universe made it work. Debatable, the rules on fusion are remarkably inconsistent and as a metaphor it's pretty sloppy and gets worse the more you think about it. The one time I've seen the whole mashing two characters together thing done well is in Digimon season 3. In Digimon season 2 fusion was just another dumb power up the way most shows treat it. However, in Digimon season 3 the whole fusion thing only happens near the end of the series and is symbolic of the characters completing their arcs and overcoming their various hangups. It actually feels like a logical point to go to after a full year of building up the importance of teamwork and confronting your problems head on. Plom Bar posted:gently caress you, Tamers was and still is awesome This girl gets it.
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Feb 3, 2018 23:28
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at this point i am not watching stephen universal because of how much crossover there was between fans and people who liked the homestuck ends
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Feb 3, 2018 23:46
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Combining characters could be a good idea in a gamified story. Like in these gamified stories with big casts one of the big deals is who makes alliances and who doesn't and how well those work, even if you don't have literal fusion characters. I'd like to see more people explore it as a starting point.
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Combining characters could be a good idea in a gamified story. You're describing Fire Emblem. I don't know if that's the joke or if you've just never played one before, but that's one of the core mechanics of the Fire Emblem series: You pair characters up, their bonds get stronger, and then they fight together better. I recommend playing Fire Emblem: Awakenings if you haven't already and want to see how this mechanic plays out (I think it's pretty great). But yeah, other games copying this mechanic and maybe even expanding on it would definitely be something I'd be interested in playing. Clawtopsy posted:at this point i am not watching stephen universal because of how much crossover there was between fans and people who liked the homestuck ends At this point Steven Universe is, much like Homestuck, on Hiatus most of the time and it's unclear whether the hiatuses will ever stop. It really hinders the flow of the show and has caused the fandom to shrink significantly. Also, my favorite characters haven't appeared in over a year and probably won't be showing up again anytime soon. So yeah, turns out you made the right choice not getting into it like I did. You win this round Clawtopsy.
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Clawtopsy posted:at this point i am not watching stephen universal because of how much crossover there was between fans and people who liked the homestuck ends 
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Feb 4, 2018 00:57
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Only write vignettes and short stories in a loosely-connected shared setting that never reuses characters imo. It neatly sidesteps a whole swath of writing sins.
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So after many weeks of deep consideration I have come up with what I like to think is the definitive list of what Classpects the Tamers would have: Takato: Bard of Space Rika: Knight of Blood Henry: Mage of Mind Discuss.
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Plom Bar posted:So after many weeks of deep consideration I have come up with what I like to think is the definitive list of what Classpects the Tamers would have: Strongly disagree About Takato and Rika, although you're spot on with Henry. Takato: Page of Heart Rika: Knight of Rage Also, Jeri would be a Maid of Doom for obvious reasons.
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Feb 4, 2018 01:20
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As long as we can agree that Ryo is a Waste of Time (with Waste being a canon title)
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my hot take is that the people who have tried to get me to watch SU are more annoying than bronies, you are welcome i don't know what the other stuff is about
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Clawtopsy posted:my hot take is that the people who have tried to get me to watch SU are more annoying than bronies, you are welcome Lovecraftian horrors VS kids fused with digital AI manifested in the physical world in the shape of mystical foxes, monstrous dinosaurs and sassy bunny rabbits who use quantum physics to save the day. Also it's one huge Neon Genesis Eva re-imagining.
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Plom Bar posted:As long as we can agree that Ryo is a Waste of Time (with Waste being a canon title) Yes we can absolutely agree on that. I know he's only there because his games were popular and the executives demanded he be included, but his presence is just so intrusive and inorganic and he 100% did not deserve to have such a huge role in the final battle.
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Freak Futanari posted:you can't run out of ideas if you never had ideas in the first place Glass houses, stones
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Clawtopsy posted:at this point i am not watching stephen universal because of how much crossover there was between fans and people who liked the homestuck ends C.S. Lewis posted:The Second Friend is the man who disagrees with you about everything. He is not so much the alter ego as the antiself. Of course he shares your interests; otherwise he would not become your friend at all. But he has approached them all at a different angle. He has read all the right books but has got the wrong thing out of every one. It is as if he spoke your language but mispronounced it. How can he be so nearly right and yet, invariably, just not right?...out of this perpetual dogfight a community of mind and a deep affection emerge.
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Clawtopsy posted:then condy is killed and nothing matters, how did that immortaloty work out for you
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Scarodactyl posted:So basically, it's like yes also my bffsie and i disagree on nearly everything except this stuff Bell_ posted:Not the avatar to be asking THAT question aranea didn't have contractual immortality 
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immortality meant just as much as death did
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why didn't they just use the dragonballs to wish the dead trolls back to life
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much like hamsteak, dbz is a show with too large a cast, interesting concepts left unexplored, and death being cheap and meaningless plus goku is vriska
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goku has character development though
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Q: I know that the Alternia arc was dragging on as it was, but do you think there could have been more tension and suspense in the most recent updates if there had been a few more clear-cut power levels among the trolls foreshadowed earlier? AH: Oh my loving god. I just face palmed so hard I broke my DBZ scouter.
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Honestly the lack of any real rhyme or reason to who won fights or how fights went down was probably actually an issue. Whenever people started fighting it was just like smooshing action figures until someone won , so there was never any real tension when people started fighting.
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Clawtopsy posted:plus goku is vriska Hey, Vriska is far and away not Goku, she- Clawtopsy posted:both can still move while carrying a few extra tons, too  She's Vegeta
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Realtalk for a minute. Look, I'm using proper grammar and everything. If the last words of this thread aren't a Fat Vriska joke, everything will have been a waste. If nobody posts for a few days, it should be the duty of the final poster to edit it in.
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Charlie Bobson posted:Honestly the lack of any real rhyme or reason to who won fights or how fights went down was probably actually an issue. Whenever people started fighting it was just like smooshing action figures until someone won , so there was never any real tension when people started fighting. One of the few jokes of Team America that has aged well is the Kung-fu "fight sequence" near the beginning.
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Clawtopsy posted:Realtalk for a minute. Look, I'm using proper grammar and everything. FTFY
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Clawtopsy posted:Realtalk for a minute. Look, I'm using proper grammar and everything. like vriska, this thread won't ever really die, it'll just keep getting bigger
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Feb 6, 2018 04:22
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biggest plot inconsistency is somehow a black hole swallowed her
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Clawtopsy posted:everything will have been a waste.
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Clawtopsy posted:biggest plot inconsistency is somehow a black hole swallowed her
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Feb 6, 2018 04:47
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The black hole is her mouth. We're introducing vore into the equation now.
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Vriska is Majin Buu. Simultaneously fat, skinny, short, tall, a hero, a villain, a remorseless force of nature, and an irrelevant dope. Sometimes all at the same time.
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