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Mrenda posted:But if you put an acorn atop a mountain on the cover of a book no-one would know it's a fantasy novel, so no. What if the acorn was fighting a chick with titty armor
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Mel Mudkiper posted:What if the acorn was fighting a chick with titty armor Then it's probably sci-fi and the acorn is now an alien or space man.
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May 14, 2019 17:46
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the flexibility of the term dragon should be indicated by the fact that we use the same word for both the eastern and western creatures which are in every way very different beings
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May 14, 2019 17:48
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also dragons have become standardized in fantasy since tolkien; in the middle ages they're a lot more diverse. sometimes they breathe fire, but a lot of times they breathe or spit poison. sometimes they fly, sometimes they just slither around. sometimes they look like crocodiles, sometimes they shapeshift into pretty ladies
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May 14, 2019 17:50
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Mel Mudkiper posted:the most miserable experience of my life.
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May 14, 2019 17:52
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Mel Mudkiper posted:Lol I got a dude who has a power rangers podcast super mad at me because I dared to suggest dragon ball z might have a limited narrative post link
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May 14, 2019 17:53
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chernobyl kinsman posted:also dragons have become standardized in fantasy since tolkien; in the middle ages they're a lot more diverse. sometimes they breathe fire, but a lot of times they breathe or spit poison. sometimes they fly, sometimes they just slither around. sometimes they look like crocodiles, sometimes they shapeshift into pretty ladies make dragons great again chernobyl kinsman posted:post link Eh, I want to avoid making it seem like I am summoning the horde on the dude by linking to it. lemme just share a taste quote:there are so many individual assumptions in that retort that are wrong that i no longer have the time or the patience to hold your hand so instead im gonna go back to ignoring you and tell you that you're a loving idiot quote:pro tip if you agree with plague's takes on dbz you're probably wrong because plague's takes are uniformly even more idiotic and anti-fun than woolie or pat's at a baseline and this is not even really arguable quote:I am angrily shutting you down because you keep trying to force the idea that a 15+ year old joke is funny because it's a very reductive criticism of a show you think is bad because you listened to an angry farmer yell about how much he doesn't like a popular thing, which he is known for doing simply because the thing is popular. The joke he keeps referencing is "Wow, look at how big his number has gotten", which I still find a hilarious summary of DBZ
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May 14, 2019 18:01
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Maybe if you weren't so anti-fun, you could appreciate escalation in media. Let people enjoy things.
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May 14, 2019 18:25
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I am the apex of hating fun The Fun Dragon Sham bam bamina! posted:Let people enjoy things. Actually it was a thread about a podcast that made a DBZ joke so he is the one not letting people enjoy things Mel Mudkiper fucked around with this message at 18:46 on May 14, 2019 |
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May 14, 2019 18:40
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Maybe if you weren't so anti-fun, you could appreciate escalation in media. Let people enjoy things. Let people not enjoy things
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May 14, 2019 18:54
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Found the thread. Wondering why you didn't quote this gem:Judge Tesla posted:Pretty much every comic, film, TV show and game has threat escalation included,
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May 14, 2019 19:28
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Mrenda posted:But if you put an acorn atop a mountain on the cover of a book no-one would know it's a fantasy novel, so no. Gonna be honest, if I saw a book cover with an acorn on top of a mountain, I'd assume it's a dragon and I was looking at a fantasy novel.
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May 14, 2019 20:13
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what if the acorn was a dragon in titty armor
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May 14, 2019 20:50
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What if titty armor is actually a dragon
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May 14, 2019 20:56
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the dragon was part of us all along (the extremely busty titty + voluptuous rear end part)
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May 14, 2019 21:32
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I mean even among people who I know like DBZ and stuff know that's a flaw, that after like say Frieza Arc the numbers kept going up but what was actually happening on screen stayed pretty similar. I like the concept of DBZ more than I actually like it  .chernobyl kinsman posted:also dragons have become standardized in fantasy since tolkien; in the middle ages they're a lot more diverse. sometimes they breathe fire, but a lot of times they breathe or spit poison. sometimes they fly, sometimes they just slither around. sometimes they look like crocodiles, sometimes they shapeshift into pretty ladies These two are both still fairly true.
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May 14, 2019 22:38
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:I mean even among people who I know like DBZ and stuff know that's a flaw, that after like say Frieza Arc the numbers kept going up but what was actually happening on screen stayed pretty similar. I like the concept of DBZ more than I actually like it In only enjoyed the first Dragon Ball series, when Goku was a kid, because those were fun fantasy/martial arts adventures and not the slooow fights and power trips in DBZ
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May 14, 2019 22:42
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:I mean even among people who I know like DBZ and stuff know that's a flaw, that after like say Frieza Arc the numbers kept going up but what was actually happening on screen stayed pretty similar. I like the concept of DBZ more than I actually like it Yeah one of the things he got super mad at was a dude who showed that the way power is depicted in DBZ doesn't change they just keep using the same tropes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPwVuC3YOrc
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May 15, 2019 01:43
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gas this thread please
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May 15, 2019 01:44
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Guess I won't be writing that effort post on modern Donaldson.
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May 15, 2019 02:07
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:Guess I won't be writing that effort post on modern Donaldson. Por que no
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May 15, 2019 02:26
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in my world if something is long, sinuous and magical it's a dragon, it doesn't have to have the head of an iguana, you can have leonine dragons, tiger dragons, goat dragons, rhinoceros dragons, orca dragons
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May 15, 2019 04:08
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nankeen posted:in my world if something is long, sinuous and magical it's a dragon, it doesn't have to have the head of an iguana, you can have leonine dragons, tiger dragons, goat dragons, rhinoceros dragons, orca dragons penis dragons
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Sampatrick posted:penis dragons “Djeser quoting the Transformer AI” posted:The Magna Carta, the foundational document of English parliamentary democracy, was signed between a sentient penis and a cohort of dragons. One thing the dragons didn't take was the irony: The dragons didn't take any poo poo for that. They didn't take poo poo for the fact that the Magna Carta was never actually a government document. They actually took poo poo from all of the people that signed it. The dragons were just waiting for the opportunity to declare that the Magna Carta was poo poo. So the dragons became pissed off about not getting to do poo poo they were interested in. The dragons were pissed off because a bunch of people got to sign the Magna Carta, and then it was like--what's this? "Huh? What's that? It's a giant penis?!" It was like they had gotten so fed up with the dragons they were starting to seriously hate the creatures that lived under the surface and could eat all of they cared. After a while, I can remember being pissed off as much as I'd been in years, but I'd never actually said loving AI already writes better than most fantasy authors
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May 15, 2019 06:02
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:gas this thread please
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May 15, 2019 08:00
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Mel Mudkiper posted:make dragons great again yeeeeeeees TheGreatEvilKing posted:Guess I won't be writing that effort post on modern Donaldson. Wait, has his modus operandi changed recently?
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May 15, 2019 08:38
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Solitair posted:
Ish? I think his Great God's War is better than Covenant.
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May 15, 2019 13:22
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:gas this thread please
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:gas this thread please I don't get why this thread is suddenly contentious but if you don't like a thread, vote 1 and move on and read something else? quote:Low Content Posts: Please do not make posts containing no content (ie, "first post," "hello, I'm new here," etc.). These just litter up the forums and with over 100,000 registered users, we need to eliminate these as much as possible. If you do not like a thread, then just vote it a "1" and move on; replies consisting solely of trolling fall into this category. As a general rule, write as if you were speaking in real life to another human being. Do not use any catchphrases, memes, internet slang, or any other crap that makes you look like a 12-year old.
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In a dose of authors being so, so close. https://twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status/1127965203335745536 Stories are for children.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I don't get why this thread is suddenly contentious but if you don't like a thread, vote 1 and move on and read something else? this thread can do better than 'hey guys, power rangers and dragonball z? not the best at their plots, right? haha, anyway, check out what this guy said somewhere else on the forums'
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if this thread gets gassed then where will Mel run to complain that nerds are making fun of him?Mrenda posted:In a dose of authors being so, so close. Amazing, with those tweets he managed to write something even worse than "The TIE wibbles and wobbles through the air, careening drunkenly across the Myrrann rooftops - it zigzags herkily-jerkily out of sight."
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Chuck Wendig is maybe the author I don't understand or see why people like him. Even Sanderson, who I don't enjoy at all, it's easy enough to see that he has ideas that appeal to teenage boys or people who are still teenage boys mentally. Sanderson just writes YA But For Boys. But Wendig?
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May 15, 2019 15:12
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Wendig writes inclusive YA for anybody
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:this thread can do better than 'hey guys, power rangers and dragonball z? not the best at their plots, right? haha, anyway, check out what this guy said somewhere else on the forums' that stuff is genre the argument was about critically analyzing genre this is a thread for talking about the critical analysis of genre so gently caress off you've contributed nothing of value to either version of this thread (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Tbf, Dragonball Z isn't really SFF is it? This might be my worst post ever shades of blue fucked around with this message at 15:45 on May 15, 2019 |
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May 15, 2019 15:40
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Mel Mudkiper posted:that stuff is genre glass houses
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Sampatrick posted:Tbf, Dragonball Z isn't really SFF is it? It borrows pretty heavily from Chinese Fantasy, and has spaceships and aliens.
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ShinsoBEAM! posted:It borrows pretty heavily from Chinese Fantasy, and has spaceships and aliens. SFF is a Western genre and just because Chinese Fantasy is also fictional doesn't mean that the two genres are super similar.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:this thread can do better than 'hey guys, power rangers and dragonball z? not the best at their plots, right? haha, anyway, check out what this guy said somewhere else on the forums' Then -- poo poo, you know this, you've got a 2006 regdate -- be the change you want to see on the forums et cetera. If you think the thread should have better content in it then post that better content. Mel Mudkiper posted:so gently caress off Also, don't do this I'm going to have to pull this car RIGHT over aren't I >_<
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