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I'm the loving spirit of death you loving fucker. Gimme a loving kiss because fuckin' daddy is fuckin' hungry.
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Killing people is so awesome. I love it. I love killing people. It's what I'm good at. The killing people. I loving love killing people you stupid fucker. You loving stupid idiot. Just talking to you is wasting my time and preventing me from doing what I love, killing people.
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May 18, 2021 10:42
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Killing people is so awesome. I love it. I love killing people. It's what I'm good at. The killing people. I loving love killing people you stupid fucker. You loving stupid idiot. Just talking to you is wasting my time and preventing me from doing what I love, killing people. that scene felt like half the episode runtime, maybe the VA was contracted for a set number lines and they backloaded all of them
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May 18, 2021 10:54
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Saying gently caress is fine but it runs into the Whedonish issue of everyone just kinda having the same snarky style of speaking except more gently caress-laden in this case. The ancient being that feeds on souls talks in the same manner as the proud warcrimes vampire and the random drunks.Honest Thief posted:that scene felt like half the episode runtime, maybe the VA was contracted for a set number lines and they backloaded all of them With better pacing/framing the vampire talking about how he's proud of winning wars through burning tents and murdering civilians and children in their sleep would have worked as a nice contrast to the member of Carmilla's coven who realized how pointless and tiresome the war they were fighting was after being ambushed by barely armed farmers defending their land. Evrart Claire has issued a correction as of 10:59 on May 18, 2021 |
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May 18, 2021 10:55
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Zerilan posted:Saying gently caress is fine but it runs into the Whedonish issue of everyone just kinda having the same snarky style of speaking except more gently caress-laden in this case. The ancient being that feeds on souls talks in the same manner as the proud warcrimes vampire and the random drunks. This is the level of writing you get when someone hasn't had a meaningful social interaction since the 90s. Castlevania has an entire stable of writers, so when Ellis's god hand weighs down on a few characters it really stands out.
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May 18, 2021 11:01
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Even just DM'ing tabletop games I put more effort in that to making sure every character doesn't just talk how I talk. edit: that said, I still enjoyed the season/show even if it had some real notable flaws. action scenes were all fun
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May 18, 2021 11:03
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Zerilan posted:With better pacing/framing the vampire talking about how he's proud of winning wars through burning tents and murdering civilians and children in their sleep would have worked as a nice contrast to the member of Carmilla's coven who realized how pointless and tiresome the war they were fighting was after being ambushed by barely armed farmers defending their land. oh right, the artorias armor scene, that one was also a weird tone and prolonged banter on the aftermath it was the first, and only, time we saw the vampire incursion so they had to put the badass action scene and that bleak realisation on the same scene
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May 18, 2021 11:07
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Season 3 set up so many different characters doing completely unrelated things that it was impossible to let any of them to get the time they probably needed and took 80% of the season and a random teleportation portal to even get the main trio back together.
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May 18, 2021 11:19
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Honest Thief posted:oh right, the artorias armor scene, that one was also a weird tone and prolonged banter on the aftermath They spent the whole season setting up that plotline about "maybe actually running an empire is a little more trouble than it's worth," only to have the problem resolved for them and not actually do anything about it. Then instead of having an epilogue of King Isaac enjoying himself, the cute vampire chooses suicide after a few days of house arrest. It's all just very conveniently getting rid of characters on the flimsiest pretense. But hey, at least the good parts are good enough to overshadow all of that.
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May 18, 2021 11:27
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there was also some spiel about diplomacy vs power which ok, didnt you enslave a dude with a magical ring ?
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May 18, 2021 11:30
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she "hooked" him in with diplomacy. Dipklomacy. Dicklomacy.
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May 18, 2021 11:32
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Vampires as sexual beings has been around since Bram Stoker made Dracula about how those heathen Eastern Europeans with their raw animal magnetism will seduce our chaste innocent white women, and Vampires as being tormented supermodels who love to have tragic gay sex has been around since Anne Rice. But what I want to know is, since Vampire are undead and have no heartbeat or bloodflow, how are they getting boners and having all this sex?
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May 18, 2021 12:14
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Iirc in World of Darkness vampires could spend blood points to mimic human biological functions.
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May 18, 2021 12:22
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I guess after a certain point a vampire could become powerful enough that they can flex their heart at will like an arm muscle. So even if the blood isn't oxygenated it's still going somewhere.
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May 18, 2021 12:33
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galagazombie posted:Vampires as sexual beings has been around since Bram Stoker made Dracula about how those heathen Eastern Europeans with their raw animal magnetism will seduce our chaste innocent white women, and Vampires as being tormented supermodels who love to have tragic gay sex has been around since Anne Rice. But what I want to know is, since Vampire are undead and have no heartbeat or bloodflow, how are they getting boners and having all this sex? hate to break it to you but the novel dracula is also about gay sex. Vampires are gay. I really enjoyed the last(?) season of castlevania, the wonky story telling aside it was a lot of fun. Malcolm Mcdowell was a delight.
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May 18, 2021 14:44
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Castlevania season 2 was bad enough with the main cast hanging around doing nothing in a library all season, only to easily beat Dracula and all of his forces in two episodes. Then Season 3 was just interminable. The main characters are walking around a bland old village with some mysteriously evil religious guys. ooh I wonder what's gonna happen. Then they wasted so much time on the dumb vampire femdom stuff with the white-haired guy. Has season 4 fixed the problem where they clearly only have the budget for a very small number of action sequences so they spend the entire rest of the season just having the characters chatter and chatter?
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May 18, 2021 15:44
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Casey Finnigan posted:Has season 4 fixed the problem where they clearly only have the budget for a very small number of action sequences so they spend the entire rest of the season just having the characters chatter and chatter? Can't the same be said of all anime
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May 18, 2021 16:17
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Casey Finnigan posted:Castlevania season 2 was bad enough with the main cast hanging around doing nothing in a library all season, only to easily beat Dracula and all of his forces in two episodes. Then Season 3 was just interminable. The main characters are walking around a bland old village with some mysteriously evil religious guys. ooh I wonder what's gonna happen. Then they wasted so much time on the dumb vampire femdom stuff with the white-haired guy. Season 3 had extreme "mid-game RPG hub" energy, but I also kind of liked it for it.
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May 18, 2021 16:19
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Southpaugh posted:hate to break it to you but the novel dracula is also about gay sex. Vampires are gay. But it wasn’t tragic brooding supermodel gay. Which is the big thing Anne Rice popularized and has informed Castlevania since Symphony of the Night.
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May 18, 2021 16:43
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Soma Cruz arc when?
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May 18, 2021 16:51
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Southpaugh posted:hate to break it to you but the novel dracula is also about gay sex. Vampires are gay. Then why is Dracula obsessed with stealing Harker's wife? And why does he wait until Lucy is engaged before turning her into child molester? Vampires are about cuckoldry, and, uh, probably a lot of other things too... Lestat, on the other hand...
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May 18, 2021 17:18
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I forgive the dumb Death dialogue because it's Malcolm McDowell.
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May 18, 2021 17:56
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Toph Bei Fong posted:Then why is Dracula obsessed with stealing Harker's wife? And why does he wait until Lucy is engaged before turning her into child molester? Vampires are about cuckoldry, and, uh, probably a lot of other things too... Because they can't grow beards.
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May 18, 2021 19:59
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galagazombie posted:But it wasn’t tragic brooding supermodel gay. Which is the big thing Anne Rice popularized and has informed Castlevania since Symphony of the Night. I'm not sure how, but everyone just sort of forgets Lord Byron when this comes up.
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May 18, 2021 20:40
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Season two rules because it's about the court intrigues of these bad guys who all immediately get slaughtered when the heroes show up.
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May 18, 2021 20:43
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drat, Odd Taxi is insanely good
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the fact that the dorohedoro people are making the chainsaw man anime is the only thing keeping me alive
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grate deceiver posted:drat, Odd Taxi is insanely good Yes it is. HerraS posted:the fact that the dorohedoro people are making the chainsaw man anime is the only thing keeping me alive This is wonderful news.
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May 19, 2021 01:40
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galagazombie posted:Vampires as sexual beings has been around since Bram Stoker made Dracula about how those heathen Eastern Europeans with their raw animal magnetism will seduce our chaste innocent white women, and Vampires as being tormented supermodels who love to have tragic gay sex has been around since Anne Rice. But what I want to know is, since Vampire are undead and have no heartbeat or bloodflow, how are they getting boners and having all this sex? Carmilla is a lesbian vampire story that predates Bram Stokers Dracula
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Mr. Lobe posted:Carmilla is a lesbian vampire story that predates Bram Stokers Dracula Still about how those heathen Eastern Europeans with their raw animal magnetism will seduce our chaste innocent white women.
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May 19, 2021 10:19
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galagazombie posted:Still about how those heathen Eastern Europeans with their raw animal magnetism will seduce our chaste innocent white women. Vampire stories originate in Eastern Europe, and because they're metaphors for aristocracy it's only natural that a core theme would be how they prey on women and get away with it.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Vampire stories originate in Eastern Europe, and because they're metaphors for aristocracy it's only natural that a core theme would be how they prey on women and get away with it. theyre basically equivalent to a rhetorical device for calling the mods pedos, by replacement of the true subject with the supernatural harlequin. it's a really neat trick for an oppressed underclass, as such was the condition eastern serfs, to publically proclaim that the people in charge are all murderous rapists who probably gently caress the children they later devour and afterwards curtsying towards the audience of aristos to perform their legendary impression of a puppydog
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lollontee posted:theyre basically equivalent to a rhetorical device for calling the mods pedos, by replacement of the true subject with the supernatural harlequin. it's a really neat trick for an oppressed underclass, as such was the condition eastern serfs, to publically proclaim that the people in charge are all murderous rapists who probably gently caress the children they later devour Vampires didn’t become associated with aristocracy until the 1800’s and the association was made by well off British men who were definitely going for a Victorian misogyny “They’re stealing our virtuous daughters!” angle. The vampire of the Eastern European common folk was more likely to be your improperly buried neighbor than your shitbag feudal lord. Of the three works that created the modern Vampire The Vampyre, Carmilla, and Dracula all three are about the seduction of an innocent chaste upper class white lady, two of them by Eastern Europeans.
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galagazombie posted:This reading doesn’t really work since Vampires were originally essentially just blood zombies with no real aristocratic flair. err... what was your original vampire story again?
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May 19, 2021 14:11
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lol @ someone thinking 19th century brits gave even the remotest of a gently caress about eastern europeans.
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galagazombie posted:This reading doesn’t really work since Vampires were originally essentially just blood zombies with no real aristocratic flair. So you think Lord Byron and Sheridan Le Fanu were paranoid about swarthy eastern europeans snatching up white women? The Vampyre is literally about an English lord.
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May 19, 2021 14:34
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I find it very hard to believe that 19th century British nobility could be racist.
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May 19, 2021 14:37
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:So you think Lord Byron and Sheridan Le Fanu were paranoid about swarthy eastern europeans snatching up white women? The Vampyre is literally about an English lord. that’s why I said two out of three. e: even if Sheridan and Bryon weren’t personally afraid of certain things they sure as hell knew their audience was. That’s part of writing a horror story. Like do you seriously believe upper class Victorian Brits weren’t racist against everyone and everything? Eastern Europe as some kind of not-white-enough barbarian land of horrors is a well worn trope of British literature, vampires or otherwise. galagazombie has issued a correction as of 14:48 on May 19, 2021 |
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Gripweed posted:I find it very hard to believe that 19th century British nobility could be racist. Lord Byron hated the English aristocracy, preferred to live in Venice, and became a hero of Greece. Sheridan Le Fanu is Irish. I love scoring points on English people as much as the next man of Hibernian descent, but you are really picking the wrong targets.
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galagazombie posted:that’s why I said two out of three right, but thats not really a cultural study. like yeah im sure the concept of a vengeful undead was used in a lot of contexts over the course of the history of folk tales and theatre, but that doesn't really prove anything against the argument
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