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Strom Cuzewon posted:Oh yeah, I'm totally on board with heavy handed symbolism. It's like Parasite, Unsubtle =/= Clumsy I know authors that use subtext and they are cowards.
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Hellioning posted:Honestly I'm really excited for season 2 to see how Vi and Jinx go from how they are at the end of season 1 to how they are in, say, Legends of Runeterra, where it's clear Vi cannot stand Jinx at all. Ah, someone hasn't played Vi's Adventure path! (Which I don't blame you for, she's not got a good deck even by the standards of the rest.)
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Dawgstar posted:Ah, someone hasn't played Vi's Adventure path! (Which I don't blame you for, she's not got a good deck even by the standards of the rest.) I just played the first Jinx one and it really uh... did not line up at all with what I expected after watching Arcane. What the gently caress was that lol
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The Shortest Path posted:I just played the first Jinx one and it really uh... did not line up at all with what I expected after watching Arcane. What the gently caress was that lol Yeah, Runeterra is definitely in keeping with the old characterizations, so Jinx is basically Harley Quinn.
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Nov 28, 2021 21:42
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There's really no getting around the fact that the whole Cait/Vi vs. Jinx dynamic was originally written with far more of a Tom and Jerry mindset, and it's hard to completely change the tone of the characters after so many years of being out. Miss Fortune's a good example of this: they'd originally planned to change her goofy in-game voicelines to something far more serious and even-keeled - in line with her character development from "gag pirate character" to "bloodthirsty revenge fable" - when they had a VA in for Gun Goddess, and every Miss Fortune player they trialed it for hated it. I'm honestly okay more with them establishing some kind of separate canon for their more serious works to serve as a more "realistic" take on Runeterra if that's the direction they wanna go. It frees up the writers to tell genuinely interesting stories and provide unique twists on the characters, and it doesn't require them to adhere rigidly to slapdash backstories that they have to contort the writing to fit into. There's no way to get from Arcane Jinx to LoR Jinx that doesn't completely desiccate the former as a character, so making it clear they aren't the same character is probably the best way to go forwards with it.
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Squidster posted:Sevika had drat well better be the new kingpin of Zaun. That's too optimistic--Sevika might actually improve things in Zaun, and that's not the way Zaun works. Things were worse under Silco than they were under Vander, and they're about to get even worse under the negligent rule of Empress Jinx.
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Nov 28, 2021 22:29
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Madurai posted:That's too optimistic--Sevika might actually improve things in Zaun, and that's not the way Zaun works. Things were worse under Silco than they were under Vander, and they're about to get even worse under the negligent rule of Empress Jinx. In the non-Arcane canon, at least, contemporary Zaun is supposed to be a functional place with its own rich culture, not JUST an unending slum of misery.
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Nov 28, 2021 22:59
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Jetrauben posted:In the non-Arcane canon, at least, contemporary Zaun is supposed to be a functional place with its own rich culture, not JUST an unending slum of misery. I mean there's some partying going on there, so it's not just a misery slum.
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Nov 28, 2021 23:06
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Vermain posted:There's really no getting around the fact that the whole Cait/Vi vs. Jinx dynamic was originally written with far more of a Tom and Jerry mindset, and it's hard to completely change the tone of the characters after so many years of being out. Miss Fortune's a good example of this: they'd originally planned to change her goofy in-game voicelines to something far more serious and even-keeled - in line with her character development from "gag pirate character" to "bloodthirsty revenge fable" - when they had a VA in for Gun Goddess, and every Miss Fortune player they trialed it for hated it. Somebody brought up some of the earliest fiction for Miss Fortune and it's hysterical and not in an intended way. https://twitter.com/RequineGG/status/1463703031497867264
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The league thread memed that line to hell and back when they first published that MF lore page, it was a good time.
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SirSamVimes posted:I mean there's some partying going on there, so it's not just a misery slum. Yeah, there's a few scenes in episode three that show off the thriving cultural accomplishments of Silco's Zaun. And later on we see that the firelights faction also has their little community paradise. It's still poor and polluted and dangerous, but it's not a totally horrible place to live. For next season, I'm really curious to see how they'll pull off Viktor benevolently turning people into robots without it coming across incredibly weird. In his existing lore, he starts augmenting people in order to improve working conditions for laborers, and the rest follows from there. After all, he's from the undercity, so he just gets the needs of the working class (Jayce doesn't get it and that's why they split). But in Arcane, Viktor is intelligentsia through and through, there's absolutely no hint of him ever interacting with, or even thinking about, anyone outside the academy. Even in the little Hexgem demonstration scene, he shows off the bougie option while Jayce presents the manual labor gloves. His transhumanism is completely based on upper class concerns such as "building a legacy" and "not dying of tuberculosis". So I can't really see him going to Zaun and secretly upgrading people in need. Then there's the additional problem that he's already concluded his hexcore is not worth the risk. Maybe he'll have to come up with some way to redeem it to save people after the explosion. I guess theoretically he could just build a new one, but the show so far presents it as a unique item. I'm sure they'll turn it around somehow, after all they made the Harley Quinn character compelling and meaningful. But after reading up on the lore I'm pretty invested in the Viktor story and would hate to lose the class war angle.
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Just had a laugh out loud moment looking to see if "violet" (the flower) had any mythological/historical connotations I might've missed, and I guess it just happens to also be a symbol of love between women. These loving writers are having way too much fun.
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Vermain posted:Just had a laugh out loud moment looking to see if "violet" (the flower) had any mythological/historical connotations I might've missed, and I guess it just happens to also be a symbol of love between women. These loving writers are having way too much fun. Thank you for making me aware of this, that is wonderful to know.
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https://twitter.com/evan_monteiro/status/1464835034485981186 https://twitter.com/evan_monteiro/status/1464837234125795328 https://twitter.com/evan_monteiro/status/1464837382063091716
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I'm not a big Imagine Dragons fan by any means, but the Enemy video is excellent. Same animation and it's a nice little glimpse into the kids' lives before... well, I'm gesturing vaguely at everything in the series. They do the important things, scamming food, watching Vi box and flipping off the cops.
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SirSamVimes posted:https://twitter.com/evan_monteiro/status/1464835034485981186 This guy also has this interesting tidbit: https://twitter.com/evan_monteiro/status/1465070586565070852 For what it's worth, the Council Archives thing in the LoL client has Vi going to Stillwater at 17 with the final entry listing her as "early 20's".
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1stGear posted:This guy also has this interesting tidbit: One of the writers (I think Amanda?) mentioned that they had a rough internal age range of about 15-16 for Vi pre-timeskip, with Cait being within a year of that number, and that the timeskip encompasses about 6-7 years. His Tweet gels with the fact that there's some oddities, like the gigantic Hexgate being built at seemingly breakneck speeds, and the Kirammans both going grey in frankly record time.
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Vermain posted:One of the writers (I think Amanda?) mentioned that they had a rough internal age range of about 15-16 for Vi pre-timeskip, with Cait being within a year of that number, and that the timeskip encompasses about 6-7 years. His Tweet gels with the fact that there's some oddities, like the gigantic Hexgate being built at seemingly breakneck speeds, and the Kirammans both going grey in frankly record time. My grandfather started going grey at 16 and was proper pure white by 20 something. I myself have already started doing so and I’m in my late 20s too. Sometimes people just go grey young.
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Lord_Magmar posted:My grandfather started going grey at 16 and was proper pure white by 20 something. I myself have already started doing so and I’m in my late 20s too. Sometimes people just go grey young. Sometimes people's ancestors were cursed.
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Nov 29, 2021 02:00
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Personal_Nirvana posted:How good is the PvE portion of the LoL card game? I want something that isn't the moba The progression probably need a re-design, but the actual game bits are very fun, if you like roguelike deck builders.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:What is this even supposed to mean? Boobs
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Duzzy Funlop posted:What is this even supposed to mean? League of Legends "lore" if you could call it that used to be fanfic level writing of a weird newspaper type thing about the "league of legends" and champions being summoned before the panel of summoners or whatever to be judged worthy or not of being in the game. https://lol.fandom.com/wiki/Miss_Fortune/Old_Lore quote:Candidate: Miss Fortune
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i have spent all day spilling things in order to figure out how one does so with tenacity madness is nigh send help
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Asema posted:Didn't they add Anthony Burch to their lore team He wrote a comic jinx starred in to help retcon ziggs' lore a few years ago, and for some reason he did this 
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Asema posted:Didn't they add Anthony Burch to their lore team He was there less than a year I think and produced some of the most hated content in the history of the Universe site. Monicro posted:He wrote a comic jinx starred in to help retcon ziggs' lore a few years ago, and for some reason he did this As for example. It's baffling that anyone looked at the writer of Borderlands 2 and who a few years prior was selling a shirt saying "Would You Kindry" and thought yes this person is capable of quality. E: Oh god that shirt was 13 years ago we're all dying slowly. njsykora fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Nov 29, 2021 |
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Dawgstar posted:Boobs Ah. Maybe it's because I'm a non-anglophone, but I've never heard of a person spilling into something, let alone with tenacity, so I didn't make that connection. That full description a couple posts up makes it a bit more obvious that someone was horny for boobs, hips and bobbing. (And then another couple of folks signed off on it)
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Now Miss Fortune is the main character of the Ruined King rpg.
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Wonder how many zoomers learned about Sting because of this Also how many of their moms wandered in during the last scene going "is that Sting?"
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Ah. Maybe it's because I'm a non-anglophone, but I've never heard of a person spilling into something, let alone with tenacity, so I didn't make that connection. That's part of why it's so amazingly terrible. You don't spill into a dress, you spill out of it (like your tits are overflowing). You could maybe spill into a room, like youre making a clumsy but dramatic entrance. They came up with that joke and then stretched the similie as far as they could to try and make it work.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:stretched the similie as far as they could to try and make it work. Much like her blouse, heyooo
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pidan posted:Much like her blouse, heyooo 
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njsykora posted:
Anthony rules he created Scam Likely the best character in fiction
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Another great little naming thing: Vi's weapons being the Atlas Gauntlets are fittingly apt for a woman consistently trying to shoulder the entire weight of the world on her own.
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Anyway, I found the people who are still really hoping that hextech are the souls of Skarner's people so I got that going for me.
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Fanart remains very good. https://twitter.com/jsnrksapphic/status/1465297511153762318 https://twitter.com/NCJ0810/status/1464930980737974273 Also the show got the nod. https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1465105613755535361
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Now that's some high praise! And there wasn't even a mostly naked lady who breathes through her skin in the show.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Now that's some high praise! hwehll ackshually  You don't know she doesn't breathe through her skin.
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And you will be ashamed.
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