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Runeboggle posted...

Reminds me of how the Stormlight Archive opens up with "4500 years later" after the prelude. Want them to all be that long, tc?

CE really loves its Strawman arguments.

To Rick, the show I'm watching now is Cyberpunk.

The thing is, I actually like the idea of time skips because it's interesting to see where characters are years later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR5kEQ9LgvU&ab_channel=Movieclips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7KpF7BF0ew&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesClassicTrailers

never hear people talk about them anymore

MisterPengy posted...

Why even write stories? Introduce your character, do a 10 year time skip, and resume at the final battle.

3 pages, max. Should be all you need.

Where in the world did you draw this conclusion from? The cool thing about time skips is you can see characters and the world from a later point in the time. It doesn't have to skip story beats. If you don't have them, then you are limited to stories that take place within like a year or so, or you have to have a show that has like 1000 episodes.

The only way your argument would make any sense is if stories have some arbitrary rule that it has to happen over 10 years. Just a completely nonsensical point.

SydnieStarlight posted...

The longer the time skip, the more the status quo has to change. Say the protagonist meets a bunch of people before the time skip and they all become friends. If you have, say, a ten-year time skip but don't factor that into the state of the friend group, it looks unrealistic. After ten years, you'd expect there to be changes. Maybe one of them died, maybe another got married. Maybe there was a falling out and half the group split off. If the friend group looks basically the same as they did ten years ago, it feels harder to believe.

But there's a flip side to that. Maybe the writer wants that friend group to be a longer-lasting part of the story. Or maybe it would hurt the story to change the dynamic too much. Like, what's the point of introducing this whole friend group if you're just gonna rip it apart with a time skip?

So in that case, just do a shorter time skip. This lets you show how some things about the world may have changed, but not everything has. The protagonist might be stronger now than they used to be, but their friends never left their side.

Basically, the more time you put between point A and point B, the more things you need to change for it to feel realistic, and there are some things you may not want to change that much.

That actually makes my point STRONGER. Do you know what else these writers like to do? The protagonist will meet a friend group and act like they're best friends after they've known each other for a few months. If they're still friends after 10 years, you know they have a real bond. Instead we get characters acting all dramatic about people they just met. Some of these guys are barely even acquaintances.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

That's nice.

I got to study Great the hell Expectations for the THIRD DAMN TIME.

yeah kinda glad I didn't have to read Dickens after HS lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZUC0m5-mM8&ab_channel=Nicktoons

AsucaHayashi posted...

because if a potential sequel requires a longer time skip to make sense, the writer has a much narrower time period to work with.

What do you mean? Why is saying 5 years has passed between Part 1 and 2, harder to say than saying only 1 year has passed. It's practically 1 line of dialogue. Just make it more believable. I'm watching a show right now, won't name to avoid spoilers, but the protagonist went from being a scrawny rookie kid to the buff leader of the gang. When I watched the scene, I was like oh, so like a few years passed. I looked it up and it was a few months. It's like why. WHY do you have to cram stuff into the smallest window possible.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

tl;dr but it really is.

Why the hell did I have to take four English classes and two history classes, which were all dumbed down rehashes of classes I took as a damn freshman in high school...

for an engineering degree?

Basically one in three, maybe two classes were what I actually wanted to study and the rest were irrelevant bullshit.

eh it's good to have knowledge of other fields. They let us choose what our English class was about, and I learned a good deal about film in mine.

ItzKnightz posted...

Boy, that's how the world works

no it's not.

Protagonist is just learning about the world

*1 year passes*

Protagonist is now a chiseled veteran

A year is barely anytime at all. You're still a beginner in most crafts.

Fenriswolf posted...

So where are the college monitors against anti-Arab racism following 9/11, anti-Asian racism following COVID, and anti-Black racism for the last few decades?

It's always funny to me how people always come around to my positition on issues after calling me all kinds of names months prior.

Biden needs to do something jfc

All that's really saying is the wealth gap is getting bigger.

TomClark posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e66a31ba.png

Juicy

Kinda. My parents have an adversarial attitude towards sellers where if someone got more money out of you, you lost the interaction. They came from a place where you bargain the price of every purchase.

So for me, if I paid interest on something, I feel like I got bamboozled. Like this guy tricked me into paying $23k instead of $20k.

Lizards posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f2c670bc.jpg

Why isn't that Pokemon wearing clothes?

We need one of the mods to try.

That dude knows how to spin. No wonder he's the CEO

aarrgus posted...

https://www.forbes.com/newsletters/andrewleahey/2024/04/24/biden-capital-gains-rate-proposal-446/?sh=1b27bb01ff64

Stupid strategy imo. He's going to lose a lot of voters if he they think they'll be taxed more. Need to say the million dollar thing outright.

Explore and take your time through the campaign. The endgame isn't worth rushing towards.

best trailer marvel has released in a while

thronedfire2 posted...

I'm pretty sure we can link to Fandom's own wiki

https://hades-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Aphrodite

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/b90dd0b6.jpg

I am offended.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Well, how is a dollar worth anything?

Because the government backs it up and you can spend it anywhere in the US.

My buddy is a doctor making $300k a year. He's in shape, nice, and sociable and a girl rejected him for not pursuing her hard enough. Apparently you need to triple text to show your commitment.

It's valuable the same way a Pokemon card is valuable. People will pay money for it because there's hype around it, not because it will actually do anything for you.

Dub is better than sub unless you can understand the native language. You lose the timing of deliveries and don't know wtf the people are saying.

Out of touch

GrandConjuraton posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/80747432

Damn they really want this site to die huh?

Everyone freaking out

Pro life state.

Corporate America is wild.

The scene that stuck with me was when Arya was trading blows with Brienne. Look I know we all loved Arya, but that shit was fucking stupid.

pinky0926 posted...

it look like you're a classically good looking person out doing a bunch of outdoorsy interesting s***,

The caveat to that is that the people who are taking selfies while doing that stuff may not even enjoy doing it that much. It's just social media clout compared to people who just go out and enjoy it.

HudGard posted...

DB Super saying that Beerus told Frieza to destroy planet Vegeta.

That completely undermines one of the biggest plot details in Z and one of the most memorable and recognizable villains. Completely stupid and unnecessary.

I feel that way about the entirety of super. The whole thing just doesn't make sense in respect to Z. None of the power levels make sense, and the vibe is completely different.

In my mind, super is just some alternate dimension.

Nah I'd win

It's like a party in my mouth, and everyone's throwing up.

It's more like two hours because you have to actually travel to the gym, then deal with getting ready and cleaned up.

Same. It's not even that crazy when they say it most if the time.

Goku really ditched her for years at a time. What a terrible husband.

ROBANN_88 posted...

the game tells you that when you use illitihid powers (narrator: Authority) that you lose a part of yourself

that's not really true in any noticeable way.
maybe it was gonna be a thing but was cut, or maybe it's more of an abstract thing.

i only mention this cause i was scared of using that stuff in the beginning,
but the only thing stopping you it is your own roleplay decisions for that

It affects one of your dice rolls at the end of the game. If you don't want your character's appearance to change, I wouldn't do it TC.

LonelyStoner posted...

Hmmm. I did just this and then banged my head against a wall. Should I give the game another shot?

Yes the game really opens for you after level 4 and 5. Those bosses are practically impossible at level 3 without some kind of cheese.

Don't attack a goblin leader or Hag until you're level 4. Early levels make a massive difference in this game so don't bang your head against the wall on these bosses

Gritty posted...

Yeah, I felt like it was kind of doom from the start because it really was more of just a protest and it was an actual like political movement. It really didnt have like a central organization and then I remember reading an article when all this was going down and they mentioned how the people that initially started. The BLM movement got like forced out by other players, and those are the ones who eventually corrupted it.

I also dont think the whole like defunding. The police thing works like it. It just didnt reach enough people and it scared too many people. I dont honestly think thats the answer either. I think the answer is having not a national as a police force but like a nationalized standard and having a Database still doesnt allow these cops to just move from one department to another and in general, just having better accountability better people and higher training standards. in California Theres literally police departments that have less fucking Academy training, then beauticians in order to get licensed.

but at the same time, policing in this country literally was created out of slavery, so the entire institutions been corrupted from its inception, so.

Yeah I still remember people attacking me for saying defund the police was a dumb slogan. Reform the Police is so much better

Looks fun tbh

I think funding from taxes should be spread to all areas equally. There shouldn't be a low funded area vs a well funded area. It shouldn't matter if one area paid more in local taxes or not.

Solid_Snake07 posted...

Anyone who didn't know he was pretty obviously gay needs to return their gaydar for a new one.

What was so obvious? I don't know much about him other than he likes to argue with college students.

I'm glad our tax dollars went to good use.

lilORANG posted...

I heard it was pretty good despite the changes so w/e

I just finished it. I think it's good overall. All the stuff they did was Zuko was great. The costumes and special effects look spot on. Dialogue was too exposition-y. I don't think Aang, Azula, Iroh, and Katara aren't bad per se, but they don't have the same personalities as the cartoon.

Aang is very somber with all his responsibility. He has that a bit in the cartoon too, but it's hidden underneath his fun side.

Katara became like a meek little girl instead of being the mom of the group.

deoxxys posted...

Huhhhh

She got money out of being a hoe?

It's really possible she got groomed though. She was pretty young.