Shagster

Justice was my home from the very start. Glad we had you along for the ride.

Hm. May just check that one out someday then.

If nothing else, owe you for all those Hami raid lessons.

OMG! Arcanaville predicted that you'd think about Mila Kunis!

She didn't just read your mind, she read your mind in the FUTURE!

She's not just a psychic, she's a Future Psychic!

Any hostile AIs that have learned image recognition to get past captchas should now be thrown into an infinite loop when they try to understand Arcanaville's forum avatar.

Which is only appropriate.

Later in the Night Ward plot line, there is a reason why the Black Queen turned evil.

Not assuring you it's a GOOD reason, mind you, but there is a force at play the explains the sudden turn to the dark side, and it's not just the Talons, per se.

Whenever they have political unrest on Rikti Earth, they invade Primal Earth out of habit.

As Homer Simpson said once (while grounding Bart, even though it wasn't his fault THIS time): "In times of trouble, you gotta go with what you know!"

I felt I needed to write in an element of the fantastic and completely implausible to really stretch the limits for the type of escapism people expect from comic books.

I hate, hate, hate, HATE this bug.

Totally ruins the delivery of many of my NPC chat moments in my AE arcs.

The correct phrase would be "presence of mind".

I don't normally correct things like this, but given the content of the sentence involved, I couldn't resist.

Hipster is Doing It Wrong.

Azrael, the Death of Universes from the Discworld novels might outrank her. He'd basically be the one who gives her a performance review at the end of the DC Universe.

Someone needs to ask either Prachett or Gaiman about that in one of those fanboy Q&A moments. They correspond regularly, so they could probably work it out between them.

*jots down note*

I'll see if I can work that in to a future script.
Since Marla "Humonga" Allison is a movie star / supervillainess, that should actually be pretty darn easy.

I cannot help but applaud this attitude, and be glad you are working on my favorite game.


As someone who's been reading comic books since I was about 4 years old, I have to acknowledge there's some truth to this. But it's most true in very long running comic book continuities where many, many creators and writers and editors have come and gone over the years.

I think it probably does a disservice to the genre and the industry to imply that comic book material HAS to be that way. From personal experience, I know of at least one comic book company editor who tries to keep things consistent in his particular comic book universe (which, to be fair, is no guarantee that there won't be inconsistencies with stuff from the previous editor's tenure).

It's not about "shoehorning pop culture into easily definable laws", it's about classifying recurring phenomena that do exist in creative media, and thus creating a useful additional specialized vocabulary for applying to the analysis and production of creative works.


Brainstorming conversation version 1:
A: "I think we might be stretching plausibility a bit on page 17 of the script."

B: "How about we hang a lampshade on it?"

A: "That could work."


Version 2:
A: "I think we might be stretching plausibility a bit on page 17 of the script."

B: "Well, maybe we could this thing... you know, it's been done before, like when one of the characters in-universe talks about how the thing that's before them is really implausible, from a in-universe perspective. And thus, we get buy-in from the audience that they are having the same perspective on the implausibility as the author, which takes a lot of the negative impact away. Or we could use some other mechanism to draw attention to the implausibility of the events beside character exposition, as long as we draw attention to it, rather than trying to sweep it under the rug..."

A: "I think I know what you are getting at..."


TVTropes simply creates a common reference point, and the shorthand vocabulary can be very useful at times.

To me, people who suggest that the classification of pop culture by TV Tropes is misguided sound a lot like people who said physicists just don't appreciate the beauty of rainbows because they go on EXPLAINING them with all this talk of photons and variable light wavelengths.

Beat me too it. First thing I thought of when I saw the topic.

Count my vote for Azrael from Discworld series as well.

Ah, I remember being on FemFury and Tic-Toc mentoring me on old-school Hamidon tanking.

And the very first day that PvP was live, I took my stalker to a PvP zone, and promptly got my butt kicked by Tic-Toc.

Good times. Fond memories.

Wishing you all the best, real person behind the internet avatar that I had met.

Wisdom.


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