"Bold. James Bold." - James

"Cursive you, James Bold!!!" - some villain, robably

I thought you were talking about Metroid Dread and got really confused.

Concept: playing Dread, except instead of Jenga blocks use these:

Blorbofication

i love that seals can just

With Russian grammar, Vriska is a singular word of female gender.

male singular - Vrisk

middle gender singular - Vrisko

plural - Vriski

Strictly speaking, “vriska” is plural; the singular is “vriskum”.

"Nooo little Stroheim, don't go into the mancave!"

"OH MEIN GOTT, ZEES IS EIN CAVE FULL OF PILLAR MENNEN!!!"

That moment when you try to pet her belly, but she grabs your hand with her front paws and starts furiously licking it... that's love

Look, it's a TV show and they already blew their budget on writing, music, sound and special effects.

Filming fights in local places is just cheaper. And also makes it more relatable to an average Japanese person.

And, really, where else are they suppose to fight? It's not a fantasy world, it's usually just modern Earth but with some fantastic elements.

I’m never 100% sure what vibe I’m supposed to be getting from Kamen Rider clips because, like, you’ve got these dudes in elaborate robot samurai costumes shouting about the will to power while throwing out attacks with names like “Apocalypse Fist” and shooting green lightning everywhere, but then you zoom out about ten feet and get a good look at where all this is taking place and they’re literally brawling in a motel parking lot.

Titsmon and her... um... Golden Shower move

Chechov's Sword of Damocles: There is a noticeable detail in the story, some potential that, when fulfilled, will inevitably and completely change the flow of the story

Schrödinger's Chechov's Sword of Damocles: same thing, but you're not sure. Even if the Sword did fall, it could actually have no effect on the story, or it could change everything.

Schrödinger's Chechov's Occam's Razor of Damocles: same thing again, but it might not even be real thing! It could literally just be a random background detail that will never "fall", so the simplest way is to just not worry about and accept it as that, a background.

Schrödinger's Chechov's Occam's Damocles's Red Herring: Oh shit, no!!! It was an important detail after all!

schrodinger's chekhov's gun. a detail in a story that looks like it should have some big payoff but it's too early to tell if that's relevant or if the author just has a passion for lovingly describing guns.

Rare footage of Sub-Mariner pretty much Rickrolling Nazis 23 years before Rick Astley was invented, 44 years before Never Gonna Give You Up was born and like 63 years before Rickrolling was first perpetrated

Isekai isn’t even a genre. It’s a setting. A story tag. It’s flavor. Like how “feudal Japan” is a setting. And then it can then be combined with other things. Magic Fantasy Isekai, Lit-RPG Isekai, Monster Collecting Isekai, Isekai with GUNS etc.

And pretty sure the point of Isekai is more like “suddenly (1) getting transported to another world (2) after dying (3)”. It’s not a completely static definition but more of a checklist, a work doesn’t have to fulfill all 3 of them to be an Isekai, only most of it, I guess? You could probably expand it more to include more checks

Digimon Adventure - they were suddenly (yes) transported to the Digital World (yes) but without dying (no). So it’s a 2/3 Isekai

If we count Sword Art Online’s VR games as another worlds (I mean, technically not true, but in practice it’s basically what it is) and the fact that they were trapped in the first game against their will as Sudden, then SAO - suddenly (yes) trapped in another world (yes) without dying (not yet). So SAO is 2/3 Isekai... Kinda ironic that a lot of people in there only died AFTER being “isekaied”. The exception to this is Yuuki, who basically lived in VR full time after being diagnosed with unpreventable super cancer... making her essentially dead, just on a countdown until it settles in. So you could say that for Yuuki specifically, SAO actually WAS a full 100% Isekai!

Star Trek - they’re traveling to different worlds (yes) on their own (no), without dying (no). So Star Trek is 1/3 isekai, but usually people don’t call it that and think of the idea as ridiculous. This means that only fulfilling one check is not enough

...I just realized that this means that... a story where thee main protagonist suddenly (yes) dies (yes), but isn’t transported anywhere (no) would be an Isekai with that definition... I guess we’d have to add reincarnation as a 4th check to that definition

Honestly, one of the reasons I love shitposting about isekai is that it’s one of the starkest illustrations of fundamental inadequacy of the checklist-of-tropes approach to genre construction.

It’s easy enough to say “isekai means portal fantasy, therefore isekai when portal”, yet there are works where the protagonist goes through a portal which are not generally considered to be part of the isekai genre, and contrapositively, works which are generally considered isekai in which no portal is in evidence.

That people going through a portal as a central plot device is neither necessary nor sufficient to establish a work as portal fantasy is like the Platonically perfect example of how fucked up the whole concept of genre is, and I enjoy it very much.

And their older brothers: Name Pending and [DATA EXPUNGED]

my beautiful infant son Untitled Document

Look at this big white chicken

He has butt-wings

So what if there was this time loop scenario. Where some dude’s day is constantly looping. But every fifth lop, a random human also starts looping.

So by 100th loop there are now 20 people on Earth who are undergoing the time loop, only they are aware of it. 105th loop - there is now 21 people.

At first, they don’t know abut each other. All of them think they’re unique, that nobody else is affected. But eventually, things start getting suspicious, like maybe a couple of them sometimes visit the same subreddit and just post random things for shits and giggles, maybe trying to get banned. Usually they do this on separate loops, but one time they just so happen to do this on the same loop. And they’re fucking confused! What the hell? This post wasn’t there before! Who are you? Oh my god, you’re also looping?!

And so, slowly but surely, a community of loopers that know each other gets expanded, but also the amount of loopers keeps getting bigger. They even start appearing near other loopers. Someone neighbor starts looping and stuff.

I’m not sure where this is going. I guess, eventually most of the population on Earth will be looping, and at that point almost everyone will know.  What happens then?

I guess, scientific research, though it’s very hard when all progress is erased every 24 hours. Some cults begin. Theories. Someone proposes that this might end if they just kill the First Looper, like maybe he’s the source of all of this. Others disagree or just don’t care. There could even be a whole war over this debate for several dozen loops. Either way, people are trying to find the First Looper, maybe he has the answers? Or he’s just as clueless as everyone and really afraid for his life now.

Eventually, the entire population of Earth is in the time loop. And then...

“Guy Of The Year Male”

He’s an alpha male, in the sense of being an internal playtest build not intended for public distribution.

Ah, good old Doom

Changing standards in video game violence are legitimately one of the funniest things. You’ll read about a game whose publication provoked actual, no-shit congressional hearings on whether video game violence is Corrupting Our Youth™ in like 1993, and then you look up the game in question and you’re treated to kill shots of enemies popping like ketchup-filled water balloons and sending a dozen femurs pinballing around the screen, accompanied by a cartoon splat noise and a jaunty xylophone jingle.