...I don't know. I guess I just don't get it.
I don't get what there is to be obsessive about with Dragons Rising. I am in awe that the show has been trending this long. I just can't get into it. I've yet to find something to really latch onto. My biggest fear is that I'm just falling out of the ninjago fandom. And that would be heartbreaking, because I've been so thoroughly invested for so long. But I suppose it's possible. But I don't get it anymore. Things people absolutely adore, I just find passably functional. The less screen time a character gets, the more I like them. I can't remember what even happened this season, and I just watched it 2 days ago. And I can't put my finger on it. I don't know why. I don't know why Dragons Rising doesn't have more of an impact on me. Like I see people so ready to call this one of the best seasons of ninjago content and I just... stare. Wondering what it is that they see that I just can't. Like I'm colorblind. Why do people find this so beautiful? It's fine enough, I guess.
My best theory right now is that the old series always had this hot mess quality about it that was absolutely captivating. It made it so unbearably bad at times, but it made it a wonder to talk about, and think about, and dig in to. And while Dragons Rising is much more competent on so many levels, it's also not particularly groundbreaking or excellent at much, at least not from my perspective. The colors are oversaturated, the character arcs are pretty standard, the dialogue is very straight forward, the plot moves at a predictable rhythm. There's so much going on, but it feels like hardly anything actually gets done. Each episode ends with a cliff hanger that turns out not to be that interesting once you get three minutes into the next episode. We've introduced a large array of new characters, none of which do I particularly need to see again. There are a large plethora of mystery boxes sitting around which I simply can not bring myself to care about. It's a well constructed show. It's sound. It makes sense. It is very well executed. Grade A quality. It just doesn't have... something. And I'm just not sure what.
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It weird seeing all the stuff that's been going on with Pinkypills bc i don't rlly know what's going on and haven't seen their work for the glamrocks, but it's weird bc i have all the FNAF comics, like TSE TTO and TFC, cause i found the last 2, and had the 1st when it like first came out, but if you don't mind explaining what's going on with them
OK the simple thing is this pinky pills is a official FNAF artist she did the art for the silver eye graphic novel and many other art pieces. She did not do the twisted ones or fourth closet graphic novels though.
The thing about pinky pills though is there a bit of a creep.... For example pinky pills drew art of William thirsting after a Little girl, Defended lady fizz (the pedophile), Talked sexually about Scott and also said she touches it touches it to him, Made some seriously transphobic comments, Traced many official FNAF art pieces And of course constantly sexualizing baby.
And all of this has been out in the open for years and she's still employed by Scott to do official art!!! That's why the whole cancel Pinky pills thing is going on. She is just very weird and bad and we don't like her >:(
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okay kinda hot take but since that article about cody dropped i'm.....kinda upset?
not because of cody being cut from the script (though a part of me is? but also honestly I'm not vibing with with some of what beattie was saying about his story in general, the more he reveals). to be clear, YES i would've loved it if cody appeared. but the stuff he said about his version of reva and about the jedi and the force....hm, idk. i kinda prefer the story we got, but seeing cody would've been really good.
i guess my thing is this: the show ended just over a week ago, and all of this info is now coming out. people in the fandom (i guess myself included, though i'm trying to check myself on this) are getting upset about what we could have gotten, instead of thinking about what we did get, and how amazing it was!
the timing of this is atrocious, and i'm upset that beattie decided to spill so much about his proposed script/plot/trilogy/whatever literally right after the show ended. and now it's like the fandom is focusing on what could have been, instead of what is.
does this make sense?
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i havent seen the last couple episodes of leverage but i saw your tag saying you dont like what they're doing to parker and im not sure yet how i feel about parker this season, but do you want to talk about what you're thinking?
So Flanderization is a trope where you take a multi-dimensional character and boil them down into one typically exaggerated element, usually for comedic relief purposes. At the end of S5, Parker was the Mastermind. She had undergone such bonkers character development, going from the weird loner who only cared about making a quick steal to becoming the only person to ever succeed in the White Rabbit because she understands. She talked what the hell's his name down from that ledge by talking to him about making a choice and seizing control of his life and not letting his past drag him down. She became someone who Nate, that shitlord bastard of a man (affectionate), was proud of, which is no easy feat.
Fast forward to Redemption where she's this like, ADHD scatterbrained parody of herself who only seems to care about vents and thievery. Yes, we get the occasional moment where old!Parker shines through like in The Date Night Job where she connects with that kid and the whole "we're both the Doctor" moment with Hardison, but those seem pretty few and far between, mostly because she also feels pretty absent this season? I know Beth directed an episode or two but she's barely in half the episodes and when she IS there, she feels almost like... comic relief, which is not what Parker is.
In OG Leverage, they had the running bit where you never see Parker enter or leave a room which the continue in Redemption, but instead of having Parker just sitting on a counter eating cereal or something benign, just always being there without ever showing up, they always seem to have her pop in with this crazed look in her eyes. It's little stuff like that, where it's never casual but instead it's like they have to keep reminding you that she's weird and quirky.
I dunno, look, I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to TV and I'm very good about overlooking things I don't like and focusing on things I do, but I put a lot of eggs into Parker's basket during my watch of the OG series and something about this is rubbing me the wrong way. It just feels..... disrespectful, you know?
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i see that post going around, i see people getting insecure/upset about it, and i just wanna say: write however you want.
what if your style is "naive" and "aesthetically obsessed" or "smug"? as long as it makes YOU, the writer, happy, it's what counts — no matter if, for some, your style might be "unappealing."
you, as the writer, are not entitled to please anyone but yourself.
that post might have been intended as a 'personal preference' or 'expressing my opinion' kinda post but still the message overall seems weird and can be a trigger for insecurity amongst the writing community, who, again, are not intended to adapt to your writing aesthetics. so no: it's not just a matter of 'personal opinion' if it makes others feel bad.
you have a preference? alright, we all do, that's to be respected, but just because someone's style — or popular doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean the writing style is what you claim to be.
tl;dr: like what you like, write the way you wanna, have as many preferences as you want but, overall: respect.
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Bah.
This is a Goatlings rant I wrote in response to a thread that's been bugging me lately. After finishing it, I realized that it would accomplish nothing for anybody, but I still want the catharsis of making it public, so I'm posting it here. Please pay it no mind if you don't play that game.
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Okay, this thread has bothered me since it was first posted, but I'm saying something now because it's bothering me even more with the kind of support it's getting.
Everyone on this thread… you do realize that just "banning" this behavior wouldn't stop it from happening? Like, I think most of y'all know that and just want to voice your grievances for the behavior, but you're not offering a real solution to the problem and are just looking to punish people that don't share your playstyle.
I don't like it either, but someone saying that their goat is for "storage" is just giving the courtesy of telling you not to waste your time offering on their listing. If storing goats was "banned," people would just stop adding "storage" to their listing and continue to ignore/reject offers for their goat, which wastes everyone's time.
It's not like you can moderate this kind of behavior to "make" the person trade their goat away if they list them. Sometimes people just don't make offers that the trader wants or thinks is fair. How could you realistically tell the difference between that and people that don't intend to accept any offer for their goat?
Goats that are in the Trade Center for over 2 weeks are already hidden from view, so eventually all storage goats get hidden, while people actually trying to trade their goats tend to relist them. So it's annoying in the moment, but storage goats don't clog up the Trade Center any more than goats that just never get traded "clog" it up.
But let's explore possible solutions:
Let's suppose that instead of being "hidden", goats that are listed for more than 2 weeks are returned to the user's profile. This could discourage users to stop storing goats because the process has been made much more annoying, but what is actually being gained for everyone else?
Nothing changes for people making "legit" trades, because ALL goats that are listed for more than 2 weeks are now being returned, so traders still have to remake their listings, which they were likely going to do anyway, and determined users who REALLY don't want their goats on their profile will now keep relisting their storage goat, clogging up the Trade Center again.
Any kind of "fix" for the Traders, like an "easy relist button," would also be available to "Storers", so we just wind up at the same problem: having to separate legit trades from storage trades, except it's worse for literally everyone.
A real solution to this problem is to offer a feature that would appease this behavior, which for the most part is the inability to "hide" goats on your user profile.
Like, people who think this is a way to "show-off," have you considered the reason why storage goats are usually high value or otherwise unique? If it was to "show-off," then these expensive storage goats would keep getting relisted to maximize the number of people looking at them, but you generally don't see that happening. Storage goats tend to be listed once and then disappear into the void forever.
But, if the problem is that they can't hide goats on their profile, then this is probably a case of the user not actually resonating with goat's design, but it being too valuable to want to trade at this time.
Most people just aren't so generous as to abandon goats they don't like if they know they're worth millions of SS. At the same time, trading for that much money may seem daunting when they're still on the fence about wanting to keep the goat or not.
I know I've been in that position where I have a very valuable goat that just doesn't quite resonate with me: I've owned probably 3 different Candy Bones goats over the years because I keep going back-and-forth on whether I like it enough to keep when I couldn't think of a good treasure theme for it.
Instead of wasting millions of SS rebuying something that I already had because I was lacking inspiration, I could have just "stored" the goat until I finally came up with a good treasure + name idea for it.
Sometimes the situation isn't money driven: there are a lot of Basic Grays in "storage" too, usually because they have a name that the user wants to keep, but may not have a "suitable" AD for.
This kind of storing is directly the result of duplicate names being impossible, but that is a whole other conversation.
However, I do sympathize with this form of storage even more than the first example:
I have had goats with names I wanted to keep, but traded away because I was running out of slots and I would rather keep goats that I had a good AD + name + treasure combo rather than just one or two of those.
Usually when this happens, I will change the goat's name before abandoning/trading them so that in the future if I have enough slots to get it back, it'll still be there. After all, if it was free when I first thought of it, then it'll probably be free later. Nonetheless, there have been occasions where it turns out that someone swiped the name from underneath me because I freed it up. So even though I might have thought of the name first, someone else got it because I was careless enough to "free it up" when I didn't have a good AD for it.
I know, I'm clearly the one at fault in that story: if I really liked the name that much to be sad when someone else grabbed it, then I should have just kept them and accepted that they would be "incomplete" instead of "freeing" them. But, if I had "stored" the goat, then I wouldn't have had that problem, I could have just kept the name until I figured something out for it instead of losing what was arguably rightfully mine.
But, I learned that lesson, and right now I do have a couple of goats that are using "placeholder" ADs (BurgerTime and Sumairu) while I hold out hope that an AD that really resonates with me and suits them gets released.
Now, maybe some people would consider this ideal behavior: just "sucking it up" and keeping these goats that I really don't want to show off on my profile instead of "storing" them, but it's frustrating for me too: I don't like having "incomplete" goats on my profile. If I had a place to put these goats without clogging up the Trade Center, then I would. The only reason I don't personally store goats is that despite my defenses so far, I still find goat storing incredibly annoying to deal with. I check the Trade Center daily, so I know how annoying sorting through storage goats can really be, and I don't blame anyone for being upset about it.
BUT, I know this is just the result of the site not having an alternative feature.
I told all these anecdotes to help illustrate why some users may participate in this behavior, and why it is rarely to be malicious.
Goat storing is the result of the failure/lack of other features.
Trying to "ban" users from this behavior is just going to make this all more annoying for everyone. Yes, it sucks having to sort though storage goats, I'm not saying it isn't, but the solution isn't to ban the behavior without an alternative.
Instead, the site should be offering new features to curb the behavior, and wouldn't you know, "Goat Daycare" is something that staff is considering. While it could honestly be years before it's actually implemented, the fact that such a feature is being considered at all implies that staff is at least somewhat aware that this is a feature that people want.
TLDR: You're not wrong for thinking this behavior is annoying, but banning the behavior outright isn't the solution.
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