How does the JDF cast of gate fare invading and subjugating the primitive magical world of faerun instead of the special realm from their own show? (As well as attempting to maintain sole strategic control of the gateway area between worlds)
From 2-4, the series did a good job of taking well liked characters and groups and expanding upon them in the world (such as making the Woren a major faction in 4, or utilizing its Maria expansion from 1 to 3).
So here’s a question: if there were EVER another BoF game to be made (already a unicorn wish, I know) is there any race or lore you’d like to see expanded upon?
Where a show either features technology or use of technology in a way that is so extremely short term as to date the period or show. Basically, where the show would either be baffling to someone a few years before or after the show or where the viewer would know the date the show occurs in from technology.
1: hey Arnold: bob’s beepers. Paging devices were briefly incredibly valuable devices but became utterly obsolete by the advent of smart phones performing all their functions infinitely better. As such, helga’s dad’s occupation would be confusing to most Gen Z or later viewers, and dates when the series occurs.
2: reboot: literally everything. While inarguably an excellent adventure fantasy series whose characters and plots stand up in a vaccum, its computer technology and references would seem incredibly quaint to anyone who viewed it nowadays. Special mention goes to its depiction of the internet as an eldritch location filled with unknowable horrors to the inhabitants of mainframe, making good use of the original dial up connection noise as a communication method by the inhabitants of the internet to seem strange and foreign.
What’s your thoughts on the characters that make up the Star fox team?
While the Star fox team tries to have a decent array of specializations for each character (slippy being the engineer that makes most of their stuff, peppy as an old mentor, falco as a cocky rival, ect.), the Star wolf team seems a bit more of a mish mash.
Pigma exists to be a bastard that you hate, and panther is actually a good foil to wolf in joking around and calling wolf out on how he actually feels about things or his motives being less evil than he acts. But it seems like some of the others, like Leon or Andrew, are a lot more bland.
What’s your view of the members?
Shows or universes where extremely “high tech” or sophisticated energy weapons exist, but older more conventional ones still are widely used alongside them. Also applies to such things as revolvers and bolt action guns being used alongside automatic or semi-automatic weapons.
1: the heavy arms gundam. I’m using the endless waltz version because it’s the only one to explicitly be shown to use solid shell ammunition despite it running out of ammo being a plot point weakness in prior forms. In a world with beam rifle cannons, lasers, and multiple energy weapons, this is a gundam that gets by simply by mounting more guns than a battleship and drowning the enemy in bullets; notably one of the most beloved from the series for that reason.
2: armored core AC weapons. Despite lasers and particle weapons being a well developed and widely accepted branch of warfare in universe, bog standard kinetic weapons still make up the majority of those used, for the simple reason that logistically powering energy weapons requires a large source of energy and puts a bigger strain on your mech’s reactor. In game mechanically, it’s for the simple reason that kinetic weapons often have a lot of stagger value, one of the key components of the combat system.
3: Real life. We’ve had coil guns, railguns and lasers for literally close to ONE HUNDRED years now, but have never widely adopted them; why? Logistics win wars, not super weapons, and if your “high tech” weapon breaks down and has to be fixed constantly, it doesn’t matter how good it looks in a vaccum.
Kind of funny that when you stop and think about it, rather than super machines built as doomsday weapons or final creations of legendary robots, the character with the best track record of defeating X and Zero, “legendary” creations of the worlds best robotocist, is Vile, a big standard military robot who just really hates the two of them.
So, we’ve seen a corrupted form for twilight and sunset shimmer, and a questionable one that’s more like “possessed” for rarity.
So here comes the question: if you were to assign a deadly sin to each of the mane six/seven, what would it be?
Any comic or scene from the past where a word used in the past has changed its meaning in the common use drastically, making watching or reading the scenes unintentionally humorous.
1: ghost in the shell. Autistic mode is a perfectly reasonable use of the term by its original definition, of turning inward, used to describe cutting off all of your implant/computer systems outside interaction to turn it into a closed system to avoid information warfare. But with autism being much more well known nowadays and its implication being seen as much more (either) humorous or disquieting, a character telling another “go autistic!” Like when the military raids section 9 is usually going to bring out a chuckle.
2: mentally handicapped terms such as “retard”. These have been turned into insults and slurs in current age (imbecile and retard being clinically proper terms in the past that were claimed for hateful use), so any use of them in older media can be quite shocking.
3: memes. Used for the transfer of information, almost exclusively known for internet pictures and phrases nowadays, when used straight forwardly in the original use like in Monsoon in metal gear can be hard to take seriously.
4: fetish (werewolf the apocalypse or any series with their use as a magical object, such as Diablo)
Haha, get it out, fetish generally being known best as a sexual kink. But the original purpose of the word was for an object given power, generally mystical in nature, by human belief and thought as well as other factors. So of course it heavily is used in a series about werewolves leading to such excellent sentences to google as “what werewolf fetishes exist”.