Petty gripe: This game doesn't understand how radios work.

I'm fairly late in my first playthrough (Deek and >!Sarah just returned to the Cloverdale facility!<) and it finally annoyed me enough to post when he radioed >!Lost Lake Camp and Boozer!<. Every time Deacon talks in to the radio he holds the button down to talk, and yet he's still being constantly interrupted as he talks. Radios don't work like that. When you hold the button, the person on the other end is silenced until your transmission is complete, it's not like a phone where everyone has an open mic to talk over each other. I know it's petty but I'm a security guard, I work with radios all day, and it would be annoying as hell if my colleagues could cut me off when I'm sending information.

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u/blackbriar98 — 14 hours ago

Finally picked this up on the Steam Summer Sale. Feel like I’ve spent half my playthrough in photo mode.

u/blackbriar98 — 5 days ago
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Car Rental [Question]

Hello. I've been planning to visit Norway for a while now. Specifically, the plan has been to land at Bergen airport and drive out to Odda and that sort of area for a few days. However I recently discovered that a credit card is generally required to rent a car in Norway. Due to poor financial decisions in my younger years I can not get a credit card at this time. Is there any other option for renting a car in Norway, like a particular company or something? If it makes a difference, I drive on a British drivers license and have done for seven years.

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u/blackbriar98 — 14 days ago

Favorite character who’s fully aware of their weirdly horny fan base.

Pictured: Pomni from The Amazing Digital Circus, and Loona from Helluva Boss.

u/blackbriar98 — 24 days ago

[Mixed Trope] The actor and character finally work, and all it took was being a side character under a different writer.

  1. Iron Fist appearing in Luke Cage S2. In his own show, Finn Jones never really sells Iron Fist. He’s unconfident, his fight choreography is awful and the writing for him is inconsistent. In Season 2 of Luke Cage they team up for one episode, and he genuinely embodies the character from the moment he shows up. Confident, funny, charismatic, and a fast fighter. Disney! Give me my Heroes For Hire series, and my life is yours.

  2. The 13th Doctor cameos in the 15th Doctors TARDIS. Jodie Whittaker gave a spectacular performance as the Doctor that was sadly underlined by some dismal writing. (I’m still not over Kerblam!) But when she appears in the latest season to give Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor some advice, she feels authentic. She has the energy, the techno babble, and the heart of the Doctor. Far more than she ever seemed to under Chris Chibnall in my opinion.

u/blackbriar98 — 2 months ago

(Loved Trope) In a zombie scenario, the military actually act competently.

1: All Of Us Are Dead. Korean Special Forces raid an infested school. And during the attack they cover each other, organise reloads and use the environment to their advantage. They get what they need with zero casualties.

  1. Shaun of the Dead. The military rock up pretty late in the film (which to be fair is only a day long), but when they do, they dispatch the infected immediately. They set up firing lines, and rescue survivors. The pandemic lasts for about a day, and after six months its just a historical incident talked about on TV.
u/blackbriar98 — 2 months ago

Thoughts on prologue?

I’ve been writing for six months now. I’ve accepted I won’t be good enough to publish for years at least. But I get a little better each time I try. And feedback on this subreddit helps.

[Repost in hopes of getting an actual response]

u/blackbriar98 — 2 months ago

Feedback on rewritten prologue?

I've been writing for six months now, on and off. I've accepted it will be years before I'm good enough to publish something, but in the meantime I feel like my craft improves with every new unfinished manuscript.

I had already written this prologue, the introduction of a sci-fi noir detective story, with hints of conspiracy in there too. I'm glad I chose to redo it though. Even if some of you reading aren't fond, I think this is at least an improvement over my previous work.

u/blackbriar98 — 2 months ago

Daredevil is annoying me now

[SPOILERS FOR DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN]

I have been glazing Daredevil Born Again since the second it aired. I loved the Netflix series, and was so happy to have him back. Season 2 was going fantastically, moment to moment writing was excellent, characters were believably portrayed and compelling.

And then, the finale.

Fisk bludgeons his way through over a dozen protesters, drenched head to toe in their blood as he screams his own vindication. Several of them are definitely dead. And then when the remaining mob jumps him, Daredevil pushes his way through them to save him. That itself isn’t completely out of character, he has a no-kill rule after all. But then he tells him to accept an offer he was (somehow) given to leave New York. Renounce his citizenship and he can to retire in the Bahamas, sand beneath his toes and wind on his scalp.

How the fuck is that meant to be satisfying?

This man has dozens of people killed on his orders, personally beats several, many of which are definitely dead. And he gets to happily retire, with full support of the legal system?

Daredevil was crueller towards Karen *attempting* to shoot the man who killed her best friend.

The only reasonable explanation for this ending is that Matt Murdock is secretly in love with Wilson Fisk. Literally nothing else makes sense.

Also, that offer for amnesty would absolutely never survive the several pints of protester blood Fisk left the courthouse drenched in.

What a shit close to an otherwise great season.

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u/blackbriar98 — 2 months ago
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I don’t read romance generally, it’s not my genre, I’m more in to sci-fi and fantasy. But my ex loved romance literature. And as a bigger girl, she absolutely adored the current trend of plus-sized main characters, being chased like any other girl would.

For the record I think this part is fine. Great even. I’m fond of the larger lady myself. My issue with these books, having read a couple and skimmed a couple others for her sake, is the male love interest. In literally none of them are the love interests anything less than fit as a fiddle. Football players or swashbuckling heroes or the like.

To me, that just smacks of ‘No, *they* have to be thin and healthy. It’s only body positive when *she’s* fat.

Any time I see an author online sharing artwork of their novels main characters, and it’s a chubby woman being lusted after by a tall, brooding and handsome man with a six pack, a part of me just cringes a little bit.

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u/blackbriar98 — 2 months ago