@nudraxon.bsky.social
OK, I'll give my capital-T Take on this.
There's a thread running through a lot of the other quote skeets, which is that there's a bright dividing line in fiction with "Lore/Worldbuilding" on one side and "Themes" on the other, and only dumb nerds care about the former. I rather strongly disagree.
There's a thread running through a lot of the other quote skeets, which is that there's a bright dividing line in fiction with "Lore/Worldbuilding" on one side and "Themes" on the other, and only dumb nerds care about the former. I rather strongly disagree.
Most modern fantasy writers would answer this question, whether or not they'd given it much thought. Sapkowski flatly will not and resents you asking him about it
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
OK, I'll give my capital-T Take on this.
There's a thread running through a lot of the other quote skeets, which is that there's a bright dividing line in fiction with "Lore/Worldbuilding" on one side and "Themes" on the other, and only dumb nerds care about the former. I rather strongly disagree.
There's a thread running through a lot of the other quote skeets, which is that there's a bright dividing line in fiction with "Lore/Worldbuilding" on one side and "Themes" on the other, and only dumb nerds care about the former. I rather strongly disagree.
OK, since the question of whether video games are art seems to be coming up again, I want to ask another, related question:
Are board games art?
Are board games art?
September 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
OK, since the question of whether video games are art seems to be coming up again, I want to ask another, related question:
Are board games art?
Are board games art?
As a side-note, I kind of hate how what a lot of people call "media literacy" tends to focus more on interviews with the creators than the actual work itself.
it is true that George Lucas said that he meant the Ewoks-vs-Empire to be a Vietnam metaphor. But unfortunately the actual film does almost nothing to sell that idea. The Ewoks are a 'primitive tribe' from a 1930s adventure movie, including attempting to eat the incomers + worshipping one as a god
May 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
As a side-note, I kind of hate how what a lot of people call "media literacy" tends to focus more on interviews with the creators than the actual work itself.
Oh come on! There are dozens of eyewitness accounts (including several from First Order sources) that corroborate Rey's account of Luke's appearance on Crait. The explanations that the revisionists have resorted to (mass hysteria! Force hypnosis!) are frankly rather pathetic.
(And I think we can all agree that a small group of traumatised rebel survivors who were already *deeply* passionate believers in the Jedi Cause, including Skywalker's own sibling, are hardly reliable eyewitnesses; even without deliberate dishonesty, hallucinatory visions seem wholly feasible)
May 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Oh come on! There are dozens of eyewitness accounts (including several from First Order sources) that corroborate Rey's account of Luke's appearance on Crait. The explanations that the revisionists have resorted to (mass hysteria! Force hypnosis!) are frankly rather pathetic.
Random thought: why do I see way more people stanning Luigi Mangione than either attempted Trump assassin?
Is it because the latter 2 failed in their attempts, because healthcare CEOs are more viscerally hated than Trump, or some other reason?
Is it because the latter 2 failed in their attempts, because healthcare CEOs are more viscerally hated than Trump, or some other reason?
January 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Random thought: why do I see way more people stanning Luigi Mangione than either attempted Trump assassin?
Is it because the latter 2 failed in their attempts, because healthcare CEOs are more viscerally hated than Trump, or some other reason?
Is it because the latter 2 failed in their attempts, because healthcare CEOs are more viscerally hated than Trump, or some other reason?
Reposted
2020s fantasy RPGs keep failing the “did Halo 2 do it better with a crab-faced space uggo whose buddies you spent the first game shooting at in a Mountain Dew fueled haze?” challenge. Arbiterheads stay winning.
VEILGUARD SPOILERS:
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
It's shown pretty incontrovertibly in Veilguard that the Chant is completely wrong when it comes to the Black City and that the Golden City was explicitly not made by the Maker. There are about eight lines of dialogue devoted to the importance of this.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
It's shown pretty incontrovertibly in Veilguard that the Chant is completely wrong when it comes to the Black City and that the Golden City was explicitly not made by the Maker. There are about eight lines of dialogue devoted to the importance of this.
November 13, 2024 at 1:36 PM
2020s fantasy RPGs keep failing the “did Halo 2 do it better with a crab-faced space uggo whose buddies you spent the first game shooting at in a Mountain Dew fueled haze?” challenge. Arbiterheads stay winning.