Uruanna
@Uruanna@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 days ago:
You know they’re the only axis power that still openly celebrates their WWII generals, yeah?
Okay so this one is ultra cultural. They still openly “celebrate” generals who tried to overthrow the imperial family then cursed the capital after their death to be hit by a plague, natural disasters, and famine, over a thousand years ago. With people from the imperial family dying from it. There’s several people like that who literally have an active cult today, to alleviate their anger. It’s not about being happy with what they did, it’s about appeasing everyone who wielded power and caused fear even after their death, because they have a culture of vengeful ghosts and Chinese Buddhism gave them the idea that people with power in the “real world” court still maintained the same power in the court of the underworld and could cause natural disasters and plagues. That said, I don’t know how many of those cults are still observed by the Prime Minister.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 days ago:
I mean, if the Japanese text says “if you can read this, you’re welcome”, it does suggest that English or Chinese people who speak and read Japanese are welcome. It’s a real weird thing to pull, like they think they’re being cute.
- Comment on Brought to you by RFK Jr. 1 week ago:
i think the mentality of "they are evil, therefore they are not logical
No one has ever told you that about right-wingers and religious extremists.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE - Pixel Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Brave Exvius started in 2015 and Octopath was 2019. This is just a new iteration, dumping the gacha part and adding a full traversable open world map.
- Comment on Before Wolverine got his adamantium body, could he grow back his bone claws do to his healing factor? Or is it just for skin muscile and organs? 2 weeks ago:
In the sense that originally, the writers just threw a guy with claws on his gloves against the Hulk, and people liked it so Marvel said make more of this guy, but pretty quickly the writers decided that they didn’t want to say anyone could pick up the gloves and be Wolverine, so they decided that the claws were part of him and not the gkloves. And the Weapon X plot came around with the adamantium. I don’t know if any writer actually said that Wolverine didn’t have claws at all before the adamantium skeleton? It’s just that Marvel kept adding details just as new readers kept asking questions about how it works, and then Marvel suggested that Wolverine’s healing factor might mean he was actually very old, and then they said well what did he do before the adamantium skeleton, and bam, there’s the bone claws. It’s not even a retcon as long as no one said “no claw before the metal bones” before, that’s just how writing goes over decades most of the time, new things get piled on.
- Comment on Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories? 4 weeks ago:
unless by fem-focused you mean femboy werewolf.
As in the femboy becomes a… bear?
- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 1 month ago:
Autism is a much larger spectrum than you might have been led to believe from popular media depiction, and you probably have met a few people in your life who had some degree of autism but you thought “they seem normal?”
- Comment on 1 month ago:
No, i would say it’s very similar. Pilgrimages, a priest class, specific buildings to worship in and “sunday school” of some form or another. If you disapprove of modern religions but like the old ones then it’s really the content of the religion you have irks with.
Early “shrines” in Mesopotamia were about making a landmark to find and return to and rebuild each time they came by (which isn’t necessarily a “pilgrimage”, just knowing where to return), and then building large storage rooms for all the grain that could be redistributed to the people. We don’t have any particular trace related to sacrifice or teaching worship, or even any mark of distinction between priest and non-priest class, as this was before writing. Source is “the invention of the city” by Gwendolyn Leick.
- Comment on Pink Ranger 1 month ago:
Google the text “未来戦隊” “ミライス”
- Comment on Pink Ranger 1 month ago:
Google returns like 5 or 6 other images on Vietnamese Instagrams, with a few different people, a couple of them wearing the exact same shirt, and the logo changes between each picture in a very AI smudged way, or gets photoshop airbrushed off in one. One picture shows a completely other actor under the helmet having a smoke break, and his hand is Marty McFlying off the image.
It’s AI, and at least this wave appears to be like a week old. There may have been an older image used as a basis.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s how they urbanised, not why. The why is agriculture. And it wasn’t religion the way we see it today.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You’re thinking of modern marriage and legal status. Marriage existed thousands of years ago separately from religion. It was about inheritance.
- Comment on Pink Ranger 1 month ago:
This is not any of the pink Sentai and the katakana text under the logo is also nonsense. I’d say this is AI but it’s probably older than that, just a good old 'shop.
- Comment on Superman is a meanie 1 month ago:
Ah, I got mixed up, it’s been a while. He was specifically looking for Peter, but didn’t know Peter was Spidey. You’re right, inexcusably dumb move, there’s no way it would have worked.
- Comment on Superman is a meanie 1 month ago:
I don’t think he was trying to find which one was Spidey, just trying to cause chaos so that Spidey would show up, wherever he is?
- Comment on I forgot that AAA slop devs actually made fun games that didn't have money pits 1 month ago:
The Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection has SF3, although I think people were disappointed with that one and I forget why.
I believe the input lag makes it unplayable online and everyone just stuck to whatever they were already on for that.
- Comment on I forgot that AAA slop devs actually made fun games that didn't have money pits 1 month ago:
Sony signed a blank check for the full thing like 15 years ago for the exclusivity.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 1 month ago:
Uh, Zelda’s always done the tapestry thing though, haven’t they? 'Cause they like being presented as old myths.
I can only think of Wind Waker and BotW, also a bit of stained glass action in Minish Cap. Most of that was just for the intro, to set up the state of the world, and then nothing (beside the Calamity tapestry in BotW). I suppose this tapestry might be the same thing, it just reprises the opening narration from a voice that might turn out to be no one in particular.
Zelda games do have a story of course, but they always come up with new elements for the backstory that they then completely abandon. Very rough “pillars” have stuck, like the Goddesses, Sacred Realm, Hylia, but the actual world building elements to make a real kingdom beyond just basic fantasy setting, actual “historical” events like Majora, the Dark Interlopers, Lorule, the Minish - you’re lucky if you see it mentioned in the next Hyrule Historia. They make a new Zelda game, they come up with a new tribe and a new ancient power that becomes the new mechanic, and when the game is done, you never see that again. Maybe you see an Easter egg in Breath of the Wild, at most.
And it’s not like OoT isn’t enamored with Hyrule’s dark past. If they’re going to expand on anything, it’ll almost certainly be that.
Most of OoT was almost entirely vibes though, no context for anything. The Forest Temple was literally made for Hyrule Castle material but then cut out and pasted into its own temple, and bam, new place with its own vibe and you’re free to come up with your own backstory - because Nintendo sure won’t do it.
But yeah, the brand new world redesign (entirely judging by Link’s bed being completely redone and not at all like the OG) makes me think we’ll see more about places like the Shadow and Forest Temples. Not sure they’ll put as much love to actually cement and explain the connection between OoT Rauru and TotK Rauru, actually expand the world’s history beyond just what we saw in the OG, but surely we’ll see a bigger castle town, more inhabited places in the overworld, all that with a bit more information on local cultures like the Sheikah, actually literally anything about the Hyrulean civil war and Ganondorf’s involvement, and so on and I’m huffing hopium again.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 1 month ago:
Yeah, but the fact that Nintendo (can’t remember if it was Miyamoto orr Aonuma) lamented that younger TotK players didn’t know how important Rauru is, and this reveal that it’s not a 1 to 1 remake after all, is what’s sending the fandom into heavy hopium that this time, for sure, Nintendo will do what they’ve never done before and actually push the story. The tapestry presentation can certainly be read as supporting this expectation, too.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 1 month ago:
There’s a shit ton of “environmental storytelling” that Zelda games love to throw and never explain; OoT has plenty of that. Just any change to the Shadow Temple would send people wild. It’s always been hard to expect Nintendo to actually do anything about any of it because they never ever do, but this being a full remake similar to FF7 is giving a lot of hope.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 1 month ago:
You shoot dinosaurs with a bow. Also, the storytelling.
- Comment on poverty is a choice 1 month ago:
The passive is the friend who sits there and waits to get tongued.
It doesn’t say if he gets paid though, or if it’s just for fun.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
Hamaguchi confirmed that each character will have 4 fits, which are apparently used as both costume and job. FF7 allowed anyone to be any job with the materia set you give them, and the fits will apparently give them unique abilities to focus on a job. Time to list all the jobs that exist and spread them across the 8 characters? Mystic Knight / Dark Knight for Cloud, Time Mage for Red XIII, Monk and apparently Black Mage for Tifa, Berserker and Blue Gunner for Vincent… Cait Sith can have the White Mage and be actually relevant now.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION - Reveal Trailer 1 month ago:
They expected to use Reunion for part 2, I think, but then the Crisis Core remake team stole that from under them without asking.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
Asura’s Wrath, the button masher QTE on rail drew a lot of hate at the time, but I loved the storytelling and the visceral characterization.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
The first Hyrule Warriors is based on the premise that all Links and Zeldas through time and space (being basically reincarnations) are destined to be together
I don’t recall any romantic spin of this in HW, they are tied to each other and will pop up at the same time, but not to fall in love. This is just the continuation of the OoT/SS curse of Demise / Ganondorf, “I’ll follow you both every time you show up”.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 1 month ago:
The Link-Zelda ship problem is that all Zeldas are each other’s blood daughters, and all Links are the same “soul of the hero” despite being different people. So they don’t want to have any incest story baked in this reincarnation stuff, and it stays platonic most of the time. This was a retcon (kinda) introduced Skyward Sword, probably to justify why they’d been avoiding it the whole time, previous games like LttP and OoT would only say that the various Links were just from some royal knight families or “the last of the families of knights”.
Skyward Sword is the very first incarnation of both of these characters (Zelda being the first human incarnation of Hylia, and we don’t know about Link), so they can be in love - it goes out of focus, but it’s assumed to still be there at the end. And then BotW is the very end of the timeline, tens of thousands of years later, so that’s fine, they’re very clearly in love there by the end, and live together in TotK.
There’s also some hints in the Wind Water timeline (I think in Spirit Tracks but I never played it), because that timeline insists that this is a new hero unrelated to the previous soul of the hero.
- Comment on Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada has joined SNK | VGC 2 months ago:
Salvatore Ganacci in City of the Wolves, yeah, but he was actually pretty good and funny. Ronaldo was trash though.
- Comment on StarFox (N64 Remake) Gameplay Reveal 2 months ago:
Check out the OG Star Fox boxart on SNES, it’ll look familiar.
- Comment on Steamed Gears 2 months ago:
No no, close enough.