Bevendre
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Doing updates with Libi and Di has made me realize how much I missed 10 second backgrounds. I actually have to work on the backgrounds elsewhere.
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I bet the FCC thing wouldn’t pass if senators knew how much their approval ratings would drop because of it.
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Destiny preliminary thoughts
It’s rather disappointing, and sad, that after playing Destiny for the better part of 3 hours I haven’t been able to find anything that’s ‘good’.
I’ve had issues with the controller reading, such that I am unable to fire a weapon after getting off of a vehicle, and said weapon is prone to random releases of ammo when I use an ability. The Sparrow vehicle feels virtually identical to a Mongoose, so useless in combat at the moment and often unwieldy when trying to make a sharp turn. Weapons and armor don’t act or really feel unique, with weapons fitting into generic categories and doing the exact same thing, and armor being mostly color swaps of other armor (so far.)
After almost 3 hours playing there’s hardly a semblance of story, and no characters what so ever that stand out as anything other than generic background NPCs, or floating Peter Dinklage guide.
The game looks and sounds wonderful, but it just plays like a Halo MMO right now, and it lacks everything that I liked about Halo, namely the lore, the story, the characters and the feel of each level and map. Story missions in Destiny, at least the first 4-5 have literally been: Walk to point on the map (there is no map available, and no minimap whatsoever) fight some enemies (the enemy radar is usable, but weirdly placed and unusual in its design) then fight a boss. After that, you’d better run for whatever loot is around, because you’re forced out of the mission within 20 seconds of the boss dying.
Speaking of loot, I have hardly found any. Enemies only drop ammo, and the occasional quest item, but no armor or weaponry. Bosses have the same issue. In nearly 3 hours of play, outside of a scripted event I have found 1 loot container, and it had some currency.
A lot of the leadup to the game said it was just like Borderlands. I really wish it was. Borderlands is satisfying, and when an enemy falls in a shower of money and loot it is extremely gratifying. There has been no satisfaction or gratification in fighting anything in Destiny so far. It’s felt more like a chore than a necessary thing to get into any combat.
I really hope I’m just being too critical, or that things change soon. -
Only a couple hours into Destiny, and I’m not really liking the game. At all. Hopefully that will change.
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I can’t get anything to look right, and my drive to draw has died for the night. Doesn’t look like Diamond’s conversion will be finished until tomorrow at the earliest.
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There are plenty of fish in the sea, but I’m kind of just flopping about uselessly in the sand.
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({so, what happens now? shifting focus to silver?})
Just for the moment to give myself a little cooldown from the serious/dramatic posts. I think it’s good to break things up a little now and then. Soon after Diamond’s conversion is finished, focus will shift back to Canterlot.
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Huh, Papi is only 70 away from 2k…..I suppose I should start work on a milestone thing soon……..
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Something’s been bothering me about people being upset over my portrayal of Celestia.
It’s not that they’re upset about it, as I’ve said before, I anticipated a little backlash.
It’s that some haven’t considered that the situation with Papi is not unlike a happy ginger Hitler marching into London with a flotilla of zeppelins and planes a year after the bombings in WWII, and asking if things are cool.Erm.
Hitler ordered concentration camps and caused the Holocaust, among numerous other things. Technically, those were war crimes, I think. And that’s aside from all the deaths caused by battle and bombing civilian locations.
Chrysalis, on the other hand, captured and replaced a high-ranking official, incapacitated a military commander, assaulted a leader of a nation, and had her changelings (apparently) round up civilians during the invasion. Maybe later she would have done something horrible, but technically she never violated the theatre of war.
What I’m saying is, yes, there would be tension, but it would not be nearly as much as you’re insinuating.
You are looking at the theatre of war as a whole, whereas I am making the comparison from the perspective of the British during and shortly after the war. Bear in mind that the Holocaust was not public knowledge during the conflicts, and therefore wouldn’t be in the minds of the British as they were hiding from an attack.
The point of the comparison is that the leader of a force who are virtually identical to another, who in very recent memory has been extremely hostile, has walked up to the doorstep of the very place just attacked and asked if things could be alright.
I compare Papi in this case to a ‘happy ginger Hitler’ because I feel the comparison apt in this situation. She is seen as the leader of what appears to be an army, and looks very similar (to ponies) to Chrysalis, just with a different color scheme. The comparison has nothing to do with the full scale extent of war crimes or the like, just the appearance and assumptions of the moment. -
This is a map of Asia. North Americans, you may notice this map is not solely comprised of Japan, Korea, China and Thailand. People in the UK, you may notice India is not a continent. That is, if those of you who generalize entire continents can even pinpoint India on a map.
Indians are Asian, gasp! And not all brown skinned people are Indian, also, gasp! There are an alarming amount of people, of all ages, from all backgrounds, who seem to be unable to process this.
I’m ethnically Asian. Since Asia is an extremely large continent, I could be from any number of countries. I am neither from India, China, Korea, Japan or Pakistan, yet not so surprisingly, I am still Asian.
Yes, there are commonalities across regions, through the conflation of cultures, colonialism, globalization, transnationalism and movement of diasporas. Sometimes these are all the same thing. Rickshaws, rice and curry can be found across the continent.
But let’s not overgeneralize. You can also find Buddhists, Catholics, Muslims and Hindus across Asia. Cantonese Speaking Chinese Muslims! English Speaking Indian Jews!
No, we are not all the same. Orientalism? (Please look up Edward Said for basic concepts) No thank you.
So let’s not use umbrella terms, regarding Asians as a monolith while simultaneously denying the regional identity of millions of people- and how about we also not engage in xenophobia?
Are you someone that thinks this way? Shame on you! You should perhaps invest in buying a map, and take a look at what countries are you know, where.
Geography, people. It’s important.
This pops up on my dash every so often. I reblog it again, not just because I wrote it, but because nothing has changed since I first posted this.
Can we just say Northeast Asian for “Eastern Asia” though? For me that’s what I identify as and secondly, it feels strange to have a Southeast Asia when there is no Northeast Asia and it feels like we’re putting the Northeastern countries as the center of Eastern Asia.
While this is very true and needs to be said, there is one issue with OPs initial argument: While India is not a continent, it is considered a sub-continent. While its people are culturally and ethnically considered Asian due to cultural similarities and association, the landmass itself is part of a different tectonic plate, one which is slowly colliding with its northern neighbor which has resulted in the expansive and expanding mountain range known as the Himalayas.
I don’t understand the point of your response. India is huge, yes, but it’s not a continent. Subcontinent or not. The tectonic plates are still there. They have been adjoint to the rest of Asia for sometime now.
And the countries nearby aren’t even on the same tectonic plate.
Bangladesh for example, is on the junction of several tectonic plates. So is Pakistan. The people didn’t all just wander over from India. If you’re going to talk geographic migration, that’s a whole other conversation.
But back to the plates. 90 million years ago the Indian plate split from “Madagascar.” Since you know, South America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand were part of “Gondwana.” Is that relevant too?
India is in Asia. The end.I don’t recall denying that India is in Asia. I merely said that geologically it is recognized as a subcontinent as an adage to your comment that India is not a continent. I never mentioned geographic migration, so I don’t know where you got that from.
