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My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?

I unfortunately have no example to give as I'm searching for The Vitamin myself. Pretty sure I've just got undiagnosed sleep apnea though.

(Seeing if not including a screenshot of the original post this time keeps this post from being "low-effort", idk)

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Every character has their fans but I have (as of yet) never seen anybody have anything good to say about Ranma 1/2’s Happosai. For those who don’t know, imagine if Master Roshi was a tiny ninja goblin / gremlin with ALL of his perverted tendencies turned up to infinity. Do that and you get Happosai. Unlike Roshi and characters like him, he’s difficult to punish for his transgressions because he’s the strongest guy around which makes it harder to give him his just desserts, though karma tends to find a way to serve him right.

Happosai is so hated that most people would note that “oh no, it’s a Happosai episode” in exasperation. The latest episode got that reaction lol. It was fortunately made up for with a lot of other great things. I’m serious when I say that this guy sucks and the earlier episodes that center around him can be tiring.

Any other characters you think are universally hated?

Have been grinding out some stuff in FFXIV (the BST Crucible hairstyles in case anyone cares) so I decided to listen/watch FFXIV w/ the Girls collabs from the very start of the playlist as side monitor content.

That group is such a good vibe holy shit. Perfect perfect thing to listen to as I do other shit. I hope they play other games together omg. It really just is a podcast with Pat and a bunch of vtubers.

Anyway just felt like gushing a bit.

For a more positive example, Rihito from Kengan Ashura when he saw his "pinch everything" technique not longer cuts it, when then Kengan rookie Ohma just shows up and upstages his technique troucing him, while his old punk rival from school has legit gotten way stronger and become a (ballet) martial artist while there's many Kengan fighters with accolades and insane victories. So he starts actually training as a fighter and buying company so he can compete in the sequence before he enters the tournament.

From a more negative yet satisfying example, Bullseye, the nearly heartless villain that technically can't miss, getting the chance to sneak away from the Dark Reign and tries to kill Navajo superhero American Eagle who's technically only stronger and tougher than a regular level. So like an alternate stats not full super serum, but you see Eagle has fought people approaching or with superspeed. So Bullseye realizes there's level to this and is paralyzed ... kinda, honestly it's still insane to me how much of his luck he pushed when messing with Sentry then again the second someone like Hulk pulls up with him, he now turns into a "good" samaritan.

Watching that recent Mandalore Video on Bioshock 2 really reminded me that one of the unique charms of being the Big Daddy is being able to bully your enemies with your size and weight and seeing them splatter against the walls, in addition of throwing fireballs as well, and that's not really a common thing in video games

your never often "The Goliath"

So I was curious if other games give you the option of playing a character with some real weight behind them.

What a beautiful toggle. It's in the gameplay settings tab, in which you can customize the game even further beyond, either easier or harder for you with different sliders, like damage caused and damage received, higher or lower number of healing potions, higher of lower amount of XP gained, etc.

By using Respawn in front of Boss Doors, the game will now ask you if you want to respawn at the door and fight back immediately, or if you want to go back to a safe room. It's beautiful. God Bless Evil Empire and Motion Twin.

"Not every Black Templar Player, but always a Black Templar Player." -a common comment about the Black Templars.

Growing up adjacent to Warhammer 40K was interesting, in that Space Marines were by far the most popular faction, but also one of the most hated. There were a lot of negative stereotypes, but the two I remembered were "powerscaling edgelords who took the fun out of everything by saying their space Marines could clear it." Or "people who are really, REALLY into the wrong parts of the Imperium of Man." Of course another part of it is just how much content they get compared to the Xenos races, but I remember those two stereotypes existing. (Also I think having the largest playerbase also means a larger sample size of potential assholes, I think.)

It actually scared me off playing Space Marines, even made me scared to try Stormcast Eternals after hearing them be called the Marines of the AoS setting. Ultimately decided to go with them because Dragons are cool, and I can paint them like FGO servants for flavor.

Playerbases are one thing (see the old tf2 server joke.) but the space Marines have me interested in similar situations, entire characters or Factions with a largely negative reputation. Playstyles can also count, but I'm mostly interested in characters, ala the Space Marines, who just have a negative reputation among folks who play the game. (IE-Honda in SF6 being a new player stomper.)

Edit: I specifically mean playable characters or Factions. Some characters and factions have negative reputations in story but I mean amongst the audience, ala space Marines.

Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl, I'm surprised we haven't gotten this yet, this seems like a perfect candidate for a Scooby Doo Monster, that and Hachishakusama (The big and tall lady that preys on children).

I would also suggest any of the obscure cryptids mentioned in Dime Store Adventures videos on the subject.

Trying to get in the spirit of the season and there's little I love more than a good monster.

Giant worms are sorely underutilized and I love them whenever I see them. Tremors kicks ass. I watched the Dune movies solely to see big worms. I only know of like 3 worm cryptids but like 500 bigfoot ones, and that disappoints me. Love those guys.

So i was going through the late part of Galactic Racer and was having a blast with everyones new favorite Skrunko. Obviously I saw the lovable little asshole on some clips but i had no idea how much of a salty john he is. After I beat him in a race i got this message afterward:

(Gonna use spoilertext just in case anyone cares about spoilers on some character stuff and wants to play it themselves.)

Grancha. Uba wata ta wankee. Sa na actuola asaree militaree confeeba. Hoohah busee boska Tah Haku's Junkie Planeeto.

Uba Gorka juba keepuna Thessia. Uba're chuba maya as Jee tinka. wabdah no tinka da do porkman no granee enuff tah stoppa je. ateema weeteebah planeeto sa killya foo uba lacka ta pawa tah winna. Ta storee che Shepard choba tah re scrib doon. Jee boska Jee'm la che ta chapta alay. Da alay foo do killya.

-BB

So I'm watching YouTube videos about spooky things, as you do this time of year, and learned that Barnabas Collins didn't appear in Dark Shadows until like 200 episodes in. I was told this was a soap opera about vampires and they didn't have a vampire in until a year in. Are their any other characters that were added later that came to dominate the media?

This post was inspired by Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen, as the final boss’s second phase has a remix of the Seneschal battle theme from DD1. I definitely popped off when I recognized it in between dodging lasers

Other than that, you gotta mention the Soul of Cinder from DS3 having Gwyn’s theme come on in the second phase, an absolutely incredible and beautiful way to cap off the fight without saying a word

EDIT: more on the first example, the reprise of the Seneschal theme also really illustrates the parallel between the Seneschal/Satanachia and God/Satan. On top of the classic goat imagery, the Satan equivalent in this case literally has Satan in the name. Where you once faced the God of the DD universe, now you face the devil. Brilliant music there

So for some context, in their previous altercation, Magneto and his crew were defeated after being de-aged by the “Ultimate Mutant” known as Alpha. Still seething over it, Magneto wished to get karmic revenge against the X-men by putting them through the same humiliation he felt by attaching special helmets that gave them the approximate body autonomy of an infant while also being careful for by a dotting Android nanny.

You may ask how they got out of this particular jam? Well it’s revealed that Storm was fully ambulatory and conscious from the age of 6 months old and was able to retrieve a lockpick she had hidden in her hair and free herself. Then everyone was able to team up and attack Magneto, forcing him to flee.

You could also be wonder where Professor Xavier is during this debacle? Well this happened after he Irish-Goodbye’d the X-men by faking his death so he could be the consort to an intergalactic queen. So he’s not picking up the phone.

I also wanted to include the cover of X-Men #112, even though this is technically #113, because I think it’s very funny. Wolverine needs to start watching game tape or something, because that him vs Magneto match up is like a 1:9 at best.