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I briefly posted about how horror allows its protagonists to make mistakes you wouldn't usually see in other genres. I'd like to elaborate on that a little more.

I read a fantasy novel where the main character breaks a giant metal chain and nearly decapitates their love interest with it. No one is actually harmed. This is a typical fantasy novel mistake.

I watched a military movie where the main character shoots some civilians he thinks are enemies. This is a typical military movie mistake. I played a horror video game where the protagonist needs to cross a street, but no matter how long he waits, the cars never stop zooming past. He throws a dummy into the road so cars will stop. A driver swerves to avoid it, crashes into a lamppost, and dies.

Horror can have a main character who isn't even thinking about violence fuck up in a way that ends up with a body count.

(Okay, horror and also Tales of the Abyss. And tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, but tragedy as a genre is pretty much dead now.)

The Owl House is fantasy-horror-comedy, which means the main plot is mostly fantasy-comedy, but there are a bunch of horror-comedy jokes that are never really addressed and would make the Boiling Isles look like an absolute hellhole if you took them seriously. This fic, The Angel of the Owl House, does its best to explain away or modify all these jokes so the setting becomes just fantasy-comedy. The one thing it cannot get rid of is all the cannibalism. It ends up just going "It's a different culture, and they do things differently. They don't kill wantonly, but eating what you kill is normal here."

There’ve been plenty of orc raiders and orc soldiers, but I want to see orc settler-colonialists.

The guy who thinks he’s Sinestro captured the guy who thinks he’s Nagito Komaeda.

Watched a video on how great the character designs in Warframe are, and another on how shitty the designs in Nikke: Goddess of Victory are. Maybe this is weird of me, but I feel like the "sexy" robot designs in Nikke would be sexier if they leaned into just a little of the Warframe-style body horror. Painted-on pants? Nope, those are her actual metal legs. Crop top? Yes, but no belly button, because she was built, not born. Jiggle? The way it's animated looks shitty anyway, so make their metal bodies not jiggle at all. Make me feel like these are actual robots.

Inspired by Mishka the Great and Powerful, but also influenced by Arknights: I dislike super-advanced pacifist characters who refuse to intervene because they don’t want to be tyrants. To me, making a decision to ensure you don’t feel guilty is just as selfish as making a decision to ensure you profit, and when hundreds or thousands of lives are involved, you don’t matter in comparison. (I never watched Doctor Who.)

The themes of this game are such Feo bait. Two-thirds of the endgame bosses are people who think that if they deny reality long enough and hard enough, reality will change and they won't have to deal with it anymore. To get the happiest ending for the hero, he has to discard every illusion that would make him feel better about his situation.

Lovely game but would it have killed them to have like one sweaty sex scene. just saying i mean it's fine if they don't want that but you know i'm just saying like okay whatever forget it

When people talk about an actual person’s suicide and say AI made them do it, that’s one of the few times I’m like “Are you capable of experiencing shame? Is shame not something you feel when using a real death as ammo for this argument?”