Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Overly Sarcastic Productions" channel.

  1. ". . . as if the concept of improving as a person was invented by hypersensitive millennials in 2010 Nope, turns out people have been trying to not mortally offend their audience since forever! Who knew" Thank you for that Red. A beacon of sanity on the dark waves of the internet.
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  2. "I'm willing to suspend my disbelief. I'm not willing to hang it from the neck until dead."
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  3. My friend came up with a pretty damn good definition, actually. Magic: rules that break other rules.
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  4. I'm generally fine to be like "people got all sorts of wierd kinks, I'm fine to let them be"...it's when it moves to romanticizing f'ed up stuff that I start quickly having very strong objections.
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  5. glamourgirl656 and Apollo likes it a lot I think
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  6. If you build a temple to the god of craftsman and it's NOT the last one standing, you're doing it wrong!
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  7. I just realized that murdering Baldur could be read as trying to hook up his daughter who can't really get out and date because she's trapped in the underworld (and sparing Baldur from ragnarok)
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  8. I make Denouncing Venice my new religion Bonus points to any that get the reference.
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  9. Not just physically, but he crosses into a lot of roles that are traditionally given to female deities and I'm seeing a lot of parallels with things like his role as being in between sides in conflict and serving as a usually cooperative balance to the dominant power group that are often given to 3rd gender roles in many societies, which is very interesting.
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  10.  Aspiring Marauder  I mean, a lot of that is hardly unique to Japan. French maid and secretary uniforms didn't get sexualized out of nowhere, for example.
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  11. Yeah, the Greeks kinda went back and forth on how they treated women...mostly back. Ironically, dictatorial Sparta with its absurd level of machoness was probably the best, and (sometimes) democratic Athens, the worst...kinda got to pick and choose what to take from those city states there.
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  12. The Byzantines eventually solved this by stealing the silk worm and making their own
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  13.  @mfield942  yeah, with the rarest of exceptions, they cannot tolerate vampires in that setting. With how the vampires (especially the older ones) tend constantly towards ever greater depravity and inability to survive without causing ever greater harm while growing increasingly powerful (especially with how terrifyingly powerful the eldest ones are), the fact that (dispite typically being a kill-on-sight enemy) they might not even place on a list of their top 5 priorities is really telling of why it's the World of Darkness.
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  14. Terry Pratchett had a just wonderful mind!
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  15. All of the above and more....unfortunately.
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  16. Red, fellow viewers, please please go watch Steins;Gate. It's an amazing handling of time travel in fiction that manages to write a very compelling story about the act of time traveling and playing with the implications of the rules and consequences of its time travel while remaining consistent and comprehensible. It is also both funny and amazingly emotional beyond the technical mastery of being able to write with such a plot premice in the first place so I cannot recommend it enough. Here is episode 1 (it's a slow build, so don't be surprised when you don't understand everything happening immediately) https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY And here's a good review if you need a 2nd, more in depth, recommendation: https://youtu.be/tz-L_sgaLUY I know anime isn't covered much on this channel, but Steins;Gate is easily both one of the greatest anime of all time and one of the greatest time travel stories ever told in any medium (and it even has an absolutely excellent dub, which I linked above) so please don't let not usually watching anime shy you away from the series.
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  17. So we don't want to remind Loki that Odin is riding his kid?
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  18. To be fair, without spiders, we'd have a lot more bugs.
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  19.  @parkerhynson3581  *and bred to never grow out of being pups in mind, if not always size.
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  20. "Love is a very powerful force. Even more so when it's focused into a coherent beam of destruction. . . I'm given to understand the divorce rate goes up with each blast."
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  21.  @gypsysprite4824  quite a few mythologies, really. Sometimes the not locked into 1 gender is quite explicit too (either through shape-changing, being some manner of non-binary, or having multiple aspects) because decent deities care little for a strict gender binary
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  22. Unpolitically Correct well, more like applied loopholes, but when you have ways to ignore the rules of, say, physics, it's usually pretty easy to weaponize that to make a fragile human organism stop functioning.
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  23.  @phastinemoon  the dumbest cause of the deaths of 1-3% of the world's population so far
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  24.  @olivia892  I was thinking more getting his daughter a worthy bf, and then taking the fall for it to keep their anger away from her, like a protective parent, but yeah, he usually works in indirrect ways so it makes sense to look at even killing Baldur as the means and try and infer the ends.
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  25. Mass eye-plucking is the ultimate Byzantine "I am 100% done with your shit and need to send a warning to the next 10 generations" Also, I denounce Venice.
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  26. With Fae tales, that's almost always a possibility, even if said child hasn't even been conceived yet.
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  27.  @minerva9104  or are the Byzantine Emperor and doing something very right.
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  28. GeneralGoth yeah, that magic & healing combo is nearly universal for tribal cultures that accept non-binary people. It's kinda interesting how consistent it is.
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  29. It's impressive how small an amount of any substance can be lethal mixed with an adequate amount of kenetic energy.
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  30. It's also worth mentioning the (albiet rare) sleeper cell mind control where the character is mind controlled before they enter the story (or even before it starts) and the mind control is removed later.
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  31.  @Bird_Dog00  I think it would have to be both or neither to preserve symmetry
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  32. Angelo Igonia efficiency is intelligent laziness
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  33. Pacific Rim (cont): "by working together."
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  34. I mean, Rome did have Sicily, so a failed Sicilian assassination is not at all out of the realm of possibility.
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  35.  @Naoise012  I hear you. Another way to put the distinction I draw is between a short little thing that can be read as something someone into kink might use for fantasy material (for solo or non-solo play), which can include straight-up deliberate and explicit non-con stuff and things which are intended to be more than just fuel for fantasy and seek represent something someone might use to think about a relationship with. Kink can transmute all kinds of toxic stuff into a non-harmful form through fantasy (especially in the bedroom), but it's once you're portraying something that someone might mistake as a desirable relationship that you need to be a lot more careful. Tdl;dr, if you're just writing masturbation material for an erotica site, you've got a lot more room to focus on just "is it hot?" before it starts becoming a problem than if you're writing something that could be put into even an 18+ only romance section. That said, as with other art, knowing the "rules" before you try to break them is going to consistently better results, so there's never an excuse to not do research on what you're trying to portray, even if you're not going for realism.
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  36. More accutately: Western Rome: fallen Western Europe: "free real estate" Eastern Rome: "um, that's still ours" Western Europe: "over our dead bodies" Justinian: "that can be arranged" Black death: "you sure about that?" Eastern Rome: "hacks!"
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  37. yr4hcaZ pleasepleaseplease
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  38. That moment when you realize arguably the best Greek philosopher was basically a homeless guy living in a box.
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  39.  @Tetra392  the sea peoples need citrus badly accidentally destroy literacy and create myths about golden apples of discord due to story drift? ...that seems entirely too plausible.
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  40.  @mfield942  the eldest ones are very powerful, but also very rare. Most of them, though, yes, medium to low power with the youngest barely more capible than humans and with an average vampire v werewolf fight being almost guarenteed to go to the werewolf. What I understand of what happened when the founder of clan Ravnos awoke is...intense, requiring mages to get involved and resulting in collateral damage reaching beyond the physical world before it was put down, though this is, of course, an outlier to the more general power ranking.
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  41. Yuwan and yet somehow less dumb than the standard version's "dumps out all the evils, so those are in the world, but hope doesn't come out so we have that too"... The myth is a huge mess
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  42. So did the whole pantheon it seems
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  43.  @Bluecho4  yeah, if anything, the biggest problem with religion is how easy it is for people to cloak evil in the reputation of saints. A genuinely good person, left to their own devices, will largely shape their religious beliefs to their morals, but the potental for the absolute worst people to use the assosiation between religion and morality as a tool (unintentionally strengthened by its assosiation with the aforementioned good and moral believers) to justify attrocities to themselves and others is so incredibly dangerous repeatedly through history, unfortunately.
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  44. No one knows, because the technique is lost to time.
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  45.  @martinnolhaf3151  I denounce Venice
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  46.  @ArmoryMedia  nope, too busy denouncing Venice repeatedly
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  47. Including aftercare! 😜
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  48. Today I learned that corporate has budgeted a job that should have 15+ man days/week with 7 to complete the work even though they have seen us extremely backed up on work when we had 14 man days/week and were pulling labor from other parts of the workplace. Meanwhile, we spend about 4 times as much for some of our supplies as we should be, and of course, the people making these decisions are micromanaging from another state without ever having worked the job and want no corners cut.
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  49. She had the high ground.
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  50. Like the amount of subtext and shipping for a certain Faustian anime? shoots Kyubey
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