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Basically this guy: https://youtube.com/shorts/NhQcqqMAdTI
What in the fuck is that pokemon one though
its from a “banned” pokemon episode - https://archive.org/download/pokemon-the-banned-episodes-collection/Pokémon - 035 - The Legend of Dratini [DarkDream].mp4
in case you want to check other such episodes - https://archive.org/details/pokemon-the-banned-episodes-collection
Absolute legend, thank you so much!
at your service, kind sire
It’s how Ash got all Dem Taurus
That’s pretty much the plot of Mashle
Everyone is a magician, except for Mashle who just hits stuff really fucking hard. And most wizards aren’t used to getting hit by a dude who can bench press a house.
What are you talking about. Muscles are the most magical thing ever XD.
Fuck it, I haven’t watched any anime in like a decade and a half. Where can I stream or download this with English subtitles?
Edit: That website links to Crunchyroll which I hear is controversial, but it has the episodes, so I’mma watch it
Dunno, I just put my shows on Radarr and they appear on my NAS 😅
The fictional world I’m building is at an interesting point. For decades, a few people have held most of the magical power and control, thus dominating entire battlefields. But firearms have just been refined to precision, meaning a good sniper can take down one of these mages in a surprise shot in one go. No sudden “spider sense” escape buttons.
Very cool, is this for a tabletop campaign?
Writing, or rather written, a book, but it’s hard to find interested literary agents. So, I’m working on a complicated plan to leverage an audience for self publishing.
I suppose I’m implying such an assassination is how the book opens, but it mostly just translates to a shift in the way warfare is conducted - fewer battle lines, more war of information.
One of my school friends was close to Sarah Maas. I hung out with her a few times, and we played online games together for years. The secret to her success was her parents’ money; they poured funding into her editing and publishing, and so she became a “self-made” literary success. I have mixed feelings about her.
I’d be curious about your work if you’re willing to share an excerpt? Lemmy might be a suitable test audience if you’re into it
I uploaded some now slightly-outdated versions of the first few chapters to Royal Road.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/100178/rangers-of-the-frostscape
This is really good
I like how we can see into the character’s head. We get his senses (darkness and snowflakes from his vision, blood on his hands from touch) and his memories (the priest). It makes him very human (Klyskin?). I dig it
Pretty sure that’s the base of the 1970 movie wizards.
“I’m glad you changed your last name you son of a bitch!” (Wizards spoilers, but it’ll probably make you want to watch to whole movie to figure out how it got here)
Wow kudos man of culture I see
This guy uses some thing that works because it isn’t the type of media to ignore the obvious.
Literally a plot point in Dresden Files. MC is a wizard who lives in Chicago doing private eye work. Regularly carries a blasting rod (wand) and a revolver. One big wizard gets taken out by a sniper rifle fired by a demon. He has semi-regular backup from non magical friends who are just well armed.
A regular human mafioso who is just so good at being a conniving and ruthless piece of shit that he can hold his own with the magic folk is a recurring character. Your spells don’t mean too much if four goons get the drop on you with a metal pipe when you weren’t prepared.
I like the scene when he gets accosted by some low skill mages who give the line “prepare to defend yourself, wizard” and he just pulls out his gun.
What makes dresden files so good is that dresden knows this, and he abuses the hell out of that. Time and time again he gets the jump of his enemies because he thinks outside of the box like that haha.
And same for marcone, he knows that with the right bullets and tools, common items can hurt the supernatural. Its also what imo makes the supernatural in the series so real, they are extremely powerful, should be feared but all of them have a weakness. You just need to know it. And like dresden said so much, knowledge is power!
clown dude is really clever with the jokes
Yeah they are a hilarious group. The monotone dude who let’s go went to clown school.
I cast fist.
What if guns are part of the power system.
This is a meme where the source of its illustration perfectly portray the meme, even within its own context.
we got there in Worm early and often
My protagonist has the ability to wield a franction (a word for a small amount in my verse) of the vitael energies of potential offspring (“poffspring”) they decide not to have, so like if they date someone of the opposite sex and things are going well and they’re thinking of moving in together, and then they ghost them my protag gets the power of the potential unborn babies (well some of it). They have made enemies of pretty much everyone in their hammelit (small village in my world), but have grown that much stronger with each jilted partner.
Anyway, they pulled this with the shire riff’s (reeve of a shire in my lore) daughter and got shot with a pepper shot blunderbuss and exiled from town, but they are able to carry approx a handful of extra sticks using the strength from their poffspring, which they use to heat the abandoned hut they live in upwind of the hammelit’s middens.
I was thinking that this was a relatively bullshit example, but the movie “The One” featuring Jet Li makes this an awesome example. On it’s face the impacts of one person likely aren’t even enough for one person to notice, but if you had someone with the knowledge and means to take advantage of this they could be incredibly powerful.
Wait, but if they think to adopt a child but not do it then they get a power?
I think so, yes, that feels right. OK, this is powerful… I think I’ve got the hook for my second book
Maybe you can do that they will get a “bad power” that is more a problem than something useful because the children had that power and so that would explain why no one ever wanted to adopt him
Ooo yeah like a curse and at first you think it’s the children’s fault, but then at the halfway point you find out they’re the victims. Would also provide some good tension since it’s the only way for the protag to get more power after the pepper shot removed their ability to make more poffspring.
I mean I was joking in my original comment, but you could tweak it a bit and maybe obscure some of the details to make the story halfway evocative.
