What movie or show has made you cry before?

Literally every dog movie (besides Disney)

If that was how larping worked everybody who mentioned the pointed tail from Breath of Fire in theories on youtube without playing the game enough to know the full relevance of that prologue owes Me money, specifically.

:charajumpscare:

... more seriously, I don't even like calling people who watch LPs only larpers/posers, so long as they're not trying to argue that a boss they've never fought is too hard/too easy or anything regarding the gameplay and not just the text of the game. (LP watchers are not allowed to make roaring fraud jokes :berdlystrangle: )

A true larper/poser is like... me when I was very young, who never watched an episode of Danny Phantom and just read fanfic of it, but still got in arguments online about it. :gersonlaugh:

... Then again, that would mean touhou fans are posers, since a lot of them have only read fanworks and haven't even read Forbidden Scrollery or anything, let alone played the games.

What is an LP

Let’s Play

Oh ok

My opinion is if you’ve never played it you shouldn’t be saying you’re a fan of it (implicitly as well)

Plue...

This gets messy with stuff that has official secondary works/light novel adaptations, like Touhou for the former and Kingdom Hearts for the latter, I feel.

Something something 'I think if I argued that people who only watched anime adaptations weren't Real Fans because they didn't read the manga, people would get mad', and we'd be relitigating 2000s era anime discourse'.

And again: I think what's more insulting than people claiming they're a fan of something that they've watched let's plays or streams of is people doing 'theories' off stuff they have no understanding of thematically and have never played or even watched a let's play of, which is the bare fucking minimum for citing something in a theory I think.

I would take one million 'I've only watched Undertale' people who admit they don't know everything in the game over one more dogshit theory related to games I like and enjoy where it becomes like...

Extremely evident that the person in question didn't even watch a playthrough or literally any work other than a wikipedia summary or tvtropes page on the thing before making the theory?

Like not to get into knight discussion but any reading of the knight's identity as being a parallel to (SPOILERS FOR MOTHER 3) The Masked Man that doesn't mention the entire 'Hinawa's ghost talks to Claus and he kills themselves on purpose with lightning that reflects off the Franklin Badge to join his mother in death, when THE SKYMANTLE EXISTS is something that I do NOT take seriously </3. Lean into the Masked Man and the ramifications or suffer one thousand slights against your thematic evaluation. Any mother 3 motif discussion that doesn't talk about Hinawa is dirt.

I find that way more insulting because these people don't even watch the game footage. They're just using games I like for knight discourse.

I scrolled through that an read

and

read more, and information will be revealed.

:mysteryman:

I'm fighting for your honor as a let's play watcher here...

... Unless you're a 'tvtropes reader ONLY'. Then you will suffer my curse.

something something antilarp

...ok...

hang on what

ok that's a jump

...yep this is the part I got lost at

:dotted_line_face:

I'm not certain what's unclear here, but I will try to clarify.

To try and hammer down my points : people keep basically control f-ing wikipedia summaries of RPGs/games Toby Fox has liked for the words 'knight' and family relations without actually dealing with some of the like. Extended Themes(tm) of the things in question.

There are people who keep making trivia about the pointed tail scene in Breath of Fire II without even mentioning the part of the prologue where the protagonist gets erased from the original town they live in's memories and their family goes missing... Because they didn't play it. They are just repeating the pointed tail prologue thing without any regard for what happens directly before OR after.

Don't even know there's a town named HomeTown in it. Don't even know there's a npc resident/recruit system in it for a place called Township. Which, much like Castle Town, becomes larger/more bustling as more people are recruited.

:undyneshock:

Notice how these are things someone who even just watched a let's play would know, and then be able to incorporate into theories with knowledge of Deltarune's themes. People aren't even doing that much.

Alright then

People who don’t watch/play/read/etc OFFICIAL adaptations and just watch LP and use wikis and stuff

(For example, I would consider the anime adaptation of JJBA official)

I hope so, or a large portion of Jojo's fans would have my curse enact for skipping Phantom Blood + being anime-onlies on top. :chara: much like my curse enacts on World Trigger anime onlies. Suffer with us in tournament arc hell. :charajumpscare:

I still think lp watchers are better than 'only consumes the media through shorts/reels/ rot content' by a country mile, and to pretend otherwise is foolish.

yeah that's what I'm tryna say

I'm horrified.