Aielman15

Aielman15, 1 month ago

People were bitching and moaning twenty years ago about midichlorians, a one-off throw away line that nobody knows it even exists, outside of huge Star Wars nerds.

As for the racism and sexism, it’s despicable, but nothing new. The “new” thing is the internet giving a place and validation to all those deranged individuals, who share controversial takes and create circlejerks and echo chambers where those controversial opinions are upvoted.

Aielman15, 1 month ago

Dude, you literally say at the start of your comment that:

nerds used to be a little more “I know oh-so-much more about this media than you ever will” and a little less “I’m eternally uncomfortable about the changes being made to my media.”

You then proceed to call a movie director “selfish” and “fart-sniffing” for telling the story the way he wanted to tell it. You’ve got to admit the irony in all this.

Also, it’s true that big companies are following trends and fostering memes to drive engagement, but I very much doubt that they are willingly antagonizing their own fan bases to drive negative engagement. That sounds like a nightmare that no social media manager would purposely walk into. Nobody is willingly stirring the pot by making people theorize conspiracy theories about a secret leftist agenda. That’s just humanity for you. Some are good people, a lot suck.

The entities that are willfully stirring the pot are social media platforms, who have a lot more to gain by having those people scream at one another in their feeds, because controversial takes can populate comment sections more and faster than mild takes, which drive engagement on those social platforms even further.

Aielman15, 1 month ago

Thank you so much for another great release

Unfortunately I don’t think that the edited time works as intended. To me, it seems it just repeats the publish time.

Aielman15, 1 month ago

There hasn’t been much activity here. I suppose Lemmy userbase is too low for niche communities such as this one to stay active.

That being said, I’m happy it’s here regardless, just in case someone ends up needing it, even if it’s a year from now.

Aielman15, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I’m in this comic and I don’t like it.

The new outfit’s cute, though.

Aielman15, 1 month ago

I’m a very early Gen Z and I feel like a boomer lol

I do nerd things alone at home or maybe with a friend or two. DnD live shows, people traveling to play/watch e-sports… It’s all so foreign to me. I don’t feel resentment, but shock and disconnection are always present when I read headlines such as these. Like, I wouldn’t dream in a million years to pay money to watch someone else play DnD, but then again, video game streamers exist. I can’t wrap my head around this!

And just to be clear, I’m not bashing the people enjoying this form of content. I’m just expressing my disbelief at the fact that it exists at all. If I didn’t know better, and saw something like this in a movie, I would call it fake and detached from reality. When in fact, I’m the one detached from my generation. Then again, I don’t have any social media and I’m writing my thoughts on Lemmy, so I’m clearly not an example of what my generation looks like.

Aielman15, 1 month ago

“Guys, homebrews are allowed, but please, choose something that’s viable and not too abstruse.”

“No worries! By the way, I found this homebrew class in DanDWiki and it seems really cool, can I use it?”

DM screams and cries

Aielman15, 1 month ago

Damn, that’s too evil, even for Belos.

Aielman15, 1 month ago

In the top left corner of the screen is the current page. I think by default it’s either All or Local. Tap on that and select Subscribed.

When you are on the page you want as your home page, tap on the three dots on the bottom right corner of the screen -> Set as home page.

Aielman15, 1 month ago

What are you looking for, exactly? What is it that you are finding confusing?

Aielman15, 1 month ago

Oh, sorry, I thought I was replying to the other person, I didn’t realize it was you! Anyway, I also noticed the same thing, so I have a few suggestions:

• My old Reddit app (Relay for Reddit) had the Subscribed page as the home page, which is what people want usually.
• I suppose you could add the option to choose the homepage when you boot the app for the first time (and maybe also mention how to change it).
• Adding the option to change it from the options menu.

Aielman15, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Okay, so, I went back to make sure that I was remembering things clearly - At this point Mark’s canon is all over the place, and finding old comics is pretty difficult…

Anyway, the order should be:

• This one
• Ready for Battle (14th april 2023)
• Being Strong (11th may 2023)
• Boss Fight (15th may 2023)

We also still don’t know what happens to the collector after being captured. Old King is shown having Francois still in Francois (21 december 2021), although that one may not be canon anymore considering it was drawn before the finale.

EDIT: Maybe swapping this one and Ready for battle still makes sense. If you choose to interpret Amity wanting to see Luz’s titan form as “I wanted to see it again” and not “I’ve never seen it and I wanted to see it”.

Aielman15, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I was thinking the same thing when looking for those pages yesterday. Even the main sagas are very difficult to follow at this point, if you didn’t read them as they released.

LHoB is somewhat consistent with naming but still has a few annoying outliers, such as Fear, Cliche or the One-shot.

But the Ayzee saga is all over the place and at this point I’m thinking that Mark’s doing it on purpose, with the naming changing constantly (from Grom Factor to Enna to Mama Eda to Fight Coven, and I’m forgetting more) and even super duper important pages such as Having her work cut out for her and A change of pace having their own name, separate from all the others! And that’s not even accounting for all other pages that enrich the lore or explain some things that happen in that story, such as Ori, Cool uncle Gus (+ Insert battle music), So, yeah. And again, these are the names that I remember. I wasn’t able to find the page where it’s revealed that Jay is a Grimwalker, for example, and I’m sure I’m forgetting more.

Oh, and by the way, while I was grabbing those links, I remembered that Ayzee has met the Collector, so here it is. Apparently the Hexsquad has somehow managed to rescue him from the evil!collectors, and he still has François with him.

All this to say: yeah, at this point a spreadsheet with a tag system is mandatory to keep track of everything and look back at specific pages in a reasonable time. Think it would be possible to set one up online as a community effort? I’m busy these days but I’d be more than willing to dedicate some time every day to add a few pages and tag the characters in each. I’m not well versed in this specific topic though, so I don’t know what would be the best option to have a document online easily modifiable by all contributors (and ideally closed to anyone else to avoid trolling).

Aielman15, 1 month ago

This is great, thank you so much! I’ve spent the last hour fleshing out the characters, dividing them into subsections that hopefully make sense. There are a few currently underutilized (mostly the Empire/Coven Heads), but I included them just in case some of them make an appearance in the ongoing Hexsquad series alongside Adrian. If they don’t, they’ll probably be folded in the Misc category. Apart from that, the list should now include (most of) the characters appearing in the comics.

We should have this posted and stickied at the top of the community!

Aielman15, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I’ve filled the form with two months-worth of Mark’s comics. Question: Is the “storyline” tab meant for the general theme like on r/TOH wiki (Angsty, “Cool”, Funny, Heartwarming), or to tie together comics that share a common story/characters but different names (such as Fight Coven and Grom Factor, for example)? I wouldn’t mind the latter, it seems more useful.

Also, I’ve decided to tag characters based on a “tag everything that appears on the image” policy, so even characters that are shown only in the background of one frame are tagged. Drawing a line between what should be tagged and what not would get difficult otherwise. If you have a different opinion, please let me know so that I will tag them correctly in the future! :)

Aielman15, 2 months ago

I usually have the party band together as part of their backstory, so that we don’t have to roleplay for the upteenth time the characters getting to know each other.

But if we start as strangers, I don’t see anything wrong with the usual tavern or festival. The first session is a bit critical from a roleplay perspective because everyone is playing new characters and is focused on getting the “feel” right, so I don’t mind easing the job for them by placing them in a well known and established setting such as a tavern: in this way, they can relax and think less about their surroundings, and more about their characters.

Aielman15, 2 months ago

Oh, does it mean I can finally link to users/communities outside of my main instance? It’s the one thing I really hate about Lemmy.

How does it work?

Aielman15, 2 months ago

@idunnololz

Wow, very useful. Thanks again for another wonderful update! :)

Aielman15, 2 months ago

I really like Mark’s action scenes. He’s got talent for it, they’re clean and detailed

Aielman15, 2 months ago

Thailand is such a beautiful country. A friend of mine visited it a few years ago and came back with stunning photos. I wish I’ll be able to take some myself, one day.

Thanks for sharing!

Aielman15, 2 months ago

Yeah, well, Azura’s friend, the Collector, can provide protection from intergalactic attacks.

Take that, Cosmic Frontier!

Aielman15, 2 months ago

To be fair, Azura’s prose is pretty much unreadable by anyone other than Luz and Amity lol

Aielman15, 2 months ago

When I was a child, I was the one pirating stuff for my parents.

I would pirate music and movies, and then we’d listen to/watch them during our long vacation trips. We had a small cd/dvd reader with a very, very small built-in screen, and we’d watch the movies on that thing.

I also used to pirate all kinds of stuff for me and my brother. Videogames, animes, movies, you name it. Nowadays I’ve legally bought most of the stuff I pirated when I was a child (everything that can still be bought legally; I won’t give money to greedy second hand sellers).

I thought technology was becoming common knowledge, yet I was surprised to see how many friends and people of my age still don’t know how to open a .zip file or play a console game on an emulator.

Aielman15, 2 months ago

Since this is the fine-tuning release, I figured I’d mention this small issue I’ve had with the app since its inception.

If an image is too tall, the app won’t display it clearly when tapping on the image. I have to click on the post first to actually see the image in high res. The recently added long-tapping also works fine. Video showing the bug.