MrOvis2

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[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

I think that it's perfectly reasonable to say that Harry Potter isn't nearly good enough to justify the position in culture that it has, I've read sooo many books in the same niche that are much better.

At the same time, it's still good, it just has a bunch of annoying problems.

[Crusader's Symphony @CrusadeSymphony]

Most complaints levied against Harry Potter ring as cope.

Either because the complainer has a political beef with the author or because the complainer is upset about how popular Harry Potter is and continues to be.

Both types wish the masses loved what they wanted instead but fail to understand what the masses find entertaining.

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

@BenisKen Ginny wasn't in the story enough for it to mean anything. She felt like such an afterthought that I didn't even know who she was when I first read to the end of the books.

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

AI is just like any tool: It's a force-multiplier

If you totally suck, it'll make you suck slightly less. If you're already skilled, then you have the knowlege to actually build a coherent structure for the AI to work within so that it's not constantly patching its own holes.

[Journy @CallMeJourny]

@willie_ole AI in the hands of an incompetent will post on twitter "i made 5 bucks with ai and you can too!!"

Then a competent developer get it on their hands and suddenly become the equivalent of a fleet of senior engineers

AI hating was fun a few months ago, now its kinda too good

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

Actually a shockingly good movie that did this well was Onward, which used the MC learning his wizard powers throughout the movie to drive the plot, and also gave rules for each spell.

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

Hollywood is really really really opposed to the idea of ever actually having an interesting power system or magic that you can follow along with.

I think it's due to their belief that magic and powers are baby shit and that they have no respect for the audience's ability to follow these things

[Anny Mation @MationMiss]

One thing that I adore when reading/watching a fantasy story is learning about its magic system.

Now… so far, this girl can just zap with her hands and apparently do anything, including create life from nothing here. That’s INSANELY powerful for such a simple spell, feels lame

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

Yeah but there's a difference between the magic being a soft magic system and kinda just being able to do anything.

For instance, even LOTR quantifies the magic and defines how powerful Gandalf is, whereas this girl is doing stuff that seems like it should be extremely hard just as easily as things that seem extremely easy.

Not to mention that Gandalf works because he literally does like 3 spells, it's worse if your story is ABOUT learning to use your powers and you refuse to nail down the powers

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

It's funny that the anti-AI people, who will say that one of the things that elevates handmade art above AI is that every choice is deliberate, also don't believe that this sort of thing is on purpose.

"Nooo, they totally are just stupid and made him feel sensitive and soft on accident!"

Every single thing in a piece of art is intentional. Every single quad on this character's mesh had a plan going into it, and every motion and word spoken had a writer planning it. Wolverine feels gay in the game because the people making it are coming to him from that mindset and experience. Who you are as a person shades your art more than anything else, that's why autistic white chuds made all the franchises that resonate with autistic white chuds.

[LA\/ENDER @LavenderGhast]

I couldn't tell why Wolverines looks so off. I think it's because he reminds me of that comic about Batman drawn for the female gaze, with the big eyes and pouty lips. Like he's a man, he has a beard, he should feel like grizzled but he comes off as designed to not be appealing in like a desirable rugged way to women, or an idealized tough guy way to men. But more like a cuddly, softened, approachable guy who is only superficially presented how people who are very distant from masculinity think masculine guys look.

Like he was given big soft features and big eyes, his hair, even his eyebrows are softly conditioned. His skin is smoother and more well looked after than most people who use beauty products and moisturizer. This is a hick lib pretending to be a tough guy, whilst he looks like he's about to give you a lecture on being a heckin good person.

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

@Beo_Arctodus "You get nothing for killing the warden because being rewarded for heroic deeds in modernity" is the best crystalization of the mindset of the devs.

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

Assuming you don't get any fantastical isekai boosts, 95% of the time it'd be the same as the real world:

1. Son of a wealthy merchant
2. Born into nobility
3. Born into royalty
4. Born into knightly servitude
5. Son of a tradesman
6. Peasant
7. Pauper

Merchants generally have it the best because they don't have obligations and all of the freedoms of wealth.

Upper nobility is superior to royalty because you have tons of money, but none of the obligations and fear of royals

Obviously royalty is better than not being wealthy

And then everything after this is just increasingly low levels of wealth

[Beowulf 🥀✒️ @Beo_Arctodus]

I always find it a fun thought experiment of what Fantasy settings would actually have the best quality of living? Maybe I can do a rating stream or something

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

Wisest possible move is gender-swapping about 30% of the cast, but making sure that Gandalf is still the exact same except that he's basically Harry's wingman and constantly sets him up for romantic encounters and situations.

[RoboBadger ☦️🇺🇲 @FrtDusquesne]

No. Just the characters that would make the most sense to be flipped

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

@mafuokaoka2 @rasatsu It's Honey Select 2, I designed them all in character creator, I'm the artist for the whole thing top-to-bottom pretty much

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

Malfoy never had much bite within the story because he was ineffectual and never actually bullied Harry very hard, it didn't help that he was kinda used as a coward to contrast Harry's heroic nature.

That all works so much better when it's a girl because it's all desireable traits: Instead of being a limp-wristed bully, it's obviously just a tsundere mean girl who's jealous of Harry's friends. Instead of being a weak coward, she's a cute girl who's out of her depth and that gives Harry an opportunity to build the romance by helping her be brave.

Malfoy freaking out in the forest goes from being a lame moment to being really cute.

[Nopan III, Gentleman Panty Thief @StealThePantsu]

JK really did write him as a girl bully, holy shit, something that went completely over my head when I read these books in childhood.

Though it did add some necessary pathetic cowardliness to OG Draco character. It sure worked fine, but Malfoid would be an improvement still

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

@cerilysm AI detectors are basically always wrong unless they're looking at digital watermarks

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

@GrenkiDesuNe No. Fujoshi are wrong because one of the core appeals of why Malfoid works is knowing that the end turns her from a tsundere rival into a loving wife.

It doesn't work if they're just homos.

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

@mafuokaoka2 @rasatsu https://t.co/EXuf2LPucd

Ermmmm I'm a visual novel dev

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

That's why Malfoid works so well, Malfoy always treated Harry better than his friends because he respects the fact that Harry is highborn and actually the only reason he bullies Harry and his friends is because he wants Harry to come be his buddy too

Of course that has a romantic aspect in the Malfoid writing, Malfoid is mean to Harry's friends because she's jealous of how much time they get to spend with him

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

@BlueEyesWM

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

In the end, Malfoid and Harry team up to defeat Voldemort.

In the original books, it was kinda gay because it was essentially wizard semantics that defeated Voldemort, he used the Elder Wand and his killing curse rebounded off of Harry and killed him.

In this case it'd actually work better because it'd be narrative mirroring: The power of love is what killed voldemort for the first time, the power of the love of a mother, and now the power of pure love between two life-long rivals is what kills Voldemort for good.

And then Harry and Malfoid have 9 babies and live happily ever after.

[Claius Sho, Grand Vizier of King Halo @claius_s]

That "Malfoid being forced-married to Voldemort" fanart bro...

If that was a thing in HP back in the day, my teenage brain will be chirning with rescue the damsel fantasies lmao

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

@Beo_Arctodus They are weak and retarded

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

I'm not the kind of guy who complains about shit like resued animations or designs, but like... Guys you need to be capable of making more than one face.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First clip from Disney's new animated film ‘HEXED’.

The film follows a girl who discovers she has magic abilities & sets out on an adventure into a magical realm.

In theaters on November 25.

[MrOvis2 @MrOvis2]

@rasatsu My powers outstrip any inferior machine