Real reason this line feels kinda weird is that rent as the main financial burden is a relatively recent phenomenon. For most of history, food was households' primary expense, so it would prob feel more "right" in a medieval setting to complain about starvation.
This reminds me of yesterday playing baldurs gate with my fiancee. We groaned hearing a dwarf NPC say some shit like “I hope I can afford rent this month…”
Modern writing is utterly sickening. No imagination just grey focus-group sludge optimized for mystery meat 3rd worlders
@JurgenHabanera@PersonBrop@Kremmen101@pleasentmantis I'd say liberal identity politics just fed into (and sometimes created) these people's assumption that women hate what they like. I.e., "These articles just show women fundamentally hate X because it has male protagonists, is problematic, etc."
@PersonBrop@Kremmen101@pleasentmantis Still kinda a related phenomenon, because an unstated axiom of these Asmongold-type arguments is that women can't possibly like their hobbies as they are, and so they must have a desire to radically change them.
@pothock3ts@TaglesTopGuy If it were correctly translated, it prob wouldn't have gotten nearly as much traction, and they wouldn't have had the need to clarify. Overall, kinda weird that Grok translated it to what they supposedly actually meant.
@pothock3ts@TaglesTopGuy Still kinda right because niveau secondaire does mean secondary school, and a lot of the blow-up happened because English speakers read that as middle school. I just assume they wanted to dunk on Americans by any means necessary and pivoted.
@terrance400@TaglesTopGuy Did some googling and apparently it's not part of the AP curriculum and thus not on the AP exam, but a lot of high schools teach it + integration by parts after the AP exam.
@teatalee This take + not finishing Darkwood because it's too scary + mostly talking about games that can be classifed as "have a horror asthetic, but are not actually that scary/distrubing" feels like it should disqualify someone from running a horror game YouTube channel.
@yandhiisntreal 90% of this site is just people saying cold takes (e.g., "Toby Fox was inspired by Mother 3") in the most needlessly rude way possible.
@lit_pinata@Eggenjoyerseal@cl0wntism Alternatively, MiniKris: "Asriel's so great and everyone loves him. I now have an inferiority complex, and so wish I was just like him so people would love me."
Current Kris: "I don't deserve love and I want to kill myself. Also, my fursona is a dog now."
@tealsauth@thecatin_box@467Doggo Kinda doubt it cuz Part 2's quality started dropping from pretty early on. Most fans just dismissed anyone who pointed that out by saying, "let Fujimotor cook." If Deltarune's ending ends up sucking, it prob won't be for a similar reason.
@IronTire36543 Has more to do with how a lot of modern writing has conditioned people into expecting Chekhov's gun subversions rather than actually playing it out. Hence, people end up (mostly subconsciously) thinking: "This theory has the most sound evidence; there's no way it can be true!"
@rubynesoberi@Kong__47 This might be a generational thing, since I feel like people underestimate how popular SF2 was in its heyday. It's the 3rd highest-grossing arcade game. There are a lot of people who don't even know SF6 is a thing/don't play games anymore, but can still recognize flash kick.