One of the first campaigns I ever played in had a dagger that always healed the target for the same about it hurt them, and you can imagine how that got used.
The more discussion I see around Iron Lung, the more that tweet rings true.
People complaining that the eldritch elements are “confusing” feels like this:
“I see the food is labeled spicy.
I eat the spicy food.
Then I ask why it’s spicy.”
That’s the genre.
Eldritch horror is supposed to be confusing. It’s built around the idea that there are things so vast, alien, and incomprehensible that the human brain literally cannot process them cleanly. If everything is neatly explained and wrapped up with a bow, then it stops being eldritch horror and just becomes sci-fi with a creepier coat of paint.
What Iron Lung does really well is refuse to over explain itself. It trusts the audience to sit with discomfort and uncertainty. The horror comes from not knowing, from piecing things together. That’s the point.
But the general audience increasingly needs everything to be explainable and spoon-fed to them. If the movie doesn’t pause to spell out exactly what’s happening, why it’s happening, and how they should feel about it, they reject it outright.
It’s like they need a Subway Surfers clip playing in the corner while big flashing text and text-to-speech narrates every plot beat, otherwise the hamster on the wheel in their brain stalls out and dies.
I want a bitch even bigger and slower than Raider I can use to swing a vaguely sharpened fridge door on a stick at the boss. I want their ult to be just be infinite stamina and poise for like 5 seconds so I can go absolute ape shit and then promptly die and get the squad wiped.
People on that “dlc nightfarer class” post are like “I want a nightfarer who is super tanky hard hitting strong colossal weapon but also are very fluid and fast and dodge” okay GREEDY. Mary sue ass nightfarer. If you want to be fast come get oneshot like the rest of us.
Can people please stop being loyal FANS of politicians? They're our employees, not our idols. We hire them to do a job and then fire them if they don't meet expectations. "Governments should be afraid of their people" etc
@rodentcooker In my experience it's usually less, but people that grew up with Mötley Crüe and shit like that either have the opposite view or are neutral.
Just saw someone call guardian’s design boring I can’t do this. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I’m entitled to rip my hair out over it THIS SHIT FUCKS