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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    9 days ago

    making a character suffer in order to get a power up is really such a trivially simple and reliable way to make things feel earned and it’s kinda baffling it’s not used more/better

    it’s like the hero’s journey and other writing tools, it’s predictable but nonetheless it just fucking works.




  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    10 days ago

    my hero academia remains the most tolerable shounen i’ve seen since it minimizes the bullshit like this, if they scream it’s generally a situation that calls for screaming (and implied to be way shorter than what’s shown) and if they shout the name of a move it’s because they’ve got fuckin tape elbows or whatever and they’re proud of coming up with a way to make use of that to stop people from dying.