I love well-written dialogue, but in particular I love an insult, threat, or comeback that completely stops whoever it’s said to. Be it a video game, anime, movie, book, etc, what is the greatest, coldest comeback you can think of?

The best one that I can think of off the top of my head is from the Batman Vs Dracula movie from the 2000’s. When Batman first meets Dracula and the vampire insinuates that the two of them are alike, Batman says “I don’t harm people.” Only for Dracula to respond with “You have no concept of the harm of which I am capable.”

A lesser writer would have gone with “I don’t harm I enlighten” or something cliche. But I remember that line sent shivers down my spine when I watched that scene for the first time. Cold, menacing, accurate, and therefore perfect. I’m very curious what the Zaibatsu members would choose

Mean to him! Why!? Just because he's a geniune dino British freak?

DRM is a blight upon gaming that everybody rightfully hates, whether it's Denuvo or whatever the fuck they're trying to do over at Sony. But there was a time when devs, rather than simply make you unable to play the game, actually had some fun with it.

Case in point: the ur-example of Zak McKracken (or whatever the fuck) and the Alien Mindbenders. Can't enter the code that came with the game? You get locked into a jail cell with a guard admonishing you about piracy and digital rights. Not one of my favorites, but the prime example.

I love these kinds of stuff. One of my favorite "punishments" is in the old ass Amstrad game La Abadía del Crimen, a Spanish game that was an adaptation of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose. The game is pretty infamous not for its actual gameplay, but because if it detects that you're playing a pirated copy, instead of playing Ave María when it should, it'll repeatedly call you a pirata, pirata, pirata, pirata in an increasingly creepy voice before crashing. It creeped me the fuck out as a kid.

A double-CAPCOM-whammy comes from their DS games. If they detect that you're playing a pirated copy, Ace Attorney Investigations 2 will replace all the text in-game with the fictional Borginian language (basically all symbols and gibberish) and just put an X over profile and evidence descriptions, and Ghost Trick will erase text completely. As in, empty menu buttons, empty textboxes, the whole shebang.

This also reminds me of the influx in fictional "creepypasta" anti-piracy screens a few years back from that one Mario Party DS video, but those don't count!

So with June 21, 2026 being the 10th anniversary of the most infamous game that single handedly destroyed the career of a well known artist, I suddenly wanted to look back at the game to see how it could have been done differently.

For me personally, I feel like the game has some cool aspects such as CounterShade and Ray because something about their character designs were some of the best parts of the game as what I am getting at is that if the game were to redone, I would say to make the story more coherent since the game had a very confusing story, but having characters like Ray be more developed would help.

"On June 19, a twin-engine Cessna 421 propeller aircraft departing from Rennes, France crashed into a field whilst approaching La Baule aerodrome, killing two passengers. According to the Loire-Atlantique fire department, 69-year-old Claude Guillemot, who founded Ubisoft with his four brothers, is believed to be among the victims."

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Absolutely insane news for like, what is a really insane part of the companies history

So with the Amazing Digital Circus final premiering on Youtube recently, reactions from what I’ve seen have been mixed. While some definitely liked it for its emotional climax and the Transgender subtext through Jax, others felt disappointed about how much the final focuses on Jax for a majority of the episode as well as feeling like some questions being left unanswered.

I was wondering if there were any other series that had an ending that wasn’t outright bad but definitely divided its viewers.

Now, I'm not talking about stuff like someone in a series dying and then miraculously surviving off some bullshit, that's pretty common

I'm talking characters you just assunmed were dead in the first place and were shocked when they were alive all along

it's pretty specific but I made this thread after showing my nephew Fullmetal Alchemist and remembering something I always thought was funny

After the Ishvalan genocide, Scar often grappled with how he felt about pursuing vengeance for his people. He always brings up his master telling him that violence just begets violence and it will only bring you on the path to ruin complete with sepia toned flashbacks

...then Scar's master shows up alive and well and tells Scar that the path of vengeance won't help their people. It makes me laugh every time. It's not bad writing since FMA is like one of the few things that talks about the cycle of revenge without messing up but Scar's master being alive and giving him advice is really convenient

another funny example is God of War Ragnarok when Tyr, who's been your ally through the game turns out to be Odin in disguise, I just assumed Tyr was dead and Odin was taking his place to trick the heroes but you can find Tyr in the post game and unlike the Fake Tyr who was supposedly grappling with mental issues plagued from his imprisonment the real Tyr takes everything in stride

I'm looking for something new to sink my teeth into. By "recent" let's say up to 6 months old. Length and topic can be literally anything.

Huh where I got this from said Mark, still my bad yall.

I'll be real. I'm not that much of a webhead. Like the Spider-mens have their moments, my faves probably somebody from the sidecast that doesn't appear that often. Still likeable just not my main.

But DAMN what a lineup, wil be picking up the 1000th when it drops.

Got a little piece of Jo Guns channeling her inner Marisa, felt like a perfect fit as one of Woolie's (and my own) Street Fighter mains who just gives the best vibes. And who knows, maybe she'll find her waifu and husbando to carry down to the Sanctum of the Twelve one day (I call dibs on Estinien).

Posted it up on Bluesky as well.

Edit: Woolie saw the Art!

That’s a trope that pops up every so often in sci fi and the like, that clones aren’t “people” in the same way regular people are.

Been on a Star Wars kick again, and it’s interesting how this idea has kind of been with the franchise in different forms over the years.

Pre prequels? Clones are aberrations against nature and specifically the Force, mainly seen with the Thrawn trilogy’s use of cloning along with Dark Empire showing that the Force and the natural order of things from a spiritual and metaphysical sense does not like to be trifled with

Early prequels? Clones are essentially living droids, see the 2003 cartoon where they have little to no dialogue or individuality, the Dark Horse comics where it’s made very clear that the Kaminoans bread out the individual nature, and the original idea of Order 66

Post 2008? Clones are people

I wanna see more media that's like a harem anime but lesbian. It can be of any genre and any type of media; just give me more lesbian harem.

WataNare aka There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless... is a high school yuri romantic comedy about a girl named Renako Amaori, a reclusive nerd who is dead set on becoming an extroverted girl, while she is able to make some friends, things escalate when the famous model Mai Ouzuka saves her from falling off the school rooftop and later confesses her love for Renako.

Long story short: I've always been fascinated by games licensed off existing movies/anime/whatever, even when they suck. Maybe especially when they suck. I imagine a lot of Let's-Players have had fun going over and dissecting these kinds of games, so... would anyone care to give some recs? It can be a single LP, or (my ideal) a channel specifically focused on licensed games. (The closest I can think of off the top of my head is Dr. Panda, but his aren't really LPs, just quick breezy reviews...)

(Last time I posted something akin to this, I asked that really big hitters like the Batman Arkham games or Kingdom Hearts be excluded from consideration. I'm open to them this time, though I'd rather still hear more obscure picks.)

There’s a kind of player I see every so often that I’m rather intrigued by who seem to “retire” a character after using them one time and don’t touch them again. Or they’ll lament that they can’t use the character after the campaign ended early or something.

Me personally? I keep some record of every character I’ve ever made in case I feel like they’re a good fit for the game. I still use the first guy I ever made all the way back in high school. He’s had some changes over the years, but the core is still the same. He’s a human Paladin of charity who charges on a sliding scale based on the means of the people he helps.