Omniraptor

@Omniraptor@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dying earth isn’t a genre it’s a specific set of books by jack Vance that popularized this trope and was also a major inspiration for DnD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/…/TomatoSurprise is the wider trope

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was like the first year or two at most iirc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clipped it blud⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  punctuation kinda takes away from this writing style imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any self respecting barcode scanner app should have a special check for that url and start playing the song immediately without asking for a confirmation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably those failsafes can be circumvented and your character being a cool hacker applies those exploits to their hardware.