The conceit of this concept I find frustrating. As in I don't think there is an issue at all. Start with the introduction, taking the Winterfell example into account. A castle built 6000 years ago in that world...well allow me to introduce you to the pyramids. Ancient Egypt was as old to the ancient Romans as the ancient Rome is to us. Speaking of Rome, well enough said. Your intro focused on the medieval period, ignoring the concept of the Dark Ages, societal collapse, etc. Don't compare a late medieval castle to an early medieval castle, compare it to the Roman colosseum or the Greek Temple of Zeus. But above all else, I think the biggest assumption that we should challenge is the idea of societal, cultural, scientific, philosophical, and technological progression, being guaranteed or even likely at all. When you consider the myriad of variables that go into progress, I do not think you need to invoke magic, outside oppression/suppression, or even an apocalyptic reset to explain stagnation. Humans have been around for millions of years but simple recorded history is only thousands of years. People assume, most likely because of the anthropic principle, that this cascading progress or any progress at all is guaranteed or inevitable. I find this notion supremely naïve and borderline determinist, call it technological determinism. I don’t think it is guaranteed at all ( not to mention reset is possible at any time). This progress may even be astronomically unlikely (Check out the rare technology filter as a part of the Great Filters Theory as a potential solution to the Fermi Paradox). So rather than ask why a medieval fantasy world seems technologically stagnant for thousands of years, ask instead what profound luck led them to even make it past the Stone Age in the first place? Then ask what laughable absurdity could have ever come together in such an unlikely cosmic lark to get them passed the bronze age…and so on.
@tentacledhorror3 сағат бұрын
The question that arises is how common you make magic. For example, in D&D, leveled characters are supposed to be very rare. We have a glut of programmers, engineers, and what not here in the real world. It's much easier to learn physics than it is to become a wizard. Other fantasy worlds require that you have an innate talent to do magic. If you lack that, you can't do magic. There are always going to be a crap tone of people that can't do magic but still want to do things. Likewise, those that can do magic aren't going to just lend themselves to the beck and call of every single peasant that comes down with a little case of plague. They've got their own adventures to do, if they spent their time mending every pot, healing every wound, and foreseeing the weather for every noble that wanted to know the perfect day to have a picnic, they'd never get around to killing the dragon.
@lavender55835 сағат бұрын
Also, the tower of Babel story you told is a bit off: In the real thing, God told the first post-flood society to go spread out and populate the Earth, but they refused, simultaneously, an idea that man could rival God was brewing among the people, and they decided to build a tower that could reach God to prove their awesomeness. God then mixed up the languages so they would have to do what he asked in the first place. Overall: God DID ask nicely at first, and he was also not scared of human technological advancement at all. He was just punishing them for their pride in a way that would also accomplish his command to them in the first place
@lavender55835 сағат бұрын
I think Arcane really did the "boomer blindness" well with Heimerdinger (idk how to spell it) being an immortal scientist too cautious to make changes, and Jayce and Victor being young upstarts trying to change injustices they see
@turtleeater27206 сағат бұрын
I thought when I was a kid that Ben kenobi was just so old that when he got hit he poofed away lol
@NaliTikva7 сағат бұрын
Maybe they don't want to advance in technology because they know magitech (or other just combining magic and advanced technology in general) is just to dangerous. The thing that kept even real life evil dictators from engaging in nuclear war is Mutual Assured Distruction. Would that deter an lich who can hide his soul jar in some hidden nuclear bunker? If he's satified with ruling over a fallout like world or if he can create portals to other worlds, then nuking an entire world can form a great supply for corpses for an undead army, a radioactive undead army. Edit: I think the Death Star is techically magitech, because it uses Kyber crystalls
@backwardsbandit39557 сағат бұрын
I would highly recommend you read the Dresden files books full on mix of urban and epic fantasy
@jaggedstar15377 сағат бұрын
You should also look at the injuries in the walking dead
@fartcriminals96238 сағат бұрын
Another piece of media that does this good is the dark tower series by steven king. The main character is a gunslinger who wields two revolvers, but he loses his fingers (on his right hand i think) at the beginning of the second book. It's heavily emphasized how much this hurts and how jarring it is for the character because its harder to load a revolver (something that has become as natural as breathing for most of his life) or do anything else when he has four less fingers.
@soopy66678 сағат бұрын
Honestly I love the idea of a war of technology vs magic being the concept of a fantasy world Those with limited magic slowly push for technology, initially starting out with printers and slowly using it to spread technology to the poorer classes (similar to how the church lost power in real life)
@isaac_r_s27169 сағат бұрын
If you’re into injuries in literature making an impact, check out the book series The Remaining by DJ Molles. It’s about survivors in the zombie apocalypse but the main characters are special operators that have a long history of military service who are meant to rebuild the US after the collapse. One scene I can remember is the main character falling down part of an elevator shaft and breaking some ribs during a gunfight in an abandoned hospital. He survives but after that injury, he struggles to breathe right and he complains about those injuries coming back to bite him later on in the books. It’s a fun book series and it’s worth a dive if you really are into zombie survival fiction.
@merivial86619 сағат бұрын
21:46 Not a Middle Ages expert, but even though scientific progress can be arguably non existent (I disagree though) in the Medieval times, that doesn't mean intellectuals didn't exist, nor an intellectual "oppression" took place. The Carolingian Empire (especially Charlemagne and Louis the Pious) promoted the involvement of theology in politics, and the development of philosophy and education with people like Paul the Deacon, Einhard, Hincmar, John Scotus Eriugena, Benedict of Aniane, Dhuoda (a woman!!!!) and especially Alcuin of York, between the VIII and IX centuries. And of course in earlier centuries with Gregory of Tours and Isidore of Seville in the VII century (the latter in the VIII as well). Of course, in the later centuries figures like Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, and Christine de Pizan would appear. Most Medieval intellectuals were male aristocrats because they already had an education based on literary works (especially Greek, Roman, and Christian), so it was "easier", but the intellectual movements in the Carolingian Empire were not exclusive to them. As we can see, women like Dhuoda were able to crack into that world, as well as people from lower social strata (can't remember names rn). sorry for my bad English haha ❤
@szymonlechdzieciol9 сағат бұрын
"Why would you research the natural sciences when magic works" Because that's what actual magicians, natural philosophers and other folk of this period did. They both believed in actually working magic and in advancing engineering and natural sciences. Duh. Like when ever mankind turned to be satiated with our toys?
@LogeySmalls11 сағат бұрын
This is probably more sci-fi than fantasy (even though I would argue that the majority of popular sci-fi like Star Wars, Star Trek, and Dune is just space fantasy), but I like how Thor 1, and by extension the entire MCU, handled magic. Magic is defined by scientists as science we don’t yet understand and Thor says that, in Asgard, magic and science are one and the same.
@pfcdevin33714 сағат бұрын
Resident evil village is the worst with this
@gregorycomey328114 сағат бұрын
I want to introduce you to Arcanum: Steamworks and Magik Obscura
@gunviolence.678915 сағат бұрын
There is powering through the pain and then theres the shit Mizu pulls. However, it is, in fact, sick as fuck so I just ignore it.
@bernardodallacosta868415 сағат бұрын
sorry but... in the ancient boomers part... you really don't know a lot about engineers right? have i ever seen a 50, 60year old be exited about new tecnology? yes, just ask a engineer, our lifes are made around new tecnologys....
@AlkisGD15 сағат бұрын
8:17 - I hate this so much. It doesn't matter if you're a zombie, Gregor Clegane, or an anime protag having flashbacks of your parents dying in an alley when you were a kid, if a tendon or muscle got severed, if a nerve cannot work due to damage or neurotoxins: You. Are. Not. Moving. That. Bodypart!
@slavicandroid199916 сағат бұрын
5:03, i never realized how reversing footage of demolitions makes for a perfect visual for conjuring a building from nothing, i now have to use that trick some time
@mollof789316 сағат бұрын
I had an idea where they discovered an anti-gravity method in medival time. Then they would travel to space with simple space ships.
@xplosionslite643919 сағат бұрын
For anyone who likes the idea of fantasy elements set in a modern future Earth that is fully realistic, but also wierdly reminiscent of the Renaissance period, I'd really recommend Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer. Somehow she pulls it off as a fully believable future, and it's unclear whether it's actually Sci-Fi or Urban Fantasy. Be prepared for some heavy politics and philosophy though.
@neenm429920 сағат бұрын
I watched this first thing after waking up.
@MrReset9420 сағат бұрын
You make it seem as all fantasy world are the same and function in the same way, and not just between each other, but also in comparison to our own. All the while ignoring completely why our world progressed at times. No, any world, no matter how magical and whimsical, would progress at sone point and do it in its own way depending on how the magic works, how many and how diverse the different sentient species are, how is the geography, and more…
@Branxfear21 сағат бұрын
I think I prefer the medieval-contemporary style of Simon The Sorcerer.
@sleepyghostgirl22 сағат бұрын
blue eye samurai doesn't get enough critique. this video is needed!
@igotwect3174Күн бұрын
I wish Avatar would’ve had this type of stasis
@eclipseslayer98Күн бұрын
12:40 Illegal aliens, not immigrants.
@FilthySewerRat12Күн бұрын
Oh!! The star wars thing actually has an explanation! Obi wan became a force ghost when he died, a process that completely destroys the body, vader already had his limbs hacked off and replaced with robotic ones, and his shoulder guards are made extremely heavy duty and of lightsaber resistant material, luke had neither
@FilthySewerRat12Күн бұрын
That being said both of your videos have been great explorations of media, and I'm excited to see what you come out with next, it's not often you see someone come right out of the gates with professional quality work like this, any word on what your working on now?
@treymcgougan5698Күн бұрын
i’ll never understand why people loved blue eye samurai it’s like edgerunners it’s so predictable
@WhatdaballllllllllioКүн бұрын
Great video and a really intriguing premise. I’ve never thought of this before and it was interesting hearing your take on it.
@Squishems01Күн бұрын
The whole point of Mizu getting injured and still fighting is to show her sheer dedication and desire to gain vengeance. It does weaken her, as we see her unable to fight Taigen properly after her duel with Blood Soaked Chiaki. Sue can fight after a while of it, but she hurts herself in doing so. Her entire character is her going on a self destructive and bloody vengeance quest, no matter how much it hurts her. As she said herself "I don't want to be happy, only satisfied"
@Squishems01Күн бұрын
And on top of that, dopamine is one hell of a chemical. I've seen people survive getting limbs blown off and still sprint and fight.
@DTyrannosaurusКүн бұрын
There is GREAT joy in being able to “trust” a filmmaker, author, etc. This comes down to what you were saying about internal logic and the deal we implicitly make when we suspend disbelief. We are free to believe that storybeats have purpose and our time is not being wasted. It’s like when you’re stuck on a video game level and you don’t know if what’s happening is a glitch or if you haven’t figured out the right solution. If you TRUST the game, you know there’s a solution and you can keep looking. When you can’t trust it, you never know. And for me that heaps on frustration, which is my least favorite state. Edit: it also leaves us with no stakes and little interest in metaphor or symbolism because it makes it hard to believe the author’s intentions.
@phillipjones2278Күн бұрын
Magic is generally only of help to a small minority of people living in fantasy settings. Most people just die of the plague or build their own structures so the argument that magic is so convenient that there’s no need to innovate doesn’t really any make sense.
@Krane5328Күн бұрын
My favorite case of injuries in a story is in naruto when rock lee gets his legged completely crushed by Gaara and theres a whole process of medical yreatments and recovery that happens
@Beau-BoКүн бұрын
24:00 i don’t think ellie had mixed feelings about killing david.
@jpickens189Күн бұрын
We stick fantasy stories in the midieval times because that is a time that we feel like we understand, and when we write fantasy stories we want to avoid the aspects of humanity that are new and scary and hard to understand. I don't want that from any genre, avoidance and escapism on their own do not make for truly great media, they can be a component within great works that makes them more palatable, but in the end, we all come back to reality, and we all should work on trying to make it better.
@probablyink4218Күн бұрын
James bond: skyfall, do i even need to specify the scene
@013wolfwarriorКүн бұрын
Oh thank god I wasnt the only one who thought how much bs it felt how they kept ignoring serious injuries in blue eyed Samurai. In the very opining it says its the legend of the blue eslyed. Samurai, so ir could be taken as an exegaration of feats, not to mention alot of drugs are involved in some of the scenes. But still
@thomasa.anderson2238Күн бұрын
Did you ear about guilty gear lore?
@lonelyteapot858Күн бұрын
Disco Elysium would disagree with you
@sapphicquartzКүн бұрын
I thought of a fantasy settinh 1000ds of years in the future in a world (our 100ds of years being their 1000ds) where they've advanced to the 1700ds and the high elves have become the highclass (i realised afterwards that it became like the French revolution but fantasy) and the people finding out that their higharchy being the source of their slow progression aswell as being fed up with the class difference But there also still being dragons and etc existing, would be so cool having dragons specifically in such a setting
@sapphicquartzКүн бұрын
I mean skyrim actually has examples of this, the Dwemer, they have steam powered robots and technollogy. But one of them Kagrenac tried to use tools to manipulate the heart of lorkhan to give them inortallity but it backfired and wiped them out D&D also has constructs And as the Dwemer, in many fantasy worlds there are often technollogical advanced races that exist or have existed but people being too causious of it WOW having the gnomes, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom having the ancient shieka and the zonai Also the fact of being in danger of monsters constantly does make people lay their focus elsewhere than simple everyday improvements
@belldrop7365Күн бұрын
That outro was perfect.
@Nikolai19392 күн бұрын
For me, the problem with those settings is because they largely ignore firearms even tho firearms were very common during the late medieval ages, with matchlock muskets and pistols and later the wheellocks, not to mention cannons as early as the 12th century
@Ryan_Garrie2 күн бұрын
"struck emerald" lmfao
@Dookieman19752 күн бұрын
Tbf the show treats her less like a human and more like an actual demoness at times And yeah adrenaline can make people not even think about a whole ass puncture wound for a lil while but this is a cartoon that is concerned about injuries when it feels like it
@user-tl9pr5gt3h2 күн бұрын
I am enjoying the video but I would like to say that some of the points made with the "Ancient Boomers" section seems to be projecting our human ideologies, brains, and cultures and applying them to worlds that do not look like our own (although yes, fantasy is merely a mirror to our own world at the end of the day) or peoples like the elves from Tolkien's universe.
@lorddude1232 күн бұрын
the idea is that her rage pushes her through the whole thing, thats why the injuries become an issue once she is done
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I will add steampunk in my fantasy
The conceit of this concept I find frustrating. As in I don't think there is an issue at all. Start with the introduction, taking the Winterfell example into account. A castle built 6000 years ago in that world...well allow me to introduce you to the pyramids. Ancient Egypt was as old to the ancient Romans as the ancient Rome is to us. Speaking of Rome, well enough said. Your intro focused on the medieval period, ignoring the concept of the Dark Ages, societal collapse, etc. Don't compare a late medieval castle to an early medieval castle, compare it to the Roman colosseum or the Greek Temple of Zeus. But above all else, I think the biggest assumption that we should challenge is the idea of societal, cultural, scientific, philosophical, and technological progression, being guaranteed or even likely at all. When you consider the myriad of variables that go into progress, I do not think you need to invoke magic, outside oppression/suppression, or even an apocalyptic reset to explain stagnation. Humans have been around for millions of years but simple recorded history is only thousands of years. People assume, most likely because of the anthropic principle, that this cascading progress or any progress at all is guaranteed or inevitable. I find this notion supremely naïve and borderline determinist, call it technological determinism. I don’t think it is guaranteed at all ( not to mention reset is possible at any time). This progress may even be astronomically unlikely (Check out the rare technology filter as a part of the Great Filters Theory as a potential solution to the Fermi Paradox). So rather than ask why a medieval fantasy world seems technologically stagnant for thousands of years, ask instead what profound luck led them to even make it past the Stone Age in the first place? Then ask what laughable absurdity could have ever come together in such an unlikely cosmic lark to get them passed the bronze age…and so on.
The question that arises is how common you make magic. For example, in D&D, leveled characters are supposed to be very rare. We have a glut of programmers, engineers, and what not here in the real world. It's much easier to learn physics than it is to become a wizard. Other fantasy worlds require that you have an innate talent to do magic. If you lack that, you can't do magic. There are always going to be a crap tone of people that can't do magic but still want to do things. Likewise, those that can do magic aren't going to just lend themselves to the beck and call of every single peasant that comes down with a little case of plague. They've got their own adventures to do, if they spent their time mending every pot, healing every wound, and foreseeing the weather for every noble that wanted to know the perfect day to have a picnic, they'd never get around to killing the dragon.
Also, the tower of Babel story you told is a bit off: In the real thing, God told the first post-flood society to go spread out and populate the Earth, but they refused, simultaneously, an idea that man could rival God was brewing among the people, and they decided to build a tower that could reach God to prove their awesomeness. God then mixed up the languages so they would have to do what he asked in the first place. Overall: God DID ask nicely at first, and he was also not scared of human technological advancement at all. He was just punishing them for their pride in a way that would also accomplish his command to them in the first place
I think Arcane really did the "boomer blindness" well with Heimerdinger (idk how to spell it) being an immortal scientist too cautious to make changes, and Jayce and Victor being young upstarts trying to change injustices they see
I thought when I was a kid that Ben kenobi was just so old that when he got hit he poofed away lol
Maybe they don't want to advance in technology because they know magitech (or other just combining magic and advanced technology in general) is just to dangerous. The thing that kept even real life evil dictators from engaging in nuclear war is Mutual Assured Distruction. Would that deter an lich who can hide his soul jar in some hidden nuclear bunker? If he's satified with ruling over a fallout like world or if he can create portals to other worlds, then nuking an entire world can form a great supply for corpses for an undead army, a radioactive undead army. Edit: I think the Death Star is techically magitech, because it uses Kyber crystalls
I would highly recommend you read the Dresden files books full on mix of urban and epic fantasy
You should also look at the injuries in the walking dead
Another piece of media that does this good is the dark tower series by steven king. The main character is a gunslinger who wields two revolvers, but he loses his fingers (on his right hand i think) at the beginning of the second book. It's heavily emphasized how much this hurts and how jarring it is for the character because its harder to load a revolver (something that has become as natural as breathing for most of his life) or do anything else when he has four less fingers.
Honestly I love the idea of a war of technology vs magic being the concept of a fantasy world Those with limited magic slowly push for technology, initially starting out with printers and slowly using it to spread technology to the poorer classes (similar to how the church lost power in real life)
If you’re into injuries in literature making an impact, check out the book series The Remaining by DJ Molles. It’s about survivors in the zombie apocalypse but the main characters are special operators that have a long history of military service who are meant to rebuild the US after the collapse. One scene I can remember is the main character falling down part of an elevator shaft and breaking some ribs during a gunfight in an abandoned hospital. He survives but after that injury, he struggles to breathe right and he complains about those injuries coming back to bite him later on in the books. It’s a fun book series and it’s worth a dive if you really are into zombie survival fiction.
21:46 Not a Middle Ages expert, but even though scientific progress can be arguably non existent (I disagree though) in the Medieval times, that doesn't mean intellectuals didn't exist, nor an intellectual "oppression" took place. The Carolingian Empire (especially Charlemagne and Louis the Pious) promoted the involvement of theology in politics, and the development of philosophy and education with people like Paul the Deacon, Einhard, Hincmar, John Scotus Eriugena, Benedict of Aniane, Dhuoda (a woman!!!!) and especially Alcuin of York, between the VIII and IX centuries. And of course in earlier centuries with Gregory of Tours and Isidore of Seville in the VII century (the latter in the VIII as well). Of course, in the later centuries figures like Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, and Christine de Pizan would appear. Most Medieval intellectuals were male aristocrats because they already had an education based on literary works (especially Greek, Roman, and Christian), so it was "easier", but the intellectual movements in the Carolingian Empire were not exclusive to them. As we can see, women like Dhuoda were able to crack into that world, as well as people from lower social strata (can't remember names rn). sorry for my bad English haha ❤
"Why would you research the natural sciences when magic works" Because that's what actual magicians, natural philosophers and other folk of this period did. They both believed in actually working magic and in advancing engineering and natural sciences. Duh. Like when ever mankind turned to be satiated with our toys?
This is probably more sci-fi than fantasy (even though I would argue that the majority of popular sci-fi like Star Wars, Star Trek, and Dune is just space fantasy), but I like how Thor 1, and by extension the entire MCU, handled magic. Magic is defined by scientists as science we don’t yet understand and Thor says that, in Asgard, magic and science are one and the same.
Resident evil village is the worst with this
I want to introduce you to Arcanum: Steamworks and Magik Obscura
There is powering through the pain and then theres the shit Mizu pulls. However, it is, in fact, sick as fuck so I just ignore it.
sorry but... in the ancient boomers part... you really don't know a lot about engineers right? have i ever seen a 50, 60year old be exited about new tecnology? yes, just ask a engineer, our lifes are made around new tecnologys....
8:17 - I hate this so much. It doesn't matter if you're a zombie, Gregor Clegane, or an anime protag having flashbacks of your parents dying in an alley when you were a kid, if a tendon or muscle got severed, if a nerve cannot work due to damage or neurotoxins: You. Are. Not. Moving. That. Bodypart!
5:03, i never realized how reversing footage of demolitions makes for a perfect visual for conjuring a building from nothing, i now have to use that trick some time
I had an idea where they discovered an anti-gravity method in medival time. Then they would travel to space with simple space ships.
For anyone who likes the idea of fantasy elements set in a modern future Earth that is fully realistic, but also wierdly reminiscent of the Renaissance period, I'd really recommend Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer. Somehow she pulls it off as a fully believable future, and it's unclear whether it's actually Sci-Fi or Urban Fantasy. Be prepared for some heavy politics and philosophy though.
I watched this first thing after waking up.
You make it seem as all fantasy world are the same and function in the same way, and not just between each other, but also in comparison to our own. All the while ignoring completely why our world progressed at times. No, any world, no matter how magical and whimsical, would progress at sone point and do it in its own way depending on how the magic works, how many and how diverse the different sentient species are, how is the geography, and more…
I think I prefer the medieval-contemporary style of Simon The Sorcerer.
blue eye samurai doesn't get enough critique. this video is needed!
I wish Avatar would’ve had this type of stasis
12:40 Illegal aliens, not immigrants.
Oh!! The star wars thing actually has an explanation! Obi wan became a force ghost when he died, a process that completely destroys the body, vader already had his limbs hacked off and replaced with robotic ones, and his shoulder guards are made extremely heavy duty and of lightsaber resistant material, luke had neither
That being said both of your videos have been great explorations of media, and I'm excited to see what you come out with next, it's not often you see someone come right out of the gates with professional quality work like this, any word on what your working on now?
i’ll never understand why people loved blue eye samurai it’s like edgerunners it’s so predictable
Great video and a really intriguing premise. I’ve never thought of this before and it was interesting hearing your take on it.
The whole point of Mizu getting injured and still fighting is to show her sheer dedication and desire to gain vengeance. It does weaken her, as we see her unable to fight Taigen properly after her duel with Blood Soaked Chiaki. Sue can fight after a while of it, but she hurts herself in doing so. Her entire character is her going on a self destructive and bloody vengeance quest, no matter how much it hurts her. As she said herself "I don't want to be happy, only satisfied"
And on top of that, dopamine is one hell of a chemical. I've seen people survive getting limbs blown off and still sprint and fight.
There is GREAT joy in being able to “trust” a filmmaker, author, etc. This comes down to what you were saying about internal logic and the deal we implicitly make when we suspend disbelief. We are free to believe that storybeats have purpose and our time is not being wasted. It’s like when you’re stuck on a video game level and you don’t know if what’s happening is a glitch or if you haven’t figured out the right solution. If you TRUST the game, you know there’s a solution and you can keep looking. When you can’t trust it, you never know. And for me that heaps on frustration, which is my least favorite state. Edit: it also leaves us with no stakes and little interest in metaphor or symbolism because it makes it hard to believe the author’s intentions.
Magic is generally only of help to a small minority of people living in fantasy settings. Most people just die of the plague or build their own structures so the argument that magic is so convenient that there’s no need to innovate doesn’t really any make sense.
My favorite case of injuries in a story is in naruto when rock lee gets his legged completely crushed by Gaara and theres a whole process of medical yreatments and recovery that happens
24:00 i don’t think ellie had mixed feelings about killing david.
We stick fantasy stories in the midieval times because that is a time that we feel like we understand, and when we write fantasy stories we want to avoid the aspects of humanity that are new and scary and hard to understand. I don't want that from any genre, avoidance and escapism on their own do not make for truly great media, they can be a component within great works that makes them more palatable, but in the end, we all come back to reality, and we all should work on trying to make it better.
James bond: skyfall, do i even need to specify the scene
Oh thank god I wasnt the only one who thought how much bs it felt how they kept ignoring serious injuries in blue eyed Samurai. In the very opining it says its the legend of the blue eslyed. Samurai, so ir could be taken as an exegaration of feats, not to mention alot of drugs are involved in some of the scenes. But still
Did you ear about guilty gear lore?
Disco Elysium would disagree with you
I thought of a fantasy settinh 1000ds of years in the future in a world (our 100ds of years being their 1000ds) where they've advanced to the 1700ds and the high elves have become the highclass (i realised afterwards that it became like the French revolution but fantasy) and the people finding out that their higharchy being the source of their slow progression aswell as being fed up with the class difference But there also still being dragons and etc existing, would be so cool having dragons specifically in such a setting
I mean skyrim actually has examples of this, the Dwemer, they have steam powered robots and technollogy. But one of them Kagrenac tried to use tools to manipulate the heart of lorkhan to give them inortallity but it backfired and wiped them out D&D also has constructs And as the Dwemer, in many fantasy worlds there are often technollogical advanced races that exist or have existed but people being too causious of it WOW having the gnomes, Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom having the ancient shieka and the zonai Also the fact of being in danger of monsters constantly does make people lay their focus elsewhere than simple everyday improvements
That outro was perfect.
For me, the problem with those settings is because they largely ignore firearms even tho firearms were very common during the late medieval ages, with matchlock muskets and pistols and later the wheellocks, not to mention cannons as early as the 12th century
"struck emerald" lmfao
Tbf the show treats her less like a human and more like an actual demoness at times And yeah adrenaline can make people not even think about a whole ass puncture wound for a lil while but this is a cartoon that is concerned about injuries when it feels like it
I am enjoying the video but I would like to say that some of the points made with the "Ancient Boomers" section seems to be projecting our human ideologies, brains, and cultures and applying them to worlds that do not look like our own (although yes, fantasy is merely a mirror to our own world at the end of the day) or peoples like the elves from Tolkien's universe.
the idea is that her rage pushes her through the whole thing, thats why the injuries become an issue once she is done