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Friday Fun Thread for November 11, 2022

Be advised; this thread is not for serious in depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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I'd ask if you've played or even seen the other God of War games, but you said it yourself you didn't.

Kratos "mellowing out" wasn't suddenly tacked on in GoW 2018. Arguably his "unapologetic masculine killering" was his undoing in all the rest of the series, consistently. If you ask me GoW 2018 Kratos has become wiser, not "mellowed". Also, the beer gut is Thor and I am convinced that it's mythologically accurate.

Man, this game has .. interesting writers.

Can present day baizuo not insert their ideas everywhere ?

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Why not? Don't you insert your ideas anywhere you think you can get away with it?

If I were making a game about the middle ages I'd try to not insert modern BS there. It's a challenge though. Even people who tried to do right, eg. Warhorse with KCD could not resist including something suspiciously seeming like a dash of late millenium nationalism into a 15th century game. Or failed to realize it wasn't a thing back then, possibly.

Who is to say that a mythical god of knowledge or whoever Mimir is can't have ideas deviating from the norm? Or anyone, really. What has been written down and passed down as the zeitgeist of that era would have to be much more narrow than the real range of held beliefs.

I should have stopped writing my reply after finding I've a twitter search ban and can't search through my own activity, as the thread I mentioned it had more info than I remembered and seemed topical to your query.