Wait, so every video game enemy is just some derivative knock off of Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, and Lovecraft?
Where's the creativity?
Wait, so every video game enemy is just some derivative knock off of Dungeons and Dragons, Lord of the Rings, and Lovecraft?
Final Fantasy XIII was creative and everyone complained that it made no sense / was boring
The creativity is HOW you use the new creations not the new creations themselves.
>D&D invented... eyes
D&D invented a sphere shaped monster with an eye in the middle with multiple eyes coming out of its spherical body in the forms of tentacles, Beholder is copyrighted/trademarked by WotC/(TSR previously) so they own the monster technically. You CAN make a monster that looks/feels the same but isn't named BEHOLDER.
more games should have beholders
Yes, and typically some gnosticism for plots.
who's the one on the left?
also is that a demogorgon?
The one on the right is the demiurge (basically "god" of this world) Yaldabaoth usually called, not sure about the left one Can't keep up with the gnostic memes.
Its the Pleroma, essentially God.
speaking of gnosticism did it become more popular over the years?, or it was always present in all of site outside of board like Ganker and /misc/
It has been a thing/meme on Ganker for many years and I think it's slowly seeped into other boards
It gained popularity when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and translated and its been growing as people started making connections between the scrolls and other ancient tablets, scrolls, and texts online.
even non-believers say they are gnostic these days because reddit made atheism completely unassociatable a decade ago.
You mean "agnostic" which is not the same as "gnostic"
agnosticism doesn't exist anymore because it's associated with fence sitting, and no one wants be perceived as undeceive, confused individual when you have to have an opinion on everything nowadays.
But why is speaking out of ignorance more valued than keeping silence on matters we do not know or understand?
why are you asking me? look around you.
>reddit made atheism completely unassociatable a decade ago.
Plenty of people still identify as atheistic, myself included.
Associating atheists with reddit is a (you) problem.
Also (a)gnostic and atheist aren't exclusive terms, just like (a)gnostic and theist aren't exclusive terms.
>Associating atheists with reddit is a (you) problem
He isn't wrong. Reddit brought over fedoraposting around 2011 which destroyed any and all critique of monotheistic belief systems.
Atheist discourse of theistic ideas is still strong online without the autistic religion-hate of reddit atheists.
>the autistic religion-hate of reddit atheists
I was referring to the very opposite: that is, if you do not believe in MY monotheistic desert tribe cult, then... you look like THIS! Ongoing for 12 years now. Know what else came over with them? Autismposting
oh, my bad
surprising how modern memes are just reiterations of primordial concepts
>urdurr if you keep your loyalty to your old traditions or even practice your magic you are evil/dumb/ugly
reddit did to atheism what communism did to socialism
Unsurprising how many human mythologies/theologies boil down to things fricking
FRICK YOU DEMIURGE
>4
Creativity is ripping off other things. No one is creative anymore because ripping off things is seen as fake and discouraged through copyright law.
If you dig deep enough, every concept has been come up with.
pretty sure goombas weren't invested by dnd
>inb4 no, not every mushroom looks the same
did LOTR invent a single thing that didn't appear in folklore or Arthurian Legends?
>Video games
>Creativity
The highest brow most intellectual game in existence can may be measure up to bargain bin fantasy pulp.
Maybe
video games?
I am talking about them, yes, got anything to add?
have you played dark souls 2?
Unfortunately yes.
Wrong
Some of them are ripoffs of movie monsters from the '70s and '80s
Creativity isn't profitable, relatability is