when i first heard the term "lolcow" i thought it would be pictures of cattle with captions like "u no can haz cheezburger"
I heard that war has been declared by @thetrueratking. Shall we be fighting?
- @rat-detector-8x
It was not that false king’s declaration, but my own. My stance is clear. Raise war. Light the fires. Raise the banners! We march under the standard that brings death to false kings.
Gather the others @rat-detector-8x
Let them know it is time to rally their own. And go to that damn king’s blog to wage our war. We must burn it all.
it does kind of slaughter me a little bit every time i'm reminded of how near-universally associated slenderman is with the phrase "collect my pages" when the fundamental conceit of the game being referenced is that slenderman will hunt you down with murderous intent if you so much as go near his pages
We often talk about "ludonarrative dissonance" in terms of morality and situations like "the story says violence is bad, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to kill things" but my actual fave version of it is "the story says you have a very serious plot-relevant time-sensitive thing to do, but the gameplay enables and encourages you to buzz off into the world and search for collectibles for five weeks"
ditzys
Folks have got to understand that they probably aren't messed up by some Secret Big Trauma that they just can't remember; but rather by a million tiny microtraumas that they do mostly remember but don't even register as traumatic because nobody actually understood that these things would cause trauma, much less stack on each other over the years.