Where in Smash Bros have we ever seen the “narrative” “detail” events? The Master Hand fight? You’re stretching here. Nothing in Smash Bros “detailed” the Master Hand fight in any context. The selected character fighting the Master Hand was blank and vague and existed only for a final boss, nothing more. Those book-end cut-scenes did not detail anything in the game beyond giving you fun and flashy introduction and transitions. They did not start a narrative. There was no narrative.
No, when you have nothing, you do not even have consistency, because even consistency is something. And explain, in detail, with examples, how there’s consistency with the non-existent internal narrative of Smash Bros, especially after you had already established how ignoring external narratives somehow bypasses a very important middle step and establishes internal consistency. Do explain it, please. In detail. Point by point. Each little internal construction by each little internal construction. Since you know it so well, it will be easy for you.
Because a narrative actually says something. A cut-scene that just drops a random character on a sandy beach is a transition from Point A to Point B. That cut-scene is simply conveying the information that this is the next place you’re fighting. That is not a narrative, no matter how you want to dumb down the word.
No, I think I’m getting it quite well, actually. You’re avoiding an invitation to engage in a perfectly reasonable debate over inconsistency versus consistency, again clinging to this notion where the topic is automatically internally consistent, when in fact, if you were a true philosopher or at the very least, a true student of philosophy, you would know that nothing at the beginning of a discussion is ever certain, and that it’s illogical for you to claim Brawl is internally consistent, especially when the discussion is looking to arrive at one conclusion: consistency or inconsistency. Brawl is not inherently consistent, my friend. And so far, whenever pressed—not even pressed, just requested, you fall back on the same thing you’ve been saying the entire time, which is still just as empty and meaningless now as it was four pages ago because you refuse to go into any kind of revelatory details beyond “It’s based on CONTRADICTIONS.” What do you have against engaging in some good ole-fashioned brain-picking?
How the hell do I analyze works? I’ll make it easy for you: Anyone who doesn’t use their own creations and just shoves completely unrelated, copyright-protected characters into a story are hacks who do not deserve any respect until they learn something. I know that’s mean. I’m sure it makes me look like a bad guy. But it’s still the truth. And you’re right. There is more to literary analysis. But fan-fiction is not literature. And yes, that makes me sound like a lit-snob of the worst degree. But it’s still the truth. And any lit teacher/student worth anything will kill the urge to be sympathetic and tell you how it really is. Cause they’re not doing you any favors otherwise.
I’m just going to write this off as a complete joke that doesn’t even get a chuckle.
Yeah, but it’s consistent with the template GAME.
Then say they’re from the Legend of Zelda on NES. Don’t say “No, same as pulling the Silver arrows from a Link to the Past isn't inconsistent.”
Funny, because I had used the term correctly. And yes, I do love my distractions. But I throw a curveball in to keep myself amused before anything. Plus, given your record here, throwing around Straw Man Fallacy (which we both know was bull when you tossed it in my direction), you’ve been mis-using a few ideas, and so it was perfectly reasonable to expect your dickishness.
Then stop going on about them.
Smash’s character selection is traditional fighting game to the core. Always has been from the very beginning. It’s breaking its own rules now.
Examples, please.
Smash Bros is a bit more related than “not a fanfiction of that work or anything else which directly utilizes the source material.” Also, I don’t care if you left it intentionally vague to cover your ***. That doesn’t change the fact it was lousy.
A kid with ADD being distracted by something shiny is nothing more than a kid with ADD who shouldn’t be allowed to work backstage. The “suspension” you describe was involuntary stupidity and general malaise when it comes to environmental awareness rather than the active decision-making process of “willing suspension of disbelief.”
Oh, “willing suspension of disbelief” means something. “Suspension of disbelief” is a joke.
No. If the work is that good, then belief and disbelief never even were a factor, because that individual never had to evaluate what he or she was reading, and therefore never had to make that decision. Lack of action is not an action, by the way.
No, they enjoy Harry Potter because they’ve all had lobotomies. Rowling is a terrible writer with a lousy ear for dialogue and an even worse feel for half-decent action.
That site is a joke. Show me where you actually get your definitions.
You didn’t present relevant information. If you really wanted to drive the Silver Arrows point home, you should have gone back to the NES. If you say anything about the plot of Slaughterhouse Five but leave out the big tidbit of the novel…in a discussion about literary analysis/theory…you’re utterly leaving out relevant information. PM me with what’s really going on in Slaughterhouse Five.
Fan-fiction doesn’t exist. It’s a subculture of the socially inept who don’t know a god**** thing about writing.
“I'm sorry, but fan-fiction is no different from any other work of the medium with the exception that it's generally much poorer in quality and the person did not create the original work.” So do you just throw out these “I never said that” bits for fun or what?
Yeah, there is. The writers are ****ing hacks who never learned because nobody slapped them upside the head and told them to shape the hell up and stop writing that trash. Things aren’t getting better because nobody knows what good writing is anymore, and garbage like Harry Potter doesn’t help things, either, because it reads like a third-grader’s short story.
Translation: fan-fiction is bad because it’s fan-fiction.
I don’t care all that much. My goal is to exploit the weak and dying. And if a few morons happen to get bumped off along the way, so be it.
