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this is true of all zelda sequels but when they finished breath of the wild aonuma was like “have we done everything we could do with this?” and the answer was “no, we haven’t” but after tears of the kingdom the answer definitely is “yes, we absolutely have”

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people might worry that the next 3d zelda game will just be another clone of breath of the wild but you gotta understand, the zelda team hated working on sequel to breath of the wild

@coriander no way nintendo would never constrain themselves in this way

“ganon has the triforce of power, and we have the triforce of wisdom, and link has the triforce of courage embedded in his chest” sounds painful

how many hours does a normal person spend staring at a spreadsheet of cultures evident at various points in the zelda canon

it’s gotta be a small number, right? like, five

i love how early writers all agree that link’s primary character trait is that he is an asshole; they should go back to this

@coriander but reading early Zelda canon is like reading ancient texts before the printing press standardized the spellings of words

@coriander well, “this author” is in fact the author of an officially licensed Nintendo Adventure Book

weirdly i think i am on the side that “blin” is its own plural but “moblin”, “bokoblin”, “bulblin”, etc are pluralized with “‐s”

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this author thinks that the plural of “moblin” is “moblin”

@coriander i'm so good at art comprehension look at all of these objectively correct facts under my command

asking an AI to narrate the events of the spaghetti incident so that i can finally understand Calvin and Hobbes

@coriander @Taweret@octodon.social unfortunately many people who write fanfic do so not out of a love for writing or fandom but for numbers go up, social engagement, and clout

i don’t think AI will WORK for this, largely because i think sharing the prompts will always be more effective than sharing the results, but people absolutely will TRY

@nebulos both are correct with subtle differences in favoured reading. “he said morosely” reads as though “morosely” is a quality of the speech itself; his words were morose words, they had a morose inflection. “he said, morosely” is less making a statement about the words and more making one about him: he was morose when he spoke. (the “-ly” is superfluous in this case; “he said, morose” works just as well; but again there are subtle differences which might lead you to the “-ly” form.)

the above notwithstanding, in practice, it’s probably more important to go with the version that flows better in the context that it is being used than worry about such subtleties of meaning

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