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When Fiends Attack: Are Balors, Pit Fiends and Ultraloths too weak?
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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 7008016" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>What in the world are you talking about?</p><p></p><p>The antagonist in a slasher movie typically has a ubiquitous presence. He can show up anywhere at any time, especially when one of the protagonists is alone, and he will take advantage of the situation and murder them to death. Even when he doesn't show up, the very fact that he <em>could</em> ratchets up the tension in any situation where the protagonists are at a temporary disadvantage (e.g. isolated and in the dark).</p><p></p><p>Am I to assume that you feel that the antagonist in a slasher movie is acting like a frightened weakling?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Wrong on so many levels. Wrong that everyone shares your conceptions of how vampires act; wrong about the picture I paint; wrong that a supremely arrogant hunter cannot hunt his prey with confidence.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And wrong about what I've written in this very thread. I'm the guy who compared Strahd to a guy with a knife, remember? Fragile but dangerous. Strahd isn't the elephant, dangerous just because he is.</p><p></p><p>You often make blanket statements, [MENTION=12731]CapnZapp[/MENTION], arrogantly proclaiming that it's time for someone to stop denying something and get on board with CapnZapp's opinion. The weirdest thing about these statements is that you often address them to people who are fully cognizant of the things you are proclaiming, sometimes to a greater degree than you are. I'm tempted to believe that you are actually addressing them at random into the ether with a generic "you"--maybe it's just a failure of communication instead of a failure of understanding.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 7008016, member: 6787650"] What in the world are you talking about? The antagonist in a slasher movie typically has a ubiquitous presence. He can show up anywhere at any time, especially when one of the protagonists is alone, and he will take advantage of the situation and murder them to death. Even when he doesn't show up, the very fact that he [I]could[/I] ratchets up the tension in any situation where the protagonists are at a temporary disadvantage (e.g. isolated and in the dark). Am I to assume that you feel that the antagonist in a slasher movie is acting like a frightened weakling? Wrong on so many levels. Wrong that everyone shares your conceptions of how vampires act; wrong about the picture I paint; wrong that a supremely arrogant hunter cannot hunt his prey with confidence. And wrong about what I've written in this very thread. I'm the guy who compared Strahd to a guy with a knife, remember? Fragile but dangerous. Strahd isn't the elephant, dangerous just because he is. You often make blanket statements, [MENTION=12731]CapnZapp[/MENTION], arrogantly proclaiming that it's time for someone to stop denying something and get on board with CapnZapp's opinion. The weirdest thing about these statements is that you often address them to people who are fully cognizant of the things you are proclaiming, sometimes to a greater degree than you are. I'm tempted to believe that you are actually addressing them at random into the ether with a generic "you"--maybe it's just a failure of communication instead of a failure of understanding. [/QUOTE]
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