Geek Confessional Thread 2024 [NOW 2025!]

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I had to google that reference

Anyways I am less talking about scientific facts and more about characterization and cohesive writing. The Simpsons did care about that back when I watched them - but that was years ago, I think I stopped watching around season 15-18.

it's not just about science facts, it's just a way to basically say " no need to worry about every little thing."
Some times The Simpsons will nod to pervious things and other times totally ignore something as if they didn't happen.

 

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" no need to worry about every little thing."

I understand that, I found characterization not a little thing though. Imagine Homer suddenly behaving and speaking like Lisa (without any plot reason). And a lot of their characterization and background is based on their generation, at least thats how I read them.

I mean its not a big thing, its not that I am mad now, I stopped watching Simpsons more than 15 years ago. I just wondered in my initial post if it just a little thing for a flashback or if its a permant change to their characterization. Did they just wanted to make a scene in the 90s or are Homer and Marge from now on actual Millenials future episodes included. That was my curiosity.

My initial post was more of a question and not a rant about Homer being a Millenial.

 

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I understand that, I found characterization not a little thing though. Imagine Homer suddenly behaving and speaking like Lisa (without any plot reason). And a lot of their characterization and background is based on their generation, at least thats how I read them.

I mean its not a big thing, its not that I am mad now, I stopped watching Simpsons more than 15 years ago. I just wondered in my initial post if it just a little thing for a flashback or if its a permant change to their characterization. Did they just wanted to make a scene in the 90s or are Homer and Marge from now on actual Millenials future episodes included. That was my curiosity.

My initial post was more of a question and not a rant about Homer being a Millenial.

sliding time scale is another trope, and yes Homer and Marge are millenials.

 

[MoonSong]

sliding time scale is another trope, and yes Homer and Marge are millenials.

For a while they were Gen xers. And Homer is now a white passing AA (because his grear grandfather was an escaped slave) with a native great grandma.

 

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yes Homer and Marge are millenials.

Ok I think I need to see some new episodes to see if they actually feel like adult Millenials or if they just slapped than on them.

 

[Reynard]

Ok I think I need to see some new episodes to see if they actually feel like adult Millenials or if they just slapped than on them.

How can they be millenials? They own a house.

 

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Ok I think I need to see some new episodes to see if they actually feel like adult Millenials or if they just slapped than on them.

Naturally. Given that the age of everyone is frozen, they have to be about late thirties to early 40s given the age of their kids. If Marge had a baby recently, she can't be much older than that, and if she mas middle school aged kids, she can't be much younger either. And given that the Millennial generation ate Generation Y, people that age are now called Millennials.

 

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To the original point of the thread; most uses of Lovecraftian details in Lovecraftian gaming makes them feel like theme park attractions. If you notice what Lovecraft and his circle did in their writing; they didn't really re-use a lot of elements; each story focused on a new one which was the horror of that story. References to other entities, books, or people was usually just offhand references to add color and tie them all together.

I think a lot of Call of Cthulhu, Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos, and other Lovecraftian games miss the point by having you constantly interact over and over again with Deep Ones or hounds of Tindalos or whatever. You should refer to them as related in some horrible way to what you're putting out there, but what you put out there should be new and unique.

 

[Thomas Shey]

To the original point of the thread; most uses of Lovecraftian details in Lovecraftian gaming makes them feel like theme park attractions. If you notice what Lovecraft and his circle did in their writing; they didn't really re-use a lot of elements; each story focused on a new one which was the horror of that story. References to other entities, books, or people was usually just offhand references to add color and tie them all together.

I think a lot of Call of Cthulhu, Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos, and other Lovecraftian games miss the point by having you constantly interact over and over again with Deep Ones or hounds of Tindalos or whatever. You should refer to them as related in some horrible way to what you're putting out there, but what you put out there should be new and unique.

Yeah, but at the end of the day, only a subset of end users want to do "new and unique" all the time. Even superhero gaming tends to run on villain books, and that's about as one-off centric as 95% of the hobby ever gets.