Recent content by DoPo

Wait, that game? I KNOW that game! Alex and Graham from LoadingReadyRun played it: ...for about 20 minutes. Then they got banned because they tried to actually do anything in the game.

I can immediately refute that: what is 3 out of 5? Perhaps, that question might look a bit too easy... However, it at least leads to the next one - what is 4 out of 5? Now that's tricky - it definitely means "I like this" but should be less strong than 5/5 which is "I really like...

As a side note here: I can't remember how exactly it was phrased, but considering this information is coming from Ryuk, it might be the case that he is purposefully misleading. After all, wasn't one of the things that the users of the Death Note go into nothingness after they die, yet that was...

I can't quite recall sanity meters being a thing in Lovecraft's stories. Which one has the "...and when I gazed upon the monstrosity, my sanity meter dropped 10 whole points and I my vision started to go all crazy, yo"? Even that article does a very bad job at explaining how the game is...

Really? It's pretty much "Horror movie: the board game" - I wouldn't really consider it Lovecraftian.

Not much to define. If you think they are good - there you go. I could list off some criteria and then people would go "but what about X who covers everything but that" or start picking at the criteria as if they don't have better things to do. So I prefer to just keep it simple - are they...

Yeah, I agree. They can be quite effective, but they very rapidly lose that advantage the more they show up. I remember in soma SOMA being around monsters would screw up your visuals, becoming worse the closer they and looking directly at them would seriously mess it up. Yet it very quickly...

Uh, the warlock who likes to cause pain, suffering and death to everybody and everything? The one who literally murders children and wants to slaughter the world? Granted I stopped reading LFG few years ago when Richard turned into the punchline of every single strip. There is only so...

Hence why I'm asking if there are portrayals of necromancy or necromancers as good. And again, hence why I'm asking for works of fiction that explicitly call their practice necromancy. I am not here to actually define restrictions on the term, as long as it's used as such. Whether the...

Ah right. I was focusing on the Christmas spirits. Usually but the actual method differs - sometimes they stuff souls there, sometimes not. Very often necromancers can also call and command ghosts, although whether or not those are "souls" is very, very sketchy since what a soul even is...

My memory of the movies is foggy at best but didn't he more or less enlist their help, rather than literally raise them with his own magic powers? According to every depiction I've seen, he doesn't really conjure them, he is haunted by them. So, I don't think he is wielding death magic to...

Thing is, it doesn't need to be. Sure, if you make the magic work like that then it's evil. Yet since it's a work of fiction you can impose whatever rules you wish - you can have necromancers only being able to work with willing souls and their magic actually easing their suffering. There is...

Good question. Considering how muddled the terms has become - from a medium to somebody controlling the undead hordes, it's hard to make a good definition. I'd actually go with whoever is explicitly said to practice necromancy. Otherwise you do run into exactly what you alluded to here -...

I got to thinking recently and couldn't really remember any necromancers that are actually good. It seems that necromancy is almost universally painted as evil. I could think of very few exceptions and even then, they aren't completely what I'm talking about - occasionally you get a...

Indeed. I really cannot picture a stealth game where you have to be constantly under pressure - it pretty much clashes with the fact that you are concealed and have to thread carefully to maintain that advantage. IMO, Dishonored is really, really good stealth game. I've not played the newest...