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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 82
Message ID: 30
#30, RE: Lack of artistic talent leads to boggle...
Posted by Astynax on Sep-18-20 at 03:34 PM
In response to message #29
>Also: Back in the '90s, the Maine Turnpike Authority undertook a
>massive project to widen the Turnpike from the end of the existing
>six-lane stretch, which ran from the New Hampshire border to the toll
>booths north of York, all the way from there up to Portland. As part
>of the run-up to the project, they put up huge informational signs
>near the start points (north- and southbound) explaining why it was
>going to be a good thing overall that the Turnpike was going to be a
>massive pain in the ass to traverse for the next three or four years.
>
>These signs were headed, and oh how I wish phone cams had been a thing
>back then so I could have gotten a photo of one of them,
>
>
TURNPIKE: THE WIDENING

>
>which I submit would have been the worst White Wolf game ever made.
>Or possibly the best. Gothic horror highway construction.
>

Given the usual length of road work (heat death of the universe - 1 day) that would be a game set in a very particular sort of purgatory dimension, perhaps for overly aggressive drivers.

>In English the closest we get is "A Film by Quentin Tarantino".
>

I've enjoyed some of the man's work, but that is rather aggressively accurate.

>It kind of works in-setting, if only because a lot of the artists who
>go that route portray danmaku as a sort of recreational combat,
>like counting coup, where the object is to defeat your opponent
>without... you know, utterly retroactively deleting her entire family
>line from reality, which is something that a number of Touhou
>characters could do if they really felt like it. It's actually
>presented as the "less lethal" option, and plausibly so given how
>terrifying some of the characters' "true power" is portrayed. (Flan,
>for instance.)
>

From what I gather Remilia and Flandre are both portrayed as rather bored immortal beings, so I suppose recreational artillery barrages could make sense for them. That sort of thing seems to be another common trope actually.

>Aw, Harley's not bad, she's just drawn that wa—(hand to earpiece)
>I'm... I'm being told she usually is actually quite bad.
>

It really depends on who is writing her, and where she is in her personal narrative. Funny enough, for all that it is an alternate universe that has gone well off the rails, the Injustice version of Harley is pretty much the sweet spot for portrayals in my mind.


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