Enter Marvelous flying brick -

Captain Marvel is not a very good or interesting character, in fact I firmly believe she could be replaced by a brick and not much of any consequence would change. Mind you, this is a thing that also hold true for a lot characters when an unskilled or uninterested author write the story. It boils down to the character being an emotional black void, yet being the center of attention, love and admiration. Regardless of how much they deserve it or not. As someone I can not recall put it, if you’re not trying to break the audiences hearth, you are doing it wrong. Which is what Captain Marvel unfortunately failed to do, by being turned into a self insert fan fiction character, fueled by selfish wish fulfillment fantasy. Combine that with a boring power set and the lack of a creative use of her abilities, or any attempt at outwitting the enemy. The way she is portrait is one that is very popular among teenagers and first time authors, usually the kind loathed on fanfiction.net.

She is strong, she can fly, shoot deadly bolts of light, breathe in space and is very, very durable. To top it of she is revered and fared by the Kree since they put a lot of resources into brainwashing her and keeping her power limited. When the mind wipe eventually ends, she just moves on with her life and nothing of interest occurs afterwards. If you look away from the fact that the she stopped hunting Skrull and now they love her. Other than that she is also a very successful female test pilot in a time where such thing is a rarity and naturally the men around her is cracking gender jokes. Eventually she joins up with Nick Fury and eventually helps to establish S.H.I.E.L.D and finds the teseract collection dust. Oh and the alien cat that tags along nicks one of Furys eyes and gives him a device he can use to call her if earth is in peril. An object that would have worked wonder when Ironman nearly died above New York, which makes me wonder, where was she when the hole debacle with Thanos began? I have no idea, nor does the writer and that gives me no reason to care to write anymore about a very mediocre Hollywood experience, written by someone that got paid handsomely, that cant handle criticism and people pointing out plot holes. A long time favorite pastime of us geeks. I mean seriously, watching a movie with friends and cracking jokes and debating the story is half the experience.

What I’m not entirely sure of is how a successful blonde woman with no weakness and few emotions, are going to be a good role model for impressionable kids and marginalized minorities. Especially when the one iteration of her was apparently Muslim, and the one before that was black. Which means I should probably bring up whitewashing but that is another can of maggots and I’ve been rambling for long enough as it is.

As a reference point, this is worm a web serial and how to make a story about heroes interesting, emotional, brilliant and the main character is a girl, oh and her power is to control insects and crustaceans.

https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

Another fairly interesting female hero is Lina Inverse from the Slayers universe, especially the light novels. She is severely and more often than not pay they price for her actions.

Then there is always Skulldyggery Gentle to go by as well. Can’t go wrong with a sorceress having a living skeleton as a mentor.

Zaceron Out!

Captain Marvelous "review"

Captain Marvel is the best and strongest female character ever seen on the silver screen. She got super-powered by the all mighty fabric of reality changing mcguffin coveted by the big burly blue final boss. Not only is she a test pilot that is so well loved that she could name a prototype plane. Her love interest is a woman of color and also a perfect flawless pilot. Not to mention she got trained by a mighty warrior race in such awe of her gravitas they tried to keep her down, but Captain Marvel takes no quarter. Oh, and she can shot energy and fly in space is also in all likelihood bulletproof and borderline immortal. Being blond and attractive is also one of her virtues, who better to be the face of female representation and minorities. A black Captain Marvel is a preposterous idea. The supreme prowess of the blonde bombshell makes all opposition crumble before her might, not even spaceships and defenceless shape shifters in the guise of an old lady can escape her fist of righteousness. Everyone loves her flawless attention sucking black hole of a personality as well. Heck, she even helped establish the most powerful parahuman organization on earth. The fact that she inserted herself into the story near the end makes her the ultimate role model for any aspiring woman or girl that want to make it big and to be the very best, without being held down by toxic masculinity, the patriarchy and the man.  The only one to surpass Captain Marvel is her intelligent alien pussycat, an eye scratching ball of fluff. I have never witnessed a such a more selfcentered self insert wish fulfillment character in all my life which raises her power level to goddess like proportions. I've not seen such a remarkable female lead since the master piece My Immortal. It must be fun to make millions writing a character without flaws, vices and inner demons. Captain Marvel as portrayed by the actress Brie Larson is beyond such thing as petty cisgender while make movie critics and comic book fans, whom just wants a good story.

In conclusion a movie well worth watching, with a perfect feminist hero we need, after all there is not gender representation in mainstream media.

Zacero

Tactical Strike Terrain troubles - Dev Blog 1

I have come to the concussion that I shall make a game and start a company, but for now I’m working on the sales pitch and how to assemble the assets and picking the right engine.

I grew up on a game series known as Strike published by EA, before they become a company killer and money grubber. It’s a series of games where the player control various vehicles seen from an isometric perspective, that was until the PlayStation ear, where they become full 3d, with a very irritating camera. The presentation and the story is brilliant though, even if it is hard as nails.

A very big issue I had with the original is the way the games handle collision detection. Seriously in the first three games the helicopter was incapable of flying over buildings. It always ended in a loud smack and being thrown backwards and thus taking damage. The two on PlayStation fixed this by having the player fly at a set height, yet you can collide with other helicopters, a surprisingly rare enemy all things considered.

Another thing that can clearly be improved is the terrain, which was very bare bones and boring in the original trilogy and turned into a google earth style satellite image on PlayStation. Personally I know I can do better, I have the skills, I have the technology and the will, plus a design document. Now I just need a sales pitch for potential investors.

I’m a great big fan of strategy games, but I really loathe the style of terrain where the environment is a wavy and very smooth plain, with no tunnels and cliffs at all. At the same time I also enjoy a solid collision detection. Therefor my idea is very simple. I have to make a grid, where one square is 1/1 in size and no cliff is taller than 2 squares. In total the terrain will ideally be 4 squares height where the bottom is at sea level. I have already experimented with 3d assets, but I’ve yet to find out how to deal with such a setup in Unity.

A matrix grid is a good thing, since I will save a lot of resources by just adding square collision detection to the terrain. That being said, I’m still pondering over how to most efficiency assemble the terrain. One way is to make all the assets at once, then import the elements into Unity, or the classic world builder approach where I just make a tileset and import it into the software instead. Either way works, it simply depends on how well I can snap it to the grid. First of all I will plan out the map by assembling a square grid to tell where cliffs, water and ground is along with some ramp. Naturally I have planned pretty much all of this on paper and in a text document. The brain is very good at forgetting things, I figured out the secret though. Carry a notebook and a pencil anywhere I go, it’s good for sketches and writing down those quirky ideas.

Anyhow that is it for now and feel free to drop by my stream.

https://twitch.tv/zaceron

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