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Floodgate after floodgate after floodgate after floodgate. Stun after Stun after Stun. Runick after Runick after Runick. Your time would be better spent watching pain dry.

this is a hat game, <]B) <---- that's me with my wizard hat

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Well done my son.

More like Demon Souls two

There isn't much to say about this game besides the obvious, so heres a copy pasta


n what way is white knight a dumb insult? What exactly do you mean? It's a term that subverts one of the most prevalent literary themes in the adventure stories and fantasies of our childhood. Was there ever a child who didn't pick up a toy sword and imagine themselves to be the civilized hero protecting the weak from from the forces of evil? This trope is relevant to all of us. These stories made enacting justice an absolute virtue and we grew up imagining ourselves as 'white knights' saving the weak from the uncivil. We lived out these fantasies in our imagination and learned that it felt pleasant to be a purveyor of justice, and some of us started to desire that pleasure too much.

That's a problem because the adult world is too complex for that trope to play out as cleanly as it does in stories. An author gets to tell you who is good, who is oppressed, and who is evil -- and this makes the justice of the hero's actions crystal clear. The author's white knight can commit to their campaign with absolute zealotry and the reader is free to revel in pleasurable justice. However, in real life it is often impossible to say who is good, who is oppressed, and who is evil. This is where the problems begin. Lets say I hold a position that I know is virtuous, and I see someone being oppressed by a person who I know is evil. I step in, fully committed to my attack, because I know that it is appropriate to take pleasure in administrating this justice. But are my acts really justified? Is it right that I derive pleasure from them? The fact is I am only acting on my PERCEPTION of reality. Maybe my perception squares with reality, but maybe it doesn't. There is a huge problem with enacting justice when your view of the situation is distorted. This is the premise of one of the most influential novels of all time, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha.

Its about an old Spanish man around the year 1600 who is obsessed with romantic novels about knights and chivalry. After much isolated reading he becomes manically deluded and starts to believe that he is a knight and that he must set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world. In a way, Don Quixote was the world's first otaku (a person obsessed with particular aspects of popular culture to the detriment of their social skills). The story plays him for the fool he is, and we laugh at his unwavering commitment to a deluded sense of justice. He even attempts to rescue maidens who are under no threat, in need of no rescue, and are utterly shocked that he believes he's acting on their behalf.

Don Quixote was a cutting satire of the trope of the romantic and chivalrous knight. The phrase 'white knight' now encapsulates everything Don Quixote had to say about the issue, and calling someone a white knight is the same as calling them a Don Quixote. It is a shorthand way of telling them that the real world is more complex than the delusional fantasy of justice they are committed to.

So 'white knight' is not a 'dumb' insult. It's an insult that draws power from a rich history of romance fantasy literature and one of the most significant satirical novels of all time.