Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-6349681-20171110092822/@comment-89.177.8.235-20171113204200

Holy fucking shit, people. SO MUCH TEXT! I guess I'll add a few more lines then. :P

LOLtohru wrote:

I don’t think his unselfishness is unrealistic, but his ability to instantly be a great lover to everyone is. But that’s in the context of a game about a dude who has a huge number of women fall madly in love with him and not deal with jealousy and all kinds of other things. Even if we ignore the whole "the shard in him is making him a sexual God", he had a lot of experience with threesomes with Wendis, like it is not that unrealistic, that after years of fucking many and many women, he would know what to do. Now, I do NOT have this experience (lots and lots of women slept with), so maybe I am wrong about this, but it seems reasonable to me to think this way.

CamilleBC wrote:

Thank you very much, my school was pretty okay. I don't find the situations in themselves completely unrealistic. But the bleak point of view chosen in the TV serie (and the passages I've read) is so over the top that it becomes ridiculous. Nothing ever good can happen without someone dying or the situation going to shits. At first it was a good thing, it made me aware that the characters were at risk, then it became ridiculous. To me, as I can't really speak for anyone else :) But then you are complaining about "stories being ridiculous (not very realistic) for the sake of being entertaining", which is like, a very common theme, right? That's why people do it in the first place, to make them actually enjoyable and interesting. Because most stories would be boring otherwise. But if that is the case, you should even more enjoy this story as it is trying to be not over the top (I mean there is this whole "magic existing in this world" and also "fantasy races" making it over the top, yes, but I can ignore that part, and if you can, the rest kinda makes sense then).

BetatesterFP wrote:

Simon has many flaws that are mostly known for the start:

- always in control I don't think this is a flaw at all. Also, many people seems to feel that: "always in control" = "passive" which is like not true at all. The fact that you try to be in control of the situation, whatever the situation is, is a common (and logical) human reaction, obviously it's preferable to be in control than to lose it, right? But that doesn't mean it's being passive. Simon also isn't passive! You know who is? All the people in the Simon's starting village, who complain they have no crops, the winter that is to come will kill many because of that, and they just sit in their tavern, complain and drink their sorrows away. THAT is being passive! What Simon is doing, going out of his way, forming a group of people, making changes for the better (or worse, depends on the POV as always), reforming whole nations/countries, is the opposite of that = being active.

BetatesterFP wrote:

- No nonsense Finding stupid/primitive humor, especially in the wrong situation (as is often the case) not hilarious, is not proof of his lack of humor. Instead it just proves, that he can keep his cool and keep pushing the priorities that are important in the given situation. That is what is called wisdom and experience, not lack of humor.

BetatesterFP wrote:

- Mourning his wife The fact that he still loves his wife is a proof that he truly loved her, that is NOT a fucking flaw, unless you think the whole "concept of love" is a flaw in itself. If you think that, well, that is your opinion, but you can't called him flawed because of your opinion (you can, you just shouldn't).

BetatesterFP wrote:

- ruthless I'd argue that true ruthlessness is basically what is, when someone is taking the whole concept of "calculated risk" to an extreme. If we agree on this definition, then Simon is certainly not ruthless. Yes, he is willing to make calculated risks, and that is what any ruler has to be able to do, otherwise the ruler sucks at ruling. You know who is ruthless? Fucklord, Incubus Emperor. Those guys don't give a fuck about anything or anyone except for their goals/their opinions. I'd call those ruthless, Simon is just taking calculated risks.

BetatesterFP wrote:

- Anger Anger is indeed a flaw, but that just contradicts what you said about him before, as being angry is losing control. Yes, being angry is inevitable in human lives, as is losing control from time to time about things. I just wanna point out that the shard is making this worse for him and as he slowly transforms it, this is becoming less of an issue for him (the shard makes him basically more emotional and less in control, and he slowly overcomes this, right? - wait, am I right about this?).

BetatesterFP wrote:

- Slow to forgive Again, what I said about anger before applies, also being slow to forgive is a blessing not a flaw IMO. (look at fucking nazis/communists/other extremists and some people being apologetic for them and such, saying: "oh, it's just their opinion"... Like, you know, if someone wants to kill you, it's just his opinion, that you should be dead, right? And him killing you is just the freedom of him expresing his opinion... Some things you just CAN'T forget/forgive!)

Yuuzume-Yoru wrote:

Mestan says that same thing (that Simon is average) Well, what Mestan is saying at that moment is, that he is a perfectly average FIGHTER (soldier). Like, his combat skills are mediocre and considering he was a soldier, that made him average as a soldier, which was all he was doing. But he didn't comment on his intellect, his experience or anything else. Again, what Riala saw in him was his experience, his tactical knowledge, not his bloody combat skills (which suck, oh well...). Also, we really don't fully know what the shard actually does to people. All is based on speculation and some evidence of some things happening (I'm saying things could be more complicated that they seem, perhaps).

Also, Yuuzume-Yoru, your summary of Simon is really beautiful. :)