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1. 

   Rick
   

   So a free game company

   has a new game about vampires.

   And it just occurred to me that if I link to it, I'll be breaking the rule against advertising, but I suppose it ought to be safe to simply mention that it's a free game and it's somewhere on the Internet and it feels frustratingly short after you've played it a few times.

   It's surprisingly addictive, but I find myself ashamed of playing this company's free games over and over. I always feel that the game is either biased against letting the player win, or else I'm stupid for expecting the game to allow me everything that I want.

   They have games about various stuff, such as dragons, courtiers, sailing ships, etc., but in terms of the vampire game, there seem to be surprisingly few opportunities to really do anything very vampirical. It's very Anne Rice like.

   Edit: As with much vampire-based roleplaying, it's hard to strike a balance between "overpowered blood-drinking superhero" and "powerless victim of snooty goth cliques."

   So of course the game is way too much ... and not enough.

   Posted 5 years ago # Quote
2. 

   Rick
   

   Grr, way too much of THIS:

   

   and not enough of THIS:

   

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3. 

   alex251
   

   damn say the name else this whole thing will be pointless

   Posted 5 years ago # Quote
4. 

   Rick
   

   alex251 said:
   damn say the name else this whole thing will be pointless

   http://www.choiceofgames.com/vampire/

   Posted 5 years ago # Quote
5. 

   jamesownsall
   

   It didn't take the coming of Twilight to start making me feel annoyed everytime someone brings up vampire shit('My Immortal' did that).

   I wish they'd find a new monster to romanticize. Fucking Anne Rice...

   Posted 5 years ago # Quote
6. 

   Rick
   

   jamesownsall said:
   It didn't take the coming of Twilight to start making me feel annoyed everytime someone brings up vampire shit('My Immortal' did that).

   That Evanescence song was supposed to be about vampires? I hadn't realized.

   love is always going to feel like mind control, though, and vampires are just another version of the mind-controlling mesmerist archetype.

   Polidori had a very important mind-controlling vampire in 1819, and (just like Edward from Twilight) those vampires did not fear daylight or suffer harm from it.

   In 1845, Varney the Vampire also didn't fear daylight, and had hypnotic powers.

   The explicitly lesbian vampire Carmilla debuted in 1872. She was more like an insubstantial ghost, but the story doesn't make it clear just how solid her body could be.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla

   Trilby came out in 1894, with a very "Polidori-vampiric" villain (who used spooky mind control instead of blood sucking).

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilby_%28novel%29

   Bram Stoker made the biggest splash in 1897.

   Conclusion: before the vampire stereotype, there was the spooky mind-controller stereotype. Around the time of Benjamin Franklin, "vampire" was being used to mean "exploiter," and Franklin was trying to denounce Mesmerism, which later got re-packaged as a mysterious phenomenon from the exotic Orient (even though the Indian who wrote about it shared Franklin's view that it was subjective).

   

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7. 

   alex251
   

   so it's a Visual Novel but just without the "Visual"

   Posted 5 years ago # Quote
8. 

   jamesownsall
   

   yourfriend said:

   That Evanescence song was supposed to be about vampires? I hadn't realized.

   While I dislike Evanescence's fandom(I'm neutral on their music), I was referring to the Harry Potter fanfiction of the same title by one goth bitch named 'Tara Gillespie'. Look it up.

   Posted 5 years ago # Quote
9. 

   Sukunai
   

   Fucking emos, the only time I have found anything vampire centered interesting looks like this.

   

   Posted 5 years ago # Quote

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