I'm Just Fighting Fire With-

[rionaleonhart]

A couple of days ago, I thought I'd pick up the Undead Nightmare add-on for Red Dead Redemption again, as I'd never finished it. As I rode through the New Austin desert at night, I suddenly saw an alert informing me that a mythical creature had appeared in the area. Said mythical creature was War, one of the horses of the apocalypse, and it wasn't

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[wolfy_writing]

I know a lot of people who love mundane existence AUs. (I'm the opposite. I want relatively ordinary characters to suddenly be up to their neck in fairies and vampires and space aliens.)

[rionaleonhart]

Come to think of it, there do seem to be a curious number of 'what if they ran a bakery?' AUs. My tastes on this point run similar to yours.

[wolfy_writing]

Yeah, I mean I can imagine Aang being perfectly happy running a vegetarian bakery and never having to worry about powers or being the Avatar or war or genocide or anything like that, but I don't want to read about it.

[captlebubbles]

Shouldn't he have a Rapidash? Since Ponyta are, well, ponies, and thus not actually big enough for a grown man to ride comfortably? Or are you going for the cuteness factor to balance out the Tough Guy factor?

[rionaleonhart]

I was thinking more along 'Rapidash are quite hard to find' lines, so he'd have to catch a Ponyta and evolve it. War is more Rapidash than Ponyta, certainly; Ponyta has flames quite high up on its legs, whereas both Rapidash and War have flames near their hooves.

[captlebubbles]

Ah! That makes sense. He'll have to evolve it as soon as he can, then, since he'll look a bit silly riding on a little Ponyta.

(I've just looked, and Ponyta are only about three feet tall, so, yeah, probably needs to get on that evolution thing.)

[sparrowsabre7]

Highly doubtful. I mean "let the fun and games begin" isn't an unusual turn of phrase. So it's just a coincidence, but an amusing one I'll grant you.

I love Undead Nightmare, though I re-caught a unicorn the other day that was immediately murdered by zombies, I was so pissed... I love the approach to zombies that UN has, just that everything's gone to shit and they're all over. You don't know when and where they'll be. I just wish John would move faster while reloading the blunderbuss...

[rionaleonhart]

A bit of poking around reveals this post about the trailer by Jamie East, one of the hosts:

Does it give any secrets away? Well, possibly - it certainly has an air of The Hunger Games (mainly my horrible suit) and the Olympics (Brian's muscles)... there's a chance that could bleed over into this Summer's house...

IN WHAT WAY IS THE HUNGER GAMES GOING TO BLEED OVER INTO BIG BROTHER? This is absolutely terrifying. Way to self-fulfillingly prophesy, Collins.

Undead Nightmare is pretty great. I love that it never quite takes itself seriously, because I am a terrible coward; I'd probably be too scared to play if it weren't so silly.

[sparrowsabre7]

You should give Dead Rising 2: Off the Record a go. If there's a poster boy for zombie games that don't take themselves seriously, that would be it =3

[lotus0kid]

Eee, first Community and now OUaT. It's such a ridiculous show, but it's become important to me. Very glad you're enjoying it!

Applying the OUaT concept to other fandoms is interesting, though I can't quite think of one that's fantastical enough to really work. Discworld, maybe? Doctor Who kinda did it with the Family of Blood arc, I think.

[dracothelizard]

ONCE UPON A TIME IS ADORABLE. THEY HAVE A BELLE. AND AN AWESOME RED RIDING HOOD.