In the actual time of Duke’s peak, absolutely. Hell, with a clever writer and director team, I would support a low-budget tongue-in-cheek flick.
But Duke is heavily a product of the times. I just can’t see a full take that wouldn’t rip out what makes him iconic, but equally terrible, as a character.
I have wanted to see him interact with Sal in some capacity for the longest time. I feel like there could be at least some “a better you” gags on Duke.
As someone who has a giant soft spot in her heart for Duke, what story is there to tell?
Duke Nukem is a simple man. He’s here to fuck up alien bastards(for taking the babes, crashing his ride, generally existing), save attractive women, and maybe remember to pick up that pack of gum on his way home.
He’s not really even a “character”, he’s a walking embodiment of 80s and 90s machismo with big guns and less plot than the typical comic book of the time. He’s a machine built for one-liners. He’s a never-ending thoughtless action flick you love because it takes so little actual thought to enjoy.
I got caught in-between. While I am now aligned with the opposite gender, I equally have days where I identify as completely without gender.
It might have also come with a change of species? Or they’re just narcissistic, because I’m Genderfae. I will admit, on the genderless blob androgynous days, I do have insatiable cravings for honeyed milk and bread, and begin planning on how to swap any children I see with one of our own…
I don’t think I can go more insane without jumping into super-sanity, so I’m down.
What do I get for letting you in? Word it in a clear, even trade.
I ain’t owing a Fae shit, they already took my gender for a slice of delicious cake.
Sometimes art, no matter what it is, takes a frame of mind or a certain delivery to really hit us. Even a small change, like mood, can cause a different little take.
It can be worth giving things that didn’t click with a younger you a second try, you might find you like it, you might find you still don’t, but maybe you’ll understand why better than before.
Back of my calf. Across the side and even the little bit that felt like it was hitting bone in my shin felt like nothing compared to getting the back done.
We will never start perfect, but even the smallest step forward is another stroke that is the masterpiece of our complete picture.
Do you need to cover a larger area? Spray.
Do you need precision, or to get a hard to reach spot? Stream.
Understanding what we need is the first step of action.
Have you tried shoving something up a species cloaca?
We’d have more dead chicken farmers.
Chickens are opportunistic omnivores. They will eat their dead, they will eat others eggs, they will eat their own goddamn eggs, if in desperate need.
If that bothers you, never look into pigs and wild boar.
“Easy to Use”. I certainly hope so, it’s a fucking spray bottle. What’s the hard to use option? Waiting until a new moon to summon Ba-Kok, God of Chickens to ask for a stay of cannibalism?
Yes. That’s pretty much the plot, your furniture comes to life and you get to romance them.
“I tripped, it slid in, next thing either of us knew, we were having sex.”
It can be hard to break that wall. I walked into my transition knowing that I was putting my marriage, my shelter, my everything on the line by coming out. I spent months quietly crying to myself in the bathroom, scared of both sides. Wishing it could be easier, hating myself for even wanting this.
It took realizing that there was an inevitable end either way, I just had the choice of being alive or not for it. It took time for me to find new support, and in that between, I felt extremely alienated.
Even trying to be in trans spaces online, I felt like I couldn’t talk about what I was experiencing, about the negatives that can come, and how it still felt worth it to really breathe as me, as the woman who had been screaming behind every word for so much of my life.
It can be an ugly experience, and we can feel like there’s no one there to help catch us as we fall. That’s why one of the best things we can do is never tell someone they’re whatever, but to let them know that, if they are, they aren’t alone. There’s still people who will help them through the hardest.
So, with the bowl, is anything I’m touching, say a spoon, that touches the bowl considered an extension of myself?
Cause I’m not dealing with trying to add an infinite amount of brown sugar and cinnamon to an endlessly refilling bowl. I’ve been there before, let me tell you, it’s a shitty eternity.
That’s totally understandable! Please don’t take that question as trying to rush you guys, monkey brain just like putting fitting rocks together and got curious when it didn’t work. :3
Is access through the Interstellar app something you have to allow on your end? I got an error about an Alpha API. Sorry if this is a super stupid question, I genuinely have no clue how it all works on the instance admin side!
I’d argue both DMC and Castlevania has more depth than Duke. While DMC can be summed down to “Cocky man kicks ass”, there’s been greater depths explored with a lot of the cast. Not an ocean, of course, but there’s more to the characters than mere face value.
Castlevania has a wide cast of characters who, while not always presented in the most complex manner, have implied histories and personalities that can be built upon. There’s enough skeleton to support some good muscle.
Duke has the depth of a petri dish. He’s the embodiment of “What You See Is What You Get”.
Like I said elsewhere, a single movie in his peak, or a low budget tongue-in-cheek throwback, I could get behind.
I just don’t see the potential of a Duke series, or even a film getting beyond cult classic status among a select few.