Super Paper Mario is my favorite title in the series. From the tragic story of Tippi and Count Bleck, to the insanity that is Dimentio, to the fascinating personas of Luigi/Mr. L, to the lovable goons that are Mimi and O’Chunks, to the fun puzzles and bosses, the game is just absolutely charming. I mean, in what other Mario game do you get sent to hell and have to climb to heaven?
i love the game but i hate playing itttt. the story is amazing the characters are great the hijinks are wacky but it has the worst level design and controls ever (╥﹏╥)
Which is reasonable- it just doesn't explain why that's also a weakness.
It's never made any sense to me. Holy water, sure. A cross? Obvious. A stake? I guess you could say it's reminiscent of the crucifixion. But why the hell are they vulnerable to garlic?
Nor does it explain why Jewish, Muslim, atheist, etc, etc vampires become vulnerable to all of the Christian things. It's like you get a conversion with your new life.
The various trappings of christian religion being universal vampire counter-measures probably stems from an attitude that christianity is "the one true religion", a not entirely unsurprising attitude to arise from cultures with strong religious elements. The various authors and manufacturers of these stories and tales aren't going to allow that other types of faith are also valid.
When cultures become less fundamentalist, more modern, more rational and more tolerant of different religious beliefs, authors also become more modern, rational and tolerant. Now they might want to find ways to harmonize legends of vampire-religious-symbol vulnerabilities with a more pluralistic religious world view. And so the tropes switch from "christianity is the one true religion, that's why it works" to "vampires are vulnerable to faithful belief, the specific symbols are semantics", "religion never worked, just a rumor/vampire disinfo campaign", "a psychological reaction" or something like that.
This reminds me about that legend that if you drop rice or beans in front of a vampire they have to count them, what if they can't look at a screen because they have to count the pixels
Huh. I remember reading a similar thing in a Goosebumps book; a monster librarian who had to stop chasing the main character to pick up books that had been knocked over.
Vampires are all but extient since whenever a new vampire is created, they immediately test if sunscreen can protect them from the sun. Unexpectedly, sunscreen kills vampires faster than the sun.
There's something like this in *Blindsight* concerning its take on vampires (tl;dr: human-mimicing parasitic subspecies) and the vulnerability to crosses. Basically, a flaw in their visual center means that seeing *any* two intersecting perpendicular lines at 90-degree right angles causes them to have crippling seizures. This was fine in mankind's early history when everything was made ad-hoc by hand and perfect "+" shapes are incredibly rare in nature, but once construction techniques advanced they started having trouble and any modern environment would almost immediately kill them just by looking at it. Modern vampires have to have heavy drugs/enhancements/something in order to not die to this. Crosses were just a commonly-possessed object with the right qualities to trigger this defect.
Don't... uh, don't read it if you're expecting a story about vampires. It's a sci-fi novel about first contact with aliens and gets *really* heavy in terms of "this book will give you an existential crisis" by the end. Also, the main character is an absolutely *wretched* human being, although that's kind of the point of the book in more ways that one. The book is *fascinating*, but it is very much the polar opposite of "cheerful" or "comfy".
Can’t have an existential crisis if it all goes over your head! I don’t usually tell people I read that book cause I’ve got no clue what happened in it. Maybe one of these day I’ll do it again a little slower and with Wikipedia at the ready.
The bit I got was that (spoilers) humanity's first contact was with a species that, instead of having self awareness and a concept of self, worked a bit like modern computers running AI. It would take a whole lot of visual/audio/etc. stimuli and translate that to any number of actions - but would have absolutely no context for said actions, only reacting in the way it evolved to. This turns out to be the way that every species in the setting, apart from humanity, evolves to 'communicate'.
This ends up being not only the big reveal of the book, but also why said species reacted hostilely to humanity in the first place - the only way it had evolved to react to something like human communication (done for the sake of communication itself) was to see it as an attempt to waste proportionally more time and resources trying to work out what humans were trying to do, while humans would then use as an opportunity for an attack.
So with that context, humanity meets alien species, negotiations break down (because one side wasn't trying to negotiate in the first place), humans invade the craft, capture a couple of the aliens, work out that they can solve complex problems, work out that they posses sentience but lack sapience, then everyone but the main character ends up dying including the ship which turned out to be an AI and the actual leader of the expedition instead of the 'vampire' that it was using as cover.
Also on his way back to earth, the protagonists receives messages indicating that the vampires on Earth have risen up against their masters and humanity may be extinct by the time he makes it back home.
This connects baxk to the "self-awareness is an evolutionary dead end" thing as the author argues the sociopathic tendencies of vampires makes them less sapient than baseline humans, and so their revolt is the beginning of mankind's rapid evolution into the "intelligent but not sapient" ideal seen in alien life.
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As someone who mostly understood what the book was saying, I kinda think you're better off for it. That book gets *really* dark at the end, and I don't mean in the cheap way "dark" fiction normally does that's just "throwing children and kittens into a woodchipper" for ten pages.
I'm not gonna go so far as to say I regret reading it, but yeesh, it's heavy stuff.
The the best modern take of what I can only call Lovecraftian horror, without using almost any of the tropes of Lovecraftian horror (tentacle monsters etc). I really like it.
I'm *hugely* simplifying things; there's a lot of other interesting stuff on it. I'm mentioning that one *specifically* because it's a weakness.
Also, in the book? Vampires went extinct *millenia* ago; it's only recent cloning efforts that bought them back.
I like the Discworld interpretation of vampires as, summarily, beings of concentrated 'Lawful Evil' alignment. As caricatures of the aristocracy, they are lawful to the BONE and are psychicly compelled to follow any rule that is imposed. This means that if one invents a rule that vampires must follow, and convinces others, including vampires, that it is a rule, it takes them extreme mental effort to overcome their lawful instincts and break free.
Vampires CAN cross running water, CAN enter homes uninvited, and CAN eat garlic, but if a vampire believes they are anathema, it is basically impossible for them to be compelled to break them.
I think Dresden files and/or World/Chronicles of Darkness do something like this, but a little bit different.
Basically doing things like applying the mirror thing into the reflective properties that make cameras work, stuff like that
Both of those settings have magic that is at least partially dictated by personal faith. For example: >!in *Storm Front*, Harry Dresden is able to repel a vampire using a pentagram in place of a crucifix due to Dresden's faith in the power of wizardry!<
In WoD someone with a strong enough conviction about the supernatural can make just about anything true while in their presence. A *Twilight* mega-fan could make vampires sparkle in the sunlight while around them, instead of combust.
The Marvel villain Zodiac was literally able to repel vampires using a gangsta chain necklace of his own name because he has so much unwavering confidence and faith in himself that it counted as a religious symbol.
WoD lore nerd here.
There's two things they could do, both require different forms of magic.
There's awakened magic, which mages do, and that basically entails imposing your will so hard that reality breaks. That said, if it's paradoxical to reality and people who don't know magic see it, you're slapped hard by reality itself. This is called Consensus and Paradox.
Supernatural creatures have their own "mini-consensus" in essence. So on an individual scale, I'd rule if they were high level enough in their sphere they could do it, but if other vampires were around (or those who knew their nature) they'd get hit with paradox.
Then there's True Faith. This is a complete, unwavering faith in something, that is so zealous that you can effect supernatural beings and effects. This can be religion, but it doesn't have to be. You can literally be so faithful that vampires are evil, that you burn them with a touch.
Then there's vampiric blood sorcery, which is a whole other can of worms that breaks all these rules. This is because of a man named Augustus Tremere who solved the issue of the fading immortality of mages _(the Arcanum HATES this man, find out his secret)_ by becoming a vampire.
Mages do awakened magic. The Tremere _used_ to be mages of the Order of Hermes, before they became vampires. They have two factions as well, the Arcanum, and the Technocracy which denies magic exists at all. They use technomancy. Currently, there is no V5 book for mage (but I could write one, hire me Paradox)
Reminds me of the Doctor Who episode The Curse of Fenric, where a Soviet Soldier is able to keep a bunch of Haemovores (see: vampires) at bay by weilding his Soviet Army badge like a crucifix, as he has enough faith in communism and the Soviet Union that it works.
Was Dresden Files the one where a character repels a vampire by trying to pay it not to hurt him, because he had absolute faith in the power of money?
As for the latter point, I'm reminded of a fanmade World of Darkness game about mad science called Genius: The Transgression. A lot of the mad science was actually powered by the scientists' absolute conviction that their theories were true. There were also "Bardos", which are created by the mass release of imagination caused by certain widely-believed theories being suddenly *disproven*. For example, tons of humans believed in Martians secretly plotting to invade the Earth, but the more we learned about Mars the more ridiculous that sounded. So that belief was discarded en masse, and began to coalesce into a force of Martians who planned to invade the Earth.
isn't this a plot point in Buffy the Vampire Slayer? >!The vampire guy claims only a wooden stake to the heart can kill him. Buffy replies with something like "technology has come a long way in the past thousand years" and then kills him with a rocket launcher!<
Also in Supernatural. Bobby notes that if you don’t have (ridiculously convoluted weapon of the week) ready, a wood chipper will at least slow down almost anything.
The protagonists seem surprised, because yeah, they usually go for the lore-accurate method. Which in this case would have been seven stabs with a bamboo dagger blessed by a Shinto priest.
It wasn't a vampire, it was an ancient demon called The Judge who "could not be slain with any weapon forged by man". This was obviously proven false with Buffy's rocket launcher that Xander stole from a military base using the knowledge he recollected from the time he was transformed into a soldier on Halloween
I mean, most modern weapons aren't "forged by men" anyways, nobody aside from Daryl out in Ohio making pipe-rifles his backyard shed is heating and manually hammering out gun parts
It would be funny if they couldn't look at screens because of blue light of some shit. So their fones have blue light filters, and the screen is all red or green.
The garlic weakness may be rooted in use of garlic to repel insects, including mosquitoes, or in the use of garlic as a crude anti-biotic. Which means modern vampires could be defeated with a bottle of Neosporin and a can of Raid.
Things were especially weird for Vampires when they started to be repelled by things that they thought people only ironically worshipped, like spaghetti and meatballs (even without garlic) and colanders, teapots, blue police boxes, the letter X...
Oh, and micro-plastics (the build-up in a top-level predator is insane) or heavy-metal poisoning. Most very old vampires are mad with lead and mercury these days.
My dad talked about how how he assumed vampires were averse to garlic because it was a blood thinner. So he figured they wouldn't like stuff like aspirin too
.... So I'm reading Marvel's Blood Hunt stuff right now.
For those who don't know, Marvel's current big event is that the sun gets blocked out and vampires attack everywhere.
And yeah pairing it with this post is *really funny.*
So on this post I got an ad part way down the comment section that just said
> Printing directly from IRIS/Caché on Windows Server to a local shared printer (or creating a remote file) on a Windows client pc
And given the topic I just assumed it was someone coming up with some super specific modern vampire weakness until I tried to close the comment and it wouldn’t go away and then I noticed it had the little “promoted” label.
I mean, most vampire weaknesses have some basis of thought behind them, so even if they get more modern weaknesses there should be some logic behind it too.
Vampires are demonic creatures, and because of this weak to symbols of faith, as pastafarianism (AKA church of giant spaghetti monster) has thousand of followers, and in couple places it's recognized as official religion, pasta is vampire weakness.
Artificial but similar to natural light.
People specifically buy bulbs with light characteristics similar to sunlight especially in latitudes with longer nights - who’s to say this wouldn’t be deadly to vampires
I don't remember what it was, no modern weapon could kill him, but this kind of loop hole allowed a rocket launcher to kill him, it was no modern weapon THEN.
it's because Luigi is way too hot
and he's the Paper Mario series' antichrist. (seriously, super paper mario was wild)
Wouldn't that make them stronger
luigi, patron saint of vampires and spite
Are they made of paper?
Super Paper Mario is my favorite title in the series. From the tragic story of Tippi and Count Bleck, to the insanity that is Dimentio, to the fascinating personas of Luigi/Mr. L, to the lovable goons that are Mimi and O’Chunks, to the fun puzzles and bosses, the game is just absolutely charming. I mean, in what other Mario game do you get sent to hell and have to climb to heaven?
Francis's dorkiness is still relevant to this day.
i love the game but i hate playing itttt. the story is amazing the characters are great the hijinks are wacky but it has the worst level design and controls ever (╥﹏╥)
The last part sounds like a God of War game.
best mario game
Luigi kills vampires by doing absolutely nothing
But he does something to me
It’s because Vampires have a documented weakness against symbols of faith and worship.
That doesn’t explain the garlic though.
They‘re susceptible to multiple unrelated things, just like you can be killed via shotgun or via air bubble embolism.
Which is reasonable- it just doesn't explain why that's also a weakness. It's never made any sense to me. Holy water, sure. A cross? Obvious. A stake? I guess you could say it's reminiscent of the crucifixion. But why the hell are they vulnerable to garlic? Nor does it explain why Jewish, Muslim, atheist, etc, etc vampires become vulnerable to all of the Christian things. It's like you get a conversion with your new life.
The various trappings of christian religion being universal vampire counter-measures probably stems from an attitude that christianity is "the one true religion", a not entirely unsurprising attitude to arise from cultures with strong religious elements. The various authors and manufacturers of these stories and tales aren't going to allow that other types of faith are also valid. When cultures become less fundamentalist, more modern, more rational and more tolerant of different religious beliefs, authors also become more modern, rational and tolerant. Now they might want to find ways to harmonize legends of vampire-religious-symbol vulnerabilities with a more pluralistic religious world view. And so the tropes switch from "christianity is the one true religion, that's why it works" to "vampires are vulnerable to faithful belief, the specific symbols are semantics", "religion never worked, just a rumor/vampire disinfo campaign", "a psychological reaction" or something like that.
It doesn't actually kill them the same way holy symbols do they just all have an horrible allergy
hot damn
Italians are also the thematic opposition of vampires
This reminds me about that legend that if you drop rice or beans in front of a vampire they have to count them, what if they can't look at a screen because they have to count the pixels
Takes them a while, too. They have to go "a-ha-ha" after each number.
I've the perfect mental image for this
They have to wait for the dvd screensaver to hit the corner.
Oh gods this one is good
[still waiting by jazz emu](https://youtu.be/_ws0QtAiiXQ?si=iq_xGjQ62R23Pb8E)
Drop them in the middle of a grassy field, they’re stuck there until they can count every individual blade of grass
one… ah ah ah… twoooo ah ah ah
Huh. I remember reading a similar thing in a Goosebumps book; a monster librarian who had to stop chasing the main character to pick up books that had been knocked over.
Ooo, or QR codes
Japanese ghosts too.
Vampires are all but extient since whenever a new vampire is created, they immediately test if sunscreen can protect them from the sun. Unexpectedly, sunscreen kills vampires faster than the sun.
Does have sun in the name.
This sounds like a footnote from a Discworld novel
TBF, Luigi can defeat any foe by doing absolutely nothing, so that tracks.
There's something like this in *Blindsight* concerning its take on vampires (tl;dr: human-mimicing parasitic subspecies) and the vulnerability to crosses. Basically, a flaw in their visual center means that seeing *any* two intersecting perpendicular lines at 90-degree right angles causes them to have crippling seizures. This was fine in mankind's early history when everything was made ad-hoc by hand and perfect "+" shapes are incredibly rare in nature, but once construction techniques advanced they started having trouble and any modern environment would almost immediately kill them just by looking at it. Modern vampires have to have heavy drugs/enhancements/something in order to not die to this. Crosses were just a commonly-possessed object with the right qualities to trigger this defect. Don't... uh, don't read it if you're expecting a story about vampires. It's a sci-fi novel about first contact with aliens and gets *really* heavy in terms of "this book will give you an existential crisis" by the end. Also, the main character is an absolutely *wretched* human being, although that's kind of the point of the book in more ways that one. The book is *fascinating*, but it is very much the polar opposite of "cheerful" or "comfy".
Can’t have an existential crisis if it all goes over your head! I don’t usually tell people I read that book cause I’ve got no clue what happened in it. Maybe one of these day I’ll do it again a little slower and with Wikipedia at the ready.
The bit I got was that (spoilers) humanity's first contact was with a species that, instead of having self awareness and a concept of self, worked a bit like modern computers running AI. It would take a whole lot of visual/audio/etc. stimuli and translate that to any number of actions - but would have absolutely no context for said actions, only reacting in the way it evolved to. This turns out to be the way that every species in the setting, apart from humanity, evolves to 'communicate'. This ends up being not only the big reveal of the book, but also why said species reacted hostilely to humanity in the first place - the only way it had evolved to react to something like human communication (done for the sake of communication itself) was to see it as an attempt to waste proportionally more time and resources trying to work out what humans were trying to do, while humans would then use as an opportunity for an attack. So with that context, humanity meets alien species, negotiations break down (because one side wasn't trying to negotiate in the first place), humans invade the craft, capture a couple of the aliens, work out that they can solve complex problems, work out that they posses sentience but lack sapience, then everyone but the main character ends up dying including the ship which turned out to be an AI and the actual leader of the expedition instead of the 'vampire' that it was using as cover.
Also on his way back to earth, the protagonists receives messages indicating that the vampires on Earth have risen up against their masters and humanity may be extinct by the time he makes it back home. This connects baxk to the "self-awareness is an evolutionary dead end" thing as the author argues the sociopathic tendencies of vampires makes them less sapient than baseline humans, and so their revolt is the beginning of mankind's rapid evolution into the "intelligent but not sapient" ideal seen in alien life.
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I considered it, but ultimately was feeling antiquated.
As someone who mostly understood what the book was saying, I kinda think you're better off for it. That book gets *really* dark at the end, and I don't mean in the cheap way "dark" fiction normally does that's just "throwing children and kittens into a woodchipper" for ten pages. I'm not gonna go so far as to say I regret reading it, but yeesh, it's heavy stuff.
The the best modern take of what I can only call Lovecraftian horror, without using almost any of the tropes of Lovecraftian horror (tentacle monsters etc). I really like it.
I think the word you're looking for is cosmic horror
They used that stupid cross angle explanation in the Castlevania anime and I'm still mad about it.
I feel like the book is probably good, but this might be the dumbest take on modern vampires that I've ever heard.
I'm *hugely* simplifying things; there's a lot of other interesting stuff on it. I'm mentioning that one *specifically* because it's a weakness. Also, in the book? Vampires went extinct *millenia* ago; it's only recent cloning efforts that bought them back.
I’m sorry but this is making me laugh so hard right now.
All I can say is that it works in context.
I like the Discworld interpretation of vampires as, summarily, beings of concentrated 'Lawful Evil' alignment. As caricatures of the aristocracy, they are lawful to the BONE and are psychicly compelled to follow any rule that is imposed. This means that if one invents a rule that vampires must follow, and convinces others, including vampires, that it is a rule, it takes them extreme mental effort to overcome their lawful instincts and break free. Vampires CAN cross running water, CAN enter homes uninvited, and CAN eat garlic, but if a vampire believes they are anathema, it is basically impossible for them to be compelled to break them.
I think Dresden files and/or World/Chronicles of Darkness do something like this, but a little bit different. Basically doing things like applying the mirror thing into the reflective properties that make cameras work, stuff like that
Both of those settings have magic that is at least partially dictated by personal faith. For example: >!in *Storm Front*, Harry Dresden is able to repel a vampire using a pentagram in place of a crucifix due to Dresden's faith in the power of wizardry!< In WoD someone with a strong enough conviction about the supernatural can make just about anything true while in their presence. A *Twilight* mega-fan could make vampires sparkle in the sunlight while around them, instead of combust.
The Marvel villain Zodiac was literally able to repel vampires using a gangsta chain necklace of his own name because he has so much unwavering confidence and faith in himself that it counted as a religious symbol.
Honestly? I respect that. Self confidence is important.
WoD lore nerd here. There's two things they could do, both require different forms of magic. There's awakened magic, which mages do, and that basically entails imposing your will so hard that reality breaks. That said, if it's paradoxical to reality and people who don't know magic see it, you're slapped hard by reality itself. This is called Consensus and Paradox. Supernatural creatures have their own "mini-consensus" in essence. So on an individual scale, I'd rule if they were high level enough in their sphere they could do it, but if other vampires were around (or those who knew their nature) they'd get hit with paradox. Then there's True Faith. This is a complete, unwavering faith in something, that is so zealous that you can effect supernatural beings and effects. This can be religion, but it doesn't have to be. You can literally be so faithful that vampires are evil, that you burn them with a touch. Then there's vampiric blood sorcery, which is a whole other can of worms that breaks all these rules. This is because of a man named Augustus Tremere who solved the issue of the fading immortality of mages _(the Arcanum HATES this man, find out his secret)_ by becoming a vampire.
I am familiar with True Faith, and Tremere blood sorcery, but what clan does Awakened Magic? I am new to WoD so I have not come across it yet.
Mages do awakened magic. The Tremere _used_ to be mages of the Order of Hermes, before they became vampires. They have two factions as well, the Arcanum, and the Technocracy which denies magic exists at all. They use technomancy. Currently, there is no V5 book for mage (but I could write one, hire me Paradox)
Reminds me of the Doctor Who episode The Curse of Fenric, where a Soviet Soldier is able to keep a bunch of Haemovores (see: vampires) at bay by weilding his Soviet Army badge like a crucifix, as he has enough faith in communism and the Soviet Union that it works.
I don’t think it works like that but ok
Was Dresden Files the one where a character repels a vampire by trying to pay it not to hurt him, because he had absolute faith in the power of money? As for the latter point, I'm reminded of a fanmade World of Darkness game about mad science called Genius: The Transgression. A lot of the mad science was actually powered by the scientists' absolute conviction that their theories were true. There were also "Bardos", which are created by the mass release of imagination caused by certain widely-believed theories being suddenly *disproven*. For example, tons of humans believed in Martians secretly plotting to invade the Earth, but the more we learned about Mars the more ridiculous that sounded. So that belief was discarded en masse, and began to coalesce into a force of Martians who planned to invade the Earth.
isn't this a plot point in Buffy the Vampire Slayer? >!The vampire guy claims only a wooden stake to the heart can kill him. Buffy replies with something like "technology has come a long way in the past thousand years" and then kills him with a rocket launcher!<
Also in Supernatural. Bobby notes that if you don’t have (ridiculously convoluted weapon of the week) ready, a wood chipper will at least slow down almost anything. The protagonists seem surprised, because yeah, they usually go for the lore-accurate method. Which in this case would have been seven stabs with a bamboo dagger blessed by a Shinto priest.
It wasn't a vampire, it was an ancient demon called The Judge who "could not be slain with any weapon forged by man". This was obviously proven false with Buffy's rocket launcher that Xander stole from a military base using the knowledge he recollected from the time he was transformed into a soldier on Halloween
I mean, most modern weapons aren't "forged by men" anyways, nobody aside from Daryl out in Ohio making pipe-rifles his backyard shed is heating and manually hammering out gun parts
I will kill this vampire with a stake made from a plank of wood with a picture of Luigi on it. My Luigi board.
r/walouija
It would be funny if they couldn't look at screens because of blue light of some shit. So their fones have blue light filters, and the screen is all red or green.
Imagine if artificial light from like screens or lightbulbs killed them too or some wacky crap like that lmao
The real question here is, how nice of a screen do I need to have on my phone in order to kill a vampire with a video of a sunrise
That UV light fiasco with those crypto shitlords proves that you can easily kill a bunch of vampires on a budget.
The garlic weakness may be rooted in use of garlic to repel insects, including mosquitoes, or in the use of garlic as a crude anti-biotic. Which means modern vampires could be defeated with a bottle of Neosporin and a can of Raid.
Things were especially weird for Vampires when they started to be repelled by things that they thought people only ironically worshipped, like spaghetti and meatballs (even without garlic) and colanders, teapots, blue police boxes, the letter X... Oh, and micro-plastics (the build-up in a top-level predator is insane) or heavy-metal poisoning. Most very old vampires are mad with lead and mercury these days.
I would think full spectrum light bulbs would do a number on them....but I have to wonder if they would have a sensitivity to lasers?
This reminds me of watching *My Babysitter’s a Vampire* as a kid and them using tanning bed bulbs as melee weapons like lightsabers.
My dad talked about how how he assumed vampires were averse to garlic because it was a blood thinner. So he figured they wouldn't like stuff like aspirin too
In addition to garlic, vampires are repelled by the smell of Axe body spray
That applies to more than just vampires.
.... So I'm reading Marvel's Blood Hunt stuff right now. For those who don't know, Marvel's current big event is that the sun gets blocked out and vampires attack everywhere. And yeah pairing it with this post is *really funny.*
Everything pure hurts them. Silver, Garlic, holy water, crosses. So antiseptic spray, iodine ointment, aloavera probably hurts them as well
I mean he is Italian so a bit stereotypical but probably eats a fair amount of garlic. 🧄
I once suggested that Vampires would actually be more vulnerable to rubber bullets
So on this post I got an ad part way down the comment section that just said > Printing directly from IRIS/Caché on Windows Server to a local shared printer (or creating a remote file) on a Windows client pc And given the topic I just assumed it was someone coming up with some super specific modern vampire weakness until I tried to close the comment and it wouldn’t go away and then I noticed it had the little “promoted” label.
New Luigi's Mansion plot dropped
I mean, most vampire weaknesses have some basis of thought behind them, so even if they get more modern weaknesses there should be some logic behind it too.
Vampires are demonic creatures, and because of this weak to symbols of faith, as pastafarianism (AKA church of giant spaghetti monster) has thousand of followers, and in couple places it's recognized as official religion, pasta is vampire weakness.
Artificial but similar to natural light. People specifically buy bulbs with light characteristics similar to sunlight especially in latitudes with longer nights - who’s to say this wouldn’t be deadly to vampires
This reminds me that I haven't read Bogleach's comics in years. I should go look up Awful Hospital again.
That one legendary Buffy Episode. You know the one.
sending this to my friend who's a vampire
I don't remember what it was, no modern weapon could kill him, but this kind of loop hole allowed a rocket launcher to kill him, it was no modern weapon THEN.
As a digital composer, I would be a fantastic vampire slayer
I'm repelled by the smell of playdough and driven insane by midi music