Talk:Last Prism

Trivia
this trivia section is awful. it's just a prism, and the usage of a prism is common knowledge. the tooltip MIGHT be a league reference but it's not confirmed. touhou would be more likely due to the huge graphical similarities with Master Spark. neither one has overwhelming proof though, so stop adding this stuff in unless Red confirms it himself. holy shit why is there so many league fanboys and touhou kids, leave this game alone

in the meantime, here's the old trivia section --Ancientpowerer (talk) 23:12, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The item itself, being a drop from the Moon Lord, is most likely a reference to Pink Floyd's album "Dark Side of the Moon", which features a prism on its cover.
 * The tooltip is likely a reference to the popular MOBA game League of Legends character Vel'Koz, whose ultimate ability is named "Lifeform Disintegration Ray".
 * The item could also be a reference to the Touhou Franchise's Marisa Kirisame, who fires a rainbow-colored beam of light called the "Master Spark." League of Legends has a spinoff character of her named Lux with an ultimate skill called "Final Spark" which does much the same thing. The fact that the Master Spark drains all of the magical power from its caster could also be a joke at the Last Prism's high mana cost.

Trivia policy
The wiki's Style Guide has clearly delineated rules to determine what is or isn't valid for a trivia section. Basically, if you're contending that something is a pop culture reference, you need a clear and obvious source directly from the developers that can be referenced and linked to, or it isn't valid. If all you have to go on is a "may" then it's not a reference, as far as this wiki is concerned.

As an additional warning, it is not acceptable to incite others in edit summaries to continue acting against wiki policy without discussion. Policy is influenced by discussion, not by raw acts of defiance. This is essentially vandalism and will be treated as such in the future. Gearzein (talk) 06:14, 6 July 2015 (UTC)


 * The Vel'Koz reference could certainly be considered undeniable, as it is extremely obvious and worded almost identically to the flavor text, only differing in that the Prism mentions it's rainbow colors. There's a lot of interesting trivia about the game which is not directly confirmed by the developers, and a considerable amount of it appears on this wiki, I don't see why this should be any different at least in the case of the one definitive reference mentioned.Yakri (talk) 06:42, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Most of that information is left over from a time when we were much shorter on hands, and is ultimately either sourced or removed when it's found. There are a lot of interesting discoveries in the game and a lot of connections that can be made through player observation, but if every half-boiled piece of player speculation were added to a page then the trivia section would grow larger than the main page text- this only isn't the case here because the page's single paragraph is already inflated by dubiously useful mathematical extrapolation and personal suggestion. Eventually this page will have to be rewritten regardless, but for the moment the trivia section is cluttered and obtrusive, and quite frankly, the insistence on continually adding and expanding these points in spite of stated policy is frustrating, not just to myself but to other editors and readers.
 * That said, if an inspiration is really that obvious in this case, it shouldn't be difficult to have the developers confirm it. And, if it's confirmed to have been inspired by a certain source, there's no point to encouraging others to continue adding their own personal interpretations. A single, clean point at the end of the section would serve everyone's ends. Gearzein (talk) 06:55, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * We do have an allowance in the trivia rules for "undeniable" items, which I think may be what Yakri is referring to. "Disintegration beams" are common enough in fantasy/sci-fi that I will have to say the reference here to that particular game falls into the realm of plausible deniability. Not that the reference definitely isn't true -- it's possible, but for now it's far from undeniable. You could attempt to ask a developer at the forum to weigh in. They are sometimes eager to confirm when someone figures out a reference they threw in (but sometimes they're not, so don't hold too high of a hope). Equazcion  ( talk ) 07:13, 6 Jul 2015 (UTC)
 * What exactly does it take to be undeniable then? The flavor text for an item has almost identical wording (Lifeform Disintegration Ray vs Lifeform Disintegration Rainbow) and the single word of difference appears to be a play on the last word in the league champion ability (the first part of the word rainbow sounds the same as ray). The hero in question is an eldritch horror in the love craftian style, and the Last Prism is dropped by. . . Cthulhu. Vel'Koz also has a skin in which he shoots a beam of light instead of a dark beam, and appears to be a reference to an alien race from starcraft (alien invasion is part of the moon lord event). Additionally if you search for lifeform disintegration or lifeform disintegration ray and exclude results mentioning league, lol, or vel'koz, all that comes up is some league mentions that slipped through, this wikipedia (last prism) and an extremely unknown death metal band with a song called Lifeform disintegration ray. It appears to be a phrase that was exclusive to league of legends up to this point. If that's not confirmed enough the style guide should probably just remove the "undeniable" evidence option and consider it covered under the mention of obvious references; like if a literal spartain armor suit was added. Yakri (talk) 07:32, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

An undeniable reference would be "Get over here!" from the Grappling Hook tooltip, "Oh myyyy" from George's Tuxedo, the appearance of the Karate Tortoise costume, Space Creature costume, and the Creeper costume, to name a few. Listing similarities doesn't prove the point. There is nothing terribly unique about the term "disintegration ray", nor the weapon's animation, that we can use to say the developers didn't come up with them from thin air or from something else they saw. In the end I suppose it's a subjective matter, but the fact that so many people have come and put other such items on this page claiming a reference to others things would seem to indicate that the reference you point to isn't as obvious as you think (even if it's true -- we just, again, can't tell for sure based on the info we have). Equazcion ( talk ) 07:48, 6 Jul 2015 (UTC)
 * There is something unique about the term Lifeform Disintegration ray. Namely that it existed exactly one place of any note before it came up in terraria, and that other place is a hugely popular MOBA. The specific phrasing is actually quite unique, very similar to the grappling hook reference. While of course it is always possible that the people behind league, Terraria, and one random death metal band maybe 3000 people have heard of, could all have come up with the phrasing individually and no one else ever has, it's just as likely that the reference in the grappling hook tooltip was just a coincidental in joke.Yakri (talk) 09:01, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

Notes vs Trivia
"Trivia should not describe an item's function, interesting things that can be done with it, or ways it might malfunction in the game. Those items may belong in a Notes or Tips section."

I don't have any problem inherently with nifty facts about an item going in the trivia section, but the style guide appears to explicitly relegate such comments to notes or tips sections.Yakri (talk) 07:39, 6 July 2015 (UTC)
 * The items you're referring to don't do any of the above. They merely analyze which weapon can achieve a higher stat. The spirit of these rules is to keep Notes sections confined to crucial gameplay information (info players need in order to understand how an item works), whereas your items seems more like an interesting statistical analysis. Your first item could be construed as an attempt to help players decide between two weapons, and if that's the case, I'd perhaps re-word it and place it under "Tips" (but still not Notes). As for your second item, if the point of that is indeed to conclude that the weapon provides the "highest damage in the game", that's precisely the type of statistical record that should stay in Trivia. Equazcion  ( talk ) 08:03, 6 Jul 2015 (UTC)