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This is my new favorite activity

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guess who just redownloaded sr3 onto his switch?

might fuck around get fixated on saints row again. make a bunch of content for a month then fall off again

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ok gonna say something that probably sounds insane but just bear w me. i think i figured out what bugged me so much about matt miller. he feels like he was engineered to attract a certain audience in the 2010s and nothing else. like he doesn’t feel like a naturally occurring goth/emo character. and i think that honestly plays into my general dislike of the deckers as a whole. they feel so……..marketable. and this is definitely just a product of srtt as a whole bc that entire game is like. desperate to be as marketable and commercialized as possible. but i think that’s why the deckers/matt rubbed me the wrong way. as in there doesn’t feel like there’s any thought outside of just “he is gonna attract this specific audience,” whereas i feel like goth/emo/etc characters in other media from the same era at least had like. a reason for being that way. they had a purpose outside of looks. he’s nothing outside of appearances.

and yes, you can absolutely make the argument that isn’t every character in some way meant to be marketable?? and like. yeah. but matt just checks off so many specific boxes that it feels so…..planned. nothing about him really feels like a natural character. british emo teen boy who has social anxiety? black hair that covers his face and he paints his nails? “here…..i am god.” like holy shit. just no substance outside of appearances. and it really doesn’t help that he and others really don’t get much development. it just feels very superficial. not to say the other srtt antagonists are like. masterpieces. cuz they’re not. but matt and the deckers in particular just felt so…….contrived. this guy was made specifically to be the fan favorite instead of making an interesting character first. like why should i care about him.

but perhaps that’s just the ethos of srtt. looks above all else.

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might fuck around get fixated on saints row again. make a bunch of content for a month then fall off again

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Some more IASIP crossovers, pissed Shaundi edition. It just fits so well.

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it’s shaunviola sunday

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anyway i have today off so i think i’m just gonna continue my srtt replay lol

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One of these days I will learn how to make text look exactly like SR1/2's title text and it'll be over for you bitches

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I find it pretty funny that Keith David is a president/vice president in Rick and Morty and Saints Row 4. Do you think their universes could be connected?

To be honest with you, I do. ive thought about this since i was like 16, but i also thought the idea was slightly cringe (at the time, now i let my cringe free). i could soo totally see boss and rick getting along so well, the fact theyre both reckless and flirty, the way they both act like "im tough, i dont care about anyone" but in reality they care so much that theyre willing to sacrifice themselves for their loved ones. plus cmon, the fact they both can not only avoid authority so well, but the fact theyve both been able to get out of jail with little to no actual punishment for their crimes? oh thats best friends right there i think. plus we can imply that saints row has some sort of canon/lore connection to adult swim tv show lore anyways, since jimmy - the guy who makes Johnny tag in the clones dlc for saints row 3 - is clearly supposed to be the nerd from robot chicken (literally even featuring the same voice - which iirc is done by seth green)

additionally with the fact that a song from the tim and eric show (the sports theme) as well as the aqua teen hunger force them and a MF doom song being included on the radio sound track? i mean i know adult swim did contribute to the game, but its not entirely clear in what way the adult swim universe is tied into saints row. especially cos they drop nearly all references to it outside of the fact im pretty sure you can have johnny tag and clone aisha as companions in sr4 (not entirely sure though since its been months since i played sr4 last and you do have to unlock them).

plus the line that the president has in the "get schwifty" episode' "...I'm the goddamn president of the united fucking states"... totally sounds like something he'd say when being confronted by boss for his backstabbing...

which honestly not to be tangential but i have to talk about that now bc im sooo realizing how genius it is to make keith backstab boss.... especially because he does it right before you get put into a simulation where you have to fight Julius little? i may hark on saints row 4's writing but goddd the fan service they give to us can be soo good. It almost makes me wonder if keith david is a clone or hologram that zinyak made specifically to betray/trick boss - especially since hes the only one (other than Benjamin king, but this you could argue Ben wasnt immune to it, since it was teased in the cutscene, plus you could make the point that boss doesnt see Ben the same way they see someone like johnny whos been a long time friend and companion and even someone like matt miller, who may be a genuine threat - posessing skills boss doesnt have/understands - but boss still sees him as "lesser" or equal to them bc of who matt is outside of his keyboard) who rejects boss' advances in the ship. especially because his bitterness not only towards boss, but zinyak. He makes a mention of originally campaigning to be the president before "zinyak kicked the stool out from under him", and since hes aware earth is gone... why would he care abt being president of holograms? some of the plot points they make in sr4 are a tad annoying for the reason that they love to set up stuff like this, and the audio log collectables tell us so much, yet, they wont do anything with it unless its inherently funny.

dont get me wrong, love saints row's humor but i just wish they wouldnt sacrifice interesting plots and characters for it. And i wish they would solidify canon more.

TLDR; i do think saints row and rick and morty are connected in some way yes. the way i think the saints row universe is indeed intertwined with other adult swims shows due to saints row 3 giving us plenty of hints that the universe are connected in some way.

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genki girlz ^w^

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i make it my duty to draw genkis.

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johnny is so fucking funny in sr1 trying to act all nonchalant n cool in front of aisha, as if his office isn’t literally covered in posters of her.

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i could not help myself.

anteros: ok kinzie this is just a casual event but please wear something nice

kinzie:

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anteros: ok kinzie this is just a casual event but please wear something nice

kinzie:

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love learning obscure things about the stuff i love. just found out about the freezer aka a shadow entity that chases you around if you go out of bounds during the zombie minigame and destroys your game.

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the real housewives of stilwater persey.

i think a lot about the bank heist at the start of SRTT, and i know it was like. josh birk was “studying for his role” but it makes me consider the relationship between the SRTT-era saints and film. like how much of the saints’ everyday lives got recorded?? like we know shaundi had her own reality show and i’m sure other saints appeared on it occasionally but i can’t help but think about a saints-specific reality show. something the real world-esque where the cameras are just rolling at all times while they’re living in their penthouse and committing crimes or whatever they’re doing that day. i just think that’d be super interesting. imagine the confessionals.