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Bocchi of Everything

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I stayed up to 2am to beat Radiant Dawn

What a great game, easily my favorite Fire Emblem, and also the best one.

Positives

Best written FE story, by a lot. It helps that PoR gets to lay a lot of the groundwork, which RD gets to develop and then pay off. It pulls off the idea of fighting against fate and gods for those you care about without turning to the camera every 5 lines to say "Our bonds give us strength!" (looking at you, Awakening).

The worldbuilding and history of Tellius as a setting feels lived in and builds its themes and characters in a way that feels natural. Instead of stuff like "This country is the peaceful good guys and this one is the strong guys who love battle" you have "These neighboring countries are both rebuilding after a terrible war, one fighting for independence from a harsh post-war occupation, the other lead by a well-meaning but inexperienced queen who wishes for peace but lacks the power to control the wealthy nobles. Both peoples still hold bitter resentment over those lost in the war."

Great cast. I wish RD had full supports, but what's there in the story and base conversations is just great. They aren't all winners (Looking at you, most of the Dawn Brigade) but usually when a character sucks, it's because they were successfully written to be someone who sucks (looking at you, Makalov) (My faves are Nephenee, Heather, Titania, Nailah, Ike, Soren)

Nice visual style. Restrained. Recent FE games have gotten really over the top with their character designs (Looking at you, Fates and Engage)

A nice, tight progression. It gets hard at points without ever feeling like total bullshit. When someone died and I had to restart, it was usually my fault. I could certainly make units strong, but they never felt game-breaking or invincible. Even Haar and Nephenee could die if I got cocky. In other games, being able to grind extra side maps is useful for supports or raising fresh units to be on par with your core team, but RD doesn't have traditional support conversations to unlock, and the Bonus Experience system lets you level new recruits easily enough. Moving from one chapter to the next keeps the game moving, and maintains a good difficulty curve.

Negatives:

Hoo boy some of the units are hot garbage. I like Meg and Fiona, but they are basically unusable a chapter or two after their introduction.

The voice acting in the cutscenes is real bad. Thankfully this is a tiny fraction of the dialogue in the game, but oof.

Who designed the bridge map? I just wanna talk.

I accidentally recruited Oliver, and therefore did not get to kill him. "Would you mind rejoining the enemy?"

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Uk peeps!! Let’s get this going! 🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧

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Hey so um for the better part of the week we were sick with what we believe to have been food poisoning which made interacting with food extremely difficult for me and honestly it was one of my lowest period Im terms of mental health in awhile. In that period the food I planned to cook seems to have gotten to a state that makes me... Apprehensive to cook it for my family and I given what we just recovered from. If anyone is willing to help out so I can order more groceries or maybe order a meal out given my chronic pain is pretty bad today.

If not I understand. I know times are rough for everyone, and there are others who are probably in a more dire state than me. But if you can help that would be appreciated. I get paid this Wednesday so I can always pay people back if need be/requested.

Cash App: $rose2894 , Venmo: @rose-sanchez-15 Paypal: https://paypal.me/rose2894?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US

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like even setting aside the transmisogyny can we talk about how virulently fucking racist it is to be like "erm all anime is pedophilic actually" like jesus fucking christ

"the entire media output of this country is sexually degenerate" doesn't ping to people as racist for some reason, they'll just say it full-throated without a second thought.

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i love when people say “dopamine addiction” to refer to anything that makes you feel good ever

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danganronpa dialogue:

"maybe the killer gave them a heart attack by writing down their name. like with a certain notebook from a certain anime."

"h-huh?"

zero escape dialogue:

"and so, mr tortoise continues to believe theres a teapot floating in space because mr hare can not definitively prove him wrong. but what if something like that... applied to the entire world?"

"like how theres no way to prove if youre wearing panties or not unless you offer definitive proof"

umineko dialogue:

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Alien Romulus is a great time. Also, cognitive reframing is a profoundly powerful tool for coping with and managing powerful emotions. I’ll always be sad that I can’t carry my own children, but dysphoria doesn’t have to own that feeling.

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oh my godddd the people in the notes of that pokemon anti homeless bench are going to kill me. they're so eager to come up with lore explanations or dismissive hand waves instead of looking at it for what it is. anti homeless benches are so unbelievably pervasive that, whether intentional or not, a designer made the benches in a fantasy game mirror the real world in a jarring way. it's an ugly and uncomfortable juxtaposition that really sticks out in a heavily sanitised and safe kids game like pokemon. i don't think this is some grand statement on gamefreak's politics or anything like that, rather a scathing unintentional indictment on the cruelty of a world that intentionally creates public spaces hostile to homeless people leaking into an idyllic fantasy world where humans live in harmony with nature.

maybe the designer is so used to seeing anti homeless benches that they've never thought about it too much, maybe they knew thought it would make it more immersive and get people talking about the inherent cruelty of such a thing, maybe a million other things. the beauty is that we'll never know. the only thing that will remain is the genuinely profound and baffling phrase "lumiose city anti homeless benches" and the dizzying implications that come with it. banksy couldn't eat her shit

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its like a gacha pull talking to my plural wife i might get the one who usually fronts but there are the rarer ones also . dormant ones would be a legendary but i havent seen those

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This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of “civility”.

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Any white shirt you like will get vantablack pigments poured on it the first time you have it on outside but a white shirt you dont care about can be worn through fire and emerge whiter like a salamander skin cloak

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btw i'm gonna pitch a fit if they don't let us actually wear dresses in kalos of all places.

if i finally come back to Kalos from being an eggy 13 year old who wishes "he" could pick a dress to wear only to now be told that like ScarVio dresses aren't allowed because a boy might wear them i'm gonna riot.

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Shoutout to gay furry hackers. In this house we support our troops 🫡

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What do I think about Dorley Hall? Well, chat, to be honest, I don't think I'm the guy to talk about that. NOT THAT I THINK THERE'S ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT! Look, I like to think I'm the kind of motherfucker that a Dorley girl would walk up to, and be like "hmm, nah not this one." Like you know how fucking validating that would be? Girl who's literally experienced toxic masculinity from every side is like, "naw dude, you're good. You don't need to be a girl, you're doing it right." That's the kind of shit that keeps me on the fucking Peloton, you know what I mean, chat?

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Please Help 3 Trans Girls Keep the Power On

[image ID: an Electric Bill for $368.50 USD, charged on 02/21/2025, with a due date of 03/14/2025, end ID]

Hello friends, we are 3 trans girls living in a moldy 1 bedroom, we'll just scarcely be able to cover rent but are completely broke after that with no way of covering our electricity bill - and the city seems to have raised our rate an obscene amount and now it is twice what it normally used to be. We have no way to pay this, and everything we have runs on electricity, our stove, our refrigerator, our means of doing work, etc.

If you can donate even $10 to help us raise the $368 we need to keep the power on it would help us immensely

Venmo: @kasherpashiko

Cashapp: $quicksilvermoonlight

Paypal: www.paypal.me/aelwydydd