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Decidí hacer un dibujo con mucho amor para mi sobrina....shit, es difícil verlos crecer a lo desgraciado y no pedirles que te digan una pendejada más

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LORD!! GIMME THE PATIENCE AND SKILL TO DRAW THIS HOT MESS

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I’m starting to think I’m getting fucking thirsty about man

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Blessed be the man with booty

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miguel sees non canon compliant fan fic and fucking cries

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sometimes a found family is a gamer girl, her anxious (see: traumatized) pretty boy, her obnoxious rich (secretely soft) boy, a baseball star, and a non-binary/agender clueless wizard pulling the strings and ya know that can be so personal

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Cat lovers and their traumatized orange haired boys

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the way that romantic killer started with “watch this gamer girl get her life turned upside down in the name of love 😍😘😜” and ended with “no character is just a love interest or supportive friend. they all have their own personalities, their own pasts, their own depth and meaning. love is not something that can be forced or formulated; it’s conceived through mutual trust and understanding, through respecting each other and what we want. never underestimate the value of kindness, sincerity, and communication, and never forget the importance of platonic love and friendship”

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(Fake) My favorite part of “For the Future” was when Belos said “I’ll give you anything!” and Hunter said “I want my palisman back, you son of a bitch” and stabbed him with the splintered end of Flapjack’s staff, that part was great.

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NieR:Automata : A Beautiful Story of a Broken World

As I mentioned in a previous post, I recently finished playing Nier:Automata. I wasn’t going to write a review or analysis on the game because I find it hard to put my thoughts and feelings into words but I shall try my best to do this game justice with mere words because it deserves to be talked about and I simply cannot stop thinking about it, I have tried not to but I cannot. I will only be talking about the story and how it made me feel. This is most likely going to be a very long post.

(This review was written over some time. This post will contain spoilers for Nier:Automata and Nier:Replicant)

So, when I started the game, I thought it was going to be a story about saving the world, I hadn’t played Nier:Replicant at the time but partly watched my sister play it and noticed that the basic story of the game was very simple, just a brother trying to protect and save his sister and even though I hadn’t played the game, I found myself crying when I watched the ending and saw Emil sacrificing himself for his friends. Whenever I’d listen to Emil’s theme, I found myself on the verge of tearing up. I had no idea that Automata too was going to be just as compelling and I was not expecting the story to be this simple yet strong with a beautiful and non-complex message. This is a game about love and finding your purpose in the world, believing and not giving up even when all hope seems lost. 2B and 9S’s relationship is a bit complicated to explain, I think it’s left a certain way so that the player can interpret it however they like but I think we can all agree that 2B and 9S love each other, in some form or another. I believe it is a friendship or/to romance kind of love. 9S never had a friend or partner to work with, he often worked alone being a scanner model and didn’t have much he cared for, he got to work each day like anyone else, but then he got partnered with 2B and things changed. He had a friend, someone he knew and cared for better than all other androids and while 2B was often cold to him for reasons he didn’t understand until later, he still cared for her and saw it only as her personality. 2B on the other hand, comes off as a complex character, someone who is closed off from others and doesn’t like to talk much other than what is necessary. Most just write this off as “oh that’s just the kind of person she is” but we eventually learn that the true reason she like this is because she does not want to get close to 9S, not because he’s whiny or annoying but because she loves him, she HAS loved him, she’s known him for a long time and that’s because every time 9S gets too curious and corrupts his data, she needs to kill him. It’s a never-ending cycle. She is always cursed to remember and 9S always forgets. Each time, he backs up 2B’s data first and by the time it’s his turn, it’s either too late or it’s been corrupted. So each time they get partnered, 2B suppresses her feelings, never tells him the truth, and tries to not get attached but she always fails. And that’s also a message of this game, not being truthful about your feelings and bottling them up, leads to only pain and no resolution, and while the other person may not always reciprocate, love is an emotion worth feeling even if it hurts sometimes. The struggle and the pain of life are a part of living.

In much of this game, everyone is trying to find a purpose in life, the machines, the androids, everyone. Machines mimic human society to find some meaning in their existence. Even Adam, someone who is obsessed with humans and understanding them to the point where he is frustrated as to why he cannot, only finds peace in the most human thing known to man, death. The first line of this game is “everything that lives is designed to end”, we live or strive to live well because we know that one day, we will die, we spend almost our entire lives trying to find purpose to live for. The Devola and Popola models were shunned by the world, they were programmed with guilt because of a mistake just one pair of their models made. Hell, they were made as twins because they couldn’t handle the burden of their task without each other… and so the leftover models roamed the world, searching for a purpose, trying to help the other androids once the replicants were gone. The machines no longer have a shared goal, so they create relationships, and cults, and try to form societies like humans to find a purpose and meaning in their existence because there is a ghost of humanity in this world and while they may not be gods, they’re the closest thing to it. This brings us to the only purpose of Yorha, to liberate the world for mankind, hence their slogan “Glory to Mankind.” Even if this mankind is extinct, this is all they have…

At some point in the story, 9S learns that The Council of Humanity was created by Yorha rather than it being the other way around, when confronted by the commander for snooping around classified information he finds out that humans have been extinct for a long time, even before the machines invaded. This is when he starts to crumble, then he loses 2B, and then he finds out that the black boxes for androids are made from machine cores which means he is not that different from a machine, to begin with. He gets even angrier and starts to hate everything, himself included, further proving Adam’s point about hatred. This eventually leads 9S to his destruction which is a sad ending, to say the least, but one I think everyone saw coming. As for A2, I thought she was cool but it was hard to feel for her as much as I did for 2B or 9S, she defected from Yorha because she was a prototype model along with a squad whose entire purpose was to go to earth and die so that Yorha can collect combat data, her whole squad died except herself and while this is very sad and unfair, it’s hard to feel much for someone who was in the story for 3-4 hours at best. But I liked her character nonetheless, the new combat abilities were cool and I think her ending is more hopeful… she sacrifices herself to save 9S, a promise she made to 2B before her death, to look after him and everyone else. As sad as it is, she might’ve saved 9S’s corrupted data, but his body was still fatally damaged, he couldn’t be brought back to life…

And that’s where the pods come in. These pods have been with us from the very beginning and we don’t exactly know when they started gaining consciousness but they did. Over time, as they exchanged data with each other of their respected assigned units, something clicked in them and they started to gain something close to consciousness. At the very end, during the credits we hear Pod 153 say that Project Yorha is over, all android black boxes are offline and their work is done. That it’s time to delete all data but�� Pod 042 objects and says it cannot accept this resolution and instead suggests salvaging data for 2B and 9S. Unsure of what to exactly do, they ask the player if they wish for both of them to survive. And well, do you? I of course chose yes. And this is when the true tears begin, you quite literally fight the credits of the game, the creators and people who worked on this game, they are the gods of this world and only they can bring them back. This endeavour seems impossible because soon, the screen fills up with projectiles and you fail loads of times, each time the game asks you if you want to continue, at times even saying taunting phrases to make you want to give up but… at the same time, it also has these other quotes showing up, from the players telling you to keep going even if it’s hard until eventually you are asked, “Rescue offer received (player name), do you accept?” and suddenly, you’re not alone anymore. Other players from all over the world help you by giving up their save files as you fight gods and fate itself to bring them back together. In the final cut scene, Pod 153 says that everything that lives is designed to end, a never-ending spiral of life and death, quoting 2B from the beginning and that life is all about the struggle within this cycle. The game ends with the pods reaching 2B and 9S and briefly showing A2. The pods talk about things that may go wrong again but don’t see how it’s not worth trying to save them, leaving us with the hope that these characters will live again, perhaps breaking the cycle entirely, reliving it or altering it but it’s hopeful and that is what matters. You are also given a choice to delete all your save files to save someone else in the world, just as some stranger saved you. You may not know this person, you may even hate them if you do know them and even after knowing this, would you still want to lose all your progress? Along with this, you can also leave a message that will display for other players to push them forward whenever they feel like they want to give up. Mine was this:

This game focuses on the meaning of life and finding your purpose, your purpose for existing. We live for the people we have met, the ones we love, the memories we have made and the thought that we’d make yet more pushes us forward, the ceaseless need for adventure, the world to explore and so much more. Nier:Automata changed how I viewed video games, the way it tells such a simple story through robots, in a world that is so much different from our own and yet it makes the story relatable. I still find myself thinking about it… even though it has been over a month since I played it. This game is truly a masterpiece of our generation and I believe that anyone who hasn’t played it, is missing out on a truly wonderful story and experience.

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ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, GABRIEL?

YOUR SON IS A FXCKING VOCALOID, MAN.

FOR GODS SAKE, ADRIEN, ARE YOU OKEY?

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SPOILERS (again)

Yeah I’m going with the theory that Evelyn (who is most likely the Clawthorne’s ancestor) carved Flapjack for Caleb, and was the last remnant of her, hence why Belos says this.

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