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orv is well and truly about the simple joy of coming home from your shitass job and opening up your phone and looking at your blorbo experiencing the horrors in there and saying with a wistful sigh "at least that motherfucker is suffering way more interestingly than I am"

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I loved the underground (cont. below)

❤️

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three-body problem

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recently watched link click s2... damb

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we're running out of time to fuck it we ball....

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sillies

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this is hysterical. TOBY

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Nikki ; Love Nikki ☆ Apex Innovation

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HAPPY MERRY to all who celebrate 🎄 may the light of biyoo's star shine upon u and bring u all joy and splendor

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merry cursemas

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The way The World Ends With You handles equipment-gating ends up having some very fun implications.

First, equipment is level-gated, but rather than being tied directly to character level, it's instead tied to a levellable stat called Bravery (BRV) – which makes some narrative sense, since equipment in The World Ends With You consists of fashion items; in narrative terms, you're literally building the confidence to pull them off.

Second, equipment is also gender-gated, at least in theory – but since there's all of one playable girl in the original game (the sequel is better about this), rather than building in any special mechanics for this, the game just gives all of the "for girls" clothing inflated BRV requirements, and the sole playable girl a massive starting BRV score.

In practice, this achieves its objective, for the most part. The inflated BRV for girls' clothing means that even once a male character reaches the BRV level required to wear it, he'll usually have access to gender-conforming options with better stats.

... in the main game.

In the post-game, however, there are many more options for grinding BRV, and the stats for girls' clothing start to better reflect their elevated BRV requirements, to the extent that many post-game optimisation guides genuinely recommend putting your entire party in maid dresses if you can grind out the BRV to equip them.

I thought that was something this blog's followership would appreciate.

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