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Opinion on smollusk

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I’m sorry I kinda stole your dog Shepherd, I love you… 😭

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quickly coming out of my tumblr hiatus (on this account, that is) to say Hello, Yes, I still have strong thoughts about this inch tall gal and totally agree with you.

I’ve been thinking of redoing the script for the unfinished video essay on her, too… mainly to change focus to be broader. If it ever does it get made, it’ll also be about what they did well with her, and also how Pikmin’s writing reflects its audience (negatively!). There is a lot to unpack about Shepherd…

Also, you can reach out to me on Discord at marblyso

For every passing moment I am alive, I am haunted by the fact we could have played as Shepherd and Collin and other characters… but as someone theorized, the character creator tool could have originally been a dev tool that became a feature and THIS is why I- no, WE never got playable characters… y’know, with character.

You realize what they took from us? Absolutely heart-wrenchingly amazing character development. Shepherd has a major character arc OFF SCREEN. And even if she does return in a future game, how can you beat “I’m finally happy to be me!”? Oh yeah, doesn’t sound familiar? Those were in her diary entries. Which you’re not forced to read. VERY off screen for such a MAJOR development, you think? Oops, I turned into Bernard for a moment there.

I believe this is one reason why there’s people who don’t like Shepherd. The game is horrible at telling you what she’s like, unless you go out of your way to figure that out, so people get incorrect assumptions about her. They can get away with this because we don’t play as her.

To be the number one Shepherd fan you must process what they took from us. What they took from her. Ohhhhhhhhhghhgg

Doggy bonding time. Becoming more confident in your skills as a leader. Feeling the relief of saving someone BY HAND. Her existing character arc would make more sense if she was the one getting out there, not this rookie. Oouhhhhggh.

This was originally going to be about Pikmin 4 in general but it just turned into me groveling over Shepherd. Even after I’m deranged as fuck, I can’t stop thinking… I love Erma Shepherd. So much.

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i haven't seen this up until this morning and not all that many people within the rain world community seem to be talking about it but

it's come to my attention that rain world has recently partnered with a company known as ludeo for the game's newest update. this was tucked away in the replies of their rain world art month post

ludeo is an israeli company run by two brothers based in tel-aviv. this is incredibly disappointing and fucked up to be doing during the on-going genocide israel is committing in palestine and the surrounding regions and i quite frankly do not care if it turns out this was just down to "poor research" and was an "accident": you can quite literally look up the two founders' names on linkedin and find out where they are based in under a minute. there are no excuses for this

another point of note about ludeo that i find upsetting is that a lot if not all of the images used on the company's site to advertise this product are 99.9% guaranteed to be ai-generated

while this is absolutely not the main issue at hand here as promoting your partnership with this company at this time is already fucked up enough to begin with, going and hiding this post within the replies of another promoting your art month event to the artists within this community is so astoundingly ironic and ignorant

i am not trying to suggest that there are alterior motives behind putting this post in the replies of another about a community event rather than making an entirely new and separate one dedicated exclusively to information about this update, but i do find it strange. i woke up to finding out about this and was absolutely livid, and while what's done is already done, i am hoping whoever was responsible for this knows how fucked it is to be promoting this company at this time, or just in general. i am not trying to start a witch hunt or start shit for the sake of starting shit, but i think this needs to be addressed and spoken about, as money towards israel is money towards more bloodshed and violence in palestine. this shit makes my blood fucking boil

edit: i feel like i should also put this here if this wasn't already terrible enough

please continue sharing support for palestine. links below are sites and donation links that go directly towards supporting palestinian people in need

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Even outside of a moral standpoint, the CEO’s recent behavior is absolutely fucking ridiculous.

You market this place as LGBTQ+ friendly, and then you make outrageous decisions that contradict this. When you are called out, you double down instead of realizing your “mistake”? This benefits NOTHING but a fragile ego.

I don’t even have to explain why everything else is ridiculous. If the CEO wants this hellsite to burn, then so be it. I am going to leave until justice is PROPERLY served, and I suggest others do the same.

We are on a sinking ship covered with exploding hammers.

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resources for palestine

resources for palestine (2)

operation olive branch, a spreadsheet full of families trying to escape rafah, in case you can donate

twitter thread of fundraisers for palestine

daily click for palestine

info post about sudan

twitter thread about sudan

twitter post for the DRC

friends of the congo, a list of helpful actions you can take for the DRC

post of donation links for the DRC

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look. i’m sick and fucking tired of seeing such horrible and inhumane responses to the global strike for palestine happening this week. it’s not just some “tumblr phenomenon”. nobody is forcing you to take off work. nobody is forcing you to take off school. use your brains and figure out that the strike is for justice in palestine. the point is to DO WHAT YOU CAN. even if that just means reblogging posts, telling a friend who might be able to do more, participate in the boycotts, make informative posts yourselves. i know that is all do-able to the majority of you. have a heart. this is not supposed to be comfortable. this is not supposed to be nice. innocent lives in Gaza are being killed by the second and the strike is to keep up the pressure for a ceasefire. FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA. 🇵🇸

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Its been so interesting to see the diverse responses in the fandom across the two years (🙄) history of the three-way voting system nintendo thought was a good idea.

I was gonna propose an interesting way they could have done 2 way with 3 idols but honestly i shouldnt waste my energy on the splatfests anymore and make excuses, im just gonna be hopeful but nothing more than that bc there is a real world, where theres things that need to be studied and a genocide to protest against, yall.

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every day i see people online being needlessly cruel and hateful over the most pointless things and it only motivates me to be kinder and more understanding out of spite

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Could you do the genome of This Day Aria? I’m curious what type of moth it’ll be haha

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A patron of terrible things. Face of the void, head of the sun. Finally finished this guy!

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what if that squid was fucking ridiculous. loaf of bread? no, no. that's a monster truck. y you get me

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biology of a stapler

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some Pikmin translation "scraps"- basically, various translations I did but that I skipped when posting in favour of more recent strips I liked better.

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dumpy

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i wish pikmin 4 had the streetpass style option to use either a cat or dog as your preferred animal companion (like in the find mii streetpass game, you'll have cats or dogs as your hired help depending on which one you tell the game you prefer) and i think thatd add a lot of life and enjoyment to pikmin 4

cause as someone whos really uncomfy around dogs half my pikmin 4 experience is just "me and my beloved pikmin!!!! and that thing the game forces us to use :/"

like oatchi is conflicting to me. i think hes a really good idea for a game mechanic- having a ridable companion that can jump so all your pikmin can be in one place and travel to elevated heights is a reallyyy fun idea! also, having oatchi be able to have similar abilities to pikmin means every pikmin type can be in the game without the risk of the player having to backtrack or carry a ton of different pikmin types. however, this is a double edged sword as oatchi often overshadows the pikmin, both in gameplay and plot (MY GOODNESS NOBODY N THIS GAME EXCEPT OLIMAR CARES ABOUT THE PIKMIN AT ALL PLEASE MENTION THEM AT LEAST ONCE???). also. you cant beat the game without oatchi. you Have to use oatchi. you do not have an option. its not a choice. even if you switch to oatchi and run away and switch back to the captain, you'll eventually run into some obstacle that has no reason to exist other than forcing you to use oatchi.

but like... maybe its also cause hes a dog and that makes me naturally uncomfy, maybe if he was a neat little kitty id be like "awww the silly hehe me and my silly guy and our pikmin army" and id enjoy the game a lot more

i think honestly there shouldve just been more customizable options for oatchi in general, like smallfry in splatoon 3 or the horse in miitopia. if you're going to force an animal companion onto us that overshadows the pikmin we all love you could at least let us make the companion our own so we can be attached to him. instead it just feels like the characters we loved are shoved to the side in favor of. some other thing.