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[cosmicredcadet]

Sometimes...characters being in a romantic relationship is worse.

[beyond-the-frozen-pines]

one for the ages, it’s a tale as old as time 🍃

[lucabyte]

even dogs pass the mirror test

[entropysanyt]

14 meeting 16 would go well. definitely. one hundred percent. yep

[dimeadozencows]

I redrew rambs sprites is there a power strip emoji

🔌 does this count

The descriptions I gave each expression are what they're called in the files :]

Like and subscribe if you'd shed a tear for a bloke who does fuck all

[muzzlemouths]

can i also be beautiful if i am dangerous?

[candycatfalls]

Wishing everyone a very happy Giving Birth to Bill Cipher Day 💛

[giddlygoat]

eye dee kay. who knows man

[queerum]

aromantics are way too comfortable implying friendship is the most valuable part of life to bitch about alloros doing the same thing with romance

[iliveasalambforthelucidlydamned]

[wikiipediabf]

"whenever anything is not going his way he LASHES OUT-" lashes? lashes you say??

[creativitysloyalservant]

i have decided to break my lack of original posting on this blog to bring you my Thoughts on Rot in Paradise. because i played it as soon as i got up this morning and i have scoured for some opinions after finishing it, and now i have my own!!

(and also i posted this on twitter but twitter has such a Shit wordcount that i'm also posting my things here with More Detail)

so! spoilers under the cut, please go and play the game if you haven't. it takes literally an hour (it only took nearly 2 hours for me because i like voice acting by myself and exploring every nook and cranny) and it's also free. so maybe come back into the tag once you're done.

okay, so i noticed quite a number of people being confused and disappointed on the lack of an explanation for the monster. it's brought up in the story as the central thing driving the plot, but it's never explained on what "she" is, why she's compelling people to eat a ton of fish-related food or hell, metal, and why this doesn't impact June at all.

but you know what I think?

i think that that's the point. the focus of rot in paradise isn't supposed to be on the monster.

yeah, it's the thing that pushes the plot along besides June and the gang going on vacation in this island. it's what's causing that uneasiness from the moment that guy grabs June's arm at the drinks, to the sheer unnerving feeling of witnessing people going to the ocean to get Raptured basically. i know i personally felt a chill when i saw that one dude literally eating chains and the other hauling an anchor, as if they're trying to make themselves heavier so they get taken by whatever She is.

but that's not the main point! the main conflict is about June and her friends.

as people have pointed out, this game is about toxic friendships and relationships! it's foreshadowed in the conversation that June has with the gang about her cousin (which i will also get into), and it carries it through the way her friends are horribly warped by this ocean Creature. June goes on a silly little vacation trip with her friends only for them to become so so different from themselves that they lash out at her and even hit her in McCoy's case.

but she still sticks it out with them. through the whole game, even despite their verbal abuse, despite being slapped, despite them being people that she can hardly recognise. she stays with them for the whole game, up until the point where you are given the two options at the very end. and she could still stay with them.

because they're still her friends. she cares about them even if they still hurt her. from the way June still tells Carmen to tell June if she needs anything after Carmen literally tells her to shut up and leave, the way June worries about Vonnie eating seafood even though she continues to stuff herself despite being implied to either hate or make an active choice to not eat seafood, to the way June still trudges out to sea screaming for McCoy to come back to the shore as he wades further in even after he slapped her until her nose bled.

it mirrors the conversation about her cousin, the reason for why June was looking forward to the vacation. that while she did comfort her cousin through all of it, June clearly says that "they were dickheads, and she should have ditched them a long time ago".

but it's funny, isn't it? that June, an outsider to her cousin's friend group, easily sees the pain that her cousin's friends are causing her, and immediately calls it as it is. that her cousin should have left the second they hurt her.

and yet now, when her friends hurt her, even though this was a quick and sudden change that happened in a span of three days, June still sticks around. her friends are dickheads right now, and we can see that in the way they interact with June, but she still stays.

because they're her friends. and how could she just leave them like this if it's something that's causing them to be this way?

so no, i don't think the monster is supposed to be the main picture. we don't need to know what it looks like, or why it needs to do this to the islanders, or how it's even doing it in the first place. it adds to the scariness of the game, as per the Spooktober Game Jam, sure, but that's not the point. might be a bit disappointing to some, but that's not the point.

the point is about June, and the choice that she needs to make at the end of the game.

it's a choice on whether she chooses to be pulled deeper into the tides and be with the friends who hurt her and will continue to hurt her in this way,

or to leave them to their fates, whether deserved or not, and resurface to a world where she's alone without her friends.

and even though the first choice hurts much more in the long run, doesn't the second hurt even more in the moment? knowing that you're alone at the end of all of this?

even if it is the right choice, i'm sure the pain must be unbearable in the moment.

[autistic-evil-xisuma]

I've never even properly posted about trans xisuma here. okay.

So he transitioned without the slightest clue what it means to be trans. See when he was young it became his life's ambition to be just like the Doomguy and I guess becoming a man was just part of that process. He didn't even think about it. He was thinking a lot more about the awesome armor he needed to have to reach self actualization, so, the minecraft testosterone injections or whatever were definitely secondary to that. And he's pretty much stealth about it, not even entirely on purpose just because that's a rather private topic innit. And nobody ever questions his boobs because chest is like the easiest thing for him to work out, basically, he doesn't even have to try, he just touches a barbell and his chest pops out, it's just what happens, and besides everyone's too busy speculating about what's under the helmet to be theorizing on what's under the codpiece. Except for Keralis who has a whole lot of creative theories about that. And all this is to say that Xisuma has not a clue how to come out. If it was ever necessary he would just be sweating nervously racking his brain for a way to explain it (he's already forgotten the word transgender, if he's even learned it yet) in a way that isn't just giving out a downright impolite amount of information about his body. If he managed to even attempt explaining himself he would probably just make it sound like he has ED or something.

[sillyof1987]

something ive been seeing lately with the link click fanbase people treating lu guang like hes an awful deceiving person & awful for going back in time over & over again to save cheng xiaoshi.. but did we forget season 2? 😭 cheng xiaoshi would do the same given the same circumstances.. stop making it one sided!!!!!

[akolnoix]

Chain of Pronouns (Version 1.5)

+now has cutscene compilations, for both versions!!

a patch for GBA chain of memories, restoring some aspects of the narrative that were lost in translation (with potentially major implications.)

[patch download + additional info]

with version 1.5, i've fixed all the issues i could find (and there were some pretty important ones, if you downloaded an earlier version i Really recommend downloading this one), and i'm tentatively calling this project finished. yay!

but what if you don't want to actually play the game? just want to check out the really important parts? well, now you can just watch all the cutscenes on youtube!!

["they" version] <- recommended ["he" version]

[sheetzking]

a3 dump 👍