#“Bad Part Of Town”

[pammyloumendkens]

👀Whoopsee🤭:😏He Did IT Again😉...

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[bixels]

In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.

He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!

You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).

Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!

But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!

[figtreegif]

Wardrobe // Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) // Doctor Who Seasons 1-2 & 4 (2005-2006, 2008) + specials

[kenchann]

meli finds out something

[felicitywilds]

nine is just so besotted with rose he cant even pretend to be annoyed at her for more than a second. she struggles to pronounce raxacoricofallapatorius and at first hes like “🙄🙄🙄” and shes like “no hang on!” and then as she starts getting the hang of it his attitude pivots so quickly. he breaks out into the dopiest smile and she jumps into his arms and they hug and he swings her around and they’re so giddy and he’s so proud of her for such a tiny, silly reason. made for each other behavior.

[gcballet]

Doctor Who S1 (2005) as Penguin Classics

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[gxldencity]

the thing is a lot of the veilguard suggestions I see are things that would actually make the game worse bc a lot of the people making these "rewrites" play this game with their eyes and ears closed and not connected to their brain

[angelpuns]

Everything is very horrible today in an autistic meltdown kinda way so either I'll pop off and draw a lot or lay face down in bed doing nothing for several hours we'll just have to see

[wyvernity]

wip posting just to get something out there, and it's def a mixed bag!! the only thing more inconsistent than my posting schedule is my art style RIP

[front-facing-pokemon]

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[bwobgames]

An urban city like any other, before and after

[royaltea000]

burnt out sorry - do ya wanna see my ocs (not giving you a choice)

Old designs -w-

[3416]

1634 make me genuinely ill because there are just.... so few bonds in this sport where you look at them and go. that was 100% meant to happen like that and no one else could've slotted in. like yea, so many of players across the league form close bonds and friendships bc that's the nature of spending a whole part of your life sharing a common goal and space when you're like.. doing this team activity... and guys are constantly befriending ppl and moving on... but auston and mitch it's like. it's almost like THEY feel that they were supposed to have that bond... and go out of their way to reaffirm it at every turn... like they met and got along and loved each other immediately and were so excited to get to play hockey together only to NOT get to for a long while and while they waited, they ??? developed all these rituals. and these things together... their personal routines, things to communicate to each other that they have each other's backs and are building each other into their visions and superstitions and dreams, some of which we'll never know about (unless they'd so kindly like to tell us a la mitch's interview with cabbie where he says maybe some day he'll share the gifts auston's gotten him w the world. tell all book when mitch).. but their gloves and their handshakes and their warmups and even the way they walk into road games and it's jsut. like it's friendship, for sure, obviously. they get along off the ice and make each other laugh the most and have a good time, but it's also the inextricable linking of their own careers. BY THEIR OWN DOING. like they want their names jotted next to each other and that's PART of the chase for this greater goal. yes, they would have been talked about in tandem anyway bc they're out here being the best leafs ever and hitting milestones like 500 points.... 600 points... just weeks apart from each other season to season. but also it's their commitment to each other that makes them talked about too. it's commentators saying they love to play together bc they can see it. they've heard them talk about it. they watch it. "marner to matthews" "matthews to marner". they're always gonna know where each other are.... it makes me . feel. violent with love, lol. makes me feel like some things are definitely meant to be.

[jetaloen]

fock it im making a new NEW 🆕 info post w the shitty too-small tadayo pixel now too. possibly more to be added. 😳

the setting

eventually i need to become the scenery drawing master bc this cannot stand. honest to god, the evangelion screenshot that's very, abyssmally small is the closest thing i have to what this particular town looks like in my head.

it's a mostly wooden, japanese-style fishing village with many piers that's only recently started to get repairs. it's become pretty populated quite suddenly. the village is fortified naturally by mountains, and there is a large desert surrounding those mountains.

there is a business in hunting for and selling old world artifacts, including art, tools, food, technology, and clothing. it's been long enough that some areas do not have access to education about things from the old world, and such things are attributed new meanings. technology only progressed up to the early 2000's, and is very difficult to get up and running, let alone maintain. the case is more or less the same with cars; travel by boat is highly preferred and many cities have canals. where there is no water, pack animals are used, but some who can afford or find them use bikes and motorcycles.

old weapons? i'll get to those later at some point

the characters

rohan shibata: formerly the samurai bodyguard of tadayo hojo. rohan was happy to die on the battlefield and get away from a stagnant life where hojo obsessed over him and orchestrated an arranged marriage for him that would halt rohan from ever leaving the region. upon rohan's death, his beheaded body was brought back to the capital by hojo, who had him reanimated via a talisman. however, this ritual cursed rohan, forcing him to feed vampirically on the innards of other humans via draining them like an assassin bug. as rohan grapples with the facts that he's alive again, still with hojo, has lost his humanity and can never eat normally again, and will never get to live the simple life he used to dream of, he leaves the region abruptly.

rohan is relaxed, quiet, and keeps to himself. he is well-liked, both in his home region and in the new town, but few people actually know him. he's a kind of this homebody with grandpa hobbies. rohan is widely sought after by men and women alike, but secretly revels in rejecting people. he's quite pessimistic, guilt-ridden (especially bc his transformation forces him to kill to eat), and very, monumentally depressed.

kallinikos katopodis/kato/any number of random ass names: a traveling merchant, tech wiz, and wannabe historian, but in truth, he is an immortal with massive memory gaps who has been trying to amass knowledge for many years. he is a liar who desperately wants attention and acknowledgement for his intellect and accomplishments, but struggles to get close to others due to emotional problems and social anxiety. kato has a massive superiority complex in regard to his skill with machines and historical knowledge. he is sometimes prone to violent breakdowns when he thinks people only notice his appearance, especially because he often has to rely on seduction to get what he wants from people. despite his faults, he is very curious and works hard. though he has a distinct fashion and music taste, his taste in almost everything else is very unrefined.

matei cojoc aka alecto: only recently returned home after the very small tech company he worked for fell apart. he's not too open about what they were doing at the company, but his younger sister nikki suspects he feels very guilty. alecto is fresh meat in this town, as nikki only moved here after he left for his job. as such, alecto is overwhelmed by the attention he receives. augustus and yves vie for his friendship, especially after learning he has befriended the other. alecto takes his nickname from his favorite rpg character, who is a demon woman. he loves games and computers.

nicoleta cojoc aka nikki: a clerk at one of the most popular goods shops in town, she is a likable and feisty, if somewhat lazy, young woman. nikki is probably the only character who could legitimately befriend any of the others. she worries constantly about her brother alecto, but is oblivious to yves and augustus' weird feud over him. she's befriended and dated many people in town and is privy to gossip, but she is also one of the few truly reliable people there. she is well-taken care of by her boss, who is an older woman.

augustus chuluunbold: she comes from a large family and was considered in her youth (...and her adulthood...) to be a bit of a rascally problem child. she's trying to get better, but isn't very welcome, especially in the local breakdance spaces that yves monopolizes. because she thinks she has no other skills and is too depressed to put herself out there or apply herself, her grandfather dotes on her, and is the significant source of her growth as a person. she is difficult, takes nothing seriously, and often jokes. she has a weirdly complicated crush on nikki.

yves gotoda: THE breakdance prodigy of the village. a large reason that the scene has bloomed locally, he is credited with bringing outsiders to town and helping the economy flourish. yves has no family remaining, considering his dance community his family; he welcomes new students all the time, but those who progress through his lessons are often weeded out by his strict methods. he does not look down on those who fail, however, and is seen as a benevolent figure locally. that being said, yves is vengeful to a fault towards those who hurt his family, and resents augustus deeply over beef they had in the past. his influence bars her from rejoining the community. yves has a rather high opinion of himself and is very ambitious.

gwyn loizou: a hermit-like woman who appears in town every once in a while to sell produce. she is quiet and stern, but the village people adore her, and she is well supported by them when she stops by for the season. formerly, she was in a relationship of some kind with kato; now, she has turned her affections onto rohan.

tadayo hojo: the third generation head of the hojo clan, one of many "old clans" in the modern, environmentally destroyed era that looks to reclaim their old culture at the cost of the people and land around them. hojo's gentle bearing belies his sadism and controlling tendencies. he believes might makes right, and sees himself as a savior of the meek. rohan's relationship to him is very complicated; he hates hojo because he's a disgusting, controlling asshole, but hojo also easily succumbs to rohan's whims and manipulation and will do literally whatever he says.

[bowl-of-fruit-loops]

hey why did bill’s ex-wife move to clivesdale? literally no one from hatchetfield would do that. people die and go missing all the time and they refuse to leave. and if they do they don’t move to fucking clivesdale