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its-rat-time-babey · 11 months ago

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Because I’m insane I decided to watch Fanboy and Chum Chum for the lore. Just watch the entire series and see what I can find.

Especially since Fanboy and Chum Chum are connected to Glitch Techs, with both shows being a part of the same multiverse. Just in Glitch Techs, smaller elements like the Freezy Mart exist in the show AND Fanboy and Chum Chum themselves are confirmed to exist as their names appear on the scoreboard in the Hinobi Smash competition, which means that Fanboy and Chum Chum do exist, but they probably go by their real names in the Glitch Techs universe and “Fanboy and Chum Chum” are just gamertags.

Things I have learned so far (just finished season 1):

This is a completely very different timeline and universe compared to Glitch Techs or our universe as comparison. Many things are different.

For example, the USA in this universe only has 8 states. For reference, the US was originally settled with 9 states, so at some point in time they lost one.

Fanboy and Chum Chum takes place in 2004. Glitch techs takes place in 1998.

Fanboy and Chum Chum’s real names are Tobias and Edmund.

Fanboy is anywhere from 17-18 years old. Chum Chum is (seemingly) two years younger at 15-16 years old. This is because they’re in 5th Grade (5th Graders are usually 10-11 years old) and Fanboy mentions that they’re been held back for 5 years, including the current year. Fanboy specifically also mentions being held back twice in kindergarten, but that’s exclusive to him.

All of the weird stuff Fanboy and Chum Chum can do comes from Chum Chum. Chum Chum has the power and Fanboy can also use it because he’s Chum Chum’s best friend. Oz is also friends with Chum Chum and can do similar things, but to a lesser degree because he’s not as close to Chum Chum as Fanboy. Yo gains Chum Chum-like abilities basically as soon as Fanboy temporarily gives Chum Chum to her, and on top of that Fanboy seemingly loses his abilities until he’s reunited with Chum Chum. Chum Chum is the source of like 90% of the show’s weirdness.

Fanboy is a Lance Corporal, aka the highest non-enlisted rank of the us military.

The Norse gods are real in this universe. I’m not kidding.

With the previous information, Chum Chum is very likely a Norse giant. I’m also not kidding.

Fanboy and Chum Chum both have glass eyes. Fanboy’s left and Chum Chum’s right eyes are fake. My personal conspiracy theory is that Chum Chum pulled an Odin some time in the past (as Odin is a real person who actually exists in this universe) and sacrificed one of his eyes for forbidden knowledge and that’s why he’s so powerful. Fanboy may have done the same as a sort of blood oath to his and Chum Chum’s friendship, hence why he has access to so much of Chum Chum’s power.

The creators of Fanboy and Chum Chum must have already had the idea for Glitch Techs even when this show was first being made. You can find all sorts of stuff in here that connects to the 2015 Pitch Bible for Glitch Techs. Yo’s Tamagotchi has a character identical to Chomp Kitty on it, characters that look extremely similar to Five and Miko’s Pitch Bible designs show up in an in-universe commercial, hell a character that looks extremely similar to Agent 68, a character who is only found in the Glitch Techs Pitch Bible (Either getting remade into Inspector 7 or even the Tech Inspector in “I’m Mitch Williams” later during development or being someone who would have appeared in season 3) shows up physically. They had the ideas all there to begin with.

Hinobi as we know it in Glitch Techs doesn’t exist in the way that we know it, but it does exist under a different name and purpose. Instead of Hinobi the video game company, it’s a (so far unnamed) Toy Company (that also owns the Frosty Mart in some way). My logic here is that:

Chomp Kitty on a tamagotchi. Obviously.

That character that looks like Agent 68 is an “Agent” of the unnamed toy company, in this case an inspector sent to reclaim some recalled toys. He’s also the head of security for the Frosty Mart’s company, so the Frosty Mart is probably owned by this alternate reality Hinobi in some way.

The few arcade machines and video games seen so far work perfectly fine, but many toys, especially any toy with mechanical parts have a tendency to break and act somewhat similarly to glitches.

There’s an episode where that Chomp Kitty Tamagotchi breaks and Fanboy and Chum Chum attempt to repair it by throwing it into a grave that’s been said to fix stuff that’s been left there. This results in the toy basically Glitch Techs style glitching and repeatedly trying to kill Fanboy and Chum Chum. Hell once they destroy the Tamagotchi completely a ghostly version of it almost identical to a Glitch from Glitch Techs forces itself through their TV. It’s even easily distracted by stuff from its original tamagotchi game like a glitch would be.

So my theory is that Hinobi in this universe is a toy company. Their toys can be extremely dangerous under the right conditions, especially if something goes wrong and they glitch in some way, Fanboy breaks the arm off of a robot toy by accident and every other robot in the area tries to kill him for example, and that Tamagotchi specifically is so much closer to a glitch techs glitch because it’s the closest this alternative universe Hinobi has to a video game.

Again, I am completely insane.

#fanboy and chum chum #glitch techs #I will add pictures later #I’ll also I’ll add any other things I’ve discovered or theorized.#as I remember or discover them

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seandwalsh · 5 months ago

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I would like you to give me some clarifications(if you can, of course) - I follow you on Reddit(and also the Mario verse project)*recently*; I noticed a post that was making fun of this project and I went to the comments section, and in one of the first comments to appear, these are the replies to it(yeah, I don't agree with his mindset about the series). I took some screenshots before they were disabled, and if you *could* clarify them for me(who is still a beginner in Mario Lore), I would be grateful.

I would be happy to clarify! I’m not trying to cause drama with this, but given there is a minor history here I should explain a couple of things. Just for context on the sort of source Slade Lucas is; They’re someone I’ve interacted with quite a few times and they generally tend to deny basic facts based on what they personally like or dislike. For example, they refused to acknowledge that the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass courses were ported from Mario Kart Tour. This also generally applies to their perspective on Mario lore. They write off any evidence they don’t like completely arbitrarily, constantly move the goalposts in any conversation and make up pseudo-arguments that don’t really mean anything when you try to inquire about them further (“Toad himself is a character that they try to use in so many ways that he alone breaks the idea of there being a consistent canon.”, anyone can see that this is ridiculous).

This is not an attack on their character, but similarly to when I used to respond to MatPat it’s important to understand why people make these types of flawed arguments. In any case, I’m going to debunk them piece by piece.

“But just because they bring something back and it is canon to one game, it doesn't mean it is canon to all games.”

Perhaps I’m missing some context but I’m not quite sure what they’re trying to say here. Obviously when a game references another game, those games are intended to share a canon - and every Mario game references other Mario games, prompting a web which connects essentially every Nintendo-published Mario game to each other. This is what Mario fans use as the basis for canon.

Not everyone is interested enough in or pays enough attention to the Mario games to see the patterns and lore they’re building, but to deny its existence outright entirely is incredibly silly.

Mario, of course, has been from the Mushroom Kingdom and grew up in what we now call New Donk City since at least the mid-90s with Donkey Kong (Game Boy) and Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island. He had no officially disclosed backstory within the canon before that point and was certainly never stated to be from any real world country in the games themselves.

Captain Toad is obviously not Toad and never has been. Captain Toad first appeared in Super Mario Galaxy, while the main Toad first appeared in Super Mario Bros. (and was first singled-out in Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA)). There are several developer statements that prove this, as well as several descriptions.

That's right. We've made use of the technology cultivated through Super Mario Galaxy, and characters like Rosalina and Captain Toad, who came about through those games play a new role.

[Source: Yoshiaki Koizumi, Director of Super Mario Galaxy and Producer of Super Mario 3D World, Iwata Asks, November 2013]

Taking a cue from Mario Galaxy, there are games called "Captain Toad's Adventure," in which Captain Toad appears with his memorable little tune that goes "ta-dada-da-, ta-dada-da-".

[Source: Koichi Hayashida, Director of Super Mario 3D World, Iwata Asks, November 2013]

What is he Captain of, exactly…? Have you played Super Mario Galaxy™ on the Wii™ console? Well, during the events of that game the Toad Brigade was founded, with Captain Toad as its leader. Rumours that Captain Toad is the least reliable of the bunch are completely unfounded!

[Source: What They Say about Captain Toad, Page 5, Digital Manual of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, December 2014]

By the way, Captain Toad is actually not the same Toad as the Toad who's playable in games like Super Mario Bros. 2 and Wario's Woods.

[Source: Koichi Hayashida, Producer of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Miiverse, December 2014]

[Super Mario Galaxy is the] First appearance of Captain Toad!

[Source: Super Mario Galaxy Fabulous Firsts, Official American Super Mario 3D All-Stars website, September 2020]

iJustine

…I was wondering, is Captain Toad the same Toad from the original Super Mario Bros.? How many Toads are there?

Shigeru Miyamoto

[…] So Captain Toad, y’know, appeared in Super Mario Galaxy and there were other Toads in that game too, but I think maybe Captain Toad is just a normal Toad who just happens to be wearing those captain-type clothes. (laughs)

[Source: An exchange between Shigeru Miyamoto and iJustine, Director of Super Mario Bros. and YouTuber, respectively, YouTube, December 2014]

Illumination did whatever they wanted with the story of The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Characters were merged or otherwise completely altered left and right, such as Donkey Kong the First and the modern Donkey being treated as one and the same despite having always been different characters in the games.

The main Toad has appeared in Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario 64, Super Mario 3D World and Super Mario Run. He’s also mentioned in the manual of Super Mario Bros. 3, with several other potential appearances in main series games. That’s a better track record in the main series than a lot of characters, and with his appearances in spin-offs such as sports games, Mario Party games and RPGs Toad is a prolific and well-defined character. He’s a brave hero through and through, he’s selfless and he’s a long-time friend of Mario. While his spots are sometimes blue, they’re usually red and he consistently wears a blue vest.

Captain Toad is almost the complete opposite in terms of characterisation. He’s cowardly, he’s motivated primarily by his own greed and he barely knew Mario (if at all) before Super Mario Galaxy. He always wore red, separating his design from the main Toad’s.

Space Junk Galaxy does have an atmosphere, as does every Galaxy in the Super Mario Galaxy games as well as the moon in Super Mario Odyssey and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. As Slade Lucas point out, Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Odyssey, have breath meters, clearly demonstrating that Mario needs air and therefore has air in the areas he visits throughout those games. The atmosphere might be a little thinner in certain areas, but it’s definitely present. Mario cannot breathe in the void of space as shown in Super Paper Mario and even with things like the REXA Toads in Mario Kart 8. This is just wasn’t thought through on Lucas’ part.

Whether or not Mario has an air meter in any given game is simply a matter of gameplay and says nothing about whether Mario can or needs to breathe in-universe. We know Mario needs oxygen and holds his breath while underwater thanks to dialogue and animations. In older titles, it was not possible to implement an air meter for underwater levels. This has been carried over into many newer linear titles to allow for more simple level design. In-universe, however, Mario can never breathe underwater. In fact in Super Mario 3D World we can clearly see Mario and the others holding their breaths when underwater despite the lack of an air meter. A game deciding to not have an air meter for the sake of fun and accessible gameplay says nothing about in-universe lore or canon. Nobody in their right mind would consider that a lore inconsistency, especially not a game developer.

Koopa Troopas walk on all fours and can learn to walk on two legs, as is stated in Mario Superstar Baseball (translated from Japanese):

[Koopa Troopa is] A member of the Koopa clan, familiar to the Mario series. He can protect himself by putting his hands and feet inside his shell. Long ago, he couldn't even stand up wearing shoes, but after hard work, he's gone as far as being able to play baseball. He can do anything with skill, but since he's a turtle, he's slow on his feet.

We’ve seen Koopas who walk on all fours stand up in Mario Bros. and Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. artwork. It appears shoes help Koopas stand upright, which explains why whenever we see them waking on all fours they aren’t wearing them. Clearly this isn't an inconsistency but rather a feature of the worldbuilding.

The Koopalings were retconned. Many people do not like this change, but that’s not an inconsistency. It’s not something they’ve gone back and forth on, it was a change they made a couple of decades ago to allow them to exist while considering newer lore. Explicit retcons like this are made for the sake of consistency and only prove that they’re considering an overarching narrative that needs consistent worldbuilding throughout these games.

In short, Slade Lucas bases their “inconsistencies” on personal bias, a lack of knowledge, gameplay mechanics and things literally done to make things consistent. Their arguments do not hold up whatsoever. Thank you for bringing your concerns to me, and I hope you found this response helpful!

#mario lore #super mario #donkey kong #super mario odyssey #super mario galaxy #captain toad #captain toad treasure tracker #super mario 3d world

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kdinjenzen · 2 years ago

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Didnt take me 3 seconds to scroll down and see "lewd furry art" that you didnt tag lol. I get that boobs and ass are not inherently sexual in some settings but "nsfw" doesnt mean "explicit sexual activity/explicitly sexually provocative" it means something that would get you in trouble for viewing it in a public work/school environment and naked furries, even if theyre just standing around, would do that.

This feels like the DMV rejected licence plates Tumblr posts.

Person: "I'd like 2B 9S on my plates, it's from a video game!" DMV: "IT MEANS TWO BUTTS NINE ASSES! REJECTED!"

I'm sorry that people have boobs and a lot of the clothing exists that exposes cleavage but that's not an invitation to be sexual about it.

Like... c'mon.

Next y'all are gonna tell me that someone breast feeding a baby is "lewd" or "nsfw" because "it's technically a person sucking on a titty."

That means someone with boobs wearing a sports bra and workout pants is lewd or nsfw?

I dunno this all feels... very much like policing things.

Because, and here's where we get to really look into this, "NSFW" can mean whatever a company wants it to mean or not mean and is super subjective entirely.

Like HEY, I'm a trans woman! Me just EXISTING in a workplace (depending on the area of the USA or world) is considered "LEWD" or "NSFW".

So again I'd like to point out two really important parts of this that I feel like everyone is missing:

I already went back and tagged things that I don't consider "lewd" (as per the original post) as NSFW in response to the anon out of courtesy because they asked nicely, I was just confused about what they meant and exactly what was the thing they referred to. Notice how I did that first before replying to them? Notice how easy it was to just politely do that and then ask for clarification even though I didn’t view it as “lewd”? And then all of a sudden I got a TON of anon messages trying to say I’m an asshole and/or trying to heavily police me and my blog for… nooooo reason????

Y'all are BROWSING TUMBLR IN AN OFFICE SETTING? OR AT WORK? OR AROUND YOUR BOSS? WHY? WHAT???? HELLO?????????????

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bow-chicka-wow-wow-wow · 1 year ago

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Breaking Down Quagmire’s Tirade Against Brian

“You are the worst person I know. You constantly hit on your best friend’s wife. The man pays for your food and rescued you from certain death, and this is how you repay him? And to add insult to injury, you defecate all over his yard.”

Since almost the beginning of the show, Brian has been in love with Lois Griffin. There have been moments throughout the series that sees Brian trying to get with Lois, most notably in the episode “Play It Again, Brian,” when Brian tries to throw himself at her. This criticism towards Brian could be hypocritical on Quagmire’s part as he too tries to have sex with Lois. But in a later episode, he reveals to his parent Ida that he’s also in love with Lois.

Brian was a stray when he was found by the Griffins. When Brian was scheduled to be euthanized back in season 1 (and later season 17), Peter saves him from being put down.

Of course Brian poops in Peter’s yard; he’s a dog!

“And you’re such a sponge! You pay for nothing; you always say, “Oh, I’ll get you later,” but later never comes!”

This could reference the episode, “Patriot Games,” when Brian loses a $50 bet to Stewie, and defaults on his payment. As a result, he gets the ever-living shit beaten out of him twice. This wasn’t brought up on my first point, but throughout the show, among other side hustles for the sake of the episode or cutaway gags, Peter has worked three steady jobs at a toy factory, a fishing boat, and currently at a brewery. He makes Jack-shit, and probably most likely ended up buying Brian’s car. We’ll get to that later. My point is, Peter is the breadwinner of the house, and pays for everything.

“And what really bothers me, is you pretend you’re this deep guy that loves women for souls, but all you do is date bimbos! Yeah, I date women for their bodies, but at least I’m honest about it! I don’t buy them a copy of Catcher in the Rye and then lecture them with some seventh-grade interpretation on how Holden Caulfield was some profound intellectual. He wasn’t! He was a spoiled brat! That’s why you like him so much: he’s you! God, you’re pretentious!”

Brian’s longest lasting relationship was with a pretty airhead named Jillian Russel-Wilcox. Since their brutal breakup, Brian has tried to find love, but was only interested if she was smoking hot. Quagmire owns the fact that he dates women for their bodies, because he’s a sex-hound. Seriously, read The Catcher in the Rye. The protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is EXACTLY like Brian in every way.

Brian’s pretentiousness has been made even worse in recent seasons, where we see him act like he’s all sophisticated but really he’s just about as dumb as the rest of the Griffin family.

“And you delude yourself by thinking you’re some great writer, even though you’re terrible! You know, I should’ve known Sheryl Tiegs didn’t write me that more. She would’ve known there’s no A in the word “definite.””

BRIAN. IS. A. SHITTY. WRITER. Apparently, he can’t spell either. No wonder his novel did so poorly…

“And I think what I hate most about you is your textbook liberal agenda, how we should “legalize pot, man,” how big business is crushing the underclass, or how homelessness is the biggest tragedy in America. Well, what have you don’t to help?”

Brian actually did lead a campaign to legalize marijuana, but ended up leading another campaign to reverse the legalization so Carter would publish his infamous novel. And Brian along with Stewie has both destroyed the Superstore USA, so Brian has actually done a couple things.

“I work at the soup kitchen, Brian! Never see you down there! You wanna help? Grab a ladle!”

Case and point. Other than legalizing pot and destroying Quahog’s Superstore, Brian has not done diddly shit. Just grab a ladle!

“And by the way, driving a Prius doesn’t make you Jesus Christ!”

This is for ALL you hybrid drivers. YOU ARE NOT BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE. SHUT THE FUCK UP! I really like the South Park episode describing the attitudes of hybrid owners.

“Oh, wait! You don’t believe in Jesus Christ, or ANY religion for that matter! Because “religion is for idiots!” Well, who the hell are you to talk down on anyone?”

As an atheist, I’m gonna have to agree with Brian on this part. And I especially hate those “Jesus freaks” that are total assholes to those that drop as much as one f-bomb. Yeah, I went to Catholic school, and I did not enjoy one moment of that shit!

“You failed college twice, which isn’t nearly as bad as your father! How’s that son of yours you never see?”

I failed college a couple times. In fact, I actually JUST graduated at age 27.

Brian actively avoids his son Dylan! It isn’t until four seasons later he shows interest in him because he becomes part of the cast in a Disney Channel show, and Brian exploits Dylan’s fame to get a job in the writing room. Did I mention the name of the episode that shows that is “Brian Is A Bad Father?”

“But you what? I would forgive all of that, ALL OF IT, if you WEREN’T SUCH A BORE! That’s the worst if it, Brian: you’re just a big, sad, alcoholic bore!”

That one’s pretty self-explanatory. Emphasis on the “alcoholic” part!

“*sigh* Well, see you, Brian. Thanks for the fucking steak!”

I hope you ordered something expensive, Quagmire! Fuck Brian!

#familyguy #brian griffin #glenn quagmire

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stillhavetodothat · 2 years ago

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Replaying Nancy Drew without Cheating - Part 12: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon

Finishing this game is bittersweet, because I truly think that this is the last game in a line of absolutely brilliant games; everything that comes after this is the new era: Nancy flying off to some foreign land on an assignment that is absolutely insane and that no one would entrust to an 18-year-old girl from Nowhere, USA. Not to say I’m not excited to continue with this project, but I think this may be the last game with that ~*nostalgic magic*~

This was definitely a favorite in my house growing up - my sister and I could never reference it without screaming “LAST TREN TO BLOOO MOOON CANYONE” in the most obnoxious way possible. We were appropriately creeped out by Camille’s harrowing doll collection. We were shocked (shocked!) by the First Big Twist (Lori? kidnapping herself??). We did not understand why a letter from Abraham Lincoln would be worth literally murdering Nancy (kind of get it now, but damn). Overall, just lots of great memories playing this one.

It certainly holds up on a replay as well. Great puzzles. Cohesive backstory. And this is a game of firsts: the first time we get to play beside the Hardy Boys! (I always had a thing for Joe, but what 12-year-old girl didn’t?) The first time the setting of the game changes (I mean, we are on a train! Going across the southwest!). The first time a game has THIS many characters (4 suspects on the train alone, plus the incomparable Fatima, and of course Frank and Joe). The first time we have a cooking mini game!!! It’s SO GOOD!

As far as cheating goes, I did not feel the need to cheat, except for once, when I had 5 gemstones and was still searching fruitlessly for the zircon. The exact type of thing for which I would have taken to the walkthroughs back in the day, the old me impatient, not deigning to be held up for even a moment. Love that I am learning to slow down and be more meticulous by disallowing myself to cheat. Is this project making me a better person?? (spoiler: no, that ship (train?) has sailed (left the station?))

ANYWAYS, drumroll please! Here are my thoughts on this playthrough of one of my favorite games of all times, Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon!

1. This is certainly not the first game to do an opening cutscene, but I think it is probably the game to do it best. You get to meet all the characters, hear the background for WHY you on are on the train in the first place, and kickstart the whole mystery with Lori’s disappearance (**Lori screams!**). Absolutely brilliant.

2. Hilarious that during this cutscene, Nancy is supposedly sitting awkwardly in the corner, on the floor??, nowhere near the table where everyone else is parked. And of course, she is so unimportant that no one can remember her name. Classic.

3. Unpopular opinion, maybe, but Charleena Purcell is a complete menace. She refuses to admit that she remembers talking to Nancy while Nancy was at Shadow Ranch (and I played that recently, and called her an excessive number of times. There’s no way she doesn’t remember). She has the audacity to treat everyone like they are beneath her while dressing like THIS (what is with the weird pink flower brooch thing? That does not go with the rest of her insane outfit at all?). She’s a woman in her 60s and is still bragging about her gift for research and whatever else (insecure much?). She also just casually steals an idea from Lori and plops it into her most recent bestseller without a modicum of credit and that’s supposed to be fine? As much as I cannot stand Lori, I think I honestly hate Charleena more.

4. For some reason, the fact that you find Lori in the caboose very early in the game was very surprising to me this playthrough. I know that this wasn’t the actual mystery ultimately, and you needed to find her to get the letter that will help you do basically EVERYTHING else in the game, but I remember bumbling around for a lot longer before I found her. I think part of the reason is because I did not understand that scale puzzle in the least as a kid, which is sad as someone who ended up receiving a Bachelors in math about a decade later. Now, the scale puzzle is one of my favorites.

5. Also hilarious that Lori is shocked that Nancy is the one to have found her. Uh, no one else was even looking? No one else even cared? The Hardy Boys, for being two other amateur detectives (not to mention members of American Teens Against Crime!), did a whole of sitting on their asses while I was running between cars and rewatching that transitional cutscene over and over and over again.

6. There are actually a lot of animated scenes in this game, including the most iconic one OF ALL TIME! Is this whole process physically possible? Hell no! Does it look cool as fuck? Hell yes!

7. Also, the dolls, despite being scary (especially that one that croons “Mama” whenever you pick it up....*shudder*), is one of my favorite puzzles in any game. It is epic, since you have to gather clues to figure it out throughout the entire train. And the fact that it ties right into the Big Puzzle, figuring out Jake Hurley’s elaborate spinning rainbow contraption, makes the whole game feel really nicely tied together (which is always good, especially since some of the games coming up are particularly disjointed).

8. I never expected Tino Balducci to be my favorite out of everyone on the train, but after this playthrough, here we are. For some reason, I find him more sympathetic than ever. He is secretly still in love with Lori, but is a typical machismo who can’t really be honest about his feelings. His sense of self worth is directly tied to how successful he is as a detective, so he has to put up a front constantly about how good he is, and how on it he is. John Grey is kind of just there (also, the comment about Charleena being a romance novelist and how it isn’t honorable...sir, you are on a ghost show), Charleena is a plagarising bitch, and Lori is an attempted murderer. At least Tino has some layers to him. And TINO BALDUCCI is an amazing name. Good job there, Her.

9. I loved the fact that we could get off the train at Copper Gorge and go to a few locations within the town. It would have been better if you could explore a bit more, but I understand that the purpose of the stop was to get the pickaxe, and more information for finding the mine. Fatima is probably everyone’s favorite character in this game, and I get it. Nancy Drew games have no shortage of wacky characters, and it’s part of what makes the series so beloved even decades later.

10. Cheeseburger. I can just imagine the game developers in the office at 3am, drunk, coming up with all the silly Copper Gorge scenes (au-to-graph), and peeing themselves laughing at this one.

11. The cooking mini game!!! This must have been a huge hit, because same variation of it comes up in lots of upcoming games. And I will never fail to create a burger with 20 pickled herrings and hot mustard for the chef’s choice. *Chef’s kiss*

12. The ending was good. Not GREAT, but it was good. I swear, I have never once understood that board puzzle and how you’re supposed to know the order to pull them out, and as of this playthrough, I STILL didn’t. I did the same ole same ole this time, randomly pulling boards and using about 20 second chances until I finally figured it out. APPARENTLY, you’re supposed to use the rocks towards the beginning of the cave to figure out the order, but no thanks, I’d rather get crushed to death 2 dozen times than think for half a second about Nancy’s not subtle clue here that these symbols MAY be important.

13. How did Jake Hurley die in his mine, when there was the mine cart and a track to get out right there?? Plot hole?

14. Finally, one of my favorite parts of this game is the very end. “Jake spent his whole life searching for gold when all along he possessed something far more valuable: his uncanny knack for making friends.” AW! A beautiful sentiment, and I’m not even being sarcastic! It was fun that instead of searching for and finding a pile of jewelry (The Haunted Carousel), or a giant diamond (Treasure in a Royal Tower), or gold hearts (Secret of Shadow Ranch), or gold bars (Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake), the “treasure” in this game is a letter from Abraham Lincoln mere hours before his assassination. Just another way that this game is different and out of the box.

Wow, what an absolute masterpiece. I’m sad it’s over, but all good things have to end. It’s officially time for me to leave the United States and jet off to PARIS, FRANCE to shadow a crazed woman in a creepy mask and expert martial arts skills. See u soon!

#nancy drew #nancy drew games #nancy drew pc games #last train to blue moon canyon #trn #her interactive #clue crew

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starry-hughes · 1 year ago

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if u didn’t know, it’s me that all the posts about hate and personal information are talking about.

i’ve been like sick for the last three hours pretty much, overthinking, trying to understand, trying to tell myself it’s okay. i honestly thought i was going insane when i got the anonymous message with my personal information in it, like i had been staring at my computer all day and it was my mind playing tricks on me. but it wasn’t my brain playing tricks on me or some dream i cant wake up from.

for starters, thank you for defending me. i was and still am extremely terrified of the whole thing. i have literally only been talking to a couple of people privately for the last three hours since it happened. i am still iffy about being on tumblr right now and anons are off for at least today.

it started as banter in my opinion about the usa wjc game and i love banter, i think it’s fun to mess around and tease, but i think certain lines are there and boundaries. my boundaries were completely crossed. it literally felt like my personal information was being used as a way to taunt me and scare me.

and i don’t want to accuse anyone of lying, but an anon did reach out to someone else and say that the personal information was from my previous account. but that just isn’t making sense to me which is why it’s continuing to freak me out. my personal information has not been shared on tumblr since 2021, the account this person was referring to has been deactivated for multiple years at this point and i do not interact with anyone from that account or fandom due to past issues. so that just doesn’t seem right to me.

saying that it is at the end of the day, my fault or implying that it’s normal for information to be doxxed on the internet does not make it okay either.

i don’t really know what else to say. i don’t think im going to be active on here for the night or parts of tomorrow, i might pop in tomorrow, i really don’t know. i’m just going to continue to decompress because this is a lot for me to process. i honestly don’t feel safe on here at this time.

i’m going to watch the devils and eat a pb&j before kenz and my boyfriend get upset that i haven’t eaten tonight.

- star ⭐️

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talenlee · 23 days ago

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Da Ween, Twenty Twenty Four!

It’s Decemberween! Decemberween! it’s fifty-five days after Halloween! Why, it’s the most magical time in the year, where we all pretend snow exists and people try to do things that involve lists to maximise ad revenue before the January slump!

O Decemberween

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Long and short: Don’t expect to see many of the ‘normal’ article topics in the coming month. Instead, Decemberween is a month long celebration where I want to bring to your attention things that I simply like, things that are ideally long form, and things that are meant to be enjoyable. A little easing on the brakes of the real spitfire stuff, less ‘this is a thing made of butts.’ Dread month was two months ago, got a lot of that venom out, after all.

Decemberween is a reference to Homestar Runner, one of my favourite pieces of web video entertainment, where instead of having a conventional Christmas, the people of Free Country USA have their own event called Decemberween. I like it a lot because while it’s very obviously a slightly sucky holiday season in the vein of Christmas, it isn’t explicitly religious, meaning it’s a place for the Homestarros to culturally play with the idea of a holiday and gift giving period without excluding anyone. Like Dryghost, who is Jewish.

I don’t have much taste for the religious elements of Christmas and I feel like trying to use blog posts as a way to partake in Kwanzaa (if that’s a real thing) or Channukhah is at best pretty silly, but I do like the season and I do like celebrating. To that end, I dedicate the month of december to serve as a catch-all point for a type of post I don’t much through the year that’s just the unequivocal promotion of things or groups of related things that I enjoy.

Odds are good you can determine some of the things I watch or listen to over the course of the year; I’ll binge something and then you’ll find my social media posting all about stuff in that experience that stuck with me or that I’m thinking about. I’m not a complicated boy. The way I break things up by theme on the log is as much a point to make sure that my blog isn’t a nonstop stream of consciousness from a very doughy brain. Anything I just like, and don’t see a way to parley into something else with other research winds up here, in December as I reflect back on a year of things I’ve been doing for fun, and that I want to share with you, for your doing for fun.

Homestar Runner is almost a free square on this front. It’s a fun cartoon and this year I did something to remind me about how great it is — playing Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People with Fox. It’s a funny cartoon world (that please could ease up off the fat jokes, and maybe don’t use the word ‘gypsy’ so much), and the sense of humour in it has permanently deformed mine. Weirdly, it’s a kind of sincere Americana I don’t mind: Internet dorks who like making things and sharing them with their friends regardless of how good or bad those things truly are, delighting in the making.

Speaking of making, Decemberween is also a chance to talk about the things my friends make. A bunch of my friends aren’t making things like games you can buy or download, and anyone I know who is doing that probably doesn’t need me to be their marketing budget. It’s a chance for me to put the actions of my friends and people I care about in front of your eyes and talk about them with a wholehearted, simple praise about things I feel and care about them. Get loved on, dork.

Decemberween is a good practice. I understand Americans do this thing in the vein of Thanksgiving where once every year they gather together to reflect on how grateful they are to spend the rest of the year not dealing with their family, but the core the principle — of dedicating time to reflect and be grateful — strikes me as a good one! I do it in Decemberween, and you know what’s really cool about that? Having a month to do it in both gives me pause to take stock at the end of the year, but also, it gives me something of a limitation. With only one month to line things up I have to decide the way to optimise sharing the list of all the cool things I’ve experienced in a whole year, and to determine what needs to become part of a larger project for the next year.

That happened this year! I started the year full of energy to talk about a lot of anime I liked a lot. I was so glutted on those that I eventually decided to split them into a regular feature on the blog, and that’s a restriction I revel in. If I wanted to make a lot of articles, I could make every random thing I like into a Decemberween post, pointing to hey, check it out, here’s some cool free stuff to look at or read or listen to! But doing that fills up the month really fast and means something gets left by the wayside.

What’s more Decemberween gets to serve as a dumping ground for media I enjoyed but not in a way that I feel leads to an interesting article. I like Breaking Bad and I like Better Call Saul and it took me a few years to get around to writing an article on the latter that felt like it was actually contributing something that wasn’t already being made by a lot of people that are like me, just more popular. If I find a bunch of songs I like in a year, I can bring them together. If I liked a bunch of TV shows but they’re just good or fun and freely available, I’m just going to be able to put that in front of you.

It’s Decemberween!

Time to celebrate fun things!

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

#Diary #Meta

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smokeybrandreviews · 1 year ago

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NBA Rant: World Champion for What

This stuff with Noah Lyles is hilarious because, technically, he ain't wrong. The fact that the US didn't even medal in FIBA, also goes a long way to prove his point. That said, the best players in the world do come here to hoop. I get both sides. The game has evolved and, while the level of NBA talent is still absolutely the best in the world, it's not like the world isn't catching up. A long time ago, we used to send college kids to compete in hoop against professionals from around the world. We won several gold medals until we lost one. The following world competition happened to be the '92 Olympic and the US sent the greatest NBA team ever assembled to absolutely embarrass the rest of the globe. And we did just that, however, it lit a match under the ass under the ass of the international game and they went to work. It's been thirty years since the first Dream Team busted ass across Barcelona and the international game is producing players almost as good as some of those guys who ran alongside Jordan. The Eurogame is all grind, fundamentals, skill, and hard work. If we're being honest, the US game has fallen sharply in terms of skill and relies too much on athletic talent. Why do you think guys go overseas and get exposed in Euroleauges?

The problem most US citizens have is the fact we do not see the game of basketball as a properly global one. For us, especially black kids from the ghetto, it’s intrinsically American. More to the point, it’s intrinsically black and black people are uniquely American. Way back when the NBA first started, there were no other participants around the world. It's American invention. For about a third of the NBA’s existence, the US WAS the world to the league. I mean, the simple answer, and probably the truest one, is that World Champion sounded cool and looks good on the trophy. That’s probably it. Hell, baseball calls their championship game the “World Series” so this argument can be made for that, too. Ultimately, this sh*t basically boils down to a very narrow US focus. We don’t value FIBA or “world” games unless it’s the Olympics. We are taught, early on, that the Olympics are the end all, be all, of global competition even though, technically, they’re not. No one else but the US takes that sh*t as serious. Well, maybe the host country but the United States puts so much weight on Olympic gold, it’s stupid. That is something, to this day, I never fully understood.

If you can’t tell, I’m in Lyles’ camp on this one. Calling a national title anything more than that is dumb to me. Especially when there are world games basically held every other year. I’ve watched the NBA for three decades, man. I know for a fact that the talent pool across the world has caught up. Cats like Giannis and Luka are out here running circles around our home grown guys, strictly because they had to have the skill to dominate in their respective leagues. Giannis is an athletic freak, for sure, but Luka? That dude is basically Dirk 2.0 and making our best talent look like clowns. With no vertical. Like, kid has a four inch jump but dog-walks most teams night in and night out. Basketball has truly become a global game and should absolutely be embraced as such here in the states. We shouldn’t refer to the winners of the NBA Championship as “World Champions” because they’re not. They are NBA Champions. I absolutely believe that the NBA is the premier league in the world. The best to ever play, play in The Association, regardless of where they are from. Luka and Giannis play in the NBA. Jokic, Duncan, and Ginobli. But also Jordan, Kobe, Magic, Curry, Steph, and LeBron. The best to ever do it, are from the US. The best to ever do it, are black kids from the ghetto. Still, it’s more than presumptuous to call our title, a world title, when Team USA just got beat by Canada in the actual world games, getting bounced out of medal contention in the process.

#NBA Rant #FIBA #International Basketball

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smokeybrand · 1 year ago

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NBA Rant: World Champion for What

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queen-beefcake-sqx · 1 year ago

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Okay now that this has made the rounds and I’m pretty sure the terfs won’t come for my throat and make me miserable LET ME EXPLAIN MY THOUGHTS

(under cut because OH MY GOD this got away from me)

Within canon, as far as I know (and someone correct me if I’m wrong because I genuinely appreciate keeping canon straight), this can actually work. People lean toward a gay cis male Kim reading because… textually it makes the easiest sense. Kim’s outwardly treated and portrayed as a cis male, and he says he’s part of the “homosexual underground”. Occam’s razor and all that.

But consider for two seconds my experience finding out about the Underground — I interpreted the use of “homosexual” underground as being an umbrella term, in the way “queer” is generally considered to refer to sexuality but gender gets rolled into that too, or the way (in Southern USA) the “gay community” was a term implicitly understood to include transgender individuals. So whenever talking about the Homosexual Underground I kinda mentally made the correlation to the wider LGBT+ community — gender deviants and all. (This is probably a super US-centric interpretation, so I’d love to hear if other people in other countries made that same mental assumption.)

So with that in mind, imagine — baby genderqueer experimenting Kim hacking his hair off and immediately noticing people treat him different because he suddenly looks like a boy. Girls look at him differently, too, in a way he likes. It’s a practical look that shows off his strong jaw and mouth, and he hated brushing it anyway. He’s not dysphoric about his body or his sex, but he suddenly sees both a confidence boost AND an out from one of his sources of societal judgement — being viewed as a girl by people he doesn’t want to see him that way, superiors and strangers on the street and everyone who isn’t someone he’s interested in intimately knowing. He’s already a binoclard. He’s visibly Seolite. He’s an orphan. If he can give himself another layer of protection, hide himself so he can be seen only how he wants to be seen, he’d do it.

So he does hours of vocal training, wears a binder, and lets everyone believe he’s a man and deflects anyone who tries to question it. Easy, his Authority’s through the ROOF. Hell I bet he’d even find a way to change or forge his official documents — however official they can be for a war orphan, and we know from Klaasje it’s possible — so he doesn’t even disclose it to employers because fuck that.

(Or maybe he couldn’t, and that’s another element of why the higher ups stuck him in juvie for so long. There’s room for interpretation!)

Then he mets Harry and… well. Again. Lesbian butch Kim, face to face with this seemingly bear of a man who at first glance screams repressed gay male, having a crisis of sexuality at FORTY THREE over Harrier Du Bois. Excellent, great, compartmentalizing that until after the investigation. But Kim pays a lot of attention to Harry, and mentally brushes off much of Harry’s queerness as amnesia making him forget societal norms and expectations. Kim assumes Harry’s interest in the underground begins and ends at sexuality. And I mean, from the way Harry talks, who can blame Kim for that assumption?

But it really is disappointing that, as far as I know, within the text of the game there’s no implied references to transgender experiences at all. Because I cannot look at Harry Du Bois, his behaviors and inclinations, and see a cis guy. I see someone who has crumpled under the expectations of toxic masculinity and clung to it so tightly that it nearly killed him, while also allowing him to keep some power and control in his life as an RCM officer. And also, he had a girlfriend who seems like she was a long time sweetheart or at least a young lover in his life and while we don’t know a ton about Dora, we know Harry remembers when they met. It’s one of the few memories that gets brought up in their conversations.

And that’s always struck me, because that means it was significant to Harry. He wanted to make an impression on her. He thought he looked cool. He wanted to keep that love they had when they met, and instead watched it fall apart around him. And from experience, that kind of relationship is not the kind of place where gender experiments happen — Because Harry wanted to be this masculine ideal for her and couldn’t live up to it, but he tried. Which fed into that aforementioned toxic masculinity. And trying to deviate from that ideal would’ve risked alienating Dora further.

So they break up, and the time in-between is sort of loosey-goosey. Maybe that was when Harry learned about the underground. Maybe he got to experiment in private, in between bouts of self loathing and dysphoria that that kind of trapped feeling would generate. My personal theory is that the wig Jean is wearing ties into it, but I could go for HOURS about my personal theories on it (a lot of crossdressing at bars on Boogie Street factor in).

Regardless! I think genderqueer Harry is, at least, an interpretation I could make an argument for, and it isn’t a huge leap from there to him being a trans girl. Kim explains his gender post-Martinaise, Harry says her silly little communist line and slaps the pin on her jacket, but like…. Harry asking Kim to tailor her a dress because she keeps finding pretty things on the street but they never fit. Harry stealing the wig from Jean and deciding blonde isn’t her color, but thank god she’s been growing her hair out anyway because shoulder length is a good look. Kim giving Harry a whole gentle but straight forward talk about the pros and cons of being open about it, heavy on the cons, telling himself he’s being practical but he also can’t stand to watch a recovering Harry backslide under the jeers of their coworkers. Kim calling Harry his belle in private, a title only for him to use. Kim teasingly calling Harry Mademoiselle in public (“Here’s your coffee, mademoiselle” — the more ridiculous, the better) because everyone else thinks he’s just joking but Harry knows it’s a little tongue and cheek and a secret nod and she loves it (even if she has a whole internal battle about letting the rest of the office think Kim’s telling misogynistic jokes).

[taps microphone] ideal lesbian KimHarry dynamic is butch he/him lesbian Kim explaining his gender to Harry and about-to-hatch trans girl Harry going “that sounds like a pretty communist way to use pronouns” before slapping a she/her pin on her disco blazer.

#say more sadie #kimharry #disco elysium #THE MAIN TAGS DESERVE THIS ONE TOO #I am insane tonight for this but this is what happens when I get job rejected I guess

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defectfile1wav · 3 years ago

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“The pride of Hell”

After the Pre Portal era ended, the Nether was lock and the space became little. So a way to evade wars and conflict, was born a sports competition, Llàntia.

A let’s say MCC/Olympics type of event, where every 4 years in Blaze years the different communities would compete in different games to keep territories until the next event. (These territories were usually not sacred lands for any community.)

- Bad competed in the category of throwing knifes from the first years of the creation of the competition, and became a sport celebrity.

Winning multiples events for the Demons for 4 years and becoming a legend in the Nether. (Being the first photo, the last time he participated after a very important injury.)

- Sapnap, who grown around athletes all his childhood, started training to participate in the games, not in trowing knife but hand-to-hand combat. (That’s why he’s a monster in one vs one.)

And as his dad, he won a lot of territory for the Demons, and gained his own sport celebrity status. (Being the second photo, the last time Sapnap competed before leaving to the Overworld)

Some details under the cut:

1- Indeed, the bandana is the ribbon of the medal, since they reuse the medals, (since it’s like the “key” of a territory) the champions only keeps the ribbon usually. (Which is made of netherine and gold)

2- Bad's uniform it's inspired by Olympic shooting, Tenis, Beach volleyball, Artistic gymnastics and High Jump uniforms.

3- Sapnap's uniform it's inspired by Taekwondo, Kendo, Fencing and Boxing uniforms.

4- Demon's logo is a flame, which is the same flame that Sapnap’s wear in his t-shirt. (He’s wearing his athlete uniform)

5- Yes, the blue shoulder on the second photo is Skeppy.

6- The media in the Nether loves these two, the history of a loving single dad, a legend of a whole community, who adopts a child and trains him to be a champion sells.

7- Also,Sapnap uniform resembles a lot his current armour.

Not a lot, but something.

8- The photos used as reference for the poses are from photos of athletes finding out they won the gold. (Tokyo Olympics 2020):

Kelsey Robinson and Justine Wong-Orantes react after Team USA wins their first gold medal in Women's Volleyball. 96 by PHIL WALTER/GETTY

Team France reacts after defeating Team ROC to win gold in Men's Volleyball by TORY HANAI/GETTY

Team USA's Sunisa Lee wins the gold medal in the Women's All-Around Final at Ariake Gymnastics Centre on July 29 by JAMIE SQUIRE /GETTY

9- Sapnap love language are headbutts, usually rough ones, as a “I’m here with you” and “you’re a dumb bitch, but I love you” move, so maybe Karl memory issues come of that and not time travel--

he’s a headache, and we love that for him.

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scrumptiouslyimpossiblecat · 2 years ago

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Dear Amy Fans,

Learn to understand other people’s perspectives; even if Amy was only teasing, what she said towards Sonic in SA2 and Heroes, what she said was very harmful and damaging, and can easily be interpreted as stalking to the uninitiated, or anyone who doesn’t live in Japan. That sort of inappropriate behavior can not only leave a bad impression, it can also easily damage friendships, it can also ruin job opportunities, and you can easily gain a bad reputation, just as Amy has. Behavior like that can easily have people look down on you. Despite the good intentions, that manner is NO way to approach anyone, especially not your crush. Amy Rose is controversial for good reasons. The criticism this character is undergoing right now is because the games, and the anime itself, never bothered to actively teach her those meaningful lessons on how to properly interact with others, and form meaningful relationships. Not only did she desperately need to be taught these lessons, so does the audience.

The worst part is, the people who made those games were from Japan, and with how bad communication between SEGA USA and JP was, they likely weren’t aware how deeply offensive this manner of interacting is. And the other worse part, because Sonic Heroes was many of this generation’s first introduction to Sonic because that game sold so many copies, in spite of its mediocre final product, it’s no wonder Sonic fans refer to Amy to this day as a “stalker” or “fangirl.” No matter what you say, those labels are unavoidable and inescapable. And worse still, you Amy fans defending Amy’s behavior in Heroes, you’re only advocating this poor behavior to continue, you’re actively advocating violence, and bullying, and you’re only pushing Amy towards the damaging position of comic relief or side character. You’re only hurting yourselves.

What I wanted to see from Amy Rose is for her to reflect on her transgressions towards Sonic and the rest of the cast, and to actively learn from her mistakes, and apologize for her behavior. Not only would this put her in good rapport with Sonic, but the gamer as well, because it shows she is redeemable, and is able to be taken seriously as a main character of this franchise. Because the games never taught Amy how to properly socialize with Sonic, it has led to nothing but confusion, arguments, and discord amongst this fan community; this type of comedy has only done more harm than good. I wanted to see Amy actively regret her mistakes and vow to become a better person for Sonic and herself. To this day, I still await such an apology; it’s only fair. Amy’s behavior back then, you could easily equate it to Bowser’s behavior, she was THAT bad.

In Sonic’s case, although he is a “free spirit,” as you claim he is, running from your own problems is a race that you’ll never win. All that “free spirit” heresy SEGA claims, that’s literally fearful avoidant attachment to a T. That stuff about Sonic being too hyper to even give his poor neglected friend the time of day is a very poor excuse, I feel. Sonic does want love in his life, but is afraid of being potentially harmed or rejected; he likely thinks he’s unworthy and incapable of handling that type of relationship in his life, when that doesn’t have to be the case. I’m not asking for Sonic to be a complete Casanova, or completely cheesy, head over heels, and lovey dovey. What I ask from Sonic is to be honest and transparent with Amy. Actually admit he loves and appreciates her, directly to her face. Be strong enough Admit his own insecurities and fears. Because that’s what actual close friends do with each other. He owes her that much. This has nothing to do with romance; it’s about teaching how to respect others.

Want to know why I personally advocate Sonic being in a relationship with Amy, despite everything the games taught me? Sonic X’s To Catch a Hedgehog. Why? Because in that episode, it’s just Sonic and Amy hanging out on a haystack on a farm. It taught me Sonic didn’t have to be so afraid of Amy, nor did Amy have to engage in aggressive flirting or violence towards Sonic either, nor did it display her being jealous. For what felt like the first time ever, I saw Sonic and Amy interacting peacefully. It taught me they could be friends after all, and in that episode I found solace. And later when I found the Sonic X end credits, Hikaru Michi, it depicted Sonic voluntarily paying a visit to a sad looking Amy in the foggy morning…and SMILING. We never got this in the 4Kids dub of Sonic X. Ever. Amongst a good many other things that were cut too.

These characters should not be confined to behaving or acting in just ONE WAY. It’s very restrictive and harmful for storytelling. Let Sonic partake in feminine behavior such as knitting, or baking, or planting flowers. Let Amy be interested in sports, have bad table manners, box, and be a little gross, and burp every now and then. The dynamic they tried to force upon us in the past was completely unnecessary, and dated even by standards back then. It makes me wonder about Amy’s social standing in life; it raises questions such as: does she have friends her own age that give her relationship advice? Does she get out much? Has she ever been invited to things? Does she suffer from abandonment issues? Is she the problem child? How long has she been neglected like this? Had she been harassed in a similar fashion before she met Sonic? I feel sorry for both parties.

What I expect from Amy is for her to learn how to approach Sonic properly, and for her to be rewarded by Sonic until she gets the affection she craves. No more teasing. No more division. None of this nonsense, Let Sonic express his love towards Amy. It’s nice that he has a female companion to take care of, and befriend.

#amy rose #sonamy #sonic the hedgehog #fearful avoidant #listen to me #spilling the tea

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raven-at-the-writing-desk · 3 years ago

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I'm not usually one to complain, but didn't they look at the fandom translation of the game? Cuz like, the fandom did a great job on it. And there is a lot of things that would be better staying simple (like leaving it be "dorm leaders" but regardless).

But why did they have to limited it to only be available on the USA and Canada? It doesn't seem like a good idea.

I know that Twisted Wonderland is not a date sim but I'll use one as an example. Obey Me. The game is only available in English and Japonese (I think is available in Korean now too, but I'm not quite sure) but it can be downloaded by everyone regardless.

Wouldn't it be better to promote the game if they do the same as Obey Me?

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I’m not certain if translators look at fan translations for help; depending on the project, a company might hire a bunch of freelancing translators or professionals, and they may give varying degrees of information and guidelines pertaining to how things should be translated. It’s difficult to say how Disney/Aniplex or whoever directed the translations went about it.

Now, this isn’t to bash fan translations or official translations, but translating in of itself is a very difficult job to do, simply because it’s hard to maintain the meaning from the original language to the new one. There’s so many nuances to consider, and there’s a lot of things that don’t translate exactly.

Within fan translations, each translator has a different way of writing, so even if whoever was hired to translate TWST looked at fan translations, it can be hard for them to “consolidate” it as reference material. (For example, some fan translators write Lilia using “old” English while others use modern slang for Lilia, some fan translators only care about getting the rough information out there without thinking to write in the “voice” of the characters while other fan translators spend a lot of time trying to nail each character’s unique “voice”, etc.)

... But yes, I do agree “dorm leaders” or “dorm prefects” should have been used instead of “house wardens” 😂

On the issue of “why did they decide to only release English TWST to the USA and Canada instead of internationally”... I can totally understand the frustration from the perspective of a fan, I really can. However, I would say this is the smartest business move for Disney. Why? Well, just because TWST was massively popular in Japan doesn’t mean the same will hold true internationally, because audience interest and demographics can vary wildly depending on the region or country. It’s the safest for them to see how TWST fares in a few other countries before investing in more global servers.

To address the Obey Me example, I would like to point you in the direction of A3!, which did invest in international servers but recently had to shut down because the international audience did not rake in the same amount of revenue as its Japanese audience alone did. Thus, it was not profitable for them to continue maintaining their international servers, which (presumably) spanned ALL countries outside of Japan. I think Disney was probably wary of how TWST would perform if they put all their eggs in one basket and released an international version right away... So they decided to test the waters to see how TWST would do with the USA and Canada first. It honestly doesn’t matter how “popular” something is, because popularity alone doesn’t equate to revenue. A3! was decently popular, but because not enough people internationally were spending money on A3!, it had to go. Disney probably just wants to see if the USA and Canada will be profitable before expanding to other servers.

Additionally, I believe that NTT Solmare (which owns Obey Me) has a history of releasing its games globally anyway, so they are probably more comfortable with international releases. By comparison, Disney region locks a lot of its content (look at their other app games, even their merchandise) and is generally more tentative, so their decision, while it may not be loved by fans, fits in line with their previous business moves. (But of course, this is all just speculation on my end.)

#notes from the writing raven #twst #twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #om #obey me #a3!#sticking this in main tags #because I feel we need to better understand this decision #not from a fan pov but from a business pov #at the end of a day companies put profits over fan enjoyment

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gb-patch · 4 years ago

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Ask Answers: May 15th Part 2

And here’s the next part of the long answer set of the day!

When will OL: N&F take place? Beginnings and Always took place during summer breaks, will now and forever take place during a fall break or will the characters be going to school at the time of the events we play through?

It takes place over all of the fall season, so school will be happening in OL2. Some events do take place in school, though many times events only start after school is already out for the day, haha.

Hey!! I have kind of a weird question?? I’m sorry if it’s been answered before and I just haven’t seen it but is OL 2 taking place during the same years as OL 1? I’m just curious, thank you for such amazing games!!!

It’s a similar time frame, but not 100% exactly same.

Do you have any idea when the demo for now and forever will be available?

Hopefully this fall! But that’s not a guarantee.

Okay the crime show in Step 2: Growing up. Long blonde hair, police station, crime series? Was it The Closer? Because I’m the same age as MC and Cove and my mom was constantly watching that when I was 13. 😂

Haha, yeah! The Closer and, to a lesser degree, Medium were the kind of shows I was referencing there. My mom also used to watch those back in the day.

Hey um this might be an odd question but if the setting of OL: N&F is fall/autumn, what country or city will it take because my mind tells me it is either Poland or Canada. Also I can't wait for the game I am hyped

It’s set in the USA again. We’d like to be able to have cameos and that’s easiest to do if the OL games take place in the same country.

Is it possible for the PC of OL to have non-seriously dated other people in the in between years even if they’ve had a consistent crush on Cove?

You can causally date Baxter in Step 3 if you get his DLC and then ultimately choose Cove in Step 4. If you mean off-screen people, it doesn’t really come up, but you can certainly headcanon that. The game never says Cove is the only partner you’ve ever had.

Is there going to be a Kickstarter for Now and Forever as well? For like voiced names and stuff again? Didn’t find B&A until after it was released and I’d really love the opportunity to hear my name in the game 🥺

Yeah, we are gonna have a Kickstarter with getting a voiced name as a reward! Though, it will be more expensive than it was for OL1. I feel bad to raise the price but we realized too late the first time around that it was being super undersold for the amount of work it took, aha.

Do you know how much the remaining DLC for OL will cost? (Step 4, Derek, Baxter)

Step 4: Free

Wedding DLC: $2.99USD

Derek DLC: $4.99USD

Baxter DLC: $4.99USD

Has an artist for the new position been picked yet?! I'm super excited for the new game!

We did fill that spot. Thank you so much for taking the time to apply!

hmmm what would it take to get each of the XOXO jerk squad to feel the need to hug you?

They’d have to first like you a fair amount, otherwise the most you’d get is maybe a pat on the shoulder. If they were attached, they might hug you if you broke down crying or if you gave them super good news.

Unless it’s Shiloh, of course. If you want a hug you only have to ask!

May i ask how the Derek DLC will work? I believe that there aren’t any memories in step 4 and doesnt derek’s dlc take place during that step? So will the dlc add memories? Thank you!

Derek’s DLC will add five Moments to Step 2 (a new page will appear on that screen if you get the DLC). Then in Step 4 you’ll have to choose between playing the default epilogue or going through the Derek romance story.

Is the pc version on itch,io different from the steam version? Like an offline one or something?

Steam has achievements, but that’s about it. Both can be played offline, if you prefer.

I've been wondering this for awhile, what determines if cove winds up with a ponytail in step 3? I've done multiple runs with different MCs with varying hairstyles. Or does it have to do with a particular moment in step 2?

I’m afraid I can’t say exact choices that determine things. But generally it’s preference based options in the Step before that decide those things.

Any Floret Bond updates?

No, the artist had to leave the project and it’s been on-hold. I’m not sure if I want to try working just with what we have or replacing it all entirely. The design is a bit too specific for us to easily find someone who could mimic it. Hopefully we’ll work things out later, though.

In step 3 is Cove's plan always to stay in sunset bird?

Yeah. He is never ready at 18-years-old to make a big life change.

I love your content! If it's alright to ask, you answered in a previous ask about how Jeremy was too particular with what he likes his types to be romanceable with just any MC and it's sort of got me wondering.. What /are/ his types and/or preferences and such? Sorry if it's a lot!

Jeremy likes stubborn jerks and will not date someone who’s sweet or even generally a decent person, haha.

uh, excuse me if you said this somewhere before, but how will step 4 be actually? Will it he like an actual step and have moments and dlc and all? Or will it be more like a long epilogue of some sort?

Will the step 4, the wedding and extra routes dlcs be paid too? Im just confused, sorry if im asking too much

Step 4 is only an epilogue, so it’s just a long series of scenes one after the other rather than a collection of Moments you can choose from.

The Step 4 epilogue is free, the wedding DLC, Derek DLC, and Baxter DLC cost money.

i’m not sure how much of the wedding dlc you have planned already, or if this would be to spoilery, but what kind of wedding traditions will be included? i keep thinking about how flustered cove would get over a garter toss & was wondering if we’d see a scene like that haha. obviously no worries if it’s not included, i’ll enjoy literally anything cove related

I don’t know for sure yet, haha. Right now we’re focused on the parts before the big day. We’ll see how many scene alterations we can include for the wedding itself later on.

Hello! Firstly, thank you for creating such an amazing game like OL, and I couldn’t be more excited for OL2! Out of curiosity, are you looking for any writers to come on for OL2 or are you all pretty much set in that department? Just thought I’d shoot my shot haha but I’m still excited regardless ^^!

We will be hiring writers for OL2 later this year! Thank you for the interest.

Will we be blessed with a spin-off Yandere Cove, like XOXO Blood Droplets?

Sadly, no. It’s a shame but there’s not enough time to keep making OL1 bonus/spin-off content.

How is Q pronounced?

I’m afraid Q’s full name hasn’t been publicly announced yet so I can’t answer here (Q and T are the first letters of the names for the new LIs in Our Life: Now & Forever).

Question; is the steam version getting a Mac update? I purchased the dlc there thinking it had Mac support without realizing it and just wondered if I’d need to refund it to purchase on itch.io 😭

I’m really sorry, you will need to get a refund from Steam. We do hope to have it there for Steam eventually, but have no idea of when it’ll happen. Apple requires special notarization to be an officially accepted app for their devices. We don’t have that. Steam requires having that, Itch will let you release it as an non-notarized third party app. That’s why Itch is the only place that has the Mac version right now.

would you mind posting outfit sheets for Cove in every step? it would make things a lot easier for us artists. it would save a lot of time spent looking for references

I think we did do the earlier steps when they were finished way back in 2019 (this game took a long time to make, aha), but we can probably repost them sometime!

In our life n&f, will we be able to get into qprs/will there be more options in regards to having deep platonic relationships with the love interests? Because as an aroace individual, it would be great if there could also be emphasis on platonic love so that it's more aspec inclusive.

It’s a little hard to say at this point. There may not be things like a wedding DLC for OL2 and so the relationship for platonic and romantic feelings might not go as far as it did in the first game. We’ll kind of have to see how much we can do based on timeframe/budget constraints that will only be set near the end of the year. But we will be keeping things like that in mind at least.

hi! i really really like your game and im absolutely in love with it! i cant wait to try your other games like xoxo droplet and future OL NF :))

during the step 3 erands moment i got curious, which fudge flavor is his favorite? it seems like he likes all of them, but which 4 do you think he would like best?

also i noticed that in some playthroughs cove would let me give him a piggy back ride, and in some he wouldn't, how come?

how does your choices affect cove's interests or looks? i replayed the game without changing any choices but i got cove to look different, is it just random?

thank you!

Cove’s favorite flavors are ones with nuts and that are fruity! But he appreciates them all. Whether or not you can give him a piggyback ride depends on if your MC is fit/large enough to hold a muscular 6-foot-tall beach boy, haha.

Cove’s appearance does depend on choices and it’s generally tied to choices that are preference based rather than emotion/action based, such as which key chain you pick in Step 1.

Is it possible for cove to reject MC's proposal at the end of step 3?

Nope. He’ll always accept.

hi! i was wondering how heavily the side characters will be featured in the our life wedding dlc? obviously it'll be cove & mc focused, but i was thinking it'd be sweet if we could take lizzie dress / suit shopping or dance with cliff at the wedding or something.

The side characters are there about as often as they are in normal events. So, it’s clearly focused on Cove but he’s not the only person you have any meaningful moments with.

When will responses be sent out to applicants?

I’m afraid we don’t send responses out to all applications, only ones we’re interested in offering the position to. Not everyone likes rejection emails and the amount of applications is too high to contact them all to say we’re not hiring them. We post updates on the job page when a position has news. Right now we’ve filled every role that was open.

Is there also going to be the option to keep your relationships with the love interests platonic in Our Life: Now and Forever? That's something I really appreciate in Our Life: Beginnings and Always

Yeah! OL will never force you to end up in a romantic relationship with someone.

I was wondering, in the Step 3 Happiness moment, what are the different fishes Cove can compare MC to? I got "you'd be a paradise fish, because being with you is paradise," but my friend got "you'd be an angelfish." Are there more variations?

He says paradise fish if you’re a couple, angelfish if he’s just crushing, and then a royal dottyback/queenfish/emperor tetra (based on your gender) if he likes the MC platonicly.

Hello! So, in one of the Step 3 DLCs, Cove's arm was gone. I think it was to show him putting his arm behind his back. But if that wasn't the case, did it get yeeted?

Thanks for letting us know. That was an error we tried to fix a little while back. When did you make the save file you were playing? If it was older that might be why it happened. Or maybe the error wasn’t fully fixed after all.

Asking for your opinion, but do you think Cove would at all be into ABBA? Because all I could imagine during the car trip in step 3 was him and the MC belting to Mamma Mia.

Haha, yeah, there’d definitely be some ABBA songs he was into.

So throughout the game, Cove can develop different interests depending on the player’s choices; does this mean that he can have different careers in Step 4? Or his is line of work in adulthood never mentioned at all?

He can have different career paths in Step 4!

Hi!! I'm so so sorry if this has been asked before but I just acquired knowledge about the so famous nsfw dlc for OL and nearly chocked on my bubblegum 💀💀💀 So, my real inquiry is if that specific moment will have any kind of impact at some point of the fourth step OR if it will just be treated as a side-story-ish “what if” scenario.Also, is there any chance there'll be something similar for Step 4? Haha jk,,, unless 😳Questions apart let me thank you profoundly for making the best visual novel I've ever played 😭 Really really looking forward the epilogue and OL2 💕 Have a nice day

It’s just a bonus side story that’s fully separate from the main game.

It would be nice to have one for Step 4 too, but I sadly don’t see us having time to actually do it. I don’t know, if people are still asking for more OL1 content several months from now it might be doable and worth doing.

I'd just like to ask, when is Baxter's birthday :0 -- I'm really curious esp with their zodiac signs so ;w;

I don’t know, haha. Maybe I’ll come up with one someday.

Please help!! I bought the Step 3 DLC but I still have no idea how to get to where you can propose to Cove - any tips?

How do I get the option to propose to Cove at the end of the game?

You can click HERE for a discussion on that.

I love that Miranda and Terry are getting together! I'm curious if you have canon sexualities for them? Also just wanted to say how much I love OL and how much joy it brings me everytime I play it <3

Terry likes ladies and Miranda likes dudes!

ngl Step 4 Terry's design reads like y'all see trans guys as their assigned gender more than you see them as men to me (a trans guy)... like maybe if he isn't heavily dysphoric, I could see it, but everything you've said about him doesn't line up with that. Even then, immediate warning bells go off in my head looking at him. I wouldn't have touched the game if I saw him ahead of time.

I’m sorry you aren’t comfortable with the way the design looks. The situation with Terry is that he’s now open about who he is, but the body he was born with is still physically the same. He only came out recently as an adult and hasn’t gone through any treatments/procedures yet (his chest is flatter because he wears a binder). However, even though his body hasn’t transitioned at the point Step 4 happens, no one treats him as anything other than the guy he is. Having a trans character who’s identity is supported/respected from the start is what we’re going for in this case. But what we’re doing with Terry isn’t the only trans content we’ve ever had/ever will have in the future.

how would baxter react to bae pyoun and vice versa? and can you please detailly explain both love interests personalities from our life 2: now and forever? i was just curious, sorry for dumb question!!

I imagine it’d be pretty opposite experiences, haha. Bae would initially think Baxter is pushy and thoughtless, but would quickly realize, oh, he’s instead a soft, considerate boy. Very cute. Baxter would first be struck with the impression that Bae is charming and gentlemanly, but then would realize that, no, he’s a sarcastic asshole. And I’m afraid we can’t reveal the personalities for the next game yet.

Sorry if you've already answered this, but I have a question about the patreon exclusive moment you're working on. I was wondering if it's mainly going to be CGs or if it's mostly character sprites + backgrounds with some CGs.

Either way, thank you for doing the Lord's work and not only making Cove, but making this bonus moment as well 😌😌😌

It’s mostly sprites/backgrounds with two CGs!

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