#The first time I heard this sound

[funtimespringscare101]

@chaosverse-mainblog @misterah13 I’m back with more of my Female EXE Retake and Luke content! I love making EXE having the same kind of relationship with Lord X as her canon counterpart made by Corven_03!

Also Yep! New GL2 Designs of My little boy and his weird and malicious family! Fem EXE and Luke were made not too long ago, and Lord X was created a few weeks ago, I think i'm really getting into transfering my GC designs of everyone I made into GL2!

Also XD I love making EXE and Lord X absolutely hating and beefing on each other whenever Luke is not there to be the only thing holding them back. Another I just couldn't even is the joke here with X's current Internal Form design (plus it's a SnapCube reference, with makes it so much harder not to laugh)...

[kurikorso]

in my moomins era once again. i've been amused lately at the idea of The Joxter carrying baby Snufkin around in his mouth

[takemetodragonstone]

as a kid I used to daydream about moving in together with a best friend and promising to never leave each other, growing old together, and holding each other’s hand through life. I didn’t understand why that level of commitment seemed to be reserved for romantic relationships, and I would get really upset thinking about how no friend would ever want to commit to me like that and they would eventually leave me for a romantic partner. anyway I just found out about this thing called queer platonic relationships—

[weirdsimsinhistory]

[front-facing-pokemon]

[thanatika]

yeah i agree with your point about survival mechanics and i feel the same way about the lack of combat mechanics. "why would an educated city doctor need a weapon" because shit is hitting the fan in every way impossible and pretty much everyone is walking around armed... also why am i supposed to believe the the fact that he's a man of intellect will somehow provide him with food? i don't think anyone is going to be too eager to share food during an outbreak intellectual or not...

+ follow up for the previous ask but actually my favorite quest from the original pathologic is the day 11 bachelor quest that involves shooting down soldiers. i think it really drives the point home about how this random fuckass guy who is supposed to be battling a plague doesn't even have the time to do that anymore because the people in charge are asking completely irrelevant things of him now and he's at a position where he cannot refuse what is being asked of him. like i think it was good storytelling that even as the guy who lowkey wants to deal with the plague and solve its mystery you still have other, more pressing, less interesting and or pleasant tasks to complete

i agree! honestly, i feel this way about the combat mechanics even more than i do about the physical survival (food, health, illness, sleep) mechanics. because sure, i can see how it makes sense for daniil's position of authority to mean that his basic needs are somewhat provided for -- although i don't think it makes more sense than what we got in the original game. i've never seen anyone bring up "isn't it kind of unrealistic that the bachelor isn't given lots of food during a massive food shortage?" as a plothole that needed to be resolved. the townspeople generally don't like him much, and most of the people with power don't either, except for the kains. sure, maybe it's kind of weird that you can go see the kains while broke and on the verge of keeling over from hunger, and they won't do anything to help you, but... the kains are pretty self-centered, and they're so goddamn weird that maybe they forget that you need to eat food to live anyway. and it's half-implied that the powers that be are ultimately giving daniil this role as a convenient way to kill him, so it makes sense that they would put no pressure on the town authorities to keep him alive.

(and honestly, artemy is taken under the olgimsky's auspices as much as the kains take daniil's under theirs! which is to say, selfishly, with ulterior motives that are more important to them than the well-being of their healer, but... the olgimskys are set up as the wealthiest of the 3 families financially, as well as the ones with the most access to food, given their control over the meat industry. so if anything it's "weirder" that artemy isn't more materially provided for, though to be clear i don't think there's an actual plothole there either way.)

but anyway, you could handwave it and say that daniil's position of privilege and authority gives him more perks than he got in the original game, but the amount of fighting you have to do to get through town is... kind of an unavoidable physical reality? like you're given so many sidequests that you often wind up walking around town after dark, and that's when the bandits come out. is the idea that the bandits would be too scared to attack him because he's so important? because that doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and even pathologic 2 establishes that he's seen as a valuable target by the bandits:

and then there's the quests where combat plays a more direct role in the story itself, like getting involved in saving andrey from the firing squad, or killing guards to break artemy out of prison, or the quest where you have to kill var in attempt to stop the arsonists (which i include on the same tier as the other ones because i really like the quest journal entry he has if you complete it where he blames himself for willow's death. it's a good character moment.)

hell, even in pathologic 2 itself, one of the biggest Bachelor Moments is on day 11, when you have that big dramatic convo with him after he killed a soldier for the papers he was delivering. plus one of bad grief's idle dialogues in patho 2 is commentary on the bachelor being "quick on the draw" and that he "already shot someone". like he just straight up is not living a combat-free existence. and overall, combat isn't just a good tool from a mechanical perspective, heightening the stakes and placing pressure on the player (though it is), it's also pretty important for him on a thematic level imo, almost as important as artemy and his "rivers of blood". in patho classic, daniil has this early interaction with the inquisitor:

which, thinking about it from a doylist perspective, was probably the writers' attempt to make it sound more plausible that this random medical researcher from the big city was competent with multiple types of guns. and i appreciate them coming up with that hint of backstory to cover their bases a bit, but with those bases covered, i think the fact that daniil ultimately spends more time shooting people than he does prescribing medicines for them actually does a lot for him thematically? i mean, if his whole thing is that he's this "tempted destroyer", someone who frames his career as a combative battle with death rather than a quest to save people's lives, whose "default" solution is to raze the town with artillery because he's too limited by his rationalist worldview and military upbringing (and bitterness over being manipulated and sabotaged) to come up with a solution that saves the any remaining infected survivors on his own. plus the way that clara frames artemy and daniil as two sides of the same coin in being violent destroyers and killers, who without player intervention will immediately devolve to running around chasing each other down in what's either an insanely dedicated tom and jerry LARP or some really elaborate foreplay. imo, that whole dichotomy (which is pretty core to the game, as the idea of dichotomies are core to it in general) works so much better with the way they're both presented in classic, stalking around with gun/scalpel in hand. hell, not to mention the effect that spending 12 in-game days trying not to starve and getting killed by bandits or guards or worms or soldiers every day would have on the player, and the way it would make them feel about the town and their natural projection of those feelings onto dankovsky, who is a perfectly fitting vessel for them as the avatar actually undergoing those virtual experiences.

ultimately i think they are mainly going this direction out of a desire to do something more creative and original, which is fine... it just seems a bit silly to me that they keep saying "well obviously that doesn't really work for the bachelor's scenario", when, well... even as recently as patho 2 in 2019, they seemed to think it fit his narrative pretty well! i'm also guessing that a lack of combat won't be that bandits are just no longer roaming the streets at night. it sounds more like pathologic 3 is set to be more of a nonlinear experience, where you'll probably fast travel from place to place instead of having to walk across town so much? so you'll be avoiding bandits just in the sense that the gameplay will be avoiding them. i guess i'm hoping that at the very least, there's still the implication of the crunch of not getting enough sleep or food and the threat of being stabbed to death while trying to get through town occurring to dankovsky in the background, even if those mechanics are deemphasized in favor of more macro-level town resource management, time control, and sherlock holmes fruit ninja or whatever the hell they were on about back in 2022 lmao.

[niyana-the-ambiguous-mobian]

Another little detail that I like is that whenever Mamoru Miyano, Mario's VA for the JPN dub, has to do the parts with slow motion, he makes his voice a bit deeper.

But oh man, what was that middle one? That one threw me for a loop 😆

[juusangatsu]

Awkward-ALOID

Some funny moments from ALKALOID's talk during Starry Stage 4th

[eggmixercortex]

shouts out to the one commenter under the friends in high places ost vid saying 'my pookie'. real

[crguang]

anyone ever thinks about how kafka’s speech slows especially when shes explaining something or that it’s generally intentionally slow to keep her interlocutor waiting after her because it might make her feel in control. like they have to wait for her to finish speaking and say what she has to say because she’s the one with the valuable info all the time. she controls the pace of the conversation, how much she reveals, and keeps the other person’s attention the entire time; bonus points if they get mad because she’ll still be composed while they’re bothered asf and that’s power. miss “i don’t like walking at someone else’s pace.” there are moments, when her voice is softer, where her cadence is normal. there’s a natural drawl to it, like when she whines or complains or seems bored, but when she talks to blade or the trailblazer in the beginning of the game, she sounds so normal, only softer. there’s a shift during the luofu arc where she’s explaining stuff to the TB, she’s so fucking slowwww. it always bothers me because she’s clearly stalling but she’s also very smug about being handcuffed and still holding all the answers.

idk. interesting stuff

[endofradio]

hearing dan’s fucking simon cowell ass accent after hearing him talk like a new yorker mafia guy for like almost 2 fucking hours is really alarming Why the fuck does he sound like that 😭

[risingsunresistance]

watching a hermitcraft animation and im just now realizing i did not know what ANY of these guys sounded like

[buttercupshands]

Quick s7 premiere thoughts

Loved the new episode, I sure wasn't ready for Afomura becoming a thing so soon, like that scene is still... that

But otherwise wow

also a quick thank you for this scene having THIS track (a bit off from the original version) and voices of both AFO and Tomura mixing in places there

to other things

little dangerous hand man

I'm in love with the ending... "Believe" and "Sketch" and now this one are like a Holy Trinity of Villain connected endings and this one FEELS like it belongs to MVA or something like that WAY MORE than the ED version of Believe did, even if the song was directly connected to Tomura and Izuku via text

that's just my "I want THIS SPECIFIC WAY" of wishing an ED was and I got what I wanted in a way with everyone from the LoV having their moment to shine (from the current arc aside from Compress) - so Spinner, Toga, Dabi and Tomura all have that. IN BOTH ED and OP

and then OP is like

this

so yeah, happy s7 day

[radlegowaffle]

heaven help her

[fairymare]

For anyone who haven't heard the boys' japanese voices yet, have the cat butler trailer i screen recorded a few weeks ago

[melrosing]

I will say one (1) thing for GOT’s adaptation house lannister and it’s that the rains of castamere fucking slaps