#We will get there eventually anyways

[kay-southpaw]

TADC: MatPat's video is lazy/my theory

Okay, big opinion post coming... I actually cherry pick his vids so I have no idea about his hit/miss rate, but I do feel like his video on TADC is pretty empty compared to what I usually see from him. First of all, he pointed out some obvious things (tadc being a video game) and stuff that easter egg/explanation videos already pointed out weeks ago. Suffice to say, I kinda expected more effort from a youtuber of his caliber. I think he was not only lazy, but in some other cases... imho he's simply wrong.

Here's my theory, you can stop reading if you want your speculation to remain unbiased. You've been warned.

I feel like MatPat's asking the wrong questions. Wouldn't it be more logical to have your consciousness simply copied into a game than to integrate your physical self? Maybe it was this revolutionary new idea to have the players scanned and then they'd receive a personalized avatar in the game, a technology unlike anything that have existed before. But handling that requires a beefy PC and a beefy AI, hence the existence of Caine. But if we're in a game, why is it running constantly? I think it shouldn't, and something went wrong. Caine was only supposed to handle these players' avatars (y'know, putting them into situations) but the whole scanning thing was so complex that due to some error it went wrong and now he's stuck with these human consciousnesses that he has to help somehow if he wants to keep the game playable, which kinda sucks since he probably has no knowledge about the outside world. Hell, based on the exit door incident, I bet that he even made bedrooms and food only because the people told him about their average lives outside and this is the most he could do to keep them sane since he can't manipulate their minds. He's this world's Monika, but less yandere, and probably unable to break the 4th wall (not towards the audience but towards the developers), because come on, someone would have noticed that by now. He just sees people coming and getting abstracted, more people coming... Meanwhile in the real world the devs have no idea why do their player files keep getting corrupted, so they keep debugging the code and keep testing the game... I wonder if there's a previous copy of any existing person among the abstracted and if yes, is it a perfect copy? Will the people outside ever discover what is wrong or will they sell the game as is? Is it wrong to kill digital copies of people?

But maybe I'm wrong and this is like Matrix and Caine is using them all as a meat computer :D hahahaha

[egophiliac]

since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.

maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?

(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)

(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)

[shepscapades]

GLAD EVERYONE ENJOYED THE ANDROID INFO UPDATE ABOUT INTERFACING DFGJNDGKGNMXGHNCBNM

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

[RHETORIC - Legendary 14]: Convince Kim you are in a timeloop.

(ISAT side of the swap)

[lazycranberrydoodles]

chapter 2 - reincarnation (masterpost here)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

watched Grease the other night with my buddy and. well. obviously i Had To

[creativesplat]

I would also like to see some miphlink, if that's okay!

I was really struggling with what to draw, and then I remembered your ask from ages ago (dang ADHD brain...) anyway, sorry its such a late answer, but Miphlink inspired by Dicksee's La Belle Dame

[the-dragon-girl-27]

At this point its tradition I make these for every direct it is my duty and my curse

Here's one for all 2 of my followers who played this game:

What about the planet Elma, what about it.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[domokunrainbowkinz]

I hope will gets rightfully angry in book 3

[egophiliac]

So how’s ride kamens going for you as I just pulled my self together long enough to read the other half of the current main story

I've been working on catching up on the event stories since they announced the upcoming main story update! (I totally bombed the last few events...they're so fast-paced and I just didn't have time...😭)

and then of course they went and dropped THIS on us today

(you don't understand, I LOVE Tajador and I already love the two blurry frames they've given us of non-silhouetted Kelka, I'm ready to absolutely lose my shit come the announcement/reveal(?) stream on Thursday --)

[skrunksthatwunk]

love like you / maternal pang

bonus under cut:

the first stephanie + the maternal pang tone destroyer i couldn't include bc it's a serious comic

[snazzi-strawberri-artz]

AUGHH CLASS ASSIGNMENT YIPPEEE!!! Had to make cut out silhouette designs for 3 of our characters!!!

[thedreadvampy]

sometimes I forget that my experience has been. um. not 'your experiences are not universal' vibes but more like 'your experiences are EXTREMELY atypical'

[lazycranberrydoodles]

COME ON GUYS DON'T LET DIANXIA DOWN

[livsmessydoodles]

thinking about this scene today

this scene alone convinces me that byler is endgame bc you cannot make will actively say that hes not gonna fall in love and then write a whole plotline abt him being in love with mike.... just for it to not be reciprocated???

will is the only party member who's completely unexperienced with romantic relationships, which of course has to do with the fact that he's gay in the 80's, but this is a TV show. all of this is fictional so they can take whatever route they want with these characters, and making will continue to stay alone and suffer through unrequited love would be awful storytelling, especially when people claim that will moving on from his feelings would bring character development and growth.

wills feelings for mike arent there just to "show his growth". weve seen this kid go through hell and back yet even with everything kicking him down he stays strong and kind. hes the most selfless character in the show and always puts others needs before his own. in s4, they put a lot of emphasis in these character traits of his, and they're always picturing his love for mike as something selfless and pure.

now if his feelings are not reciprocated, how does this teach will a lesson that leads to character growth?? he already doesn't expect anything. life has shown him time and time again that he always gets the short end of the stick, why would he think this is any different?? making him have feelings for his best friend just to get rejected would just be a nail in the coffin, reaffirming to him that no matter what hes not worthy of ever getting what he wishes. this isnt character growth at all.

but if his feelings ARE requited, that gives us a twist to the story we havent seen. we would get to see actual growth for will, him learning to give himself value and realize that he DOES deserve happiness!! instead of leading into the expected spiral of bad things keeping up the consistency with everything else that has happened to will so far, finally giving him one good thing leads to us seeing a shift in his whole nature, and wed see him dealing with things he hasnt dealt with before!!! GROWTH!!!

besides why would they make such an intricate complicated storyline.... just to lead to a rejection we all saw coming? the GA expects him to get rejected. his feelings not being reciprocated would not be any surprise. but twisting those expectations in a way to shock the GA AND give wills character the happiness he so deserves after being through so much..... now THAT would be world shattering and a satisfying ending to both the viewers and will himself!!

this scene establishes a clear subversion trope, making us aware of how will believes he's never finding love, just for the show to later on subvert expectations and reward will with the love he deserves and never thought hed get🫶