#and I do agree to extent

[cheesecakemermaid1048]

Inescapable was disappointing

I can't comment much on the gameplay aspect as I watched most of the walkthrough, but I think I am qualified to say something about the story.

The story is kind of interesting, and when the plot picks up, it can be really good. However, it is too long. I know they are supposed to be on island for like a half year, and of course it's going to be slow burn. That's not m my issue is that it feels like the plot progress snail pace. To be honest,it feels like torture to watch.

The pacing removing any possible tension from the story. While ,yes, Danganronpa has pacing issues, but it wasn't to degree. In between the main plot & free time,there was investigation & the trials.The main things that many people came for and kept them interested.And also seeing what motive the monokuma would give that would cause one of students to kill.

Side rant, but I remember it: the reality show is supposed to be on the dark web, but from the route I watched, nothing particularly interesting happened. Don't get me started on the hosts' "challenges".They are nothing but average challenges you would see in a reality TV show. I am not asking for much, but for a show that supposedly takes place in the dark web,this shit is really boring.

I remember one of their first "motive"was a race for cash .The winners would get most cashes while the losers got little cash..... Christ,the viewers must be bored out of their minds.

Regardless of what I said previously,inescapable is a fine game at best. The story was neither the best nor the worst. Same with character,some of them I really liked.I just wish they were in a better game.

I think main issue with this game is advertising. Claiming itself to be "similar to danganronpa and YTTD and you like those games,you will love this game."

I can't speak for YTTD fans, but as Danganronpa fan, I was expecting a lot of bloodshed. I expected a variety of paths where some characters lived while others died, and in time, you would solve the overarching mystery of this place, but instead we got mostly filler with some hint of plot.

I stopped watching after a while,and I haven't seen any of the endings. So I can't really say anything about those other than that they might be good. I don't really know since the pacing has killed my interest in what happened.

I wouldn't recommend this game to any danganronpa players (or let play watchers). If you still want to purchase the game,go ahead.Some people seem to like it,so they obviously saw something good in it.

As for the rest,I think you are better of watch,playing or reading fanganronpa instead,or those games people claiming to better than danganronpa.

[rollercoasterwords]

every so often something will happen and i will see an influx of scaredposting being like “omg the u.s. government is going to shut down ao3!!!!” & every time i find myself thinking. well to be honest i don’t think that is going to happen

[flightfoot]

Tbh I'm really sick of the take that "but Marinette is 14 and she's so stressed she doesn't want her bf to be sad" or smt like that bcause gdi people THE BIGGEST VICTIM HERE IS ADRIEN NOT HER!!!

Yeah I can agree with that. I think that it IS important to keep in mind when evaluating her actions, but Adrien's the one who has to live with the consequences of both hers and Gabriel's actions, and he's the same age as her. You can feel bad for Marinette for being put into this position, but her world wasn't totally destroyed like Adrien's was. And while Marinette being stressed about lying hurts her, that was a decision she made, she could have chosen differently. While Adrien's having a sucky time no matter what.

[ed-recoverry]

I see a lot of posts on the internet saying something along the lines of, “I can’t believe people need a god(s)/religion to convince them not to murder or do something awful. I don’t do that stuff because I have basic empathy.”

And while I do see where these people are coming from, and, to an extent, agree, we can’t discount the effort of people out there who are not hurting others solely for reasons other than empathy.

If the only reason you aren’t harming people is because you don’t want to be arrested? That’s fine.

If the only reason you aren’t harming people is because you don’t want to ruin your reputation? That’s okay.

If the only reason you aren’t harming people is because of a religious or spiritual belief, good!

If the only reason you aren’t harming people is because you want other people to admire you. That’s fine.

If the only reason you aren’t harming people is because of social or financial repercussions, okay.

If the only reason you aren’t harming people is because of anything other than empathy, that’s okay.

Low empathy isn’t a personal failure. All that matters is people around you are safe and respected. And if that’s something you can only accomplish because of physical repercussions, that’s okay.

Though it would be nice for everyone to be nice to each other out of empathy, that is just something super difficult, to even impossible, for some. And any effort to not harm people (physically or mentally) is valid.

[graveyardcuddles]

Astarion when you call him out on his manipulation: "Oh hehe I know, I'm just soooo silly throwing those three little words around, aren't I? But it can be true for...if only for tonight...😏" (Is being eaten alive by guilt and shame).

The Emperor when you call him out on his manipulation: "Be grateful I don't fucking end you right here and now."

[gingerswagfreckles]

Well they caught him. If he wasn't the exact kind of person tumblr loves, the conspiracy theories about this being a random person being framed would have continued to spread. But he's an attractive 26 year old white man who was caught carrying a manifesto about corporate America and has an internet history that matches up with tumblr's general politics. So everyone is going to get excited about how he's a martyr and go back to acknowledging reality in that there isn't a conspiracy to frame the wrong guy.

The discussions over whether or not this man should be lionized as a hero are honestly not as relevant as the comfort with which people are going to drop the conspiracy theory they would have been fully committed to if this man's politics turned out to be nuts. The ease with which the userbase of this website switches between realities based on whether or not they confirm their biases is really alarming. I just hope people understand how weird it is to claim a random person is 100% going to be framed by the FBI on one day, and then drop that by the next day when it becomes clear that the person being "framed" is the exact kind of communist you had hoped.

[skinnypaleangryperson]

I find it sad, pathetic, funny and cute in that cartoon network is airing the old man and his seat two times tonight in a row. All I do is sit around the house and get drunk and cry-I would never waste my precious free time watching Cartoon Network, but I happened upon the schedule for the night and I think it's funny, silly, in a really pathetic way that it feels like Rick has the same drunk sad drunk soulfully loveless aimless energy as much as I do, just sitting on a TV screen instead of real life

[sonknuxadow]

crazy how ive been seeing people absolutely losing their minds over the way amy is written in the generations remaster and how she was character assassinated and her crush on sonic was removed and im playing it right now and the literal first thing she does when you free her from white space is call sonic cute which is nowhere close to what she said in the original. wtf are you people on about

[skitskatdacat63]

I know I'm probably bad for saying this, but man it's kinda hilarious how Fernando's been brake-testing people since literally the beginning of his career and seems to never have stopped to think "hm maybe I should stop." I guess his 2003 tactic of saying "that's where I needed to break!" didn't work out ;;;

[cinnabarsilly]

hey. btw. one of the worst parts of having autism and bpd is the genuine, real grief you feel when characters in your hyperfixation/special interest die. especially with the bpd making the grief feel.. more, bigger, louder, to an extent that impacts your day to day life. i am grieving for these characters even though i never got to personally know them. my heart hurts and my throat closes up, i cant breathe and now im crying. the thought of this person, this fake person, this image, dying has me in literal shambles. and now i am grieving.

[beloved-child-of-the-house]

i stand with you in the face of a defensive misunderstanding of what critique is.

i think understanding what a critique actually is is a skill that increasingly is not taught. i remember going through freshman art courses feeling the frustration that all negative, nasty, unhelpful, and missed-the-point-entirely feedback is so commonly conflated with critique, and then critique gets a bad name because everyone remembers the time someone said their painting looked like an asshole (true story, altho now i think i would take it as a compliment) instead of the time a teacher or friend or classmate helped them uncover a hurtful bias or think of new ways to explore the same idea or how to connect it to related ideas or how to look up and understand other people's ideas on the same topic.

anyway i think you're great.

ahhh you're so kind to me!! i appreciate your support, and i think you are great also.

i have experience with giving and receiving critique as a student myself, and i think it was the best part of my degree! i majored in creative writing in college, and critique was just a generally accepted part of learning to become a writer. i don't even remember people being especially worried about receiving critique on their work. we had guidance on what kind of feedback was useful, but we were still at liberty to give it as we saw fit as like messy 19 year olds. the standard was that we gave it both written on printed copies of the work AND aloud in front of the whole class, and the writer receiving it was not permitted to speak during the critique. understanding how people are perceiving your work is important!

i don't have any particularly negative recollections of the critique process, although once in a high school writing class, the boys in the class told me that my male characters touched each other too gently and real boys are more rough with each other. in particular, they took issue with me writing that one boy nudged another. nudging is too soft. nudging is for girls. that was more than 20 years ago, and i still think about it sometimes because it was such an interesting perspective! i did not take their advice, though.

i should dig up that piece and see if it reads queer in any other ways. i think that's what they were getting at. (actually i once had a non-fiction class tell me i was in love with my roommate after reading an essay i wrote about her)(i did not listen to that advice either, but having 12 acquaintances tell you that you're gay in 2006 before you realize it yourself is Truly Something!)

i think people have conflated criticism and critique and think that being more openly analytical is the same thing as being negative. but analysis is so fun to me! analysis is why i joined fandom in the first place, and it's why i write fic! can we trust each other to be respectful and to speak in good faith even when we're not singing each other's praises? for me fandom would be better if we could.

oh i also want to clarify that i don't think it's impossible to demonstrate that you've thought deeply about a piece of fanwork while remaining completely positive. people do it all the time and do it very well!

i know i sometimes have tunnel vision wrt my own perspective. in a lot of situations, i wish it were more acceptable to be more direct, and i know people sometimes find the way i express myself to be kind of shocking. i know a lot of people like to be spoken to more indirectly than comes natural to me, and i don't mean to imply that my perspective is the only correct one or that there's no good reason to err on the side of gentleness/politeness in our responses to amateur art and writing. i just think that at a certain level of circumspection, it feels like we're all holding each other at arm's length.

i think for people who can't bear to feel exposed, making and sharing art is always going to be painful and difficult, and maybe too painful and difficult to enjoy the process unless they're sure of a soft landing. but like. the rewards of being loved only come after the mortifying ordeal of being known, right?

[moralesmilesanhour]

“Is the fandom dying??” Headass 😭 People are annoying me with that like No you just don’t like it anymore cause the only reason you joined is cause you thought Miles was hot 💀

HAND OVER MOUTH

[normystical]

my current favorite series are very very badly written and you know what maybe thats ok !!!

[jackdaw-and-hattrick]

Love how we can all agree that, while never explicitly talked about, it’s awful suspicious that the two bats Talia had heavy influence over both tried to kill Tim.

[muninnhuginn]

Writers tag game

Prompt: share some writing

Thanks for the tag, @miyamiwu!

So, I'll be honest, I don't actually have any WIPs I'm intending to do anything with, but I have some oldish abandoned stuff I managed to relocate. It's back from 2021 so in my Untamed era and this bit was specifically set during Fatal Journey*:

Nie Huaisang woke blearily, cold seeping into his clothes from the floor. It was dark and it took several seconds to remember where he was. He could hear the muffled sounds of clanging and voices. As he lifted his head off the ground, they slowly resolved themselves into the clash of swords and yelling. [...] He didn't know what to do. What would his brother do? Xichen-ge? San-ge? He had his flute with him– he could try Cleansing. This was what it was for, right? Before he could doubt himself further, he started playing, pouring all the qi he could muster into the tune. He'd practised for hours the night before, long after San-ge had left, but despite that, he hadn't truly thought then that he'd need to play so soon. Was that so naïve of him? As he watched, Da-ge began to slow in his movements and Nie Huaisang felt himself start to relax. He kept his lips to the flute, trying not to let his relief fool him into making mistakes. Still, he knew he only had to play a little longer and then they could all escape. Him, his brother, his cousin. They could flee far away from the darkness that haunted these halls. And then Nie Zonghui's head hit the floor. He stopped playing.

And then I had this other bit:

He'd messed up. He must have played a wrong note. Maybe he'd misremembered the entire thing? And now Nie Zonghui was dead and his brother - what looked like his brother - was stood, Baxia dripping blood to the floor. [...] The sword was pointed at him. He tried to hold himself steady as he looked down the blade. Tried to blink away the tears that kept escaping without his permission. He could tell he was failing, unable to stop the trembling, but he forced himself to meet the eyes at the other end of the sword. He couldn't die here. He refused to die here. After all, he was the only family his brother had left.

*(it was meant to be part of a short time travel fic where post-canon characters went back not long before NMJ died. It would've had flashbacks to Fatal Journey interspersed with the "present" up until the point at which future NHS tipped off past NHS about the poisoned music. I actually got as far as figuring out where I wanted all the characters to be at the end of it, but I ran out of motivation pretty quickly so there's only this WIP stuff and the intro part written in the end.)

Ahh not sure who to tag when it comes to writing stuff. I know @roseofcards90 and @floofiestboy write some stuff? And anyone else who sees this who writes, feel free to consider yourself tagged ^^

[thefrogdalorian]

Half of me yearns for the time when Mando felt so separate to the rest of Star Wars, but then the other half of me LOVES seeing Din's story become part of something bigger. The fact that little boy from Aq Vetina has a major role to play in key events in the galaxy like reclaiming Mandalore when everyone else gave up is quite incredible, actually.

I can't lie though, I do miss how separate season one felt to everything... mysterious man who barely speaks making his way through the galaxy with his strange frog baby. So many new characters and planets introduced.... it was amazing to see after the sequels. Mando s1 really united the fandom.

While I don't think it could have stayed that way forever and regardless of where the story goes, I guess i'm just glad we have the first season to go back to with all of those nostalgic feelings. But the "problem" of the story being linked to existing characters started in season 2, not season 3 like a lot of people pretend. At least season 3 was actually linked to Mandalorians, which is personally what I want in a show called THE Mandalorian lmao. It still has its flaws of course, but I hope at the end, when Din's story is complete, some of the choices will make more sense.