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Finally getting around to making tarots for my inquizzie just in time for Da:tv.

1 of 3, this one is the Six of Swords but I could also see it being read as Six of Wands. Meant to be his card during Haven, but it's a good representation of loosing his identity to Inquisitor/Herald of Andraste. Obligatory dread wolf reference in it bc why not.

[evilhorses]

Gray HuntMaster Rivvie!

Rivvie is the huntmaster for the gray lips, person of few words, never seen without their face covered, head as hard as a Boulder! Gray lips handle mostly rock fauna and have the lowest rate of head injuries surprisingly, well not really these guys know how to protect themselves pretty well and have mastered all things rocks! They mainly stay the northern area of UNKNOWN where it's the rockiest, but they can also be found near the center capital as well. Rivvie is good friends with the orange and midnight huntmasters.

Gray lips don't usually ride horses and opt for large lizards! They also don't use swords as often either, instead going for hammers, pickaxes, and hooks. They are expert climbers and can parkour just about anywhere (like those cliff goats).

[q-unari]

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If I Were to Make a Nickelodeon-Themed FNaF Fangame... 

This game’s story would be set in the year 2036 (about 27 years after the original Nickelodeon studio went bankrupt and the original Nicktoons restaurant shut down). The premise is that someone by the name of Thomas Fritz wanted to bring back the childhood magic of the original location, so he opened up a brand-new Nickelodeon-themed restaurant!

This restaurant would have several fun things for both kids AND adults alike:

-A big indoor playground (complete with play structures and a ball pit)

-Several Nickelodeon-themed arcades and a lot of classic 1980s arcades (Pac-Man, Frogger, etc)

-A prize counter full of varying trinkets and knick-knacks

-An animatronic band with authentic retrofitted Nicktoons animatronics from the original location

-A musuem with authentic relics of Nickelodeon history (old animation cells, concept art, etc)

Like many other FNaF fangames, the premise would be that the owner of the restaurant needed a security guard, so a woman named Ameila Johnson took the job. For about 200$ a week, Amelia would watch over the place that was under construction. Throughout the five nights she is there, the delivery guys would bring in more animatronics for repair (one or two per night). 

However, she notes that the animatronics have been acting a bit...quirky...to say the least (ergo, they were attacking her and trying to ensure that she went home in a box). Throughout her shift, the animatronics start to wake up one by one and are starting to become more vicious, with many of them still not being repaired yet. Throughout the various phone calls she gets from her supervisor (Katie Erra), Amelia learns about the incredibly dark history of the place, including instances of kids going missing and an incident with the animatronics that got the original place shut down (this universe’s version of the Bite of ‘87). 

On her final night of the shift (Night 6), something appears that nobody was expecting....

Now the premise is out of the way, here is the list of animatronic characters that will appear (in order)...,

The Restored Animatronics (The Ones on the Main Stage):

-Spongebob Squarepants (Night 1)

Arguably the poster child of Nickelodeon, Spongebob is the most active animatronic out of them all. He attacks from the center doorway, approaching the player and attacking (much like Toy Freddy from FNaF 2). To deter him, the player must shine their flashlight in his eyes to deter him. Simple enough.

-Cosmo and Wanda (Night 1)

Possibly the other poster children of Nickelodeon, Cosmo and Wanda travel together in a pair. Being the second most active animatronics, these two will attack from the vents (much like Toy Bonnie and Toy Chica from FNaF 2), with Cosmo coming from the Left Vent and Wanda coming from the Right Vent. To deter them, the player must shut the vents when they see them on the Vent Camera. 

-Jimmy Neutron and Goddard (Night 2)

Jimmy Neutron and Goddard play an interesting role, with neither of them attacking the player directly. Jimmy will go into the Breaker Room and start draining the power to the whole building (much like Electrobab from Sister Location’s Custom Night). The player will have to use a controlled shock to stop this animatronic from doing that because if the power goes out, the other animatronics will have no trouble attacking the player. Goddard attacks from the center hallway, but, unlike Spongebob, will prevent the player from seeing any of the security cameras by unplugging the chord. This makes for a disasterous recipe, especially during the later nights. To deter Goddard, the player will ahve to shine their flashlight down the hallway when they hear a distinct mechanical bark. 

The Withered Animatronics (The Ones in Parts and Service):

-Rocko (Night 3)

Not being as active as the others, Rocko will attack from the vents much like Cosmo and Wanda. The kicker is that he can come from either the left vent or the right vent very quietly, potentially catching the player off guard. The player will have to check the vent camera or listen out for quiet noises to know where Rocko is coming from. If he is in the Left Vent, the player must shut that vent and vice-versa. Failing to do so will result in Rocko getting in and attacking the player.

-Ickis (Night 4)

Much like Jimmy Neutron and Goddard, Ickis will not attack the player directly. Instead, he will appear on a random camera and the player has to click away from said camera. Failing to do so will result in Ickis jumpscaring the player and preventing them from using their flashlight for the entire night.

-Invader Zim (Night 5)

Possibly the hardest animatronic to deal with, Invader Zim acts much like a mix of Foxy from FNaF 1 and Withered Foxy from FNaF 2. If the player is not watching the camera in which he is located (Parts and Service), Invader Zim will become active and begin to exit the room in 3 phases: 

-Phase 1: Staring at the camera while still sitting

-Phase 2: Standing up while still staring at the camera

-Phase 3: Heading towards the door that leads into Parts and Service

Once this animatronic is at Phase 3, the player must use a controlled shock to get this animatronic away from the door.

If the player fails to do this, Invader Zim will exit the room, run at breakneck speeds through the restaurant, and stop right in front of the security office. When this happens, it’s already too late and there will be NOTHING the player can do to deter this animatronic. After a few seconds, Invader Zim will run down the hallway and into the security office, attacking the player. This is the same animatronic that was involved in the aforementioned Bite of ‘87-esc incident (ergo, he bit a guest and managed to cut their jugular vein, causing them to bl33d out in front of several horrified guests). 

-Spongeboy (Night 6)

The original rendition of Spongebob Squarepants, Spongeboy is the aforementioned something that nobody expected to appear. Being this game’s “Golden Freddy”, he will randomly appear in the security office, seeming to phase into existence. When Spongeboy appears, the player will hear a Sponegbob-esc laugh (albeit something is off about it). If the player does not pull up their camera while he is in the office, Spongeboy will attack the player and result in a unique jumpscare (ergo, a close-up image of him with realistic eyes and a loud noise). Nobody knows why Spongeboy is even in this location as there is no record of a Spongeboy animatronic even existing, which could indicate that something is definitely amiss here....

Extra Animatronics (Docile Easter Eggs):

-Doug (Any Night)

Doug will randomly appear in any camera but will not attack the player. He is occasionally joined by Skeeter Valentine, Patti Mayonnaise or his dog Porkchop. 

-Guapo and Fraz Flub (Any Night)

Guapo and Fraz will occasionally appear in the Main Dining Area or other party rooms but won’t bother the player. In both instances, they can be seen carrying large birthday presents, which indicates that these two are gift-giving animatronics.

Extra Animatronics (Hostile Entities):

-Shadowbob (Nights 4 and 5)

Shadowbob is a dark figure that resembles Spongebob and that will appear in the security office at random (much like Shadow Bonnie from FNaF 2). If the player does not pull up their camera or flash their light while he is in the security office, Shadowbob will jumpscare the player and crash their game.

-VGDJHBD (Nights 5 and 6)

VGDJHBD is a shadowy figure that resembles Invader Zim and will appear in the security office at random. If this happens, the player has to look for this entity on the cameras to make him go away. Much like Shadowbob, VGDJHBD will jumpscare the player and crash their game if he is not deterred. 

One thing to note is that Ickis and VGDJHBD can NEVER appear on the same camera at the same time.This is so that the game is still pretty fair (albeit difficult).

Phew! This was a lot to type out! I figured that this would be an interesting idea for a potential fangame. If I didn’t run the risk of getting sued, then I’d make this into a legitimate fangame! 

If you like this idea or have something to add, please let me know with a like, reblog, or reply! All feedback is appreciated!

[ddontyyoukknow]

10/16/21

I finally have alot going on and my anxiety is allowing me to function within it which is a great feat (knock on wood) im sitting in my kitchen not in my studio because that set up is not very comfortable, maybe ill have to move it arounf but the table is small and also an akward height so that i can only use the pinty stools that came with it or a chair with many cushions. my pants and underwear have both been placed on my mid butt, i feel bloated and constipated even though i dedicated about 30 mintues of my morning on the toilet pooping very slowly but i got alot out but my tummy is still uncomfy and achy. truth is i havent been eating the healthiest and i just have a sensitive stomach. but i had a date and ornage smoothie this morning and im having potatoes and green beans for lunch. ive been having a bunch of cheese the last couple of days. i think being vegan is back on for me that is of course until i get peckish adn hingry and the as soon as some hearty meal is placed in front of me i cant help myself. but thats a part of myself im trying to acceot and am still keeping my hopes up that one day ill sucessfully be vegan and eat healthy. i also want to be vega because i read that a lady cured her derealization by going vegan and meditationg a bunch. truth be told ive been doing greta in the dp/dr department and there are moments now where i can feel that im really here which is great. this is helped by the fact that im not scared terrified and in fight or flight all the time and that has been helped by teddy showing me unconditonal job and also amoving to a city where i feel i am closer to working towards my life purpose. and ive been abe to work towards my life goals recently thanks to my sponser and boyfriend teddy, who is working a full time job while i have failed to find a good one which i still feel uilty about but i am working ym ass of latley to make money with my art. im becoming an illustrator and ill finish my portfoilio soona nd apply to agencie sand trya dn get clients on my own and  and i have my art in an onine how nad my art is being used to proomote a film in paris and im talking to a band about making an album cover for them and i have a solo show and I have a couple comissions lined up that will equal at about $400 this month and once m illustatraion stuff inecvitabley start taking off nad my etsy stuff that i will establish later alos take off i will have enough money to sustain him ad his music so he will only have t wok f he wants to and hell be able to wokr on his career like me (knock on wood) ive found that if i dont knock on wood then ive literally been getting jinxed latley. i also applied to a residency adn am really hopeful ill get in and will apply to grnats. anyway thats what im up to. have a bunch of loose ends to tie up for setting up my solo show tomorrow. one of my biggest goals for this year is to pay  off all my debt. i have about $4,000 right now or almost that. also the house has smelled dusty all morning and it was the first cold day in octiber! like cold cold!  in the 40s :) my kitchen table is lime green. i have a halloween party coming up in a week. i very excited. i have all the supplies and decorations and now all i need is after i have everything set up for my solos how tomorrow ill begin buying the food for the party and setting up decorations nad my mind will hace to be on applying ofr angencies and reaching out to art directors and grants and inviting hella people to my show opening and also catching up with inktober. :) i ahve a full plate and i wish i didnt have these random body aches :)

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My work over the last term has responded to sexual misconduct that happens within our country, close communities, and, frankly, my own person life. Prior to graduate school I focused on woodworking and metal work, and before I began graduate school, I began experimenting with embroidery, as I knew that was a direction I was interested in heading. Brief introduction of myself: Hello, I am Emma Duehr, from born and raised in Dubuque, Iowa and continued my undergraduate there, and have been in Portland area for a year and half now. Before graduate school I focused on woodworking, metalwork, oil painting, and performance art. My goal for the first term of graduate school was to do something completely differnent, and to research very intentional decisions before heading in different direction. Brief summary to work: Where I started this term: So the week before graduate school, I felt like learning how to embroider, to put away my oil paint, and use color in a different way. Here are the examples of my first attempts at using embroidery. The first week of school, the Kavanagh hearings were going on. I felt a pain I never really felt before, and learned that many other individuals related. I simply started a conversation via my instagram account, to feel less alone on that hard day. Had over 30 people share their stories. Then that night, I went to work and had yet another sexual comment made about me. I felt this happened way to frequently, and wanted to come up with a way that I didnt need to waste my breath when encountering an innapropriate man in public; I went home and embroidered into the back pocket of my jeans. And this one day all started the growth of this project. So “Talking Tushies” has become a two-part social engagement project. Part 1 is, I have made over 100 backpocket shaped patches that state sexual assault statistics upon them. They are currently walking the streets in 3 different countries, and 18 different states throughout the United States. The project utilizes the male gaze to confront the frequency of sexual assault within out country. The patches aim to activate the female body in a way to start the much needed conversation in public settings. They are currently public art installations and heading into public performance pieces. Part 2, is, I have started a platform for people to share their experiences with sexual assault, rape, and haraassment, and over 100 people have participated thus far. All the stories are the primary material needed for an installation I forsee in the coming future. The stories are directly embroidered upon vintage and modern undergarments and displayed within a closet setting. Closet: The stories are designed to hang in a closet formation to illustrate the tabboo subject and hiding of trauma, and welcoming the public into the space to experience them in a relatable everyday setting. In an ideal world, which I am trying to figure out. This installation takes place is actualy closets of public gallery/public settings. Each viewer is required to wear supplied white gloves to illustrate both a feeling of a special event as well as handling “medical” evidence. Embroidery: Embroidery is historically a feminine medium and activity that has persisted into today’s society as such. Embroidery historically has been an autobiographical medium of women’s labor, a way from women to express themselves through a craft in relationship to the household. I have chosen embroidery as my material for text to connect to it’s history, current trends in today’s society, and for it’s “soft” textile to write very forward information with it. Experimentation I experimented with a variety of clothing items, household items, styles of texts, ways of communication with embroidery, What worked, didnt work? and as of last week, I feel the full circle of this terms experiementation has inclosed. I ahve a clear direction of this project’s future, as I start considering new projects as well. Artists I have looked at: Zoe Buckman Ellen Lesperance Sarah Lucas Next Steps: Keep extensivley working on the garments through the break for the january first show exhibition. I plan 2-3 garments a day, and 14 patches a week to remain on a steady distribution. By then, I should have 70-100 garments completed and over 200 patches completed. I am still working on all installation considerations, as this room was the first time the public has seen them. What feedback I wish for: How this room right now makes you feel, with all the choices made in this space? Where you see the patches going? How do these projects connect together, what brings them together and what seperates them? Questions that Open Studios proposed? TA with Fabric department or sculpture department? How to make each person wear the gloves. Is there a more masculine or gender neutral style of gloves I could also have? I felt like I needed to remain in the room- to have a conversation in the private room, to make people wear gloves, and to body gaurd kinda thing. I made a lot of people cry, I need to cope with that. I am okay with people reading it with a shopping like context to the installation- it easily connects into real life settings- women wear and dont wear specific clothing in connection to sexual harassment. && it also gets to the context of “clothing as consent” all that shit. That there is no options that count as consent, all of them are proved wrong. Brief summary of Maine concerns and current practices be as clear as possible: Where did you start on this term? How did the work unfold walk us through decisions? What worked, didn’t work and what did you learn from this? What artists in research and formed you in our relevant? What role does experimentation have in your work and how? What do you most wish for feedback and from the panel? Next steps?

[sinceileftyoublog]

Alasdair Roberts Interview: What News? Nae News.

Photo by Alex Woodward

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Earlier this year, Scottish singer-songwriter Alasdair Roberts released one of his finest albums to date--one that’s not even a solo record. What News is a collaboration between Roberts, pianist David McGuinness, and electronic artist Amble Skuse. If it sounds contemporary--the clicks of Skuse’s laptop interweaving with McGuinness’ keys and Roberts’ voice and occasional guitar--the songs are not. They’re traditional Scottish ballads that the three make sound more alive than ever.

Speaking to me from Glasgow earlier this year, Roberts detailed to me how hard it is for him to find a U.S. booking agent. “It’s a difficult time for English folk music,” one facetiously told him (not realizing Roberts sings undeniably Scottish songs). But what What News proves is “same as it ever was.” The songs are riddled with sad tales of death rooted in a world with oppressive gender norms, a world we’re always threatening to return to. In some ways, we already have. The familiarity of the songs is eerie, and it makes them all the more powerful.

Check out the rest of my interview with Roberts, edited for length and clarity, below. He reveals the process behind making What News, the problematic nature of many of the songs, and his take on Drag City’s much publicized decision to make much of their catalog available for streaming.

Since I Left You: What overall inspired you to embark on the What News project?

Alasdair Roberts: I had these traditional Scottish ballads--I love them--that I had been singing for a while. I wanted to do something with them. But I was kind of growing a bit frustrated with my customary guitar accompaniment. I had worked with David McGuinness before on a few things, so I thought about a piano accompaniment on these songs with him playing. He’s a great pianist, obviously, and I knew he’d have some good ideas. Also to free me up from singing and expressing myself vocally and concentrating on the songs without having to play an instrument at the same time. I thought it might be an interesting challenge and way of developing as a vocalist.

SILY: These songs had been kicking around in your live performance, but had you ever recorded any of them in a traditional way before?

AR: [For the album] No Earthly Man, the song “Long A-Growing”, we actually recorded in that session. In a studio in the middle of nowhere in rural Aberdeen. We had a bonfire one night and set up some microphones around the bonfire, and I recorded that song that night. But we didn’t put it on the record. Some of them I’ve been singing for a long time. Some I haven’t performed live. Some I’ve performed live before with guitar and bass. Some just unaccompanied vocals.

SILY: Did you ahve to narrow down a larger group of songs, or did you know you wanted the record to be these specific songs?

AR: There were a couple of songs that we tried playing, but they kind of fell by the wayside. One was a song called “Lord Donegal” that I ended up putting elsewhere. Essentially, I felt really strongly about these particular songs.

SILY: Where did you put “Lord Donegal”?

AR: It’s on this record called Missed Flights and Fist Fights that I made with a couple of guys from Chicago--Bill Lowman and Brad Gallagher. It came out three years ago, self-released.

SILY: How do you go about deciding the arrangements for traditional songs?

AR: In this case, it was pretty organic. At first, it was David and I, and then Amble got involved later on. But David and I would meet a few times in Glasgow, and I’d just sing him the song, he’d think about it for a while and come up with a piano accompaniment. We’d just organically do that process of back and forth between the two of us and then between the three of us.

SILY: Did you give Amble and David free reign to interpret and add to the songs?

AR: Pretty much. We all gave each other free reign, really. I kind of like that, when the people I work with have good ideas and are free to express them rather than someone saying, “Play these notes” or “Do it this way.” I’m very happy with how it all came out. I don’t regard being 100% happy with everything as necessarily a good thing or a victory. It can be just as valid to have your aesthetics, ideas, and assumptions challenged. Something that may be a bit uncomfortable or that you may not enjoy.

SILY: On the Bandcamp page, you mention, “Amble Skuse's electronics keep the 21st century in the picture, which unfortunately, seems necessary.” What did you mean by “unfortunately seems necessary?”

AR: That must have been Drag City that wrote that. I don’t think it’s a comment about Amble’s music making but about the 21st century. That unfortunately we still have to remain in this century. That’s what I understood it to be. Right this minute seems like a particularly rough time. But I don’t think the past was much better, really. 

It’s easy to look back on the past. A lot of these songs detail a very tough existence. Tough situations which obviously happened in the past just as much if not more so than now. Particularly for women. The gender politics of these songs are quite questionable. That was a thing that came up a lot in discussion between the three of us making it. It’s always the woman who suffers or gets done in. How do you sort of deal with that in the present day when you’d like to believe you have liberal attitudes?

SILY: How did you deal with that?

AR: I’m not sure if we did, really. [laughs] I suppose just by thinking that they’re a reflection of attitudes and experiences that existed, and it’s important to remember that they did, lest they should persist.

SILY: That’s one of the good parts about living in the 21st century.

AR: That’s one of the good things, but there’s always that counter struggle against forces of liberation, and so on. Like the rise of the Alt-Right or whatever. The back-and-forth seems inevitable.

SILY: Do you have a favorite track on the record?

AR: I don’t think I do. [laughs] I was laughing because when David and Amble and I were rehearsing, I think Amble asked David a similar question. And he said, “I’m trying to free myself from my likes and dislikes.” And we were like, “Shut the fuck up.” [laughs]

A lot of people seem to like “Clerk Colvin”. That seems to get a lot of attention. The one that’s 10 minutes long.

SILY: It’s about a fifth of the album.

AR: That seems to be a standard favorite. I can understand why. I don’t think it’s necessarily my favorite. I like them all.

SILY: Was the title taken from a line in “The Dun Broon Bride”?

AR: It was, but I think it also comes up in the second track. It’s kind of like a stock phrase in these ballads. “What news, what news.” Some point when something exciting has happened, someone will ask this question. The answer, invariably, is, “Nae news, nae news.” 

SILY: It’s a question, but it almost seems like an exclamation of exasperation, too.

AR: I see what you’re saying. It could be read as that. But it’s “nae news, nae news” because nothing really changes. The human condition now is the same as it was long ago when these ballads originated.

SILY: What’s the story behind the cover art?

AR: There’s a woman called Amy Whiten who is a friend of Amble’s. The three of us were discussing artwork, and Amble said, “We’ll get my friend Amy.” She sent examples similar to this one, a variety of work, and we all liked it, so we commissioned Amy to make 8 individual pictures for each track. She had free reign over it. We gave her a month, and she came up with what she came up with with minimal input from the musicians. It’s how she envisioned the songs.

SILY: Did you have an opinion on Drag City’s choice to stream the large majority of their catalog?

AR: I had mixed feelings about Spotify. Before Drag City put my music on Spotify, there was some of my music on there. I felt kind of weird about it because it wasn’t representative of what I do now. Some of it was very old or atypical of what I do. I know a lot of people go to Spotify to check out new artists or artists they’ve never heard, and I was partly worried I was being misrepresented there. In a way, I’m happy that the Drag City stuff--the core of my work--is there for people to hear. At the same time, I’d obviously rather people buy physical copies.

Roberts, McGuinness, and Skuse have a few UK live dates lined up for the fall, as does Roberts solo and with other collectives.

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Beautiful Waste 2.0 and the Cultural Hotspot!

Blank Canvases recieved a grant from the City of Toronto’s Cultural Hotspit programme to create Beautiful Waste 2.0 in the east end! Continuing​ the partnership with Thinking Forward, ​facilitated​ ​by​ ​Aileen​ ​Lam​ ​and​ ​Kageana​ ​Arul​,​ ​the​ ​Beautiful​ ​Waste​ ​2.0​ ​Art​ ​Workshop​ ​was​ ​designed​ ​to​ ​help​ ​the​ ​participants exercise​ ​their​ ​creative​ ​thinking​ ​sand leadership skills.  ​In the workshop they would ​build​ ​the​ ​artwork​ ​that​ ​would​ ​be​ ​presented​ ​to​ ​the​ ​public​ ​at the​ ​​Monarch​ ​Park​ ​Arts​ ​and​ ​Music​ ​Festival​.​ 

For their project Beautiful Waste 2.0, they had youth design and lead a public art installation around ideas of waste in our lives. In workshops before the festival, the youth came up with the idea of 'food waste' in the domestic space as an issue they wanted to explore through art at the festival.

Blank Canvases provided an interactive art activity for the guests at the Monarch Arts and Music Festival at Monarch Park.  Working with installation artist Tim Manalo, they created two large constructions of foods that are most wasted ( corn, and onion ). At the festival, they asked participants to draw photos of the last food that they had wasted.

The idea was that normally people throw food away without thinking. By having the participants sit and draw this food, it created a moment of reflection. Afterwards, the participants attached their food to the large onion or corn which was set up by the studio tables. Throughout the day the sculptures filled with drawings and people interacted and explored looking at and reading what other people had added as their wasted food. The result was a very colourful and engaged art experience that created some very provocative community conversation about an issue that the students were very passionate about.

The last part of the project will ahve the youth go into elementary schools in the east end of the city to teach the programme to children and enact their leadership skills in the classroom. 

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also the final dungeon sucked and am i like the only one who hated the whole twist entirely? literally the only good bit was that mr never before foreshadowed trash hype killer villain god disguised himself as igor that was a good twist if it was anyone else, if it was a random npc like with p4′s deity final boss, then it would have had no redeeming qualities seriously it was SO THEMATICALLY BAD seriously shido is SUCH a climax boss and you have actual reasons to hate him and an actual grudge and it feels good to kick his ass! even if his boss design is stupid looking! yaldabaoth is just... nobody he’s an abstract representation of the theme of the whole plot, which already got answered it was SO DUMB to just have out of nowhere everyone learns the same lesson again in a giant literal metaphor way dude we ALREADY answered the questions about ‘whether humanity prefers to be obedient and enslaved rather than make their own choices’ and it was so artificial that public opinion of the phantom thieves suddenly tanks to 0 after they save the day?? if everyone forgot about us cos of evil godman brainwashing then HOW IS THIS A LESSON THATS BEING LEARNED. They just had to love us EVEN MORE so they were able to break the rbainwashing! like seriously it was just like.. you wanted some excuse to have everyone cheer on the phantom thieves as they watch the battle why not just have all that happen WITH SHIDO I mean he’s said to have stolen a bunch of metaverse research and know all about it it would make him much more of a threat if he did more with that say that HE is the one using mementos to brainwash the public have the phantom theieves fade from existance cos of that ‘kill myself to collapse my own palace’ plot shido did have it like.. it looks like eveyrone got out fast enough, theyre right at the entrance to the real world, but its just too late everyone fades away seeing the real world in the distance and screaming for anyone to grab their hand, but nobody sees them same effect same scene, just with shido and without three more hours of repetitive plot and a terrible TERRIBLE final dungeon! you could even still have the whole thing of the velvet room attendants fighting back against igor and saving you and then you go back and do the final fight just have it like.. igor was actually good and it was all a test, he faked betraying you. cos this is your final test- standing up to the ultimate authority figure. and he congratulates you for overcoming his challenge, and like.. reveal that the entire prison warden thing was a test for justine and caroline. they were the ones being rehibilitated. like, a test to gain free will that he always does for each new attendant. OR just have the same plot of evil igor imposter and stuff, but we dont need to have it happen after shido’s plot and lead to just goddamn repetition of p4 izanami withoutr any of the characetr development. Seriously he doesnt even get any moral ambiguity or anything! He’s just evil! He doesnt even really believe he’s doing what humanity wants! And him acting as your helper for fuckin 90 HOURS wasnt like a sign of character complexity or anyting, it as just a lie! Think of how much more interesting it could have been if yaldabaoth had a plot like ryoji, like he’s the human form of a god created to destroy everything but he ended up developing genuine affection for the protagonists and regretting the role he must inevitably play. That would have been repetitive but the plot we got is repetitive anyway!! and like seriously just SOMETHING SOMETHING somehow make him working with shido! remove the ENTIRE FINAL DUNGEON. It was padding in a game that was SO RUSHED aside from this damn moment! take that screentime and flesh out haru’s screentime more! DAMN YOOOOOOU have shido being a super mastermind who’s working with this evil god have shido be a wild card, even?? or have him as someone who’s like.. his pride and jealousy caused him to make a pact with this evil god in order to gain like.. fake wild card powers. He’s not able to actually use the metaverse on his own, he’s relied on manipulating his trash son,  and now he’s without even that option he gets so desperate he WILL NOT ACCEPT his loss and goes all super saiyan by fusing with yaldabaoth. Yaldabaoth’s lack of personality doesnt really matter here, because he’s being a plot element instead of a final boss all on his lonesome. He could even be more sympathetic, cos all we see of him is as a mcguffin holy grail acting as the warden to everyone who GENUINELY wishes for imprisonment rather than free will. We dont get to hear his voice, we dont get to see him brainwashing people who clearly didnt make that choice, just to repeat an already-answered question about whether humanity as a whole would make that choice. Its just ‘hey here’s a mcguffin that exists because of the suicidal wishes of humans, and shido has stolen it and is using it to power up, holy shit’. And all we know about yaldabaoth is that he/they/it wants to grant wishes, and has no morality to determine which are good or bad. Not that its a fuckhead with dreams of granduer who wants to trick everybody into wishes they didnt ask for, and has NO PERSONALITY instead of being izanami WITHOUT PERSONALITY and just... GAHHH So yeah like BLINDSIDED, SLAP IN THE FACE, we thought we defeated shido, we were trying to grab the holy grail but WHOOPS HE’S BACK AND HE GRABBED IT. Like, after the whole climactic ‘shido is collapsing his own palace’ scene, when everyone leaves the velvet room they’re just at the site of that locked door, skipping the whole shitty dungeon. And then we see the holy grail right there and we get the exposition about it right there, and how it could reverse all of shido’s bullshit at the cost of ending the metaverse, blah. No need for a boring month of being unable to do anything but see cutscene after cutscene of BUT WE DEFEATED SHIDO BUT NOTHING IS HAPPENING. And then like.. SURPRISE! Shido isnt really dead! we accidentally led him right to this mcguffin that he can now use to become SuperFinalBossmanRematchMode. And this is where we get the exposition of how he didnt really die, it was a fake death pill. OR, if we wanna get EVEN MORE climactic goodness, maybe shido DID die from that, and now like.. his soul is trapped in the cognitive world forever as this horrifying shadow fusion thing and he’s still whining about how its your fault and taking no responsibility for his actions. So SUPER SMACKDOWN TO FINALLY END IT ONCE AND FOR ALL! And its still high stakes cos its all ‘holy shit it should be impossible for him to still exist’ and ‘holy shit he fuckin ate a god’. And like, if yaldabaoth got fuckin bitchslapped before he could even be a presence in the plot. ‘Yeah hey i was pretending to be igor- ARRGH HOLY SHIT SHIDO NO’ Mr actual climatic boss reclaims his throne, rather literally. Makes him more imposing than he is when he’s really just another palace ruler and you never even confront the real world shido or anything. I mean you kinda already beat his plans when you removed his only minion who could access the metaverse, you just do the rest of the palace to collapse his career too... and then like fuckin.. somehow have the same thing where the metaverse and real world start blending. But it’d even have a better explanation than just Yaldabaoth Can Do That, I Guess, And He Didn’t Do It Until Right Now Because Reasons. You could say its like a consequence of the metaverse revolting at shido’s running away from death. Say his willpower is so strong that he can fuckin fuck up reality with it! His ego is THAT big! And then hoodly boo, same thing with everyone cheering you on so you summon satan and save christmas. But the final boss could look less stupid than a fuckin faceless art studio model made of chrome that pulls a gun out of its butt. Or I mean it could look even more stupid, it could just ahve shido’s shit face pasted on top XD But shido’s already proven that he can give a climactic boss fight even while looking like a dumbass wearing too many ShakeWeights(tm)! OR ORRRRRR Instant fix that could LITERALLY make the whole thing better without changing any dialogue except one namebox. Just say Yaldabaoth is someone else. Just give him the name of a fan favourite villain from early persona *COUGH NYARTHALOTEP COUGH* It would fit better with the YEAHHHHH BOYYY factor of his big twist of being fake igor, it would keep that hype going instead of murdering it with a personalityless villain and eight floors of just stairs and light puzzles. EVEN BETTER if they actually did go far enough to make it a proper nyarly cameo and give him a design as cool as his old ones. Like seriously the thing of being twisted representations of everyone’s parents would work SO WELL here thematically! it could be a rgeat moment to FINALLY see and hear more about protagonist’s parents! And like half the party has issues with family that we already saw in the other palaces, so it could be a great fake boss rush style memory lane of all those guys. instead of just pulling guns out his butt that cast all the same status effects. It could be ESPECIALLY good for GIVING POOR HARU MORE SCREENTIME AND DEVELOPMENT. Seriously, just imagine how fucked up it would be to see a twisted fake dad doll attatched to some fucker’s tentacle face, all these months after he died? it was a good idea to at least mention how he was the only palace owner who died, but it was a shame it meant he was also the only one who didnt get to cameo here and give the corresponding party member some more dialogue and developments. Especially cos Haru is fuckin awesome against bosses! HARU 4 EVARRRR But seriously even if everything was exactly the same and they just made one small reference to some character we already know something about, at least it would give us some frame of reference for yaldabaoth’s actual goddamn motives. who in the FUCK thinks its a good idea to tape on an extra 10 hours after the climactic boss to give us Nobody Mc Grail who Does Bad Cos He Want To. Srsly its like if P4 ended with ameno-sagiri and didnt even have all that izanami stuff and moral ambiguity and seriously i am gaining SO MUCH appreciation for how they managed to make a sudden unforeshadowed boss have AN ACTUAL SOUL. And she related to the themes of the story without being repetitive!  Still not as good as nyx/ryoji in my opinion, but it wasnt just ‘we are contractually obliged to throw in 1 (one) Evil God (tm) at the last second, because its a persona game’ the final scene was good, the everything else wasnt 100 Yes to Satan Saving Christmas Thank God for Giant Bullet Blow His Face Off but not THIS PARICULAR GOD because he is a detestable flaw in a game that I loved very much! at least he got fuckin sploded and got a good ‘im fucked’ face without even having a face. Seriously that brief REACTION SHOT was sooooo fuckin cathartic! his ONLY PERSONALITY he ever got was being a smug asshole who thinks he’s the best final boss ever, and we got an actual moment of ‘ha ha ha ha i win i win, i- OHHOTDIGGITYJESUSCHRIST’ *splat* thanks satan now can we seriously have no more evil gods ever, they have officially outlived their welcome can satan just shoot all of them in the head before they even get to be in the story ilu satan (also im curious now to do more research on ‘satanael’ and see what the difference even is about this form? is it just a different aspect of the christian devil like how satan and lucifer are also available in this game? or is satanael actually just a different mythological figure and the whole ‘satan saves christmas’ meme is just cos they sound similar?)