#and yes im talking about the tierlists....

[oddvanilla]

ultrakill yaaayy :33

basic info that i am 99% sure you already know:. its a bloody and violent fast paced fps where you are a robot who went to hell for blood (blood is fuel and allat 🔥🔥) . you kill literally everything. its level based and you travel down through the layers as you go. theres multiple weapons and multiple weapon types and also 3 different arms that you can switch through really quickly to get more style points and deal more/different damage

my favorite weapons are the marksman revolver (your can throw up to 4 coins in the air and then shoot them.) and the pump charge shotgun (you can also parry the shells to make it go further which is awesome and really cool and also awesome. if you overcharge it, it blows up and can launch you really far. both good and bad depending on what situation youre in) but theres more weapons and i dont really want to explain every one, so. :3 (oh oh the screwdriver railcannon is also good cause itll hit an enemy and cause it to bleed. which heals you. hence the 'blood is fuel'.)

there's like a. score thingy and your rating for each level is determined on how fast you complete it, how many enemies you've killed, and your style points. (and i think how many times you die). all levels have a like. best score that you have to get for it to be like, S or A or whatever. P ranking is beating a level under a specific time, killing everything, and getting at least a certain amount of style. and not dying at all. its kinda. pretty hard. this is what a p rank looks like

that was for the level where you fought v2 and got the whiplash (arm that is like. uhhh. grabby thing? how do i explain it . like it pulls you towards things or things towards you depending on their weight. like a grappling hook?? idk) basically it was just a boss fight thats why the style points and kills are low. i dont have pictures of any other levels ive p ranked.. so .

anyways :3 its a really fun game. its very fast and there's always shit happening and you have to be like. always alert or else youre dead. this was not as in depth as i could have gone. and i didnt talk about the characters or like. some other stuff. if you want more explanation lmk and i will be happy to do it 🔥🔥🔥 SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG LMAO I WAS TRYING TO P RANK 6-2 AND TYPE THIS SO EVERY TIME I FAILED ID COME BACK TO THIS AND ADD MORE 😭😭

autism fueled rant over 🔥i should have added more pictures but i was scared that if i left the tab this would have been deleted. :333

First of all. This is, THE COOLEST EXPLANATION IVE SEEN EVER. I've NEVER been more interested in reading long paragraphs than right now.

Second of all, HELL YEAH!!!! FAST PACED GAMES ARE THE BEST!!! or at least for impatient people like me...

WHAT I GOT IS THAT THERE'S LIKE. DIFFERENT WEAPONS FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES?? LIKE SOME GET YOU MORE STYLE POINTS THAN OTHERS?? IDK ABT YOU BUT MARKMANS REVOLVER SOUNDS COOL ASF!!! AND P RANKING IS LIKE,, ENDING SOMETHING IN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME.?? I THINK THATS LIKE SPEED RUNNING A LEVEL😍 IS THAT WHY ITS CALLED ULTRAKILL?? BECAUSE YOU JUST KILL EVERYTHING?? DAMNN

Im actually curious what's the lore who are the protagonists and what are they fighting against

[petruchio]

i was lowkey tumblr stalking asks you’ve answered before (i apologize i just love how in depth u answer) and now i wanna know your tierlist (A/B/C/D/F) for the songs on GUTS. include deluxe pls bc imo the deluxe tracks are better than many main album tracks hehe

well first off you can ALWAYS stalk me and never apologize for it, i love answering stuff and i love that people actually read it HAHA! so please <3 stalk away <3 i love it

i LOVE this question. i was going to make one of those images like the youtubers do for tier lists but then i realized i would have to explain myself anyway so im just going to give each song a letter grade and a little blurb about why i think this... so here goes 🤓

i actually have to put this under a cut because it got so long that i am not going to clog up people's dash with my long and way too detailed thoughts on GUTS but please read this if it is of interest bc i would love to continue discussing haha

so first i'm going to say to me overall guts is like a solid A-/A for a sophomore album. i don't think it's perfect but i think as far as showing growth from the first album, expanding on themes and sounds that were explored in sour, and just maturing while still feeling like a natural progression -- i think it does all of that really nicely while also managing to carve out a unique niche for olivia in the industry. so like. YES! great. (i have been saying that while i see olivia compared to taylor swift a lot, i think it's actually a much better comparison to compare her to avril lavigne in the early 2000s -- avril was originally "discovered" via performing with shania twain (which in some ways we could argue for being a taylor/olivia situation but in the 90s) and a lot of her early work and songwriting is influenced by the country music scene, but, just like olivia, her first album smashed onto the scene and captured the teenage zeitgeist in a really unique and special that was really of the moment it was released and dug into rock inspired hooks and sounds that resonated with the audience of young teens. if "driver's license" is olivia's "complicated," i think we can easily argue that "good 4 u" is her sk8r boi. (and deja vu is her i'm with you, the best single and best song in both of their discographies I SAID WHAT I SAID!) anyway all that is to say i think that GUTS and under my skin ALSO share a lot of parallels both in how they were marketed and the way they dive deeper into darker themes while expanding on a lot of what made the first album great, if perhaps not spawning the level of radio hits as the first album. anyway it's just something i think about that i don't see talked about all that much and i find it really interesting. i could keep going but i know that was an insane digression so let's get to the grades.)

all american bitch - B+ i think this song is a great opener and it has some really great lines in it -- the sarcasm makes it so fun and tongue in cheek and i actually like the scream, my reason for not being able to give it an A is just that i do feel like it's very much "putting on a persona" of being a rock punk chick, which is absolutely cool and is extremely well done, it just doesn't feel 100% authentic to me. like, i like the scream but it feels more like an acting performance than a genuine scream of anguish, but olivia is such an appealing actress that i'm like, yeah girl go off

bad idea right? - A+ this is the deja vu of the album for me. it is SUCH A GOOD SONG and it has the best video by far of any of the singles, it's so clever and creative and i actually really love her vocal delivery, it's bratty and obnoxious but for some reason it DOES feel authentic to me in a way AAB doesn't, i think it takes its influences and manages to reinterpret and transform them into something totally unique and personal to olivia and it's just GREAT. (i think a great example of how good this song is is honestly the kelly clarkson cover she did, it was a really fun cover but you could just tell that olivia's version works better, it's a song that feels like it could only be done by her and i love it for that.)

vampire - B i actually thought i'd rate this lower bc it is my least favorite song on the album but like, okay it's FINE. my issue with vampire is that 1) it feels like the label said "write another ballad that sounds like drivers license and we'll use that as the lead single" which i don't like, and 2) i've written before that my main issue with vampire is that it DOES NOT COMMIT to the genuinely cool metaphor that it attempts. i actually love the line "you only come out at night" because i think it's really clever and creative to extend the "sucking me dry" metaphor of a vampire. i think following that up with "i used to think i was smart but you made me look so naive" is such a let down and so cliche that it annoys me every time i hear the song. like, if the song instead was like "i should have known it was strange, you only come out at night/you said i tasted so sweet til nothing was left in my veins" or something i would think it was a great song. but instead we get that clunky cliche of a line and it irritates me. the song has potential but it just doesn't deliver.

lacy - A- (tw: ed) so i think that this song is about struggling with an ed and i think it is really amazing if you read it through that lens. i don't even really want to say that much more about it because when i saw someone say that on twitter and i listened to the song thinking about that, it hit me really hard and i think it's brilliantly done but it's intense. i think olivia said that it came out of a poem she wrote and i think that lacy is the personification of that really personal struggle and i think it's a beautiful and deeply sad metaphor and the song actually does it really well. i also really love her vocal delivery on the recording and i think it's beautifully produced, the layered vocals at the end are really gorgeous.

ballad of a homeschooled girl - A- honestly i have the same comments as i do about all american bitch except i just think this song is slightly better and feels a little more authentic. i think the lyrics on this one are really clever as well and i love the little production quirks like "how to flirt" and the outro is SO FUN and i love the sort of fourth wall break of "can't think of a third line" and the la la la that just kind of smashes into the end of the song, i think it works so well with the concept of the song so yeah. great.

making the bed - B+ this is a song where i'm like, there's nothing WRONG with it i just don't think it's particularly special, like it's a good song and it has some really great lyrics i just think it's a decent song that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. it's good. no real notes. my favorite lyric is "they tell me that they love me like i'm some tourist attraction" -- i love when the pop girls talk about the complexities of fame, and olivia seems strikingly self aware in a lot of her lyrics and that one is really a hard hitter. (it reminds me of billie's getting older song, "the things i once enjoyed just keep me employed now" and "another thing i ruined i used to do for fun" which are both lines that i feel like really do a nice job of exploring how it feels when your art and artistic expression becomes a job and a persona. i think billie and olivia are doing so much cool stuff and they both just seem like such cool and interesting girls. they just give the vibe that it would be so fun to get dinner with them and talk about their experience of teenage fame because they both seem to have some really interesting and complex insights about it.)

logical - B- tbh this song is kinda boring to me. it's fine but i just think it's a theme that is explored better in other songs. the one line i really like is "if rain don't pour and sun don't shine" because i like to imagine that it's a reference to taming of the shrew act iv scene v.

get him back! - A+ SO GOOD COME ON GET HIM BACK IS SO GOOD AHHHHHH i get mad thinking about the music video bc the iphone lens makes it so weird and i think this could've had an even better video without the iphone gimmick but holy cow this song is so good. it's so clever, it's so fun, it ROCKS. (though this is the point on the album where i start to get annoyed by all the production quirks, i think they are fun on a couple songs but we don't need the "is this the song with drums" thing, just play the song. there's only so much studio chatter that makes a song fun before it gets a little grating to listen to every time i want to play the song.) but this is a brilliant song. I WANNA MEET HIS MOM AND TELL HER HER SON SUCKS. has anyone ever more perfectly captured how it feels to be nineteen. ugh this song is so good.

love is embarrassing - A i actually really like this song and i think it's a really nice spiritual closer to sour. it does such a nice job of reflecting but in a funny, tongue-in-cheek, self aware way that i think is so appealing and cute. i love "you found a new version of me and i damn near started world war three" as a callback to "another actress i hate to think that i was just your type" and i LOOOVE the outro with "i'm planning out my wedding with some guy i'm never marrying" which i think is a fantastic line. i love the vocal delivery on the outro as well. (also this is an example for me of a song with no studio chatter or production gimmicks, and it's GOOD bc it's like, it doesn't need that! it's just a fun song! and i like it for that!!)

the grudge - A- honestly a beautiful song that captures a very specific feeling. i love the melody and the way she delivers "how could anybody do the things you did so easily?" the second verse is an absolute gut punch of what it feels like to come away from a toxic love. it has a couple clunkers (i'm not a fan of "trust that you betrayed, confusion that still lingers" which i think is just a bit awkward) but overall it's a lovely song and so raw.

pretty isn't pretty - A again just a really solid work. i love the guitar sound on it. and i think it does a really nice job of capturing another specific teenage emotion. one thing i love on GUTS is that it feels legitimately balanced between songs about heartbreak and songs about personal feelings and this song is one that i think does that second part very well. i really love the second prechorus line "it's in my phone it's in my head it's in the boys i bring to bed" and i think this song is really insightful and personal.

teenage dream - B my issue with this song is my same issue with hope ur ok which is that it just feels so aware of itself as AN ALBUM CLOSER and i find it a bit cloying. i think the theme is interesting and has potential but the song just annoys me because it feels kind of overdone. idk. i just don't love it. i get it and i get why it's there but i think there was a better way of closing the album in a more genuine way.

BONUS TRACKS RANKING LINK (i have to link a new post here since i hit the character limit on this post. geez lol)

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do people on this website post tierlists for fun idk does anyone care about my opinions on pokemon and miku probably not but I'm finally giving into the urge to be really annoying about music (not a music analyst) (doesn't know how to identify a lemotif) (Was in High School Marching Band)

Anyway gonna be real fuckin annoying about this one its called i talk about rankings that are mostly personal bias

Let's just go in release order lol

Songs linked in their "titles" (video embed limit is. less than 18)

DECO*27's Volt Tackle

ok so i have a confession. when this song came out, I knew it was going to end up pretty low on the list lol

Deconina (i can't. type that every time guys) is one of my favorite producers and almost every song he makes I nod my head at and go "yeah. that's a banger." But. BUT. He's started mixing his harder rock styles with his poppier hip hop styles and it comes to a head in this song. The bridge is really really distracting lol, feels like a different song and tone entirely from the kind of intense, battle like ferocity of the main part to a cutesy pop chant... It has a purpose, I'm sure, but there's something too dissonant about it for me to like.

The like, rest of the song is Deconina at his Deconina-est, I love the cute take on love (as he always does) with a pokemon flavoring... The visuals are also quite cute and fitting. It's really solid, but that one point holds it back from Funky Fresh, which is my baseline Very Solid.

Electrical Forecast by inabakumori

The second song, by a producer I don't follow nearly as closely as Deco. Uhh I did listen to lagtrain as homework before this and yes it bangs. It's always nice to see people using people other than Miku and Kaai Yuki actually has a real solid appeal to me.

This is a song that slaps. It bangs, even. I don't know enough about inabakumori to comment on its relevance to their personal stylings or themes but we were still in the romance period with pokemon puns and tie ins so I was already tempted to put it higher in the list. In actuality, every song does an excellent jobs integrating game sounds and puns so no extra points are available for that stuff lol

Taking the idea of catching pokemon is always dangerous, I think, because pokemon fans aren't really here to catch things, we're mostly interested in battles and the journey with our faves, not completing the pokedex (because it's hard, and kind of chore) at least, to me. This song feels like a journey through the tall grass, scouring the lands to find pokemon... I just like the inabakumori style man. It gets points for getting on the playlist, but not really speaking to me.

Mitchie M's What Kind of Future

Silly songs.......... my weakness and Mitchie M's strength oh no.........

Yeah Mitchie M really plays to his strengths, using cute visuals and nonstop puns to ooze a charm you can only get from haplessly indulging in the most whimsical of vibes. It was also quite surprising how well their TL team did with all the puns given some of them barely work lol.

"I love them all" is the type of pokemon fan I am, so that might also help explain why two of those songs are up so high...

Pinocchio-P Kills You with The Pokemon Inside My Heart

yeah i cried what're *you* gonna do about it huh

Im a pinocchio-p fan. I don't always like everything he puts out, but when he really hits its insane how hard he does.

1) i fucking love his little pinomikus... having them all in a costume is so fucking cute they're little slit eyed freaks and by far my favorite trademark a producer's ever had lol My favorite. is lapras...

2) This isn't the first song to fuck me up by him lol 2:30 Life Remaining also damaging as hell, so it wasn't surprising to see him go for a quieter angle but man when its something you grew up with, a nostalgia you could relate to, an experience you lived, its way worse. It's such a soft song, with an upbeat backbone, I've no idea how he got the music to scream "nostalgia" so hard but the reverberating "aah"s are so cool too...

Anyway this song would be the best song if I weren't horrendously biased. It should honestly be up their with the top two but it was funnier to keep it in the crying tier.

Battle! by cosMo@Bousou-P

I honestly did not like this song all that much when it first came out, but that was almost certainly because it was right after Pinochhio-P's lol

The high concept of people in the comments talking about some sort of Miku AI champion that was tired of winning got me more into the song now that I'm not directly comparing it to a song that spoke way more to me, there's just something a little unhinged about it in the way that cosMoBousou does well with machine intelligence/the meaning of digital media.

He also plays p well into his strengths with the breakcore fast bpm lol this song screams GO GO GO! I think it makes total sense why he'd go for a battle theme, and I really like the way the pokemon sfx are incorporated into the backing... drums? Unfortunately, I like battle songs not that much, and the lyrics leave a little to be desired because the story's a bit... confusing lol Maybe it's cheap of me to prefer nostalgia baits over whatever strange original story cosMo's thought up but that's how it is.

A little evil with Kasamura Tota's I'll Fly in the Sky with You

Another producer I've not heard of before! No one talked about this song either, in my circles, I actually missed it until I came back for Giga and Jin's. I passed over it on first watch, put it on in the background and said "yeah, that's a nice soft song," thinking nothing of it. Boy was I fucking WRONG

edit (not an edit I'm writing this all in one sitting), I LIED I *have* heard this guys stuff before!! Araki covered one of his songs lol ok I'm getting the sense their skillset is Violently Sad Songs and goddamn are they good at em.

Anyway this song's MV is adorable and uses mudkips status as an adorable fave as a double shot directly to your sadglands as it tells a story of a pokemon that stays the same to continue to fly with its friend. Its fucked up, and a little evil, and totally took me by surprise because I was a fool. Little Guys Deserve Love Too is something you don't always remember as pokemon fan and it takes the implication of evolution seriously its really some pokemon Mystery Dungeon type heartstring pulling that got me good.

Musically I love the quiet backing that really lets the vocals (the story) breathe, its a musical narrative. The back and forth between Luka and Miku is done really well, plus having it based entirely around an existing pokemon song really helps it achieve its heart punching effectiveness.

Also I have a horrible bias toward piano please don't look up at the tierlist and where I placed Marasy

(Hilarious it got a kids rating on youtube btw. Another youtube kids L, probably)

We couldn't draw miku at a fucked up angle this time guys: Giga's Gotchu!

lol yeah they had to sanitize this one's visuals a little bit, probably worked with a different artist than usual... It does show, a bit, in the kind of bouncy visual style Giga's used to being flatter and less 3D than usual. This leaves the music video a little lesser than the others that move... I also don't know if I've ever been a huge fan of Giga's recent animation style.

In terms of actual song: it's good! Giga puts his swing on classic pokemon motifs and it feels very him, with a nice mix of hip hop beat and electrical edge.

But uh, remember how I said before "catching pokemon is the weakest element of pokemon"? That point stands here, especially since the song itself is just simple and peppy. It's stylish as hell but doesn't give me a sense of journey or scouring like inabakumori's.

Sorry, but someone had to be last.

Jin's Secretly Miku the whole time: Juvenile

Trans miku real or whatever

I'd like to say this is the first full on deadass whole animated story. I should be right. Also I don't think I've followed Jin since Kagepro lol (but I did hear Neo, and I did scream really loudly at it!)

dude the eevee is drawn so fucking cute im rhhdghh im not even a huge eevee fan (too mammal) but man when he do the lil paw to cheer up their trainer it got me. I also really like the compassion of the story, the trainers just want to support each other even though they fight... It's like, that's kind of what pokemon is, it's not necessarily about winning, even if Every Voice on the internet Ever (including myself) tells you otherwise. Turns out all you need from a friendly rival to make them better is to lose against them and not let them speak (im joking.......)

I just realized I never looked up the lyrics, actually, but I totally got the emotions through the fantastic MV and the general upswings of the music. It's a bold swing to take a trainer through their whole journey, but both songs that try this hit it justtt right, actually. Building yourself back up after a loss is like, The pokemon story, because turns out you can't win them all. Plus it takes time to focus on the mundanity of the pokemon journey, the stuff you don't really think about in game but is the meat of any fanfic... depicting hanging out w your pokemon is a huge bonus points.

The music combined with the visuals made me cry what can I say, I don't cry easily so it deserves it.

Syudou's I'm a Ghost Type

I honestly don't know a whole lot about Syudou, not to say I don't know who he is, i do, i play pjsekai, but none of his "popular" songs really captured me.

I can mostly say the same for this one lol This is the first one where I have to actually explain the Funky Fresh tier: it means they play well to their strengths but they don't have a whole lot of staying power to me. This is where my pickiness starts kicking in, they just weren't swanky enough to make the cut.

The lyrics and visuals scream joy of ghost types though, I really dig how much energy is in the song... I think it's just personal preference for electric beats that puts the song the highest in Funky Fresh.

BIPPA!! Wonderful Opportunity with Go! Bidoof Group!

Wonder Opp never fails me they got my back every time. I was hoping for something silly happy peppy fun and oh boy did i get it. A feverish dedication to a silly not strong pokemon, a basic rat you can get in any route that the pokemon company loves making fun of, BIPPA!!

All these dumb mfs so relatable to the Len that wants to evolve for utility, to the Rin that loves him as he is, to Miku who thinks all pokemon have their appeals... I've seen some people say WonderOpp's songs border on just speaking over beat, but I don't really see what's wrong with that. The comedic timing is solid (Len getting shot down is so funny) and the setup is inherently funny, a team of bullies that go after Only Bidoof. Team Rocket but Bidoof.

Joy radiates from this song and who doesn't want to hold a pokemon in front of your friends and go "Look!! this is my favorite child!!!" I think that's the real essence of pokemon. Pick your faves and then be really annoying about them. That's why this is the best one.

Huh? Muddled... (Weird title... it's sfx, really) by Kuriyama Yuri

This project got me digging around in new producers libraries, quite fun. In this one I found Jitterbug! I love a good Meiko producer... But I don't particularly like their style, sorry to say.

I do like it though! It's fun, spooky and very stylized! I love the rhythm it gets into and the expressions on the people, even if I'm not entirely sure what's going on besides some good ol fasioned spooks. I think it accomplishes what it sets out to do, which is make a spooky ghost house experience song. Just doesn't appeal to me enough to rank it higher.

Orangestar's Encounter

Look. This is pure bias. But I also think it's good!

I've gone on record (no record. just talking to friends lmao) saying Orangestar's music feels like running alongside a ocean during a sunshower. All their music is kind of same-y but by god does it hit that niche so good for me, using vocaloids to go way above what any human would sound good. In this song the synthwave really elevates it to something I'd recommend a non-Orangestar fan, it really carries you up, gives the song a rising energy... just like Lugia.

Breath is a key of Orangestar's songs, besides being very high, there's a lot of running vocals and held notes, meaning singing them is again, very difficult (if you're trying to copy miku) and I think the breathlessness of the vocals and synth really works with the concept of a legendary encounter. It's always so cool when you finally run into the thing on the box... and in the surrounding media, everyone always oohs and aahs. The lyrics support this, but I'm not very good at reading, so I actually just skim them to make sure they aren't total nonsense lol

Eon Ticket by Marasy

I saw somewhere an author's comment about this song, something to the effect of "I always chased Latios and Latias"... So this is just a song about your faves, just like pokemon should be. It also has Kaito, which is *my* crypton bias.

Uhh I'm always back and forth on Marasy songs, I love him as a pianist, but his compositions don't always speak to me working with the others on em. But? I think this one hits nicely. It's a little toothless still, not as emotionally impactful as those on the top, won't make me scream in excitement but I do think this is one of my favorites in a while.

Kaito and Miku... it's always nice to have duets in this Miku focused project lol. I think the Eon ticket, Latios and Latias in particular was a good pairing for Marasy's flighty fluttering piano trills and runs, they're the kind of pokemon that dash around the skies like the music does. Part of what makes me rank composers higher in these miku songs is whether they play to their strengths or not, because you're already adding the twist of subject matter, and I think this does. I also think the framing device of the newscasters is cute

Party Rock Eternity by Hachioji-P

Ahh Hachioji, another name I know and don't really listen to on purpose... Rad Dogs goes insane though an all time fave (but I say that about half the VBS commissioned songs). Maybe that's why I biased it higher, because it's a style of music I really like. A lot of bias is probably involved in this lol (poison type fan)

I like the perspective of a rocket grunt a lot, leans extremely well into the harder rock of Hachioji's natural lean, but the lyrics don't really tell us much, it doesn't quite lean hard enough into character for me to give it a funky pass... plus I find it's missing a POP that makes it appealing. It's extremely pleasant, but I can't give it a pass.

Iyowa's Journey's Prequels, Journey's Traces

Hmm, I think the only producer I know truly nothing about, didn't even really recognize a song on their page. Doesn't matter since this song's extremely cute and appealing on its own.

The button mashing making up the backing track I almost didn't like but it totally grew on me, it gives the song more life. Visually the MV compliments the cutesy subject and the wonder of a child's first pokemon. But... it's just pleasant. It suffers the same fate as Party Rock Eternity before it, there's just nothing pushing it beyond musically, likely in part because I'm not as familiar with the composer. I like songs that go somewhere, and this one stays in the same place, which doesn't make it bad, it just makes it less interesting to me.

Esper Esper, Psychic Psychic! by NayutalieN

I don't listen to a whole lot of NayutalieN's stuff outside the Rhythm Game Staples (most of which I like, at least passively), but it's enough that I know generally what I'm getting.

Musically this song doesn't stand out to me all that much, I like the rising tones during the chorus, but it actually doesn't use as many of the kind of flourishes on the top of vocals I really like about Nayutalie's tuning. The sfx in blend with the background are also really fun but for me, theming tops out anything.

When I went into the song, I wanted a cute silly fun song about psychic type pokemon that LOVED psychic types. I wanted to see them clap. And they did! There's just so many psychic types doing the classic flip back and forth dance, and isn't that, really, what makes a NayutalieN song?

Kairiki Bear's Melomeloid

So Kairiki Bear I actually spent like, a day lying in bed listening to their entire lineup on their channel lol I wanted to determine whether I liked them as a producer or if I just really liked Bug. Turned out I just really liked Bug (and venom). That's to say, I wasn't expecting something standout in this song.

I was not disappointed, but I wasn't blown away either. That's ok, I think the most important part of Kairiki Bear songs are their texture, the rhythm of the vocals mixed with the instrument. I like Bug because of its punchiness, its extremely harsh tones, and Melomeloid's are a bit softer. It's good for a song about fairy types, but it doesn't make up that loss in musicality through the melody, which makes it average to me. But! I think it really hits where fairy types lie, a cutesy "I love you" mixed with the signature sharp, kind of off tune vocals with a harsh, present beat... It screams "cute but dangerous."

A Glorious Day for Miku Yuri by EVE (it's Glorious Day)

wh what if u were a dragon type trainer and and I was a fairy type trainer and uh uh hhhhh and we were rivals............

Um ok, I just have to say, before I talk about Eve or whatever. The fact that they animate Every Miku in Voltage's art run and place them in this mikuverse where they all fight together is like, dude talk about an excellent finale. Deadass that touch alone put this to its ranking by itself.

That's not to say the music's not pulling its weight. It's Eve, and though I think is one of his weaker compositions, not being able to play into his more off beat rhythms (and having to use miku) it's still got all the bones of an extremely solid hype journey song. But to be honest, I think the music is the weakest part of Glorious Day, even if its flow is perfect for the story they're telling.

But the story..... God I do love a fully animated MV, there's just so much they put in it to make a pokemon fan happy, from the sakuga of the battle and the possible red cameo. Plus YURI!!! I love miku miku relationships I just think this one has the most potential to live in my brain rent free, so it goes up a tier. As a pokemon fan, this one's got the most for me, even if as a vocaloid fan, I wish Eve would just sing all his songs forever lol

Uh anyway thanks for listening like and comment if you want me to do this for commissioned songs for sekai i guess

[aszles]

editing this to talk about myself a little

hello i'm lija and i read the csm manga i haven't watched the anime yet bc i'm lazy but i read buddy stories at least. very much not spoiler free but i encourage people to take more care when interacting with fandoms of things they haven't finished anyway

i like uh ok well you can see the characters i like in the tierlist below (little outdated but im lazy) + fumiko i like her i love her she has never done anything wrong (copiumcopiumcopium) yes i'm a hypocrite leave me be (sorry edit for clarity i think the stuff she did was horrible but the fumiko in my head never did anything except be a lesbian)

as for ships i'm obsessed with asadenreze (/the ships it's comprised of) and i really like kobendo and quanxi x fumiko. i also like makima x quanxi and makima x power for the sillies the absolute ridiculouses

i think about yoru way too much and know her whole backstory and if it's wrong i will personally greet fujimoto at his own home to discuss

don't talk to me if you don't like kobeni yeah that's it i think

WOW THIS NEEDS UPDATING

[anzuhan]

Do you have any 00 characters you like, aside from the innovades and the Trinitys?

yes and im sorry i dont really talk about them or draw them (only sometimes) 😭 i posted a tierlist awhile back & i have no idea where it is . so i will just talk about everything here now :) it will probably be VERY long so i am putting it under a read more. also this will be full of spoilers but i guess that makes sense <- saying if anyone stumbles upon it & is still watching

edit its super long 🙏🙏🙏🙏 HOPE YOU ENJOY READING

my absolute favorites besides the innovades (trinities included) are neil and chris! i did draw neil a few more times than anyone else thats not an innovade, and sadly only drew chris once for her bday 😭 IVE REALLY GOT TO DRAW HER MORE shes so cute and fun to draw..

my opinions of neil were very rocky at the start and i didnt like him AND IT WASNT EVEN HIS FAULT 😭 i first played dwg3 before watching anything gundam related at all (and then started by watching 00); i didnt know which lockon stratos was in dwg3 but he was kind of annoying to me </3 and because i couldnt tell them apart i just supposed it was neil and hereby disliked him 😭 well . that one was lyle but i found that out later ... thruout s1 i slowly got to like neil more and more and by s1 finale i was absolutely crushed . my opinions on tieria may also be foreverchanging, but one thing we share for sure is that we hated neil till he died then just didnt anymore </3

chris i liked a lot from the beginning because of how easygoing and nice she was with everyone, and in more ways than one she reminded me of myself 🥺 i also dont really see very often characters that like coding or technical stuff & are extroverted & like fashion so this felt like a win for me.. finally... some representation (real). this all and her whole thing with weekly crushes is so 😭😭 when she first saw johann and got a pic with him IMMEDIATELY and thought he was hot n then got sad that he was evil and fucked up was so me 🙏 so with how much chris meant to me & how they basically replaced her with mileina that i do not like for variety of reasons was my personal 9/11 for this anime

now besides these two i also hold quite literally majority of all characters in high regard. i love patrick a lot for being funniest guy around & kati his not bayonetta badass wife ... i dont usually do shipping but theyre really so cute together i always go 🥺🥺🥺 when they were just happy together. saji and louise too !!!! the whole story with how their relationship changed and evolved was so great and i was hooked. marie is absolutely one of my favorites in terms of backstory & the peak of s2 to me (yes ... despite the innovators because i didnt like a lot of handling of them 😭) — i really didnt care all that much about soma in s1 and then they elevated that so hard in s2. i am not a person that holds family things in high regard due to my own personal bad experiences, but besides her backstory with allelujah, the scenes between her and becoming smirnov's family were always so dear to me whenever we got them 🥺 this was also really just from a little side thing of the extra s2 chibi animation, but that scenario of them all taking a trip to heaven and marie making andrei talk to his parents and them getting all together was so sweet as well i love loved that one ...

despite it all, i also truly believe graham is best boy of the entire 00 series. this guys so peak i dont even know where to begin; the bond between him and his other squadron members was so good. it was a real shame they kind of had to go 😭 his love for the flags was also so real... and this guys VERY good at what hes doing, like my guy could fight off whole gundams with gn drives in some far underdeveloped flags. i know some people didnt like the turn they went for with him in s2 where he became weeb supreme but i thought it was so funny 🙏 MR BUSHIDO LOVE. he also got a super cool custom ms so i gotta give it to him ... all & all as well, this guy then sacrificed himself, died a hero, and was so cool he just came back to life to become a new meister. how can any other guy in this beat THAT ☝️

for the rest of meisters, i am sorry everyone. i did not care about setsuna that much </3 i acknowledge him and his greatness and how much hes helped multiple people here, but whenever they just wanted to mirror setsuna and saji i always ended up being more interested in saji im sorry 😭 ; allelujah is a little guy i just felt sorry for the entire time for literally everything . all the way from the start from the debacle with tieria that was so crazy to the hallelujah struggles to then having to also struggle with soma 😭 this guys just the real struggler. the supreme struggler of all time. i hope he gets some rest he really needs it asap ; lyle i used to not like because of . how he even started off in the scene with feldt </3 AND I LOVE FELDT like get ur hands off her omg ... but he did grow from then and i think hes pretty epic now, him killing off ali was also super satisfying in the end of it all :)

for the rest of ptolemy, talked briefly about feldt above, i think shes great but also her changing crushes between meisters was so funny 😭 like you go girlie i guess ... ! she tried her best . her holding the crew in such high regards as her own family was very wholesome 🥺 LICHTY 😭 lichty was so funny too and. well. LIKE I GET IT i get the drama that went down in s1 but i wish it didnt have to end like that skllwmegj😭😭😭😭 i wish theyd just have a near death experience and then him and chris could just get to be happy together after but i guess not 😔 sumeragi & kati's intertwined backstories we got to know more of thru s2 were really cool to see, and billy's love for her punched me and kicked me into a wall. this man loved her SO much its unreal . hes such a good guy 😭 (which it kind of ticks me off he ended up with mina ........... LIKE COULD YOU GUYS NOT FIND A MORE NORMAL PERSON FOR HIM 😭 i think he deserved better but thats just my personal opinion ... im sure theres a lot of people out there who want mina right NOW and would disagree. so this ones for u guys . if u think shes epic and cool then i guess he got peak ! good for him) ; other unmentioned members i had no real big opinion on 😭😭😭😭 i sometimes even forget lasse exists i am sorry . hes done nothing wrong just left absolutely no opinion on me 🙇‍♀️

now im not gonna detail THE REST as well but again i literally hold everyone in high or at least neutral regard from ali to whatever the name of the a-laws blond evil guy was im sorry 🙏 the only two i can even say i dislike in the slightest are mileina and alejandro 😭 which is such a duo out of every character in this to tie together . i know . but yeah i hope you enjoyed the sumi rambles 00 NO INNOVADES edition 👍👍 i tried to be as true to myself and my opinions as possible so heres all of them . on paper. digital tumblr paper

[fictionkinfessions]

Sometimes, being a fictive is difficult to deal with alone. But sometimes, you can watch your friends as they all talk to you (perceivjng you as the host) and about you (the fictional version of you they don't know is you) and they end up giving you very funny compliments. Yes, I am your general. And yes, I am taking that comment that you said all my animations are wonderful to heart. It's like im undercover, gathering intel, but it's all just everyone putting me high up in their tierlists, both in combat and attractiveness.

Also side note, please forgive my low base speed stat everyone, I am Old and I cannot keep up with everyone... I promise Lightning Lord makes up for it (mostly).

-Jing Yuan (fictive)

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[moltara]

is there any funny neopets drama

OH MY GOD YES. ABSOLUTELY.

so there's a lot of weird personal beef and people tending to go for the throat for like. the mildest inconvenience occasionally esp in pet auction houses.

and then there was the time during december when they randomly dropped the most valuable item on the whole website to a small number of people via the advent calendar and it caused TOTAL FUCKING MAYHEM. (this item was going for over a BILLION np prior to this btw. also it's literally just a pea with a santa hat)

also aside from one specific person creating like four or five alternate accounts to beg on the neoboards over and over and over and over and over (and pretending it's not them on all of them) and someone else writing erotic fanfic ON THE NEOBOARDS about two former tnt members earlier this year, i could talk for hours about how snobby people are about trading names. and how much drama occurs on the trading forums alone.

people used to hack and steal the more valuable neopets from others abandoned accounts (many of them paying REAL LIFE MONEY TO RECRUIT OTHERS TO DO THIS FOR THEM)

the most valuable pets up until january of this year were referred to as "unconverted" neopets. that is to say, when neopets made the shift from static jpegs to represent the pets to more dynamic poses that allowed for customization, certain colors/species were not forcibly converted to the new artwork. these pets were called unconverted or UC neopets and they occupied the higher tiers of pet trading for many, many years.

(the automatic conversion of artwork happened in 2007 for reference)

a tierlist was formed, ranking each unconverted pet and assigning it a rough value estimate for trading purposes. (tier 1 was the more common, less valuable unconverted pets. these were largely starter, entry level UC pets that you could break into trading for, while tier 10 pets, even badly named ones, could get you probably ANY converted pet you wanted)

higher tiered unconverted pets with nice names (AKA, they had to be pronounceable if they were made-up names, no numbers or underscores, and they couldn't be longer than roughly 6-7 letters) were the cream of the crop for a LONG LONG TIME.

that is, until january of this year, when they forcibly converted all pets to make room for a new feature known as "nostalgic tokens". these are premium items you pay for with neocash (aka real money) which you can equip to your pet, making them appear to have the unconverted artwork.

as you can imagine, this was the upset of the century (quite literally) for neopet trading and we are STILL recovering from the fallout from it all 😭

people will periodically make board to bitch about how it was so much better for them before when UCs were a thing while im over here trading every day and having a fucking blast just swapping for my silly little names LMAO

[ariapmdeol]

danganronpa for the fandom thing???

major spoiler warning on this one bc theres no way for me to answer this question without them

The first character I first fell in love with: THH: junko <3 the second i saw her magazine spreads i went !!!! her!!!! and then spent the entire game bemoaning the fact that she "died". we were making memes about it, i was melodramatically talking about how "if she was alive they'd be out of here by now! give me back my wife!!" This accidental foreshadowing made the Chapter Six Reveal my favorite danganronpa twist bc we just. had an entire extra level of it. we made SO MANY MEMES AND JOKES ABOUT IT... SDR2: sonia <3 she was nice and pretty and made a good impression on me! and also the one time I picked a survivor as my instant fave djaskkjldaskljad Also chiaki but that's a given! look at her!!! I love her sm,,, V3: kirumi and rantaro! I got spoiled that there was SOMETHING up with rantaro so i just. started theorizing SO much. words cannot express how many theories i came up with about this man, and you cant theorize THAT much about a character without them becoming a fave. Kirumi was bc she's so pretty and helpful??? world is hers, she was my insta fave!

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: TSUMUGI. We were joking about her being the mastermind since chapter THREE. CHAPTER THREE!!! The fact that we were RIGHT just rocketed her up to one of my faves, I love her whole cosplay and fiction thing, it's SO funny and i'm so here for it. also Toko!! Toko skyrocketed up the tierlist after i played UDG, it gives her SO much development and i love her sm!!

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: hmmm... I guess Celeste? She's fun but not my vibe!

The character I love that everyone else hates: junko <3 yes shes evil yes she's one of my faves and no one can stop me

The character I used to love but don’t any longer: hmm.... im not sure! I guess kiyo? I really liked him early on but uh. Y'know what happened that chapter

The character I would totally smooch: kiibo! He deserves it <3 world is his

The character I’d want to be like: kaede! she's so confident and active and i wish i could do that jkadlsjkladsjlk. Also i'd want to be more like kyoko too, she's so smart!! I would die for them both

The character I’d slap: kokichi <3 with affection ofc he just causes so many problems on purpose

A pairing that I love: saimatsu <3 also amamatsu and tokomaru! and komahinanami bc i think its funny. i generally end up a fan of the more canon compliant ships in dangan so most of those are here too!! I do like rarepairs tho :D

A pairing that I despise: despise is such a strong word... I guess it's not any ship in particular and more of a sidenote but a lot of dangan ships feel like they come from a desire to pair off every single character, which really... isn't something im interested in rip.

[vulpiximisa]

my yearly precure ranking because tierlist just isnt enough

futari wa precure - love honoka and nagisa’s dynamic, though i started with later seasons so its really hard for me to watch series where its just two cures. yes they started the series but i really just left the episodes in the backgrounds while doing things instead of watching them (6.5/10)

futari wa maxheart - i had saw a few eps so i didnt finish this so i cant talk about it (-/10)

futari wa splash star - i said that two cure series get kind of boring, and they are when they dont get anything new. i automatically loved saki and mai’s dynamic from the beginning. theyre not clashing or awkward, setting them apart from nagihono but theyre still tight and great partners. they have enough power ups and side characters to keep them going (the kiryuus) and i really loved the finale. splash star is so good and underrated. ngl i did just zone out their cour 2 henshin and power ups because i didn’t like the music or sequences. (8/10)

yes precure 5  - i saw the first few episodes, the character intros and skipped a lot of the in between and only watched the “important” episodes and rin and komachi eps. which is a real shame because i probably missed out on a lot but i didnt like the coconozo and noah fence the transformation and attacks were boring to me (6.8/10)

yes precure 5 gogo - why did i skim past yes5 but watch through all of gogo? simple, Syrup. (simple syrup lmaaao) he was a great addition to the cast, of course i love his dynamic with nozomi and the inclusion of Kurumi was also fantastic because it made Milk more bearable. i also liked the henshins a lot more. a lot of in between episodes are passable but i love the overarching story of getting Syrup to Cure Rose Gard and Eternal’s whole thing and Flora (9.2/10)

fresh precure - wasnt a huge fan of the style but the plot twists with Passion (and the red herring) and Chiffon left a huge impression on me. it was one of my first precure series and im glad it was. i liked the dance themes and the henshins were pretty cool. (8.2/10)

heartcatch precure - ngl i left this for the near end after watching the other series just because of how everyone hyped it up. everything that ppl like? tsubomi being the first not energetic pink lead, erika actually being really cool, the first of itsuki type, an older cure (cure flower, cure moonlight), really cool. i didnt grow up with ojamajo so the art style wasnt bonus points for me. the single episodes of them solving their classmates problems are kind of boring and i usually dont care, unless it was really touching (the one ep of the sister having to be her sisters mother). i also dont like yuri, i know shes troubled and angsty but she was so standoff ish and she didnt even get a good resolution. and whatever the hell dark precure was. (7.8/10)

suite precure - already the music theme and the setting was really nice. (i forgot to mention i liked yes5′s french town setting too) having it be very close to the futari formula where its a duo that need to transform together, also i loved their outfit design, henshins, attack sequences and their power ups. it paced very well. not to mention ellen/seiren turning into cure beat, cure muse being a total fake out, mephisto actualy not being the total bad. the way it ended where its not all black and white, where joy comes sorrow and its a never ending cycle. (8.5/10)

smile precure - this was one of my earlier series, i watched it after finishing gogo, which might have been a mistake because i wanted more of the yes girls and i thought they were the next closest thing since toshie kawamura. which is a big rip because i kept comparing them and it made me not see the smile girls as they were. i didnt think smile had too much of a coherent theme. the oufits and henshin and attacks were great, the singles episodes were entertaining but the overall season and plot, nothing really stood out to me. (7.8/10)

dokidoki precure - i liked the art style for this but i actually hate the cure forms. it started off pretty different, cure sword coming from the other world, and i think she made a better purple/cool/loner character then moonlight. the addition of regina was also fantastic. i came in knowing she wasnt going to be precure, and it was a little disappointing, but i didnt mind aguri/ace and even if she did come out of nowhere, it added to the mystery of where marie ange was and what actually happened to her. how being selfish wasnt just an evil entity but actually part of us. i liked the card suite/royal knights theme here, so thats why i liked it more than the fan favorites (8.1/10)

happiness charge precure - this is the first precure season i watched weekly so i have a soft spot for it. not a fan of the fashion/clothes change but it never bothered me too much. i later realize they were trying to cram too much into hime as a character but i liked the development of the girls as a group. THE SEASON HAD SEIJI. the love triangles were messy as hell but ionas issues were resolved better and she had time to be part of the group, one of the better loner characters. i liked the henshins a lot but the attacks/form changes i didnt care for and certain episodes really dropped in animation quality. (7.6/10)

go princess precure - i originally wasnt a fan of the premise but there was something magical and fairy tale about the asethetic. i really liked the flower doilies reminiscent of revolutionary girl utena (still havent seen it lol) and the “strong gentle beautiful” felt really empowering. i loved the main 3 and how they grew as characters and friends and the inclusion of towa was a plus. kanata, even though he didnt do much was a fun addtion and WE ALSO HAD YUI. (clearly any season with a precure “helper” is good). the animations went hard this season, i think due to independent animators, but i liked the henshin sequences a lot. the ending was also fantastic, again, hope and despair come hand in hand. (9.5/10)

maho tsukai precure -  i was initially very mean to the series, because i didnt care for the witch theme, and it felt kind of messy. i didnt like the cure outfits, or how they felt removed from mirai and riko as characters but ive come to terms with it. the strongest thing about this season was mirai and riko’s bond, and with ha-chan too. i will NEVER get over the last episode. (not counting the send off ep) i dont think ive cried harder from a precure. (8.0/10)

kira kira precure a la mode - i also shot myself in the foot because i had expectations and the season let me down. the lack of hand to hand combat was actually one of them, sorry. i loved precure because we got to see strong girls in cute outfits beating the shit out of stuff. im not going to say this season was childish, its precure. i just thought the theme of sweets didnt mesh too well with emotions? the characters were fine and the sweets are a good selling (literally) points but over all nothing stood out to me other than me being disappointed. sorry i actually reeally dislike yukari, so the akira/yukari did nothing for me. oh, julio/rio/pikario was a lot of fun. rip to anyone who hates ciel because she took the job of befriending the baddie (bibury). the aesthetics were all there, the season just didnt do it for me (6.5/10)

hugtto precure - the theme was more coherent and broad enough but it felt a little wasted when they spent a few episodes and the movie making it a precure anniversary instead of its own thing. you can say the romance was messy but whatever. emiru/lulu was a great change in cast (duo precure thats not the main) and WE CANT IGNORE WAKAMIYA HENRI/CURE INFINI. i wish the outfits themselves were more uniform so they look like a team, cure etoille still has me baffled but i like hana, and a lot of the supporting cast is fun. (8/10)

star twinkle precure - i was never a fan of space but i was hoping the drawing aspect was more prominent. it wasnt but the idea of traveling to different planets really does stretch the imagination. rip me because i didnt care for lala ( thought she was a bit overrated) or yuni (standoffish/tsundre) and madoka was kind of boring (felt like reika/saaya/minami). elena was my favorite but i have to admit that she didnt even get that much developement as a character. the ending was very bittersweet, not to mention the reveal of who they were fighting was really good. really thought the pens were a missed opportunity for form changes that they only used in the movie. movie was gorgeous by the way, but once again im not huge on lala. oh, banging soundtrack though, thank you tachibana asami (7.9/10)

healin good precure - great themes, heal yourself and the earth. love how they did the animal partners, the mascots actually felt like characters. the henshin and outfits were fine too. great growth and character arc for nodoka. the rona cut out a few episodes but i dont think it impacted the series too much. ngl the outfits are fine but after coming from startwinkle it felt a bit plain and i didnt like how the healing stick was both henshin and attack.  (7.2/10)

tropical rouge precure - i was very skeptical about the tropical theme but it turned out just to be there for the energy. i reallyy dislike how theyre trying to sell makeup to middle school/elementary girls. the message of “it gives me a boost” is fine, and “find your own cute”, also fine, but mmmmmmm. ngl i still hate the outfit design. i see what they were doing (sailor collars) but the gloves make it not as cute and flamingo’s fishnet stocking are so mmmmmmm........ thats why la mer and oasis have superior designs. rip to anyone who doesnt like laura because she really was 3/4 of the show. (7.9/10)

so the ranking looks like

gopri (9.5)

yes5 gogo (9.2)

suite (8.5)

fresh (8.2)

doki (8.1) 

splash star / maho / hugtto (8)

tropicure / star twinkle (7.9)

heartcatch / smile (7.8)

doki / hapicha (7.6)

healing (7.2)

yes 5 (6.8)

futari wa/ kira ala mode (6.5)

[thedevilsdom]

I’m actually really curious what made you discover the snez kink? /gen

If I had a say in the matter I wouldn’t have this kink gjsbdkabfja but  ye im down to answer!!

Slapping this under a read more bc I don’t want to like force yall to see snez content

This is just my Kink Discovery Story ig? But I know that from when I was A Whole Child, I’m taking like 8 years old and shit, I would like to replay clips of characters sneezing in cartoons I was watching. Of course since I was so young I didn’t understand why I was so enamored by it but when I was like… 15ish? I found a nsfw furry animation with it by chance and it clicked in my head that Somehow this was a kink of mine.

as for how i found the community, it was kind of just through googling and searching and stuff in general. it wasnt hard to find at all because if you specifically look for it, it’s in plain sight

I’m not sure what I find so attractive about it exactly, I think it’s the uncontrollable aspect of it? Especially in a dom/sub context. If you induce someone, it’s very hard for them to avoid sneezing, and bonus points if they’ll get embarrassed by the mess of they do sneeze. I also love the caretaking aspect sickfics/hurt comfort in general, so this helps that but jesus if u ask me to tell u why sneezes are sexy to me,, my answer is pretty much “there are some wires crossed in my head” dfvhjsfv like how ppl can just find feet sexy n they dont understand why

And a general note

- I don’t get turned on by my own sneezes or those of random ppl I hear sneeze (unless they have,, like a really attractive sneeze) and if u sneeze around me irl i actually Do Not Like It mostly bc im generally scared of getting sick

- those videos that people take of random people sneezing in public rub me the wrong way, bc im sure the person sneezing doesnt know that theyre being filmed, much less for kink content,,,

- my opinions n the things I’ve said here are really only My opinions, the snez kink community is surprisingly big sjfksbxks so there is a lot of variety. For example, here’s my tierlist:

And other people might have something different, yknow? Yeah

I’m not like embarrassed abt talking of any of this, I’m very comfortable with my kinks since this is an nsfw space anyways. I just don’t wanna like,,, push it on yall since I know that that’s not what you guys followed me for fjsbxkz but if u have any requests or questions abt sneeze, definitely feel free to send them!

[computerram]

aight so i finished drv3 and i have some Thots about it below and Yes Unfortunately Its Long Im So Sorry If The Readmore Doesnt Work

tldr overall a fun and entertaining game, very streamlined in terms of mechanics compared to the last two, and was rly close to being my favourite but shot itself in the foot in the last hour which sucks a bit + theres a chara tierlist at the bottom

so in an effort to try and be positive im not gonna harp on too much about anything i didnt like im just gonna get my grievences out with a couple of things bc at the end of the day i genuinely rly did like playing it lol

so yeah elephant in the room but yeah i. did not like the ending, which is a shame bc i was rly excited for it! but then it just goes way too far with team danganronpa and the fourth wall stuff and it just really killed my enthusiasm. i get what they were going for but there were much better ways to get across the themes of fiction/reality, audience entitlement + not letting urself be used as someone elses personal feel-good device while still keeping it in the actual dr-universe, but more importantly than all that all it it just kinda throws out the mystery solving/plot points and the last like hour or so is just Being Talked At about the Unbelivable Big Twist which in mystery games just completely kills it dead and it felt like a cop out

HOWEVER the intial set up of them being normal non-ults who volunteer/get kidnapped/whatever with the fake memories on reality tv? really good, felt like it was organically leading you there rly well since the start and i always felt pretty excited whenever i could find something that pointed towards it. good idea just bad execution

chapter 1 is personal preferance but its sadly the weakest chapter for me just bc like above i rly dont like unreliable narrators when im playing a mystery game, if we’d played as shuichi the entire time itd be more understandable but since we’re kaede all it rly did was make me feel kinda disconnected from her which is a shame. also i just wanted her to have more fte with ppl :’(

that being said i loved revisting it in the first half of ch6 and it cleared up a lot of things i thought were weird it wasnt commented on like rantaros bloody hand + where his monopad went

the murders from ch2 onward are pretty solid throughout. there are a couple of blips with the motives being a little weak but it still does a lot of stuff i always thought would be cool to see (not having a body left in ch2, a murder in the middle of an investigation in ch3) which is exactly what i wanted from this game

little disappointed that the special rules in this one never rly cashed in on themselves (the first blood perk, a tie w/ two blackened killing them both even if theyre not guilty, a murder basically being able to walk away scott free if they kill during an investigation) but c’est la bee

chapters 4-5 were genuinely amazing, chapter 5 bascially became my favourite in the franchise and they both really captured the whodunnit spirit i love, the characters felt a lot more involved in those trials, the emotional beats were intense, the back and forth between the different theories, it all had me HYPE bro

The split debates are also a rly fun mechanic the music slaps every time and they help break up the monotony + make you feel like ur not just the only one trying to solve stuff

The lying/back route mechanic is Really good. I love the fact shuichi is such a Shit liar in the first few chapters and by the end of chapter 5 ur lying straight to monokumas face. get his ass

speaking of shuichi didnt think it was possible but Shuichi stole first place protag from hinata. i think the fact you get to see his sprite in the corner means its a lot easier to infer his reactions with people a lot better and the relationship between him and maki/kaito felt rly genuine. also the backroute mechanic rly helps ground him as someone with a good head on his shoulders and not just Protag Powers.

i wish i could talk about more characters but this is already so long so ill send it off wow Kaito rly said ‘fuck you’ to monokuma and died in space the way he wanted huh god what a KING

anyway heres the tier list A^ gets a kiss from me personally 

[asamlambung]

Gush about your fave DR character! ♡

WVJHKHKHKHK anon whoever you are please know that youre unleashing a beast but also thank you im….. 

(actually i made a tierlist for this though it might not be as accurate since it was a few months ago)

(also sorry for the characters that are in the lower tiers i swear even if i don’t like them most of them are still good memes. and the ones in “c” and “b” i’d definitely like more if there’s some good art/fics that explore their characters better though i might not actively look for it.)

OK so just to preface i havent seen most free times and most of my impression came from joseph anderson’s playthrough sooo i might be biased but im definitely planning on rewatching at least v3 in its entirety with all of its ftesO i guess it’s best if i start chronological and lemme just say. SAKURA OOGAMI IS BEST GIRL

it’s easy to say that im weak for big stronk gal who can lift me easily. and there is /definitely/ that point.

this is gonna sound weird but i really like the level-headedness she brings to the trials. i wouldnt say she’s the smartest but she rounds up the whole cast in a way that keeps the trials from being too absurd and non-sensical. there are other characters that also do this but seeing it come from her makes me happy somehow? maybe it’s because she also balances asahina in that sense and also that she’s the fourth trial stronk person who’s the most level headed compared to gonta and nekomaru. not saying those two are bad either, they’re great characters in their own right but i feel like their function is more on the side of entertaining rather than weighing in on the discussion. i especially think nekomaru’s whole thing with shitting is funny and it’s kinda a shame that sdr2 cut him from trials starting from the third.

speaking of sakura, yes i ship her with hina. no, duh. they’re good together. but i was also kinda touched when she talked about kenshiro. idk, sakura has two strong beefy hands and she can hold her girlfriend and boyfriend at the same time ok.(pretty sure kenshiro appears in udg but i havent experienced that game outside of seeing a few cutscenes so i wouldnt know)

also the fact that we get a callback to her in the strawberry house was. idk if i should say cool or if it was funny but it was something. and yep, her death was the saddest out of the fourth trials the games had. nekomaru’s death was more respectful for me and i felt more sad about gonta during his trial than his death. it’s more gruesome than sad, to be honest.(and ok the smoothskin joe gives to sakura is also kinda funny)

with other dr1 characters i like most of them are usually because of my friends’ (who got into dr years before i did) influence like kyoko and celeste. there are some others i laugh at but it’s more because of the inside jokes of the streamer i was watching.

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ok so with sdr2 komaeda is easily one of the top. but tbh the reason why it is is bc a few years ago i read this (illegally distributed) doujin that had written his character really well. tbh i feel kinda bad now knowing that the doujinka stopped circulating their doujin bc of that and some of the subject matter of their doujin is… a bit too much for me. but the ones that are good are really good and when i came into canon i was like, “oh, this is the fingers in ass guy who got memed to death" nowadays, i see him more as pickle nagito though. i am interested in seeing how his character can be… well, not redeemed but i want to see him heal. whiiich might never happen in canon bc his hope bagel personality is too infamous now.

also i know everyone hcs nagito’s voice as smth along the lines of nico’s voice or john’s voice but like consider jph’s stoner voice. please. it’s so fucking funny with the fucking pickle komaeda meme. maybe it’s bc although im not obsessed with hope or despair, i related to his way of seeing karma. 

after experiencing sdr2 thoough, lemme just say that johnny yong bosch did a great job voicing hajimmy hinata. like im not even kidding i really like that voice and if i was ursula i would steal that voice for my own use. buutt i cant do that. unlike komaeda, i’m pretty indifferent to his character arc and enjoy his one on one interactions with the characters more and how he reacts to the immediate events that happened over the course of sdr2.

soo yeah komaeda and hinata are literally opposites in my head, ain’t much of a surprise that i ship them i guess. but!! i like a lot of the gals in sdr2 surprisingly.

like, ok. maybe i’m biased but the designs for the gals in sdr2 are so goddamn adorable. like okay there’s the obvious ones like chiaki and sonia. and i don’t know why sonia’s personality is so goddamn adorable. like not in the “awww you’re so fucking uwu” type of way but more in the sense that she’s funny? it feels like even through all her weirdness that she still manages to make genuine connections with the characters.

with peko, it’s hard to dislike her considering her whole arc with the second trial. of course liking her goes in hand with liking fuyuhiko’s character too but i just like.. how stoic she sounds??? it’s adorable????? and with mikan yeah she kinda went… off in the third trial but consider???? her voice when she snaps was so goddamn hot?????????????? sdr2 has the best voice acting cant change my mind.

and i don’t know why, gundham is so goddamn funny and if i wanna show how absurd sdr2 can get i show my friends gundham’s scenes. he’s fucking funny, ok. and alongside nekomaru i can respect his death in a way. i goddamn saluted when i first watched his execution (with the full context of the trial) because i just really liked the conviction he carried with his murder.

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aand with v3…

miu’s one of the funniest character ever!! i swear. i know some people look at the sex jokes and go, “ugh” but im a manchild so i ended up enjoying her moments so much. though i’m kinda a bit meh on the fanservice side, i like how she’s one of the characters who sticks out more. in my language we call her “pentolan” i guess.

tenko’s kinda an easy character for me to like considering… stronk lady. would love for her to carry me. the misandry can get a bit too much but she’s also a pretty funny and genuine character on top of that so she came out with me liking her.

kaede and tsumugi are characters i grew to /love/ after i thought about them a lot.

with kaede, the point i started to relate to her… was with her thirst with girls. i swear im not joking. but. okay. i like her position as the protag and all her ideals. one thing i was surprised that didn’t manage to make me relate to her was her passion for piano considering i’ve also studied it for like, around 12 years. maybe it’s because i kinda fell out of it around 2 years ago because reasons. despite of that though, i like how assertive she was in her time as the protag. and her execution was goddamn beautiful.

tsumugi, though, i wouldn’t grow to love as much if it weren’t for 郁十‘s works. like. please. go watch all of their videos it’s all so good. i think someone else talked about this, but tsumugi’s position as the mastermind feels a lot more “human” than what we got with junko enoshima. compared to kaede, i feel like we could’ve gotten so much more with her as a villain and i just want to see more of her outside of her “plain bread” facade.

it might also be due to my own hcs for them so they’re on my head a lot more than most of the other v3 characters are. even more than my two actual favorites!!

ok, ok. kochiki and shuichi are definitely my favorites of the bunch. like, the toppest tiers of fav actually. it’s kinda hard to talk about these two separately tbh. maybe it’s because before danganronpa, my previous otp in my previous fandom had these two’s dynamics as well. and like, there’s a certain pairing to a fandom i haven’t caught up to in years who also have a detective/phantom thief dynamic. aaand also persona 5 and that one pairing that i don’t have to name for people to know which is my otp.

yeah i’m a sucker for these types of characters. it’s kinda typical that they’d be popular in the fandom. which i’ll  h a p p i l y  eat up.

soo it’s kinda easy to start with kochiki. i think i don’t have to go into every minute detail and go all meta on why i like him as a character because a lot of people have articulated better on why his character works. he’s fun to watch when interacting with other characters and figuring out his motivation put my brain on work. i’ll say this though, i actually enjoy kokichi better when he’s not being woobified. he’s a rat through and through and i will enjoy this possum boi for that.

(oh wait, possum boi is rantaro. nvm.)

and now mr. detective himself. so i loved his character at first. didn’t love him more than kochiki but. liked his arc, he was a fun protag. then the fan content came and he became very moe in my eyes so i guess it’s easier to say that i uh, like fancontent of shuichi better but i like canon kokichi better. and also how is it that the majority of ousai e-rated works has shuichi as a top SHUICHI IS NOT A TOP um yeah anyway. i feel like out of all the main characters he’d be a pretty nice person to hang out with.

also his eyelashes are nice. im totally not embarrassed while typing this out. im literally physically restraining myself from typing out more so i can not embarrass myself even further.

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okay congrats anon here you are i hope you enjoyed this embarrassing mess it took me more than a day to type this out because i don’t know where i should stop myself regarding some characters. but uh yeah. i have gushed. now i shall return to the abyss.

(unless anybody asks me to gush about my ocs which might actually be thrice as long as this)

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Video game controller tierlist

What is up fuckers, I’m out of ideas again so its time for another tier list. This time we got video game consoles’s controllers. Link’s (here), and keep in mind I don’t really know much about the Sega ones but its fine since they all suck.

Without further ado lets fucking go bc I have 22 minutes to write this before I get ready for work

D-Tier

Xbox original controller is gotta be the ugliest thing on the planet. That ugly-ass early 2000s (in a bad way) logo, those buttons, the sheer size of the thing, I just don’t know why they thought this was a good idea. Luckily they learned from the mistake that this controller is for their future designs, otherwise the 360 probably woulda been dead in the water.

I don’t know anyone who had a Dreamcast. I mean, that’s because no one fucking bought them, and I’m young enough that people my age basically missed Sega’s consoles completely. With that in mind, what in the goddamn is going on here. Why would you put the cable facing the user, what is this little Tamagotchi-ass screen doing, why is it so dummy thick. I don’t understaaaaand.

Sega gets two entries in the D tier btw. The Genesis competed with the SNES pretty wwell but the controller isn’t even close. “Ah yes rather than four buttons that you can easily press from one thumb position we’ll have three buttons that are all in a line so you have to move it around awkwardly a bunch. Brilliant!” Yeesh.

C-Tier

Okay they didn’t put the Master System on this list so this is the last Sega controller. The Saturn is just the Genesis one but with more buttons and beeg bumpers. This is this low just because of those bumpers- ill talk about it later with the 360, but big shoulder buttons are more trouble than they’re worth imo.

The original Playstation Controller is fine, but it does just feel like it’s missing something. It’s pretty obvious what it’s missing, but without those sticks it just looks naked. And I haven’t played much PS1 stuff but I can imagine not having the analogs is a huge pain for most games on the console.

The Wii U Gamepad was a good idea in concept (I mean, just look at the Switch) but as it is, it’s just way too bulky and awkward. This thing just hurts your wrists if you play for long enough. Without it we wouldn’t have gotten the Switch, though, so it’s for the best that this existed.

Spoilers, I don’t like the Dualshock 4. The big old touchscreen thing does not do it for me. Beyond that it’s basically fine, but that centrepiece just turns me off the entire concept. Also, fuck the Share button.

The Xbox One controller is a hybrid between the Xbox and the 360, except it came after both and the 360 is actually pretty good, so what the fuck is going on here. Didn’t yall learn? Also, again why did you get rid of Start/Select what are these buttons supposed to be help I don’t understand new things

B Tier

This one is here because I don’tt know what it is. Like, it looks like a generic knockoff 360 controller, but no other knockoffs are here, so what’s the deal? What is this? We just don’t know.

Dualshock 1 babyyyy. While the N64 pioneered thumbsticks on controllers, the Dualshock solidified them as a part of gaming going forward. Unfortunately the rest of it is still mostly a PS1 controller, so.

The Wiimote is here because it’s the average of its two components. I actually really like the Wiimote, it’s an excellent, elegant piece of technology that really made motion controls work for the first time. But at the same time, fuck the Nunchuk and the horse it rode in on. Never was a fan of this weirdo periphery. I used to play Brawl without it, and anyone who’s done that knows how miserable that is, but I just dislike the nunchuk that much.

N64 is an awkward mess but I love it. Constantly ridiculed but they really went for something here and that’s worth respecting. This walked so everything else after it could run.

The 360 is the best controller Microsoft has put out. It’s really comfy, feels natural to use, the only downside is the giant fuckoff trigger shoulder buttons. While the idea of an actual trigger for your shooty man games was solid, in execution they’re just a little awkward. Also, the rubber on the sticks always comes off them in my experience and that just sucks.

Joycons would be higher but they drift alllll the fucking time. Also the analog sticks are just a little too small? Other than that I think these are genius, and it would have been hard to make a controller stick size that works for both the two in tandem and individual sideways controllers.

The SNES innovated real hard and got paid off for it. This fucker invented shoulder buttons, which is a pretty huge deal. Notice how just about every other thing on here has those. Unfortunately, and since I’ve never actually used an original SNES controller this might be inaccurate (I’m going off the SNES mini’s ones) the thing is a teensy bit too small for my hands and so it feels a lil uncomfy using them.

Speaking of innovation, the NES controller invented the fucking D-pad. It’s an iconic piece of retro technology, looks great, probably isn’t too uncomfortable, ya know it. Again, never had my hands on an actual one, so I don’t know how good they are to use, but come on it’s the NES.

A Tier

Dualshock 2 and 3 are here because I don’t really feel much of a difference between them- one’s wireless and one isn’t, to my knowledge its that simple. But they’re just so usable, sit really well in the hands, and honestly I do think putting the analog sticks next to each other is prooobably better than the separation every other controller is doing. I’ve seen the PS5 controller, and it’s a real shame because that thing looks like some fuckin Apple shite when they really coulda just updated the DS3 and it would’ve been leagues better.

The Switch Pro Controller and Gamecube controller are also here next to each other because I can’t decide which I like better. They’re both incredibly comfortable and durable, the former the result of decades of innovation and the latter the mildly awkward but forward-thinking icon. I think it’s pretty common belief that the Gamecube just has the best controller, but my dumb ass can’t get used to the weird face button layout, so it’s a little lower in my eyes. Still, Nintendo really got it right this time, and there’s a reason every “classic”/”pro” controller they’ve put out since has been some iteration of the Gamecube’s design. It’s to the point where they’re still making the things, though that may just be because Smash players don’t like change. At least the controller they’re touching is of age, heyooooooooooo

jesus christ that was the worst joke ive ever made im so fucking sorry