#but i just don't fucking understand WHYYYYYY

[actualhumansunshine]

Niall Horan for Rolling Stone UK

[freakenomenon]

since you’ve already talked extensively about ted and ellens psychodramas + how they were displayed in the game, what do you think about other characters psychodramas like gorrister and benny?

sits back.

both of their psychodramas are confusing to me, but i prefer bennys over gorristers so ill talk about that first,,

i have like an EXTREME dislike for how they completely took away his entire character in the short story, especially with the erasure of his sexuality. but even beyond that. i just. Don't understand his character??? he was big and strong and handsome and hated the weak and. then what.

id understand if there was some kind of character motive beyond being perfect and not giving a damn point blank period. like if he was trying to prove something. to strive for perfection to the point of killing others because of SOMETHING. but they don't. i don't understand the point of completely reworking this characters already established and VERY WELL IMPLEMENTED backstory for anything other than censorship.

he refused to be weak in any way, but WHY.

it's not like with ellen ( sorry i cant resist ) where she grew up in a bad neighborhood where she was treated like nothing, so she decided to MAKE herself something.

which made it hard to cope with the fact she couldn't just rise above EVERYTHING.

or like with ted where he was forced to work for his family because of their poor financial situation, but then was pulled out of that by someone who was taking advantage of him.

which caused a giant rift in his identity.

benny has just. always been a cool big strong powerful man who didnt care about others!!@ and then when AM took him down he's not anymore boo hoo.

it's watering down what made bennys transformation from man to monkey so god damn horrifying. especially with the lack of compassion. yes sure he cares about nobody but himself BUT FUCKING. WHY? THEY DONT EVEN ELABORATE ON THIS IN THE MANUAL. FUCKING WHYYYYYY.

i like toto though, very fun little guy. very interesting character. he was like the only part of the psychodrama i could really,,, resonate? with.

now. gorristers psychodrama is.

what the hell is even going on

the only thing i could really gather from it is that instead of being an activist and a cautious "looker-aheader", gorrister was a truck driving alcoholic who had a bad marriage and an abusive mother in law who blamed him for driving his wife batshit crazy because he beat her. but. other than that i don't.

understand half of it. what do you mean edna killed gorrister. what do you mean Harry cut his heart out. jesse, what the fuck are you talking about.

i don't fully understand WHY we are supposed to sympathize with gorrister when he is. SOMEWHAT responsible for the mental descent of glynis. obviously edna and harry played a huge part in this, im not ignoring that at all. but the end of the psychodrama implying that gorrister should just forgive himself and bury the past because he wasn't FULLY at fault for punting wife into the looneybin. What.

once again, i don't understand the need for a complete flip of this characters original premis unless it's for CENSORSHIP purposes. alongside that at least the puzzles and the dialogue within bennys psychodrama make SENSE. gorristers just.

DONT?

it's not that the puzzles don't have ANY logic like a good one or two of ellens. THEY JUST. ARENT SOMETHING THAT A NORMAL PERSON WOULD DO OR BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT WITHOUT JUST CLICKING SHIT ON RANDOM TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS. wait. Wait.

Okay. i know this is supposed to be a rant about their characters but. I just wanna say that a lot of the puzzles. Are things that RELATE to the characters and their stories and backgrounds. which adds to the enjoyment. WHEN YOU REMOVE THE ENJOYMENT OF THE PUZZLES. IT KIND OF MAKES ME. NOT LIKE GORRISTER SO MUCH.

if i kept going id just end up totally rewriting the characters as a whole and that's something for another tumblr rant to soothe my ever expanding rage.

im gonna go get a cheese stick

[findafight]

Idk if you’re the person to send this to but like

The whole thing with Murray’s comments and Nancy and Jon getting together…. It is set up in such a way that it can be read as a situation where an ambitious teenage girl was pressured into what she was “supposed” to be. Nancy was told by a man that she respected and who took her seriously (and was the ONLY one to do so, so Murray gained an untold amount of trust from Nancy immediately, and the show just brushing off their relationship is such a loss but ok), that in order to be her real self she must dump Steve. Now Murray was just poking at two teenagers with a metaphorical stick to see what would they do. Understandable position, as a younger sister haver love doing that also (not with romantic feelings though but Murray was never meant to be ethical). I doubt that what the comment meant for him can be easily translated into what it meant for Nancy (let alone Jon, who thinks that he is better than most people and that he is definitely better than Steve, so I imagine he was nodding along). But he did influence her into becoming an investigative journalist. Like Murray with him taking Nancy seriously influenced her into two major life altering decisions (career and significant other). Like wow. And they never interacted again! Fucking hate st continuity.

Like Nancy dumping Steve because Murray told her to do so is a major thing. It’s BAD for jancy. Before s4 I thought that they were not mentioning it because jancy happened and was the endgame. But with them toying with stancy and likely knowing that they might toy with stancy all along??? Why did they not leave it open to interpretation. It’s such a juicy storyline, it shows the magnitude of the influence that you can have on a teenage girl, it’s beautiful, it’s painful, it’s the stuff of a real love-triangle (which is hard to make interesting but that would make it interesting!!!). Why did they write it then??? Whyyyyyy?????

oooooh that's so interesting anon!

I am much more of a murray fan when he is being a weird gay conspiracy uncle guy and isn't matchmaking, it must be said.

He and Nancy have the potential for a really interesting dynamic! It really is a shame we don't get to see more of it tbh. and you are so right in what his comment meaning to him and what it meant to Nancy and Jon separately would be so different! I don't know if Nancy would necessarily feel pressured by it, (though I wouldn't say she wasn't, either) but maybe it would vindicate something of how she was feeling about her relationship with Steve at the time and her feelings for Jonathan? Like a "oh this man I respect and who takes me seriously also thinks Jonathan is better for me, thinks I should go for it. Maybe I will..." kind of thing?

And lol yeah so true Jon just had his own conception of himself and Steve and their relationships with Nancy confirmed by Murray. he just kinda got...permission? I guess? to make a move on Nancy even though he was the one bringing up Steve both times he's mentioned on the road trip.

Totally see where you're coming from of Murray's influence not being mentioned because you figured Jancy was endgame, makes sense (if boring) to not question it if it doesn't need to be addressed as an issue because the pairing is canon for the rest. But now the teen love triangle has been brought back.... you're so right it is bad for Jancy. It brings up stuff about them that a lot of people (especially the Duffers!) don't want to deal with or acknowledge. Though I don't think they were planning the whole time to bring stancy back I think that sort of happened because the duffers unfortunately don't know what to do with Nacy if she doesn't have a boy to look at and Steve when he isn't pining over Nancy.

There's not enough time left to fully and satisfyingly delve into the issues between the original older teens, especially since some of those issues aren't treated as issues. It would be interesting to see, and also so so juicy, the complicated relationship they have with each other because of the UD etc, but I don't think a whole lot of interesting canon material will come from it (though that doesn't mean fan content can't!!) just based on how other romantic relationships and their dynamics with each other have been treated through the show. tbh I think maybe s5 will tease the love triangle but ultimately either end up with them all single (my preference) or with Jancy still together.

[cyrusthedragon]

I almost hate how conservative (?) i am about miraxus... Lemme explain myself.

To begin with, I'm a classical nalu (x nagray, cuz natsu and gray are a married couple, i don't make the rules), and i love gajevy, and my other (other-other) pairings are hannigram, sns, sterek, destiel, geraskier, draciolus (if you know - you know), eruri, like..im a classical pansexual they/them with classic ass OTPs, and most of them are fuckin' GAY, and ofc i love it ... More gay = good for me, i love gay people, these are my people, my nation. Even the fuckin' Zukka. I love 'em. I think everyone should be gay.

But miraxus?

Heterosexuals.

Hundred percent.

Fucking heterosexuals.

I'm SHAKING abt it, LIKE, DAMN, BOTH OF YOU ARE SO FUCKIN' FRUITY, LIKE, LAXUS, THE FUCK DO YOU LOOK LIKE THAT? U GAY MAN. U FUCKIN' BEAR. WHY ARE YOU SO GAY. And I'm looking at Mirajane and you don't know but SHE IS MY WIFE, AND I AM FEMALE, MY SEX IS FEMALE, SHE IS- SHE IS LIKE A DREAM. HAVE YOU SEEN HER? SHE'S. SHE'S. SHE!!!! S H E ! ! ! ! SHOULD I REALLY EXPLAIN MYSELF? MIRAJANE FUCKIN' STRAUSS.

But then.

I prefer to listen to my inner voice.

And my inner voice is saying they're both heterosexuals. MAXIMUM bisexuals. I can't explain it, i seriously cannot, i just genuinely think Mirajane somehow likes men (eeewwwww, ghoooorl, whyyyyyy), and Laxus likes women (understandable. relatable.), and I'm comfortable with it. I just think that's how it is, cuz it's fine - being heterosexual. I love them no matter what. And i know a lot of people ship also Mirajane x Erza, and i think it's wonderful, like, they are wives, c'mon, they are... But 2x.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who can separate canon-canon, fanon-canon, and fanon-fanon. Please. I need to know I'm not alone in this fucking fandom thinking this way. I really need it. I swear.

Canon-canon: we don't know their (miraxus) sexuality, so they can be whatever they want, they don't show any romantic interest in anyone in the PLOT of the anime/manga, in the action, not covers, etc.

Fanon-canon: Mirajane and Laxus are at least bisexuals and are prolly gonna end up together, Mashima said so, i think so, that's understandable and logical for me, i (personally) like it, cuz their personalities suit each other, that's why i wholeheartedly ship miraxus.

Fanon-fanon: they are all gay. All of them. All on them. Not a single person in that fucking guild is even a slightest bit hetero. No one. Literally zero heterosexuality per person. This is THE guild of lesbians and gays. AND I LOVE IT. I truly sincerely absolutely love it (cuz it once again makes Mirajane MY WIFEY, I LOVE MY WIFE!!!!).

And there's a second thing i hate abt myself when i think about miraxus compared to every single other pair i ship: when i think abt eruri or sns or *whoever* i think like yeah, they're gonna have max. two kids. That's all. Three - is unbelievable, but acceptable. But like..more on the unbelievable side, ykwim. Highly likely just two kids.

BUT MIRAXIS? IN MY HEAD? IN MY FANON-FANON HEAD? FIVE. And never less. (In fanon-canon just three).

FIVE CHILDREN. FIVE. FIVE FUCKIN' CHILDREN. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY BUT I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT. I DON'T KNOW WHY. I JUST DO. The older twins (boy and girl, ctrl c & ctrl v, the girl is copied from Laxus, the boy is completely Mirajane's child, except for appearance). Then - the third boy, and now HE'S looking like Mirajane, and calm like adult-her (not when he's pissed off, tho, when he's pissed off he's gonna throw you at a fuckin' wall with his confident soothing smile remaining). Then is the fourth girl with Laxus's hair and she's her grand grandpa's baby, she's like fem!Makarov, my ghorl is a calm clown, you don't know she's high until she opens her mouth. The fifth is also a girl and she's the best. And beast. Have you ever seen a baby capable of killing the whole guilt at the age of two years? She can. Cuz she's just learning how to talk and dad once said 'fairy law' and she repeated it and, well, they're so lucky she doesn't hate anybody........... They're so lucky... And now she's banned from magic. Yeah.

The happy family. One Mirajane, one Laxus, one miraxus mix, one Makarov copie, and one FUCKIN' DISASTER. Lovely, lovely children...

Am I okay? No, I'm not, wtf.

[halt-kun]

My Hero Academia Chapter 406 - Understand your own quirk !

This chapter seems interesting, will we finally know if AFO is finally done for ?

Is Katchan good ?

I hope soooooo,

EVERYONE WON

WOOPS

not Ojiro and Ryukyu

they're probably against another tartarus escapee

MY BABIES ARE ALL SO STRONG AND GOOD

I had completely forgotten Eraser head and Present mic were abducted ?!?!? What's wrong with me ????

Thanks NAGANT, always rooting for the morally grey girls

Bakugou is now on par with them with ONE quirk

ALL in ONE

he's such a good boy !!! BLOW HIM UP

LIL' BABY AFO CAN'T KEEP UP

(i'm afraid)

I don't know what you learnt Bakugou but put it into words quick

INSTADEATH is a problem

I'm afraid for my boy Izuku

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm scared

PLUS ULTRAAAAAAAAAA

LESS STRONG THAN DARK SHADOW ??????

Endeavor, I can understand why, and All Might, yes

it's true Dark Shadow is a bad match up against Katsuki but still my boy is fast and strong

Unhinged good boy is my favourite lately

(Not talking about you Gojo)

don't destroy your body though please

it suffered enough Bakugou

HEHEHEHE HE'S THERE BEHIND YOUUUUU

UNHINGED

hitting the pavement that fast should kill you

A perfect VICTORY

FLAWLESS

NO DOUBT

I really don't have much to say beside enjoying this character arc of his accomplish

His parents are there, I would also be worried af (in fact I am)

He's reaching Midoriya's level, he's beyond Endeavor's potential and didn't fall into morally bad stuff to reach that. He's still had a few bumps along the road in term of morality but nowhere near Endeavor's level. And it was in middle school which can be rough for a lot of people

ANYWAY finishing AFO now is prone to bring a lot of good

Because he STRONK without an OP quirk stacking thing and you were so convinced of your superiority when it comes to blood lineage and quirks that you overlooked him and he's in fact leaps and bounds above you

You're like Katchan when he considered Midoriya to be below him but Izuku kept keeping up and showing him how much better he was at being a hero

Yes AFO, you're just a middle schooler in your head (a pyschopathic one at that with fucked up morals)

well now you're much younger than a middle schooler though, pre school era AFO

Oh nooooo poor second user

So that's whyyyyyy they look alike !:!!!

NICE

to annoy AFO even more and make him more pissed when he loses (thanks Horikoshi)

Next chapter, he'll loose

Git Gud Bro

GG ez win

[finnglas]

vent post

man it fuckin sucks to be a floridian right now. i love my state. i love florida. it is inherently queer, as a state - like - key west has been a queer haven since the 60s, miami had an open gay scene before open gay scenes were a thing, orlando has more rainbow pride gear than you can shake a stick at - and yet and yet

a fucking judge (desantis appointee of course) ruled that it was okay for desantis to draw his own fucking voting map in case you're wondering why he got re-elected

and i feel like we've been abandoned by any larger organizations, like, the democrats didn't spend a penny in florida during the last election cycle

and this all started when we voted to reinstate the right to vote to people who had been convicted of a felony and desantis was like nooooooooooo whyyyyyy and promptly did everything he could to delay and nullify the implementation of that - I still don't know where we stand on that!? for a minute there was a thing where you had to pay your outstanding debts so we were all crowdfunding it and they they got big mad about that and then honestly i lost track of it -

but now they're trying to make being gay or trans or even supportive a felony SO I THINK YOU CAN SEE WHERE THAT'S GOING

and good people are leaving the state because they aren't safe and i understand and respect that but also i don't want to leave - i want my state back. and i don't know where to start, and i feel helpless, because they keep doing shit like a) ignoring the results of votes and b) redrawing voting maps on their own and nobody is... fucking doing anything about it? isn't this illegal? doesn't shit like this violate federal laws somewhere??

and i know we're far from the only state in this position, ronny boy is just getting attention because he's trying to run for prez - but people are like "why don't you leave" and i'm like AND GO WHERE, SUSAN - anywhere financially feasible for me to go is also involved in this bullshit just more quietly

anyway, if you are a prayer person, pray for florida, man. they're tearing out our bones and beating us with them.

[growling]

I don't know why but today I just woke up with another wave of love and appreciation for mv!Mapleshade warrior cats. I just auughhhhh I love her even if she isn't that intentionally well-written at all I relate to her so much you wouldn't believe that kitty is special to me, at the very least the mv!Mapleshade version of her.

It's the way she's just so out of touch and detached from reality from the moment she's introduced in mv (and maybe even for the remainder of the novella) and living in this fantasy of her and her family being Untouchable and Special, putting her utmost faith in the warrior code/the law and StarClan/God, especially believing that StarClan approves and gave her kits their blessing, and has this narrative/plot-relevant "magical thinking" about everything that happens around/to her. When Frecklewish just asks if the father of her kits is Birchface(he isn't), she thinks it is a explicit sign for her that StarClan themselves is "offering her a way for her kits to be accepted by her clanmates", everything is some sort of "sign" for her. She wholeheartedly believes that nothing bad will ever happen to her very illegal children, that everyone will just accept and love them because they're just so perfect, and that by just being born they will literally change everyone's minds about inter-Clan relationships and achieve world peace -- That they will grow up both loyal to ThunderClan and RiverClan equally, that "the truth about who their father really was would be unable to shake the loyalty of their woodland clanmates, [...] and once RiverClan gets to know them, those cats will feel the same", that "the feud over sunningrocks will be forgotten when the clans realize they share these perfect warriors". And like is this a cause of concern that this is really similiar to whatever I'm going through pretty often too like you and me both Maple. Not related but I think it's also very cool how sometimes when people talk to her or ask her something she just. Doesn't respond. And I think that everybody in the fandom just making it up to be "haha look at this delusional bitch not knowing theres consequences to her actions lol" should be punted into the sun like how is this a testament of her being an irredeemably evil terrible person to you and not like something actually very sympathetic why are you like this with every female character. Beautiful miss Maple baby I will protect you. She should have killed even more people actually

And I need to ask why. Whyyyyyy did they write her to towards the end of the book start hallucinating her dead babies encouraging her to become a serial killer throughout. You literally didn't have to bring psychosis into this she already had perfectly valid reasons to start murdering people!! Why!! You didn't make her more "scary" by this or whatever, instead now it just makes me feel bad for her even more that she went to cat hell forever for the actions she did when she was not only super mega ultra traumatized and in a state of shock after The Events (which none of those was her fault btw), but also that she literally going through some kind of episode the entire time too. And like. You didn't have to bring dead baby murder hallucinations into this as I have said before she had perfectly valid and understandable reasons to start maiming people already auuughhh head in hands. I could treat her so much better than you I am taking mv!Mapleshade away from you she's mine now

(Also dare I say all the people she killed had it coming already lmao like let's see we got uhh. One Snitch. Two Really pushy lady that pressured her into saying that Birchface is the father of her kits and then once she found out that was a lie she clawed her in the face and called her 2 month old kittens "half-clan creatures". Three cheater that didn't give a fuck about their dead children whose corpses he fished out the river and then threw her under the bus and nearly got off scot free for the exact "crime" that she got severely punished for. Like listen has anything of value been lost honestly. Free my woman she did all of that your honor but also like come onnnn man who caressssss)

Im love. I love her. Me and Mapleshade get each other at a spiritual level and I have no idea what this says about me. All of you need to hear about Mapleshade too I don't care I am subjecting you to the triple homicide kitty I'm forcing you to listen. Also this is how her official plush looks. Crying throwing up what is wrong with this horrid wet beast. Horrible I am enamored with everything about it

[butchgrayson]

3, 4, 12 and 24 for dick grayson our beloved

dick grayson our beloved <3 i am about to be so fucking annoying about him

3. Least favorite canon thing about this character?

Joke-ish answer everything from TT nightwing (and rebirth nightwing in general). I just ignore its existence tbh.

Real answer I had a lot of difficulty answering bc i loveeeeee dick's flaws i love it when he's a cunt i love it when he self isolates i love it when he is a hypocrite the tension between his bad traits and his love for people/his friends, his dedication to heroism his intellect all of it is what made me fall in love with his character <3 BUT THEN. i remembered cop dick grayson. who i have almost completely wiped from my mind bc i hate it so so so so bad. it just doens't make sense with him as a person, like whyyyyyy would he ever go and join a police force more corrupt than gothams?????? its so anathema to who he his/his character history that my blood boils whenever i reread nw96 or see that era mentioned in fandom spaces LMAO whatever. im not even mad. in my own personal dc universe that lives in my brain and the personal wiki i have on my laptop the bludhaven cop era was an extended undercover/infiltration strategy. dick's true career calling should be being a bartender/doing seasonal work <3

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

ACE ATTORNEY !! i have an extended dc ace attorney au that i will post about someday but even outside of that it would be soooo fun to see him as either a protag (esp given that the defence attorneys in aa have to do all of their own detective work) OR as a supporting character. i think he would fit right in with the main cast of the series too, especially trucy (fellow circus kids !!!) and apollo <3

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

Another one i had a difficult time w just because how can i pick there r so many. BUT i saw a post earlier that reminded me that i am a dick grayson occasional smoker truther. i understand why most people would NOT agree w this but its a little self-indulgent i fully admit. on the one hand like yes he is a high level athlete/why would he do anything that he knows have bad health impacts but i can say as a former (semi) high level athlete i think that is the demographic i have known that has the highest proportion of smokers LMAO i think he picks it up in the ntt era originally as a social smoking thing whenever the titans would party or whatever (another self indulgence is i think he picks up the habit from donna) and it eventually turns into a very rare (as in, goes through a 1.5 packs a year) stress management technique when shit with bruce/the family/the titans/a case gets bad. he's filled with a lot of guilt over it but this does not stop him.

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

See there are so few characters with the specific brand of neuroses/issues that dick has that i was stumped on BUT while it is very much not a one-to-one i draw soooooo many parallels between him and declan lynch from the raven cycle series. ESP DURING THE ERA WHERE BRUCE IS "DEAD". pov you are the eldest child of an emotionally unavailable man who has involved you with his underworld/vigilante dealings since you were far too young to be doing so and so you take up the burden of it and incorporate it so deeply into your sense of self that you don't know how to be a real person anymore. and when your father dies it is your job to look after your family and protect them even when theyre estranged from you and you are the inheritor of something that you must keep going even if it kills you to do so <3 i think this parallel also works especially well with declan&ronan compared to dick&jason (<- am drafting a post in my mind about this whole topic as i type all this btw)

tysm for sending this in it was v v fun to answer !!!

character ask game

[morphogenetic]

Mediaposting 2024, #3: Chrono Trigger (DS Version)

Completed: January 13th (first run including sidequests) / January 20th (NG+/all endings/near-100% completion run)

Time spent: 35 hours (first run)/55 hours (NG & NG+)

Rating: 7.5/10

i'll get the easy critique out of the way first, and this is specifically a DS version issue (/maybe a steam issue too? not sure): oh my god why the fuck did they think adding the lost sanctum and dimensional vortex sidequests would be a good idea. neither of them add a single thing to the story and are literally like 15 hours of boring as hell sidequests. whyyyyyy did they add this this was PAINFUL to do as a completionist. jfc.

other thoughts under the cut because they are LONG but the TL;DR is: i enjoyed this game! i don't think it's bad at all and can absolutely see the influence it had on the genre! i think it's absolutely a game everyone who cares even a little bit about RPGs should play if they haven't already! i also don't understand why people think it's one of the best games ever made even though i think it's actually quite good in a few aspects!

anyway. continued below

i constantly had heard that chrono trigger had a very cool time travel story, and while aspects of this, absolutely, are true, there are particular parts of the time traveling that feel rather tacked-on to me. in particular, the future and extreme past eras are just....kinda there. and hilariously the same is kind of true of the present era, but that i can excuse to some extent. i don't think any of the eras are particularly bad, but the future in particular was not nearly as well utilized as it should have been, IMO, which kinda bums me out.

for me, the main issue is that it doesn't do enough with the actual 'influencing one era to cause changes in the other' thing until the endgame sidequests, and by the time you can do those, it feels a little too-little, too-late. that or there should have been a better way to space those sidequests out as you actually play the game, because they genuinely add a lot to some of the characters (FROG MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!!!! and also lucca benefits a lot from her backstory). but making basically all of them only accessible in the eleventh hour felt very counterproductive to me. the plot is honestly mostly uninteresting to me until the zeal era, and that feels far too late for a game like this. idk. i like the world as a whole but some parts of the worldbuilding itself felt very minimal to me, like i wish the idea of a Nu was discussed AT ALL. or why its like completely normal for people to hang out with monsters/non-humans in 13,000 B.C. idk. just little things but i can tell it was probably more of a system limitation thing than anything else.

that said i think the main cast is quite solid. frog is the best easily, magus is a close second (though he also runs into the same problem where a ton of his character development is laaaaateeee), but i don't hate any of the other characters at all. ayla is fun (love a fun gimmick character every once in a while) and lucca is my favorite kind of weird nerd girl character. marle's playstyle annoys me until you have all of her techs and robo becomes kind of outclassed by frog but man. frog!!!!!! my man. hes so good.

basically no one is Not a fun character. is what im trying to say. i don't think they're all super deep characters, which bothers me a lot more than it probably should for a fucking 90s jrpg, but i like all of them a little bit, which is more than i can say for some games.

also, and this is more of a gameplay structure thing: i really appreciate how chrono trigger praises the player for being patient and for being kind. this is late game, but once you can unlock the chests i LOVE how you get upgraded rewards if you chose to not unlock them in the past. its so smart. that and the cases where your very small actions end up affecting things as minimal as the shopkeepers you can interact with? mwah. so good.

music: everyone always praises the hell out of the music and i do think there are some great tracks (CORRIDORS OF TIME MY BELOVED), but even for the era i dont think its truly exceptional in most ways. not bad at all and i know they had technical limits but.....still. still. corridors of time fucking sweeps them though. my god. what a good song.

art: okay yeah i dont have anything to say here. fucking amazing spritework going on in this game. enemies can be kind of whatever if they're not bosses but the fucking overworld/background art. the amount of emotion that is portrayed in a few pixels is astounding to me.

battle system: has aged so well and as soon as I started playing it i just went "OH THATS WHERE TWEWY GOT THE RELOAD SYSTEM FROM" because its almost a direct straight line of influence LOL. it really does force you to understand the mechanics and not just spam everything with your most powerful attacks. does get a little bit eh by the endgame once you're doing all-field-damage attacks out of necessity, but still. solid. not particularly unique by today's standards but if a game TODAY came out with this system i would have no complaints.

by this point you're probably saying "wow you wrote a lot about this for a game you think is a 7.5/10" and...yeah lol sorry. its just that i can see the influence and while i dont think its the BEST GAME EVAAAR i can absolutely see why people adore it so much. i think im just a slightly different time of rpg fan and this didn't quite scratch the itch for me in all the ways i was hoping it would, but there is no way in hell i can call it bad. i still think anyone who likes video games at all should play it. it just didnt scratch a very specific itch in my brain that i wanted it to (/it was less of a character story than i really like in my games), and so i cant quiiiite bump it up to that 8/10 i wish it so badly was. but theres a reason its a classic, it's aged incredibly well. just doesn't fit my niche enough.

that said. am i playing chrono cross after this? absolutely LOL. might take me a while but i am invested enough in this world to be interested in it. hopefully theres a bit more worldbuilding stuff bc the zeal stuff was SO GOOD but then it got crammed into the last 5 hours and hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i wanted so much more foreshadowing about it. god. anyway.

good game. not the best game of all time for me, but a good game. probably a great game to people who arent as picky as me LSGLSKDGH. just uh. dont play the extra DS content unless you're a completionist like me. lost sanctum MAYBE for the items but i would not bother with the dimensional vortex. its bad. lol

[barinemiologist]

*SHADOW AND BONE SPOILERS for season 2 in the following rant*

I am soooooo confused and upset by how they changed the story from the books. You have everything, the perfect cast, the perfect settings, simply outstanding wardrobe, people who understand the assignment, and then you go and change major plot points TO WHAT END?

I get the merging storylines for maximum fandom engagement, I get wanting to cram some of the more important ship moments into this season in case there isn't a renewal or whatever. I even get skipping over some amazing details like the Sun Soldiers and Alina's hair turning white and having an actual audience of lay people at the pyre because budget restrictions, I guess. But everything was soooo rushed, it flattened so many aspects of character development.

Yes, the wesper scenes are to die for, I will kill for show Wylan, but why give them a previous history when so much of it in the books is about them slowly discovering each other?

And what the fuck was that about the triumvirate??? DAVID WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE. What they did to David is unforgivable. And I don't mean giving him more awareness of his surroundings than in the books, I mean not giving him all the time he should have had with Genya. IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY (and that would have been so much more impactful coming at a time when they thought maybe they had things a little in control, not in the heat of battle).

Why move the whole Alina-Mal-Nikolai triangle in this bizarre order? At first I figured they weren't even going to go down the Korol Reznoi route, but they instigated it at the very end instead of "resolving" Nikolai's monster issues the death of Kirigan (side-eye at calling him anything except the Darkling btw), which means they DO think or hope they'll get renewed for another season, which means they had time to do the whole "we're spending time actually underground and I don't have my powers for a while and then there's the distance with Mal" thing. Whyyyyyy send Mal away *after* the Fold instead of before?? Uuuuugggghhhhhhhhh

I swear it's not just the migraine annoying me. We could have had it all and they threw it away.

[angelic-hellraiser]

RE4R Thoughts So Far (Separate Ways)

Putting this under the cut bc I trash tf outta this game. You've been warned.

THE TLDR VERSION:

Both Ada and Wesker do not behave consistently. They act OOC through the entire game. This ruins it for me. I can't connect to them because they feel like an insert instead of a living, breathing human. Their reactions to situations don't line up with their established personalities. Resident Evil has never been known for its depth of story or character, but it's 2024. Catch up ffs. Also, there is a large enough voice speaking out about Ada Wong's RE4R VA and her lackluster portrayal. *shrugs* I agree. She did a piss-poor job. And why was Wesker babysitting her? Way fucking OOC. Lastly, Wesker's VA was trying too hard to sound evil and it served more to irritate me. SMH.

THE "ME RANTING LIKE A FUCKING WILD WOMAN" VERSION:

Ada Wong's VA grates the fuck outta me. She sounds like a bratty teenager; then, at other times she sounds like a middle-aged mom reading a spy novel imagining herself as a badass. I cannot stand the sound of Claire Redfield's VA, but she does a fantastic job as Claire. She understands Claire better than this VA understands Ada.

Wesker. Wesker, Wesker, Wesker. FFS he's OOC and his storyline makes no logical sense. His VA grates my god damn nerves, too. By this point, he has graduated to super villain status. He doesn't need to be in Spain. He wouldn't be in Spain. WTF is he doing in fucking Spain? The Krauser storyline doesn't count fuck off.

Wesker saving Ada. Why? He wouldn't even bother. He'd have hired someone else. Clean, surgical and with the least amount of loss. Ada isn't the only one in her line of work and she certainly isn't the only one who succeeds at it. The only reason for him to show up is to kill Ada, especially if he doesn't trust her. SMH. I'm sick and tired of these writers not challenging themselves to dish out better storylines for characters. Imagine if Wesker became Ada's enemy and they were fighting one another to retrieve the sample instead of Ada's battle with Krauser. Leave Krauser for Leon. Let Ada and Wesker kick the shit outta each other behind the scenes. Come the fuck on. I still can't get over Wesker showing up like a candy-ass. It's more logical to hire another merc... or even a TEAM of mercs.

Ada's storyline. She has apparently read files on the village, but she isn't in Spain before Leon? She doesn't know about the president's daughter? She doesn't know about the creature who infects her in the first five minutes? WTF. The original storyline of her actually doing her homework and arriving there before Leon was better. It has a stronger foundation, and you take Ada more seriously. Wesker pep talking Ada through the story feels OOC, too. As if he'd waste his fucking time BABYSITTING her. No way. Ada is supposed to be a professional, completely independent and efficient. Yet this bitch needs her hand held the whole fucking time.

Okay... I just witnessed a scene with Wesker actually saying he's not there to babysit her. THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING THERE, BRO? Writers, wtf. What the actual fuck?! Why are you so fucking LAZY? WHYYYYYY? And Ada's half-assed line afterwards: "Easy with the threats Wesker!" Not only was the line trash, the delivery from the VA was trash, too. Fuck. The writing and acting is lackluster af.

Ada's written dialogue. Yeah... NO. Again, sounding like a wannabe badass. So much of her thought process just peeves me. And her getting infected? Whut? I thought Ada was a character that did her homework?! By this point in the timeline, she has achieved her status as a force to be reckoned with. This is one of the reasons why Wesker hires her. The VA attempts to project professionalism through the dialogue, but it just comes off as stiff, nervous and bitchy. She sounds fake and the VA gives the impression that Ada is waaaaay out of her league. Jolene Anderson invited warmth into her portrayal of Ada Wong. You could sense that there was a real struggle with Ada's journey in RE2R, but there was also a strength of spirit that impressed upon the audience. We knew she was a badass. Here... it's vapid.

I'm tired of mediocre stories and lazy character portrayals. They had a chance to remake this game and turn it into something multilayered and powerful. Instead, they just rode off of the wave from the original RE4 and the RE2R. All characters start out as generic. We have archetypes we follow: the hero, the seductress, the super villain, the damsel in distress. What elevates them beyond generic is when they become human. When we as an audience can CONNECT to them and pick out the little idiosyncrasies that make them who they are (and those idiosyncrasies are consistent with the character and their development). Nic Pizzolatto said it best, "The only place anything comes alive is in character." And here, when referencing season one of True Detective, "I think the vision of the story was dictated by the characters and how they behaved in the circumstances I set out for them. [...] The trajectory of their personal arcs and where the journey took them was much more interesting to me with them left alive and altered in some way."

[kmp78]

“He just does not think on a grass roots level for one second cos he lives in his own ASS. 🤦🏼‍♀️”

I agree. That’s a shame tho cuz the idea was nice

What I don't understand is whyyyyyy in God's name did they even have to get the other gigs involved in this?! 🤦🏼‍♀️

You want more people in London?

THEN FUCKING SET UP A FREEBIE TICKET BOOTH SOMEWHERE IN LONDON AND HAND OUT TICKETS THERE WITH SOME TASTY FISH AND CHIPS. 🐟🍟

Don't go around tempting people to drive for 3 hours only to be told it was all a hoax! 🙄

[annbobko]

TW: suicidal thoughts

As someone who struggled with suicidal thoughts I find this rhetoric downright unethical and harmful. Because Gale sacrificing himself IS a depiction of suicide and saying that this could be the right way is just... Just despicable for lack of better word.

It's not just this interview, many people who hate on Gale seem to not realise or don't care that they're hating on traits and qualities that very real people around them have. So yeah - if you're depressed and autistic go die go suffer we will laugh at you. To which there's only one answer - fuck you. Your lack of empathy and thought says everything about you and nothing about me. I'm glad I'm seeing it now and not back when my depression hit hardest and I genuinely thought everyone would be better if I died.

And I can't express how sorry I am for anyone who ever had such thoughts. It's not your fault, you're not the problem, not the burden, this thoughts are not true. You deserve to receive help, you can live a happy life, find your people and be youself knowing you're perfect the way you are.

And I think such lazy ill-considered statements about suicide don't receive enough hate and negative feedback but I will do my best to deliver it. Because what the actual fuck?!

Oh, and afterthought about the statement "Gale's suicide is right ending" storywise. Have that person even played fucking game? Because destroying the Absolute with the orb means everyone infected exept main heroes will turn mindflayers. Unless I'm missing something our heroes' transformation is held back by Emperor, and everyone else's by Netherbrain in order to control them with tadpoles. So destroying the brain without taking control over it means everyone infected will undergo usual ceremorphosis process. WHICH IS PERFECT WAY TO DEPICT SUICIDE - IT IS FUCKING TRAGEDY NO ONE IS LEFT HAPPY WITH IT!

And another thing, minor compared to the previous one - what in the fuck is this scene when you're romancing Gale but think about orb before the final fight?! Like, you've been dissuading him all this time, showering him in love and acceptance and still you can say something like "hey love mind killing yourself after all"?! Why?! Whyyyyyy?! Imagine if you could suggest romanced Astarion to eat rat or fuck him without consent. You can't, right? So apparently Larian have understanding what inappropriate behaviour towards your traumatized partner is. THEN WHY THE FUCK IS THIS SCENE THERE WHEN YOU ROMANCE GALE?!

can someone tell me what larian’s problem is with gale. like genuinely.

i know the game pokes fun at certain companions, and i don’t have a problem with that - but there are two dialogues that i know of that not only specifically degrade him but also degrade the player for liking him and i ????? do not understand because i’ve never seen that for any of the other companions.

gale is a smart, witty, classically handsome man with a cat, who can COOK, die hard romantic, like… what’s the problem here?

and then, the crux of my current frustrations - major epilogue spoilers below but:

this entire interview just leaves a terrible taste in my mouth. genuinely what the fuck. in WHAT world is gale blowing himself up the ‘right’ ending for him.

you’re going to tell me that this is a better thing for him than becoming a professor?? than being alive?? because ultimately it’s completely and utterly unnecessary for him to sacrifice himself, so… i just really don’t understand why they felt the need to say this.

i don’t even want to go into the implications of this considering he is quite literally committing suicide? i just. what on earth. what the fuck larian.

[despair-to-future-arcs]

I doubt it’s suicide.

*As then moments later, others rush in...*

Gu-Guys, we heard you all in here! What happ-?!

Wait is...is that Yukio...?!

Yukio, what happen?! I don't understand what's going on!

Dude... what the fuck just happen...?

Th-This is...!

Ho...How could this happen?! Wh-Where's Nagi!

Fucking shit, first the teacher ran off and now this, what the shit...!

Peko...hey Peko, you there...?

...

*Peko rush over as pushing Nekomaru out of the way and trying to shake Yukio* Please... Yukio, wake up...please wake up, you...you have to...!

I'm sorry Peko, Yukio he...he killed himself...

How...how can you let him die like this?! Why did you let him die! *Peko grabbed Mikan by the collar*

I-I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry, pl-please forgiiiive meeeee!

I-I just left him alone for a se-second and th-then he...he was gone...!

Yeah Peko, look don't blame the pig shit for this! We...We didn't know this would happen!

But...But I...I just...! I left them alone, I just left them alone and...and he... he was fine, and...!

DA-DAMNIT, WH-WHY! WHY WHY WHY WHYYYYYY!!! *crying as on her knees*

*kneels down as holding Peko as she was crying* Don't worry, Peko...I'm here...

...

...

Wait, I realize... where's Nagi? Where did she go...?

O-Oh uh, Na-Nagi was just going to the bathroom, I'm not sure what happen with her...?

???: She looks to be dead...

Oh...it's you again...!

Well well... seems you all are here, huh?

Well yes, we are but that part you mention, are... are you saying Nagi died too?

Well of course, I saw what happen; a Reserve Course student got in and chase after her, killing her...

*throws Nagi's ripped school jacket* Seems she died in the river, this was all I could find...

Wait, she...she's dead too?!

Ho-How could this be, I...I saw her alive how could she be dead?!

[hypnosiacon-archived]

Ok so!! The first I want to tell about the beginning and how I understand like zero. Ig it's because it's not the first comics in series? So I liked their captain like he reminds me abt Blurr somehow and Drift and Brainstorm but I really don't know em much.

But then there's THIS arc about Delphi (I noticed I wrote it incorrectly last time sorry!). and I was like WhAt? The hell whole plot jumped made axel and bum. And I liked it! Ok I like all medics! But Pharma looked sus and OH SO YOU'RE SUS INDEED. AND BOOM MENTION ABOUT DJD AND BOOM HE ALMOST KILLED EVERYONE BUT RATCHET BOOM I'M SUPERIOR AND DRIFT WAS DEAD BUT SOMEHOW HE'S ON THE ROOF AND DOING STUFF WTF.

But I liked I'm HYPED. REALLY HYPED.

And I need to realise what happened cuz in my head it's a mess snnfsjjsnjxjs

- 🫧 sea star anon 🫧

SLK;AK,FLDSF;SDA;SF JUST PLEASE DON'T THINK THAT PHARMA IS AN ASSHOLE ETC ONLY BECAUSE HE DECIDED TO SHOW RATCHET THAT HE'S KINDA BETTER THAN HIM ETC, LIKE YOU SEE WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENED WITH HIM, HE WAS TORTURED (kinda) BY DJD WHYYYYYY FANDOM MUST YOU FAIL ME SO OFTEN AAAAAAHH

I love this ark a lot. I knew Pharma already, because my partner was talking about him once in a while, trying to tell me that I would love him, and when he showed me him, it was a screencap from his next appearance and I swear, he's fucking stole my heart that one moment. AND THEN i saw him in comics and I was LIKE W H A T NO WAIT I'M NOT READY LOFDJG;VKL;SGDKFLDGD

I need to Breathe because holy shit i'm so in love

[missheartnet]

Marco is gonna unmatched me? Like, what's going on?? He went grey for like days! Was my choices? Did I do this to myself?