#but its been nagging me

[diddlesnap]

my haymitch super edition prediction is that theres a weird and unnecessary romantic tension between haymitch and katniss's mom

[puppyeared]

mascot

[clowningcrows]

don’t mind me changing my name in my bio it’s probably just temporary but i kinda wanted to try smth different out just to see how it feels teehee. anyway going by milo for now

and yes it is inspired by this mf and the staggering amount of gender envy he gives me.. what about it

[krispiecake]

tell me why i can hear another tenants fucking music from my flat. HE DOESNT EVEN LIVE IN MY BUILDING. HE LIVES IN A COMPLETELY SEPARATE BUILDING ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND I CAN HEAR HIS MUSIC FROM MY FLAT. MY FLAT WHICH IS IN A DIFFERENT SEPARATE BUILDING.

[godwaltz]

i think music in malevolent is like... a sign of the king. with arthur playing the piano, john recognizing the song, kellin singing, collin hearing music, kayne playing the piano, uncle, the music box. its in someway connected to madness ("you call it madness i call it love") which . the king can drive people mad... thats one of his things

[wallyclarksnewmom]

Thinking about the way that Xavier is sort of exonerated for everything by the narrative just because he didn't kill Maddie. The one that really bothers me is in the flashback when he kills the rat and laughs - when we are initially shown that flashback the intention is to show Xavier as being capable both of violence and of cruelty, and thus imply that he could have been violent and cruel to Maddie. But because it turns out he wasn't her killer, the very real red flags they planted get? Forgiven? Ignored? And by the seasons end he just gets integrated into the living Scooby gang.

[phonification]

guys i need your input . who do you think is gonna tell OJ, pickle and nickel the truth about the show?? (...if they come back)

[pinacoladamatata]

if they Tamlen solas' ass, that might just be IT for me

[melatien]

(not tiny) yoichi reading his little comic

[jjinpang]

tbh the reason I dun wanna interact with new ff7 content is there is a weird fanwork-y feeling to it.

like it's created by squareni, but it feels less like storytelling and more like it's trying to feed me an opinion about the characters, without really working in depth with them???? like they are trying to convince me of their headcanon rather than make a canon????

it's kinda hard to explain. but one feeling I cannot shake is the story really truly sincerely loves cloud. everyone in ff7 loves cloud. the story itself is trying to convince me how much everyone has always loved cloud. I'd read fanwork about how actually the world revolves around someone's blorbo, but with original works I just get the ick. moreover the parts of ff7 I actually liked was how it turned out it never actually had to be cloud. but it happened to be cloud.

so anyway I'm complaining that there is too much cloud at the cloud store.

[spooked-skull-studios]

i never want to post my Protocol theories here because im so scared it'll get disproven and someone in the future will make a "looking back at wrong theories" and mine'll be there

bc i know there are vids like this on Archives and im not bashing them they're really fun to look at but my paranoia gets so bad that if that did happen then i feel and maybe even know (?) that my social anxiety would absolutely ruin me. i know its a really stupid fear (ha) but its just a shame that i cant get past the block of anxiety about how people would perceive me if that happened :[

[minweber]

I have no idea how hot of a take that is - because I, in my infinite wisdom, tend to stay away from such harmful things as "discussing Dragon Age on the internet" - but I do think that moving to a more ME-style action-focused combat system with only partially controllable companions is a good move on part of DAV team.

I would imagine that few people have very fond memories of DA2 or DAI combat, but I have often seen people praise DAO's slower, more tactical system as a standard that series needs to return to. Probably did so myself, if I am being completely honest.

But replaying DAO in 2024, I find that combat is... fine? Serviceable, better than what its two sequels had to offer, but in no way something that could carry a game on its own, or even something that you truly return to the game for.

I find that "real-time-but-actually-turn-based-via-the-pause" combat doesn't work - in a sense that its attempt to marry the two extremes neither retains all their best qualities, nor produces any new ones. It's functional, but not much more so. Trying to control your entire party as if it were a turn-based tactical RPG feels rather clunky (the tactics system, while presenting a valiant effort, does not really save it) and rawdogging it real time robs the system of most of its depth and makes the game nigh unplayable on higher difficulties.

And I think 2010 BioWare actually saw it as well, as they kept trying to streamline it for the next two games. It seems to me that they failed, but whether it was a failure of execution, or an inevitable consequence of the limitations of the concept is up for debate.

And if one were to be of the second opinion, then it would make sense for this system to be discarded, and lean more heavily in either direction. And the choice between a fast-paced action combat system and a turn-based tactical one would be nowhere near obvious - yeah, franchises's and studio's roots lie closer to the turn-based tactical one, but their greatest success was with an action RPG, and honestly, DA's entire post-DAO (meaning the entire series but one game) identity desperately wants to be attached to something action-packed and fast-paced.

So why keep fighting it?

[n-a-gindustries]

doodling them even MORE!!!

[wildflowerteas]

almost forgot to send off our ch16 highlights!!

the Ace of Spades!! right from the start, that's been a key symbol in TSP. It's one of the aces on the logo of the double black, it's the highest valued card in most games, it's a stylized sword, and it's known as the death card in some games as well.

I GOT ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR BIRTHDAYS????? my mind . . . u_u tell Hella i need hers so i can have awful shit happen in the timeline for all of you.

TSP Yosano backstory will actually be coming soon! I've been purposefully avoiding it because I want her to talk about it with someone other than Dazai, for reasons I won't specify.

off to part 2 !!!

[downsteepy]

can you believe ive spent the better part of several days throwing up for a 4 minute video

[dayurno]

whatever happened to mommy dom kevin day :( ……….

nothing............. hes busy making sure jean moreau eats 3 meals a day and gets out of the house sometimes. occasionally he calls and tells jean to wash those goddamn sheets or so help me god