#but like yeah i dont really like the terminator series so far

[a-passing-storm]

I started watching the Terminator movies, and I... meh. Terminator 1 was Not That Interesting to me, and Terminator 2 had a better premise (imo), but it just... none of it Sits Well with me. (My issue is I’m comparing it to the Matrix.) (I typed this all in the tags but I think I passed the tag limit so that sucks.)

[legionofpotatoes]

we decided to watch all story cutscenes from the new resident evil village videogame on a whim, since it’s not really our cup of tea gameplay-wise but seems to be this massive zeitgeist moment that made us morbidly curious. And I know how much everyone cares about my thoughts on things I know very little about, so. let’s get into it huh gamers. and yeah spoilers?

for context, I’ve only played resident evil 4 and a small portion of 5. I also read the wikipedia entry for 7’s plot recently. all this to say I was only vaguely aware of how tonally wacky the series was going in

I also completely gave up following the plot of the mutagens’ soap opera, so that paid off in spades here as you might imagine

anyway so that baby in the intro. that baby’s head is just massive. humongous toddlerdome. when ethan finds the baby’s head in a jar later on. there is no way that head would fit into that jar. bad game design. no not even game design. basic stuff. one hundred years in prison for jar modeler

if I see a single functional hetero marriage in video games I will cry tears of joy. I understand their misery is kind of The Point irt them badly working through the hillbilly romp trauma but like. sheesh. at least set that up as an emotional story goal the plot will help resolve. but nope they start off miserable and it goes nowhere

I know I know the mia thing has a huge wrinkle in it but like. not really in terms of dramatic function?? set up a happy end to the re7 nightmare (miranda can keep up appearances for all she cares) and then take that all away from angry griffin mcelroy for manpain. it will still absolutely work to set up the dramatic forward momentum. why throw in this cliche Hollywood Tension in their marriage if you’re not going to address it oh maybe because it’s normalized as automatically interesting because nuclear families are a self-propagating pit of a very narrow chance at emotional happiness relying on social stigma to preserve their empty function oops my baggage slipped in yikes abort mission

I called him griffin mcelroy because I saw his face on twitter and. yeah. I will continue to do this occasionally. my house my rules

... fuck the reason I’m hung up on this is specifically because the rest of the game is so tonally dexterous (which is a shining point to me! more on that later!), and yet they felt weirdly compelled to create the aesthetic trapping of a family-at-odds trope without following it through too well. a sign of both the good and the bad stuff to come

but listen the real reason why I wanted to talk about any of this is to nitpick the fascinating backwards-engineered nucleus of the entire thing; in that this game essentially creates a melting pot of just SO many disparate horror tropes and then makes a no-holds-barred unhinged effort at weaving thick lore to piece them all together. it is truly a sight to behold. like straight up you got your backwoods fright night situation, your gothic castle vampires, your rural-industrial werewolves, and don’t forget your bloated swamp monsters over there, with then a hard left turn into robotic body horror, and the entire ass subgenre of Creepy Doll writ large, and the bloodborne tentacle monsters, and a hellboy angel bossfight, which rides on the coattails of a mech-on-mech pacific rim bonanza, and just jesus henry christ slow down

almost all of these are textural hijack jobs that don’t really get into the metaphor plain of any of those settings but the game sort-of makes an argument that the texture IS the point and revels in it. It is kind of admirable almost. The same reason why the intro felt boxed in and unmotivated is also why the rest of the game just blasts off of its hinges to the point of complete and self-indulgent tonal abandon. I kinda loved that about it. lady dimitrescu made sure to hold her hat down as she bent forward in mahogany doorways and then suddenly she’s a giant gore dragon and you settle in your temp role as dark souls man with Gun to take her ass down. Excellent??

this rhino rampage impulse to gobble up every horror aesthetic known to man comes to head when the game wrestles with its FPS trappings in what is the most hilarious solution in creating visceral player damage moments. Since most cinematics and the entire game is in first person, that leaves precious little real estate for the devs to work with if they really want to sell griffin’s physical crucible. To wit. This dude’s forearms. Specifically just the forearms. They are MASSACRED throughout the story. The poor man lives out the silent hill dimension of a hand model. by the end cutscene he looks like a neatly dressed desk clerk who had decided to stick both his grabbers into garbage disposal grinders just a few hours prior. like in addition to everything else it manages to rope in that tinge of slapstick violence into its general grievous genre collection except this time it IS for a lack of trying! truly incredible

but wait his miracle clawbacks from everything his poor paws go through are retroactively explained away, yes, but far too vaguely and far too late to console me as I sat and watched everyone’s favorite baby brother reattach an entirely severed hand to his wrist stump by just. placing it on there. and giving it a lil twist ‘n pop terminator-style. and then willing his fingers back into motion right in front of my bulging eyes. this game just does not care. it does not give a shit. and boy howdy will it work to make that into one of its strongest suits

cause generally speaking resident evil was THE premiere vanilla zombie content destinaysh for like a decade, right? and as the rest of the world and mainstream media started encroaching and bloodying its blue ocean it went and just exploded in every single conceivable horror trope direction like a smilodon on catnip. truly, genuinely fascinating franchise moves

yeah the big vampire milf is hot. other news; grass... green. although I do love the implication that her closet is just identical white dresses on a rack. cartoon network-level queen shit

apropos of nothing I’ve said there’s also this hobo dante-devimaycry-magneto man, and I can’t believe this sentence makes sense. anyway he made that “boulder-punching asshole” joke referring to chris redfield and it was probably the only easter egg that really landed for me and boy did it land hard. I have not seen him punch the boulder in re5, mind. I had only heard about how funny it is from friends. and here this dude was, probably in the same exact mindset as me, trying to grapple with that insane mental image. with you on that ian mckellen, loud and clear

I advocate vehemently against the shallow pursuit of hyper photorealism in art direction but I gotta admit it works really in favor of immersive horror like this. the european village shacks especially gave me super unchill flashbacks to my rural countryside retreat in western georgia. I could smell the linoleum dude. not cool

faces are weird in this game. can’t place it. nice textures, good animation, but the modeling template is... uuh strange? and the hair. it has that clustered-flat-clumpy look that harkens to something very specific and unpleasant but I just don’t know what. sue me

griffin’s mental aptitude to take all this shit in stride and end every seemingly traumatizing bossfight involving some fucking eldritch being yet unseen through mortal eyes by essentially throwing out an MCU quip is just. What the fuck dude? I mean that was funny how you casually yelled the f-word at a god damn werewolf that you considered a fairy tale an hour ago but are you like, all right?? it was swinging a sledgehammer the size of a bus at you, ethan

oh oh the vampires are afraid of cold and your last name is winters. I get it haha

Pro Gamer Nitpick: boss fights seemed a bit unnecessarily long?? idk why the youtuber we picked decided the ENTIRE propeller man fight counted towards the vital story scenes he was stitching together, but man mr big daddy lite there really had some get up and go huh??

why are they saying dimitrescu.. like that. is it really how you say that word or is the english language relapsing into its fetish for ending every single word with a consonant at all costs

I’m not saying it’s a dramatic miss of a twist in context of all that’s going on, but the “you died in the last game actually and have been DC’s clayface ever since” revelation is low-key. it’s. it’s just funny to me, I dont know what to say. century-old god-witch fails her evil plan after she mistakenly removes heart from what was definitely NOT just some white guy with eight fingers after all

chris realizing he’s about to become the player character and immediately swapping out his tsundere trenchcoat for the muscletight sex haver sweater

the little bluetooth speaker-sized pipe bomb he taped to his knife was nuclear?? really??? I must have missed something because that is just too good. I buy it though I totally buy it. chris just got them fun-sized nukes in his car trunk for, you guessed it, Situations

anyway this is all for now just wanted to briefly touch on how unexpectedly funny and tonally irreverent this seemingly serious game turned out to be. did not articulate any cathartic story beats whatsoever but my god it had fun connecting those plot points. he just fucking put his severed hand back on his stump and it Just Worked todd howard get in here

[drterminal]

the umbrella academy s1 reactions - part 3

lets go umbrella gang!

part 1: https://casey-brinkes.tumblr.com/post/182841103516/umbrella-academy-s1-reactions-part-1

part 2: https://casey-brinkes.tumblr.com/post/182861701786/umbrella-academy-s1-reactions-part-2-ep-2-3

this part covers episodes 4 through 7 uwu

EPISODE FOUR

- i love how pogo’s just ready,,, holding the serum,,, hsbjndfhn

- luther “okay so basically,, im monky” hargreeves

- “poor diego” hahaha if only you knew

- luther is so edgy sdhjbfkksfhbdns 

- “for one day i think you'll be fine” SHUT UP LEONARD MEDS ARE IMPORTANT!!!!

- leonard is really pushing his relationship w vanya and I Don't Like It

- i hope the rest of the fandom hates leonard as much as i do

- “no wonder we didnt last” were diego and eudora in a relationship in the past??????? did they really make police mans a woman to give diego a relationship??? 

- why does this show make everything romantic

- like i get luther/allison bc that was a thing in the comics (which i don't like anyway), but vanya/leonard and diego/eudora make me ://////

- leonard’s being a creepy weirdo again but when isn't he

- diego i know you have a rivalry with your brother but calling him a monster is a little too far

- oh shit they got the eyes

- okay but. how do they think hazel and cha-cha killed grace?? they didn’t know she was a robot (the academy obviously doesn't know this but their kills aren’t clean. just look at their victims later in the episode)

- NYFSJKDHBD NUMBER FIVE PASSED OUT WITH DELORES

- “you know what’s funny? i'm going through puberty. twice” trans people be like

- IOHDFNSFGFREIOGLFJ HE TOOK HER FUCKING MEDS

- FUCK LEONARD LIVES

- EUDORA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

- klaus winking at the lady on the bus hjsndshfb

- “YOU THROW ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE GODDAMN KNIVES AT ME, I’M PRESSING CHARGES”

- HBDNSFJSB LUTHER PATTING DELORES

EPISODE FIVE

- oh look its kate walsh

- i love my angry boy, diego hargreeves

- so the handler = carmichael??

- okay so the whole deal with the handler and the kennedy assassination is weird because in dallas number five is trying to stop his older self from killing the people involved in the kennedy assassination bc tua takes place in this alternate universe where kennedy never died (bc older five stopped them) BUT in that timeline the world ends bc kennedy meets hargreeves and gives him nukes and the nukes end up in hazel and cha-cha’s hands and they go boom SO in order to make sure the world doesn’t end allison assassinates kennedy. but in the netflix show kennedy dies? i think? bc older five never stopped the assassins bc he wanted to get back to his time? so i don’t know how that’s going to work. of course things are VERY different from the comics and im aware of that but im just wondering how shit is gonna work out with everything changed yknow. SORRY FOR THE HUGE PARAGRAPH 

- DID VANYA JUST FUCKING PUT SALT IN HER COFFEE???? (update: yes she did)

- these dumbasses and their food choices (vanya was just out of it BUT DIEGO AND KLAUS WERE NOT)

- YES POGO PLEASE SAVE GRACE

- “you know i can't drive” that's how u know klaus is really lgbt

- i also love klaus and diego’s relationship

- “wearing grace’s heels” klaus hargreeves, a nonbinary icon since age twelve

- is klaus okay???? like there’s all this shit that’s already happened to him PLUS now he has ptsd from war and a dead boyfriend

- i love hazel not being able to comprehend peaceful bird watching

- agnes is iconic

- FUCK NUMBER FIVE WHY

- F U C K

- IS THAT FUCKING BEN’S BODY WHAT HEUFJC

- THE B OO K

- MOTHERFUCKER

- no. what i think is about to happen better not fucking happen

- OKAY SO WHAT I WAS THINKING DIDNT HAPPEN BUT I DONT FUCKING KNOW WHAT HAPPENED INSTEAD

- WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH GRACE AND POGO

EPISODE SIX

- the little scream when the umbrella popped in hfjdksfk

- “terminate hazel” OH NOOOOO

- @ comic fans did y'all notice the temps aeternalis masks on the wall of the briefcase room

- VNAYAAYD ADNJK POWERS. VANYA. POWERS.

- yay hazel is alive! thank u cha-cha

- but im interested in what actually made her not kill him. cha-cha’s the no-nonsense, cut-to-the-chase one. she wouldn’t hesitate in terminating someone for the commission, so why hesitate now? because hazel’s been her parter for, hell, who knows how long? or did he sway her in his little speech?

- let me tell you i love analyzing this series

- BHDSJAKKHBFKJNSFB JNS JNAFSNJKAL DIEGO SUPPORTING HIS BROTHER WITHOUT HESITATION!!!!!!! “well dave must have been a very special person to put up with all your weird-ass shit” DO YOU HEAR ME CRYING

- “what an asshole” we been knew buddy

- “to finish the feast” allison. honey. that food has been there for years

- everyone in the academy is an idiot and you know what? that's valid

- OH Y<M GFODPSMF SHES BURNING IT

- diego geniunely cares for klaus. i love them

- THE TRANSITION FROM KLAUS FALLING OVER AAA

- dave D’:

- SHE HAS A PLANE TO GET TO. YALL DONT HAVE TIME TO DANCE

- THE TRANSITIONS IN THIS EPISODE ARE REALLY GOOD THO

- “im an idiot” yes, yes you are. you all are

- OHN YMTNJ FDISJAKNDJFIJOSFBHSDOKSJBH XBJOA CHA-CHA

- FUCKJGIHDFN IMAGINE. CHA-CHA DOESNT HAVE THE GUTS TO KILL HAZEL BUT HAZEL HAS THE GUTS TO KILL HER. IMAGINE

- WHAT A FUCKING POWER MOVE

- the “tough” one can’t kill her partner but the “distracted” one can

- i doubt hazel would go through w it but like. just imagine

- i'm so writing a fic for this now

- SHE IFPOHDJSFBS SHSE FOUND THE BOOK

- D A V E

- SDJFLJKLDLND KILLING HER (she isn't dead tho) WITH HER OWN GRENADES. P O W E R  M O V E

- OH NO EVERYTHING’S FUCKED UP

- HSDBJN “WHO THE HELL IS HAROLD JENKINS”

- but really who the fuck is that

EPISODE SEVEN

- “i'll save you from the evil dr terminal!” 

- HARGREEVES IS SUCH A DICK

- OH MY FUCKIGNF GOD HE JUST MURDERED HIS DAD

- his dad was a dick too but JESUS 

- “money money money money” HBJSDBHKJN KLAUS

- OKAY I SUSPECTED IT BEFORE BUT SJKFDJBFKNKL 

- NO WONDER LEONARD’S SO OBSESSED WITH VANYA

- AND THATS WHY LEONARD HAS NO RECORDS, BC ITS NOT HIS REAL NAME

- LITHERHEORKFJDSLB:UTHER LIUTHER :LUTHER LUTHER 

- PUT KLAUS DOWN

- i LOVE klaus’s relationships w all his brothers 

- SEEING THIS DAY FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE IS SO COOL

- “yeah, he didnt seem dangerous when i first saw him. looked kinda scrawny” “yeah, well, so are most serial killers and mass murderers. i mean, look at him” “thanks”

- DIEGO JUST BURSTS THROUGH THE DOOR SJNDFJKBDLFB

- “you know the door was unlocked?” KSHDFJLFJHBDJLAHsb

- JKHDSJ SHE CANT REACH THE ATTIC

- FIVE YOU DUMB IDIOT TELL YOUR FUCKING SIBLINGS WHEN YOURE DYING

- why does leonard / harold get stuck with such an ugly name BOTH times

- oh god they're kissing

- :(

- this such a good scene tho... (the ben & klaus one)

- LUTHER ARE YOU OKAY?????????????

- “huge fan of the furries” FSHBDJKNBHDKNBHADWKNL

- “WHY’D YOU DO THAT??” “I HAVE NO IDEA”

- klaus :(

- “did you?” “no, no, no, of course not, why would you ask that about me?”

- OH MY GODN IS THIS WHERE KLAUS MEETS COWBOY GOD???

- aw its little girl god not cowboy god

- y'all are missing out in cowboy god

- oh worm leonard’s all beat up BUT. VANYA. POWERS.

[jimlingss]

His Name pt 7 got me in tearsss 😭😭😭 CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT CHAPTERSSS #teamnotif

[SPOILERS OF HIS NAME BELOW]

notification? lol it must spam your phone a lot. But thank you! :’)

Anonymous said:Oh my god I didn't expect that ending in His Name 7!!! The fact that she terminated her position as Jungkook's psychologist is either really good or really bad news , because that means that either she wants to start seeing Jungkook without being his psychiatrist or she wants to end things before she crosses a line and not see him again...

*evil laughter* You’re exactly right, anon! 

jayne-tase said:NOOOOO IS IT ENDING... all the alters are saying goodbye and i dont like it. Nooo. Yoongi and Jin's goodbye are so sad it made me feel sad and i almost cried. As much as i want them to be together i cant help but be sad about the alters. It must have been super hard for the alters to say goodbye. It's like they're lives are ending so sad...Ugh this is so fricking good. Im not kidding. Damn

WELL WE DON’T KNOW FOR SURE IF THEY’RE SAYING GOODBYE. I thought y’all would know me better than to start jumping to conclusions ;) But yeah, there’s no win-win situation here and that’s the tragedy of it. Thank you for reading and sending me feedback!

myjeansareonfire said:OHHH MY GOD HE'S REMEMBERING!! I'm so HYPED for this 😭 and omg, flashbacks!!! Yay! And so yoongi was shot.. And kidnapped??? Why the heck did jungkook forget ah how, and why does his father never mention it... Also did yoongi die first, or the mom?? And how much does the order of their deaths affect jungkook's mental state??? I have a feeling a lot of my questions will be answered at the end of this but i am SCARED.

Also, girl, you just use really good metaphors. Like in the beginning you mentioned one and I was just kind of reading it over again like wow, you are a great writer. This whole thing so far is super well written. And i just helped a friend out with editing an essay for a scholarship earlier so i'm in the mindset of being super critical of everything that i'm reading and seeing how to improve it and appreciating what's done right and wow, your writing looks completely flawless to me.

It’s so great that you send me messages as you read. I can truly see how my readers lose their minds and it’s AMAZING. HAHAHAA I’m always laughing at your messages. But yes thank you so much. Sometimes I wonder if I go overboard with metaphors and similes so I try to lay off a bit but wow, thank you. This means a lot to me. I’m squealing. 

myjeansareonfire said:OHMYGOD HIS FATHER WANTED JUNGKOOK TO FORGET. I'M RUINED, YOU KILLED ME. I hate him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And he has the audacity to say his son is good for nothing!! I want to suplex him

Oh my god i'm sobbinggg 😭 Jin wrecked me. He just wants to /live/. Oh my goodness... That broke my heart. Hoseok wanted to go see the stars... Yoongi wanted to play the piano.. I don't know why but that reminded me of my dog, who we had to put down recently... I'm just so emotional right now 😭 that was an amazing chapter. The pain, the feeling of betrayal, the longing to be more, you wrote everything so beautifully. Beyond excited for chapter 8 🙏 i have a feeling there might be fluff.. I hope

haha when you finish reading the series, I recommend (if you’re really up for it) to re-read the entire thing and pick up on the things you might’ve missed. I think when you read it already knowing the secrets and exactly what’s behind everything, it can offer new perspectives. PLUS, I added a ton of foreshadowing muhaha. 

But yes. Jin’s desire to ‘live’ is actually a mutual desire amongst all the alters. All of them want to live. And I’m so sorry it reminded you of your dog :( 

Thank you for reading!!