#double disappointment

[every-shiraishi]

[catminecraft]

i cant seriously be the only person whos super disappointed and frustrated with the direction that the life series has taken right. the love i felt for the series was because of the organic relationships and alliances between the players, not because of the gimmick. in secret and wild life the gimmick has become so overpowering (although sl less so) that the players have little room to actually play; the players are punished for engaging in the game (social, and the mechanics of minecraft) and forced to spend the entire time navigating around the gimmick.

this has been a problem in secret life (the players' plans for the session being completely thwarted by secret tasks) but has been completely blown out of proportion in wild life, where a sessions were filled with deaths caused by the gimmick- players taken out of the series through no fault of their own.

i feel like the frustration on the players part comes through very strongly in their episodes. in the snail episode, it didnt even seem like most players were having any fun; players eliminated by the snails were understandably disappointed and frustrated as well. the finale was imo completely lackluster, with most conflict culminating right after the wild cards were turned off. the players do want to engage in the social game (pearl and gem were doing their absolute best to work out their beef in the finale) but they just Cant due to the way that the gimmick has been designed to work. grian of course will not learn from this

[notsotactical]

I think it was extremely evil of them to show us these shots and NOT make them kiss, like, at all

[baifengxis]

anny’s favorite 2024 asian dramas

when the phone rings, south korea fangs of fortune, china a tale of love and loyalty, china reverse 4 you, thailand the double, china lovely runner, south korea blossom, china yong an dream, china the legend of shen li, china the story of pearl girl, china

[ducklooney]

Wait, Donald Duck's 90th birthday is coming up and there's nothing related to Donald Duck Week?! This is embarrassing for me! One of the most important and best characters in the world not to get his own attention?!

Nothing, I'll ask someone or I'll do it myself. It seems that I am one of the few who thinks about this most important anniversary!

[deckoftrickcards]

boy grows up without a woman in his life and grows to despise every woman he meets

[bloodbatty]

Using your power to save the world is boring. If I were Max I would go back in time and prevent Gwen from already being married.

[pinkwarden]

thinkin' about Spite being, true to form, spiteful about Lucanis neglecting their deal in ways that are petty and stupid. He takes over for the night? Consider:

Lucanis' favorite cup goes missing bc Spite hid it

His grocery lists have items randomly redacted

All of Lucanis' similarly sized daggers are suddenly crammed into the wrong sheathes. Thanks Spite :)

Of the spices he uses most, Spite picks one and dumps out just enough that Lucanis will come up short next time he needs it

He reorganizes the pantry by color instead of whatever the fuck system Lucanis and Bellara painstakingly decided on

He carves those geometric lines from the logbook into the dining room table with Lucanis' most expensive knife

Spite takes a piece of bread from the kitchen to eat in their cot bc Lucanis thinks eating in bed is gross and he'll know Spite did it when he sees the crumbs

Maybe he goes after Davrin once or twice with pebbles meant for his shoes, but it never works out bc while Spite’s piloting the body of a Crow, he doesn’t quite know how to use it like one

[chronurgy]

Of the two versions we're given of Karlach's back story I strongly prefer the one we get in act one

(In act one she says that working for gortash allowed her to move her parents to a nicer neighborhood while in act 3 she says they were dead before she ever met him)

I just think there's a much more interesting and tragic story contained in the first version

It asks a lot more questions and those questions give karlach more depth - did she see? Did she know? Did she choose not to see anything? What was she willing to do, what was she required to do, in the name of keeping her aging parents safe?

It also could have resulted in some incredible moments when she returned to Baldur’s Gate after all that time away - reunion scenes with her parents in much reduced circumstances or finding out that one or both had died. Maybe they'd blame her, assuming she ran off and was lying. Maybe they'd welcome her home with open arms. Maybe they'd be doing just fine! Or worse, if gortash had stepped in to look after them, leaving them praising the generosity of the very man that sold her! It could work really well in bg3's examination of various types of abuse (And would play so well with Gortash's issues with his own parents). All of those possibilities (and more) could have lead to some FASCINATING character moments for karlach and I'm so sad we didn't get them.

There's just so much more potential in that storyline and I really wish larian had stuck with it!

[elester01]

me when a random superhero guy whom I do not know disorganizes all of my student's papers and makes them fall onto the ground and everything is not organised and proceeds to call me ma'am:

[stood-onthecliffside]

it has been so interesting to see that when male artists do something eccentric especially in their lyrics the audience is like he is a genius you don’t understand and is almost expected of them. while female artists especially with a large women audience, step a bit outside their artistic zones because of very major life changes (re taylor and halsey this year etc) then suddenly everyone is at their throats and calling them cringy because you already went with a headset about how a certain album is going to sound and will be about, and decided not to let the art sit with you for a day at least but instead record your first opinion of it being wow that’s weird. it’s almost as if women cannot be weird in art and the attitude translates to other things as well. we always need to maintain a clean polished surface even when we are struggling mentally and physically. the culture of viewing male artists as suffering artists which turned them into geniuses almost to an extent where they cannot function and connect with the ‘normal’ society needs to die.

[danwhobrowses]

I have to say when it comes for episode 107 I'm on the camp of this feeling wrong. Like, two gods' plan is to just let Ludinus just have his way? And just assume that the vessel won't get them? The Wildmother showed Orym the time Predathos came to town, it took out two of them in a blink and the Titans did the heavy lifting, it chased them from Tengar to Exandria without concept of navigation so it's foolish to think they won't do the same this time around. Running forever isn't a life even the infinite should be pursuing. Corellon is cheeky and flirty but it's a mask for being deflective and honestly a little cowardly. What you're asking and trying to persuade with gifts requires the Hells to entertain sacrificing one of their own, which they shouldn't (and I'm hopeful they won't, because that'd be to me at least be a character betrayal since they have always prioritized each other over the gods) consider doing even for any kind of promise, and treating it like it's a necessity, as if leaving like you've decided you want to do now is your 'sacrifice'? Even if being a vessel and still being of sound mind was a viable option with proof that it can work that way, there are too many unknown factors that it seems not even the gods have answers for, so it should all trail back to the fact that this is STILL not a risk worth taking and Ludinus should not be having his way.

I guess part of this feeling comes down to the fact that this was not what I was hoping to get out of the episode; I'm always open to being surprised (because I often am) but it has to be in a good way, this was not a good way. But we'll have to see where it goes, this is a proposal of two gods against a majority yet to say their piece and could still be heard out, I still trust Matt's vision and Abu DM's like smooth butter, but the god debate admittedly continues to wear on me - we were already in a state where we were open to talk but now they're conspiring against one another too? Can we not just focus on Plan A: Unite to Stop Ludinus from releasing Predathos? Evoroa literally said Ludinus' plan is to divide why are we sowing more division? Couldn't just kill Zathuda and take his dragon for Fearne...this should've been Bell's Hells' big win to make up for Otohan but now for me at least it feels a little sour.

[fi0rimort1]

gwen hunter sketch cause i have lis brainrot and i love her so why not

still can’t tell if i liked the one with the b&w butterfly more, but eeeh maybe it’s just the lighting

[344x-azucar]

UMMM OW LEAGUE ????????

[melodicbones]

ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT IF IT WASN'T SO HEAVILY COPYRIGHTED, WE COULD'VE HAD ETHO SINGING BABY SHARK?!?!

[twildflower]