#goes SO BEYOND FUCKING HARD

[theythemmer]

‘kendrick vs drake’ ‘megan vs nicki’ nah THIS was the real rap battle of the century

[rowanisawriter]

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[weekdaysend]

You ever watch a Sam and Max video essay in the middle of your college cafeteria thinking it be something nice and short and end up bawling your eyes out in front of five people. Can someone please relate.

[goldentigerfestival]

Yuri's dialogue (JP) is so fascinating to study, like... the repetitive use of certain words/phrases that others use sparingly but he uses constantly. the way it feels like his vocabulary is more expansive than what he uses, but he defaults to a "comfort" level of speech. the way it mixes in with his sort of "street talk" words and the sheer level of informality. the way his "street talk" phrasing is contrasted by the tone of his voice (on that note, people I know who also know JP are also very endeared by these aspects of him so I KNOW IT'S NOT JUST ME!!!).

'cause the thing is, he uses phrases that yeah, other people do use, but he uses a handful over and over and over (contrast to other characters' sparing use of repetition). it's actually... really refreshing? it sounds more relatable and less "video game/anime/JRPG/RPG" writing or something, idk. like closer to how a real person would speak.

I do my best in my translations not to make things sound too stiff across the board, but Yuri makes it so easy. it's why I'm so interested in translating all his lines in Vesperia, like... the actual, original tone for him with his original wording because it's smth Eng only players don't get to experience ('cause even if you listen with JP audio, if you don't know the language, ofc you're gonna miss out on context. it's nobody's fault for not knowing, just... they unfortunately miss out). the thing is, there are a lot of times when the lines in and of themselves are not contextually incorrect in the English ver (usually the situation for smaller scenes, because they altered the text outright for more important stuff which was the stuff that originally set me off, but there were also plenty of cases of just vocal tone shifting with the correct context that still gave off the wrong impression), but Yuri's tone is shifted away from the original in Eng even though it's completely and perfectly translatable.

I am by no means about to translate the entire game because let's face it, I really don't care that much for Vesperia on the whole. I'm kinda stuck with it because Yuri's there lo and behold I actually am WAY more engaged in his stories in Rays, Link and Asteria because it's an amazing character put into circumstances where he actually gets to shine and feels more alive, which Vesperia did not provide nearly as well with its very disjointed story. also, Tales gachas have banger stories that are arguably better than the mainline games, and they regularly make Yuri a very central character to the gachas. Crestoria was also about to do it until they pulled the plug on that game and I'm pretty confident something interesting has been lost to the world. also I just generally don't have the energy or motivation to do that, so... I'll only be focusing on Yuri's lines, especially because his stuff is where the bulk of the messing around was. he's just insanely fun to translate for and I love burying myself head first into his speech.

will I actually finish this project? dunno. will I get around to posting it? whatever I get done (so all of it if I complete it), and if I decide to call it quits then I'll post what I have at the time I decide that. will it take a long time? probably, but I can always mention stuff along the way...

[crowshoots]

hrmmmm

[namtanlovesfilm]

a definitive ranking of every not me episodes

since I have done a full rewatch of not me, I decided to do what I’ve always wanted to do, rank every episode from best to “worst” (let’s be honest, there’s no bad episode lol.) this was incredibly hard to decide, but let’s go!

1. EPISODE 13

it’s really hard to choose a number one bc as you will realize I literally ADORE every single not me episode & don’t consider any of them less than perfect, but... if I had to choose, ep 13 is my number one. this comes from many reasons: first of all if you ask me which not me episode I randomly remember during my day and die over, it’s definitely this one, simply bc it’s just TOO much and TOO iconic. secondly, it’s the climax the whole show has led to, so of course it’s an extra important episode. thirdly, the emotional impact of this episode is one for the history books. not only is this entire ep hella stressful as we watch the plan become more & more unpredictable, but dan’s betrayal of the gang, man. top 5 favorite scenes of ALL TIME. I cry like a little bitch every time, like... the acting is on point from everyone & I’ve never felt a betrayal more in my soul. it’s just executed perfectly, and ep 13 for me will forever be the not me episode in front of which I’ve felt the most emotions.

2. EPISODE 9

this ep is kind of the last calm before the storm with seanwhite having the softest most soulmate-y moment ever recorded in existence & danyok finally getting together, but honestly it’s not that calm bc black comes back & we learn the truth about todd, which makes this ep one of the most important AND enjoyable of the show thanks to all the cuteness <3

3. EPISODE 8

I mean... no one can watch this ep & tell me it’s not pure perfection. we get sean opening up to white before eventually confessing his feelings & them having their first kiss, we have dan being vulnerable with yok in one of the most moving scenes from the whole series, we have sean confronting tawi... an effortless slay across the board, this episode ENDED me when it aired & it ends me every time I rewatch it, 1000/10.

4. EPISODE 6

I’ve loved this episode since it first aired, even prompting me to do a full blown essay about its significance for seanwhite’s relationship at the time. so I will try to not repeat what I already said there, but this episode is not only one of the most suspenseful like all mission episodes, but it’s executed so well and shows so much growth & change for sean & white. it functions as an arc within the whole story, of sean finally trusting white & white betraying that trust (for ultimately the greater good.) it also has some of the most impactful moments of the first half of the show imo, with the fight at the end which is conducted incredibly, and sean admitting he’s scared too during the mission. overall that episode is a masterpiece & I love it WAY too much!

5. EPISODE 14

while this is definitely a kinda rushed ending, it’s still one hell of a good episode. the emotions are here, the good ending for everyone is here while still being open-ended so you can imagine perfectly how the characters’ lives are gonna be, and there’s some of the best cinematography of the whole show as well with the scene with the gang at the back of the van & tawi looking at the protesters from the top of his tower. really great ending!

6. EPISODE 2

this episode is divided into 2 parts, the first one being the burning of tawi’s house which is not only visually stunning & incredibly impactful, but also very significant to the plot with the introduction of dan & also seeing sean be vulnerable for the first time. the second part, back to normal, is still great but less incredible than other episodes that are more well-rounded imo, which is why I’m only ranking it here.

7.  EPISODE 10

 this ep has two of the most iconic scenes from the series (though there’s like 20 iconic scenes, let’s be honest), the black beating sean up scene & white coming to sean’s rescue as he’s given up on life scene. but the whole episode slays so hard, and shows us white’s relationship with his mother as well as namo being a great friend with sean. it’s just stressful enough before the real pressure starts & has incredible entertaining value. truly a great episode!

8. EPISODE 12

on paper it’s a calmer, less crazy episode, but honestly so much shit happens; we have dan revealing the truth to sean, seanwhite officially coming together, white telling the truth to the gang, and some heart to heart between the twins. it’s such a good episode for that, and one of the chillest ones which is good bc the other ones are fucking tornados lol

9. EPISODE 7

 this ep is just SO fucking great, not only with the flag scene which is definitely the best lgbtq+ scene ever imo, but also with the beginning of danyok being in love, like... ICONIC!!! but imo, if you exclude the flag scene, it doesn’t have that many super impactful scenes. like I still love that episode but compared to others, it is definitely less crazy good. the flag scene does raise the grade of that episode significantly though bc it’s just perfect <3

10. EPISODE 11

such a great episode but compared to the others, not that much happens, which is why it’s ranked here. the toddblack & seanblack fight scenes are iconic though!!!

11. EPISODE 1

for a first episode, it’s truly great, as it lays down just enough information to get you hooked but keeps most of the mystery this series thrives on intact. also white getting dropped in a mission he knows nothing about & the reveal that it’s against tawi is truly incredible! but the reason I’m ranking it low is that it does have some slow moments, notably in the classroom scene, but also bc it’s confined by its role as a first episode: nothing much can happen compared to the later episodes no matter what.

12. EPISODE 5

sort of a filler episode but it kickstarts so much shit, including ep 6 which is a fucking masterpiece. the only annoying thing in it is all the gramblack bait that will lead to nothing, but otherwise the scenes are all super enjoyable & the real start of seanwhite & danyok’s relationships.

13. EPISODE 4

also kind of a filler episode, but a bunch of super interesting things still happen so it’s still hella enjoyable. I would say I wish the classroom scene was a bit shorter, but apart from that this episode lays the ground well for ep 5 & 6.

14. EPISODE 3

this one is also more of a filler episode, even though every scene is still super captivating. it’s the beginning of white slowky changing the way he thinks about politics, and him cutting contact with his dad & moving to the garage. the reason it’s ranked last is bc, compared to other eps, it doesn’t have the most important scenes.

[dogearedheart]

8i've been thinking about the last asks i got today. and i think it's better for me to take a step back from this account. i know the anon didn't mean anything by it, but i still feel like i am being a negative presence on here and weirding people out with who i am is nothing i want. so, i am not deleting or anything. i am just gonna be less present with sharing personal things or leaving tags. I'll probably be more active on my second account where i don't have that many followers :)

[stellacadente]

i realized how much it scares me that my mind will convince itself of even the ugliest things if i start thinking them often enough and it's... yeah. like i had a good session with my psychiatric rehabilitation therapist i think it was very useful but then at the end i got hit by this feeling of fear... like i'm so scared of myself and how low i can get

[pepprs]

my depression is getting really really bad. like it’s been bad before but this is like… consistently really bad. like a long unending stretch for several weeks (and tbh months) now. to the point where no inoculation actually sticks (and im isolating myself from most of my inoculations anyway and feel unable to stop doing it even though i know it’s self destructive). im either helplessly unbearably miserable or numbing out on video games. i just don’t feel like it’s going to get better for me and i KNOW that is factually untrue but the feeling is louder than the knowledge and it’s just utterly immobilizing. ive been sinking in quicksand for 2 years.

[one-winged-dreams]

Heeeere comes another parental holiday

truama dump in tags

[see-arcane]

What even *is* the plot of the Beetle? Other than Racism and Bad Writing?

Well, there was some hope for a fever dreamy what-the-fuck nightmare scenario where an unemployed clerk gets turned into a brain slave by a bugperson who forces him to do naked burglary

But then it kind of went downhill after that into Masochism Land

It's not even fun garbage anymore. It's straight nuclear waste that we're wading through, hoping for another glimpse of Bare-assed Blorbo or the BEETLE (their pronunciation) for some oasis of weirdness to make the shittiness worth it. So far it's just Dick Marsh inflicting a genocidal incel on us and hoping we find him quirky. It is not working.

Do not read The Beetle. Absorb what filters out here the way you would drink still-questionable water that's come through a tormented strainer of readers who sift through Dick's awful Marsh of Misery. I guarantee whatever you piece together yourself will be 100000x more artful than the literary slog that is this hellbook. -100 out of 5 stars. Dead beetle do not open.

The one silver lining is that it is so wretched, so abysmal, so mind-breakingly rancid, that it's genuinely inspiring. Hatefully so. It's made so many people sit down, stare into eternity, and decide, rightly:

I could sneeze on my keyboard and write a better story than this. I could slam finger paints blindly on a piece of paper and draw a better story than this. I think I will.

It's a motivator. A muse sculpted out of scarab wings and shit. All the charm and power of a sign reading TOXIC WASTE DUMP BEYOND THIS POINT, sending you careening in the other direction towards art and talent and creation free of any self-judgment.

This thing outsold Dracula when the books first came out, you will think to yourself. This piece of crystallized offal, woe, racist caricatures, endless grammatical purgatories of enough dashes and commas to turn a single sentence into a filibuster. It did that. I am better than that. There's no amount of self-doubt in my heart or on this Earth that can convince me otherwise. I am free and spurred to manifest the better things that exist in my imagination. Thank you, Dick Marsh, in whatever xenophobic murder gas death pool you're marinating in in the afterlife. Thank you.

I say again, do not read The Beetle. The Beetle is not for reading. It exists for the same reason The King in Yellow play exists in Chambers' universe. To seed madness and disgust and the full antithesis of sense and taste and all that is good.

All that, and the Beetle exploring their imprisoned mind-controlled pet clerk's body while they rant about a hot politician they're obsessed with.

The Beetle does not exist to be read, but to be endured.

You may not make it through. I'm not even sure I will.

But the challenge is there.

The option to look upon the Beetlebullshit is here.

[baekuras]

Tomorrow I need to do an eye checkup in english (instead of german aka the norm) and I just checked if there are any better ways to explains things or tell people what to do etc instead of my basically direct translations and turns out

nope

it sounds exactly as stupid as i already worded it, no special words or better formed sentences around 10/10 school english is good enough (nice)

[infizero]

also his drawings. make me insane. im pretty sure ive made a post about this before a while ago but i just love looking at his silly little drawings it adds so much to his character. even after everything he's been through he's still got some humor and lightheartedness in him. and he's really good at drawing too!! so it's likely something he's been doing since he was a kid

[celepeace]

Genuinely with the death of nintendo handheld low-cost games that came with the switch, as every continuing handheld series became a switch series and thus had a price increase, a lot of their most kid-friendly franchises have become more and more inaccessible to children, especially now that nintendo has decided to follow every other major console and has started pricing new games even higher.

And now that a lot of these series are so old and thus a lot of their fanbase has aged into adulthood, a lot of these series would benefit greatly from making some of the new entries more adult-oriented. But nintendo very stubbornly wants to keep their main franchises as kid-friendly as possible, sometimes severely restricting the potential of these series by not allowing them to explore things like more complex mechanics, higher difficulty, or darker topics that past entries have brushed over in favor of keeping the age rating low. Pokemon's core battle engine has been in want of an overhaul for years now, and Legends Arceus kind of did that but not wholly, for example.

This would be pretty understandable in the interest of keeping every entry of these series accessible to all age groups, but with inflating prices, who are these games even for anymore? A normal kid with your average allowance from their parents isn't going to be able to afford tears of the kingdom or even $60 pokemon games more often than not. Back when these games were $30-$40, sure, if they saved up, but now many families have even tighter budgets than ever due to the rising cost of living. Nintendo is pricing themselves out of their target audience while simultaneously leaving their adult fans who have been with them since childhood to feel neglected in favor of exclusively making games for today's children.

Obviously nintendo will always make sales because even though they make children's games, they're still fun as hell for a person of any age, and many kids will be able to afford their games once in a while, but it does feel like they're kind of... making their games for an audience that barely exists.

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

That guy in the van has more of a social media presence than he realizes.

[theghostofashton]

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