#honestly what a disappointment

[prototypelq]

Okay so, finally there are some gamedesign reviews of HADES 2 and... the only conclusion I draw from them is that gamers will eat everything, so long as there are pretty VFX on screen.

HADES 2 is not just bad, that was HADES 1, HADES 2 is a frustrating mess of bad design decisions, built on top of bad design decisions, and spiced with gametime external prolonging mandatory grind.

Supergiant have built BRILLIANT and truly innovative gameplay-wise games before, Transistor especially, and nothing beats Pyre's integration of story and gameplay to this day, and ten years later Supergiant can't make any of these things work again. It feels like the entire team has been hijacked and replaced with corporate structure, emulated to Feel like Supergiant, with none of the creative energy behind it. Like the game was made by an AI with a 'Supergiant' prompt given. All the bad decision making, no talent or thought behind them, looks pretty as always.

HADES 2 just throws enough dust in your eyes so it's hard to see this.

[enixamyram]

I'm so fascinated with the background posters in Vee tower.

(Didn't include the ones in Val's room. Those ones make me super uncomfortable! XD Plus I do not want "sexy" Val pictures saved onto my computer for even a moment!)

[karpachev]

dlc kinda sucks but at least now we have two (!!) redheads with daddy/mommy issues :D

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Always a bit puzzled by people saying that anyone who wanted long-term consequences for TotK Zelda's sacrifice are "edgy".

I'm not even particularly in the camp that she should have remained a dragon forever (I think this should have been Ganondorf's fate, it would have been sooo much more impactful than to explode him and move on but anyway). To be honest, I wish the rules for turning back would have been 1) clear 2) active gameplay on the player so that it feels like it's something we have earned, and 3) not make her have amnesia about it and/or at least having her gain some crucial insight because of the experience.

(also: doesn't she crave knowledge? isn't that insanely mean to have her watch over every civilization and every bit of history ever and then take it away from her? kind of dislike how totk privileges the comfort of the player's feelings over what the characters would actually want or need tbh)

To be perfectly honest, I fully expected us needing to turn her back before engaging Ganondorf so we would fight him together, especially since Zelda as a compagnon exists in the game code already (though in a very subdued state). It feels very very strange to me that all of this mechanic of Sages following us existing and yet we never have the very climactic cool Zelda-staple moment of facing Ganondorf or Ganon together (OoT, WW, TP, ST and probably more that I'm forgetting all did this in some way --even BotW had Zelda more involved than in TotK). I'm not sure Mineru was a compagnon that was needed over Zelda honestly, especially given the kind of non-insight she gives us on the zonai (even if the idea of the mecha is cool, it really could have been Zelda using her zonai + sheikah knowledge to pilot one for us or something).

But anyway: yeah, even if this isn't what I would have wanted personally, I think wanting Zelda to remain a dragon is kind of arguably more respectful of her relationship to Link, in a way, that what the game ended up doing. When she enacted this sacrifice, Zelda decided to trust him to such a extent that she lost herself, reciprocated his trust in her and his devotion to her, and now the future of Hyrule exists beyond her and beyond what Hyrule once was, but she trusts them to follow through and be happy and she will watch over them from the stars moving on. It's fine if we manage to save her from that fate, but even if we don't, honestly this sounds like a beautiful story/tragic romance to me, if you want to read it that way. Tragedy doesn't necesserily involve edginess. Fictional pain isn't always mean, or out to get you.

[phantomrose96]

Reddit absolutely sucks for fandom but actually it's kind of good for fandom when it's a series whose quality dropped way off and everyone is disappointed.

Tumblr fandom sees that happen and just spirals off into some alternate version of reality 8 dimensions removed from us where the two most shippable boys have had their personalities surgically reconstructed into the most posable-doll soulless stereotypes that can be crammed into a coffee shop AU.

Reddit on the other hand would wither and die if it tried a single transformative thing so it's stuck ACTUALLY talking about the series. And when you have to talk about the series AND it's bad this means you get 20 posts a day of ":( is anyone else disappointed that (...)" each of which spawns its own unique slap-fight in the comments.

Like the corpse of this series means nothing to me anymore. I just want to watch the rats fight each other over it.

[rocketbirdie]

partial makonoid zack ideas~

[mrkanman]

i saw this one post commenting on everyone making the amazing digital circus ocs dont realize that their little guy will snap and turn into a grody monster and like.

no im fully aware. i want this to happen. im designing my little guys abstracted as we speak. i want my little dude in the digital world to be pushed to their absolute breaking point.

[inksandpensblog]

Judging by the trailer, it feels like they made this movie for an audience that doesn’t know anything about Minecraft except that it’s “the block game.” As much as it may look like Minecraft (and that’s debatable), it doesn’t FEEL like Minecraft.

Anyone who hasn’t experienced Minecraft for themselves will be getting exactly what they’re expecting from this movie, meanwhile the people who are actually familiar with and love the game will feel alienated because this is such a poor representation of the thing that they love.

You know what my basis is, for believing this? It’s not the stylization of the cgi, though that’s part of it. It’s not the comedic tone, though that’s part of it. It’s not the weird choice and lazy execution of live-action integration, though that’s part of it.

It’s because the trailer isn’t trying to say that Minecraft is an experience just waiting to be understood. It’s because the trailer isn’t trying to say that the oddities of Minecraft are what make it fascinating, sometimes even wonderful (and, yes, quite often amusing). It’s because the trailer isn’t trying to say that Minecraft is something you can find meaning in; whether meaning is a family, a skillset, a creative passion, a sense of belonging, a community, a reservoir of memories, a means of connection, or a better understanding of oneself.

It’s because the trailer is trying to say that Minecraft is ridiculous and incomprehensible.

This trailer doesn’t show me a movie about what it’s like to play Minecraft.

This trailer shows me a movie about what it’s like to not play Minecraft. And that’s the perspective it’s trying to sell the movie on. That’s the perspective it expects its audience to find relatable.

The trailer tells me that this movie was not made for the people who play Minecraft. It was made for the people who don’t.

I just hope that, if it does make people want to try playing it, they come to appreciate what the game really is.

[casualavocados]

Learn from who? Learn from you? You are still a brat. What do you know? You're only three years older. Like you are any better than me. You're 21, and still a virgin. What are you proud of? I think you can't do it.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 06

[tacagen]

one of the things that fascinate me about thawne: yes, he CAN be normal with kids! surprisingly normal!

((not at all times, though. his mental illness still spills through and as usual he, in trying to manipulate or hurt others, spits out at them the exact stuff that would hurt him (or have in his childhood/barry's rejection interpretation) the most in the first place lmao))

but at the same time. his like second instinct when doing his bullshit is FUCK THEM (as) KIDS

(and, well. whatever this classifies as)

[ima-ghost-art]

Here he is!

The one

The only

Husband and Romance Partner to Cody Walsh himself

LOOSE BARON!!!

he's not exactly how I planned but I'm not going back to change it now lol

made sure to add the oogie boogie tattoo that made Cody fall inlove with him too lmao

[atlasascending]

So I just finished young royals and Oof, what a show. If you haven’t seen it yet watch it because it’s great BUT ALSO can I please just take a minute to say I love how much all the characters just hug? There’s so many hugs? I love it. Of course it’s Wille and Simon the most, but I adore how much a normal gesture of intimacy it is for them all. It’s so sweet to see.

I actually also think this show kind of perfectly strikes the balance of Teenager™️ wherein you can’t focus for the following two scenes after kissing someone you like (shout out to that one post) but you can also do drugs and drink and fuck around and somehow these things are not mutually exclusive. Just honestly 10/10

AND the writers and director(s) give the characters so much SPACE. It is so unbelievably refreshing to not be rushing from scene to scene all the time like most American media does (and sadly UK media is heading the same way). Truly reflect for a moment and consider when was the last time you watched something that had so much silence in it, so many pauses, so much room to breathe? And by god do you need it, because all the characters are such forces coupled with the intensity of the plot that you’d be buggered if the characters (read: actors) were barrelling on a mile a minute too

I think it’s a really well written, INCREDIBLY well shot show and that more people should watch it

[arttsuka]

Not to speculate or anything but I think the reason Israel got so many votes from the public in each country is because of the boycott. The people who support Israel voted and a lot of people just, didn't. So, even though less people voted as a whole a lot of them were voting for Israel.

[wingsofhcpe]

this is the one and only thing I will say about the Neil Gaiman situation: I believe that the allegations might be true. I hope they're not for the sake of everyone involved, but I won't just dismiss the potential victims and I won't try to idealise Neil. Never have, never will.

BUT.

If yall use this to drag the name of a trans ally and a dead fucking man through the mud because they simply worked with Neil, and take that collaboration to AUTOMATICALLY and CERTAINLY mean that they too are somehow aware of what he did and responsible for it, then I sincerely think you're a horrible person. And also I sincerely believe you don't care about the victims and are using this just to shit on random people you don't like by taking advantage of a happenstance connection.

Also if you use this to drag Tennant specifically, I will automatically assume you're transphobic as well, because it's very interesting that the allegations came out through a right wing TERF podcast and are being used to drag a very outspoken trans ally who is not the one to have actually done anything.

[somewhereincairparavel]

Just posting this for the ppl who LOVE to push the FANON narrative that Jason and Percy aren't close friends as CANON. Grover is listed as Percy's main best friend (along with Annabeth ofc but she remains in the girlfriend category) and Jason comes literally SECOND in the Official Riordan wiki fanpage, and he's even labelled as "one of percy's best friends" not just "friend" or "close friend" like the others.

I don't get why people deny this SO bad like- pls let the almost nonexistent rivalry they both had (which is mostly between Jason and Percy fans) stay fanon.

"Jason and Percy are just co workers, barely even friends" Yup. Sure. I was so mislead by this narrative before I picked up HOO and was pleasantly surprised by how genuine percy and jason's friendship was in the books.. I half expected them both to ignore eachother or something throughout the scenes with how much the fandom exaggerated their rivalry/coldness with eachother.

Fanon is awesome. But it's not when you push it as canon. Let them be two seperate things please.

[bxriles]

I gotta be honest, the ending of JJK isn’t doing it for me. It feels underwhelming. And before anyone freaks tf out and tells me that I “can’t read” or that I “didn’t understand the point of JJK” I can promise you that I did. I understand and I can read between the lines and make inferences. I can also promise you that I know just because the ending isn’t my cup of tea, does not mean that the ending is objectively bad. I get all of that.

And yet, I still think the execution was fumbled and I think that’s a bummer. In a desperate need to be *different* from the rest of Shonen manga, I think the last 10-15ish chapters have felt incredibly similar to the rest of the genre. At least, in my opinion they have.

Argue with the wall if this post pissed you off. I’m allowed to post my opinion on my blog.