#i guess we're getting somewhere

[freakurodani]

yes i agree sometimes shipping brain gets in the way of like good analysis HOWEVER i think ppl that look down on shipping (especially crack shipping) have forgotten that fandom is silly at its root and ppl have fun in many ways

like we can be at the school of athens AND wear our silly clown shoes

[drumlincountry]

Sometimes caring So Much feels like a curse in this cruel world. but sometimes it allows me to connect with other people who also care A Lot and together we actually are able to make a difference. And that is literally the best feeling in the entire world.

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

I feel like my brain's a little broken because I like the tv volume to be a prime number

[thethingything]

one thing that's always fucking wild to me is having platonic crushes. we almost never get romantic ones (and if we do it's only once we're already close with the person) but we get platonic ones that are just as intense as how romantic ones are usually described so as a teenager we always assumed these were the crushes people were talking about.

meanwhile it's just us feeling like we're losing our mind because we really want to be friends with someone but we have the same amount of anxiety and constant overthinking and whatnot.

it took so long to figure out that romantic crushes involve like, wanting to go on dates and do romantic stuff together and we still regularly go "oh god do I have a crush" only to realise we absolutely do not want any of that stuff and literally just want to hang out and chat about stuff

[gay-jesus-probably]

Ngl my best friend and I are doing a kind of rewrite of totk for fun and like. We had a more nuanced story in around thirty minutes, and I kind of want to work on it more. Here's the thing though, it's so easy to write this as a good story because it has so much potential, and it's like you said!! Taken at face value it's so boring!! I'm genuinely so frustrated with this!!

I know, right? Something I've noticed is that like literally anytime I mention the story being kinda shit, it takes like maybe a minute for people to look at the existing setup and think of something more interesting. Like, I briefly complained about the boring writing in a youtube comment, and I've seen three different people reply to that with more compelling takes on the story using very minor fixes. There's just so many bad decisions in the writing, I have no idea how the fuck Nintendo thought this was acceptable.

I mean goddamn, even putting aside all of the Everything with the imperialism in the memories, the memories existing at all is a horrible decision! They seriously made a role playing game where 95% of the story occurs in the past, where the only involvement the player has is our character being namedropped a few times. It worked in BOTW, because Link was there the whole fucking time, and also the memories WEREN'T the story - that was everything leading up to the actual plot kicking off! If a player just totally ignored the memories, the only real consequence was that you didn't really get to know Zelda! If you ignore the memories in TOTK, you are missing the entire fucking plot.

It's such an easy fix too, I mean ffs if the ancient past is where everything interesting is going to happen, just send Link and Zelda back in time together. Link can actually interact with the story and characters, he can develop his own beef with Ganondorf instead of them literally having nothing to do with each other beyond other people saying they should fight, and it'd fix the gaping plot hole of literally all the Sheikah tech being gone - none of it's been built yet. The story could take Link through working with the Sages, finding a way to heal the decayed Master Sword - fuck, he could even wield the ancient Master Sword in its place while he's in the past! They fight Ganon, seal him away, then for the grand finale Link and Zelda return to the modern day Hyrule shortly after they left, and discover it's basically an apocalypse kicking off, because why would Ganon bother to just wait for his enemies to get ready to stop him, he can just go apeshit the second he's free of the seal. This works in story, but also excuses the finale having some railroading - the chaos of the apocalypse stops Link from going off track, ensuring the devs don't need to put in the entire BOTW map just for that one finale sequence. Link retrieves the formerly decayed Master Sword from wherever he left it to heal for the last ten thousand years, and then him and Zelda go fuck up Ganon together, for real this time. Bam, problem solved. Link's in the actual plot, Zelda gets to actually exist for more of the story than just the ending cutscene, there's a reason for the map being completely different, and the Sheikah tech isn't just retconned into non-existence. Fuck, they could explain the runes being gone as just Zelda dropping the Sheikah Slate in the chaos before being yeeted into the past, or the slate being hit by Gloom and destroyed as well. Also, the expanded list of monsters and old monsters having different designs to include the new horns makes sense; they're ten thousand years in the past, of course things are different. Yeah it'd suck that we wouldn't really get to see the characters from BOTW, but... come on. They barely did anything with them anyways.

Alternatively, they could just do the story in the past with Zelda as the player character, if they're that hellbent on ensuring Link isn't allowed to do anything. It'd be a really cool twist! They wouldn't even need to change the gameplay that much, it's been years since the Calamity and Zelda's been travelling around with Link the whole time, it makes perfect sense that she would have learned how to fight over the years, and Link teaching her would give her a very similar fighting style.

It would have been so easy to give the game a more interesting story, it's just embarrassing that they fucked it up so badly.

[jellogram]

It's crazy how Brits just like. Don't even consider whether they will need to learn a language to move to a different country in Europe. Like if I mention visiting anywhere non-English to another American they will ask if I speak that language and comment on whether the people there generally speak enough English to accommodate me. If I told my family I was moving to Prague they'd be shocked and ask if I was taking Czech lessons even though everyone in Prague pretty much speaks English.

Meanwhile my British coworkers are like "I feel like moving to XYZ country" and everyone is just like "Oh yeah, it's lovely there!" No comment on language at all. It's not even a thought to them. It's completely insane to me, I feel like such a fucking loser not speaking the local language anywhere I pass through and these people are signing leases in countries where they know two words of it and they don't even think twice about it

[lettuce-gremlin]

Today I watched our Panther (Mountain Lion/Cougar/Puma/etc) leap right up into one of the palm trees in her enclosure right on the part they have the cover thing on to keep her from climbing all the way to the top. And then we made eye contact and she hissed/growled at me, then eventually hopped down and came to the window

[keeps-ache]

i don't know what it is but there are thoughts in my brain. more at 11- oh wait it's already 11.. uhh 12. maybe!

[ancient-reverie]

does anyone else realize that white supremacy in america has also taken white people culture away from various different white cultures there used to be and made it into one conglomerate white person thing. like I can't look back into my ancestors and find any culture at all. and I can't really say that being american is much of a culture really it's just capitalism, and surviving that capitalism

[transmechanicus]

It is sunday night. I remain exhausted.

[ronanlynchbf]

saying "this is unbearable" abt things yet still continuing to bear them. give it up for the human spirit everyone 🙏👆👍💪💪💪❗❗❗

[autumnrory]

finally gonna read a romance novel by one of the authors someone recommended on here ages ago i'm so excited

[vamptastic]

i think my constant seething rage is honestly very reasonable. i literally live in florida.

[causticsunshine]

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[i-am-ki11ing-time]

angy again