#let me know if you don’t want to be called crabman but honestly that character is so good

[pkmn-smashorpass]

We really passing on the tentacled guy? Where my kinksters at

No wonder it went extinct :c

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Poor little guy

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Disco ewysium thots

·        Still fucking betrayed by the two instances of racism being unpredictable like that and therefore difficult to guard against like I TRIED to avoid every racism card but I COULDN’T!! BC WHY DID THE GAME FORCE ME TO PICK UP THE RACIST MUG IN THE TRASH and WHY did trying to make kim DANCE mean I had to call him racial SLURS???? HELLO??????

o   Fucking. Pissed. I made up with kim after but its not enough. God. Fucking. Help

·        This game is playing as a man who is desperately, cringe worthingly trying to gain the approval of his ex wife, the epitome of down bad, while you, the player, is desperately, cringe worthingly trying to gain the approval of the companion character, in another example of the epitome of down bad,

·        I DON’T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT LETTING KLASJE GO…….IM NOT MAD ABT IT BC I DO THINK IT’S THE MOST MORAL THING TO DO? BUT I NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HER WHAT IS HER DEAL

o   Logarto so right when they said that klaasje is like the most interesting character in de

o   Also I don’t know if there was a way to save ruby but oh god that was a horrible scene :( I really really wanted to save ruby maybe I should’ve just let her run. Scratch that I def should’ve just let her run I didn’t realize that was an end – and that’s the point

·        God so in total so many people dead………also lol I fucked myself over looking up spoilers that spurred me to bring my gun bc im kind of curious how I would’ve done without it…..like I was dead set on not doing any more favors for evrart and just making do without the weapon but oh goodness it would’ve been rough

·        ALSO I FORGOT TO GO BACK AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT THE 2 MM HOLE IN THE WORLD IM SO MAD I EVEN TALKED TO CRABMAN BUT I DIDN’T FOLLOW THROUGH IM SO MAD

·        ALSO WHATS IN THE BUNKER?

·        ALSO I CANT BELIEVE THE FUCKING CRYPTID ?

·        At least I made harrier gay.

·        Also I never figured out the pale how the fuck do I discover the pale

·        This isn’t even touching on like. The major themes of the game.

o   COLONIALISM

§  Trying to parse this hurt me. Like I got the general vibe of “fuck colonialism” and the playing out of like, colonial fantasy and how neocolonialism manifests in the material and the cultural conscious but like. Idk. I didn’t know what else I could reflect off that. I think I need to understand the pale better to get a grasp of the games thesis on this but I didn’t GET that scene.

·        Interesting side note is that I DO very much like the island motif – it took me a while actually to understand what interisolary meant LOL but the whole vibe reminded me of Caribbean scifi and how it manifests in islands too, playing with mainstream scifi tropes and ideas of outer space as imagined as the Caribbean as a set of islands and vice versa etc etc. I think in this game it was less specific than that, was anchored in a more general sense of colonized islands and maybe the idea of every man as an island, but they both are interested in location and spatiality in similar ways

o   Politics

§  Im not even going to touch this lol im not nearly versed enough to tackle this in an interesting way

o   Misogyny (women in general?)

§  “Politics is just misogyny and broken heart syndrome” is an interesting thesis. I don’t know if I buy it. I suppose the thesis could also be “misogyny and interpersonal bullshit inevitably leaks into politics” which I favor more. But the game is structured a little weird for me to read the second one before the first – theres just a little too tight a twining between the theological, political lore of the game and the main targets of misogynistic blame/heartbreak. Like honestly I was all for saying fuck dolores dei bc I don’t trust organized religion or anything that calls itself innocence but like. If you then. Tie that to. Main chars ex wife that he cant get over. Like that by itself is fine honestly I think that’s still an interesting, rich story but mirroring it, doubling down with the main guy behind the murder? I don’t know. That felt………..eh. okay. Sure. The thing is that I don’t believe that the politics are always motivated by misogyny and heartache so. Like. What do you want me to do with that. I don’t know. Maybe I haven’t talked to enough communists to know

§  Thought about it a little more and I think my issue is that it is so adamant that romantic and sexual desire in particular are driving forces of many political actions and movements. And the misogyny that’s layered onto that and twists a normal embitterment into violence, interpersonal and political. Because like. I agree that the personal is the political and that political ideals can be used as a veneer for other, more individualized issues, but . I am very much going off the model of the personal is the political that Black activists use as a framework, which is that political abstractions like racial equity or class equity are based in, inseparable from the day to day lives of the people it affects most. Which. Looks like “im a communist because my family cant afford basic necessities” not just. I don’t know. The parallels between harry and the deserter were not compelling to me. Not when theres a lack of balance in the rest of the central storyline. Parallels are compelling when theres distinct differences that make similarities meaningful, and when that meaning is something that I think is justified lol. I don’t know. maybe this isn’t a fair critique. Curious what other people think

·        That post that was talking abt the way de balanced keeping harry in character despite him being a player controlled character was right and I feel like its because it was about telling a story, about harry, this is harrys story, and not about us and our wish fulfillment. If this had been a story about us we would’ve been able to fucking romance kim kitsuragi.