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[ranna-alga]

I know I'm probably late to the party when it comes to this article, but I need to talk about it since it pisses me off lmao

I am admittedly quite critical of TLOU2 - I don't despise it like others do but I do have my own gripes with the game. But this isn't about me talking about the game itself, but about the bottom section of the article as seen in this

Honestly, thank fuck that Troy Baker pulled back on the reigns a little bit from N*il Dr*ckmann and suggested that Joel's last words not be Sarah's name, because holy shit.

I don't know if this is a controversial take, but I really hate the idea and implication that Ellie was someone that Joel could have Sarah (or at least the remaining memory of her) live vicariously through. Or, in Dr*ckmann's own words, "his late daughter was all Ellie had ever been to Joel".

I hate this because of two reasons:

It severely undermines Ellie's character, who we have seen develop and grow throughout the entire first game, and reduces her into nothing more than some sort of 'replacement' for Sarah.

It completely goes against Joel's character development throughout the entirety of TLOU1. Much of the whole point was for Joel to - I don't want to say 'move on' or 'get over' Sarah (since that's quite a cruel testament and I don't think Joel could ever do such a thing, no matter how happy he was with Ellie) - but to accept what happened. He knows he can never get Sarah back and that no one could replace her, and this is why Joel loving Ellie as much as he did is so important. He loves Ellie like she was his daughter - not as if she was the daughter he had, but as the daughter Ellie is. She is her own person, not a copy-paste of Sarah, and Joel loving her all the same after two decades of emotional torment is significant to his character growth after likely never thought he could love someone like that again.

Maybe if Joel, on the verge of death on the floor and bleeding from everywhere, misheard Ellie's pleading and cries to be that of Sarah's the night she died because of how disoriented he was, maybe that would make a bit more sense, if Joel even had the strength to speak in the first place. There's a common trope done with character deaths where they're seconds from passing away, and it's almost portrayed that they can see their dead loved ones right in front of them in a similar way people say they see their lives flash before their eyes in near-death experiences. Perhaps that could be valid too.

But N*il Dr*ckmann very clearly didn't want to portray this scene that way. Instead, he thought a scene where a single word would completely taint the character development of a beautifully-written, morally-grey, and complex anti-hero protagonist was more "powerful". I simply disagree, and I'm grateful this version he wanted didn't make it into the final released version.

TLDR: If this version of Joel's death scene gets incorporated in season 2 of the HBO adaptation, I am going to place an ancient Egyptian curse on N*il Dr*ckmann and Craig Mazin.

[jesusology]

why have i been seeing some of the worst connor takes imaginable lately what is happening

[scaryorganmusic]

what fucking hell dimension are y’all blogging from

[2022dirt]

Things worn down by people.

[redstonedust]

phenomenom thats been bothering me that i could only express via an mspaint reverse boomer comic

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[guooey]

really beautiful things are happening between americans and chinese netizens right now

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[miiilowo]

phenomenon

[inbabylontheywept]

so once me and my wife were watching a documentary where a snake ate like a million eggs. that snake just went to fucking town on eggs. and the snake made the eggs look so good that i kept thinking about it, and thinking about it, and thinking about it, and eventually it was 11pm and i ran out of willpower and decided to eat one (1) singular raw egg just to prove to myself that the snake was surely a liar.

the snake was not a liar. texture is like, super important to me and raw eggs are very Texture so i had another one, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually i ran out of eggs.

i had like, fifteen raw eggs.

i didnt really know how to explain this momentary madness to my wife, so my Plan was to put all the eggshells into a grocey bag, and then throw that grocery bag in the dumpster, and if she never noticed that would be Excellent and if she noticed immediately i could lie and say that the eggs went bad.

except i cant lie very good, and of course with murphys law being such, i got salmonella.

so i threw up a lot and my wife asked me what poisoned me so and i tried very hard to dodge the question but i was oozing shame like oil from a room temperature cheese and eventaully i gave in and told her everything and to her enormous credit she was more flabbergasted than actually upset. she did make me promise to not eat any more raw eggs, which i have stuck to, and she gives me weird looks during nature documentaries now as if desire was the only thing keeping me from eating thousands of pounds of krill anyway i made a joke earlier about being able to eat my age in eggs and my sister in law in law made a drawing to comemorate the moment and also because it was my birthday. she's excellent. thank you 10000000% @cintailed. you should all visit her page and admire her work.

[karvviie]

this is what happened right

[ravenkings]

while being depressing, this is also sort of fascinating to me bc there’s something so…inauthentic here. what i mean is that if you saw something like this back in say 2001 (which you probably wouldn’t, at least for carl’s jr. but i digress) it would seem tacky but in a “sex sells” sort of way.

seeing this in 2025, it’s clearly purely a political statement and you can tell partially bc the image itself is so oddly sexless. it’s like there’s more titillation in the prospect of “owning the libs” than in the image of the scantily clad blonde white woman itself.

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[swedenis-h]

Wife lovers till they die