#of being rushed

[pokeblader3]

I think there's something to be said about how Pokemon SwSh was literally priced out of a lot of people's ability to get it around launch (60 dollars for an unfinished game, and it's now clear that the Isle of Armor and Crown Tundra were just the postgame of Galar that got pushed back to be 30$ DLC bc they knew pokemon fans would buy it to get their single complete game).

It's not DLC that's optional to enjoying the experience, exploring side areas and hunting down legendary Pokemon is a core part of the pokemon game loop enough that it's been a part of every region in this decades-long series, the fact that there's only 10 routes and 4 route themes (1 with no pokemon, several being laughably short and not really considerable as routes) + the 2 Wild Areas and their 2 themes (some of the only real "routes" in the game), vs the avg of 18+ routes and 6+ themes in the base region of every pokemon game, it's apparent that these were meant to be the side areas of the game but weren't finished in time and/or were purposefully paywalled (if Celeste and Shovel Knight can make entire game modes and chapters as free DLC, the literal most profitable series on the damn planet can too and still pay their workers lots, if that's what they actually were interested in doing). The only legendaries in Galar at base are the 3 story legendaries (only 2 catchable), that's less than the original Kanto games. The 9 legendaries (and every other legendary in the game) introduced in the Crown Tundra and Isle of Armor are just the standard side area legendaries of each region.

These games were literally shipped unfinished and the full game cost over twice as much as a game in the series previously cost. A lot of people couldn't play them at launch, and a lot of the hate towards them were for that reason and totally justified. It never fails to get me just how vehemently people defended these games on launch, like nobody is making you kiss the most profitable series in the world's boots, you don't have to defend this. Pokemon would be a lot better if they weren't restricted to their 3 year release schedule and could actually finish their games on time, and we've seen the natural endpoint of this problem we were warning about with how buggy and rushed the games since SwSh have been.

[problemnyatic]

the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.

It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.

But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.

[hrokkall]

"Sad Cat Poem" by Spencer Madsen

[asouwan]

Are you there?

I’m scared

[prideprejudce]

people saying that users aren’t being compassionate enough towards the billionaires stuck in the death coffin at the bottom of the ocean and calling us “ghouls” for bringing up the absolute absurdity of the entire situation and it’s like……of course no one ever deserves to die by suffocation or freezing to death and it’s a hope that by some miracle that these people are found and somehow saved. however people are aloud to point out the irony of how our current wealth gap is so high that there are people who are able to spend 250k, an amount that most people don’t see in their entire lives, like it’s a movie ticket. except instead of seeing a movie they are entering a death chamber to the bottom of the ocean so they can gawk at the mass grave of over a thousand people

“the CEO of the company tricked them and he’s the real capitalist villain while the other passengers are blameless” I agree that the CEO (who is also stuck in the submarine with them) is as grimy as they come and cut corners in order to make as much money as possible. that’s a given. but as we are seeing now, most people who have never even stepped foot in the ocean their entire lives could see that this was a disaster waiting to happen. you don’t have to be a maritime expert to see that. the submersible has no emergency beacon, is controlled by an off brand game controller, made from parts from a camp store, navigated by texts from above, is bolted in from the outside, and has a contract that passengers sign that mentions “death” three times on the front page. most people couldn’t be paid to step foot in it - and these people paid 250k to go to the bottom of the ocean in it

once again, no one is relishing at people dying stuck in an essentially gutted out minivan at the bottom of the ocean. especially when one passenger is 19 and the other is a legitimate titanic researcher. but people are allowed to be mad that thousands upon thousands of dollars of taxpayer money and resources are being used to try and literally pluck these people out of the ocean and save them from a grave that they literally helped dig themselves into without a care in the world. they are the 1% who can put themselves in peril as much as they please and spend money and waste resources like it’s water but will always expect to be saved from the brink of death by us regular folk so they can call themselves an “adventurer” at their next luncheon

[machinerot]

[felsicveins]

Not technically his ex cause the divorce papers were never signed...

[taffywabbit]

i have lots of flaws but i do at least take a fair amount of comfort knowing that, if i were a customer NPC in a fast food/retail management game, i would be one of the chill early-level ones that can wait a super long time before they start getting impatient, and you breathe a sigh of a relief when you see them show up in a harder level

[bigfatbreak]

What does Tom think of Emilie after meeting her?

the only Agreste he's not massively disappointed with is Adrien himself. It's a good thing that's the only one he plans on sparing.

[mecachrome]

Lando and Oscar on Capital Breakfast

[bluerosefox]

Drake Siblings

Have I read this prompt somewhere or was this a fever dream from my bored mind.

What if, now hear me out.

What if we bring up Dana Winters-Drake (whose confirmed to at least be alive in the DC verse but no one knows where she actually is)

What if instead of when she had a mental breakdown and getting committed to an Bludhaven clinc she wandered away before anyone noticed and by the time Tim or anyone did notice a lot of stuff started happening at once in both Gotham and Bludhaven (Steph dying, The Bludhaven crisis, etc etc)

Tim still tries to find her though but even with best resources it was like she just disappeared into the wilderness and the stress of trying to handle more and more problems get worse.

So when out of the blue, a couple of years later, he gets a call from an unknown number. On his private, only for friends and family, phone and when he answers he meet with a young girls voice on the other end.

A very young, maybe six or seven, girl who informs him about his apparently half-brother Danny Drake-Fenton. And how she loves Danny so, so, so much but knows her home is dangerous for him to be in.

Tim is stunned and before he could question her, she says Danny is Dana and Jack's baby and that her parents had adopted him years ago and put Dana's stuff that the hospital had away for him to look at when he was older but she just had to fight off their lunch from eating her brother and she knows he needs a better place to live and so she snooped around and found Dana's diary and that she had to unscramble the nonsense Dana wrote and found Tim's number with the words 'tell him about his brother Danny' hidden in it. And-

But before she could keep rambling she hears Danny screaming "JAZZY THE MILK WENT BAD AGAIN AND HISSED AT ME!"

Tim is left with silence after hearing Jazz yell to Danny to lock the fridge and step out of the kitchen as she gets the bat.

[ghostr0tz]

did somebody order tangled up twink

[shepscapades]

20. Weight of the World — Battle Tapes

You showed up haunted with a fist full of dynamite Curated provocateur Ooh, the funny thing about a life that's so civilized Is when the lines start to blur Delusional, until we fold Buried under the weight of the world

This songs hits ten times harder if you imagine that the instrumental dropping out to the slowly rising bass at ~2:28 is the moment Tango respawns after Bdubs' boogeyman kill and starts to spiral into rage.

[hinamie]

色彩 [Shikisai]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

your krakoa era cherik art has altered my brain chemistry

more krakoa era is to come from me my friend so i worry for your brain

[ewwww-what]

Nobody is as excited about the preview as I am. I have paragraphs.