#of course there’s outliers

[devsgames]

I saw someone be like "It's still as good a time as ever to take a risk and make your indie game into a breakout success, just look at Lethal Company!"

Let's just be clear that "massively unpredictable viral success making an ungodly amount of money" does not equal "realistic and attainable benchmark" for almost any other indie dev.

[tacobellabeanburrito]

I don’t think my friends ever notice how fucking diabolical they can be.

Like, it’s almost crazy how fucking terrible they can be.

Idk I just got into a pissy mood because I’ve been thinking about all the bad shit my friends say to me AND about me right in front of my face.

Like, ugh. Do they not know how absolutely abhorrent they can be?

They’re all so up their own asses it’s almost unreal how good at EVERYTHING they think they are. And then they try to act like they DON’T think they’re all that. (They definitely think they are, I’ve known them long enough)

Just. Ugh. I can’t fucking WAIT to get out of high school and meet different people when going to college. The people at my high school are SOOO goddamn annoying and mean.

Also, yk that mean where that high school guy is like “LMAO graduating and can’t wait to block everyone from high school” that’s me rn.

[edenprime]

One of the strongest points of Mass Effect, if not the strongest, is just how well written the characters are. From Shepard, to the squad, to the side characters like Anderson and Bakara, to barely-there NPCs like Ereba and Charr the lovers, Etarn Tiro the enthusiastic turian merchant, Kargesh the krogan who wanted a fish, Lia'Vael, the quarian who gets falsely accused of theft, and the Salarian who wants to buy a memento to his asari lover to remember him by once he's dead.

I feel like so many of them are memorable, and they all serve a purpose to the overall world building. The krogan show that they are not the violent thugs the galaxy has made them out to be. The salarian shows the struggle born out of building relationships with people of a species with a life expectancy so beyond your own. Lia'Vael illustrates what Tali says about the quarians being treated like second class citizens. Those small little side quests have a meaning and a purpose, it doesnt feel like they are Just There, and they add more to the lore of them game to those who care about that stuff.

[gncrezan]

the established orion-romance dreams have gotten to me. what will my delusional visions reveal to me next <3

[dvasva]

sometimes i think i have a coherent thought about how in transmigration/isekai stories written by men the protagonist imposes themselves upon the world without caring much about social convention while in transmigration/isekai stuff written by women the protagonist tries their hardest to fit in and not draw unnecessary attention or do something out of character or weird, especially in danmei transmigration stuff....

and then i see shibuya yuuri harajuku furi in my peripheral squaring up against everyone and making baseball the national sport. the most shonen protagonist trapped in a bl harem.

[cloverboyblue]

disney fairies is so interesting as a franchise to me, an aromantic adult, because they are all fully grown (?) fully formed adult beings with jobs but only like five or six fairies even seem to experience romantic attraction. in my mind they’re all aro. talents are more important than crushes my friends!

[the-magpie-archives]

Sharing media with your friends is great! It allows you to get to know them in ways you never wanted to and hear opinions you could never even dream of!

[red-might-be-dead]

all i ever think about is the same four guys pretending to be lots of different other guys

[mcybree]

i need to start hating other characters besides just scott apparently. does anyone have suggestions

[diamondnokouzai]

song taewon is koreas normalest s-class until you remember 'the protection of an s-class may resemble violence' and his first solo interaction with yoojin was strangling him and then as soon as he realized yoojins value he tried to 'protect' yoojin by making him afraid of all s-classes....

[jasontoddenthusiastt]

BFTC isn’t really a case of terrible characterization for Jason so much as it was a terrible case of victim blaming. Like yeah, some of the things Jason did were a bit extreme compared to his “better” appearances, but that’s nothing new and pretty much true of many stories that aren’t utrh or lost days. The bad parts are are also definitely exaggerated by fans.

The story isn’t centered on Jason. Of course every other character’s description of Jason would be knee-jerk dismissive and misunderstanding, since (again) the intention was to make Jason out to be the cartoony bad guy villain. But if you look past the layers of grime they added, the bare bones of his characterization are not entirely incorrect. It’s a biased story in which their intended criticisms of Jason’s morals often fell short, so to compensate they deliberately cranked up his motivations to be more extreme and unrealistic (but one which, nonetheless got Jason’s overall thoughts and goals relatively consistent with stories that portrayed him accurately).

Yes, him shooting Damian was out of character, but granted we’re all in agreement that it was a true case of “bad writing decision”, I don’t think it’s hard to look past. The only other bit people probably complain about (which felt iffy at worst) was him being “a bit enthusiastic” at times in trying to convince Dick to become another lethal Batman (you can just as easily say Jason wouldn’t have been personally invested enough to have acted in the way he did). I don’t care though because he was probably doing it for shits and giggles, and it was funny watching him push their buttons on his spare time while being excellent at his job. Same old ‘none of them deny that he’s effective, they just can’t get behind the killing’ conflict.

Looking past the fact that Jason still had a valid point, the “he’s the bad guy” plot falls apart for other obvious reasons, which happen in the 3rd issue. It’s kind of hard to focus on how much of a bitch Jason’s being when the other characters are written in an infinitely more problematic way (which ends up happening in most “hate Jason” stories). Not only did they heavily imply Jason is a victim of SA, but the way Dick/the batfamily treats Jason about this is … horrible. Arguing that this was a case of character assassination for Bruce and Dick would be more realistic than using this story to claim Jason is a Bad Person™.

Even though Bruce does have a bad track record with his perspective on victims of SA.

Hey. Maybe listen to the living person begging you to turn it off.

Geez. I wonder why he never felt safe enough to confide in Bruce or any of the rest of them. Implying that enduring what he did made him “broken beyond repair”, that he needs to be “fixed”, and saying verbatim, “you are my greatest failure”, not “I failed you greatly”. Then deciding on behalf of Jason that a bunch of people who weren’t involved in what happened to him should all know about this so they can decide what should be done. And everyone agrees with this garbage. Unbelievable.

Aka, any sort of healing he may have tried to accomplish was ruined by you lot. When exactly am I supposed to see that Jason was evil all along.

The story collapses in on itself in the third issue because where Dick is supposed to be at his prime within the arc, he just sort of rambles about how Jason was a shitty victim and then awkwardly shifts to talking about personal growth and coming to accept his own heroic destiny.

I do resent this, but not because “Jason sucks here”. Jason’s “bad portrayal” pales in comparison to the problematic mindsets given to the other characters (namely Dick) which were framed as good-natured intentions and “tough love”. As for people who describe this as “vilifying Jason to prop up Dick” … I don’t really know what to make of that.

[nostalgia-tblr]

...actually it's kind of effed up that the early MCU cared so little about women that Loki has no bio mother (and nobody ever even asks the question). yes, yes, i see the daddy issues, i am very invested in how this specific male character has daddy issues (lying, btw), but like. they literally just forgot mothers exist???

[ta-bajna-cerna-okybaca]

Now that I finally got to play TWST diasomnia chapter 1 myself, I'm gonna need everyone who said Malleus was a baby throwing a tantrum for no reason to pay me 2000 dollars each

[tswwwit]

Does Bill ever feel down about reincarnated Dippers not remembering their past(s) together?

Since his realm is the mind I'd assume that memories are probably something important to him, so is it hard having to reintroduce himself/redo things or even have references to things the pair did fly over Dippers head?

-Law Anon

Dipper remembers his previous lives eventually! He's literally still the Same Guy™, soul unchanged. Though every time he reincarnates, he gets to experience different things and has different circumstances, which he has to adjust to. Eventually, though, all his past experiences knock on the door and make themselves known - it just takes them a bit to get there.

[amethysttribble]

It’s actually really funny that Jae-ha (25) considers Hak to be the ‘other adult’ in their group, when Hak is literally 18 years old

[fish-bowl-2]

On that note, while I logically believe Edd's increasing sensitivity to hygiene in the show was a result of changing intentions in the writing room. I like to see it as influenced by the onset of his OCD.