#quid rambles

[biquid]

Can we talk about how the last thing 13 said when the Master was forcing her to regenerate was "Yaz!"? 😭

[quiddity-jones]

State of the Quid

I've been seriously struggling since my cancer treatment, and I put it all down to recovering from radiation and chemo. But after a trip to the doctor the other day, I've been diagnosed with acute anaemia! No wonder I've been finding it hard to tear through projects the way I used to. I'm hoping with treatment, I will start to feel strong enough to get my shit together and pick up things again.

[bootsofruby]

Who wants a christmas blingee

[xxsjdoodlesxx]

>:(

It annoys me sm that whenever I dye my hair to have raccoon tails the fuckers just vanish after a month or two Like motherfucker I paid a shit ton of money to bleach and dye my hair for you to fucking EXIST I don't wanna buy clip on extensions with racctails bc like-- no? I don't wanna spend more money on my stupid fucking hair

[mapicccc]

waitttt mapicc had tunnels under the original castle? do you happen to know when that was discovered by any chance :3

okay I will admit I use tunnels a bit loosely here, but in this vod he works on making them to hide from zam and escape (around 47m & 1:03) he also finds a spot where zam used to have a beacon which is part of the tunnels I was talking about. it was less to sneak around as during castle arc he had no reason to, but more so to play with zam. there is also zams pov but it's during the 32h stream and I. don't want to have to skim that rn >_< please forgive me anon.

[underwater-i-will-go]

this is the first thing you see when you take the wrong turn on any alley in london

[yourfavvgal]

has anyone read the secret history because ive just bought it and i wanna know if its good :’))

[hebuiltfive]

Today is apparently the day for crying over making this Lady Penelope dress for next month. I can't make heads or tails of the pattern, I can't find where I got the pattern from in the first place because I think the site has been changed, and the stress is starting to build up. The question of "why did I decide to try and make this again?" is circling the brain. I'm terrible at sewing 😭 but I refuse to give up, even if I am just:

A postive, however, is I had to finally sew together the pillows I was making, because I needed the pins to start this project. They look semi-decent at least.

But this dress... Ahaha this dress is going to drive me to insanity before I'm done.

[whatevenisaquid]

Boy am I having a day

[callsigns-haze]

"You just bought a Barca shirt to pour fake blood and cut up the sides?"

Yes. We did it 11 times. And would do it another time.

[umbracirrus]

People I'd like to know better tag game 💛

Was tagged a few days back by @pitiable-arisen and @thequeenofthewinter! Meant to tag 9 people back but not sure who has/hasn't done it at this point as it was from a few days back so will leave things open for if anyone wants to do this!

Last song I listened to: Sunrise of Flutes from the Oblivion soundtrack. I'm nothing if not predictable 😊

Favorite colour: Yellow! It's a beautiful, bright, and cheerful colour.

Currently watching: So, I'm kinda watching Lucifer at the moment? Or rather, my sister puts Lucifer on TV and I end up watching between doing other things. Otherwise I'm watching RTGame's minecraft let's play vods at night - not really watching anything else otherwise!

Sweet/savoury/spicy?: Spicy! So much so my family won't touch anything that I've cooked which has chilli in.

Relationship status: Single and far too socially awkward to seek one...

Last thing you googled: dragon's dogma dark arisen funky main menu screen on steam deck (I forgot the words 'colour' and 'colourful', and was wondering why it looked like this when I loaded it 😅)

Current obsession: Stardew Valley (and Shane, though Elliott will always remain my beloved.)

[biquid]

Hell yeah look what I got in the mail today!! Love the intro lol

[sacredglitch]

i have eeped, woken up and cried

I have some thoughts. MW3 spoilers below.

Major thing out of the way; everyone is gonna experience the campaign at different lengths depending on skill and difficulty they choose. I started around 9/10pm and finished at 5am, so it took me quite some time, predominantly with issues in the Weapons Free missions and the Ally AI just never backing me up? Felt a lil like Rudy in the Ghost Team mission yknow?

But it was a fun experience in gameplay standpoint. There was elements of both MW and MWII alongside some new things that I still gotta get used to once MP drops. But story wise?

Something felt weird. Like it wasn't as consise as MWII with its storytelling. All that took, what? A few days? Maybe even weeks to come to completion. With this game, bar the flashback mission, I never knew how closely related each mission was unless it was explicitly clear, like Passenger and the mission with Farah inspecting the debris. You know that was only hours apart from one another.

Characters also felt a little odd. Like there was moments where it felt like yeah, these are the crew I know and others where it's like....who am I listening to right now? There was just an air of tension with it all, and yes with who they were dealing with ofc there's tension...but idk again the flow wasn't there like the other two games.

Okay elephant in the room; Soap and Makarov. The amount of times Soap was on the verge of whipping out his pistol or knife and just ending it and no one letting him? If Makarov was such a major threat; sometimes the information he may or may not have had just isn't worth it. Thousands would be alive if Johnny was just let loose and take out the trash. But because he wasn't he's now dead.

And Makarov lives. What the fuck, Activision? Infinity Ward? Fucking Sledgehammer?! What was the point of killing off someone who they know damn well is beloved in the fandom (yes, he died in the OG but hear me out) as is his actor, let the baddie get away, and then just....end it with the 141 spreading his ashes. No revenge for Soap, no honouring what he wanted from the beGINNING, no nothing. Just somewhat dull words from the team, his ashes spread and roll credits.

It's giving rushed story for no fucking reason. I wouldn't be so mad if they just did something after that. Sure, one could say this is them building up to MWIV but it also could have been dealt with one more mission. It truly feels like a slap to the face for the fans, cause we know OG Soap's death was agonising but it had its resolution with Price honouring his men.

If this was the second game then it would also make more sense, build up to the conclusion. But no, this was what most of us expected to be the big finale of Makarov and this current story of Modern Warfare, and it wasn't. Just more prolonged waiting that they're probably going to rush to get out next year. It's truly a shame on the big trio working on this game, but also towards the new fans and in my eyes, Neil too. This was his big break in sorts and it's clear by fan interaction he loves being Soap. I'm glad he seems to be the main protagonist of Zombies which makes me hope he'll be in more things or some pre campaign things but damn. Imagine getting the role of a beloved character, giving them an incredible performance just to be shot point blank and given a dull ending. That would make me feel betrayed but ofc I won't speak for Neil, I have 0 clue how he feels on all this. Hell he could be all for it. Just...truly sucks from a fans perspective.

One final thing is the questions and confusion that ig are open ended because whoop de doo another game, more cash for Activision. For starters; who was the 'Shadow' giving Makarov intel? Was it supposed to be Shepard? Considering he was kidnapped and all that would make sense, but Makarov specifically said Shadow. In my eyes if he had meant Shepard, he would have said US Official or something.

Speaking of Shadows; why did Graves sell him out? What's he gonna gain from that? A redemption arc? Fuck that shit I didn't spend almost two hours fighting the tank for him to come back and be all "am sowwy"

Was Urzikstan truly cleared of any wrong doing or is it one of those things where it's like "Welp it's one General's word against our opinions". Also not to get into irl things but seeing some of the stuff during the Passenger mission had me thinking of how the world is currently with certain ongoing fights. Sometimes COD gets the realism down.

Maybe it was because of the situation they were in and how big the threat was, but there wasn't much of a dynamic going on with the teams. At most, there was some Soap and Ghost banter, and then Graves with his Shadows but that was kinda it. No idle chatter just head in the game type of deal. Does make sense ofc but maybe that's why the characters really felt off at times.

One that's just a personal thing; since it's confirmed that at least in 2019, Price, Soap and Ghost knew one another, makes sense cause the trio were SAS, but it's got me thinking why is Ghost the only one allowed to call him Johnny? It was teased in MWII with the interaction in Prison Break but...it's not been elaborated on. Even Price, when Soap was losing his shit over Makarov in the Heli, called him John.

What did Ghost do or say that Soap decided he could allow him to call him Johnny? This isn't anyway me asking "OooOO, are they fruity???" no I'm curious. If it was a thing he allowed his superiors that he was friendly with to say, then Price would be included that. Alejandro and Rudy would be included. What makes Ghost so special?

The last thing that my grief riddled mind can think of is where is Soap's family? I don't think I can truly believe he doesn't have one. It's canon he joined because of his cousin so...why was the 141 the ones to spread his ashes? Again it could have been his wish and all...shit just also adds to the rushed story feeling. I ain't asking for the MacTavishs to make an appearance or be canon or whatever but as someone who has a loved ones ashes, the small urn you get would have made more sense. That they decided with the ashes his family gave them to throw them off the cliffside in what I assume is Scotland.

If he didn't have family then holy shit it makes his death even more hurtful but no way impactful.

I'm just rambling angrly now so I'll stop my thoughts. Overall the game was fun, interesting concept with the Weapons Free missions but the story was lackluster compared to the previous games, as well as a slap to the face for Soap's character. It was just there for the sake of sadness.

I wasn't expecting a happy ending, I was just hoping for a honourable conclusion.

[bootsofruby]

Sorry for the tidal wave of picmixes. Forgot that I didn't post that many in the past year so I'm doing that now.

[tis-knight-time]

pov you finally decided to get bg3

[onthegreatsea]

researching canes to get and the advice was basically 'you should get a wheelchair', 'you need a wheelchair' WELL. i cant. i live on the top floor. so.