#really irks me cause

[dykedvonte]

I haven't had time to think things too deeply yet and haven't dove into the tags but are there really people reflecting the exact thing Jimmy did in the game at it's most basic? It seems a little tragically poetic to me since Jimmy placed all the blame on others and refused to take responsibility for anything, even in the end it was a selfish action rather than a responsible one.

I also feel like Curly was somewhat more aware on some level of the danger Jimmy presented, the long foreboding walk down the stairs to the cockpit to take Jimmy's psych evaluation, the emergency alarms ringing and the broken ladders presenting a feeling of no escape.

Was anyone there even trained to handle a situation like this? Pony Express sure didn't care about safety, that's for certain..

My thoughts are more on people making sure to remind you what Curly didn’t do to prevent it than the fuitity of the situations and the options he had.

I am in the camp that Curly could’ve done more, put Anya first and prioritized Jimmy less, but I feel like many people shape it more around malice on Curlys part to talk about how he isn’t a good person. It’s taking a character flaw and making it the character and it’s annoying to a degree. As you mentions there’s not the avenues or procedure for him or anyone to handle a delicate issue like this is. There aren’t the realistic avenues people can take without someone facing more harassment, harm or issues. It’s the irony that in thinking that Curly could’ve done more, you are giving him power he doesn’t have just like Jimmy did in his weird envious worship of Curly.

It’s erasing Jimmy’s culpability and sort of turning Curly into his handler which is exactly what Jimmy seems to do with him often, like yes, Curly enables Jimmy in many ways he shouldn’t but he also isn’t shielded from those exact behaviors. Curly can’t escape Jimmy in an adjacent way Anya can’t escape him (mentally, physically, emotionally). Their relationship is unhealthy on both parts but Curly is the one truly being victimized in it.

It’s such a good representation of how toxicity seeps and cycles between other even if trying to be good or just or help and it gets overshadowed by how one can be better despite the situation quite literally points out that there are points where it’s impossible.

[falmerbrook]

I think at least half of my criticisms of ESO’s writing are a result of the game’s attempt to have its cake (have a chronological sequence of events and storylines) and eat it too (make almost all storylines and quests be accessible in any order). Trying to do both at once has just led to them not doing either one very well imo.

They want to have overarching stories that develop over multiple expansions, but because they want players to be able to jump into any expansion in any order, each one's main storyline has to make sense and be somewhat disconnected from the other storylines from different expansions in the same overall arc. Any side quest that relates to the main storyline needs to be understandable without knowing anything about the main storyline. And this makes it feel like the writing is often held back and the dialogue doesn't reflect that I already know what's going on.

On the other hand, they also want any expansion accessible at any time. Overall I actually like that I can go to any zone whenever as long as I own them (I'm not locked out of them until I finish previous ones or something like that) and the difficulty is relatively the same, but from a story perspective it just leads to so much timeline fuckery and, like I said, it feels like it holds them back from having actually solid conflicts and character writing.

So far, of the 2 year-long arcs I've played (Elsweyr and Skyrim), in both the main story of the bigger chapter felt so much better paced, with more tightly woven and coherent narratives/characters, while the DLC felt like we were going on a long tangent in a new conflict that was superficially connected to the story from the chapter (and then a pretty satisfying epilogue tying them together, but I don't think that detracts from my point). At the same time, I'm not sure the DLC stories would've made a lot of sense to me if I hadn't already played through the chapter. They would've been so much better if they weren't stuck making the DLCs their own thing and just embraced having them be the second part of a larger story.

Hell, I know everyone loves the Daedric War arc, but I feel like it almost had the opposite issue, where the overarching narrative felt under-developed in Morrowind and Clockwork City until it was tied together in Summerset (even then, it just wasn't satisfying to me personally. That might just be because I'm not a fan of that story though).

idk if this makes a lot of sense because I'm not good at explaining my thoughts, but it's just an observation I've been having while playing.

[poseidonstaint]

i know everyone is praising ify for how he’s playing this season and i do think he is slaying but some of his moves kinda bother me😭😭😭i didn’t like how he took all the drug juice i feel like brennan obviously had a plan for how that was gonna work with persimmon dead AND everyone would’ve got a cool moment with the drugs but he kinda just took it :/ obviously it worked out and it did lead to that convo w liv and russell but idk i felt like jacob in that moment and i’m not even playing LMAO like i would rather have just seen what brennan was gonna do and got to see how everyone was gonna take it

[cherryplasmids]

the fact that starscream gave up so easily pisses me offffff

transformers one should have been, at the very least, 30 minutes longer. idk i would have LOVED to see d-16 win a fight that starscream didn’t purposefully give up. like, starscream—high ranking high guard member and an active resistance leader—lost a 20 second fist fight against someone who’s never experienced war—who literally started fighting THAT day.

maybe the first fight ended as a starscream win and within the 30 minutes (or longer) runtime, starscream and d-16 fought again after d-16 got some type of experience. the turn from d-16 to megatron and the high guard gaining respect/rallying behind megatron could have been fleshed out during the longer run time, too.

[time-wondroustime]

one thing I haven't seen anyone say about watcher yet, but has really disappointed me, is that only three months ago they mentioned in the truth about filming ghost files video that they had to let go of 5 (if I'm remembering the number properly) employees. and when I watched that video I was disappointed that hey hadn't planned the business properly to avoid things like that, but they are primarily creatives, so I figured there would be some business mistakes made along the way. but then hearing they just hired the 2 worth it guys and are reviving an expensive show... I feel like they could've prevented the lay offs better

[faunandfloraas]

I will say though that this thing where they put the general gist of what was said or sometimes don't bother to transcribe what was said at all and just do the [x person is doing blah blah] even tho that person is clearly talking for english subs does really annoy me and now that I almost never make a text gifset without attempting to check the original korean it happens /so much/ and it irks me because you absolutely do have the money at that big company to properly subtitle things

[xxplastic-cubexx]

What's ur presentation all about...? Am scared /lh

funnily enough it's about the ADA/americans-with-disabilities act :^)

[lpsgirl109]

Im actually never forgiving Descendants: The Royal Wedding for being all silly goofy happy cartoon and then out of fucking NOWHERE just dropping "I really miss Carlos guys" HEY DISNEY WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM

[juniette13]

Sharing Ninjago doodles I made in class cause I’m finally rewatching it

I thought an image of my sona slingshotting Jay would be funny cause…TBH I hate him, Imma be real here

LIKE I’M SORRY (Sorta) I JUST DON’T LIKE HOW ONE OF THE VERY FIRST FEW THINGS HE DID WAS HIT ON KAI’S SISTER IMMEDIATELY AFTER IT WAS MENTIONED THAT SHE WAS KIDNAPPED 💀💀💀

He reminds me of my classmate that hits on my brother and it gives me the biggest ick LIKE STOP IT ☹️

Anyway most of my viewing consists of me either getting flabberghasted at something, jamming out to the music, complaining about Jay, or repeating consistently that I’m just like Zane,cause my neurodivergent thinking bucket thinks he’s just like me, which is kinda concerning cause I’m relating to a robot dude more than the human characters

Oh and Lloyd is just great, IDK why I hated him when I was younger because I absolutely adore this silly 10 year old

ALSO LIKE WHY WERE THEY SO MEAN TO HIM?? AT LEAST HE WASN’T UP TO GENUINELY EVIL SHENANIGANS LIKE HIS DAD 💀💀💀 ALL HE WANTED WAS CANDY AND A TREEHOUSE, BRO, THAT’S PRETTY NORMAL FOR A 10 YEAR OLD 😭😭😭

[gentlehue]

Serena vdw u never fail to infuriate me w your decisions

[gifti3]

i think if any of the orphans attack your pc in the bathroom, you should be able to beat their ass everyday afterwards if you want

[q-uuestion]

The character arc lore could have had

[hershelwidget]

i think it would be funny if for the theatre reveal it’s just an ABSURDLY long bit where a small rock containing theatre’s “true name” is rolling around on the ship and everyone is failing miserably to catch it. nobody ever fucking grabs the rock but to save them some time i do allow for the players to See what is written on it but as soon as its said whats written on it i disband the party and this all happens on april fools so nobody believes me

[nightmdic]

lil vent in the tags

[godheadjones]

like what the fuck was the reason for this comment. on an 8 week old post. no one was fucking talking about jabitha in the post? asking specifically “why do you have to come back”??? “that’s my opinion so keep it to yourself” when no one fucking said anything about jabitha????

[angsty-prompt-hole]

Mildly annoying writing from a specific character's POV and then having someone complain because a different character is portrayed negatively in that story. My good bitch, the POV character does not like that character, of course they're going to see that character negatively.