#she's playing on the switch or something

[kaisollisto]

[dykedvonte]

wanted to say I appreciate your nuanced takes on MW and especially Curly. i don't get the claim that the fandom is full of Curly apologists when majority (esp yt and tiktok) say he's worse than Jimmy. Yes there's commentary about bro culture defending people, he def messed up in trying to placate Jimmy (tbh "we'll fix this" sounded more like trying to keep someone prone to outbursts like Jim calm and not hurt Anya/himself) but I don't think he did nothing to help Anya, since she continued to confide in him and he had less than a week to resolve it before the crash (I also don't get everyone saying he knew for ages when it seems like Anya told him that same week). I get Jimmy's a pos but saying stuff like Curly should've known he'd crash the ship or that Jim had a criminal record he ignored, reducing them to obviously horrible villain and willfully ignorant sidekick feels like a disservice to the game. If your best friend turned out to be horrible, what would you do in a confined space in the span of a few days to respond? I'd say some of the horror comes from trying to do good but ultimately failing, Curly's state after the crash is meant to be tragic horror not revenge/punishment

Thank you and this is what I want to get across.

A lot of information we have to supplement when it comes to how long things have been happening on this current ship. I think people try to add on to the horror and negligence by making things more obvious so it can feel like it was easier to avoid when, true to life, its not. Jimmy clearly didn't deserve or appreciate what Curly did for him in getting him the job, but do you think if Jimmy was that big of a menace on Earth he would've given him a position where he could have that level of power over people's lives? There's something in the fact he specifically chose to pick a position so close to himself where he could watch Jimmy.

I hate the bro code argument because that is a whole can of worms people really don't get. That sort of mentality is born from the general respect and preference of male matter over female ones. Curly is clearly not that guy, he is absent minded about the issue and inadvertently dismissive but he clearly believes Anya, he just can't understand what she's going through. It's an onslaught of information that no one really reacts right to. Additonally, the entire discussion of her assualt plays to heavy into the idea that there is fault outside of the perpertratior when it comes to SA. It's too close if she only did this or if Curly had protected her better but the fact of the matter is Jimmy did what he did. He did it before any of the conversations with Anya about it and it's why her behavior seemed to change so drastically in those last two days.

He has other conflicting thought and while his role as a Captain should've taken over, people act like it's not a very human thing to have such a toxic presence cloud your judgement. It is never easy to separate friend from coworker once that connection is formed, you want to help them, especially if they were friend first and for a long while like in this case. It's not right, but people act like it would be easy when the game clearly points out that no choice is easy to make, especially when you have to make it for more than one person. You have the weigh the consequences, look at all the options and make a plan. People can headcanon and decide how long things where happening, but if we look at what we were presented through the characters eyes, the only person given time to do that was Jimmy.

He waited two months after the crash to appoint himself Captain. Every time a problem was brought up he immediately took action and refused to sit on it and find a better solution. I think it's important to look at the warped way Jimmy takes initiative where Curly didn't as it works as a good contrast of why you don't just run in to "fix" things. The quickest and easiest option may not be the safest or most beneficial. I think some thoughts on the game suffer from the black and white thinking the game doesn't operate on along with us being voyeurs. We see what exactly led to what but the characters don't. They don't have the hindsight and foresight we do and even ours is scrambled by the non-linear story telling.

Like it's hard to talk abuou those grey zones without sounding like an apologist because you're explaining why taking responsibility isn't easy. It's not and it's weird to act like it would be in a scenerio that led up to the events of the game knowing what we know. We see all these characters in such isolated moments with various things before, in between, after and even during we aren't privy too. The idea that Jimmy is worse than Curly heavily banks on the words Jimmy was saying to Jimmy before he crashed the ship. That whatever happened on the ship was his responsibility to bare, which is true due to his position. But, are they not still not responsible for taking the actions Curly then must bare?

Like i feel like people think that these are situation that become easier with age or when you are in a postion of authority and they aren't. You don't lose your biases or gain some sudden knowledge that makes it easier. It just becomes more tiring as you keep dealing with it. I would be first in line to say Curly fucked up and should've done more but the idea he knew how bad it could get or he really saw the worst in the people around him and ignored it pretty much ignores a huge aspect of his character and the game.

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

Girl who can’t stop thinking about how arknights characters would play in a fighting game.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

my experience with maxing out the twins' friendship is just-

Hawke: So, Carver, my dear baby brother who I love and adore, I only need +10 more points to max out your friendship. I've done the grind; through gritted teeth I've kissed templar ass so that we don't raise suspicion. I've supported and defended you and let you take the lead whenever I could. You're my favorite warrior. I took you to the Deep Roads with me because you desperately wanted to go and then made you a warden and you found a place, a purpose. I've practically written my own guide on how to earn as much friendship with you because I love you and it's totally worth it so can I please please have the last +10...? Carver: Hawke: Carver please I'm begging you Carver: Carver: +5 Friendship Hawke: AAUUGGGHHLKSAJDLKAJSDLK-

Hawke: So, Bethany, my dear sis- Bethany: +50 Friendship Hawke: Bethany: :)

[front-facing-pokemon]

[sonknuxadow]

theres multiple reasons i dont like s/urgeamy but one of the things ive seen people do with it that annoys me a bit is the idea that surge and kit are going to become good because surge is gonna fall in love with amy and thats gonna be her only motivation to change.. and im sorry but am i the only one who thinks it would suck so bad for such fun antagonists to instantly switch sides just because one of them was "fixed" by romance and no other reason

[emile-hides]

I wanna find some games for my dad to play so he has more At Home Hobbies than just TikTok, but my repertoire of things he'd like is Limited and locked to My Consoles, so I thought I'd ask a general Tumblr audience

I need games on the PS4 my Dad could play. The only real hard stipulations are it can't be Duel Stick based movement and they can't be Scary and/or Sexy.

He's good at Puzzles and Math so games with those elements are best, he's not very competitive and doesn't have the best reaction time so I'd say Rouge Likes and other Combat based games wouldn't be the best. He likes Mysteries, Farm Sims, and Racing games the most. The most important thing is that it's funny

Bonus points if it offers Multiplayer. We only have one controller, but he loves the idea of playing games together, so having a multiplayer option would be s great way to talk him into it. It'd also be best if it was $25 or less honestly because he doesn't like getting himself expensive things, and I don't have the money to get them for him currently.

If you have any ideas I'd love to hear them! Thankyou so much for reading!

[scopophobia-polaris]

first female loz director and the gerudo seem to be written fine enough? wow... there ain't no way I thought we were in the worst timeline after totk

Yeah got through the main quest with the gerudo, it wasn't painful! It wasn't even bad! Still got them outfits but for the most part it was like oh cool!

I would say a lot of that oh cool is from the fact they didn't do a lot to even fuck it up to begin with, I'm gonna be real with yall this game is NOT worth $60USD

Edit: lemme say one thing, you know when people were being like damn totk story wasn't dark or mature at all why was this compared to Majora's mask again? And then all the zeldatwt people came out and said zelda is just a kid series domt expect good writing uH

This one feels like a kid's game. That ain't to say it's terrible I would say, hell I'm not far in it if I get something crazy that's like OH FUCK I'll reblog this post and say something but uh.....game for babies I'm gonna be shocked if anyone struggles with any puzzles cuz you CAN CHEESE THEM EASY ITS 🫢🤭

EDIT EDIT: I SWEAR IM NOT EVEN TRYING TO BE A DOWNER..... @ezlo-x HAS BEEN THERE THE WHOLE TIME IVE BEEN PLAYING....THEY KNOW I HAVENT BEEN A PARTY POOPER.....

[perenlop]

i adore bw2 bianca’s design tbh. i feel like you never see a character get glasses as a form of positive character development, she’s adorable in them.

[only-lonely-www]

Joining the war on vampires on the side of the vampires

[fluffs-n-stuffs]

More Pokémon Horizons Episode 25 spoilers under the cut!

As much as I laughed from how this played out like an unintentionally comedic moment---can I mention how much this actually does to separate Amethio from the rest of the Explorers; how he's actually honorable and respects Friede as a rival of sorts?

The rest of the Explorers tend to use underhanded tricks to get what they want (Spinel brainwashing Liko and attempting to wipe her memory, Onyx and Sango trying to overwhelm the others against direct orders whilst causing the destruction of everything else around them), but Amethio has been unique in how he's regarded as 'by the books' (by Friede) and constantly tries to be on equal footing with his opponent- even if it means putting himself at the disadvantage when he has more resources to utilize.

He could've very easily overwhelmed Friede by having both of his mons attack at once (given how Captain Pikachu hadn't arrived yet)---and yet he- doesn't. Which is just so interesting to me as he's meant to have a similar goal as the rest of the Explorers (which is to retrieve the pendant/Terapagos by any means necessary).

So in this case, was it really a matter of defeating Friede so that he could easily confront Liko afterwards,,, or,,,,, was he trying to prove himself somehow? 👀✨✨✨

[cow-wizard]

finally got around to drawing my Builder from My Time At Portia, Maggie Darcy!

I promise she gets happier as the story unfolds (despite the uhhh pretty concerning events of the plot), but also...I don't think Maggie ever quite forgives her Pa.

[id in alt]

[buddyfunnyspendtime]

HAS ANYONE EVER TALKED ABOUT STYLE SAVVY: STYLING STAR (girls mode 4 in japan) YURI..

rosie storyline spoilers !!!!!

(Ignore the ugly outfits here MARZIPAN SKY WASN'T GIVING ME ANYTHING GOOD)

basically the girl on the left is camilla, she's the classmate best friend of rosie and she acted like she didn't worry about rosie even though she REALLY DID and is her biggest fan to the point of creating rosie (the girl on the right)'s chant

rosie came from the countryside and her story in styling star is becoming an idol to be like her idol angelique and camila comes to basically like. All of rosies concerts and it's genuinely so sweet of her

if I remember correctly though when rosie finally sings with angelique and got really famous camila realizes that she doesn't need to worry about rosie anymore so she just like. Straight up leaves rosie

camila ends up ignoring rosie and rosie gets Worried about HER and then rosie even vents about her worrying through reading her lines in a film she was acting it that was about losing a friendship

so then next concert rosies in she gives a ticket to the protag in hopes they can give it to camila, the protag meets camila at the train station and camila shakes the protag off telling her she's not going to come because rosie Really made it big. She doesn't really need her anymore because she needs to go into the more famous circles she belongs in now And that camila is really just a rich girl (before this she requested a chic outfit, a rich girl outfit, even though she's usually a girl who dresses up in lolita)

but she ends up going to rosies concert anyway DRESSED UP IN A ROCK OUTFIT.. THAT ROSIE WAS IN TO SUPPORT HER.. AND SHE SHOWS UP WHEN ROSIE DOES THE FAN CHANT BECAUSE THE FAN CHANT ROSIE MADE FOR HER THE CROWD IS SAYING IT WEAKLY..

SO SHE COMES AND SAYS IT LOUDER...

I didn't get I would get so attached to. Fashion yuri but I love ethem I'm documenting this post just so I can remember them

(ignore rosies ugly outfit I Have grown sick of making 'girly' outfits. wheres my baby doll fans marizpan sky exhibition hall ost is the only thing saving them)

and for the ending of rosies storyline IT'S JUST THE PROTAG THIRD WHEELING THEM ON AN AMUSEMENT PARK DATE WITH CAMILA SAYING SHE'S GOING TO BECOME AN IDOL NEXT.. I really like how for the the main 3 idol stories it's about them rising to fame but their endings all tie to the people around them it's very sweet to me

[bucephaly]

I keep seeing posts of people saying that a term transphobes stole and are using incorrectly to be transphobes is a Horrible Transphobic Term and Anyone who uses it is transphobic and it's Not Real and Entirely Not True when it's literally an actual anthropological term that has studies about it and is actually very useful for Everyone to think about, cis and trans, and be critical of. I hate seeing people respond to dumb hate by entirely writing off everything even remotely connected to the twisted shit bigots use when the shit the bigots are stealing and twisting is still like... a thing?

[mariocki]

Shadows of Fear: Sugar and Spice (1.2, Thames, 1971)

"You might have known that children can't keep promises."

"Promises, what promises?"

"You shouldn't have told her if you didn't want me to know."

"Know what?"

"She said that you'd taken him to -"

"Where?"

[nacrelysis]

i love paimon. she's so sweet :( i always choose the traveler's friendly dialogue options and i appreciate her so much during the journey.

some of her dialogue that really stands out to me is her lines in the inazuma quest through the mists. traveler knows that there's nothing to be done about the time loop, and so does paimon, but she still insists that we try to find a way to help ruu. even if there isn't one. she can't stand seeing a child in pain.

paimon's always trying her best to help us during archon quests. an obvious observation but i feel like her character has definitely developed since mondstadt - you can tell she cares a lot about traveler and the people they meet. one of her greatest anxieties is not being able to find traveler anymore or traveler leaving and not coming back (see caribert). every time we're in a boss fight she's there beside us. she tries to lift debris off our bodies when we fall (golden house + shouki no kami). even the game function seems to emphasize that she's always by our side with the paimon menu.

in the veluriyam mirage there's a world quest where at the end you can bury a treasure commemorating you and your companion's experiences in the domain, and one of the options is a selfie with paimon. and paimon says a selfie isn't very valuable and the traveler has a dialogue option that expresses that "it's not the photo that's important. it's the people in it." i just. :(

i love paimon so much even though i know at best we'll separate at the end of our journey, and at worst she'll end up being the final adversary we face.