#so all of this might just be coincidence

[eclipse-strider]

Crazy to me that the indie one-man-made game Kenshi took the American prison industrial complex to its logical conclusion in that the 2nd Empire has slavery as the punishment for any and all crimes to "give back to the community" for their crimes. The slaves keep the wheels of trade and profit turning with their blood, meanwhile the Unified Cities and their leaders can wash their hands of any immorality because "well they're all criminals". Meanwhile, the ruling merchants and oligarchs demand for profit has become so large that something as innocent as being too poor to afford food has become a crime punishable by enslavement.

Anyways, interesting commentary from a game with literal bugmen, scrap armor samurai, robot skin-bandits, and takes place in post-apocalyptic lunar colony.

[egophiliac]

Hello! Could I ask how many chapters does the jp server currently have? I believe you're at the 12th part but I'm not sure. Part 7 came out in the eng server and the measly 16 chapters with no chapters within chapters destroyed me, so I'm trying to estimate how many we'll get when parts come out

yep, we're in the middle of 7-12 right now! they started splitting them up further starting with 11, so we got chapter 11 part 1, then chapter 11 part 2, and we're due chapter 12 part 2 (and maybe 3?) later this month. we've been getting them more regularly though, so it seems like they're switching to smaller but more frequent story drops!

I think Eng is following the same chapter breakdown as JP for these ones, and they've mostly been a decent length each IMO -- 9 was on the short side (two-person dorms go by so fast...) but we're getting nice little wrap-ups to the characters' arcs so I personally haven't felt, like, shortchanged or anything so far! it is SUPER hard being patient though (I'm lucky enough to be able to play it immediately and I'm still dying over here), so. ...I'm hoping the smaller drops help with that. :')

if you want the actual chapter numbers so far:

chapter 8 - 117-139

chapter 9 - 140-157

chapter 10 - 158-191

chapter 11 - 192-211 (part 1) / 212-226 (part 2)

chapter 12 - 227-244 (part 1)

(pretty sure these are correct, but if someone notices that they're off, please let me know!)

[evelynpr]

You ever think about how All Might has two male exes that both have a child with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a big heart?

[eat-your-milk]

Also I am literally crying over the comments and overall interaction ive gotten on my fics and art. You guys are so nice?? And I dont know what to do like-how does human respond to nice interactions???

Seriously though it means everything to me that people are giving my work the time of day, let alone taking the time and telling me its good, that I did something worthwhile. Im really not used to that. Thank you guys so much.

I seriously cannot put into words how happy it makes me.

[aromanticasterisms]

getting to the bottom of the new area and going oh 1. ajaw was telling the truth about what (he thinks) he was 2. so that's why he looks like that 3. did kinich go to ochkanatlan to meet him or was he set up somewhere else

[albumplastique]

i started watching white collar a couple of weeks ago to distract myself bc i couldn't stop thinking about aftg while waiting for tgr

if you know the show you already know it was a terrible idea, i you don't well : one of the main character is named neal, has commited multiple crimes, has several aliases/identities, lies a lot and now works with the fbi to stop other criminals

(yeah neil doesn't like work /work/ with the fbi but you get my point, neal has also been a little tease to the fbi while he was on the run and we all now how neil talks to browning and co)

so yeah the characters and stories aren't the same at all but that's a lot of little thing that just don't help to not think about aftg

but it doesn't stop there, the character who kinda started the whole plot of the show is named kate MOREAU

it's so funny how many things i can link to aftg this bad boy can fit (granted i'm crazy and can link basically anything to aftg if i try hard enough)

for example neal bestie is a history nerd. at some point a character talks about the côte d'azur, you know what town is there? marseille, which character mentions that? yeah you guessed it, moreau. neal doesn't like guns and there's different reasons but one of them is his dad (neil with knife etc). there's so many more that i simply forgot, it's little things but every time i'm like another one thank you!

the latest one who made me write this you may ask? well, there's a car with a parking ticket, one agent picks it up and then we see the other side of the car : there's a fire hydrant. of all reason for illegal parking it just had to be this one

[doueverwonder]

Utah is constantly getting this video sent to him JUST because of the last part, he CANONICALLY has kids with all three of those names, he's got 3 -aydens.

"And finally we have to pay our respects to an all time douchebag category of names, which of course is, the 'aydens'. Kayden, Jayden, Brayden, what are we doing here? what are we doing? I'm sorry you weren't able to go all American with your baseball career, but perhaps it has something to do with your mom sticking a Y in a name where it doesn't belong. Like the Brittany's and Justins before you. your name is a trend, and you should feel the clock ticking on the legitness of your name"

[the-acid-pear]

Y'know this little throwaway gag is so bizarre to me and I know this game is a bit very different to 2 and 3 but look at Matt's reaction when Jack raids the place in 3:

You'd argue he's simply stopping Jack bc he hates this guy and he also hates this job which Could Be True but i highly doubt bc overall despite his virginity and overall cursed vibe, Matt seems to be a good employee, by all means (I mean, Peter literally gave him a vacation instead of firing him in 2, so that says a lot).

Plus, Dave hates this guy as much as he hates him! He literally always calls him creepy and, AND!

This is the only footage you get of the prize corner in 2. Which is also the first game to show Matt and Dave's disdain for one another, Dave being likely more scared of Matt than Matt will ever be of him.

Which is all very curious. 2 does set a drastic change for Matt too with him going from being just strange to outright creepy, so was the old pizza place closing something that actually affected him or was he consistently that creepy all along? And if the later, did he just start hating Dave after that or did they always have beef and they simply had some sort of arrangement (or even higher word from Steven who tended to let Dave do whatever he wanted in general) that let him do so?

[6-epigraphs]

Don't fumble this buddy

[egophiliac]

I have a question about the jp server pickups, since I really want knight Sebek, but I’m trying to save gems for bloom malleus + the 3rd tsum event that’s gonna show up sooner or later. Iirc, after knight Sebek, the next story update’s pickup had all of the previous story cards (ie cerberus Ortho, general Lilia, and knight Sebek). Is this true, and if it is, did it include a token system like the dorm pickups where you can just do 100 pulls and then buy the specific card you want directly? Because if that is how it works, then I can wait until then and be sure I won’t have to go to 200 for him.

we did indeed get a second chance at those three when 7-7 came out! I'm pretty sure there was not a token system -- though admittedly I don't 100% remember, sorry! 🙇 I took a quick search through some past posts/videos from people who tend to include the gacha and news stuff, but I didn't see any mention of it, so I'm inclined to think there really wasn't one. :( they were all separate pickups with their own pull counts rather than a combined one, if that info helps at all.

speaking as a strict f2p who hoards keys/gems like the lovechild of a dragon and a magpie, given the choice between saving for a story card and a birthday card, I'd go for story -- it does require a lot of patience, but there are way more opportunities to get past birthday cards, both from the anniversary events and the rerun pickups! tsums is a bit harder to say anything on because Eng doesn't follow the same event schedule, but it's a longish event and those pickups let you have a free 10-roll, so I think they're also a bit easier to save up for.

(ALSO speaking of free rolls, starting with the fifth round of birthdays -- the kutsurogi my room ones -- the birthday boy/union jacket/bloom cards have had a separate pickup that you can get two free 10-pulls at by doing missions! I got a bloom Jade from it a couple weeks ago. :D meanwhile general Lilia is the only story card I've ever managed to pull, so...I'm probably kinda biased. whoops.)

[wyllzel]

i love the companions' little inn living spaces bc 1) they're kind of paired off into roommates and the pairs are so interesting?? and 2) even though there's not a lot of space, their personalities totally shine through 🥹

astarion vs gale:

astarion's space is covered in bloody rags, which ofc it is, but also it kind of shows that he's not as neat and put together as he may appear... but on the other hand, he doesn't really need to be neat about his bed -- he's an elf, so he's not even really sleeping there LOL might as well use it as a kitchen (see: the bloody goblet)

meanwhile gale's space is painstakingly pristine and littered with books and other nerd stuff, plus a finely embroidered pillow with a bowl -- maybe for tara?

karlach vs lae'zel:

karlach uses her bed as a clothes pile LOL <3 but she's also got a bunch of books! (disclosure: i don't know her lore as thoroughly but,, perhaps she's catching up on things she's missed while in avernus?)

lae'zel's bed is neat and organized, but also covered in war trophies LOL. and then there's that small blood-stained rag in the front 😳 very intimidating, just like her

shadowheart vs wyll:

shadowheart's space has her shar worship items and is very neat -- she also keeps house plants! interesting how she enjoys caring for things that grow in the light... + i just noticed she and karlach have matching potted bushes 🥹

wyll's space seems somewhat sparse, but that makes sense given his backstory (exiled noble turned on-the-road adventurer) -- and there's that interesting little tray on his bedside table...

[spacecrows]

me (diagnosed with ADHD): *talks about little funny/annoying things my brain does (because of the ADHD)* my mom (not diagnosed with anything): wow that's so funny, the exact same thing happens to me too! i've never heard anyone else describe that. so random that you get that too. genetics, huh? :))

[hexados-on-a-string]

gus' first brawl in nv has him at first show up in disguise and is against a pyrus brawler, where he declares that friendship means nothing, only power matters.

gus' last brawl in nv has him at first show up in disguise again and is against a pyrus brawler again, except this time he says that the friendship and loyalty he has is the most important thing, rather than power.

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than brutality

In celebration of overcoming what once felt impossible (available in both transgender and gay flavors)

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

sometimes..so.etimes they change something even after the premiere. sp you appear and watch an entirely new and prolonged monologue. and it's like. FUCK YEAH.

[inkats]

is it autism or is it a symptom of previous longterm social isolation and lack of agency ?