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i can't stop thinking about the "game" motif in the Death Note musical i need to write an essay about it i swear
#seph speaks#death note#death note musical#LIKE !!#both Light and L CONSTANTLY refer to their battle of wits as a game#like even titles of songs show it too. 'the game begins' 'playing his game' 'stalemate' (<- game terminology counts i have decided)#and then in 'secrets and lies' Light says 'i'm smart enough so it appears to win this stupid game'#and in 'the way it ends' he goes 'i've won the game but never gave up half my years'#they BOTH only think of the whole Kira thing as a massive game. that's all it is to them#just a chance to outsmart each other#Light has his grand ambitions but the moment L enters the scene all he cares abt is beating L#L doesn't really care about saving people from Kira. we see firsthand he's more than willing to sacrifice people's lives–#–to get an edge over Kira/Light#Ryuk also uses the game motif in 'kira' with the line 'don't know he's Light Yagami playing his dangerous game'#but it makes sense for him to view it as a game! he's a shinigami! the lives of mortals are just a source of entertainment for him!#but y'know what really gets me?#iirc L Light and Ryuk are the ONLY ones that lean into this motif#the closest i remember anyone else getting was Misa + Rem saying 'love makes you break all the rules' in 'mortals and fools'#so they refer to the rules of the 'game'#BUT ONLY IN THE CONTEXT OF BREAKING THEM#L and Light are playing this massive game but for everyone else it's extremely real#real people are dying. and the two smartest characters in the show don't care#even Rem doesn't consider it a game! Kira is using Misa – anything that hurts her is incredibly real to Rem#DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M GETTING AT ??#anyway props to Jack Murphy you wrote some banger lyrics
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i’ve been thinking about the pokémon memes where it’s like playing off of that one quote that’s like ‘truly strong trainers should try to win using their favorites’ and it’s like ‘ok well my favorite is [something blatantly overpowered]’ and it’s got me curious. how many people genuinely love pokémon that also happen to be really strong competitively?
so if you will. pick a favorite pokémon (for any reason! whether it’s cuteness or strength or nostalgia etc. no judgment) then go here https://www.smogon.com/dex/sv/pokemon/ and look it up
(you’ll see something that looks like this. see where it says tier and has some gibberish afterwards? don’t worry if you don’t know what that means but tell me what the letters/words are)
also if there are multiple forms and the distinction matters to you make sure you get the right one lol cuz the tiering can be different
edit: forgot to mention i mean specifically in SV! which is what comes up by default. rip every pokémon that either isn’t in SV (it’ll say ‘national dex’) or used to be better but has since fallen off relative to new pokémon
#pokémon#pokemon#pokeposting#if you want to know what those terms mean#AG stands for anything goes. very few pokémon have ever been in here#the absolute elite. too powerful too broken#Ubers is below that it’s like the normal ban zone where most overpowered pokémon go#OU stands for overused it’s like the ‘standard’ top tier#below that is UU (underused) then RU (rarely used) then ZU (zero used) then PU (this is a pun. pee-yew. because they stink)#LC is little cup which is basically Baby Fight™️ and NFE is not fully evolved so like babies and teenagers basically#and anything with BL (ban list) at the end is like a weird in between state#where they’re too powerful for the tier they were supposed to be in but not good enough for anyone in the tier above them to want to use em#if you’re thinking these are insane ridiculous terms then i agree#slight edit i think i initially got the order of ZU and PU mixed up. so many tiers with negative mean names…#i fixed it in the poll though#that is to say PU is above ZU#and if you’re curious how tiers work. the tier a pokémon is ‘in’ refers to the lowest it can possibly go#but you can use it in any of the higher tiers if you want to (it’s just more likely to get stomped on)#so like if a pokémon is OU that means you can’t use it in UU or RU or NU etc etc#but you can use it in Ubers if you want in addition to OU#most people i believe play in OU bc there’s arguably the greatest game balance#you’re allowed to use powerful pokémon but it isn’t as run wild go crazy no rules as Ubers#i mean even Ubers has rules but. fewer of em#AG has only one rule and that’s ‘you can’t force a standstill endless battle’ lol. otherwise it’s the wild west#OU is popular bc it’s a fine mix of rules that keep the game fair fun and competitive#and pokémon that are powerful and fun to use in battle#but if you have a different style you might like playing in a lower tier where everybody is super weak#*syndrome voice* but if everyone is weak then no one is…#it’s all about scale it’s all relative#edit: KNEW i was forgetting some nuance. some pokémon are stuck in the past aka not available in SV so they’ll say ‘national dex’ oops
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i will never be tired of playing dress up
#anyway finished the set#they’re just doodles#but she’s so important to me#ofmd#our flag means death#stede bonnet#rule 63#ofmd genderbent au#ofmd au#i refer to this as my lesbian au#izzy and ed are my next victims of my dress up game#fem!stede#my art#ofmd lesbain au
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Reminded today that I will have to pick a derby name soon and honestly this feels higher stakes than picking my legal government name did
#open to suggestions i guess!#boat rules apply: puns or references preferable. must be able to be abbreviated to two syllables max for mayday calls/ref calls#i dont yet know what my preferred role in game is so cant commit to jam/block/pivot/nso/ref etc theming
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Uuuuuh an attempt at designing Meursault's mom I guess? She's giving perpetually jaded parisienne and that's all I need from her tbh.
I wonder how she died in LCB. or like. The circumstances. Esp for Meur himself to get in trouble for it. What if she was a big name in N Corp or something...... who knows......
#lcb meursault#limbus company#meursault lcb#I mean in the novel Meursault refers to the fact he spent some of his childhood in Paris so it works#ALSO god I'm so happy we got our first actual mention of Meur's mother in game YES I KNOW IT WAS A ONE OFF LINE#let me latch onto it#to me she's this stern elegant woman#a bit of a workaholic high stakes career woman#a stickler for rules (which she absolutely passed down to her son)
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I'm making my statement now because I've already gotten a comment about it but I HC all of the Bishops as being non-binary with interchangeable pronouns.
Shamura is they/she/he, Kallamar is he/she, Heket is they/she, Leshy is they/he/it, Narinder is he/they
So I will be referring to them by varying pronouns in my art and writing
#Shamura is the only canon nonbinary bishop but welcome to fiction land where canon is flexible and I get to make the rules#so everyone is a flavor of nonbinary with a variety of pronouns#The ones they're referred to by in-game are the pronouns their followers and most scripture is written in for clarity#They all picked a pronoun and ran with it since they're not huge sticklers about it#You tend to lose a lot of the giving a shit about details when you're a God who's ruled for thousands of years#Anyway I am making this post as a sign I can tap repeatedly when people get weird about it and comment#cult of the lamb#cotl
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very compelled by elsters gender both in a transmasc and transfem way bc well elster transmasc lesbian? beautiful wonderful 10/10. she is a robot whose body was made to fit the standards of what people consider a woman to look like, as is the case with most other replikas, so once she starts being treated more like a person of her own instead of just a worker robot, its fun to think of her chafing against it. on the other hand theres elster who was made to look like a woman/her neural pattern is copied from a woman, but is still treated like an object thats only there to do the job. shes referred to by others as 'it' in a dehumanizing way altho not purposely degrading bc they dont consider her a person enough to see this as cruel to her in any way. and slowly she ends up regaining her personhood and a concept of gender that feels right, as much as it can, considering the circumstances
#its complicated right. bc i dont think replikas would consider this much but also idk they are conditioned not to#elster being with ariane who disobeys the rules of what youre Not supposed to do with an elster replika clearly ends with her regaining mor#of a personal identity and willingness to like. make her own choices that arent orders#dont tell me about how this game is not about gender i know. its impossible for me to see a robot character and Not think about gender#especially in this case where theyre so clearly gendered#but still they are almost exclusively referred to as units and replikas and model names#i think falke is the one who actually gets she pronouns in reports? and most of it is by adler who is also a replika#anyway i think its very fun how all these robots are so clearly gendered but also not at the same time#which to me makes the concept of elster choosing to think of herself as a woman also very trans#she is made to look like one she is not meant to Be one#and its hard to say she would think of this bc we rarely get elster think of herself at all#theres two instances i can think of where she refers to herself#txt#signalis#yes u can use it pronouns in a normal not derogatory way but u know thats what was intended in the game
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oh my god this is such a niche post but whatever it's my blog this clocktower game is driving me crazyyyy like everyone is pretty certain it's a vigor game and there's been an organ grinder in play the whole time so they do a little test nomination to see if votes are secret and say "well, organ grinder's still alive" LIKE. unless they've been vigor killed!!!!!! which is what happened!!!! but no good player is even SLIGHTLY considering anything close to that. what's wrong with yall did a year of botc knowledge get knocked out of your head. it's a vigor. the minion absolutely does not need to still be alive. what are you talking about!!!!!!!!
#i feel like sometimes nrb clocktower has this issue#where the most experienced and knowledgeable players are evil#and some quirky little rules thing happens#and the good team gets absolutely screwed because the only people who could work out the puzzle#and tell them what combination of things must have happened. are evil. so they have no reason to clarify things#so the good team is just stuck with a misunderstanding that would give them a chance to win but no one evil is gonna explain it to them#which is frustrating#usually i want evil to win but this game is brutal#'your willy knows' patreon botc for reference#no rolls barred#nrb plays botc
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CORRECT THANK YOU FOR SHARING
#submission#I actually have seen this meme because someone sent it to my supervisor at some point and she showed it to all of us ajdbkajs#working with a bunch of gay autistic math nerds fucking rules lmfao y'all have no idea#one of my bosses is super into sci fi and is also a math teacher and puts star trek and firefly and buffy and hitchhikers guide etc etc#references in EVERYTHING he makes. I took a math class from him once and all of the test questions were about some fuckin show#whenever he runs meetings he asks us questions based on star trek usually. recently in a meeting he asked us to choose the best captain#I'm one of only like 3 people who watches all of this shit so I looove going to meetings when he runs them#bc he'll ask some fuckin question like who's the best star trek captain. and the 3 of us who knows what's going on will just start arguing#while everyone else looks around like what the fuck is going on right now (this one always gets the newbies)#my ALL TIME favorite Jake moment tho was when I was there one night and there were no students so we were all just hanging out#and Jake walks out of his office and he looks kind of annoyed. and he's a big dude like super tall and broad and loud as hell#so I can hear him like mumbling shit all annoyed and I'm like hey Jake what's up? you doin ok?#and he sighed and was like no. the schools internet filter started blocking my FAVORITE board game forum#and now when I have a thought I can't just look it up to see if anyone's said anything about it. and that's like ALL I do. it's so annoying#and I was like Jake maybe that's why they blocked it akddjkansbdjsdbebs#god I love that dude. and this barely mentions my other supervisor who is autistic and pansexual and married to a woman#and both of them foster several kids. Jake has like 10 fuckin kids or smth bc he was fostering a couple of kids and then he got married#and she already had children and then they had a baby together. idk he's got like a whole baseball team they're very cute
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found a gold ring underwater in Spiritfarer and I was like lmao One Ring moment? so I checked the description of the item and
#veesaysthings#lotr references my beloved <3#spiritfarer#this game RULES btw it's so fun and calming
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oct2path has become real.........
#the opening music and visuals are gorgeous as always <3#oh my god they even have 2 versions . one for night and one for day. holy shit ???#oh the night one is so pretty.......#THE MAP IS ALSO REALLY PRETTY......#omg throné hiiiiiii#i knew from the beginning that i was picking her first and finally i can !!!!! amazing#woah woah is that their names written at the bottom of their art ?? is that . a made up language??? WAIT ITS MULTIPLE ?#thats so cool what the hell#i LOVE how much theyre using different camera angles and movement in this hholy shit. i didnt even know i needed this#WOAH HEY WHAT HELLO. NON TRAVELER TEAM MEMBERS????#THERES SO MANY NEW UNIQUE ANIMATIONS.......#hey . pirro. do i know that voice.#THE MUSIC IS STAYING DURING REGULAR ENCOUNTERS.. thats so interesting. i like it for this#oh my god u can change the speed during fights . ohhhh my god#this is so awesome i fucking love this game#U CAN CLIMB THE LADDER !!!!!!!!!!!#throné just being able to knock out ppl as a game mechanic is so funny this rules#wait is throné left handed. hell yeah#HOLY SHIT THE MUSIC . <3#(throné voice) go fuck yourself#THE CITY AT NIGHT IS SO PRETTYYYYY AND THE MUSIC.......#<im probably not gonna shut up abt how good everything looks and sounds but im so serious this game is beautiful#i swear i know pirros voice from somewhere but Where.... who are u.....#damn !! this game is kinda dark as fuck !!!!#!!!!!!!!! ohhhhhh my god the musical references to octo1 are so .evbxjjdhjshjvjsk holy shit this is good#TEMENOS' INTRO . FKVSJDJS#this is such a fun way to do character intros compared to octo1#so they dont follow the sacred flame here (anymore)..? interesting .......#octotag#octopath traveler 2 spoilers
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fandom racism dsmp chewing a hole through my stomach fr
#hey white dsmp fan. why do you refer to some characters lore as 'semi lore' despite it never being that#why do you ignore and delegitimize certain characters so much more than others#why do you portray this character specifically as a violent racist bigot fantasy oppressor against white characters#why do you only portray this specific character as a s/a-er despite them never doing anything close to that at all#all for the angst of a white character#why is whoever you decided is the emotionless brick wall accessory character in this ship suddenly being hced n draw as brown w darker skin#why is this character in your ship suddenly being portrayed as a violent hot dom abuser who's only a prop to get this other character off#wonder why that is 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 (the saw trap activates before i even tell you the rules to the game)#huri.txt#discourse#uwgh i'm so mad my head hurts. whagever i'm gnna go kiss my girlfriend so i'm less mad
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Why is he blue.
Probably for reasons unknown. Maybe he likes blue. Maybe he can change color because he's light or ink or whatever thing. Maybe a kid scribbled a blue pen all over his card. Maybe he just doesn't matter and he never appears in any future chapters.
#my art#art#fan art#doodles#deltarune#rouxls kaard#the actual answer is probably because he isn't part of the original concept art#all the other cards were designed by someone else a long time ago and the colors were blue and green so red was weird#despite it being a good choice as a reference to the word history#yes I know rouxls as in rules but I'm surprised they didn't go with red and also roux sauce was referenced in game
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JOIN THE SLEEPOVER! send in an ask sharing/asking anything you’d like! a funny story, something about love, a confession you need to get out, or even a spooky one for this year’s halloween spirit! 🫶🏻✨🤐👻
tag is: #sleepover! <- you may block it or use it as reference for tracking answered asks!
#open for sleepover asks!#please be mindful of my rules in my byf! they still apply!#but this is exciting hehe can’t wait to hear your stories this time!!! 🫶🏻#responses might be slow bc i’ll probably queue them so they don’t clog the dash!!! but just keep sending 🫶🏻#sleepover!#<- this is the tag hehe you can block it/use it for reference!#if you go off anon high chances are you wont be notified of me responding to it! because of my shadowban#so just search ur url if ever!#ask game
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watching a new outer wilds analysis and trying very hard to not get silly mad at inaccuracies in the video
#wind howls#encyclopedic knowledge of outer wilds in my brain.#its especially silly when it comes to pronouns bc most people who play the game will use the wrong pronouns for the characters but#its even sillier when people try to use they/them on characters who explicitly have different pronouns used on them#though i can recognize that how i think is silly. nobody in this game follows human gender presentation rules bc they are not human#so in a way it is interesting to see how people will refer to some characters with a specific set of pronouns#based on appearance or dialogue. i find it very interesting and im trying to keep it to the interesting level#bc otherwise i get annoyed. but thats a me problem bc this game is my favourite in the whole wide world
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The Case of HNL & Russia
So, let’s talk about the case of locations in the manifestation theory. Starting with the lab. In terms of Mike's first DM book, we have two cases in which we see it being used. This is unusual because most of the DM books, including Mike's second one, pop up once never to be seen or heard from again.
Each time we get to see this one being read from it seems to be in relation to Hawkins National Laboratory, but specifically the interior. We see it directly after the scientist runs from the demogorgon which leads into Mike eventually introducing the demogorgon to the campaign.
{S1 E1 at roughly 0:00-3:00}
We also see Dustin read from it. While Dustin is reading, we get visuals of Hopper in HNL walking towards the gate.
{S1 E5 at roughly 6:14-7:22}
It seems like they want us to have a good look at the building and stuff on the cover, though, because there is a very nice shot of the cover. There's a building on it which is unusual because none of the other books, that we can see, have buildings on them.
There is also a small drawing of the cardinal directions, another interesting point when you consider what the boys tried to use to find the gate in lab in the first place. The last time we see the book is the last time it's reasonable to show us the interior of HNL. By the end of the season when Mike is sporting a new DM book the role of HNL has been completed so we don't need to see it anymore and in season two there is no DnD.
Now Russia, said in a very "now, you!" fashion lol. The entire Russia subplot is strange because even thinking about it for longer than a second causes the entire illusion of Russian counterintelligence invades Hawkins to fall apart.
The Russians come to Nowhere, Indiana smack in the middle of a new attraction at Hawkins, somewhere insanely overpopulated because of how new it is, and set up camp. They're in the lower levels trying to breach the gate. Yeah, okay.
Their super-secret code is also Planck's constant, a physics constant. Something Suzie points out that Dustin should already know.
The super-secret code to the top-secret Russian base is a constant that a reasonably nerdy kid who happens to be interested in physics would know. Okay. That doesn't sound like the work of multiple intelligent grown adults, but it does sound like the work of an intelligent child.
There's also a part of the Russian code about China that directly leads to a restaurant.
The only other time I can recall food, and something related to China coming up is during the Wheeler dinner scene in season one.
The Wheeler's also bring Russia as a negative force a few times prior to season three.
There's also the terminator guy. We see this man kill someone in cold blood in the first episode, but his behavior doesn't line up and have we ever figured out what he wanted with Hopper?
As far as I know, this guy saw Hopper make a scene at Enzo's and got pissed and that was enough to spark his anger? It really doesn't make sense.
(Hopper’s dialogue also being similar to the justification he used as to how he could cover up murdering Mike, but hey-)
What's interesting about him is that he seems like he was plucked straight out of a movie and seems to hate Hopper for little to no reason. He also doesn't sound like an adult. His dialogue is very childish and seems pretty reflective of the Mike-Hopper threat in the car situation.
For both locations the gates are also being operated in a lower level, basement-like area as well.
It's all very easy to poke a hole into.
#case files#the case of locations#the case of hnl#the case of russia#manifestation theory#there's more too like el not liking DnD but choosing DnD to represent what's happening#the thing with the guns not working only being logical and allowing for things like hopper's sword to work making sense under game rules#we saw soldiers take aim at the russian demogorgon and FAIL only for hop's sword slice to work#it also explains mike's knowledge of things if he's literally just drawing on information from his game#faux locations#time stamps for certain places so that you guys can reference on your own if you want
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