#the characters you chose are so true

[heybiji]

double life

[villainvirus]

turn your back / hello world

[softpine]

i like how we all collectively agreed that covid does not exist in any of our sims stories

[erytherion]

Reading the webtoon and…

Does this imply that Kim Dokja also tried to write a questionnaire for her to fill in since she wouldn’t speak to him, that either he 1) never gave her in the end (especially if he couldn’t find her after she was released) or 2) gave it to her and she STILL refused to answer?

Because that is so so so so awful. It was already bad but if he tried so many ways to get her to speak and she still gave him no response, regardless of her reasoning… isn’t that still directly choosing to cut herself fully out of his life? Why in the hell did she lie for his sake and allow him to visit her if she wanted to never speak to him again?

I know everyone claims Kim Dokja is just like her in sacrificing himself for loved ones, but at least he tries his best to stay with them and to keep them in his life. He still chooses sacrifice, but it’s not because he intends to never return. He always returns (even if much later than planned).

The only time this differs is with 51%, when he STILL tried his best to stay with them - at least as much as he could.

I sometimes like Lee Sookyung, but I am mostly still SO mad at her for completely ignoring her child since he was 8 years old. Especially when he must have looked like shit any number of times from being mistreated and bullied by family, friends, army, employers.

But maybe that’s just the fragment in me being eternally pissed with her. She DOES love him, but like he says in the webtoon in this chapter - maybe such truths are painful enough to be false anyways, because they’re just SUCH bullshit. That’s not how affection should work, if you actually care about someone and want them to be happy.

[dreadful-luck]

GGS TEAM PAST!!!

[cluepoke-archive]

Don't underestimate the power of an aroace autistic ignoring whole pieces of plot and story in books as a kid

[jackass-jones]

Time for me to be completely changed as a person! *just watched falsettos*

[m00ngbin]

Something that drives me fucking insane is when zionists insist that Palestine can't be a country because "ohhh but- but they (Palestinians) don't even have the pronunciation for P in their language. 🥺 They can't say their own name, ohhhh ohhhhhh it can't be real." Are you fucking stupid. You're blatantly trying to erase the existence of a country and people using a fact that doesn't actually have any real base. You know that different languages have different pronunciations for different letters right? J in Spanish and J in English sound completely different. And you know that people native to a country usually have a different name for their country right? Like people in China aren't calling China China, I'm like 90% sure they usually call it Zhongguo. People in other places aren't saying like United States of America, even in the other Latin based languages. Spanish speaking countries say Los Estados Unidos, and that's pretty different even though SPANISH ONE OF THE CLOSEST LANGUAGES TO ENGLISH. LOOKING YOU DEEP IN YOUR DISGUSTING FUCKING EYES ARE YOU STUPID

[fellhellion]

as a Rebecca enjoyer I would really like to see some options in book 4 digging into how little has changed if your detective is seeking or ambivalent to reconciliation, or the absence of apologies. As well as detectives who aren’t seeking/rejecting reconciliation but Rebecca cannot let go of anyways. Especially since we’ve now had one of the few times, according to the detective’s memory, Rebecca explicitly expressing regret for her actions.

[redhotarsenic]

A Cruel Mockery Of Taxidermy

[corpocyborg]

Just started a full renegade play through and god some of these choices remind me why I normally play renegon. It’s not the immoral choices that bother me, it’s the inconsistency. Sometimes you come off as a no-nonsense hardass willing to do whatever it takes to get a job done and other times you just come off like a raging psychopath. Full paragon is generally way more consistent with their characterization but full renegade can’t decide if they’re willing to make harsh decisions for a greater principle or if they’re sadistic, if they’re reckless or if they have a stick up their butt, if they’re strong and silent or whiny and accusatory, etc. And this could potentially work if the hypocrisy was acknowledged and incorporated into the story as a character flaw, but half the scenes feel like you’re just terrorizing people and they’re just laying down and taking it. To be fair, they get a lot better about this in later games, but I wish the characterization was more consistent and I wish there were more realistic reactions to renegade behavior. Maybe it’s because game designers know most people don’t do those kinds of routes and they’re worried that if they had genuine consequences for bad behavior, even less people would do it, but in my opinion, that type of narrative works a lot better when it feels like there’s actual stakes and also rationale for the behavior. There’s several distinct times where renegade choices could have easily been presented as “sacrifice for the greater good” or something along those lines, but for whatever reason they put in dialogue where you’re just being an asshole instead. Killing the rachni queen, for example. The base idea is good. You’re unsure if you can truly trust her. Are you mercifully saving a benevolent creature or is it fooling you and you’re unleashing a terror onto the world? That’s a great idea, but the dialogue doesn’t present it right. And then there’s too many times where the renegade decision just seems completely illogical. Like on Feros, what reason do you have to kill the colonists instead of incapacitate them? It’s just as easy to incapacitate them, there is no loss to it, so if you still chose to kill them, you just come off as irrational and totally careless.  The narrative as a whole pushes the whole “renegade shep is ruthless but gets the job done” depiction, but they just don’t actually present it consistently. Which, again, could work if it was played off as Shepard making excuses for their behavior or believing they’re doing the right thing but just going too far due to losing sight of the bigger picture or something like that, but the inconsistency doesn’t come off as an intentional character flaw of hypocrisy, it just comes off as inconsistent writing. I know they’re less motivated to write that story well because it is so much less popular for the average player, but maybe it would be more popular if they wrote it better. Don’t get me wrong, I love renegade Shepard, just... the one that I’ve created in my head and pieced together from the well-written parts of renegade dialogue. Or more like the one that the narrative promises but doesn’t consistently deliver.

[exuberantoctopus]

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[noburden]

ULTRA RARE IMAGES OF LUCY DACUS !!!!!!! never been seen before because i took them . i miss ur wife so bad rn.

OH MY GOD ULTRA RARE !!!! SHES SO BEAUTIFUL

[y2kbugs-moved]

Getting tired of that post about Viktor’s appearance to be honest, it was never very well worded in the first place and it might come off as weird idk

[fool-bois]

“humans are inherently selfish” well uh- “no! humans are taught to be selfish! humans are inherently caring” well actually... maybe its both??? have you considered that selfishness is the thing that keeps you alive and caring about those around you is the reason to keep on living?

[segasister]

Hazbin Hotel I’m looking at you…!

genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun with (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a naughty seagull? do they get buried in the sand?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back