#vaguely spoilery

[moku-youbi]

Fallout is seriously almost everything I could ever dream of or hope for out of an adaptation to my all time favourite video game series, and the game that was my gateway to gaming. It captures the soul of the games in a way that is downright astonishing at times, to the point that I felt I was playing the game at many points. Even hating Maximus felt appropriate, given how I feel about the Brotherhood of the Steel (fuck those assholes fr, fr). Titus the absolute tool, I'm over here like:

The way he's freakin' out, I'm like oh shit, it's a Deathclaw. Nope, just a yao guai. And you're in POWER ARMOUR, douchebag. You don't deserve it, that much is true. A little sad we didn't see Mirelurks, but that gulper was a thing of real beauty. My new favourite monster, sorry Cazadors!

Like dear GOD the vaults were so beautifully done. If I could walk through that set I would *cry* it's so real and perfect--the furniture! the wallpaper! the appliances! the SPECIAL skills! (Lucy, girl, let's talk about your stats tho babe). Also just dying thinking of what the antis are gonna say about all the incest and laughing my ass off. They captured Vault-Tech in all it's bastard glory. The entire time I'm on the edge of my seat like omg, what's it gonna be, what's it gonna be??

And the wasteland? All the background characters and sets--chicken fucker! Barv! Dale! The water filter guy was pure fucking genius. RED ROCKET??? GORGEOUS. NEW VEGAS??? Are we gonna see HOUSE??? (though sadly without Rene Auberjonois to play him, legit heart-breaking). and DOGMEAT, MY LOVE!!!! She is the *best girl*

And don't even get me started on the food, I was about to start crying. Do you know how long I've wanted to try blamco mac n cheese or YumYum devilled eggs (my wife was like unrefrigerated eggs wtf and I'm like shut your mouth I KNOW they're delicious, I KNOW IT IN MY SOUL)? To drink a nuka cola? To try Fancy Lads Snack Cakes? And it was all there on the screen looking so real!

And the pip boys and computers!! OMG, every time someone used their pip boy, or when they pulled up the records, and the hacking scene? I was like LET ME DO THIS, I AM SO GOOD AT THIS MINIGAME PLS!!!!

Coop doing his thumbs up???

Beautiful. Magnificent. Absolute Perfection, except...

WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THE COMPHET??? From a game that was way ahead of its time with queer characters and allowing you to romance either gender regardless of player gender, and even offering perks related to being queer, and where romance isn't the focus anyway--like sure, you can woo most of your companions, but that's really only if you want to, and definitely not the point. So why shoehorn this AWFUL romance subplot into something that was truly perfect without it?? It made me distinctly unhappy at several points because it was so shoehorned and unnatural. And like, them boning? Okay, casual sex is a thing in the fallout verse. But making it this love story that made NO SENSE and wasn't developed at all, and relied on the ridiculous boy and girl make eye contact, so obviously they fall in love trope is so fucking lame. Lucy has more chemistry with Coop. She had more chemistry with HER OWN COUSIN. Come *on*.

Let's talk, Nolan.

[luifaro]

playing that in stars and time game everyone's been talking about and idk why but i just don't trust loop like i can't shake the feeling that they have ulterior motives. i think it's just paranoia from flowey though this is like the second time some weird creature was able to remember everything despite time loop shenanigans and the first one i know of was definitely evil.

UPDATE: taking all the smiles i'm getting in the replies as a sign they ARE evil. thanks for the help gang!

[almalex24]

its my account and i choose what i draw (based off of this)

[felassan]

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[auncyen]

insertdisc5's comment about Sadnesses existing previously and being more prevalent during times of strife makes me wonder if Vaugardian culture is as welcoming as it is in part because of some troubled times in its history. Maybe war, maybe famine, either way just something generated a lot of Sadnesses that started causing more trouble and after getting the immediate danger under control they started trying to figure out procedures to deal with Sadnesses and prevent them from starting in the first place--taking note of mental health issues, being welcoming to people so they don't feel isolated, etc. The Change religion definitely also plays into the open nature (when you're encouraged to Change often, why sweat how other people personally identify?) but yeah just. the Sadnesses being a phenomenon that existed even before the King just tickles my brain about how that would affect the world's history, and Vaugarde is noted as being unusually welcoming...maybe they've seen there are unpleasant consequences when people feel they have no place to go.

[phantomrose96]

Just watched Spiderverse. First time in a long time that a twist had my jaw literally on the floor

[chipper-smol]

... Siffrin would really hate the voidfish from The Adventure Zone

[thewizardofozwel]

At first I tried to tone down the haunted vibes I was bringing to the function to see my very dear long lost cousin Tabitha but I figured after we shared in the intimate cousin bonding of being burdened by a dark power lingering over us through the sins of our bloodline (having a seizure simultaneously) she could handle my other worldly observations.

[i-heart-hxh]

Okay, I will say one thing quickly before I get back to work: I'm reassured by how many people (and particularly, people with a good grasp of the situation/Togashi's writing) see an element of satire/parody in Ending D, and aren't taking it seriously.

I've felt all along that it's hard to take seriously or accept as an ending because it's so generic, unsatisfying, and un-Togashi-like, so seeing that theme over and over again in other analysis and comments about it helps reinforce that sense. Togashi himself can be very sarcastic/tongue-in-cheek in interviews and such, so I don't think it's out of character at all for him for him to drop something like this that people are going to discuss a ton, and meanwhile tantalize everyone with hints of what he's actually considering.

With how HxH constantly subverts and riffs on common shounen tropes, there's something appropriate about one of his rejected endings being a parody of a typical shounen ending, with elements that are clearly unsatisfying to people who are paying close attention to his writing.

As I said in another post, I'm also sure it's intended to generate buzz for Puzzle (Togashi Exhibition) because that just started up again very recently.

[filurig]

some letters between arvo and folke, taking place post-pareidolia, during arvo's artistic exploration i posted a little about earlier...

[sucrecube9]

TODAYS TMAGP EPISODE. TODAYS EPISOOOOOODE *SQUEALS GIGGLES BURIES MY FACE IN MY PILLOW AND KICKS MY LEGS*

[lots-o-doodles]

On the brink of Madness Reason left my weary soul I keep walking on but I feel alone And no one knows the darkness 'till you meet him in the day He'll steal your lies, he'll run away

(Artist ramblings under the cut.)

Howdy! This is a rework of a comic that I made in the late summer of last year all in one evening in a hyperfocused fugue state because I am totally normal about Trigun (and Vashwood)... Then me and the friend that gave me the Vashwood brainrot decided we were going to make our own little Vashwood zine and I definitely wanted to come back to this to see if could improve upon it. The original lives here if you want to take a peek.

I feel like I've grown a bit in a couple of months and I'm itching to draw some more Vashwood stuff for our little zine as a kind of self-indulgent project. Shout out to Lornaka and Llama for letting me pester them for critique and naturally to lotldraws for my Trigun obsession and fellow Vashwood collaborator.

[lelianasbong]

not super spoilery or bioware critical but putting it under a cut in case. just musing about world states in veilguard and working with - rather than against - my persnickety brain

now that world states no longer exist as such (for veilguard specifically, afaik the keep is still functional for inquisition) (aside from who the inquisitor boned and whether they Like or Dislike solas) i've been trying to let go of that continued/theme-y world state framework in my head.

i AM enjoying myself and don't want to be overly negative, to be clear. just trying to adjust my expectations accordingly so i can invest in this story properly without getting stuck on whether it "fits" a certain world state or not/is in line with whatever theme i've decided ties them together (another reason I keep restarting asfgkfjfks)

[the-lightless-flame]

i love celia so much shes amazing but one note. i need her to have gay tension w gwen Right Now so i can complete the gwendolyn bouchard multishipping trifecta

[mothocean]

I don't want to spoil anything but. Next tmagp ep is a fun one

[naomiknight-17]

I am so hype about the next couple of episodes of Dungeon Meshi

I'm gonna be doing fucking backflips and injuring myself about it I am just!!! Insane about it!!!!!!!!