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Normalize people not wanting to be miserable anymore as a solid motivation, and not an immoral, dishonorable, weak one.
#when it comes at the expanse of others#the problem is that it has come at the expanse of others#not the motivation itself#RECOGNISE this#but some are like:#the ambitious character:*breathes*#them*eyes shooting lasers*: THEY'RE BREATHING AMBITIOUSLY! THEY'RE JUST DOING IT TO GAIN POWER & MONEY! EVIL!#the majority of population look for jobs. go to work. work towards promotions. accept promotions. leave jobs for better opportunities.#because everybody wants to improve the quality of their life. it's natural. are we all evil?#and stop glorifying martyr complex while you're at it#jin guangyao#mu qing#shang qinghua#shi mei#meng yao#Rong jiu#mxtx#mdzs#tgcf#svsss#cql#the untamed#mo dao zu shi#scum villain's self saving system#chen qing ling#hob#heaven official's blessing#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#tgod#shi mingjing
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#galarian slowpoke#picture this. this was the first pokĆ©mon revealed from the new DLCs for pokĆ©mon sword and shield. the pokĆ©mon company#up until this pointā has never done DLC for a pokĆ©mon game before. youā having been jaded by shitty DLCs for other games in the past#now have a distaste for the phraseā and imagine this can't be good. thenā in their teaser for the new DLCā they add a little event#into the game where they reveal one of the new pokĆ©mon that is going to be added in the DLC#and it is a galarian form. that is identical to the original pokĆ©mon. but with a yellow head#are you imagining it. now how fucking disappointed are you. how little faith do you have in that DLC that it's going to be as good as it wa#for the most partā the pokĆ©mon company has demonstrated that they do absolutely excellent DLCs. proper expansions#basically an entire other game on top of the game you already have. and they typically take up the release cycle of a full game#scarlet/violet's especially. WONDERFUL dlc. i never really properly finished the crown tundra just because i was so late to the party#because i avoided buying the dlc for so long because of this experience that i've just described to you#that by the time i bought it and played itā it was just because SV had been announced and i wanted more pokĆ©mon to tide me over#and i never finished it. one of these daysā i'd like to go back and finish itā but i'm playing through pokĆ©mon xd gale of darkness right no#and i prefer to play. one game at a time. and i don't know when i'll ever really get back to it#or if i'll ever get back to it! 'cause without resetting my save file all the way i'll just have to Remember what it is that already happen#which i'm. notoriously bad at when it comes to coming back to games that i haven't played in a while#plus i know sv is like shitty performance or whatever but the movement in that game is so much better#it feels so much more freeing than going back to gen 8 where you can still just. run. and that's it#i know nobody likes scarlet/violet but i still. like it. performance aside. like yes the performance is terrible but i still had a great#time with it. i just praised its DLC for fuck's sake! its DLC was fuckin wonderful! it has kieran in it so it like can't be bad
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Honestly Ben 10 is probably one of the most based science fiction series out there by sheer virtue of it having the balls to showcase any alien concept it wanted to no matter how ridiculous, and whenever someone is like āthereās no way in Hell that could ever be scientifically feasibleā, it dared to look them in the eyes and go āYeah, well, this is a world where magic and superpowered mutants also exist. What are you gonna do? Cry about it? You grown ass adult whoās expecting scientific feasibility out of a cartoon meant to sell toys to preteen boys that has lore so inconsistent itās almost impossible to tell whatās canon and whatās non-canon? LMAO loser.ā
I mean OS had it all- obviously aliens but not only that, at minimum 10 of them; mutants in daily life across at least America, no doubt in other places too; magic, albeit one without a system beyond āthereās a spellbook and some charmsā. The shift to purely alien in AF makes the wonderful nonsense sci-fi stuff into frustrating logic trees of āhow does xenobiology get this powerfulā which I had definitely fallen into. Ben 10 is unabashedly science fantasy, so why not go the full fantasy and bring back mutants and magic, haha!
Admittedly a good implementation of magic in a series tends to follow a magic system, which Iām not especially great at coming up with, especially in comparison to speculative biology which come with pre-established rules. But hey, I donāt exactly expect it to be fleshed out, at least not as well as the alien aspect of Ben 10; even then, thereās only so much fleshed out, itās to tease us into making lore for it lmao-
To be fair though, Ben 10 itself had to whack itself on the cheek in order to be reminded of its magic and especially mutant parts, which unfortunately in the latter case was central to major retcons soā¦
#ask#anonymous#ben 10#my favourite mutant characters that come to mind when i say āmutants in daily lifeā in os#are gatorboy and porcupine- from ready to rumble#you can see a lot of mutants there and how fourarms- visibly an alien- doesnāt look out of place#the lore implications alone- a mutant wrestling ring with monetary winnings- are enough to entice fan expansions#then that mutant rep- even if only in the background- was lost to the tides of af making everything exclusively alien#magic being taken away because 1) anodites but also 2) charmcaster and hex and others came from ledgerdomain#and thus are technically alien to this dimension- or whatever plain of existence ledgerdomain exists on#the only ones who canonically use magic are those connect to- reside within- or holding something from ledgerdomain#which kind of makes it exclusively alien in a way thatās kinda i guess radioactive? not the word#sorry i shouldnāt say only- the others are mr jingles santaās elf- sir george holding an apparent galvan crafted magic sword (no thanks)-#or ben 10000 who learnt magic from gwen but is also technically part anodite in the same way gwen is#to note on ascalon- sure maybe azmuthās creation of it and the subsequent destruction of the incursean homeworld got him motivated to#make and save life rather than destroy and warp it#but come on a sword? a magic sword? like seriously azmuth your ass did not make that#i bet the omnitrix was actually made for the intent to fix malware but azmuthās isolation and general grievances with the universe#ultimately made it appear he was abandoning his suffering (son) creation to fuck off and mope#heās already an asshole that fits more than him making a bloody magic sword for ascalonās sake#it could simply be a magic sword from the incurseans that had been used to destroy their planeg#i mean milleous seemed to think the annihilarrgh was a viable persuasion technique despite the fact if activated it would destroy everything#including the very fleets he would clearly be much more interested in expanding rather than erasinb#it fits the INCERSEANS to destroy their planet with a powerful magic sword- let aliens have magic
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i cannot be normal about them because the game will not allow me to be normal about them
#it's the way they look at each other#it's the way the camera goes to fiver everytime that line about a dream from g'raha's youth comes up#it's the way he kept talking about following fiver when he was talking about following his heart#fel's ffxiv#oc: fiver#shadowbringers lb#waughaaghghghgh the ends of the expansions always fuck me up#everyone's so happy#and then i know endwalker's coming sjkdfl;ng
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I finally saw the mean girls musical (the movie one) I have so many fucking thoughts oh my god
#thoughts#oni talks#mean girls 2024#I think I may be the only person to kind of like it? like donāt get me wrong it is kinda ROUGH but it has so much potential and thereās bits#and pieces that I actually really enjoy or wish they had more of or just aahh#Iāve been nonstop thinking about the ideal version in my head like thereās so much potential obviously Iām biased by like a lot#since for one I know I tend to like stuff other people hate or donāt like but for two this sequel was weirdly way more relatable so maybe#Iām just projecting from my own personal experiences but Idc the POTENTIAL THERES SO MUCH ID WANNA DO INSTEAD#like thereās so many little details and characterizations that I wish was expanded on or fleshed out and itās just like it feels like either#half baked or that itās gone through too many edits itās like itās scared to exist?? like thereās some differences I love and wish they lol#leaned into but itās like it was terrified to be too different? or like they were rushing the end especially#like in my ideal form itās a tv show coz I think they honestly have enough that could be genuinely expanded in a way more interesting way#via that format probably not like a super extended series like you COULD but youād definitely need more expansion but I could see the potent#but like idk one SOLID musical season with expanded character story and not like one of those rush cram shows like a good solid one#like Reginaās characterization is so fascinating but also feels like slightly off and like they couldāve leaned way more into things?#like I think keeping Regina as a closeted lesbian gives the greatest potential and interest for an expanded story#like I loved maybe the first half of the movie the most like that one song she sang to manipulate Aaron would work so much more perfectly if#sheās singing it about/to Cady? I also think in my ideal brain an cool flashback episode for Janis and Regina would be so cool coz thereās#so much you could flesh out in a flashback than you could in a retelling which while I do like the retelling since it lets you imagine thing#I just! potential! I also want more of them interacting and I do think changing Janis to be a lesbian works if they leaned more into it?#I also think in my ideal form janis would have more comeuppance or acknowledgement of her shit? I also think an arc of Regina coming out#like one thing they missed from the original is Regina playing soccer at the end & I think they could hint more towards that and maybe lean#more into her at home life in an expanded story way coz her mom is clearly likeā¦ yikes. granted maybe some of my views on the movie are too#biased by personal experience but like the way she snaps at her mom usually in my experience isnāt out of nowhere? like parents behind#closed doors. or frustrations with what her mom has clearly been putting on her the way she tells her mom not to talk about her body is very#like idk a lot of the characters in this version feel more real to me bc they act really similar to people I know irl so the expanded story#could be cool. another one that in my ideal brain would have more is Gretchen and especially her relationships with Regina as well as with#that one guy and her parents I wanna see more of how that works and her arc to feel more meaningful when she dumps him & mentions family#also as much as I didnāt care much for the straight plot stuff thereās 100% missed potential there that I could see in the differences like#iirc in the original itās regular algebra not AP calc which I think couldāve been used as an interesting characterization opportunity for
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resisting the urge to liveblog my sample ballot and dox myself
#not actually. but I am suppressing more politicsposting because I know everyone on here has heard anything I would say a million other times#from the infinite expanse that is the internet. and you've already made up your mind one way or another#(especially when it comes to us politics lol. insanely overrepresented anyway I'm not putting more of that on people's dash)#(besides these last couple venty ones)
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it always amazes me how ame and kronii rarely ever collab and they don't have as good of a chemistry as they have w other talents, but the fanart and lore that the fans made for them is so plentiful that we dont even notice it
#not that its a bad thing ame is just conscious about her outbursts when w others and kronii just doesnt fuck around w lore#but it always funny to me how the content just writes itself by simply having common themes like time-travel#which is a fantastic concept btw a detective that stole a valuable watch from the time god to time travel???? give me it. all of it.#its like that one meme where en's lore is so expansive and hardcore meanwhile the actual streamers are the chillest gang uve ever seen#its amazing what fans can come up tbh that ina v myth is still god-tier fan content#what kronii and ame have is the exact opposite of what mumei and gura has HSDJKGHKJSDGHHSDG#bleerambles#holoen#hololive english
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collecting school of dragons screenshots before it dies
#httyd#school of dragons#I have come to love this janky game#I'm frantically doing all the expansions before it all goes poof#had fun on the leviathan one when the floor was deleted in one part of the jungle maze#and it was like 'follow the krayfin! :)'#and it was the most difficult video game quest I have ever been on. as I tried to guess which bits of floor were real#and which would drop me into the water and make me start over#what a game#gonna miss my sweet baby hobgobbler#her name is Lundpatter and she is the best creature ever made#my nadder is named Scrawlgrim#and I've got like 60 other dragons that I went kind of crazy buying and hatching when they discounted everything#but they don't fit into a tumblr post
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my art is not in the game yet but u should still go check out the browser version of The Zone do it
#bakuspecial#the zone rpg#updated caps from my pieces. bc I'm on the last piece now#gonna miss this gig when its done... its been really good for my art#would be more cool if it landed outside of right before lunar new year but thats not in control of me or the client#and I wouldve been a fool to not take the job. cmon#the browser game is the core pack and my art is for expansion characters which is why its not in the browser game#but the art already in the game slaps mad shit. and also its free to play! and also fucked up and evil! what more could u want from a ttrpg#hope I'll be able to come into the new year with this securely under my belt. would genuinely be huge for me and I would love it#that said. I have fry food duty today lol. for Ć“ng cĆ“ng rites#its lunar 23rd tomorrow... tįŗæt's coming way too soon#man. man#see u on the other side lads. play the game. enjoy it perhaps. have good time most important of all
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the most dangerous game: the sims 4
#a butterfly obsesses#you start by making a character and when you come to you've lost a week and your sim has maxed out his knitting skill#okay I only lost a couple days#but my eyes are worn out so I need to stop#but then how will the other sim make it to the top of her career and achieve her dreams#my worst mistake was buying the pets expansion pack#my sims adopted a stray cat#her name is angel sometimes she gets the zoomies and she hides under the couch when people knock on the door#and she's perfect#I should be scolding her when she jumps on the counters but I don't want to
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I feel like people tend to idealize people staying together after one of them comes out as trans, but itās also totally fine for people to break up, you know? It doesnāt mean they donāt love each other or that the other partner is transphobic. Sometimes itās really just for the best.
I donāt think āstaying togetherā should even be treated as like, the obvious goal if someone comes out. Sometimes the trans person in question wants to just start over, regardless of whether or not their partner would potentially be down for their transition. Itās not inherently bad that a romantic relationship should end when someoneās going through a major change. Thatās normal even.
For the people who do stay together and are happier for it thatās great! But people talk that scenario up a lot, like itās the right thing to do, like oh if you were a good person your partner coming out would never lead to a breakupā¦ But life doesnāt really work like that?? Relationships and attraction are complicated. āGender is fluidā and āsexuality is fluidā arenāt meant to set fluidity as the one and only standard. Those statements arenāt relatable for a lot of people. And also, sometimes being āfluidā means being willing to let things end. To allow change to take you from one place to another, without holding on to what you had previously.
#I also feel like sometimes.#the āgender/sexuality is fluid! (x) is whatever it means to you! people#are the same ones who then get mad when Your personal definition doesnāt match theirs.#āthereās no one right definition!ā āokay. well to me it means (x).ā āumm thatās wrong actuallyā#like is your ideology actually that freeing/expansive if it cuts out all the people who feel differently??#anyway yeah. itās normal for people to break up if one of them comes out/transitions and it doesnāt mean the other partner is like.#a bad person.
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the return to ff14 might be in my future
#once it comes out on xbox and me and kiki can play#i know i have 3 characters but i might start another when that time comes#which is like march or something#i only have the super basic base game so i hope i can make another character :(#the one i want to make wont happen bc that means getting the expansion and ya girl has other things to buy when i have money so
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the sims 4 has so many systems because theres so many fucking expansion packs and NONE of them mesh well or interlock in ways that are satisfying or deep. Half the time they straight up contradict each other, the other time they end up completely redundant. Modders do their best but they can't fix whats broken underneath. ARGH
#i want to analyze this because the sims 2 had so many systems that interlocked in satisfying ways#why is the sims 4 failing to do that?#Managing multiple systems is the name of the game#so when these expansion packs stack new ones on top of each other and they're this poorly thought out#like what sims 2 needs is more tightly written code and better customization stuff#(better fat meshes more hair colors etc)#Sims 4 needs a total UI redesign and gameplay overhaul#its just so restrictive when it comes to gameplay#ahhhhhhh i hate this game#it would be so good if it was good
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you guys dont understand how much splatoon means to me. you will never understand
#will ALWAYS preach it has some of the best worldbuilding in anything i've ever fucking seen#especially in a video game. and ESPECIALLY a video game which isnt purely story-focused#splatoon's world feels so PAINFULLY fucking real its hard to even describe. the level of detail when it comes to LITERALLY everything#is insane. and thats only amplified when you're someone who's been playing it for a long time and has seen this world change in real time#i will always adore how time passes the same in splatoon's world as it does in real life. however long it's been since the last game came#out - thats how long its been in splatoon's world! characters are constantly changing and doing new things and taking on new roles#AND of course. the final splatfests making it so player input has a direct and pivotal effect on the setting and plot of the next game.#SO fucking cool and insane. like what other piece of media is like that#because of things like that and the worldbuilding and everything i also think that splatoon has one of the most seamless transitions#between singleplayer and multiplayer modes. a lot of times in games esp with stories those modes feel very disconnected#but in splatoon things that you do in singleplayer modes have an actual EFFECT on the world of multiplayer#i will never forget. how cool it felt when octo expansion came out and suddenly octolings started popping up in multiplayer#because in the irl sense. of course they were! people were beating that singleplayer mode and unlocking the ability to play as octolings#in multiplayer. but in-universe THIS IS ACTUALLY WHATS HAPPENING!!!! after your agent 8 escapes more octolings follow in their footsteps#and it is an actual noticeable cultural shift in the world of splatoon with it being talked about on the news and stuff#and this story of octolings coming to the surface and integrating into inkling society works perfectly because its not just something#you're hearing about. you are actually seeing IN REAL TIME octolings start to populate the city and matches because REAL PLAYERS are#playing as them. fitting perfectly into that narrative being created. its soooooo fucking good#anyways sorry i just love splatoon so much and i love talking about why its incredible#serena.txt
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and also while iām here! iām also having many natine thoughts as well because not only did khadgar show up within the first five minutes of dragonflight, but so did lorāthemar
#txt#ch: natine sunstalker#like ok i know no one knows the expansive dramatic natine x lor'themar lore i have in my head#but essentially they were together for years but separated when natine refused to break her loyalty to sylvanas back in bfa#and after sylvanas went all Evil Lady natine fled the horde in shame - for having essentially betrayed her people#and also found out she was pregnant with lor'themar's child during this time which was! a lot!#and so natine essentially fled to the broken isles where she was still revered as a highlord and had a whole temple of loyal priestesses#and she had faylin and hid the fact that lor'themar had a daughter from him for Years which was honestly kind of terrible of her#the fact that she was in the broken isles and spent some time slipping into dalaran meant her and khadgar kept in close contact#so him being the one to bring news about the threat in dragonflight gives me the Perfect opportunity to drag natine back into things#she travels with khadgar to ogrimmar after he convinces her that they need her help#fayin would be like 5 ish so she's probably not with natine#which is in hindsight a good thing because natine comes face to face with lor'themar for the first time in years#and he still loves her so much but also hates her for turning her back on their people and him#they were married! they were happy! she was the regent lady of silvermoon!#and even with the years and trauma and hatred they both just stand there staring at each other for a moment#before khadgar awkwardly interjects and natine snaps herself out of it and turns her back on lor'themar (again)#idk if he even knows that faylin exists at this point#rommath for sure knows she does but i like to think he and natine met a few times and he promised to keep her secret#for faylin's safety as much as natine's sanity#khadgar of course knows but he manages to keep his mouth shut about it#i haven't thought about them in so long but the drama and pain of it all is just so so so good#natine x lor'themar#for posterity even though they're essentially divorced at this point ahjsfgadhsf#oh also i'm just ignoring the lor'themar and thalyssra content sorry#pregnancy tw#idk its very briefly mentioned
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I need wow to like. Let me turn expansions on
#not like chromie time tho#let me play from the beginning#let me play 1-60 like classic is now#play endgame for however long I want grind rep and whatever#then I turn on burning crusade#play 60-70 same deal as long as I want to#then wrath and cata and whatever until I catch up#IF I ever caught up#maybe turning on an expansion is like a permanent choice so people arenāt hopping around#but I am feeling v overwhelmed coming back to retail rn and also fomo lmao#was hoping I could like level through shadowlands and stuff on one character and do dragonflight on a different one#but chromie kicked me out of the scaled stuff when I hit 70#thereās just so much and youāre changing timelines all the time which changes landscapes itās just a lot#and I am a completionist at heart I wanna do everything#preferably in some kind of logical order#levelling is also just so fkn fast now and I feel like Iām getting shunted out of areas I wanna keep playing#I played a little bit of classic the other night and went damn this is so nice?#anyway#blizzard hire me
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