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dany36 · 1 year ago

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now that i've S-ranked every stage in the DLC and also completed the map, just have some final junk thoughts from the sonic frontiers dlc (plus me raving some more about the music) before i move on to another game :)

i know i mentioned that playing as amy is the best out of the new playable characters, and i still stand by that opinion, but MAN is tails' MAX rings cyclone flying ability fun as FUCK. like, i kind of have a hate-love relationship with it. on one hand, who the hell doesn't like flying around the island at max speed? like, oh, there's something all the way over there, let me just ZOOM right over in a few seconds!! AND the fact that you can control its height unlike knuckles' flying is just insanely cool. on the OTHER hand though, yes it cheapens tails' flying ability because honestly once you get the cyclone ability, you don't even have to do any of the set-paths that the game wants you to follow to get to the map kocos or skill kocos. you can just fly up to them and boom, didn't have to do the set path. which is kind of sad because those can be really fun and satisfying to complete, so what i'd end up doing was get to the area where the map koco would be, and instead of just flying up to it, try to follow the path and get the map that way to not just suck the fun out of the entire thing

but also, that one M-puzzle where it lit up 3 or 4 red beams of light all across the island and you had to reach all of them under a time limit??? MAN i think that was my favorite puzzle of all!!! i first bumped into that one when i was playing with amy, and at first i thought i was gonna have to come back to it with sonic since i didn't think i'd get another character that would be as fast as him (also didn't have the spin dash ability yet since this was early in the game). but holy shit once i unlocked that ability and saw just how fucking fast you could fly around the island (skells from xenoblade x my beloved), i immediately went back to that puzzle and just completed it as tails. just so damn awesome!!

and SPEAKING OF the spin dash....wow. amy, knuckles, and tails may not be as fast as sonic, but they become just as fast as him with this skill. and i can't believe i went through the entire main game without using the spin dash more often. spin dashing around the island and abusing the hell of its physics was just something that never got old, even in the sonic stages. i don't think i ever used the fast travel with the portals since i mean....spin dashing everywhere the island is just like a damn dream come true: it's always something i'd do in sonic adventures' mystic ruins but at a smaller scale, but this time? the ouranos island is fucking huge and gorgeous and then with that beautiful music playing in the background and just rolling around everywhere at high speeds AAAAAAAAAA this game is honestly just the perfect sonic game!!!!!

i think i already talked about this earlier but the new stages were super fun and actually challenging to S rank, unlike the main game. there were some i wasn't too fond of (like that one where sonic's speed as "gears"?? what was that lol) but overall they were a joy to replay over and over and try to bring my time down. i think my favorites were definitely 4-A (with the rocket boosters and beehive-looking things) and 4-B (the one with the hologram tails and the falling platforms).

the music. GOD how does sega keep doing this!!! every single new character theme is just so on fucking point, but i gotta say amy wins this one as well: there's something just so hauntingly beautiful about her theme that just honestly fits the overall mood of the game. but honestly, all just so good. i neeeeed to get my hands on the ost, especially since i'm late to the party and realized that now they have a GORGEOUS BEAUTIFUL AMAZING remixed version of the windy and ripply (emerald coast 2) song AKA a song so dear and beloved and nostalgic to my heart that just thinking about it makes me want to cry tears of joy. like, running around the islands with that music playing in the background is just so freeing and beautiful and exciting that just makes you feel glad that you get to experience a sonic game like this.

oh shit got sidetracked talking about this game's overall out-of-this-world soundtrack again um um um what else. i mean, i really don't know what else to say except frontiers just knocked it out of the park and surpassed my expectations in every single way possible. as i was playing the game and would just be exploring the island and completing puzzles/paths, i'd just keep saying to myself "this game is fucking amazing" every once in a while. sega just fucking nailed the 3d sonic formula and any doubt i had about an open-world sonic game was just thrown out the window: i couldn't stop thinking about this being a MUCH larger, more fun, and more gorgeous version of running around mystic ruins than i could have ever imagined, and it's exactly the type of exploration freedom that i had been itching for in a sonic game.

and it goes without saying that sega bringing back amy, tails, and knuckles as playable characters was just soooo fucking good and refreshing to see, and my god did they do them justice. last time they were all playable was, what...sonic adventure?? really?? like, holy crap. sonic frontiers really was a love letter to 3d sonic games and ughhhh i just can't stop saying good things about it. EVERYONE NEEDS TO PLAY THIS GAME!!!

anyway!!! can't wait to see where the sonic 3d series is headed after this, but for now, time to wait for sonic superstars (holy shit that's soon!!!) since that looks fun as hell too, and that's me saying it as someone who prefers 3d sonic vs 2d sonic!

#junk #sonic the hedgehog #sonic frontiers #woke up too early and can't go back to sleep so perfect time for me to rave about this game yet again!!!!

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maryse127 · 1 month ago

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I am wondering how badly my Final Fantasy XV brainrot is gonna influence my Xenoblade X Definitive Edition experience. Just knowing L "asscaves" Cirufe has the same voice actor as Noctis Blorbo Lucis Caelum My Beloved is gonna have some effect. I just don't know what exactly XD

#like i loved Lao from the first second because he sounds like Chrom my beloved husband #but matthew actually uses a very similar voice for both unlike ray chase does in these games #xenoblade x #xenoblade chronicles x #xcxde #xenoblade chronicles x definitive edition

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absoladon · 14 days ago

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~An introduction post about me~

Firstly, my name is Teva, some call me Tee for short, whichever suits your fancy! And I guess I can say I'm the creator of the Epic the Musical x Black Clover AU..imma give myself that title mwehehe...(Watch/listen to Epic the Musical by Jordge Rivera-Herrans, it's really good!!)

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I'm just an artist who draws for fun, whether that be serious artworks, silly doodles and so forth..

I'm one that plays a lot of vr chat too, so expect random posts of vr moments, which may be small gifs, short videos, or photos!

(They are mostly of just me and my bf as Asta and Noelle avatars mwehehe.)

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My current obsessions:

~ Black Clover (Patiently waiting for anime return..please, I beg..)

~ Epic the Musical (Hermes and Athena are my number ones frfr)

~ Xenoblade (Nia and Mio, top tier for me)

~ Pokémon (Absol my beloved)

~ Marvel Rivals (Psylocke, Luna snow and Susan main)

#black clover #introduction #epic the musical #epic the musical au #epic the musical x black clover au #vrchat #art #asta black clover

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supergenial · 7 months ago

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Xenogears, should you actually play it?

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Short answer: Sure. Maybe? Yea, you should. Perhaps.

After avoiding this game for years I decided to finally try it out, so let’s dive into whether it is the masterpiece some people say it is,

Intro and stuff unrelated to the actual game:

Like many (I assume) after playing my first xenoblade game nearly a decade ago my first instinct was to check wikipedia to see what else the director had worked on. Little did I know I would leave wikipedia several minutes later, absolutely furious at square enix, bandai namco and the man Tetsuya Takahashi himself. Clearly a man with tons of passion to tell a story but also clearly bad at office politics, bringing demise to his beloved projects.

Moreover, the game I had just finished back then was Xenoblade X, perhaps my favorite game ever and yet a game that ended on an intriguing cliffhanger. Back then it was easy to predict that even 10 years into the future the game would not get the sequel it wants. And so, learning that the man already had a history of inconclusive storytelling with both Xenogears and Xenosaga you can imagine my frustration at the fact I was yet another victim buying into his hype and letting him get away with it.

I mean it has to be intentional at this point! After nearly 20 years of failing to get sequels for your games you’d think he would have learned the lesson already. And in fact it’s fair to say he did, at least with the original Xenoblade Chronicles. A fully self-contained story that doesn’t need a sequel in any way. And yet! It is now a saga, featuring not only 3 entries but also with fans rabidly discussing whether the next entry in the series will tie into XCX or Xenosaga after yet another cliffhanger ending that could go either way. Old habits die hard I guess, but not everyone can be like the trails series (featuring what, like 15 games now all part of the same storyline? Each game being on average about 60 hours long? This is the stuff Takahashi dreams of, probably).

Anyway, the point is that when I glanced at descriptions of xenogears and xenosaga back then I didn’t really get spoiled on them but I did get the impression that if I played them, I would be terribly disappointed at how rushed the second half of gears was, or terribly disappointed at whatever happens in xenosaga 2 that drives people mad (iirc even Soraya Saga straight up dislikes it). They seem from the outside like failed projects, victims of their time, like a massive could-have-been. I am guessing this feeling of incomplete-ness is what drives people further away from these older games, as if a lack of modern remakes/enhanced-ports wasn’t enough.

However, merely the fact I already feel a slight frustration regarding these games without even having played them is probably enough of a reason to just play them anyway. As I already said: XCX is perhaps my favorite game of all time and a lack of a sequel isn’t going to change that. And so I dive into Xenogears.

The Basic:

The gameplay is divided between human combat, and Gear combat. The main way to deal damage with your characters is through “Deathblows” , a combination of inputs that turn regular attacks into a devastating combo. Deathblows are really cool! The animations are pretty hype. The mechanics towards learning them are a bit tricky and unnecessarily deep, but later in the game there’s an item that lets you simply learn them a lot faster.

While your human characters do level up, your Gears do not, they only get stronger by buying parts for them, upgrading their engine, armor, weapons and such. Gear combat while slow can also be quite hype, as they also acquire deathblows just as your characters acquire theirs. Gears also often have some other special ability, hell the main girl Elly has funnels and all, like in gundam, it’s cool. Managing your fuel usage is also a major part of Gear combat, for better and worse. As for how well the game plays, well, let's start with the bad stuff

Random Encounters

I think enough has been said about random encounters over the past 30 years of gaming. At this point some people will defend them, others will defend them partially, others will dislike them regardless. If you’re in either of the first two groups you’re probably already aware of the arguments generally used to complain about random encounters, already have your counter-argument, and so on and so on. I for one usually defend them.

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An otherwise banger theme that I now hate

Regardless: I did not enjoy them in this game. The screen shattering as it led to a new encounter was ubiquitously met with me hanging my head, or an audible groan, or some other sign of clear disappointment. Hell I think even when I was farming deathblows I still got upset when hitting random encounters, if only as a reflex.

Surely enough, you should be leveling up your deathblows and just leveling up regardless, so no random encounter is ever wasted. But not even having a repel-like item or an ability like estoma sword to keep lower level enemies at bay is in my opinion, just not cool. There is simply no way to keep random encounters from happening, and that’s the main reason I don’t like them in this game.

Even more annoying are random encounters on Gear segments as fighting in your Gears anything that isn’t a boss is for the most part a waste: Not only will your Gear not level up from fighting, but engaging in combat will waste fuel that you could need in the inevitable upcoming boss fight. Granted, they got creative with this: there’s a few enemies here and there who can potentially refuel your gear. There’s also often a refuel bot on most dungeons, though usually not located right before the boss fight. Another reason not to worry so much about fuel:

It’s an easy game

If anything is giving me a hard time is trying to recall any time I’ve struggled with actual combat! Deathblows really are that strong, as long as you have one suited to your level, you’re golden. Obviously there are a handful of tricky enemies but it’s always an enjoyable type of tricky rather than an “oh, well that’s bullshit” type which is what I feel most people expect from older games. If difficulty in gameplay is the main thing keeping you from playing, you really should just give it a go.

The dungeons though, oof. They can be frustrating for sure. Early on some require some minor platforming which can be annoying, and later on they can be buggy which leads to frustration, like that one room on disc 2 in which you have to click an invisible object. Dungeons won’t have maps for the most part, but when they do the map won’t really help you all that much because there’s some other issue that makes the dungeon annoying. Whenever they actually turn off random encounters in a dungeon you just know that whatever you’re gonna have to do to progress is so annoying that doing it while fighting encounters would drive people to insanity.

Some other miscellaneous complaints: Oh dear god, whenever you want to open the menu you have to wait like a full two seconds, it’s straight up torture. Also forget about modern QoL features like a quest list, quest marker or backlog for dialogue (think even xenoblade doesn’t have that last one lol), if you don’t pay attention to the dialogue you will straight up have no idea where to go or what to do. Also you can’t remove items from party members or their Gears not currently in your party, and you can only have 3 of like 9 of them at a time (also mild spoiler but in disc 2 an unspecified character leaves, and they leave WITH their items, which you will never get back unless you reload and remove them prior). Also navigating towards a shop is often just such a drag, having to go through some navigation plus a handful of loading transitions just to get to a store is insane particularly at the Yggdrasil, the main party’s ship that you will spend a lot of time in. Alright, with that all out of the way:

The Good

Sorry to resort to such basic words but it’s kino. Just look at the opening sequence at the beggining of the post. Just look at it! Look at the first time Grahf shows up there, with the red moon on his back, damn, the first time Id shows up, the G Elements combination, like damn, some shots would put current xenos to shame. Square really was the goat in the 90’s, there’s simply no denying it.

Also pleased to announce that the insane degree of modifier-stacking that allows for insane damage outputs in newer xenos is also all there in xenogears, with items like the etherdoubler and the gnsr50 taking damage to another level.

Granted, when the game ends, it ends. There’s no postgame or superbosses. However, if you still want to face a superboss you can face off against Weltal Alpha, a disc-2 scripted loss. Even though the story will show you losing, it actually does have an item drop if you win which means they were indeed counting on some crafty players beating it and it’s definitely way harder than the final boss. Speaking of disc 2

So, how bad is disc 2?

Xenogears Disc 2 is infamous for supposedly being where the quality drops. But is it really as bad as they say?

Honestly, while I do like it, the change in quality is quite noticeable, lol. Suddenly we get lots and lots of narration segments. This would generally be fine by me if not for the omission of (I can recall at least) 4 storylines that would have been pretty cool to see play out.

Usually these stories would’ve been a whole thing: you go to the places, you meet the characters once again, help them with their current struggle, then a boss fight etc. Instead the game just throws text at you like “So after this Rex and Jin were stuck together in an unfamiliar place known as Morythia, and they had to get along for a while, but in the end they were fine” with just a picture in the background showing them together, and just like that a whole segment of the game is skipped over. Like damn bro, at least show me their interactions!

So yea the problem isn’t so much that exploration gets shelved in favor of exposition but rather that it’s actual exposition instead of a more visual novel type of approach where you at least see the characters play out their roles.

Also some REALLY important plot points get glossed over. The world genuinely undergoes major changes in disc 2 but you’re not really allowed to interact with the world at this point. It’s fair to say that in xc1 what makes Alcamoth so memorable is the aftermath, finding High Entia stranded all across the bionis and how they fare in their new life, that’s what REALLY gets you. Imagine if instead they told you that the High Entia are out there, safe but struggling, but you couldn’t see them or help them in any way.

This really puts in perspective some of the earlier stories and makes you wonder whether we really needed that many characters or whether earlier stories were as needed as the later ones. However seeing as every character comes from and helps develop the plot of each major place or faction, it’s hard to say they should be skipped. After all this game needs more content, not less, they probably couldn’t foresee that they would run out of time or were simply banking on the studio just giving them more time once they saw the state the project was in.

An entire storyline reduce to a couple of slides

It is unfortunately the character Emeralda who gets the short end of the stick. Joining extremely late in disc 1, what should have been her disc 2 dungeon where she finally gets along with Elly (they’re very competitive prior to that, but now they're stuck together without the rest of the team) gets skipped so we never actually see them getting along on-screen. You also CAN get Emeralda’s full backstory before going into the final dungeon but it’s so unintuitive it’s insane: it’s in an unmarked overworld map location, inside there is a dungeon that deep into it has a nearly invisible manhole you that can access to get her origin story and final powerup, along with some traces of what the world was like prior to everything that has been seen or referenced so far. It’s so obtusely hidden it’s lunacy, but it’s also a rather pretty scene so it’s definitely the type of easter egg people really valued back then. Just a nice little story that makes you like the character a lot more. I for one enjoyed this little scene more than some other character’s actual full stories integrated into the main plot. So, about the story,

The Story

I’ve seen people saying this is the greatest narrative of all time and whatnot but really, it’s just good. I’m sure as a kid or teen in the 90’s seeing this much care put in a videogame story was mind blowing, after all this was released only a few months after the original Fallout and a few months prior to Half Life, Zelda OoT and Metal Gear Solid. It’s fair to say at the time people simply weren’t used to seeing this level of storytelling in a videogame. Definitely one of the most enjoyable aspects for me, as someone playing in the future, is having to constantly go “oh man they really went ahead and did [x thing] in the 90’s huh”.

But some people online make it out to be like this game is equivalent to reading some XIX century philosophy book and, while the influence is certainly there, I think you’re doing the game a disservice painting it like that. It’s a fun adventure with characters about as enjoyable as those in xenoblade 1, I for one really enjoyed it but to say it’s the goat would be an exaggeration. Speaking of newer xenos,

The Xeno-Blueprint (spoilers?)

I remember some guy on the internet saying they refer to every xeno game as “the same game”, with xenogears being the original one, and xenoblade 3 being “The Same Game VIII”. And hey, I don’t blame them. This game got Mythra destroying Torna, you got the Samaarians, the dna failsafe from xcx combined with the flame clock from xc3, hell THE opening sequence from xcx, you got Alcamoth (lmao), you got Morythia, Agnes and Keves and their fabricated made up war controlled by an outside force, a mysterious character watching movies in an empty theater, ether characters being broken in combat, multiple personality disorders, there’s Poppi and even Poppi QT Pi, the common variety guy who’s not as common as they claim, the mandatory cute mascot character like the nopon... You know when Shulk was slightly away from colony 9 and then the mechon attacked? We got that too. There’s honestly so many parallels to future games that you’ve already spoiled yourself most of this game by having played xenoblades and this game will retroactively spoil any future xeno games, it’s actually hilarious and fun in it’s own right to try and relate everything to stuff that happens in future games

Bottom line:

Featuring over 50 hours of gameplay, Xenogears is honestly a cool game that I can recommend to most people who already enjoy xenoblade, and hey any modern phone can emulate it (that’s why I finally played it lol).

#xenogears #review #xenoblade #Youtube

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aeviann · 2 years ago

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I managed to finish it before the day ended! :D

Happy 7th (!!!) anniversary Xenoblade X, I love you so much <3

#oh my go please look at it in fullview tumblr fried the quality so much lmao #I pretty much never draw my Cross with Elma so it was about time-#really happy with how this came out in the end #it was so fun to experiment with the colours!#xenoblade x my beloved........#happy xenoblade x holiday to those who celebrate!#xenoblade x #xenoblade chronicles x #xcx #elma #elma xenoblade #cross #xenoblade cross #aevi #aevi (cross)#xcx_fes22

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xenobladeimagines · 2 years ago

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY XENOBLADE X MY BELOVED

#I ALMOST FORGOT #ive been so busy lately heeelep

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doubleddenden · 3 years ago

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It's time for another look at

The Timeline

As always, I am your little gremlin host. Today we simply look at the last 2 months to see wtf's goin on in the world in my attempt to guage the stability of our timeline.

If anyone lives in the middle of the fucking Atlantic Ocean and wants a porche and a VW, great news! There's apparently a cargo ship called Felicity Ace that is ON FIRE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WET ASS LIQUID OCEAN. The crew safely abandoned it, and under Maritime law, the ship is now Finders Keepers TM. I'm sure that whatever life forms arise from this latest environmental disaster will appreciate being able to drive in style

Nintendo has announced they are shutting down the 3DS and Wii U e stores in March 2023, and some people say they've already hit the Wii U store. Because nothing stops piracy like making games even harder to come by, obviously. Titles such as Xenoblade Chronicles X, Twilight Princess HD, Wind Waker HD, the entire catalog of the 3ds Pokémon games, and more are gonna be harder to find soon, much like my will to live

Kirby doesn't chew and vores things far too big for his precious little adorable nightmare body. He has ascended to many new nightmarish forms, including KARBY

Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard. Good, keep the annoying CoD and LoL players on Xbox

Sony bought Bungie, which is great for the current 2 games Bungie has worked on in the last 10 years.

Platinum Games is open to BEING bought. Maybe *you* can become their new sugar daddy

Attack on Titan started its final season- er, the second half of it, which is totally different from being a season, I'm sure. I for one am very excited to finally see the day weebs shut the fuck up about Attack on Titan and finally watch and talk about something else. HiS wHoLe sQUaD!!!!!

Shenmue, the game from the SEGA Dreamcast, has an anime now. Now you too can experience a game from the 90s set in the 80s by watching an anime from the 20s that looks like it came from the 10s. Catch it on Toonami Saturday nights, or Crunchyroll

Jurassic World has another movie coming out, proving that everyone most definitely learned their lesson from the original movies and stopped bringing back mutated versions of ancient murder machines

Pokemon has released Legends Arceus, a game where everything wants to kill you, and for the first time since the Switch era started, most fans agree that it rocks, but needs more polish. Finally, some good fucking food after 6 (really 3) garbage fire games

Chip n Dale has a new live action movie in the works based on the amazing Rescue Rangers cartoon show. Of course, what Disney crypt raid or franchise revisit would be complete without making fun of very iconic and beloved voices they themselves made, and what live action adaptation would be complete without replacing those iconic voices with some generic guy's boring ass voice?

There are truckers in Ottowa being annoying and protesting over vaccine mandates, because they can't just be annoying everywhere else. It's okay to be afraid of needles, guys, I swear it doesn't hurt! I've been jabbed 3 times and the 5g microchips doesn't interfere much with the government tracking devices in literally everything else.

Futurama is in talks about getting another season on Hulu, once again proving Matt Groening is some sort of necromancer but for cartoons. Of course the biggest news from this is that the voice of Bender- aka arguably the most popular character from the show- John DiMaggio, does not want to come back unless they can negotiate his contract better and open the floor to give him and his fellow voice actors a raise. This very reasonable act of ensuring everyone is paid fairly is apparently one of the evilest things you can do to the fans, according to like, 5 guys on Twitter. But sure, I'm so certain replacing the show's most iconic character's very iconic voice will go over very well with everyone, like replacing Mario's Charles Martinet with Chris Pratt.

Norway got 15 gold medals in the Olympics! Holy shit! They beat their own record from 2010 where they earned 14, shared with Canada. There's nothing to make fun of here, that's just cool

Apparently a lot of Catholic baptisms are suddenly being invalidated due to the usage of "we" instead of "I," which has thrown many of the religion into a frenzy due to having similarly worded Baptisms. Basically, imagine you've lived your whole life by the book, helped countless unfortunates, gave away your riches, confessed every sin, served your god dutifully and worshipped him every hour of every day and attended each and every church session no matter what, gave a kidney to the little girl with an extremely rare blood type that you happen to match, you are a genuinely good person and an excellent example of Christianity and have never asked nor expected anything in return, and you STILL don't get into Heaven because St Pete asked for RC Cola and you were given Sam's Cola, and couldn't tell the difference once the guy poured it into your red solo cup. That's about the situation a lot of people seriously think they are in.

The following has to do with politics and war. If that's not your vibe, scroll on. I should also mention I am just an ordinary Joe with a hardly a penny to his name. I am not a news reporter, I'm not a journalist, or anything of the sort. However, most of this can be found by Google, so take that as you will

The Trumps apparently aren't cooperating with subpoenas, and Trump apparently got pissy about them going after "children" like his 40 year old daughter Ivanka. 40, that's barely out of diapers! Hey, remember when he said on live TV that he'd date his own daughter if he could?

Speaking of, apparently the horse's ass is keeping very important TOP SECRET docs at Mar-A-Lago, including love letters (as he called them) to Kim Jong-un and President Obama's presidential letter to him. Hey, at least he didn't violate the Presidential Records Act- oh wait, HE DID, and much like last time, he probably won't get punished for it.

Rudy Giuliani, aka Mr "LETS HAVE TRIAL BY COMBAT," was also subpoenaed. He claims its illegal. I wonder how legal inciting violence and an attempted coup is?

Just a personal opinion, I'm very tired of hearing anything about the Trumps or any of their cronies. Follow the example of the Dodo bird: Look stupid, go away, and never be heard from again. Please.

And in a very serious turn of events, Russia is trying to invade Ukraine. I don't want to frighten anyone, so you can Google if you need more info, but things are looking pretty grim. But if you have anxiety or depression, try not to doom scroll, okay?

Here's a pic of a Lemur to help calm your nerves. Look at it. Beautiful creature. Call him whatever you want, he's here to be your friend.

Anyway, see yall again in like a month or two

#the timeline #nintendo #sony #Microsoft #2022 #futurama #attack on titan #Felicity Ace

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