#and even tho he fails a WHOOOOLE BUNCH

[litt1e-prince]

saw a post about how DBK and PIF are bad parents and if I had less self control I’d make a whole post explaining why they are good parents cause you see-

#lays down u don’t get it #he didn’t see his dad for 500 years he doesn’t know what his dad is like or how his dad will react #so red son constantly overshoots to make his dad proud #and even tho he fails a WHOOOOLE BUNCH #his dad (who also hasn’t seen his son in 500 years and doesn’t know who he is or how he reacts to things) #constantly gives him the chance time and time again to fail and try again #cause he can tell that this is importsnt— THEY ARE BONDING #THEY DANCE AROUND EACH OTHER AWKWARDLY BUT ITS THEM BONDING #rubs eyes I gotta go back to sleep but I have lots of thoughts about the demon bull family #mainly cause I was watching this whole show with friends and they were all like #‘wow that family sucks. they all suck. why does dbk keep giving his son a chance? just tell him no and do it yourself’ #and I slowly watched the opinions turn into ‘they’re a good family. he loves his wife so much and he would do anything for his son’ #and it’s tRUE! #I think in the beginning it’s meant to be implied they’re all horrible towards each other cause they’re demons #it’s meant to warp your perspective until later episodes and you realise that was just them bonding #cause its tang telling the story right? so I’m guessing he just jumps and assumes a bunch unreliable narrator type beat #I say it’s tang telling the story cause it ends/starts with him and he’s constantly writing down in his diary the tales #LIKE WUKONG AND NEZHAS FIGHT- if he wrote it down from Nezhas perspective it would prolly be different but we only saw wukong perspective #so that’s what tang writes down (and this what the audience sees) #it’s why there’s that whole thing of seeing the bad guys version of events but not seeing wukongs- which is why people like macaque so much #oh I could analyse this show so much #me? me? I’m ill I could connect dots that don’t even exist #smudgie talk

[losebetter]

so. dream daddy stuff.

aimless hate has been deleted. (not my first rodeo, friends.) those of you sending support along, thank you - i really appreciate it. if it puts the response to this in perspective:

102 of 205 people (50%) found this review helpful 6 people found this review funny

there’s a 22-coment long thread attached. some of it has been supportive, thankfully - a lot of it has been about what you’d expect out of steam. i’ve also gotten a lot of hate from grumps fans, which is a damn shame. it’s off the front page now - no idea if that means the garbage is done with or not, though. i’m trying to balance keeping up with genuine inquiry and, like, not losing my mind.

Anonymous said: hey when you are comfortable doing so, could you expand on your rating of the game some more? I'm not really sure what I need to be looking out for, and I don't wanna buy a game that I'm unsure of. what exactly made you feel the way you did? I've seen a lot of positive support but not a lot of what you've posted and I'd really like to get both voices if possible. thanks

comicalsenses said: I played through DD and, idk, i thought it was good? like you could definitely fail, but i got a good ending with our kid, tho my dating didnt go too well. Do you feel like elaborating what squirked you? it's fine if you'd rather not talk about it. .o I was personally delighted to be able to be trans, like that meant a lot to me.

i’ll be honest with y’all about the place i am coming from: it feels like few, if any queer men were actually a part of this. i realize this isn’t gonna be a dealbreaker for a lot of people (and i’ve never argued that it had to be) but it just makes the whole thing fall flat to me.

honestly, maybe my feelings would’ve been different if there was a more neutral political climate towards queer (especially gay) men right now - but there isn’t. and as it is, all i saw was something short and cutesy and like, weirdly straight (given the game’s premise) that didn’t do what a lot of mlm expected it to do or hoped it would do, and i saw it make a whoooole bunch of money. maybe i’m being too cynical - and i certainly don’t expect the DDADDS twitter to be like, one of the only social media outlets discussing what’s going on in chechnya, for example (even though it wouldn’t be out of place). no one is really talking about that, and i get it. but where is the money going? what about the money they made on merch? it feels like a quick & dirty cash-in on people who need something fun and lighthearted, without actually expressing support for those people in any meaningful way. in fact, i’ve only been harassed for my sexuality more since getting involved with the game, which strikes me as backwards to how it should be.

like i said in my review, i love the visual style, the UI looks great. (the charming art & character designs carry it, for sure.) i think it’s a bit weird how much the voice-acting was hyped considering how minimal it is, but i vastly prefer minimal voicing in stuff like this anyway, so. i thought it was kind of dishonest, but didn’t mind what i got. the writing can get a bit OTT, but overall i found it silly and fun. it’s just... careless, that’s all.

i was glad to see the MC could be trans, as well - and i think damien might be canonically trans? which is super rad, if true - but the thing is... even all of that falls flat to me, i guess. the MC being trans doesn’t seem to have any impact on the story, and damien i think only mentions it via one word, when he talks about having binders. and yeah, it’s representation, but... like, is it? do you guys get what i mean? we saw the stream build where the MC could only be bi/pan, without the option to be gay - and i’m glad that got changed, but the silent way they did it felt underhanded. was it deliberate? was it just a glitch? did they fix a bug, or quietly change the game to get more customers into it? again: maybe i’m being too cynical, but queer men are in crisis right now. feels like i gotta be.

someone on steam said something interesting, about how the game was inclusive but the characters were just “acting normally” without their sexualities mattering very much, and thus it was progressive. but - i don’t know about y’all, but to me, they weren’t acting normally, they were acting like cis/het dudes. which i guess is a kind of normal, but. i mean. ?????? it just feels like anything the game did right, it did by accident. which is why i came away from it feeling like - i mean, “meh, i guess, but it’d be cool if this actually helped queer men in any way.” i can’t recommend it at all, despite its great visual presentation.

bottom line (sorry this post has become an essay, oops): i hope some folks do get something out of the game, if they paid for it, especially queer dudes. and i’m certainly not going to turn my nose up at anyone for whom the game means something - that isn’t and has never been the point of my review, and i want to make that super clear. i guess for me, it’s all about context and heart, and i didn’t see either one. i definitely regret spending the money on it, and probably won’t be talking about it much more. (as with my last negative review, i’d rather focus on games that do it right instead of languishing with the ones that just dishearten me.)

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#bark #bark: etc #ask #anonymous #comicalsenses #@anon who asked about my blog font #i'm sorry if this is exactly the kind of post you would want to read bc i don't have the brain for theme stuff rn #mercury reader might help!!! i'll work on it in a bit when stuff calms down #also for anyone curious: #i got the good amanda ending and the bad mat ending #or maybe neutral mat??? no idea #the actual mechanics of the game and how to get what ending seem...... nebulous #but that's neither here nor there haha #ADDENDUM: i forgot to say but #i found #a lot of it weirdly.... woman-hatey #and there are a lot of fridged wives #which i dislike a lot #welp