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teruthecreator · 1 year

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i dont know what it is but i cannot be hyperfixated on a show like other people can. like if i were to rlly itemize all of my hyperfixations and do a pie chart of media genre, a good 90% of them will be video games! whether i myself played the game or if i just watched a playthrough is irrelevant bc it was still a game

#ignorance cloud on #honestly the only show i ever hyperfixated on was su. i was on the mcelroy kick for a while but thats podcasts #i have my longstanding love for the rankin/bass stopmotion holiday films #but other than that! the rest are games #undertale deltarune smile for me everhood bug fables project sekai #not to mention the games i love but i never like posted about that much like stardew valley and vampire hunters #NOPE thats vampire survivors actually. and while looking at my homepage to check i also saw plants vs zombies which YEAH i was obsessed w #for like a good month or two!!!! my friends can testify #i think i just like. having a part in the media #like w podcasts what i loved is that i controlled how the scenes played out in my head #i was actively imagining how it would be 'shot' and what everything looked like. it wasnt passive listening #and obvs w games like. u Play them. or if u watch a playthrough u see other people play them!#and u always have that thought of how u wouldve played it different #but w movies or tv shows there isnt a lot of activity on the side of the viewer. ur just. watching it happen #and i guess thats why its so disinteresting to me now? bc i cant do anything #i just have to sit there and watch and if my focuses diverges for even a SECOND then ill miss something #and by that point id be so annoyed w having to constantly rewind that id abandon the show altogether #which is why i prefer movies to shows if im to watch Anything bc shows are contained media #(well. the ones i watch are.)#u dont have to dedicate 30 hours to getting the whole story. everything is there within a like 60-90 minute format #so i can dedicate that amount of time to actually focusing!#idk. just some food for thought #*movies. i meant movies in that one tag but im not going back to edit it. context clues ull figure it out

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alicentes · 5 months

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I didn’t sit here for years tryna stay calm and silent while listening to your bad takes on gale (who grew up oppressed, in poverty and then witnessed his entire district getting wiped out then rightly went to fight in the rebellion because it was his inlg chance of tearing down the system the wanted him and his family dead) being a “terrorist war criminal who is single handedly responsible for killing innocent people including prim and who is the REAL villain of the hunger games” just for y’all to turn and start stanning and defending actual facist dictator and child trafficker Coriolanus Snow because you saw a young hot version of him.

#i actually do enjoy coryo as a villain and liked his origin story but people are really making excuses for him? and they know what he became #gale hawthorne #the hunger games #anti coriolanus snow #tbosas #like even in tbosas he shows that he is a sociopathic narissist. he tries to be good but those traits are still there and he embraced them #as for gale he was oppressed his entire life and lived in the poorest part of panem and resents the rich who were complicit in his suffering #the things he does for the resistance were things he thought was neccessary to win to end oppression #the other option was losing the rebellion and getting tortured killed and allowing snow to cause a lot more suffering #do i agree w everything he does? no because he is a character with flaws but i dont blame him one bit for decisions after the genocide of 12 #he has to live with the consequences of what happened during the war and what he had to do to survive #but he is not a bad person for fighting back and willing to kill to survive he also does not understand the toll it takes to have to kill #him and snow are the same age and they both choose survival but snow is choosing power for himself and restoring his families wealth #and gale is choosing to join the rebellion and willing to fight for the sake of the rest of his people and to put an end to the suffering #one creates an oppressive society and one is tearing down that society both do whatever it takes #wow i guess i have more thoughts on gales character than i originally thought and the comparisons with snow are interesting

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theswedishpajas · 1 year

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Ok but what if…

#my art stuff #pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #fake peppino #bruno #mr stick #pizzaface #luigi’s mansion 3 #poltergust #poltergust G-00 #and the toppins would act as the toads #brick would probably be peach as much as I’d love his sniffer to make him polterpup #maybe one of the toppins replaces polterpup instead? maybe pineapple? why not.#i have no reasoning for it other than liking the pineapple a lot #I know it would make the most sense to make the bosses the BOSSES but I am so tempted to make them the base enemies cus I’m biased #but I suppose we could find a way to squeeze em into the characters #pepperman would obviously be morty so that’s easy at least #I honestly don’t remember all the bosses enough to really place the rest tho 😔#but as base ghosts pepperman would be the hammers. noise would be an oozer prolly. and honestly unsure about vigi OTL #I still haven’t finished the game past noise tho so I can’t speak for mr dude that I’m technically not supposed to know about yet #spoilers #just in case #digital art #whiteboard #i have literally no idea if anybody’s done this yet but I do feel pretty foolish for not thinking of it sooner.

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eff-plays · 7 months

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"Durge and Astarion are canon your honor!"

Well canon Durge is a white male dragonborn sorcerer and yet y'all are making cute little drow girlies and sexy little tiefling twinks to get at that extra content so what's the truth?

Oh that your personal preferences are somehow more canon than someone else's because the devs didn't have enough time to write extra content for every companion, leaving an unfair and imbalanced emphasis on the one character that did get extra content? That you feel your choices are validated because they're reinforced by poor planning/game design? Hmm. Hmm. Hmmmm 🤔

#bg3 #bg3 fandom critical #btw i have every iteration of durge x astarion blacklisted because of these sorts of girlies #'my already popular ship is actually canon because the writers felt the need to prioritize the wants of his obnoxious fanbase #instead of spreading the effort evenly!' is not the win you think it is #personally i'd give up all of durge x astarion content for more just REGULAR wyll content like it's unbelievable #more KARLACH and maybe an ending that isn't so fucking SHIT for her??#fuck man even minthara??#astarion girlies get a single critical thinking skill fr fr #also noah fence but 'uwu durge and astarion are narrative foils' is such a braindead take #cuz durge just has the same narrative of breaking free of a higher power that manipulates them as the REST OF THE COMPANIONS #literally none of them are more uwu canon than the others #the only reason you think that is because someone else did the thinking for you and put it in the game and spelled it out for you

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demynom · 1 month

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Why does everyone to feel the need to prove Their Girl is the canon ship in ffvii. I think the narrative is a lot richer if you acknowledge cloud has deep feelings for both Aerith and Tifa, just like they have for him and each other.

#like….why try to say ‘THIS IS WHAT THE DEVELOPERS DEFINITELY INTENDED #when there’s a lot of evidence for either—things that are not mutually exclusive. they all have feelings for each other. it’s unavoidable.#and on top of that #aerith having liked zack does not eliminate her ability to like cloud #the feelings are complicated sure but she does like cloud separately from zack #and likewise. tifa and cloud having feelings for each other does not necessarily mean They Have Sex Under The Highwind.#because. why would they. especially during the events of the game.#they love each other but it’s in an awkward way that doesn’t have to fully develop Right Now.#and also like. how would them having sex at that moment be any more of an intimate moment than tifa traversing clouds literal consciousness #ffvii #cloud strife #tifa Lockhart #final fantasy vii #i just think. maybe we can lay the argument to rest. it’s been #it’s been 27 years

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tortilla-of-courage · 24 days

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i hope we get a new zelda in a few years that's the complete opposite of the era of the wild games just to make the theory side of the fandom go crazy trying to connect everything in it to the general timeline.

#give me a new tingle incarnation that haunts new players.#give me a reference to the adult timeline in a clearly downfall timeline game.#give me fishing mini games again;#tortilla rambles #let the poor wild era link and zelda rest havent they gone through enough.#they've got three whole games that's more than any other set kf incarnations #(hero of legend aside since those games can have diff links depending on interpretation)#if you wanna keep the open world you can! just give me a new map please im a bit exhausted of the same overworld map flr the third time

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a-scary-lack-of-common-sense · 9 months

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Today I offer you a crossover of my two current hyperfixations, FNAF and TF2

Glamrock animatronic Tf2 Medic yayyy :D (Mf looks like grown up balloon boy-)

Different versions I tried out before landing on the final ver:

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#tf2 #team fortress two #my art #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf sb #fnaf security breach #fnaf glamrock animatronics #concept art #tf2 au #tf2 medic #might make the rest of the team tbh #I also had some game mechanic ideas for this guy!!#idrk much but since he has wheels he is FAST so in order for you to NOT DIE for the rest of the night you have to pop of his wheels #if you pop one- not only is he considerably slower #but he will also make a lot more noise with his limping- alerting you of his presence beforehand #if you pop both- for one that is very mean- but on the other hand now he is basically incapacitated #he will still maybe crawl around to catch you (like monty) but otherwise he can barely do anything to catch you #BUT there is also an off chance that he will call for help with his sirens >:)) and a duo is a lot more dangerous than a single medic #anyways #tw scopophobia #tw staring

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bluastro-yellow · 4 months

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I finally watched the pmg video on the disco elysium problem and I'm throwing everything else out of the window to say: HARRY IS BASED ON A REAL *MURDER DETECTIVE?!?!?

#*ops kurvitz based a lot of him on himself. but I didn't expect a real murder detective in the mix #disco elysium #pointless microblogging #I simply have nothing interesting to add about everything else other than that's it's a shitshow of a situation #and that I think the video focuses too much on kurvitz's behaviour with everything else going on #like if he's an asshole selfish and awful to work with or not shouldn't matter as much as #those rich guys who kicked them out of the ip for muddy reasons #and with muddy means #disco elysium wouldn't be the game it is if the rest of za/um hadn't worked on it I'm certain of it #(super certain I'm not enjoying pjol as much as de lol)#it's theirs too #but it's also kurvitz and rostov and hindpere's baby. it's not fair for me legal stuff aside #like the decision to kick them out didn't come from the other employees complaining about them. it came from above #the workers all got fucked and the rich investors got rich. what a surprise

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bloomingbluebell · 11 days

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hi im ranting (positively! this game kills me but in a good way) about breath of the wild again

i know it's controversial but i love the way the story of the game is told. because you start the game in the middle, perhaps near the end, of the story. the game is entirely through link's perspective and he wakes up knowing and remembering nothing. in turn, the player starts off knowing nothing. the past is revealed as the story goes along, and the player learns about the past and about the land as link does. there are little tidbits about hyrule and about the calamity scattered across the land. an old woman in hateno village tells you of an age of desolation that she grew up in. the travellers you see on the road are younger people because they're described by older characters as more bold, whereas the older characters grew up being told to never leave the village, it's too dangerous outside (compare this even to tears of the kingdom, where travellers are more common because the land has been safer. even older characters have left their home to travel elsewhere (not including the lurelin villagers)). battlefields are still strewn with old rusty weapons and deactivated guardians that no one but monsters will go near. myths and legends about the princess and hero have been passed down, to the point where their legitmacy is questioned and everyone has a different opinion on them.

it's environmental storytelling. it's things like seeing drawings and a bow in zelda's study and seeing a child reading a storybook with a hero that wears a blue tunic similar to link's. it's the stories that the villagers share about old myths that turn out to be true. it's the ruins scattered across the land, long since overtaken by monster camps but still unmistakably being houses that people once lived in. it's the utter lack of civilization anywhere remotely near the castle and the feeling of dread in the ruins of the town that surrounds it. it's a kingdom entrenched in its past, with no ability to move away from it until the calamity is finally defeated.

#head into the wall. i love this game so much #legend of zelda #breath of the wild #and no i dont hate totk for getting rid of the sheikah tech and replacing it with zonai tech #the zonai tech is foreign and new to the people of hyrule and theyre EXCITED about it #how many zonai researchers are there in totk vs how many sheikah researchers in botw?#people are wary of the technology that destroyed their home a century ago #and they're terrified of the guardians that still roam the land #i still hold that link likely was behind the reason why the shrine of resurrection was completely dismantled #it's kinda like majora's mask in which half of the story is in the side quests and the characters #mm had a plot yeah but it kind of accompanied the rest of the setting #link had a goal but he also had so many people to talk to #botw is similar. link has a goal in mind but he's also one to help others #and if someone literally just lost their chickens or if their husband is sick and needs medicine. he's willing to help them out #the world is just as important as the plot itself and i think i like that more #than just a linear plot which is accompanied by the world #botw totk and mm reward you for exploring #(along with some of the others like twilight princess and a link between worlds)#but it's very different i think when half of the game is about exploring #or more than half even. you have your goal but you have to get there first #and there are so many ways you can get there and so much you can encounter along the way #biting screaming crying #the bow is in zelda's room but close enough

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taylorrepdetective · 5 months

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Since you like to say you’re always right, tell us what is next. You say you don’t make predictions, but you actually do, even if you don’t call them that.

Ok so I’m absolutely not always right. There have been some really big things I’ve been wrong about and a lot of small things too. And what I learned from that is to keep an open mind, and when I’m wrong about something, to figure out why I got it wrong and shift my world view in some ways to try to understand and guess better the next time. But it’s not even really about being able to guess. It’s about understanding when things happen. It is fun to be right on a guess though, when that happens.

The biggest thing I’ve learned, and luckily I learned it pretty early on in my time in this space, is that trying to figure out the timing something big will happen is absolutely a fools errand. And another thing to avoid is trying to come up with the exact, specific way Taylor (or others in her cinematic universe) will do something to get a point across. Like I can predict she will try to get a point across (set up a timeline, create a narrative, shore up a brand point) but I cannot predict exactly how or when she’ll do it. I also can predict she’ll set something up but then she never does. That’s because I think of lots of options. Some happen, some don’t. So this is the kind of thing I’m often wrong about. But I see them and always try to present them as options, not predictions. And if one of the options I think of happens, I have already spent time thinking about it, so it already makes sense to me.

I don’t know what’s next. She could drop TS11 at midnight. She could break up with Travis tomorrow, or announce her engagement next week. But I do not think any of those things is likely.

So here’s the closest thing you’ll ever get to me making a specific, timed prediction, because to me it seems quite clear:

What I do think is likely is that her jet will go to KC, ✅she’ll go to the game on Sunday✅, and her jet will then leave KC sometime between next Tuesday✅ and next Thursday. Why? Because it’s a home game, and she likes to go to home games and get the exposure and publicity that comes with that. She is working really hard at becoming an icon in KC, seem like her relationship is very serious for those who want to believe it’s serious, and she wants to shore up that relationship by spending time with him, his family, and his friends (also KC icons - the Mahomes mostly.)✅ All of this is so important to the story she’s creating. However, she won’t stay long ✅because that’s been her pattern. She also seems to be establishing that she also has her own busy, fabulous life✅ (she’s bejeweled and he lets her be✅) and when he’s busy with his football week (generally Tuesday-Sunday) he doesn’t have much time for her and she has her own life.✅This gives her the opposite option of the relationship being very serious. In other words it gives her an easy out for it to end. And Wednesday is her birthday. So she’ll either stay till Tuesday ✅and we’ll see or hear about birthday celebrations Sunday night/Monday, ✅then she’ll head out for further birthday celebrations with her other friends and family✅, or her jet will stay through her birthday, solidifying the seriousness of the relationship. But she will leave KC.✅ And then she’ll probably go to the game on Dec 17 in Boston✅. Why? Because it is a short hop from NYC, she has a huge fanbase there✅ and can expand it and shore it up, the patriots are bad so a win is likely✅, but they are a very popular team, so viewership (publicity) will be high✅. After that? Well she’s likely to spend more time in NYC✅/Nashville. Then she will probably go to the Christmas Day game in KC✅. This is a huge opportunity to “take the relationship to the next level” by spending the holidays together ✅, something the public absolutely loves to see and will further fuel the “engaged by the end of the year, after the Super Bowl at the latest” fire. Hopefully we’ll get something reputation-related for new years❌, so the extra publicity will help with that. Additionally all of this corresponds with the Eras film being released to streaming, another huge money making opportunity for her, and her attendance is an ad for the film.

After the new year, there will be some huge games with high viewership. They will be playing for playoff seeding. Then they almost assuredly will be in the playoffs✅. She will go to those games✅, which have even higher viewership, and will give her more free marketing for reputation and eras movie and anything else we don’t know about. After that, it will depend on how deep they go into the playoffs. They are no longer favored to be in the Super Bowl, but it is still a strong possibility✅. We all now know she can fly across the world after a concert to attend an event (she flew to the US during her time in SA, planned to a second time but couldn’t because of the events in Rio, and flew to London for 24 hrs for bey). The precedent has been set for her to fly from Tokyo to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl. ✅There is no bigger stage than the Super Bowl (outside of the World Cup final, if you’re thinking internationally.) The free marketing potential there is something that would be very hard for her to pass up. And if Travis isn’t playing, Jason’s team might be, and they can go together to support him. Imagine the potential of travlor in a suite together with mama and papa kelce cheering on a retiring Jason❌✅ . And even if neither of them are in the game, they could still all go together and stand in a suite as a big happy family in front of an audience of 115 million Americans. Why wouldn’t she do this?✅

Will all that happen for sure? Of course not. But you can see the logic, right? Will there be other things that happen that I haven’t thought of? Most likely.✅ I don’t actually have a crystal ball. What kinds of things could derail this? Well there’s always the possibility of the black swan, but a more likely scenario is they lose again against a team they should beat✅ and/or Travis has another bad game✅. There is a real danger of people turning on her as a distraction ✅and I think they have their fingers on the pulse of this very closely. As long as KC keeps winning, and there’s a good chance they will win the rest of their games, all will be smooth❌✅.

Also I am not even thinking beyond February. I have one interesting thought about it, but it’s just too speculative to even mention here. But as we move through the next two months, I’ll get clues to be able to guess at what will happen after she goes back on tour after the Super Bowl✅. And if I’m wrong about all of this, which I may very well be because she is notoriously unpredictable sometimes, I will simply take it as a learning opportunity to understand her better.✅

#I’m editing the tags as time goes on to note what I got right and how and adding checks and can writhing the post #People mag confirmed they celebrated her bday Monday in KC and he’s busy and she’s busy and she will have a party w/o him in nyc #and were sure to mentioned he is focused on football #and he’s gotten some criticism for dropping passes and that flop #he had a bad game vs patriots and hasn’t had a good game in weeks #she’s still doing fine other than the Mahomes continuing ick #Travis essentially confirmed she went to Gillette. decide of her strong fanbase. bad team means cheap tix for swifties to take over #don’t know for sure but looks like she wants everyone to think she’s in KC for the week #a big football analyst tweeted she’s a distraction after the Christmas loss #they didn’t win the rest of their games and they struggled at the end of the season there and Travis struggled but #he miraculously hit his act together in time to help lead his team to the Super Bowl cementing his place as the elite TE and saved the day #and happiness is everywhere because the goal (SB and adorable power couple of the year) was met #next Grammys and Super Bowl for her and him going to shows in Australia I’m guessing #got the kelce family plus Taylor importance right but didn’t mention the possibility of Jason not in SB but in suite with tay.#obvious but sonce I didn mt mention it I gave myself a partial green check #one thing I didn’t know was about TTPD instead of a new re-recording #we already got our People article that he is looking forward to joining her on tour in Europe

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obeymeow · 1 year

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nightbringer lesson 14 FUCKED ME UP in several ways but primarily I've spent the last 48 hours making myself sad over the solomon backstory we got. specifically I have, for no reason, latched onto that one chapter in the Kids event where baby solomon cried because he felt so guilty over being responsible for that spell. and that just feels a touch more depressing in context

#nightbringer spoilers #obey me on side #went back and unlocked the event again because i could not get this out of my brain i know it's probably not that deep #but it is that deep TO ME. okay #baby solomon has been on my brain since thirteen told that story so that's probably why it's sticking in my brain so hard but whatever #in case anyone was wondering the other things to make me sad are:#he has such a deeply excessive amount of lights in his room in purgatory hall there are SEVERAL chandeliers and lamps #there's a good handful in his room in cocytus hall too (his horror dg showed it) if a more normal amount #but that with the 'dim and gloomy' detail. ☹️#i've also always thought that solomon's loneliness wasn't all about the immortal angst but like.#having it confirmed that he's had reason to be lonely since he was a child- before he was old enough to know he was using magic-#totally crushed me girl why can't I be wrong #had emotions about lesson 14 in general but solomon backstory steals the show every time for me so i haven't gotten around to the rest #i'm enjoying the nightbringer story so much (not talking about the game design. that's a different thing entirely) but man #the pacing is WILD it feels like every lesson could be a whole lesson block at the least. it's giving me a lot of room to speculate #which I always love! but i do wish they would slow down a little and expand on some of these concepts they're bringing up #because the basic idea of the game alone is REALLY INTRIGUING and it'd be a shame if they raced back to the present imo #what was i even talking about. sorry my brain fast forwards as soon as i get into the tags there is not one sequitur to be seen #so curious about solomon's friend now too. like my guess is it's going to be lilith (and hopefully not in a popular fan theory kind of way)#because it's more than a little suspicious that they expanded on lilith's views on humans the way they did #in a way that SO PERFECTLY lines up with the expansion on solomon's views on humans #WHICH I HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT YET BY THE WAY BUT LIKE. HE IS SO RIGHT AND REAL FOR THAT #it's beyond stressful to me that I think solomon is completely justified in his views and being completely reasonable about it #but that it would also mean war between the worlds presumably while the brothers are still recovering from THEIRS #you cannot give me that choice man. not even sure that the human world would be ABLE to win that fight if we're being real #solomon's 72 pacts are a lot yes but he's still only one guy who is NOT on good terms with the sorcerer's society #and mc is powerful but so so inexperienced. and that's IF they choose to side with the human world which #really i don't think the canon mc is likely to do. but anyway i guess solomon's friend could also be adam maybe?#that could be wishful thinking because i like adam though. even if his hair SUUUCKS #deeply offended by everyone thinking solomon got the fucked up hair when all signs point to adam be NICE TO HIM he's ugly already

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kicktwine · 7 months

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So how was stormblood? I know it's very hit or miss for people, so what're your thoughts?

I understand why it’s hit or miss! It — to get to the point i would be straight up lying if I said I was an unbiased consumer because I’m not, I’m a coastal American mid 20s rando with a Lot of very current cultural baggage around concepts like patriotism and freedom. And Hamilton references. It all has a sweet and strong and very anti-occupation message (along with themes I very much enjoy dissecting like the constant assertion that it Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, or the expansion into You may not understand this person but you must be able to accept them,) but when combined with Stormblood’s shakier coherence in writing and dialogue and pacing, it comes off as A Bit Off. to me. And I think it missed ever so slightly just due to how it was all structured and set up with the characters we have and motivations we have because the stuff OUTSIDE or Adjacent to the main story, despite how out of place it could feel, was structured great!! Like the Kojin and the Ananta trial and the Kugane mishaps and trying to murder Zenos twice and the ghost ship. Could the main structure have come across very well yes absolutely! It does it on and off it succeeds in there often! But sometimes it doesn’t. I can see a lot of where concepts were promised and not fully delivered, pacing was a bit off, things just happened without really belonging there (despite how much I loved Susano, he could have been better structured. same with many instances and also I feel like the unethical science should have been MORE IMPORTANT THAN IT — maybe it comes back. Who is that scientist.), sometimes dialogue felt somewhat canned. I feel like in a consequences-heavy expansion, many things just didn’t have important consequences, which was very strange

HOWEVER! I cannot give the new gameplay features abd dungeons any crap they are all SO GOOD. And so PRETTYYYYY. And there were so many solo duties that ruled! Every dungeon in this expansion was like whoa this is a PLACE im in you know what I mean??? I’m in a place that’s big and there’s people and there’s NEW MECHANICS and active time maneuvers (??!!!!!!!) and unique fights! I can jump on the roofs in Kugane! And, mind you, when the dialogue was good, it was good. Lyse has a fantastic voice actor. Alisaie is my favorite girl elf creature in thw world. Estinien is like the best p- the guy ever. also m’naago is my new friend. The tower was a great part of sb to me despite my singular gripe. I think Zenos’— I know it’s controversial to some people because he does assume your wol to be a bit more murderous than some people would prefer their characters be and doesn’t take no for an answer, but his um speech did something to my brain a little bit

ON that note the ending was very fast?????? Or like — not FAST, but I wasn’t expecting Zenos or Shinryu to go down in one fight. Two co-op fights, right next to each other. I kind of wanted to beat him up myself. And when Zenos was so impossible to beat before. I was expecting both of them to be WAY harder. Though Shinryu is a COOL fight I’d do the royal menagerie again in a second. I was kind of expecting a three stage trial? Like Nidhogg? I love going into space hiiii big dragon where were you this whole time… u were shafted… but u could not be suffered to live so. Maybe if we’d gotten an instance of fighting the dragon alone after beating the trial?? Could have been Themes. I don’t know

anyways no I can’t quite pin it down, but I’ve said it before I think they had the outline for the story and then built it and went oh this is too much and not enough at the same time and got stuck writing the whole thing after getting stuck in the story they already had. A COMMENDABLE job for getting turned around like that, way better than a lot of video games stories out there, good gameplay and areas that didn’t feel too empty. glances at coerthas falcons nest area. I think the ways they did the exploration thing was good, having us venture further into occupied territory etc, but so much exploration stuff felt oneoff and not there to do much for someone who has been skipping almost all of the side content except stuff I’ve been told is good. It almost felt like they were Trying New Stuff a lot, and some of it succeeded some of it failed. Such is trying stuff!! Such is trying to imitate what you had while making something new and exciting! And I can’t fault them for that

so like — putting aside the fact that I haven’t done post-sb which is like missing 40% of the Thing according to past expansions and my thoughts very well might change, i would 100% do the fights again, maybe watch some cutscenes, but I don’t think I’d NG+ this one. where is that lady selling buuz it is a CRIME i did not get to have any buuz let me buy one yoshi p

#hi Zenos I’m not going to go get tea with you but would you like to drown in a swamp with our antlers locked until someone’s head gets #ripped off and the other guy has to carry it staring at him for the rest of his miserable existence #play game #I can’t stand you as a horrible person or cancerous political presence. I bet you want to rip my throat out about it #u want me to fight you so bad it makes you look stupid #stormblood spoilers #maaah I don’t want to put my thoughts in main tags I’m writing a 30 minute high school English essay. Just grabbing thoughts and going #the more I think about it the more I think shinryu NEEDED a second one player fight #every other final fight has been multiple tri- wait well. Hm. Nidhogg was a patch quest.#no I stand by it the final HW fight was a cliffhanger so u knew a bigger fight was coming. Shinryu needed a second stage you had to fight #alone with your teeth and claws. Kill the eikon yourself; eikon-slayer. what else could you do. Nothing #nothing but kill it #This was always meant for you #maybe with Zenos inside losing control of it? maybe with him snarling at us the whole time. idk idk #I am starting to feel embarrassed for typing so much and having raw unrefined thoughts so that means I have to hit post #AND SHINRYU WAS SUPPOSED TO BE STRONGER THAN BAHAMUT I don’t know

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ride-a-dromedary · 5 months

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If I'm anywhere, I'm back here defending Rath and Nettie and Apikusis

#BG3 Musing #they are very important to me #like if you say all the druids are assholes i am going to slap an asterisk next to that sentence #i saw a fic at one point refer to rath as 'spineless' and i was like ah yes spineless - the only man standing directly up to kagha #nettie tries to kill you if you aren't straight with her? as far as she knows you are one step away from turning into a mindflayer #and killing the lot of them - the option she offers you when you are reasonable is *logical*#and apikusus is openly refusing to help with kagha's regimen and sending birds to find halsin #there's the other druid in the enclave that is talking a big game of defense but not doing much else #than trying to calm down that racist elf #the shopkeeper is unfortunately very apathetic and defensive #the rest of them are varying levels of hostile #kagha herself is an interesting case because *again* she's a very clear example of what propaganda can do to people #who are already in positions where they can be taken advantage of - it's easy to argue that you would never fall victim to that #but don't make me tap the sign #she's *very* apologetic and begs for mercy if you *do* break her out of the shadow regimen #i'm not saying she was in the *right* - especially if arabella dies - but i am saying it's a really good narrative metaphor lesson

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magicwhiskers29 · 3 months

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