GOOD ENDING: nintendo revises ttyd's script to restore the references to vivian's trans identity in the english localization
NEUTRAL ENDING: nintendo reuses ttyd's script exactly as it was without changing anything and vivian's transness remains censored in the english localization
BAD ENDING: deciding to opt out of the ongoing culture war against trans people for fear that the controversy will harm their profit margins, nintendo revises ttyd's script to remove every reference to vivian's trans identity from all languages
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Aw, bless your cotton socks, Polygon. I can tell you never got very far in the previous instalments. The fantastical creatures have always been there as part of the endgame. You could pick up rumours of where you could find them.
It was just as silly back then, for a game that up until that point was based entirely on factual creatures.
Which was great, because by the time I went travelling and started snorkelling in various parts of a the world, I could name every single fish on the reefs, largely thanks to Endless Ocean.
(Never saw a plesiosaur, tho 😂)
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I enjoyed the DK scenes of the Mario movie at least but it honestly could’ve been longer
yeah truly i think if they'd either given themselves 30 extra minutes of runtime or cut some of the gratuitous game referencing in favor of like. actually taking substantial time to develop their characters they could have made a genuinely great movie. but they were so clearly focused on spectacle over story and the movie as a whole suffered for it
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I’m looking thru Geeta’s tag on here and I was gonna be surprised by how many ppl didn’t want her to be the villain that I forgot that like. Really silly main villains are a bygone era in Pokemon
I don’t want her to be a horrible person either but god I think I’d be amused enough by her being Archie and Maxie level of evil at moral worse
Though I think I’m just hoping above all else she isn’t . JUST calm and composed . She looks so serene that I’m hoping she’ll be allowed to be a lil silly . “Coffee order that’s seemingly normal but just weird enough to stick with you forever” kinda weird . I think I will be in love with her even if she’s Just super competent and composed but like,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I can dream
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I know I made a post like this almost verbatim at some point but I can't find it so I'll say it again. fishing in animal crossing wild world is ridiculous bc you cast and recast the line to line up bobber with the fish a million times and twenty minutes later you finally catch the thing and it's another fucking sea bass
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Hello I've now played Pikmin 3 and I'm beside myself with how Nintendo keeps doing Olimar like this.
After Olimar pays off President's whole debt (and then some) in Pikmin 2 he is... back on PNF-404 in Pikmin 3. Immediately. Like immediately. Because the President lost all their money again and he's sent Olimar and Louie back to PNF-404 again exactly the same as happens to Olimar in Pikmin 2 and this time there is absolutely an undercurrent of violence in Olimar's vlogs and logs. He WANTS bad things to happen to his boss.
But he's too polite and too composed so he's just keeping his cortisol levels down with elaborate fantasies of class revolution, and the mental countdown of how many days until he can get the FUCK off this planet and get home to his family for real. He was ship-wrecked and left for dead for 30 days in Pikmin 1 and fought and bled and killed for his own survival to make it back to his planet only to then IMMEDIATELY be sent back by his shitty awful boss to the planet for another ~30 days in Pikmin 2 (he hasn't seen his family yet) and then IMMEDIATELY is sent back in Pikmin 3 and he wants to go home. He wants to go home. His daughter sends him a message asking if he even lives with them anymore. I'm fucking beside myself.
THIS would all be... okay, at least, if Olimar actually got to go home. But No The Fuck He Doesn't. Because at the end of his mission he's kidnapped by concentrated pikmin nightmare fuel in the form of the game's final boss. Some non-corporeal omnipresent monstrosity which has kidnapped Olimar as a keepsake. A pet. A toy? Which allows Olimar just the chance to attempt an escape day after day before snatching him back and dragging him back to his eternal jail cell. The man who was just about to go home and finally see his family after 3 games.
You find his logs and he's just losing his mind, slowly. He knows he's never escaping. He's losing his will to try. He has nightmares of the pikmin turning on him. Louie's not coming back for him and the President isn't coming back for him.
Pikmin 1 is horror as Olimar is stranded alone with no one but himself to save him. His life support is damaged and he has only 30 days to repair his ship to get home, lest he die in the poisonous atmosphere of this planet. And it's horrifying but at least. At least. He had his own power to save himself. He makes progress steadily over the month. He has reason to keep his hope alive.
Pikmin 3 robs him of that. There is nothing under his own power he can do to escape the Plasm Wraith. His pikmin have all been killed. He's in an unwinnable Saw trap. And this time his life support system isn't damaged. It's the only thing worse than damaged - it's completely functional.
Given that, playing as the Koppaite trio, there is no time limit to save Olimar, I can only conclude Olimar's suit is fully functional this time. He has no food, no water, no chance to ever change out of his suit, but it keeps him alive. He's the Plasm Wraith's prisoner for as long as that suit will keep him alive. Indefinitely, maybe. Unless he could work up the nerve to remove his helmet himself and just end it...
But he doesn't. Day after day he tries to escape until he doesn't have the strength anymore. His suit forces him to sleep more and more, against his will, as a life preservation method. So he's forced to fade in and out of consciousness as this thing's prisoner. And this is forever. Until he dies.
The Koppaite trio rescuing him is pure coincidence. They were on PNF-404 for reasons completely divorced from Olimar. They should never have cared who he was or where he was. Olimar just happened to come across their warp drive key when they crashed, and he picked it up, right before the Plasm Wraith took him. They find him for the warp drive key. The Koppaite trio weren't supposed to save Olimar. No one was supposed to save Olimar.
And how. Awful. Because this time people KNOW Olimar is on PNF-404. President is back home on Hocotate and knows he's lost contact with Louie and Olimar. He could send help but he doesn't. He could COME to help but he doesn't. Olimar isn't waywardly alone this time. He's abandoned. And abandoned by the man who forced him into this danger.
And depending how well you play, and how many fruits you get as the Koppaite trio, a normal run is probably 20-30 days for them BEFORE you rescue Olimar. He was taken soon after they landed. So a month. Another month. Of Olimar stranded on this planet. Worse than ever before, as he's nothing but the mouse being played with by this world's cruelest cat. He hasn't been allowed to take off his space suit for a month... After ~30 days of Pikmin 1 and ~30 of Pikmin 2 and now ~30 of Pikmin 3. His daugher thinks he doesn't live with them anymore...
And then... okay and then... the Koppaite trio rescue him... They offer to bring him home. And Olimar's beside himself because he never thought he was getting off this planet. Someone's shown kindness to him for the first time in 3 games and it takes him by absolute surprise.
He and Louie get home.
AND THE PRESIDENT CALLS THEM IDIOTS FOR LOSING THEIR SHIP AND SENDS THEM IMMEDIATELY BACK TO GET THE SHIP
THE PLASM WRAITH IS STILL THERE AND ALIVE.
IT IS LEGALLY AND ETHICALLY ALLOWED FOR OLIMAR TO KILL HIS BOSS.
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I told you I was going to kill myself tonight
Tw-suicide, suicidal thoughts, eating disorder, skipping meals, hanging, suicide note.
This morning Bi-Han didn’t wake you up to do his hair
He didn’t guide you to your station
He didn’t save you a spot beside him- so it got filled. Then you ate alone, you didn't finish it. You were hungry, but it felt fattening when you ate alone
Then he didn't go on a walk with you to cool down after your day- which in turn, means he also didn't hold your hand
While getting ready for bed you didn't tell him about your day, he didn't even notice
He didn't face you when sleeping either- or say anything when you cried yourself to sleep
That was what you wrote a week ago, things haven't changed
You told him how you felt, how you can't eat lunch alone because it makes you feel fat, but he won't save a spot for you, or eat with you outside
So you stopped eating lunch
You didn't have time to eat breakfast, because he wouldn't get you up to do his hair anymore
Then you stopped eating dinner because you were losing focus- and started to take longer to do things
Which led you to get to bed later, Bi-Han didn't care. Or at least he didn't say anything
Until he did
‘Your performance is disappointing, I expect better from you’
‘I know..’
‘Fix it then, you don’t get a free pass just because you are sad. You are choosing not to get better. It’s pathetic.’
‘You’re right, I'm sorry.’
He doesn't say anything, and he turns away from you and just goes to sleep
You are taking matters into your own hands now
You lay next to him, and whisper in his ear
‘I'm going to kill myself tonight, I am going to hang myself. I can't do this anymore. I hope you can make your vision of the clan a reality. I love you. But I don't think I can be with someone like you. I wish you could say you loved me. I don't think you can, I understand.’
You didn't want it to happen like this. You wanted to have a little family with him. You wanted to be happy. But you can't, you’re sorry.
That’s what you write, then you leave
You’re now in a flower field far from home
Now you’re hanging from a vine in the trees
Now your dead, and you can’t hurt anyone or anything
You can’t be upset when Bi-Han doesn’t wake you up
You can’t be upset when he doesn’t save you a spot
Or take a walk with you
Or listen about your day
You can’t do anything
You are nothing, you are no one
🎀
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