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randomnameless · 8 months

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It's still wild to me that people will go to bat for the nothing characters that are Randolph and Fleche as proof of Dimitri being bad; we know next to nothing about them, they have miniscule screentime, what little we do know of Randolph paints him as human scum who'd do horrific things if it meant a chance at a promotion, and Fleche illogically only ever holds a grudge against someone for killing her brother if that someone is AM!Dimitri, with her completely vanishing from the game in every other route.

Eh,

I'd say they play the same purpose than this random child in TS in Roland's story - at this point, both lords want vengeance, and they have to face someone who also wants (misdirected!) vengeance at them, smth smthg like war sucks because people die.

But it's completely wasted in FE16, because, as you said, Randy isn't a random or a civilian or a war orphan, he is a general leading an attack on refugees/civilians/randoms to gain more fame, and dies in the process.

Now, can we say Flèche's anger and death are ultimately directed at Randolph, who died for nothing and took his sister down with him in his quest for "muhrit" ? Or are we supposed to think that this scene is important because Dimitri, the Blue Lord, isn't supposed to fall as low as the Imperial Army - something he comes close to (apparently?) ?

And yet again, it completely fails.

Because for one Randolph - who also had a family and loved ones - we have 50 Waldos and Baldis, whose lives aren't given any fuck about.

We don't see a war prisoner, or an Adrestian civilian accusing Supreme Leader of having sent her/his wife/husband/daughter/son to death with a conquest they never asked and trying to off her.

Only Dimitri receives this backlash from - invaders who wanted to invade and suddenly remember they have loved ones so are very sad when their loved ones dies - Flèche, but not Claude nor Billy, as you rightfully pointed out.

And Supreme Leader never receives any backlash - or wake up call - from a real third party/civilian/casualty who could have done the exact same thing.

Emile mentions how, during her attack, the Holy Grounds near Garreg Mach were turned in a slaughterhouse, why don't we have any civilian who survived from that try to take a jab at Supreme Leader? Waldi's best friend? Baldo's mother? A war captive from Leicester/Faerghus or a conscripted Adrestian?

I laughed about it with friends earlier, and again with the teatime paralogue, but it truly feels as if only 1/3rd (since the church doesn't count) of the cast will face consequences for the war and suffers backlash from the constant fighting (they didn't even start!).

Whenever you have to deal with serious stuff in Fodlan, it'll be for the BL members.

The rest? Will sip tea, talk nonsense, try to solve "mysteries" and live as if nothing is happening in the background.

Just imagine how both deer routes could have been much more impactful and interesting - instead of being a recycled Billy route with a different infodump at the end - if Raphael's sister popped up to a War Council, asking Claude to stop coddling the Empire because their lands were invaded, her grandfather put to Aymr and her inn destroyed by the Imperial Army, or how Ignatz's older brother discovers how Adrestia is burning pieces of art and history and every material related to Leicester and Faerghus history because they want to push an "Adrestia Eternal" narrative. Heck, Claude could even discover more "lore" by picking a Leif route, sort of rescuing the people "handpicked" to become new Baldos and Waldis, discovering the secret of the artificial crest stones and maybe having an infiltration map where, lo, instead of receiving an info dump, they maybe witness Rhea being turned in a relic or used to "produce" artificial crest stones.

War BaD, but only when we can make the BL suffer for it, for the rest, it's just a bgm.

And even then, it can't be too critical of Supreme Leader, because she was made to sell alts in FE heroes or dubious Cipher Cards.

"Supreme Leader", "cute girls" and "I want to see how Faerghus and its knights will deal with the aftermath of the Tragedy while defending against the invading forces".

Tl; dr : Flèche and Randolph are named, which is a cheap way to make people care for them despite their role in the plot, but the demonic beasts and the civilians dying aren't mentionned nor talked about.

Hell, why do you think I gave names to the artificial demonic beasts? The game doesn't want you to think too much about them, but if I talk about Baldo and Waldi, maybe the fandom will?

#anon #replies #cheap drama and cheap devices to make people feel something #and it's so painfully one sided again #this is how those damn games try to make people feel #'look dimitri bad he killed someone'#but no one will talk about the people dying to Supreme Leader?#they dont' have names so they're just concepts?#the death of one named person is more impactful than the death of hundreds of peons?#FE16 #I prefered how TS dealt with it to be honest

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ariestarfairy · 5 months

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Gale Dekarios: A Mansplainer or a Wizardsplainer? And I am off on another Gale related topic yet again, this time it involves a small subset of individuals who believe that Gale Dekarios is a mansplainer. Yes you heard it, Gale Dekarios is a mansplainer! I know, I know I want to roll my eyes hard enough to see the back of my skull as well. Let me preface this by saying I am not here to undermine the harm that mansplaining does to the recipients, typically anyone presenting as a women or playing as a woman. Mansplaining is a real problem in the gaming, TTRPG, and LARP-ing world. As someone who identifies as a woman I know this. When you are maligned, treated like you don't understand, talked down to, objectified, or your character is side-lined as milady who is helpless or forced into certain roles with expectations, it is infuriating. I just want my female barbarian to feast on the flesh of her enemies and use their splintered bones as toothpicks without someone saying women aren't supposed to do that. Mostly it's because your woman presenting character is too masculine and dude-bro paladin needs a girlfriend to protect and do the dirt with (because that's all your character is good for, oh and maybe healing), but we are not here for it. I've seen this happen to men playing characters that are women as well, it's a disease. It sucks, you experience it enough and any time a man starts talking it can be a trigger. I get it! With that in mind I think mansplaining loses its meaning when we take it out of context and just apply it to any kind of trigger. Context matters, understanding the material matters, the lore matters. What does not matter in Baldur's Gate 3 is your character's gender. Let's be very clear, if you are playing the game through the lens of a woman and your character is also a woman and you think Gale is mansplaining to you then you need to reset your game and play it as a man. I tend to spice up my gender variety for funsies and if you are constantly playing as the gender that matches your gender identity you might just view the game through that lens. I'm also going to be real I'm a M/M slasher, I go back and play Gale and Astarion as the origin protags because Bloodweave for life baby! But I do mix it up with genders. So what happens when you are playing entirely through a singular lens, when you are a woman playing as a character that is a woman? You might look at Gale as a mansplainer, but the reality is he's running on a script and he is going to say the same thing to you if you are speaking to him as a cis-man/woman, trans-man/woman, non-binary, or if you are Astarion (okay you might get a bit of variation because it's Astarion and not Tav), but the script is still the script. Your Tav is going to get the script. Now the second part of this is that Gale is a Wizard, you know when someone is a wizz they are very good and successful at the thing they do. Okay so if you are playing as a Sorcerer or some other magically tangent class, you might think Gale is a magic snob, that you are a Sorcerer or you are also playing a character that knows magic as well and him explaining magic to you is him being condescending and talking down to you. No. Gale is a Wizard, Wizards are magically superior, their knowledge is magically superior, this is the rule not the exception. Pick up your D&D handbook, flip to the part where it talks about Wizards and it will tell you they are supreme magic users, they are scholars of the arcane, they are the mathematicians and programmers of magic. They understand it. They have the Ph.D., Sorcerers at best have their A.S., and any other class that uses magic has their H.S. Diploma or G.E.D. Sorcerers are talented magic users, but their knowledge is limited, they rely on raw potential and inherent ability. They don't have the same range because they did not go to graduate school, but they believe they are superior due to carrying a magical birthright through bloodline.

#gale dekarios #baldur's gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #mansplaining #mansplaining or wizardsplaining

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masterofpasta95 · 8 months

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The “Eggman is actually an adapted insult from Sonic!” thing that we are now proudly reminded of every 20 minutes makes me irrationally angry so I’m going to put an unnecessary amount of effort into explaining why it sucks.

Supreme dumbass (although, perhaps not pointless) nerd rage below.

This seemingly innocuous thing is somehow emblematic of everything I do not like regarding how Sonic is currently handled. It:

- is one of the most blatant “Flynn-isms” (providing an explanation to something which does not need one entirely for the sake of winning brownie points with the fandom and “solving inconsistencies”)

- treats localized material like it is “equally as legitimate” as things which the actual creators of sonic made

- instead of taking the path of least resistance, the explanation is still convoluted and contradictory with other information, therefore meaning its purpose of “solving things” isn’t even fucking accomplished

- makes Eggman, the character, less interesting.

Let’s make a ground rule clear: his name is supposed to be Eggman. We could talk about the merits of “Robotnik” as a name as much as we like, but the fact of the matter is, whether you like it or not, his original, intended name is Eggman. And it works, because this character LOOKS like a fuckin Egg Man.

“Eggman” is a great name because it makes him seem silly and non-threatening, not in spite of it. Eggman is a character defined by contrast; he’s smart, but he’s also kind of absent-minded. He sometimes looks friendly, but he can also look scary and ugly under the right conditions because of his toothy grin and vibrant, perfectly circular glasses. He’s quite jolly and funny, but also capable of extreme anger and desperation.

He seems silly and harmless, but is capable of single-handedly destroying entire ecosystems and designing scarily effective hedgehog killing machines.

He’s trying to do things he think will “improve” the earth, but he ruins it in the process.

If you make Eggman purely evil and imposing, you miss the point of Eggman. These are traits Eggman has in common with actual strangely intelligent manchildren. I would know.

However, I would argue the single most key thing about “Eggman” as a name is it’s second half: man. Eggman is generally representative of humanity and it’s insatiable desire for “progress,” at the cost of everything in its way. And, you know, the “Egg” half is self explanatory.

So, personally, I would say that there is not much reason to try and legitimize “Robotnik” in the first place, beyond it sounding cool and having a pun in it. Eggman is not only more fitting, it is more meaningful.

This is all relevant, because this “adapted insult” shit is spawned exclusively from a desire to try and make the way it was for Americans in real life- Robotnik “changed” to Eggman- the case in THE ACTUAL IN-LORE CANON OF SONIC THE FUCKING BLUE CARTOON HEDGEHOG, for some god forsaken reason. This whole Robotnik thing is also the primary headliner for how the American versions of non-American stories are now given more priority, because they are the more well-known versions, which more or less only serves to retroactively simplify the actual themes Classic Sonic was going for. Why would you do this as a storyteller, unless you were irrationally trying to make everything “equally valid?” It’s supremely shitty to do this fandom-satisfying stuff when viewed from a lens of actual artistic integrity. (And it also makes trying to convince people that Classic Sonic has more going on than it looks a god damn nightmare because they live in this ouroboros-esque feedback loop of misinformation)

And you can’t argue that his name was Robotnik in-universe up until SA1, anyways, and that all of this “wasn’t actually in the games, so it doesn’t contradict anything if it’s retconned!” These things come up all the time in these debates already, and you’re probably bored to tears of hearing about them, but I’m going to use them anyways.

Lol.

You could argue that “oh, he just adapted the insult before Sonic 2!” to which I have to ask, what’s the god damn point, then? Congratulations. He is “Robotnik” for one, maybe two games. You’re not getting what you want out of this, either.

Well, now we have an interesting question on our hands. Why WOULD he call himself “Eggman?”

This is where things become more headcanon-y, but it’s all extrapolated from actual character quirks of Eggman’s.

“Adapted insult” is honestly fiiiine as another “he’s always trying to be one step ahead of Sonic!” thing, but the logic is really tortured and it’s far more interesting to explore “Eggman” as a conscious, self-chosen name.

Consider for a moment how egotistical and proud of himself Eggman is. He genuinely thinks he is the single most awesome specimen there is, he’s so proud of his intelligence and vision that he oftentimes forgets the most basic of logic, in a “you forgot the first rule of X!” sort of way.

Eggman is also a businessman. And all businessmen are obsessed with one thing above all else: marketing.

And so, I choose to interpret “Eggman” as him deliberately selling his image as a perfectly spherical weirdo with a big mustache. It could even be something like a “superhero name,” he’s so proud of it that he wants everyone to know it and respect it. He is the Eggman, that’s what he is, and don’t ask again.

If he came up with a catchy name for himself and started plastering it everywhere, every single person would eventually know who “The Eggman” is. And it’s not like Eggman is insecure about being fat, or whatever; again, he thinks he’s perfect. “Eggman” is a name he’s both proud of and is great for marketing.

Every logo of his also fits cleanly into this “plastering The Eggman everywhere” idea; they’re all either of the word “Egg” itself, or something to do with his appearance, most commonly just straight up his face.

Oh, yeah, and as alluded to earlier, his god damn theme song is about how proud he is about being “The Eggman.”

In summary, “His name was Robotnik, and then Sonic insulted him by calling him Eggman, so he just decided to roll with it” is a dumb explanation, made entirely to both-sides something that is actively worse for being both-sides’ed, and it is significantly better characterization-wise if Eggman just came up with the name himself.

Thus concludes this week’s edition of Pasta’s Dumb Nerd Soapbox, I hope I explained myself well.

#eggman #sonic the hedgehog

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nightzombie · 8 months

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are you looking me in the face and telling me that in the canon of the supernatural best television show's lore, castiel angel of the lord gets sucked into extra sucky angel hell after OVER A DECADE of knowing and loving dean winchester daddy issues lumberjack supreme to never be heard from again, all for his flannel man to die three months later?? and that's fucking it?? like ive known this is the ending for two years, but it sometimes hits me when im trying to fall asleep and I just. don't understand. like it doesn't fit in my fucking tiny head.

#spn #supernatural #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #zombie talks

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necronatural · 9 months

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for the send me a character ask game: madara (&if you’re willing to do another one izuna)

I always love hearing what you think about them!

Of course no pressure :-)

Madara

First impression: The incredible ice-cold neutrality I had to Naruto villains by that point cannot be underestimated

Impression now: YEEES BROTHER PROBLEMS YEEEEES YOUR FUNDEMENTAL PERSONALITY AT ODDS WITH YOUR LOVED ONES. It's so awesome his brother wanted peace but because he didn't trust Hashirama or the Senju Madara just threw it all away once he fulfilled his brother's dreams. Go king fuck up everything. The Uchiha don't even like you anymore

Favorite moment: That world war fight where he used his sharingan to fight a whole army. I'm sorry that shit was hot as hell

Idea for a story: I know I already wrote Madara getting doublecucked fic but what if it was from Madara's point of view. Wouldn't that be so funny

Unpopular opinion: A lot of fanfics posit it's Uchiha culture to be covetous of your family and so on but I think Madara as an individual has severe control issues and codependency from family trauma. I think he's tender enough to want to do better but definitely the type of guy to Yellow Wallpaper somebody. He did do that. To Obito. Also I think if you genderbend the characters you should leave Madara as male because almost all his behaviour is informed by his male chauvinism and I think he would not do the things he did if he were a woman. Madara is without a doubt a misogynist (You Will Never Understand A Warrior's Bond flavour) so don't forget that either

Favorite relationship: I have special yaoi favourites where I smile and laugh and clap at stupid fujoshit yaoi interpretations. Madatobi isn't one of them though. If they aren't being toxic and insane at each other it's not them and it repulses me. I don't care about topping or bottoming only mind games. Fluff reserved for Hashimada. I like Hikaku having a one-sided psychosexual obsession with him since adolescence but no one understands me

Favorite headcanon:

Izuna

First impression: O...lore [thinks about what this means for Itachi's motivations because that is his narrative purpose]

Impression now:

BLORBO SUPREME

Favorite moment: It was really funny how the anime added a line about how smug he was about the power of the sharingan and then Tobirama immediately utilized all the Sharingan's weaknesses to kill him. Way to kick a nothingdude while he's down

Idea for a story: In 2021 this is the only thing I was capable of doing

Unpopular opinion: Aro/Ace Izuna... And not only aro/ace but insane about it because he lives in feudal japan as a political entity who is sexy. Technically this is headcanon but the difference here is that I don't like it when anyone disagrees with me on this one. Tobizu is my NOTP

Favorite relationship: Platonic Tobizu wins for fucking ever!!!!!!!!!! Also I'm so obsessed with the idea of him as Kagami's post-grad sensei who sucks ass. He makes chuunin and studies under Tobirama and is like They Give You Guys A Curriculum?

Favorite headcanon: They're a romantic tobizu shipper but I believe everything Hinomori posts forever. Go into their gallery and know joy. Oh my god. Just remembering their posts makes me so sentimental. ⬇️frowing up

Sorry Izuna's is small but you have to understand 1. he doesn't real 2. anything that is real to me I wrote 300k words about

#ask game #asks

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orangelemonart · 9 months

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What is your score from 10 to 0 for: Digimon Adventure (Short 1999), Digimon Adventure (Anime), Digimon Adventure: Bokura no War Game (Film), Digimon Adventure 02 (Anime), Digimon Hurricane Touchdown! Supreme Evolution! The Golden Digimentals! (Film), Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon no Gyakushuu (Film), Digimon Adventure Tri. (OVA) and Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (Film)?

Adventure Movie: 10 Adventure: 8 (I mean it is for kids so like. 8 is generous for an adult like me to give it haha.) Bokura no War Game: 8 but only cause the music sucks and isn't ska bangers like in the us version 02: 9 (I like how the older kids became mentors. Especially Tai, his growth is <3.) Hurricane Touchdown: 8 same problem as War Game with the music Return of Diaboromon: 10 Tri: ughhhhhh it's mid as hell. Not the unforgivable insult some people seem to think it is, not a glorious return to form like others think. It's slightly above average. Kizuna: Slightly better than Tri but I don't know why it needed that tragic ending???? It was good but I just don't buy it if they're still honoring the 02 epilogue

The American recut Digimon Movie: 1000000000 THE DIGIVOLUTION IS UP AND RUNNIN DIGI SEE DIGI HEAR DIGI KNOW IT WAS COMIN My prediction for the new 02 movie is its gonna undo a lot from Kizuna AND its gonna make Ken and Miyako a couple in order to fit that stupid epilogue. F.

Also I haven't watched the remake because I heard it was monumentally disappointing, only giving Matt and Tai interesting things to do and not enough of the group together. In case anyone cares: Frontier<Savers<Xros<Hunters<Appmon<Adventure<02<Tamers (I personally like Adv and 02 more than Tamers but let's be real. Tamers is the best one). I haven't watched Ghost Game yet and Ive never played any of the games (although I want to understand Anode and Cathode Tamer lore more than life itself).

#digimon

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on-the-shoulders-of-rootstock · 3 months

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What The Fuck Is On The Shoulders Of Rootstock?

If you're anything like me, you have a love/hate relationship with the Human Domestication Guide writing project - which is not to say that I hate it. There's a lot to love!

I love the indulgent depictions of post-scarcity, I love xenobiology and xenoculture, I love the ten-foot plant-monster mommy-dommies, I love seeing capitalism and imperialism smashed into teeny-tiny pieces over and over. I can't get enough, and it's what sucked me in.

However, I also personally disagree with the way certain aspects are handled, and believe they impede HDG in general:

My kinks are not your kinks.

The Affini are too perfect.

Over-focusing on kink.

No sense of scale.

I've started this blog to set up an organised central worldbuilding reference for anyone else interested in taking the same tack with HDG. You should absolutely send in asks if any of this interests you.

Why don't I just go start my own post-scarcity worldbuilding project specifically tuned to my own tastes? One, I've already done that (like, twice). Two, HDG still has the aforementioned elements I love and want to work with, and I want to riff on them alongside others I know who also play within HDG's space.

More detail below:

1. My kinks are not your kinks. This is the big one for me. I acknowledge that HDG was originally started explicitly as noncon intox hypno brainwashing petplay erotica, but that's not my speed. My relationship to submission is about maintaining self-control and making the decision to obey, rather than having my decision-making forcibly taken away from me. Intox, hypno, brainwashing, etc. all run against my ability to enjoy the HDG themes I do like, and I am picking and choosing what's on my plate while still leaving room for others to add the usual stuff in.

2. The Affini are too perfect. This is with regards to the way the Affini are written in "canonical" HDG media as being perfectly-competent supreme overlords who can do no wrong and have negligible rates of failure at anything they do. For me, this is boring. Characters in media are fun because they are imperfect, because they fuck up every once in a while, because things don't always go their way. Mistakes are how people learn, and a character that doesn't learn is very dull. I want to introduce fallibility and limits to the character that is The Affini Compact as a whole, making them a more compelling and interesting force within HDG stories. Conversely, I also want to depict the Affini as having earned their seat on the galactic stage. I want to see them engage in the sort of logistical and political exercises needed to remain such a powerful civilisation. I want to see the kind of underhanded and manipulative tactics you need in order to invade and pacify other cultures without harming them. It makes them feel more powerful and alive.

3. Over-focusing on kink. Just like #1, I feel that most depictions of Affini in canonical HDG stories flatten their biology and psychology to the bare minimum required to be titillating objects. Every single Affini is reduced to a slavering predator eager to abduct and mindbreak her next victim. Yes, HDG is erotica, but where's the nuance? Where's the rest of the iceberg? What do the Affini do when they aren't fucking aliens? How do the Affini maintain such a dominant political position in the galaxy? These things are missing, and so too is any sense of the Affini being real people.

4. No sense of scale. Canonical population estimates sit at some silly number like 10^30 individuals, with a territory covering at least a dozen galaxies. This is comically large, and makes the Affini a dominant supermajority crowding out just about every other species. Also, where are the Affini going to find a floret for everyone? It's just silly.

Q: What does all this mean in practice?

A: It means I'm currently worldbuilding a bigass lore document for Affini, My Way and it's growing every day. It's still in a very rough, draft-y state but I'd love to hear what others have to say about it if this project catches their interest. My personal favourite highlights are "Affini are omnivorous heterotrophs" and the name for Matter Trainers. See below!

Further up on this canvas are my notes for outlining a planned HDG story set in this style, but they're not ready to be shown to anyone just yet (would love to chat about my ideas, though).

#HDG #Human Domestication Guide

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duhragonball · 1 year

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Dragon Ball GT 48

✨GT Stands For Guilt Trip✨

Well, we finally made it to the home stretch. This is the Shadow Dragons Saga, the last arc in Dragon Ball GT. And it’s pretty fucking terrible, let’s make that clear up front. I was willing to be diplomatic about GT when I started. I was prepared to wade through the nonsense of the early episodes, and I let my interest in Tuffle lore keep me engaged with the Baby Saga, and I barely remembered the Super 17 Saga, so I powered through that one by sheer curiosity.

But the Shadow Dragons Saga sucks ass. I say this with zero respect to anyone who worked on this anime. This arc is like watching an oil spill happen. This arc is like the time I found a dead bird in the vent duct of my dryer. I’d rather go to the dentist than watch this crap, because at least it wouldn’t take as long.

I’ll be honest with you, dear reader, liveblogging GT has really worn me down. I wanted to cover this one for the sake of completion, and so I could have a handy reference to each episode in the future, and I also thought it could be a lot of fun to critique the show in a playful sort of way. But I didn’t take into account just how awful this show really was, or the mental toll it would take on me to spend so much time on it.

So from here on out, I’m just gonna augur in and get this over with. Strap yourselves in, because we’re about to see quite possibly the worst Dragon Ball saga ever made. I’m not sure if the individual episodes are worse than the ones we’ve seen so far, but the arc as a whole is a master class in how to piss away your audience’s goodwill.

✨"Good" "Ideas", Poorly Executed✨

Oh, where do I even begin? Okay, so when Dr. Gero opened up that portal between Hell and Earth, it caused all these disasters across the Earth, on top of the damage done by Super 17 and Gero’s allies. Dragon Team decided to summon Shenron to wish away all the death and destruction, but the Dragon Balls were cracked, and when they called Shenron, a bunch of smoke billowed out of the Balls, and a new, shady-looking Dragon emerged.

King Kai warned Goku that it wasn’t Shenron, but the dragon itself seemed to identify as the same Shenron that Dragon Team had used in the past. I’m pretty sure it’s the same guy, just changed beyond recognition. Anyway, this is sometimes referred to as “Smoke Shenron”, and he never actually does anything in this form. He just tells the good guys that he’s not going to be their “lapdog” any more, and then he takes the Dragon Balls and splits himself into seven parts, each one taking a Dragon Ball in a different direction.

One annoying part of this is how no one can agree on who’s going to explain this situation. King Kai starts, but then the Elder Supreme Kai cuts him off, but then he’s so furious about it that Kibitoshin has to explain it instead, and then Dende and Mr. Popo show up to add their thoughts. So I’m just going to give you the summary without getting into who says what.

During the Majin Buu Saga, Kibitoshin heard about the Earthling’s plans to use the Dragon Balls, but he seemed to have no idea what they were. Later, the Elder Kai caught wind of it, and expressed disapproval. According to him, the Dragon Balls were a special dispensation to Namekians, and should only be used sparingly. The idea of the Earth having its own set was bothersome to him, and he seemed uncomfortable about using them to undo the damage of the Buu crisis, even when he was one of the people resurrected by the wishes. In Dragon Ball Z, it sounded like he was just objecting to the whole thing on moral grounds.

But in this episode, we learn that his warnings we based on very real, very serious dangers. Each time you use the Dragon Balls, you introduce “minus energy” into them. This arc really lays it on thick with the terms “plus energy” and “minus energy”, so get used to that. I guess the deal is that it takes plus energy to grant a wish, so each time the Dragon Balls get used, they lose plus and gain minus? Fuck it, who cares? The point is that if they get used too often, the minus energy builds up inside the Dragon Balls, until they can’t contain it anymore, and this is what led to the events of this episode. The next time Shenron is summoned, he comes out looking all weird and instead of granting wishes, he buggers off to start destroying the world.

In theory, the Dragon Balls can safely release this pent-up minus energy after each wish, but it takes about a hundred years for that to happen. This is why the Dragon Balls scatter after each use. By the time anyone can find all seven of them again, centuries would have passed, and the minus energy from the previous wish would be gone.

However, that natural cooldown period got hijacked when Bulma invented the Dragon Radar. Thanks to her, the Dragon Balls could be gathered much more easily. Hell, just look at the last episode. Goku, Trunks, and Pan went to gather the Balls at the tail end of Episode 47 and it didn’t take any time at all. So over the past forty years, they’ve been making tons and tons of wishes, and that’s overloaded the Dragon Balls.

The danger now is that Shenron will destroy the Earth. I think there was a line about how it’s been cut off from the rest of the universe, but I’m not sure if I interpreted it correctly. There’s also some concern that Shenron might continue his rampage and destroy the rest of the universe as well. So Goku resolves to hunt down Shenron and kick his ass, which will presumably restore things to normal.

Okay, so that’s the premise.�� Here’s why it sucks.

1) This is just a retread of the Black Star Dragon Balls. I’ve already explained my gripes about the BS Dragon Balls, but the short version is that there was a prototype set of Dragon Balls hidden away for centuries, and using them can destroy the whole world, and Mr. Popo knew about them the whole time and never said anything. The BS Dragon Balls were written out of the story in Episode 40, so now we’ve returned to the classic Red Star Dragon Balls we’ve always known, and suddenly they turn out to have the same problem, where they’re too dangerous to use. So it’s not even original.

2) Why didn’t anyone say anything about this until now? This is the worst kind of retcon, the kind where new lore is introduced that doesn’t even remotely fit into the established history. As this episode states, the gang have been using the Dragon Balls for decades. During that time, they met Kami, who created the Dragon Balls, and other characters like Mr. Popo, Guru, Moori, and Dende, who know a great deal about creating and maintaining Dragon Balls. Throughout Dragon Ball and DBZ, characters will pose questions about the kinds of wishes they can make, and what rules apply, and the experts will mull it over and give clear, concise answers. On occasion, Shenron himself will counsel the characters who summon him, explaining the limitations of his powers and making helpful suggestions for how to word their wishes.

The point I’m making here is that the Dragon Balls are extremely user-friendly. The hard part is gathering them all together, but once you’ve done that, there’s plenty of guidance on how to use them and what not to do. And at no point did anyone ever bring up the dangers of overuse. And yet, when Episode 48 comes along, you have King Kai, Kibitoshin, the Elder Kai, and Mr. Popo all going “Yeah, you assholes blew it. You shouldn’t have used them so much.”

3) If the Dragon Balls need 100 years to reset, then why do they work the way they do? From the start, the Dragon Balls turn into stone for a year, after which they change back into orange crystal orbs and they can be used again. This was written into the story to explain why the characters can’t just constantly re-gather the Dragon Balls for continuous wishing. But it’s implied that this is a cooldown period to reset them for the next use. This is further clarified when Dende reactivates the Dragon Balls in the Cell Saga. They ask him to upgrade the Dragon Balls to grant three wishes instead of just one, and he can do it, but it means adjusting the “wishing power”. Shenron can’t be made to grant 800 wishes in one go, because there’s a limit to what he can do in one summoning. Porunga seems to have far greater capacity than Shenron, which is why he can resurrect people multiple times, restore whole planets, and always grant three wishes every 130 days. But I assume this is because he’s built different.

So there’s already a lot of logistical considerations built into the Dragon Ball concept. And yet this episode suggests that the 1-year cooldown is only one percent of the time the Dragon Balls actually need to reset. If that were true, then why didn’t Kami or Dende fix it so they turn to stone for 100 years instead of just one?

Also, this episode mentions how Dende upgraded the Dragon Balls to grant more wishes, which only compounded the problem. Well if Dende knew that was an issue, why the hell did he do it? And if he didn’t know, then how is he qualified to make and maintain Dragon Balls in the first place? Dende doesn’t have much to say in this episode, which doesn’t make any fucking sense, because he should know more about Dragon Balls than anyone else in the show. He’s a Dragon Type Namekian! He literally studied the art of making Dragon Balls! That’s why they recruited him to become the new Kami of Earth! Moori said all of this when he recommended Dende to Goku!

It really, really annoys me how this series keeps deferring to Mr. Popo for all of the Dragon Ball lore. Popo is an attendant to the reigning Kami of Earth. He’s not a Namekian, and everything he knows about Namekian culture and Dragon Balls, he learned from Kami, a Namekian. Dende is a Namekian. Everything he learned about Namekian culture and Dragong Balls, he learned on Namek. He knew all about this stuff before he came to Earth, and then he kept studying it afterward. And unlike Kami, Dende didn’t lose his memories of his people.

If this Shadow Dragon nonsense made any sense at all, then Dende should be the one explaining it to the others. Instead, they’re all explaining it to him, like he’s some idiot who never knew how any of this worked.

Seriously, how the fuck would Mr. Popo know about an evil dragon destroying another planet? He’s never left Earth. What would he know about any of this? I could see Dende reading about something like this in some book of Namekian legends, but not Popo. Hey, speaking of Dende...

4) Why don’t they just kill Dende? Everyone talks about this Shenron problem like it’s irreversible, but Shenron’s not invincible. King Piccolo killed him with a ki blast, and he’s a weakling compared to most of the characters in this show. But even if Shenron got stronger from all this minus energy, and killing Shenron isn’t an option, then why don’t they just kill Dende?

This has always been the way it works. When Nappa killed Piccolo, Kami died too, and the Dragon Balls were deactivated. When Guru died, the Namekian Dragon Balls were deactivated. When Kami and Piccolo fused into one, the Earth’s Dragon Balls were deactivated. According to GT, their fusion somehow reactivated the Black Star Dragon Balls, which is why Piccolo allowed himself to die in Episode 40, so they would never endanger anyone again. So it’s clear that the people making GT understood this concept.

Well then, the Earth’s Dragon Balls are under the stewardship of Dende now, so if he dies, they should stop working. This was a major plot point in the Buu Saga, where they needed to keep Dende alive in order to wish everyone back to life after Buu was defeated. Kill Dende, kill Shenron.

I’m not saying they should have actually gone through with this, but why doesn’t anyone bring it up? Or, a more humane option would be to break that sculpture of Shenron that Mr. Popo made. I’m pretty sure Kami and Dende always had the power to turn Shenron off when it suited their purposes. We never saw that put into practice, but the pecking order was always very clear. Shenron is not a “god” or a “mysterious legend”. He’s a magic familiar under the control of Dende. Shenron can’t do shit without Dende to allow it.

5) What about the Namekian Dragon Balls? If this is a problem on Earth, then why has it never been an issue on Namek, where the Dragon Balls can be used much more frequently? Do they just know how to avoid the problem, or do they wait 100 years between wishes? I ask this because we’ve seen Porunga grant a dozen wishes in about as many years. Oh, and in GT, they used Porunga again to restore the Earth after it exploded in Episode 40. So the Namekian Dragon Balls have been overused at least as badly as the Earth’s Dragon Balls. So where’s their Shadow Dragon problem?

But maybe I’m being too hard on this story. Yeah, there’s a lot of plot holes to this, but ultimately it comes down to a pretty cool angle. The final boss of Dragon Ball is the Dragon himself. Goku has to fight the Dragon to save the universe, and the Dragon has split into seven, which means Goku has to throw down with seven badass monsters, like some kind of awesome fantasy martial arts gauntlet. Right?

Right?

You’re shaking your head, are you saying that the Shadow Dragons are not badass monsters? Well that can’t be right, I’m sure that.... Oh. Oh.

6) The Shadow Dragons suck ass. Goku tracks down the first one and he looks like a joke. Then a rock falls on his toe and he cries out in pain, revealing that he doesn’t just look like a joke, he is a joke.

This is played off like some sort of “appearances can be deceiving” trope, where the moral is not to underestimate your foe. But that’s really not what this series needed at this stage. You kind of knew that the Shadow Dragons would get increasingly difficult with each one, so the very first one would be the weakest, but this is ridiculous. By the end, the last three give Super Saiyan 4 Goku a hard time, but the first four Shadow Dragons are total chumps. They play their tricks and give Goku some trouble, but not because of any physical strength they possess. And then you finally get to the “serious” Dragons at the end, and the fights suck, because GT is terrible at presenting fight scenes.

And this is what makes the arc so damned infuriating. The Saiyans Saga from Z worked because it opened with a devastating conflict--Goku dies, for goodness’ sake!-- and then it promises an even more terrible enemy will appear in one year. So the heroes train and the story winds on and the arc relies on this suspense. What are the two Saiyans going to do when they get here? How strong could they be? Can anything stop them? Then they finally arrive and the first thing they do is destroy a whole city. The second thing they do is kill several major characters. After it’s over, Goku spends the next several episodes in the hospital, because Vegeta broke every bone in his body! The Saiyans Saga did not fuck around, and the reason it’s such a classic is that it delivered on the hype.

The Shadow Dragons Saga is the polar opposite to this. This arc opens with dire warnings about seven monsters who will surely destroy the whole world, and it blunders the execution in every possible way. The last Shadow Dragon is the only one that really matters, and he throws a clock at Goku, just to give you an idea of how “intense” that battle is. You watch this garbage hoping that each new Shadow Dragon will redeem the disappointments that came before, and then you finally look up and notice that there are no more. All of the Shadow Dragons came and went, and they all sucked.

✨Positivity Page✨

There was a montage of all the wishes made over the years, so I guess that was pretty nice. I’ll be honest, it’s gonna be really hard to find anything nice to say about these next few episodes.

✨Is This Episode Worse than "The Roaming Lake"?✨

Yes. It is worse. The Roaming Lake is pretty much guaranteed to make a clean sweep of this thing. All hope is lost.

One major problem with this episode is that very little actually gets done. Most of the runtime is spent infodumping the Shadow Dragon concept, and I think I’ve already made my opinion on that very clear. They spent a lot of time explaining the thing, but they managed to avoid every question that I had about it.

The rest of the episode shows lots of pointless scenes of Shadow Dragons flying around the world, choosing their bases of operations and selecting their powers. One of them flies into a volcano and he’s going to be their fire guy. That sort of thing. Then Goku remembers he forgot the Dragon Radar, so Pan offers to let him have Giru, but only if she can tag along. Then they find Haze Shenron, who looks like the love child of a frog and a moldy potato.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

Yeah, this show gets worse.

Don’t worry, though. We still have

Plenty of Giru.

#dragon ball #dragon ball gt #really sucks #2023dbapocryphaliveblog #*haiku does not come with crown as illustrated #goku #pan #trunks #giru #dende #mr popo #chi chi #videl #haze shenron

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yuyutzii · 2 months

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MY AUS !!

FANTASY AU

SO basically this is my most important one, and definitely most complicated the lore is soo long 🧍 One year and a half ago I created a mermaid oc and I thought "Oh yeah, let's put some story together" AND JESUS I GOT CARRIED AWAY

I started writing down some chapters but I suck at fancy writing shit so yeah... BUT I HAVE SO MANY FACTS AND THINGS TO EXPLAIN ABT THEM I GO CRAZY

It's mostly inspired by Genshin Impact and some other fantasy worlds, but I can sum it up as a bunch of traumatized, gay kids have to save the world from a bad guy because the supreme creators said so :3

SPIDERVERSE AU

I have the biggest obsession with ITSV/ATSV so I created a bunch of spider people to feel the void that THE END OF THE FILM LEFT ME

I didn't had much ideas but then I saw some profiles that inspired me SMM (LIKE JIPUNK)

"BAND" AU

I was bored like 4 months ago so I created a high schooler band and... that's it

THERE'S MUCH LORE BEHIND THE MAIN CHARACTER ROXANNE, AND I REALLY LOVE HER SHE'S MY POOKIE WOOKIE AND YEAH I traumatise my ocs a lot.

It's like a band fight in NYC with students and they're cool ykyk

MARVEL AU

I recently got into MCU after YEARSS and I'm getting so obsessed so I HAD to create a oc OFC

IT'S NOT A SELF INSERT OR OC X CANON, i just wanted to put a teen and created the platonic relationships with the Avengers and others cause I love platonic inserts SM (I barely do oc x canon idk I just can't 🧍)

STRANGER THINGS AU

I WROTE SM ABT HER TWO YEARS AGOO I love her but now I don't use her much as before

She was like the rock rappresentation that I needed in the 2-3 season and she has cherry red hair so she cool in my eyes

KEEPERS AU

THIS IS ACTUALLY MY MOST RECENT ONE, it's a concept that I still have to develop but I have some lore in mind so I decided to put it here anyway ‼️ I'll def explain it when I got my mind clear

I DEFINITELY HAVE MORE OCS BUT IN SHARED AUS OR THAT I FORGOT ABT, LIKE RANDOM INSERTS FOR COMICS OR FILMS THAT I DON'T CARE ABT ANYMORE BUT ANYWAY

there's always a lesbian rappresentation in my AUs to clarify :3

#my ocs #oc lore #marvel #marvel mcu #across the spiderverse #into the spider verse #stranger things #fantasy #fanon

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milfglupshitto · 10 months

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encouraged by lucky riggedbones' post I present to you a sinistersona of my very own... meet quin!

this mock first issue (left) was done in a digital collage style, with the vintage poster (right) serving as a template. lore and additional "sketches" below the cut (cw for eyestrain and prominent stitches)

Profile of one Quin E. Banahan, Earth Something-Or-Other

physics student researching in lab + hobbyist woodworker with an interest in illusions

testing a sword box illusion (recording with phone) on his night off when his lab triggers interdimensional anomaly- his swords are dull and retractable in his universe, not the case in others

body found inside box with all swords retracted and no visible wounds, pool of blood outside

taken to be autopsied, autopsy incisions are cut and stitched up before vanishing as quin wakes up

leaves the morgue clearly alive with some amnesia, takes now-dead phone while odd shit continues to happen (normal alarming thoughts like “bugs are on me” seem to result in the thoughts materializing)

phone is finally charged, quin watches video depicting his death; while he grows more horrified the autopsy scars reappear

decides to attempt to live life as normally as possible (no revenge against his lab, he really needs the job)

first public appearance: while on bus on bridge over water accidentally thinks about cables snapping and bridge collapsing, which makes the event happen

spiderman shows up but is distracted and supremely unhelpful, finally quin tries to fix the mess on his own creating a “hero” alter ego with infinity dodecahedron in place of a face and flashy purple/green eye motifs, static due to molecular instability

helps save the day and when asked “what’s your name mysterious stranger”: “mysterio” “for real” “yeah”

quin’s abilities: hammerspace, ability to transmutate and break own model, with enough concentration illusions strong enough to become legitimate (but can backfire on him in case of persistent distressing thoughts)

other notes: likes horror but is often scared; able to enjoy it more after accident because thoughts of “what if there was a guy” resulting in an actual guy means he can hit or talk to or otherwise react in a way that lets him deal with the thought. self and surroundings can change to reflect his mood- lines around him get softer when he’s relaxed, sharper when on edge, etc. eyes on suit are “NOT A MAGNUS ARCHIVES REFERENCE STOP ASKING ME THAT”. autistic and trans of gender. has checking behaviors and is very selective about foods. dances poorly and not as often as he’d like but more often than he used to. kind of sucks at the whole superhuman business but he’s trying his best. the show must go on!

#my ocs #sinistersona #undescribed #<- plan to add alt text later and will update tags accordingly #so many thanks to lucky I had so much fun with this and I can't wait to see all the cool stuff others come up with!

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xendiyatrix · 6 months

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Finally got around to remaking Vespasian’s lore. This will post will be more of a general explanation of the character and what he can do etc etc. I’ll do a separate post for him that connect to my own lore.

-Character Name: VS-301”𝓥𝓮𝓼𝓹𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓪𝓷”

Vespasian was created as an experimental special forces unit with the idea of him being a highly efficient murdering machine who could take out any significant enemies of the empire. The first casing being Vespasian 1.0 was used by at least three different units which all met the same fate of being killed by prolonged usage of the casing due to the power being used making it highly inhospitable to dalek mutants, the occupants were driven crazy by this and started attacking their comrades before slowly rotting to death. Each time a mutant died the casing was taken for revision until the dalek scientists/engineers devised a new plan, if 1 dalek mutant couldn’t pilot the casing then why not multiple? So using the remains of the previous three occupants as well as desecrating the corpses of previous dalek generals/supremes they stitched together all the mutants to form something entirely new which was now able to withstand using the casing and would become the permanent occupant. This abomination was then installed into Vespasian 2.0 which had significant improvements. Now there was an added back section which acted as life support to stabilise the mutant even further, the engineers behind the casing also devised a new gimmick where Vespasians claw’s could leach onto a humans face and suck out of all the blood, organs and bones from them. This would then be fed through the tubing where an internal system would reuse these parts to create mutant creatures of which three could be deployed at one time from the casings new back piece. Due to this new ability there was no space for a propulsion system so instead the unit was able to use its extra arms to walk on all fours, allowing it to scale buildings and hang upside down to catch potential victims off guard. Unlike the 1.0 casing the 2.0 was now permanently left on mute, when it was allowed to talk all that could be heard were the agonising screams and cries from the abomination that lay within the casing.

1.0 casing

2.0 casing

Mutant Design

Finished 3D render by my friend Starm

#doctor who #dalek #daleks #daleks are supreme #daleks are ze best #oc #oc artwork #my ocs are my children #my ocs #dalek oc #doctor who oc #3d render #my doodles #my art

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randomnameless · 5 months

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Something that really bothers me about the rose coloured glasses vis a vis tellius and fe fans (ESPECIALLY from 3h fans who learned about tellius later) is that many like soren purely because of his main ship (i mean i like ikesoren too but come the fuck on) and jokingly characterise soren as a stereotypical nasty mean limp wristed sarcastic gay man instead of a deeply flawed branded angry at the world and definitely trauma bonded to ike, but micaiah is still absolutely getting raked over the coals over the blood pact and not being ike’s fangirl

Well,

Jokes often involve flanderisation, so Soren being flanderised to oblivion when people joke about him isn't something I really care about, but maybe that's because I'm not really fond of Soren to begin with lol

What annoys me more is when some people try to rationalise Soren's anger and backstory by either pointing at Almedha or Deghinsea being responsible for everything, and I'm like, what.the.fuck?

Almedha's just, idk, I won't call it sexism, but damn - that woman loves her son who is the only reason why she hasn't completely lost her mind over 1/losing her powers 2/being casted away like trash by her "BF" 3/being rejected by her dad 4/thinking her brother was tortured and abused to death because of her actions 5/being separated from her beloved child.

Deghinsea being "uwu bad bcs he's the reason why brandeds are rejected by both beorcs and laguz" is another take I really am not fond of, and iirc I wrote a post earlier this year about it? But to some people who buy the "Crusts BaD" as the reason why Fodlan sucks, I guess they need to have someone to name and pill all of the world's nonsense rather than, well, in Tellius' case, realise that the worldbulding and the lore really sucks, to the point where the duology touted as the most "against racism" of the franchise, is pretty much way more racist than anything Tru Piss can throw us (yes, because in Tru Piss we have characters rejecting coexistence, in Tellius, it's the world mechanics - whenever a Beorc and a Laguz coexist too much, the Laguz dies...).

As for Miccy,

Just like, imo, Soren gains some "new" attention and "uwu excuses for why he's being a snarky jerk at times", Miccy used to be bashed when FE10 was released (with all the Mary Sue accusation being thrown around!) because she was written to be a sort of foil/antagonist to Ike, and when the party reunited, she was demoted to a "soul-jar" role, let it be regarding the greater plot, or, even, her own backstory!

TBH, for people who didn't play FE10, if Ike is the bestest thing since melted cheese, Miccy, who opposes him, must be BaD and so you can pile everything you don't like on her, hoping to see it stick.

Or even worse, I've seen posts here and there comparing Miccy to Supreme Leader and how misunderstood uwu she is, which is the worst insult poor Miccy ever received since FE10 came out rofl

#2goldensnitches #do you want to kill me friend lol #once upon a time discussions about soren and miccy were very animated lol #anyways i still don't like how some part of the fandom tries to uwu him #he is a character with flaws that sure are never called out in the game and by the main character but #they exist #and to uwu them away is imo a disservice and not a good reading on him #'but his backstory sad uwus' Sephiran also has a crapton of sad uwus for his backstory #and yet the game chews him out about his plans to destroy the world because hey fuck off #it's not fair to condemn the world and everyone who lives in it for your suffering #It's sort of hilarious because sometimes I wonder if Miccy wasn't also written as a Soren foil #Miccy is the one who doesn't like when Beorc call Laguz names #she lives in racist land and knows she has to hide else she'll die too #but she still came to care about the people who live here #she gets to talk to Vika who feels weirded out by her being a branded and yet they agree to continue talking/being friends despite it #Miccy never insults Rafiel calling him a half beast #Soren follows Ike and his lead but Miccy has to take the lead despite wanting to follow Pelleas at first #tfw we know more about Soren's backstory even after being kicked away from Daein than Miccy's lol #granted I loved what FE10 with Almedha when you see that some of his worst traits/flaws are actually shared by his mom lol #tl;dr : a Soren raised by his mom would have been even more of a jerk than the one we got #i have a lot of feelings about how Miccy was treated in FE10 which in turn sort of explains the vitriol she received from the fandom #but that's for another post lol else it'll be too long #basically FE10 is more Ike v.2 than a game where Miccy is the Lord

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"canislupus-13: Tbh I get you. Kanto is just boring? This is why I really don't get the hype around hgss sure like heartgold was my first game and while it's not bad if I compare it to black or platinum it's just not as good. There's a reason why I only have like 80 hours in it when I have over 200 in both black and platinum. Like sure you get to visit 2 regions. But while johto has like some cool looking places... (Ecruteak is really nice) Kanto is just boring. Sorry I had to get this out."

You are right and should say it! Shame this loreless shithole! Kanto has like nothing going on! It's fine as an initial experience and sometimes you just want to play through the game without characters stopping you every route to talk, but good god, there's just nothing.

"The greater pokemon community would have my head if I told them my opinion of the johto remakes (aka that they're not bad but I'd rather play any other ds pokemon game)."

I mean. I love Johto, so I am slightly saddened, but like...in that way where it's like aww man, they don't seem to like it, but also of course they don't it kinda sucks.

Johto's a fun region, and the first to have like...actual significance to legendary Pokemon. Like it did stuff, there was lore and a culture to the region that Kanto still doesn't have despite all its remakes. And for all my bitching about Kanto and Red, I do like that they tied it off with a confrontation with your previous player avatar. It's a cool sort of passing the torch battle that I...now desperately wish they'd never done sometimes. But also it sucks to play. Encounter levels absurdly low, level scaling supremely awkward, lowest level to reach the league by a mile, Kanto takes forever despite being mostly barren and a victory lap that doesn't show much challenge, the rematches against gym leaders are hilariously obtuse compared to the superior Platinum model, they didn't fully fix the issue of Dark Types mostly being Kanto locked (unless you want to deal with the garbage Safari Zone, which no one does). And all that around issues of status moves and boosting moves being locked to high BP cost in post-game so you can't use them during typical runs, which significantly limits player options to just beating each other with sticks, artificially inflating the perceived difficulty of fights like Red where you don't have useful counterplay (coincidentally, this is a similar issue in Platinum; Cynthia's team is hilariously weak to setup sweepers, but because boosting TMs are all BP gated, you have very few options to actually exploit that weakness).

So I get it. It's not the most fun game in the series for a lot of people. And truthfully Johto doesn't seem that popular broadly. There's a select group of people who idolize the game. I think they're insane despite liking it a lot. Though now I'm on track to start complaining about every game, so best to cut this short.

#canislupus-13

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Thoughts on the 2022 MH Movie

Alrighty, I think I’ve observed enough to throw my thoughts out into the fandom. Obviously, everything g1 reigns supreme in my heart and I personally was not a fan of g2, but g3 seems to be relatively okay so far. Like it’s barely passing, but it’s passing. Don’t worry, I’ll try not to be a scathing or anything, just my random thoughts and opinions.

Now, the movie. Oof. In general, I am not a fan of live action movies and think animated media is the way to go, especially with a show like Monster High that has so many unique character designs, models, and powers. With animation, the show has the ability to get kooky and freaky with its characters’ emotions and powers without it looking tacky or cringy on low-budget CGI and actors. That being said, the Monster High movie was okay, very average.

What I liked or thought was okay:

Going in and watching it, I had to constantly remind myself that g3 is a reboot. Thus, I need to disconnect all I knew about previous incarnations and just observe these characters as separate. That definitely made the watching experience more enjoyable.

I thought the actors did okay and worked well with what they were given, which wasn’t a lot but they worked with it. The dances were hilarious. Some of those backup dancers were putting their heart and soul into their moves. XD

The movie was okay plot wise. Very generic but I was able to follow along and it set a decent basis for the new g3 material and lore.

Frankie. G1 Frankie never was my favorite character because she was such a plain main character, but I really love movie Frankie. Their quirkiness is one of the very few saving graces of the movie. I was afraid they would come off as annoying but I genuinely loved their scenes.

Now, I must admit, I am a greater fan of side characters in most shows than main characters, Abbey being no exception in MH. I personally loved her design and costume. Her hair! I love it! One of the few looks in the movie that were good in my opinion. Also, just the sheer joy and relief at seeing her back after g2 wiped her away. (a huge reason the g2 movies sucked.) (the g2 series was acceptable in my book since those included her)

Those tiny blink and you’ll miss it moments of Heath and Abbey interacting in the background is what kept me going through this movie.

The songs. The only other saving grace besides Abbey and Frankie. I must admit, I generally enjoy musicals so that gets a pass from me. Once again, pretty generic but they’ve all got good voices. Coming Out of the Dark and the Three of Us were my favorites.

Personality-wise, Draculara was okay and her outfit was pretty cute. You just have to remember to separate g1 Draculara in your mind from what we have now. I kind of like the perfectionistic pressure we see her getting from her dad. A very basic trait but I like it because it’s relatable for most perfectionists (me).

Clawdeen’s dad is so sweet and supportive. One of the best original things to come out from the movie.

What I disliked:

While the overall plot was passable, there were so many things that didn’t make sense.

like half human, half werewolf? Really?! Why? She’s 75% human? There was no point!

Also, that whole skatepark scene that shows Clawdeen’s ears? I guarantee no human would’ve batted an eye about that. I just found that whole scene ridiculous.

Monsters hate witches and witchcraft? Frick Casta Fierce, amiright.

but then Cleo mentions she did magic when she used to be human? Like, what?

Then there’s Draculara, a vampire, chilling over in the corner practicing witchcraft in the toilet. Huh? What correlation does she have to witchcraft?

Clawdeen x Deuce?! No. NO! Just absolutely NO!

The entire humans hate monsters thing and vice versa is such a flat plot point. So much for MH being accepting of everyone and their freaky flaws. I really miss that core message.

I seriously miss the variety of familiar characters. I get though that formulating costumes and renewing the rights to all their characters would be tedious, but still! Gimme all my babies back!

Isn’t Heath’s actor older than most of the cast? He definitely looks it.

I’m kinda between on this but I mostly dislike that it’s reminiscent of Disney Descendants quality but on an even cheaper budget. Did they have to do the choreography like that?

Cleo and Deuce break up is a major hate factor for me. There wasn’t enough elaboration or reason given. WHY?!

Also, where are Cleo’s bandages???

Lagoona. I know a lot of the fandom disliked the entire revamp. It’s not my favorite, but I don’t completely despise it. I think they should’ve renamed her to just be a completely different character or Lagoona’s cousin or something.

The Jekyll and Hyde villain was not it. Did not really enjoy it but at least he had reasonable motives I guess. Like, it’s heavily implied his dad got lynched, pretty gutsy move.

Also, the villain power up climax was really anticlimactic for me. Like he drinks the potion and has the ability to take everyone’s powers and no one runs away! The farthest they run is outside. Then, they all just stand there and talk it out and Komos stands there all powered up doing nothing. Bro, if they don’t have the common sense to run, just attack already.

Ghoulia. They’ve massacred my poor girl. I don’t know what else to say. (Not blaming the actress at all.)

Well, that’s all I can think about right now. I’ll probably share my thoughts on the animated series later.

#mh #monster high #monster high 2022 #monster high g3 #monster high movie #cleo de nile #deuce gorgon #clawdeen wolf #draculaura #frankie stein #lagoona blue #abbey bominable #ghoulia yelps #monster high komos

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