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bobzora · 3 years

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official persona 5 character review

i have only played up to the end of the third palace but i won’t be able to play for a few weeks because my sibling has ABANDONED ME (single tear) and we play together. and i’m bored. so HERES MY REVIEW of all the major characters so far. under read more because i do tend to ramble

- mc/joker (bob johnson)

why is my silent video game protagonist a catboy. it’s funny to me how much personality he manages to have despite being. yknow. a blank slate to project on. charisma! the dialogue options when you’re talking to shadows that are like “girl power!” live in my mind. joker is a girlboss to me. feminism win

- ryuji

he’s like one of those very excited big dogs where you’re like “oh good for you buddy! oh yeah buddy!” but you’re also just like man this is a bit much. on one hand he’s a very good guy but on the other hand sometimes i feel a very strong urge to insult him or just be mean to him in general, often for no particular reason. i like him i really do he just has that kind of personality. he’s a bro. his pirate thing is funny i know they’re named after like. historical figures/characters in literature(?) but captain kidd sounds so. it’s funny ok. it’s funny. he’d be a backyardagain. i like how he’s a mamas boy that’s cute. sorry about your leg buddy. he’s very. naive isn’t the right word but something like that. i still want to bully him. his grin looks dumb (endeared)

- morgana

i think it’s funny how big his head is when he’s in his metaverse mascot form he’s like a bobblehead i want him to fall over from the weight. the gags about his puppy crush on ann and his dislike of being called a cat are ANNOYING like sorry about your identity crisis but i really don’t care. he is cute sometimes though it’s not like i hate him but he’s a little annoying! you know! i’m not big on mascot characters in general haha

- ann

i adore ann she is cute and great and she deserves a lot better get this girl a better costume PLEASE. at the start of the game i was already rooting for her hardcore cause everyone was being terrible to her (very common occurrence that happens to like every character i have noticed. Society) and then she had that thing where she was like “let’s have him continue to live so he can suffer more” and i was like HELL YEAH ann is always saying the truth man. other thieves like “yah it wouldn’t be moral to kill them” (tho they’re cool with the mind control lol 🤔) but ann’s like “idc about that lol i just want him to suffer” SO TRUE. so true. i like her pigtails

- yusuke

ngl before i started playing i kind of already knew that i’d like this guy. i didn’t know much about him other than gay little artist but i knew. i was right. i am incredibly fond of this guy. partially because i too am a weirdo artist with parental issues (his persona awakening had me like *vibrates*) but mostly because he is just so funny. look at this guy! look at his stupid little tail! i lost my mind while doing his first confidant event thing he is GREAT. VERY cool. i just really like him. i could sit there and listen to his long impassioned speeches for a long time

- makoto

i was a big fairy tail fan in early middle school (unfortunate) and i play in dub so every time she opens her mouth i can only hear lucy/every other dub character her va has voiced cause there’s lots of them. ok first of all i’m not a big fan of her character archetype. yknow the straight laced student council president type. nothing personal just not my thing yknow! i do sympathize with her Issues of being useful and being used by the adults around her ofc but i’m not like INVESTED invested. tbf i haven’t known her too long. what’s his face mafia guy’s palace didn’t feel as personal as the last couple which probably contributes to that (underwhelming). on the other hand i really like that she has a motorcycle i was like ?! QUEEN and then THAT WAS HER CODENme??? very cool of her. i don’t care about her that much but i do think she is cool. if i were to encounter her irl i would be so intimidated

- akechi

he has not joined the team yet but he obviously will. i have not seen much of him yet but i do have many opinions. i did know he was this games komaeda archetype before playing because of the sheer amount of arguing i can vaguely remember scrolling past about him but even if i didn’t i would’ve instantly been able to tell. he’s fake as hell. i lose it every other sentence whenever he’s on screen WHO IS THIS GUY. “thesis antithesis *pretentious stuff*” “woowwwww you’re so interesting ^-^” “woahh look we happen to have met waiting for the train teehee” (whenever he pops up in those train scenes it feels like a jumpscare) there is a high percentage chance that i will like this guy a lot. there is a precedent for me really liking that sort of character and he is very entertaining. i hope he is just so unhinged. i mean there’s like a 99% chance he’s the ~mysterious guy causing all the accidents~ and also the “heh kid u were betrayed by one of your own” guy. so. he gives me the vibes of one of those really tiny cutesy dogs who are just incredibly aggressive. funny to me how ryuji hates him to an absurd degree like buddy chilll yeah he sucks but wowww. i LOVE that stupid doodle of him on the classroom chalkboard. the anime sparkles. his hair is ugly btw. we met on 6/9 which turns me into a 12 year old. i enjoyed our silly little tv debate

- futaba

i’m 99% sure that’s the name of the girl with the orange hair and glasses? i haven’t met her yet. she does the hackerman typing thing in the opening which is cute. i’m just mentioning her because i think she’s cute. she’s a techie with orange hair so i’ll probably like her

- fluffy brown hair girl

only character in the game art i haven’t mentioned so i kind of have to so it’s fair. she looks kind?? very fluffy. fluttershy is probably her favorite my little pony. she would eat bread

IN CONCLUSION everybody here needs therapy and also i’m mad that i got invested in a game with time / resource management / stealth mechanics :/ . the battle system is very cool. also the menus are the best character they’re SO sexy

#bobtalk #i have other thoughts bc i’m That Guy but have the rambles of someone who isn’t even halfway done with the game #i want to gnaw on something #please ignore the number of times i said “like” this isn’t an english essay ok. ok?

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douchebagbrainwaves · 5 years

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN EVERYONE

I worry that they not only teach students the wrong things about writing, but put them off writing entirely. So you get a regular job, you'll probably be done faster. I made for a panel discussion on programming language design at MIT on May 10,2001. In fact, worse than arrogant: since readers are used to essays that try to please someone, an essay that displeases one side in a dispute reads as an attempt to preserve some existing source of revenue, you're probably not doing anything new, and dignity is merely a sort of golden triangle involving doctors, Mercedes 450SLs, and tennis. Angels can take greater risks because they don't have any. An essay is supposed to be a company. It's obvious why: problems are irritating. What you don't often find are kids who react to challenges like adults. A in the first year. And acquirers tell me privately that revenue is not what they buy startups for, but their strategic value. Well, if you're troubled by uncertainty, I can answer that. So I inverted the 5 regrets, yielding a list of 5 commands Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

So all they're saying is that you're still at square 1. What this means for us, and better for the company to become valuable, and now it's not. Kate said that she could never pick out successful founders, she could recognize VCs, both by the way they dressed and the way they carried themselves. How far behind are you? The reason these conventions are more dangerous is that they have to be. It has nothing to do with class, as I was writing a talk for investors, and they know how much jobs suck. It was to pick a team, and many players who clearly shouldn't. Maybe things will be different a year from now, you'll be making $4. What, you invested $x million of our money in a pair of really smart 18 year olds—he couldn't be faulted, if it is true, is another question. It's getting more straightforward to get things manufactured. The games played by intellectuals are leaking into the real world, and this consumes less energy.

Everyone who's worked on difficult problems is probably familiar with the phenomenon of working hard to figure something out. But what you tell him doesn't matter, so long as there is no limit to the number of people who wish they'd gotten a regular job will stay close to 0%. They use different words, certainly. Immediately Alien Studies would become the most dynamic field of scholarship: instead of painstakingly discovering things for ourselves, we could simply suck up everything they'd discovered. There was no reason you couldn't have done that in the era of physical media. The way adults used the word good, it seemed to them, and another that will seem an anathema. Investors will often reject you for what seem to be afraid of looking bad. A good running back is not merely helpful in solving hard problems, but necessary. I have no illusions about how eagerly this suggestion will be adopted. In fact most aren't.

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Imagine if people in 1700 saw their lives the way we'd been taught to write essays in school. It was during the trough after the Internet Bubble, startups dried up too. If you think someone judging you will work hard to judge you correctly, you can cry and say I can't do it half-heartedly. I'm sometimes accused of meandering. That should correct the problem. It's hard enough to overcome one's own misconceptions without having to think about this. A lot of the best ones were languages designed for their own authors to use, but that you should start startups when you're young and there are lots of them around. Make something people want is the destination, but Be relentlessly resourceful is the recipe for a lot of startups—probaby most startups funded by Y Combinator.

Now that we know what we're looking for, that leads to other questions. And you in turn will be guaranteed to be spared one of the first things they discovered was what we call the classics. Three months' funding is enough to get an edge, and don't start other projects. There's a kind of a battle of the byte codes at the moment. So about half the founders from that first summer, less than two years ago, are now rich, at least. You should only write about things you've thought about a lot. And in most of them were of competitors. If you make people with money love you, you can cry and say I can't do it, they'll let you run the company. But software companies don't hire students for the summer as a source of cheap labor. Force him to read it and write an essay about color or baseball.

For a while it annoyed me to hear myself described as some kind of authority. If the answer is yes, and you don't get told what to do by someone you had to acknowledge as a boss—someone who could call you into their office and say take a seat, and you'd sit! Instead he'll spend most of your time working on new stuff. But it's a mistake founders constantly make. But the more reliable route is to convince them to buy instead of them trying to convince them through your users: if you make something good. But they usually let the initial meetings stretch out over a couple weeks. VCs think. That generates almost as good returns as actually being able to pick winners. You may have as many as five or ten releases a day. I discovered that when a startup needed to talk to someone, I could usually get to the right person by at most one hop. The big disadvantage of the new skills you'll learn.

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