#the cactus has pretty flowers and there are a few cool lizards on it but one was killed in the crash and now the tires are flat

[kobbers]

(criticism for the Mass Effect and Horizon series below the cut; slightly rambly)

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I sometimes like to indulge in media analysis video essays while working on art, because it can help corral my brain when I need to focus for lengthy chunks of time.

An interesting one I watched a couple months ago proposed that many of the problems people complain about in ME3 actually started in ME2, and I found myself nodding along with most of it. The discussed problems weren’t even ones I’d never recognized before in ME2; it was just a little eye-opening to have someone focus on them and tie it all together into a “compare with ME3, contrast with ME1″ kinda way.

What I didn’t expect, however, was my brain continually pinging on how Forbidden West exhibits many of these very same flaws, the primary one being a willingness to sacrifice consistency with pre-established rules and tone in order to solve short-term problems or engineer a dramatic moment. I wonder how much of this (in both cases) can be attributed to Corporate Daddy rolling up to the new successful IP and worrying too hard about drawing in and wowing new customers.

This comparison flared up again during another video I watched just this week, where the author argues Legion and the geth were done dirty in ME3 - pointing out where the stated character motivations and logic quietly did a 180 under the hood. and where some slight retconning robbed the geth-quarian conflict of some complexity. It was like the writers that handled the character in 3 didn’t properly understand what had been established, and couldn’t commit to the alien thinking... yet we know it’s not a simple case of Writer Bad because there are beloved characters that these same folks did do well! It ended with a little side helping of Higher-Ups Mandating Nonsensical Things Because They Are Awesome).

And I just... man. Too familiar.

I hope Horizon 3 can get itself back together on this front, but so much damage has been done already. =_=

#words #kobb tl;drs all over the place #still sulking a bit over ME3 and HFW #and letting headcanon bend them into the right shapes in my mind #because I love what was initially built! a lot!! #I was so excited to see where that would lead but they YANKED the steering wheel and now we've crashed into a cactus #the cactus has pretty flowers and there are a few cool lizards on it but one was killed in the crash and now the tires are flat #gorrammit

[vermemesol]

If you wanna know more about me, JUST ASK LAH-

Ok jk Ily @liannamu 💕💕💕

Rules: if you do it, tag a few blogs that you adore.

What’s your favoUrite song to sing/hum?

Tbh. Anything that comes to mind, I'll just sing/hum it. 🎧🎵🎶🎤

What is your favorite flower/tree/plant? 

I love it as long as it's pretty and not deadly.

I love roses, bluebells, tulips and so much more ahhhhh. I'm a real sucker for flowers

🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼

I also love cacti (plural for cactus) 🌵

I love willow trees and just big shady trees in general

I LOVE NATURE OK IT'S THE ONE THING THAT DOESN'T PISS ME OFF

Not mother nature tho. Mother nature pisses me off with her damn weathering.

Nature is diff from mother nature. At least to me there's a diff.

Favorite colour?

Depends on what item tho.

But I love blue the most I guess 💙

What do you always doodle (if you ever do doodle anything)? 

I draw chibis and eyes and things that represent my current mood 🎨

How do you make your coffee/tea? (if you don’t like those: What is your favorite hot drink?)

I'm sort of a coffee addict?

I like my coffee with just the right amount of sugar, no ice, no milk and my tea just tea, no sugar or ice or milk ☕🍵

Favorite candle scent? 

I don't use candles but I love flower scented ones for sure

Sunrise or sunset?

Both because they're two of the most beautiful times of the day that relief all my stress when I view it

What perfume do you wear (if you do)? 

I don't use perfume but my mom has a green tea one and it's the only one that has a scent that I actually like 

What’s your go to dance move when you’re alone?

Nothing-

 Favorite quote?

It's in Chinese but uh

Don't let others define you

Something like that haha

Favorite self care thing(s) or routine(s)?

I like to maintain my personal hygiene a lot

LOL DOES THAT COUNT IDK

My daily routine is just to bond with my lappy (laptop) as much as I can and get as much shit done

Eating wouldn't matter unless it becomes a need

12. Fuzzy socks or house slippers?

HOUSE SLIPPERS

Because I stepped on a lizard once and luckily I was wearing slippers

13. What colour are your eyes?

Vvv dark brown

14. What’s your favorite eye colour on others?

Brown

15. Favorite season? Why?

If I wasn't in this no 4 seasons country

I'd definitely be a fall person

It's cool enough for warm clothes and drinks

Fall colours are beautiful

Sweater paws

And so much more

16. Cheek, neck or nose kisses?

None unless I rlly rlly love u

Even if I rlly rlly love u, I would never initiate it

U're on ur own bub

17. What does your happy place look like?

A coffin

6 ft under the ground

Ok if I were to be alive at my happy place

It'd be at a nice, empty cafe

Headphones in while I do something on my laptop

A warm cup of coffee by my laptop and hoping I don't spill that shit

18. Favorite breed of dog?

GOLDIES (Golden Retriever)

19. Do you ever want to be married? If so what colours would you pick for your wedding theme?

Nope

20. Silk or lace? 

L A C E

21. Favorite weather?

Warm but breezy

Ok basically the sun is out so there's warm sunlight but the wind is cool so it's kinda balanced lmao

Tagging; no one because I don't have friends. I mean I do have friends but they're alr tagged :(

#the more you know #personal #you have too much time on your hands for you to be reading this useless crap #hi and goodbye

[demonphannie]

dan and phil - march 2017

3/12

first week (1-7): phil tweets a cool sketch (and also a vague hat fic ref..) and it turns out they went to a really cool restaurant (expensive dates anyone?). new gaming video: FIFTY SHADES OF NEIGH - Dan and Phil play: My Horse Prince #2. phil liveshow! (highlights: oscars party, dan and phil are having a creepshot war, forgetful little guy forgot to tweet, for pancake day they got pancakes delivered, giving away a lot of clothes to charity, extraterrestrial dan makes an appearance, wholesome howell, he almost bought a goldfish). phil tweets about the nintendo switch cartridges.. an apocalypse on the horizon tbh. a calm before the storm.. what in slow motion :( dan tosses a hat on phil’s head. new gaming video: LICKING NINTENDO SWITCH GAME CARTRIDGES. (reaction: many very upset!) dan laughs in the face of tomska. dan’s mii likes winking. new gaming video: 1-2-Switch - DAN vs. PHIL! (so much better than the last). the dan and phil residence has a lovely banana scent. dan stole a dog.. thank you god. dan liveshow! (highlights: dan is not a blanket person, so he petted his neighbors’ dog earlier for an hour and he loves it so much and 10/10 would recommend watching him ramble about the dog what the heck, nintendo rejected them, he won’t apologize for the licking cartridges video, dan would join the golf lifestyle aka he wants to be a rich white suburban mum, not straightening hair is enjoyable, they take turns cooking or just don’t cook for each other, decisions with rock paper scissors because they are adults, creepshot war, dan loves moonlight). 

second week (8-14): international women’s day tweets (dan + phil). new gaming video: HAVING A BLAST - Dan and Phil play: Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes. phil liveshow! (highlights: productive day, gifts for his friend haul, he got big hands, the blue switch controller is his because it’s his color… red and blue theory is real, he is definitely getting a dog at some point, more of a dog person, had lunch with hazel hayes then met up with dan to sign posters, he likes ducks, he’s having yogurt instead of cereal in the morning who is phil lester anymore?, he is not good at angles). dan’s grandma saw a gross comment on one of dan’s videos. phil teases a new video from him with a dove emoji and people freaked out. new gaming video (in lieu of a phil video): We hAVE to SHOUT to juMP??! - Dan vs. Phil: YASUHATI Don’t Stop Eighth Note. dan has a harrowing experience with a dead bumblebee. new amazingphil video: Why I can’t go back to the gym.. . dan let’s us know he was the first to hear this horrific story of phil’s. PHIL GETS FOUR MILLION SUBS ON YOUTUBE. dan liveshow! (wowza phil hit four million subscribers what a cultural landmark, went to a sushi dinner with pals earlier, he loved his zen garden dessert, dan was so ANGERY about phil’s gym incident, his rant is reminiscent of rich white suburban mum.. i’m sensing a trend, his next video was something he made for himself, kickthepj is a dick with no talent, ANNOUNCEMENT DAN AND PHIL ARE ATTENDING PLAYLIST LIVE THIS YEAR, dan believes love is real, dan loves chanel by frank ocean :), phil is a weirdo magnet, dan accidentally calls phil’s trainer by his real name, nature is cool, hydrate, meditate, contemplate, try to get a mate). 

week three (15-21): pj calls dan out for being a dick with no socks, dan and phil as one drink.. thanks phil. new gaming video: Making Eliza PREGNANT - Dan and Phil Play: Sims 4 #37 (one of the better sims imo). phil liveshow! (smells like a marshmallow, edited his last video to perfection, phil printed out a six pack instead of using the apron, he got a lot of sweat bands, tentacle friend in the sea of his imagination is a yes, he likes corgis and sausage dogs, they stayed up to watch firefly, he wiped the camera with a glasses wipe, he likes tattoos but the permanence is too much of a commitment, he likes how he looks in yellow, thinking of getting laser eye surgery and does not care about if people like him in glasses). new danisnotonfire video: Internet Support Group 9 (lots of #drama over it including dan replies on twitter and eventually stops the conversation with a sad tweet about the bee movie.. i wasn’t there for the drama so i don’t really know much about it but the was probably the best isg so i truly don’t understand the drama.. w/e). dan’s sad firefly was cancelled. dan continues to get bee movie emails now. new gaming video: CHOKE ME HORSEY - Dan and Phil play: My Horse Prince #3. phil can’t sleep because he thinks justin bieber is a lizard. phil is in love with the horse prince.. confirmed. dan replies to hank green about the restricted mode on youtube i am alive and living! dan and phil release more plushies and a nice picture of them. dan liveshow! (highlights: sad goth, he is responsible for many lesbian hookups, a scandal in five years, he’s gonna get ‘me and phil’ tattooed on his forehead, he likes get out, my horse prince will end in one long video, daniel lester good suggestion *snort*, sucking balls might not be a bad thing, he feels cool wearing black, just because you’re a fan doesn’t mean you can’t have opinions, audience does not make him cringe, dan is 7/10 weird, schools separated by gender are dumb because sexual attraction and all that shiz and toxic masculinity, you don’t have to use labels for your sexuality, he blushed hard when someone said they were dansexual). wow goth thumbnails for the liveshow. phil had a bare pear scare (which dan retweeted because support ya know). 

week four and extra days (22-31): phil watched a weird video but then made a salty remark about the restricted mode on youtube i am alive and living! dan got a fake burrito salad. new gaming video: DUMB WAYS TO DIE - Dan vs. Phil! (interlude: cornelia and martyn pose for great shirt promo pics). little red riding phil (also a deer and a banana). someone nice lookin met phil at the train station. phil was a bit shocked by the british summer time. dan confirms he walks around in his underwear when it is warm enough that is so good to know thank you for this information. new gaming video: 14 YEAR OLD PHIL’S GAME - Dan and Phil Play: The Mark Of Oxin! dan wishes to give all the awards to 14 year old phil’s rpg. dan is also shocked by british summer time. happy mothers day from phil (i love you cath). new gaming video: THE BEST GAME EVER MADE - Dan and Phil Play: The Mark of Oxin #2 (END) (wow i wonder who came up with the title.. but honestly these are some of the best gaming videos ever.. 80 minutes well spent). two pretty people meet dan and phil (one, two, three). dan and phil ask for 7 second challenges and post one of dan exercising. phil sort of complains about the doggo that lives under them but also wants more doggos.. dogbaiting is real. new amazingphil video: My DNA Test Results. joint liveshow! (highlights: dan lives in space but jumpscared phil, both got haircuts from fabrice and there are rules that phil gets to do his first because he wants the small talk and they have the same lives so their small talk is the same, dan thinks gifs are ugly in tweets, curling phil’s hair for #content, dan is forced to clean us, they have been busy, phil ordered flowers for his mum but put his address instead so they now have flowers, dan is pollinating all over the shop, wholesome lester, dan looks like a meatball, they played club penguin, dan would be sad if phil died.. duh, they got these little books and dan got one about a shibe and phil got one about his cactus, they are either not wearing proper bottom attire or they don’t want to show their butts because when either of them gets up they have to turn the camera away.. it seemed like phil was wearing jeans and dan was covered in a blanket whom really knows, phil says blue exorcist 2 three times because dan was being loud and it’s the best moment in the world it’s at 42:15 if ya wanna give it a watch, they are gonna be busy doing stuff the next few weeks). cute thumbnail tweeted by dan. so dan and phil visited the youtube illuminati and there were just so many pictures heck! (one two three four five six seven eight nine ten)

march was nice👌🏼💯why⁉️do💩dan and phil👬😈do so much🔥😩

#phan #dan and phil #danisnotonfire #amazingphil #2017 timeline