i love how my first introduction to jasper william cartwright, ttrpg player extraordinaire, was not d20 or even three black halflings but the oxventure one-shot video where he's a guest to play You Awaken In a Strange Place, a one-shot game developed by jacob andrews from drawfee, a youtube channel i love dearly alongside oxventure.
that video includes the whispers of revolution in the nondescript regency kingdom, everyone having the power to explode people with their minds (the whole body, i mean (not just the head (the WHOLE body, all of it gone, this is very crucial you see))), and jasper playing a naked duke who's allergic to bricks, which is less relevant than you'd think considering the whole thing takes place in a nightclub in a building presumably made of bricks.
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there is something so insanely poetic about abed being scared of change / the inevitable parting of ways for the study group in the first episode of season 4, and jeff's fear of leaving / the possibility of becoming who he was before greendale in the last episode of season 4.
the fact that by the end of the first episode of season 4, it's 3 levels of a fabricated/daydreamt "Winger speech" in abed's head that pulls him back to not only reality, but the acceptance that graduating/leaving is going to be okay in the end. jeff was the one who grounded him and made him feel okay with moving on, even though it was a fake one in his head. the thought of jeff comforting him and giving him support alone was enough to make him confident again in the semester.
i think this sense of comfort for abed stems from the 'my dinner with andre' homage episode. probably because abed learned more about jeff, and you can see the exact second that he realizes their conversation is more real than expected when jeff dumps his phone in the water. (you know, that thing he spends hours pretending to text on so that his friends don't see him for who he is? so he can avoid being vulnerable?) jeff was vulnerable to abed and abed didn't know how to deal with that in the moment. he realized that he meant a greater deal to jeff than he had initially thought. when they have their moment at the bar after the dinner, abed is visibly worried that jeff doesn't want to be his friend anymore because of the homage (his fist below the bar on his lap is tense and relaxes the second that jeff smiles at him), until jeff tells him "i don't need you to grow or change." a season and a half later, this is still what keeps abed grounded regarding his relationship to jeff. that's why when a voluntary change on jeff's side came by, he didn't know how to deal with it (plotwise, friendship wise, the future of the school year). it's imaginary jeff who reassures him, once again, that no matter what happens, everything is going to be okay between them.
and then it gets even prettier when you think about jeff's perspective.
at the beginning of s4 e13, jeff confides in britta about his anxiety of graduating and leaving greendale, and what that would mean for "everybody else", in particular abed. throughout the entire episode, we have no stable answer as to whether any of the plot (the dark timeline) is real or not, especially with the chaos of the remedial theory episode until towards the end, during the dark study group v our study group paintball fight. here, its abed who reveals to jeff that this is all just a daydream and in his own head. it's not abed who is scared of change, not anymore, its jeff himself. he's scared of reverting back to who he was, four years ago, before meeting his friends and becoming a compassionate person. abed is the one to give him that motivational push this time and encourage him to fight his own fears head on. abed is the one who gives him the heads up of it all being okay.
its an exact mirroring of how jeff helps abed in his own imagination, and both see the other as a comfort for the uncertainty of the future. it's so amazing, especially when you think about how it's jeff who is having these "dark timeline" daydreams in a moment of emotional insecurity, much like abed did earlier in season three. even in the remedial chaos theory episode, it's abed who stops jeff from rolling the die to see who picks up the pizza. jeff thinks the same thing would happen this time for the graduation, but he stops himself after abed's imaginary speech.
there's a lot of bullshit with season 4 and people disliking it, calling it "the gas leak year" both on screen and off, but i thought the relationship of jeff and abed is so important here for the most part. i still haven't gone past episode 1 of season 5, mainly because after the end of the 1st one i got so upset that i didnt watch it open netflix for 3 days, and because my sister just started watching it! so i would rather just watch alongside with her from the start of s1 and lead up to beginning s5 and 6 with her.
a lot of this can also be read platonically/unromantically too, i just personally love their relationship a lot and find them underrated. they are so clearly two sides of the same coin and mirror each other in more ways than the others; even their falling out towards the end of the show where abed becomes more of a jaded cynic to jeff's protagonist role, while jeff becomes a more self-loathing depressed bastard. i know i havent gotten to s5 or 6 yet, but i've seen scenes and read things about their relationship then. not really a fan, but whatever.
tldr; jeff and abed are each other's comfort people and it's explicitly shown various times within the show, but most notable in season four; with abed's imaginary winger speech drawing him out of anxiety of the future, and jeff's imaginary abed speech drawing him out of the anxiety of graduating.
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Are there particular let’s plays of the Zero Escape games (or other games) that you recommend?
im probably not a great person to ask about this cuz I'm not big on letsplays for games im invested in and when i am watching them im always going for no commentary
BUT if you can find any lets play of 999 that sticks to the Novel Mode (basically the text is overlayed on top of the characters rather than being relegated to a text box at the bottom) I would highly recommend watching that version since it has a lot of prose that gets lost with the ADV mode
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this is so random but every time i see you in my notifs i read your username as quinnmorgoffengender or something and it took me MONTHS to realize it is in fact somebody’s name
Lmaoooo that's fantastic! but, just because today the show turned 26...
let me just say I think everyone should watch it. It truly has some of the best character development of all time, particularly Quinn, but you see the changes in everyone over time and it's the most accurate depiction of high school imo - I'm aware things are different for gen zers, but I think it still rings true. I love it so much I have two copies of it on DVD (one that was uhhhh not so legal but therefore has the original soundtrack), I have two versions of it on my computer, I basically have every episode memorized, I've dressed as Quinn for Halloween (though very few people recognize it), I can tell you the plot of each episode by just the title, I have a page on my blog where you can rank the episodes, and I even wrote fic combining that world with one of my other all time favorite shows, Arrested Development called You're Standing on My Neck (a line from the theme song, which goes tf off!) and it even has a sequel mostly written around one dumb, stupid, ridiculous joke I had combined with one specific episode, My Night at Tony's. ...And in the very first chapter of that one I all but paused the action for four characters to watch Clueless and Top Gun, because of course I did lol.
And while there are obviously many ways to watch it, if you want the most legal way, it's streaming on Paramount+, but it doesn't have the two TV movies (one between s4 and 5 and one that served as the finale after s5, though the first one is more important because it literally resolves cliffhanger relationship stuff from s4 but WHATEVER, PARAMOUNT)
And now I will just drop one of my all time fave quotes from one Quinn Morgendorffer
(P.S. Quinn's a lesbian)
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tbh as a six fan i feel so bad for thirteen fans
bc there are a lot of thirteen fans who are willing to defend shitty writing and poor decisions bc thirteen's their favourite doctor and there's no other way to say she's their favourite bc thirteen has only been off the air for 2 years at this point. thirteen also has the bonus problem of being the first female doctor which means a lot of her criticism is clouded by misogyny and other icky incel alt right shit
meanwhile with six, a lot of his problems had the benefit of the wilderness years, big finish, the expanded universe, and even people looking back at his doctor and realising that there was some good in his episodes. a lot of his fans didnt become his fans until recently and even most of his haters are quite clear that they hate the writing decisions and not the actor himself
like until jodie gets some good material - maybe big finish? theyre doing fugitive doctor and dhawan master stuff that might improve the problems with those - a lot of thirteen fans are going to be clutching at straws and trying to figure out why they like her and how to say so in a way that won't upset the predominantly male fandom, as well as won't disagree with common and very bloody obvious criticisms of chibnalls era
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