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One of the coolest things in DK Bananza is how the Voxel/material system interacts with enemy types. Because every enemy (that i can think of), is made of material. Which means only a dozen-ish enemies is enough, because it becomes combinatorics. Because the Crockroids can be made of any material, there are as many types of Crockroids as there are materials. Its a very refreshing take on the 'Squirrel, Red squirrel, blue squirrel, green squirrel, Black Death Squirrel' phenomenon.

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10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO

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Doing Yuletide Giftplanning. Want something that involves creativity on my part, but also replicates well for gifting the same thing to multiple family members. Was thinking making custom lego-sets.

I got the Scream down to aprox 16 USD, and am extremely proud of the elbows. But im just not feeling it...

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so like... Why does Nooroo know how to make Antikuma's again? (besides 'so we can pretend Lila is a more credible threat then Gabe') Like wasnt there a whole thing with Tiki mentioning that the kwami were never allowed to know how to make power-ups, so why the fuck is Nooroo an exception? Its not like Gabe told him, because 1-Gabe never interacts with nooroo, 2-if gabe knows its because its in the Booknotes, and Lila has the booknotes so she wouldnt need to ask Nooroo.

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shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

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Missed the Nintendo Stream cause work. Watching now

Missed the stream, watching now.

Timetravel katamari… cool for fans but I doubt the timetravel gimick is gonna add much (besides dev-time as they cant reuse assets due to anachronism) Just Dance, look if its still selling thats nice for fans Im not attached to the DBZ IP, but i do suspect that motioncontrolls in a fighting game are not gonna be used much. I apreciate the idea of letting fans do the spiritball by putting their hands in the air, but thats a gimick with a very short halflife. Plants VS Zombies, its weird that this franchise actually has die-hard fans. It feels like it should be in that 'candy crush'-zone of 'people play it because its familiar, not because they care' so its nice to see it go back to its roots after it went FPS for a bit. football... its just football not much to say, i hope the sporters got properly compensated for their likeness. Hope y'all spend that check on something fun. Pacman, huh... well if they're still making Pacman games thats good for them. FFTactics.. expanded remake... Persona 3... ... really hope they're carefull about that if its gonna be on the E-shop or a shared family account... This feels like a 'American 4yo imitates family switch-game with dads revolver' headline waiting to happen.

The warriors guys are still close friends with Zelda. Thats nice, the first game was good, and though i didnt get around to the Age of Calamity one, i just think Warriors has a good, franchisable formula. More IP's getting the warriors treatment please. Like if any studio/gameplay formula deserves to go Full Telltale. Its these guys. Handegg. Its handegg, Tom Hanks from Castaway Simulator. Looks interesting? I have no idea what the intended audience is. But it certainly looks interesting? Hela... I think it looks dumb. the charactermodel is awkward, doesnt integrate with the environment and everything about the way this game looks feels dissonent. Nice graplinghook though. Star Wars Outlaws... its a star wars prequel with Jabba, the cannonically-going-to-survive-this as your primary antagonist. So i doubt you'll get to feel much of that 'rebellious freedom' that the name and establishing shot seek to imply. Timegun: This game looks generic and blandpocalypse. And though the 'monsters can eat eachothers corpses and level up' mechanic is an interesting concept, i think it's probably going to either 1-be way too easy to dispose of corpses for it to be meaningfull 2-be overdone to the point of tedium. I do not foresee any middleground. 'Extracting essence of the people you meet in the past', so we're the ones making the 'monsters born of the remnants of humanity'. Please try not to put your plottwist in the trailer next time. Yakuza... i've got nothing. Good for its fans. Hope y'all have fun beating people with firehydrants on the way to your friday night Karaoke sessions. Funko Basketball looks more interesting then human basketball, thats for sure. Hello kitty. I still cant believe that the angry raccoon is a Sanrio property. The adventures of elliot... im going to be honest it took me a long time to realise this wasnt an octopath sequel-trailor focussing perhaps too long on a single character. Looks fun, asymetric multiplayer options are always cool, and im a sucker for pixies in leaf-dresses. Actual Octopath... cool for fans but I dont think i'll ever play '8 differnet tutorials'-the game... but the idea of a JRPG with Fallout 4 town-building is interesting at least.

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(me, my parents, my sister, and the baby are sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch)

baby, pointing at the light fixture over the table and signing "on": o.*

my sister: we actually can't turn that light on right now, because the lightbulb inside is burnt out! it needs a new one.

baby: ighbu.

sister: yes, lightbulb! granddaddy said after we eat he's going to climb up there on a ladder and change it, and then the light will come on!

baby: gadada! adda, uuu! ighbu o!

sister: exactly!

baby, signing "on" and pointing at the light and then my dad, with increasing urgency: GADADA ADDA UUUU. O.

my sister: we're going to finish eating first though, ok?

baby: nonono. O. gadada adda uuu.

[a split second goes by]

baby, pointing to himself: ba. adda uuu. ighbu.

me: you're going to climb the ladder and change the lightbulb yourself?

baby: dzyeah. *pointing to the buckle where he is buckled into the high chair* ububu.

me: unbuckle you? so you can change the lightbulb?

baby, highly businesslike: dzyeah.

*pronounced like "on" without the n

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Speculating for Watsonian reasons that the writers probably didnt think about themselves, but i personally headcannon because i think it makes sense: The ring and earrings are not just the most versatile, but also the nature of their specific powers has a unique caveat amongst the miraculi we've seen. The Lucky Charm explicitly works under the 'what you need not what you want'-magic system. (and Cataclysm is implied to work the same, hence why it goes from Destroy a Universe to shortcircuit a bus in a way that opens a door). WYN-NWYW is the most powerfull type of magic in all of narrative fiction. Like seriously, its the one OP magic-type that competent writers don't even give to the villains of their stories, its usually plot magic not people magic, limited to Hermit Mentors and once-an-age magical wishes. (at least writers of shows that want to have stakes dont give this type of magic to characters, IE: Micky Mouse Clubhouse and the Mousekatool get a pass because they're not trying to sell a sense of danger.) This means that the Ladybug and Black Cat come with a degree of in-built idiotproofing that prevents accidental mis-use for newbie heroes, that other miraculous dont get. For an in-show example of how this works: Even when Mr. Bug goes on the obvious instinct to use a mirror against Reflekdoll, this inate 'newby-proofing' still gives him 'what he needs' (coin shaped object that can be used as an improvised screwdriver) Every other miraculous would have required Fu to get onto the field to help the newbies get used to their power and use them wisely until they build up the experience to have proper judgement with the powers,but the rings and earrings prevent him from having to.

Here’s a quick but necessary question: why is the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous even out? I know for the plot but from a logical standpoint it doesn’t really make sense to have both out especially when they’re the main targets of Monarch, and by keeping them out you incentivize him to do more evil against Paris.

In the movie it at least was explained by Tikki and Plagg making the choice rather than Fu, and that together they make each other stronger. In the show, though I got nothing. Sure Ladybug is useful, but the Black Cat is more often that not a liability in the situations and Fu chose them vs having no choice. Honestly, if Ladybug and Chat Noir stopped appearing or at all, then Hawkmoth would have no reason to continue attacking Paris

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I do actually think that the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous come with the most versatile powers, so that could be it. The ability to create something once per fight and the ability to destroy something once per fight are both powers that can be taken advantage of in a moment’s notice in a way the other powers can't. It's really super risky to have those Miraculous out every time, though, although it did lessen the pressure on Fu, since Hawk Moth didn't make finding the Guardian a priority.

Maybe Fu just wanted the biggest burden off his shoulders! It's been a while since we bullied Fu on this blog so let's go with that!

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I have nothing much to say on the broader discussion, but i do want to provide my stance on the initial question regarding Senti Fertility. given that Kagami and Adrien are all-but-stated to have been designed as some kind of 'New World Adam and Eve'... So based on that, I strongly suspect that reproduction is a concern that Gabriel, Tomoe and Emilie took direct interest in and double-checked with Duusuu was not going to be a problem.

Something I think about sometimes is how Marinette basically created this whole ideal life with Adrien. Now, that's not exactly weird on its own. In fact, it's a very typical thing that people do when they want to enter a relationship with someone. But with the whole senti-nonsense, it made me wonder what would happen if that's not possible. What if Adrienette does end up getting married (with Adrien never knowing the truth) but sentis just biologically can't have kids? Or what if they can't have kids with humans? How much would it infuriate Marinette that Felix and Kagami have a kid but she and Adrien can't? Sounds like a very familiar situation.

Or what if Adrien just decides he doesn't want kids? Or at the very least he doesn't want them when Marinette wants them and she's surrounded by all her friends who started having kids so she's going insane with insecurity. Like she was going crazy because Adrien dared to have a female friend she's never met before. What would the compounding of insecurity, constant reminders of what she doesn't have but desperately wants, and the anxiety of her Perfect Life not going like she planned because her Perfect Husband dared to assert some autonomy. I mean we already have the Marinette-Gabriel parallel and they haven't done anything that says that this isn't a logical path. She killed Adrien for less (too lazy to get help or put in any effort, was it because she wanted the fight to end so she can show herself as the Perfect Girlfriend for Adrien and she can't do that if they're akumatized?) and she went crazy when he told her no multiple times and that was just for some weird personal celebration. If it was something she's desperately wanted for years, like kids? Mm.

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I actually did bring it up in a post before that the fandom seems to take it for granted that the Adrinette married life will just perfectly match up with Marinette’s fantasies, that she made up with no input from Adrien, back when he barely knew her (she still barely knows him outside of her fantasy). People just assumed Adrien would follow her desires in absolutely everything 100% even before he lost any semblance of free will.

But, like, let’s play pretend that the gods of this universe won’t have Adrien just agree to anything Marinette wants no matter how much it goes against what little characterization he has left. ‘Werepapas’ recently established that both sides of Adrien’s family do inherited names, and Marinette is the one who gaslit Adrien into thinking his father is someone he needs to revere, and he gets along with his grandparents now, so why would he not want to honor that family tradition? What if Adrien doesn’t want three children who are named Emma, Hugo and Louis?

Marinette absolutely flipped her lid repeatedly over maybe not having a perfect date with Adrien. Similarly, she just turned her hearing off when Adrien told her he wouldn't be coming to her 100th kiss magic charm party she was trying to trick him coming to. This girl does not see Adrien as a separate person.

Unless Marinette got some therapy in the between there, which I highly doubt, she’d absolutely go overboard over Adrien denying her the perfect family she’s planned out to the last minute detail since she was a teen. Like, at the very least she’d sabotage their birth control and just figure she’d play her pregnancy off as an accident to Adrien.

She'd feel really guily about it, though :(

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'sheherezade curtains' (in that they match the colour paint the store called Sheherezade). Well its a name, already carrying a sort-of-magical/mystical association. Might want to rework the last name from curtains to some synonym. But its not a terrible name.

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I want Adrien to have a trust problem

I want Adrien to have a trust problem after Marinette tells him the truth about his father (IF she tells him the truth cause knowing this show they can make another 5 seasons about how she doesnt tell him).

Cause like, its not only Marinette - basically EVERYONE he loves is lying to him - Marinette, Nathalie, Felix, Kagami- EVEN PLAGG doesnt say anything.

Not to mention they all know how abusive his father was, yet they all choose to remain silent and let everyone think that this horrible men was a hero.

I dont want Adrien to be like "Ohh, i know the only reason you lied to me about my abusive dad being the citys terrorist is because you love me". NO! I want my boy to be MAD, he deserves to be mad!

If it was me, i would have a HUGE trust problem .

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Great news, lets spread this worldwide.

looks like the government is doing something about cults

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I mean i found the fandom as a grown adult, s3. But that feels like an age.

Tell me, what did you think of Miraculous before the writing went to heck in a hand basket?

Im going to be honest, its been a while and I am starting to struggle to remember what the 'good times' even felt like. (which... is never a good sign). I know i could go back and watch those old episodes but... well its like going back and watching GOT S1 knowing it builds up to nothing. Why bother? you're only going to be hurt again. I remember chemistry and low-stakes fun, sometimes a bit clunky from time to time but harmlessly so. And the sense that Adrien and Marinette had legitimate chemistry between all layers of masks and plain-faces. Early miraculous was not ashamed to be goofy, (IE: The Mime and Mr. Pidgeon), later miraculous doesnt let itself get wacky. Everything must be heavy because levity is for 'lesser' stories.

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Somewhere, there is an eternal concert. You have been there since you died. You've seen Hendrix, Cobain, Winehouse, all of the greats. Your ears are still ringing from the first Ozzy show there when the spotlight lands on a single piano. A dapper man in a suit comes out and quietly sits down to thunderous applause.

"I have to say, I am a little surprised to be here. I can only say, it's a good thing the standards to enter the heavenly gates are as good as those to join the US Military"

And then he plays.