#and theres no way capcom would go back to that

[rindustrial]

im trying to keep expectations pretty tempered irt re9 but im very intrigued by what theyre going to do. im still of the opinion that they should kinda like. Kill it off already but its a wonderful moneymaker why would they

[basil-does-arttt]

I see a lot of people (including myself) tend to think Nero was accidental. That he wasn't planned on either Vergil's part or Nero's mom's part, he was just a byproduct of circumstances or whatever and thats why he was abandoned by his mother in the orphanage.

But what if he wasnt accidental at all?

What got me thinking about this was Vergil's line in his ending in DMC4SE; "Soon they shall know this devil's power. The power of a son of sparda".

Theres no way he would've been talking about Dante. By that point in time he likely assumed Dante was either dead or long gone off on his own thing, and he probably wouldn't be meaning himself either because he's leaving fortuna in this cutscene. That leaves one option: Nero.

Vergil wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. Thats why he was in Fortuna in the first place, to learn more about Sparda and the life he lived, what he did and accomplished, etc. Sparda had two sons, and you probably know where im going with this by now.

Maybe thats why Vergil did too. He wanted to follow in his dad's footsteps, and being the misguided and naive teenager he was, he couldve thought that was the next step in his journey. (Then promptly realized he either didnt want or wasnt ready for a son and fucked off)

"Soon they shall know this devil's power. The power of a son of sparda".

Not just any son; His son.

Another thing that makes me lean into this theory is how he reacted to the revelation of Nero being his son from Dante in DMC5. He didnt sound all that surprised, if you ask me.

His reaction comes across to me as if he knew of this "son" ready, but of course since he had never met Nero in his life, he didnt know who this son was. He knew he had a son, he just didnt know it was Nero specifically;

Nero, who he'd just spent basically an entire game relying on and trusting his fate to (and dante ig but thats not the focus here) as V, Nero who he ripped the arm off of to regain Yamato unknowing of who he really was - only that he had Yamato - and Nero who he'd just abandoned yet again to fuck off to the top of the Qliphoth where he intended to meet one of two fates to his battle with Dante; death, or survival, and neither of those involved his son at all.

And now that he knows who his son is, now that he's met and has known his son for a while now actually, he's left to deal with the guilt of abandoning him and leaving him on his own for the last 25(ish) years. For hurting him, mutilating him, damn near fucking killing him as Urizen. This son who he never had any intention of knowing, ever, not even once.

This son who he now has to learn to love, or at least accept as a part of him and his life, whether Nero himself accepts it back or not.

(And yknow, i think things will work out fine for them if capcom ever decides to make another entry into the timeline. Nero seemed pretty set on keeping his father alive after all, why would he bother if he didn't care? And Vergil seems to be making an effort - albeit an awkward one but its still an effort nonetheless - to be present in Nero's life at least to some degree judging off that main menu screen of them sitting together in the van in tense silence.

And he does care about Nero, way more than he lets on. Gifting his book to Nero is clean proof of it, that book which represents his heart. His love, his soul, his being.

So yeah. I think they’ll turn out okay.)

[autumnwyvern]

idk why but I'm gonna soapbox for a moment. its MY blog and I get to decide when I post a rambly rant!

People need to get it absorbed into their minds that a translation error and a deliberate localization change are not the same thing. A translation error is when two similar sounding/looking words get mixed up, or (in the case of JP-ENG which is what I'm about to really get into here) really inconsistent romanizations for proper nouns, or characters getting misgendered/having the wrong pronouns. There are tons of things. Read Legends of Localization. Read anything with the title of "This Be Bad Translation" because they are extremely funny, and then read the more informative articles. Buy the books even. For even further FURTHER reading Capcom has a really good track record with their localizers just talking about their games and the decisions they made in articles/blog posts. Actually let me reference one now to make a point:

Maya Fey in the original script loves a big hearty bowl of ramen. Adores it. And girl... I understand. However if you've played the english Ace Attorney games you may recall in those she really loves a big juicy burger. Is this a mistranslation? Did the localizers somehow goof up and say burger instead of ramen? No. The global release of the first game came out in 2005 and at that point in time most Americans who knew was a real bowl of ramen was were either Japanese-American, been to Japan, or a huge stinkin anime nerd. Everyone else if you told them to imagine ramen they'd picture a cup noodle. So if you want to go for mass appeal you think to yourself. Okay. What would be the American equivalent in this situation. A hearty cultural food that one may want to get to celebrate a job well done. And they landed on burgers. It was a deliberate, thought-through choice. And while you, personally, may feel that it was a mistake. It fundamentally isnt. There is no 100% right way to localize something. Theres a lot of factors to consider! And sometimes a change in how these factors are approached leads to my next point.

A character having slightly different mannerisms or way of speech between games is also, not inherently a mistranslation. If you are my age consider for a moment the anime localizations of our youth. Digimon Adventure. Early seasons of Pokemon. Sailor Moon. They were really allowed to go "off-script" and ham it up and make a bunch of jokes that weren't in the original, but I look back on them fondly and I know others do too! Being more loose and going for the overall vibes and doing so in a way that (hopefully) appeals to your audience is a perfectly fine way to do things. But now anime (and manga) localization has changed a lot. There is a lot more emphasis on "accuracy" and having a "true" translation. Which like isn't a thing that exists. In fact, often times being too 1:1 literal makes a localization worse and clunky and weird. But the point is in more modern "accurate" translations those characters often act a little differently. Neither of those versions are wrong its just a different approach. But it is in Splatoon where I think you can really see it in stark contrast, because in the first game the North American localization were allowed to freestyle it a bit more. In general they gave characters more bombastic personalities and weird little quirks that like werent in the european english version at All. So Splatoon becomes a hit, it is like The Game that ppl are buying a Wii U for, so the sequels roll around and the leash gets tightened a bit. You will sometimes see people say things like the translations got Better or crack jokes about how nintendo must have fired the old guys or whatever. But what happened is. They are going for brand consistency. Now all the English scripts are mostly the same (sorry not sorry for infecting the european english version with briish Spyke). Which is to say they are trying to avoid different versions from having really different interpretations of characters but they are still in some ways allowed to put their own little spin on things. Which brings me to the actual. true reason for all this meandering.

No. Craig saying "I don't see species" is not a mistranslation. Its a localization choice. Here we have a situation where we are trying to convey an older man who isnt Hip with it anymore but kind off thinks he is. Just a real out of touch guy. He means well but still has some internalized prejudices. Americans are really familiar with people saying "I don't see race." Like. He is A Grandpa. That is an extremely grandpa thing to say when someone challenges them on if they are going to be chill that there is someone of a different race over for dinner. It's fine. If you had a strong reaction to him saying that thats good, even. Like idk I wasn't in the room when they made that specific choice but I imagine they wanted to licit that "oogh uh oh no you cant say that grandpa yiikes ����" reaction. Like idk I think that was their intent and it worked. And thats why we are still talking about it years later. (also, as more of an aside. I don't think him being Nicer to marina/eight in the JP script means he isn't still kinda racist towards octolings? Like the first thing he does in splatoon 3's story mode is announce the octarians are back and Totally behind whats going on and need to be stopped. He says this even if you are an octoling. dude got divorced so hard he became racist, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this. Marie is also kind of racist too. Sorry! that doesn't make them Bad Characters and that you are Bad for enjoying them btw. It just means they have character flaws. which is good and normal and cool.)

[scoobertdum]

Resident Evil 7: BIOHAZARD; A Ghoul Bayou 

Everyone knows Resident Evil, I’m not going to act like this series is some sleeper hit that everyone missed out on. Resident Evil 7: BIOHAZARD was released in 2017 to critical acclaim. It was a ‘return-to-form,’ if you will, after the blunder that was Resident Evil 6. This is my second Resident Evil game I’ve completed, the first being the RE2Make. I’ve played the original Resident Evil and Nemesis both for the PSX but have yet to complete them. 

Overview 

 Resident Evil 6 was released in 2012 and received as a pretty, alright game, but it was the culmination of everything that Resident Evil wasn’t at its conception. Fast paced action gameplay, massive theatrics, it was an, as GameInformer said in their review, “unhinged flaming rollercoaster ride.” After seeing this luke-warm response, CAPCOM said, “Okay, we got off-base there. Let’s take this back to square one.” 

Now, five years later, Resident Evil 7: BIOHAZARD Did you know it’s called BIOHAZARD 7: Resident Evil in Japan??? Was released. In this game, the series went back to its roots in survival-horror. The lighting was much darker, the gameplay slower, and you had to make sure you made every bullet count. In addition to this, this was the first main-series Resident Evil game to be completely in first-person (first ever award belongs to Resident Evil Survivor on the PSX). But with the history lesson out of the way, let this random nobody tell you about his experience with the game. 

Why am I doing this? 

Ethan Winters just received an email from his wife, Mia Winters, who has been missing for three years. Mia urges Ethan to come find her in Dulvey, Louisiana, giving Ethan the address to some beat-up abandoned house in the bayou. Inside the house, Ethan does find Mia, but she is in a panic and wants to get out as soon as possible before “Daddy comes.” Ethan’s beautiful wife Mia then attacks him for taking so long to find her and he is forced to put her down. Afterwards, Ethan is welcomed to the family by Daddy and knocked out. 

The house is revealed to be owned by a perfectly average Louisiana family called the Bakers. In the family you have daddy Jack Baker, mommy Marguerite Baker, and big brother Lucas Baker. Ethan’s goal at this point is to politely refuse this good ol’ fashioned southern hospitality, find Mia, and get out of here before anymore crazy shit happens. 

What’s in the (gameplay) loop? 

As I mentioned earlier, this was the first mainline Resident Evil game to be completely in the first-person. Ultimately though, this doesn’t really affect the gameplay. It still plays exactly like a Resident Evil game would. You can find a multitude of weapons to defend yourself with, you pick up herbs to heal yourself, you can combine herbs with chem fluid to make stronger healing items (although this has its own dedicated menu now). Probably the only mechanic allowed by the first-person perspective is the ability to block. You press the button, Ethan raises his hands up, and you can prevent the full force of the enemy’s attack from hitting you. It’s a cool mechanic, but while playing the game, I often forgot it was there and ended up just running away from enemies to put some distance between us.  

This game also introduces a new enemy bioweapon. You aren’t battling t-Virus zombies or people infected with las plagas anymore. The enemies in this game are The Molded, people infected with a fungal mold that has completely overtaken them and turned them into big black globs. For all intents and purposes though, these are still zombies. They’re slow like zombies, headshots hurt more like zombies, they’re zombies. Theres even a licker variety of them! They can stretch their arms sometimes to hit you, which you’ll have to look out for. But just treat these guys like normal Resident Evil zombies. 

Some aspects did annoy me during my playthrough of this game. First and foremost, Ethan moves like a slug. I try pressing the run button and Ethan gets as fast as a speed walk. Normally I wouldn’t mind this, I can take things slow, but almost everything in this game is faster than you. I can only assume the block mechanic was put in because the devs knew you wouldn’t be able to outrun enemies and wanted to give you something, so you don’t take a bunch of damage. Beyond this, the flamethrower you get feels completely pointless. Yeah, you use it to great advantage when taking care of Marguerite, but it has almost no use beyond this. Bugs don’t appear as an enemy after this point. You can still use the flamethrower on molded, but you’ll use half the clip on one enemy, it’s a waste. 

Immersing yourself 

This game looks and sounds fantastic. The level of detail put into all the environments and models is staggering. You’ll get full close-ups of all the characters and it’s insane how gross and detailed the devs managed to make them. Marguerite will have bugs crawling through her teeth, you can see how mangled Jack’s mouth is, Lucas’s bloodshot eyes, etc.. The sound design is made to put you right on edge with everything going on around you. You’re surrounded by the ambiance of the house and creatures around you, listening carefully to make sure you aren’t about to run into any molded. When you’re trying to run away from them, it’s tense hearing their footsteps right behind you as you try to close the door. 

I’m not the biggest fan of the first-person perspective for this game. I’m a big fan of the fixed camera angles from the older games. I feel like that really added to the experience because you didn’t know what was beyond your view. You wouldn’t know a zombie is there until you walk to the next screen and see him, it was more tense. Now you have full camera control and can be fully aware of your surroundings. I know it feels better to play, but it lost some of that tension in the process. 

Ethan kind of stinks as a protagonist too. He’s meant to be a faceless blank slate for the player to insert themselves into. The problem is that Ethan still talks in this game and is given a character motive that the normal player can not relate to. All I know about this guy is that he wants to find his wife and that’s it. The whole time he’s in the Baker home, he’s reacting to everything like a normal Saturday. Obviously he’s bewildered by the Bakers but he isn’t shaken up or deterred, he just keeps making little quips. Don’t get me wrong, I like him for his unfunny quips, but he really should’ve had a character arc like Ash Williams from Evil Dead. 

Does this game deserve more of my simoleons? 

Resident Evil 7 BIOHAZARD contains three extra content packs that add worthwhile content to this game. These packs are Banned Footage, Not a Hero, and End of Zoe. For this review, I will only be reviewing Not a Hero and End of Zoe. Not a Hero was released as a free expansion for the game, while Banned Footage and End of Zoe both required some payment. Before I get into each pack, I want to say that I do not think this content is worth the full asking price. Buy the complete edition of the game when it’s on sale, but don’t spend the full price. Each pack is around an hour to an hour-and-a-half of extra content. I don’t mind short games at all, I think a good short game is ten times more enjoyable than a mediocre long game. But $15 for something I can complete on my lunch break? Not a fan. 

I chose not to play the Banned Footage DLC pack during my playthrough of the game. This content pack appeared to be similar the Mercenaries game modes in previous Resident Evil Games. Unlike in Mercenaries, this content pack isn’t a score attack mode; rather, its three segments where you play as the cameraman, Clancy, from the Derelict House Footage tape found in the main game. From my understanding, this content pack contains three “challenge missions” meant to test your gameplay and problem-solving skills. I didn’t feel particularly captivated by the core gameplay enough to feel like I was missing out if I skipped this content, but it’s there for anyone who’d like an extra challenge from the Baker Family. 

Not a Hero 

In Not a Hero, you play as returning character, Chris Redfield. Chris is going back into the quarantine zone to find Lucas Baker and detain him. 

For a free DLC, this isn’t bad at all. Chris’s gameplay is a bit more action-packed than Ethan’s; you aren’t likely to get scared by anything here. After a tense campaign of trying to conserve your ammo though, this is a great relaxing campaign of being able to give the Molded everything you got without having to watch your ammo count closely. Theres a couple of new enemy types with the White Molded. These special molded are immune to all conventional forms of damage and require Chris to find and use special RAMROD ammo to take these guys down. 

End of Zoe 

In End of Zoe you play as new character, Joe Baker, brother of Jack Baker. In this campaign, Joe finds his niece Zoe crystallized from the mold and resolves to find a way to save her. 

This extra campaign offers a new gameplay style altogether to the game. Joe’s gameplay is more oriented towards fisticuffs and backwoods survival. Joe will be going hand-to-hand with all the molded that cross his path, being able to perform stealth takedowns and strong four-hit combos. Joe also can use sticks and scrap metal to craft wooden spears. These will mostly be used as a ranged weapon to take out mold-infected gators in the swamp, but they also serve as an effective method to safely take out molded from further away. This new gameplay style was extremely fun to play. Sure, it's pretty goofy to be taking out mutated monstrosities with just your fists, but it's extremely satisfying at the same time. 

As a character, Joe was infinitely more times interesting than Ethan Winters. In the short time I spend with him, I can understand his backstory and the plight facing him. Joe actually engages in the situation facing him like how a person should. Ethan felt weird to play, because he’s a normal guy and fought back against the horrors of the Bakers with absolutely no training and the entire time he’s saying things like “That is NOT groovy.” Joe on the other hand, you can tell that this guy has been living as a frontiersman for some time as well as being an ex-marine. It makes sense that he has the training to be confident in taking out molded with his bare fists. It’s also charming how obvious it is that he has no clue what anything Blue Umbrella set up is, he just knows that it’ll help Zoe and that’s all that matters to him. 

Finishing touches 

Overall, I enjoyed my time with Resident Evil 7: BIOHAZARD. I don’t think it was a standout game from the rest of the series, but it was enjoyable from start to finish. When I played Resident Evil 2, I felt more engaged during that game to replay it over and over to try and get better completion times and I just didn’t feel that same compulsion with Resident Evil 7. This is a game I’d probably look forward to playing with my friends and seeing their reactions, but I’m not sure how much I’ll be replaying this one. 

[dumbasswhatever]

Yessss to that trucy take ! I love her but like, there's so much room to explore her character beyond 'oh she's mean to apollo and cute and funny' like she has so much power. I know this aint as extreme as evil trucy, but id love if people explored her flaws more. She DEFINITELY takes stuff a little too far sometimes and i Want to See it

yes! i love trucys character SO fucking much and i wish people would explore it more like...did she feel regret after giving the bloody ace to apollo? after all, she’d already seen what that did to phoenix, so theres no way she could ignorantly think that it would go perfectly. i like to think that it was her idea to invite apollo to join the agency because she felt so guilty about it. also, its mentioned that she does the agencys finances. does she really, or is that just a joke? because if so, then thats a hell of a lot of responsibility to take on at a young age. what other responsibilities has she taken on? phoenix is pretty much canonically chronically depressed and he says in aa4 that trucy was his “light.” how much has she done to help him? how much has he done to help her express her emotions, which she tries so hard to suppress with a smile? their relationship is so incredible and i want to see it explored so much more. did trucy ever find out that phoenix and zak were playing poker to see who was more suited to be her father? how did she react to finding out that her biological father died and her dad was arrested for it? she had to help by giving apollo the forged evidence. how long did she have to suppress every bit of sadness and guilt. maybe she wasnt even guilty at all when she first gave apollo the card, because she was simply overwhelmed with everything else that had happened, and the guilt hit later, once she was safe and sound at home with her dad. what would she have done if the bloody ace was revealed to be forged and apollos badge was taken away? did phoenix ever tell her the truth behind magnifis death? or did she think that either her dad or her uncle murdered her grandfather? she wasnt old enough to understand exactly what was going on back then, but as she grew older, she would realize what had happened. did she ask phoenix about it, crying? or did she hide every thought and emotion she had about it? how did she react to the realization that she was partially responsible for phoenixs disbarment? HOW WILL SHE REACT TO FINDING OUT THAT PHOENIX HAS BEEN HIDING A SECRET ABOUT HER FROM HER FOR YEARS? IT HAS TO BE SO DIFFICULT FOR HER TO TRULY TRUST ANYONE AFTER EVERYTHING SHES BEEN THROUGH, AND WITH JUST A FEW WORDS, PHOENIX WILL HAVE TO TEAR DOWN ALL OF THAT TRUST THAT HES BUILT UP OVER YEARS??? OR MAYBE CAPCOM IS JSUT GOING TO BRUSH ALL OF THAT ASIDE AND HAVE HER SMILE CUTELY AND SAY “I HAVE A MOM NOW!!!!!” AND THATS GOIING TO BE FUCKING IT????? MAUBE THAT WILL HAPPEN. GOD

[turnaboutyandere]

Ace attorney characters when you pack a bento box (boxed lunch) for them:

(In japan that's a indirect expression of love and in this case a confession)

Phoenix gets it right away. He smiles and blushes. And as he kisses y/n for the first time realizes he might not need to chase rivals away. Out of all of them hes probably the softest receiving a bento box. He jumps straight to calling you his girlfriend. Phoenix thinks about it all day and when he opens it come lunchtime and finds a little love note above his rice he tears up.

(Also if you make two, one for him and one for trucy he will melt)

Miles DOESNT get it right away. He doesnt understand why, when he has so much money, y/n would feel the need to pack him a lunch. He doesnt understand why his confusion causes y/n such a blush for a good five minutes. By the time he remembers the cultural significance they already left. He texts them something between sweet and formal. At noon (though I think he does have a tendency to skip lunch to work) he opens it and finds a little love note. He feels a lot of things at once and just like him ends up very smug

Franziska is silent for a second. It's not that she understands the implications, it completely flies over her head. No shes quiet cause she believes she should be taking care of you and not vice versa. Then she tells y/n to set it on the table, and is very confused when they leave the room practically skipping. It isn't until shes having lunch and her brother and gumshoe walk into the room to give her paperwork does she understand. Her brother asks her were she got it (idk if she's a good cook or would bother learning Japanese cooking) and when she relays your confounding behavior miles has the nerve to laugh. Then gumshoe surprisingly explains it to her. She turns pink and carefully opens it. Sure enough theres a love note in a sealed bag to keep it clean. That evening she buys a locket.

You have to know Diego for a very long time before he let's you cook for him. And he will never again accept open drinks from anyone. So y/n ever the sweetie invites him over in the early morning and hopes it doesnt irritate him. ( it doesnt cause hes already normally there). When he shows up y/n invites him in and leads him to the kitchen and they cook together so he can see whats in everything. He doesnt admit it but it makes him feel like they're married. It's when she hands him not his lunch but a bottled coffee still sealed does he go from crushing to love. Though he didnt like the extra sugar and milk in Japanese bottled coffee, they validated his trauma and therefore is not getting rid of him now.

Dahlia is an odd case. She pretends to not understand. She laughs her laugh like silver bells and thanks them as sweet as she can but I dont think she actually eats it. She worries shes been found out. That your trying to poison her. I can see her being better safe than sorry. Still she opens it to take a picture to post on her social media and sees the love note. She reads it once then again. And smiles sly. Her plan was working

Iris on the other hand completely understands and let's you know she knows. She asks if their seriously ok with dating someone already under oaths and vows. If thier ok respecting such boundaries. When y/n nods she begins to cry. At lunch time when she opens it she begins to cry again for two reasons

1) it's made specifically with her eating restrictions in mind. Y/n did their research

And

2) the love note. Oh goodness the love note. Never before has such a small paper made a girl so happy.

Wocky feels guilty that you pulled the bento thing first. His parents are Japanese and run a cafe and he couldn't make you a bento. When he voices his concerns and they take it as him accepting the confession and kiss him he feels a little better. He normally eats what his parents make for lunch but today. Is different. When he finds the love note he cries. He feels safe with s/o for the first time. Alita never wrote love notes or cooked lunches.

Mia the sweet women she is, flushed but tries to stay somewhat level headed, somewhat her normal level of cool. She sets it on her desk and takes y/n into her arms. She doesn't ask if they mean it cause shes scared they dont. That...it would destroy her, so she doesnt give them a chance. She would return the favor the next day but imagine be honest. I dont think she can cook either. She keeps the love note with everything else that reminds her if y/n. In a jewelry box under a floorboard.

Klavier doesnt understand it.... Much like franziska, he has no clue. But In a way he does? He knows this is something y/n put time and effort and money into, all for him. So he accepts it, calling y/n beautiful in the process. He doesnt get the fact that it was a confession...at first. Then he Googles what it means and sure enough it was a confession. And hes relieved cause he had accepted it and complimented them. He had agreed to their confession.

(before anyone says it, yes, I know Kristoph isn’t actually German, but I don’t care. Capcom can rip my “the Gavins are German” headcanon from my cold, dead hands)

Aight, so, ya girl is back. I’m gonna keep the ask box closed for a bit until I clear out all the asks I have (and finish a request) so please be patient. Thank you!

Damon: Doesn’t get it right away, but thinks it’s sweet that you made him lunch. He may google it later assuming he knows how to use google or ask someone about it, which is how he finds out the meaning behind it. Rather than make you a bento box in return, he’ll get you a bouquet of roses and invite you to join him for dinner instead. Between the roses, though, you’ll find a cute little love note with a smiley face scribbled onto it.

Shelly: He’s been around the block a few times, so he likely knows what it means. He’ll thank you and give you a peck on the cheek, promising to make you lunch as well. Once he finishes eating, he’ll put the note somewhere safe so he can reread it whenever he wants.

Matt: Has a security guard try it before he does, for safety reasons. Once he sees how upset you are by that, he’ll apologize and ask you to explain the meaning behind it (he knows he fucked up lmao). After you explain it, he’ll apologize (while being so fucking smug internally) and thank you for the lunch. He can’t cook to save his life, so don’t expect him to return the favor, but he will leave you a little note where you can find it; something along the lines of “I love you, dude <3“.

Kristoph: Prides himself on knowing a little about everything, so for him not to know the meaning behind your gift is unlikely. He’ll happily accept it and give you a gentle kiss on the forehead, all while hiding how smug he feels. He’ll also give you bento box in return, but with German cooking instead of Japanese. Oh, and that little love note you put in there? Expect to find a three page-long love letter in your lunch.

Ray: Pretty knowledgeable about romantic traditions around the world, so the chances of him getting it are pretty high. He’ll thank you for it rather sheepishly, as this is one of the few times you’ll get to see him flustered. Once he reads the note, though, he’ll pull you into a big hug, tears brimming at the corners of his eyes. Afterwards, he’ll immediately set out to make you a bento box in return, or take you out to dinner if you prefer.

Sebastian: Bless his dense heart, he’s clueless. He’ll be very thankful though, and promise to make you something in return (despite his nonexistent cooking skills). He’ll likely eat it at work and brag about how you made it for him, which is when Miles steps in to explain the meaning behind it. That + the love note is enough to make him cry tears of joy, and he’ll tackle you in a hug the moment he gets the chance to.

Simon K: Doesn’t know how to feel at first because he’s never had someone make him lunch before. Once he sees the note inside, though, he realizes what it means and becomes even more emotionally confused than before. He’ll thank you, rather awkwardly, and promise to make something for you. He’s not much of a wordsmith but he’ll still add a note, expressing how grateful he is for the lunch.

Katherine: Will be on the verge of tears when you give her the bento box, and will flat-out start crying when she reads the love note. She’ll cling to you, thanking you profusely and promising to make you one as well. She keeps her word and makes you a wonderful bento box the very next day. Instead of a love note, however, you’ll receive a song she wrote about you (and she’ll even sing it to you while you eat).

Bobby: Another very dense yandere who is definitely going to get scolded by Blackquill for not understanding what your gift means. He’ll make up for it though, by going above and beyond to make you the best bento box you’ve ever eaten (it won’t be the prettiest and he’ll likely have burned something, but it’s the thought that counts, right?). He’ll also keep your love note on his bedside table so he can read it every night before bed and every morning when he wakes up.

Simon B: He’s a huge weeaboo Japanese cultural enthusiast, so he’ll get it right away. He’ll tease you about it and act cocky as usual, but in reality, he’s trying to hide the very obvious blush on his face. He’ll keep your note safely tucked away in his coat pocket for whenever he wants to reread it. He won’t return the favor right away, though. Instead, he’ll give it to you when you least expect it in order to fluster you.

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- Mod Dollie

[robin-hood-for-freedom]

Every time theres some controversy about microtransactions or lootboxes, commies come out of the woodwork to blame capitalism. I've even seen some call gaming a 'microcosm of our entire economic system.'

But I actually think that the reality is almost exactly the opposite. That gaming actually is a great example of Mises' idea of 'consumer sovereignty.' That businesses, even very very large ones, are ultimately responsive to the demands of consumers(in this case, gamers). As every single major controversy in gaming ends with 'and the developers patched or modded the game to be more in line with consumer demands.'

Star Wars Battlefront II was criticized for its absurd lootbox system and the difficulty of unlocking new characters. EA removed all non-cosmetic items from lootboxes before the game even released and eventually unlocked all characters and ships for all players.

No Man's Sky was criticized for being deceptive about what features the game would have. And the developers have spent the last 4 years added in not only all the features they promised, but a bunch of new ones. And if you play it now, its actually pretty damn good game(seriously)

Fallout 76 was criticized for its lack of NPCs and any real story. Bethesda added in NPCs and new story elements. While I wouldn't say FO76 is a good game now, its definitely a marked improvement over when it was released.

Or we could go back even further: DMC: Devil May Cry was criticized for...well everything. And when Capcom made a new DMC, it was a sequel to the original series that completely ignored the reboot.

Or even all the way back to ME3, and the fact that it was criticized for its lackluster ending. And Bioware released a patch that somewhat improved it.

[wow-thisismylifeiguess]

finished dmc5. here are my thoughts:

- first of all, I ABSOLUTELY FUCKING LOVED IT. I’m not at all picky when it comes to story telling and shit like that, I’m v easy to please, but I enjoyed this shit so fucking much

- as someone who’s pretty back at video games (also, I was using a switch pro controller so maybe that’s why some shit was rough for me), this game is still pretty fucking fun to play.

- I fucking loved the way it would switch between characters and each of them being unique. Dante is highkey my fave just from the vast amount of devil arms he has (King Cerberus is a favorite, but so is DSD). V was fun because he allowed me to do my favorite thing, aka run away and spam buttons. And Nerooooo. I lowkey kept forgetting to use Nico’s arms, but that was still fun af

- IM DANTE’S BITCH AND I ALWAYS WILL BE, BUT SOME OF THOSE SHOTS OF NERO AND VERGIL??? I’m only but a woman....

On to actual story/plot things:

- I would SO love to know how nero comes to meet nico and start working for dante. DMC 4 and 5 are five years apart and I wanna know what happens in that gapppppp

- I didn’t expect to love V this much, but when you stop to realize that V /is/ Vergil, and that anything V has said, Vergil has probably thought himself, it makes things so interesting (I’m mostly thinking about the scenes where he nearly stabs Dante w the DSS and also when he talks about regretting his actions). I’m happy to know that while V is gone, he isn’t /gone/ gone. (Vergil, stab yourself again, pls). ALSO. NERO FEELING UPSET OVER V BEING GONE WAS SO SAD

- Nero holding onto the fact that Dante called him deadweight makes it SO obvious this boy looks up to Dante and was HURT by that comment. We all know dante did it as a deterrent, and whether or not he actually meant it isn’t important. I think what it was was just Dante not wanting to drag yet another person into his fights with Vergil, and for Nero to not have to live with the fact that Dante was trying to stop/kill Nero’s /father/

- SPEAKING OF THAT. WHAT THE FUCK, DANTE. GOD, the BETRAYEL Nero must have felt, not just from Vergil, but from Dante too. God, all his life this kid just wanted family, and this is how it’s revealed to him that he /does/ have blood relatives. What was the point of hiding that fact? ‘Cause Dante couldn’t prove it? What the fuckkkkkk

- Vergil not even knowing Nero was his son was also fucked to me. It makes me think that in potential future games, we’ll never know who his mother is/was. I truly would love to know how Vergil feels about Nero. Does he have any regrets?

- GOD, THAT ENDING. While the tone isn’t nevessarily sad, /IM/ fucked up about it!!! Nero JUST FUCKING FOUND HIS FAMILY, ONLY FOR THEM TO HAVE TO ABANDON HIMMMMMM (thought both of them punching Nero /was/ pretty funny. And even if Nero never found out about his relationship with Dante and Vergil, he still /lost/ Dante, someone who is NO DOUBT a mentor figure for him (and my hopeful heart also says ‘father figure’).

- god, what money I wouldn’t pay to see more of Dante and Vergil together now that they’re stuck in hell for an indefinite amount of time. Vergil has the Yamato tho so they definitely have a method of escape, but I wanna see them fight /together/. Live /together/. BE BROTHERS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PROBABLY OVER THIRTY YEARS

- I’ve heard rumors that in a potential DMC6, the story would no longer focus on Dante and Vergil, and rather just on Nero, but that makes /no/ sense to me. While yes, the series has Dante as the mc, more importantly is the story of the Sparda bloodline. That includes all THREE of them. Plus, THERES SO MUCH POTENTIAL FOR VERGIL AND DANTE CONTENT NOW THAT THEY’RE NOT ‘enemies’ ANYMORE. PLUS, Nero and Vergil bonding??? I think /YES/

Additional comments:

- I greatly enjoyed this game and I highly fucking recommend it.

- between all the DMC games, (or just 3, 4, and 5), my favorites go from 5 - 3 - 4.

- I really do hope there’s another game in the future, regardless of if Vergil and Dante are in it, and from the damn time gap between 4 and 5, that probably won’t even happen for a v long time, but I’ll wait patiently for it

I definitely have more things to say but that’s it for now. I’m gonna go read fic now because....mmmmmmm. I need Sparda family bonding time since CAPCOM WONT GIVE IT TO ME

[videostak]

things i wanna get whenever i have money to buy them comfortably!

mario galaxy (i used to have this but my disc got way too scratched over the years and doesnt get past the first cutscene T-T and ive played a bit of galaxy 2 lately but that only makes me wanna play galaxy 1 more since i rly liked the ambience/ost in the first one way more...)

yoshis island gba (this was the first way i played yoshis island as a kid and the version im most fond of but lost the cart forever ago but it isnt as important since i have the japanese sfc version but would like to replay this one to hear yoshis voice n stuff lol and to read the text ingame)

f zero x (since i blew thru the og f zero on snes so quickly i rly wanna play this version and i used to have a rom of it way back in like 2013 and it had like glitchy  textures on the emulator i used but still really enjoyed it and wanna play it again but on actual hardware this time since i have an n64 but since theres not too many games they released on it i wanna get every great game i can especially considering i have this like oem gray controller in like perfect conditon i found at the thrift way way way back when and had used it when playing mario kart 64 and paper mario and zelda and mario 64 etc lol.)

doom 64 (i never played this but it seems to be not too expensive when compared to some other n64 carts which surprised me cause its a third party game and i wouldve assumed that it didnt sell to well initially lol but ya it looks p fun and would be nice to play and mainly wanna get it b4 the price goes up especailly considering all the new dooms are gonna make more ppl interested in the originals and this one has always been an oddity in the series so ya hopefully it doesnt go too high T-T)

also kinda wanna play the original quake cause they got trent reznor to do the soundtrack lol but i wonder how the best way to get it would be since its a pc game and im too much of a chumpsky to make a whole steam account again... and also wanna get quake 64 since its not a perfect port apparently and whatnot

o also tatsunoko vs capcom on wii cause im scared its gonna become unpurchasable sometime soon T-T

[lilietsblog]

ehhh i just feel that the fact that the only character with prosopagnosia is both a murderer and killed off is a problem, and the fact that it was manipulated and used by ga'ran without that fact ever being outright criticized is. not good on capcoms part. i agree with you abt uendo tho, i disliked that he was outed against his will but i did really like that he wasnt the killer and that he was handled in a largely respectful way

SOJ SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

do you think they really needed to criticize Garan specifically for exploiting her husband’s mental health and not just, y’know, EVERY SINGLE OTHER ASPECT OF THE SITUATION, LIKE HOW SHE KILLED HIM

one thing about how aa treats neurodiversity that I really respect is how it doesnt Make It A Thing. nobody ever comments on how fucking autistic Manfred is, nor on how fucking autistic Miles and Franziska are. its just a background thing evened out between villain and protagonist so theres no stereotype or trope playing out smoothly in either direction

Neurodivergent People Are Uwu Babies Who Need To Be Protected And Can Do No Harm is not an approach I’m particularly fond of, because of both abstract reasoning reasons and personal experience reasons, and AA does NOT do that

Garan made use of Inga’s prosopagnosia, Rayfa’s insecurity, Nahyuta’s desire to do his best by his country and people, Amara’s Bad Decision Making Skills, Dhurke’s desire to be the most dramatic possible at all times and her country’s love and mourning for her sister absolutely equally, and THAT is equality we deserve. it was Just Another Aspect Of The Situation, not Today On This Very Special Episode Of Ace Attorney, and I like that way of handling it a lot actually??

I know of absolutely no established trope or stereotype that equates prosopagnosia with being murderous. In fact I know of absolutely no established trope or stereotype that acknowledges prosopagnosia exists at ALL, which makes every representation good representation. not all mental health conditions are equal, like how people who wear glasses and people with allergies usually don’t become targets for violent ableism? (as far as I know)

Uendo being outed against his will was… again, a lesser evil kind of thing? esp compared to the disaster that was Robin in Academy lmao that was a horrible trainwreck on nearly every level. but Uendo really should not have lied on the stand & tried to frame Bucky for the crime? their secret was Intensely Relevant to the events, and it’s not like they got any blowback for it? the only reason they werent admitting it was bc they were trying to protect Owen, and also because they dont just go around announcing to everyone that they’re DID any more than Apollo goes around announcing he’s gay (even though he absolutely is) (uh excuse me for getting distracted for a second here)

if anything there was fucked up it was the cheerful ‘oh you get blackout drunk from a manju bun! let’s test that!’ like… uh. Athena that sounds slightly unethical. but also they did not protest at any point and also it really was fucking relevant af to the case? and being easily intoxicated is not a DID relevant thing so thats a completely separate issue either way

like, this is not like ‘also the witness actually has girl parts not that anyone cares but lets just bring that up for no reason at all’, this is like ‘also the witness was the victim’s boyfriend which explains like half the case and also why they are so nervous on the stand’, like as parallel to ‘actually the witness is the victim’s little sister’ (oh no! they outed Dahlia! who was in witness protection or something, Miles acknowledged that the reason he allowed her to lie in court about her identity was bc she had apparently good reasons to hide it) (but Mia gets no blowback for outing her, possibly because there were good fucking reasons for it in context!)

btw AA also had earlier DID kinda-representation that I took note of and overall liked: Ben and Trilo. there the judge DID go ‘uh who IS the witness?’ but then Franziska was like ‘just let it go your honor the witness is the witness and we know exactly who they are’ because she is my precious daughter who is all that is good in the world. and it wasnt like GOOD good, because the case was low key poking fun at them being weird, but it was also on the background of literally everyone else in the circus also being weird in other ways, so it didn’t really single them out?

and then they looked back and went ‘lets do the same thing but better’ and boy they fucking did

(but god i just cant let go of the first point I replied to there. DID GARAN STRIKE YOU AS PERHAPS A SYMPATHETIC CHARACTER. SOMEONE WHOSE ACTIONS THE NARRATIVE MEANT YOU TO APPROVE OF. CRITICIZING ATHENA’S ACTIONS IN OUTING UENDO MAKES SENSE BECAUSE SHE’S A PROTAGONIST AND WE ARE MEANT TO IDENTIFY WITH AND APPROVE OF HER. GARAN IS LITERALLY THE FUCKING VILLAIN SHE HASNT DONE A SINGLE THING THAT WASNT EVIL FOR THE ENTIRE CASE WHY WOULD YOU WANT HER SEPARATELY CALLED OUT FOR THIS SPECIFICALLY. ITS NOT THAT SPECIAL COMPARED TO THOUSANDS DEAD BECAUSE OF MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE)

[reportnob]

triple A industries have been influenced by blockbusters and top notch cinemas, both the developers creating the games and the people who bought it. whenever they bought a AAA game from, say, capcom, EA, Activision or whatever they would expect shit that blows their socks off (fancy graphics, storytelling, advanced physics, characters, gameplay that isn’t outdated, etc.)

i know that microtransactions are bad, however with how a lot of these companies are managing behemoth of IPs they need to go all the way in spending budget on making something, and 60 dollars isnt going to do much given how they need extra budget to keep the company alive. a lot of people seemed to forget games made back then are way simpler and doesnt need further managements (like patches and whatever the fuck).

there’s a reason why a lot of games that dont need multiplayers and microtransactions exist nowadays because they are running out of options in staying alive as a company given how so many competitions are in the industry as we speak and theres no guarantee that the game you made will sell.

and theres no way in hell they will release a game under 40 bucks or some shit given how they are already known with making games with cutting edge technologies, and giving a lower price with your games means that you need to dumb down everything in the game. this will in turn will get them negative scores from critics and fans, and they impact greatly.

im not saying that microtransactions from a AAA game is a good thing, but im not saying removing them is a solution as well.

[profanesnare]

im not doing the full meme because i dont have the energy to do it for random characters BUT i wanted to post some valant hcs so (under a cut bc this is a fucking monster of a post)

also warning for #abuse talk

A: what i think realistically

i wrote this section last bc most of my hcs fall under the other categories lmfao but uhh i dont imagine that valant spends a long time in prison following turning himself in because like, adrian did the same thing (altering a crime scene to frame someone) and she got out pretty quickly? but afterwards valant... doesnt really have a career to return to esp since his last big performance was involved in a murder and the investigation led to him having to reveal the technique used lol. sucks 2 be him

B: what i think is fucking hilarious

so ive talked about this before but hes got a Thing about like... having a very defined stage persona and not breaking character but also, you cant... wear magician clothes 24/7 you gotta have other Options so when he doesnt have the energy to be in-character and has to go like, get groceries or leave his apartment to do laundry or w/e he presents differently to the point of being unrecognizable (i imagine he styles his hair for shows and wears it differently when ooc and just, has super different mannerisms and body language and speech style) 

and generally he avoids places he spends time in while ic so that people dont recognize him but like i imagine he probably has a side job? since his magic gigs canonically aren’t super popular

so im imagining him working at like, a grocery store or w/e and one time hes working and phoenix goes to his register to buy sth and its extremely uncomfortable because both of them kind of recognize the other esp bc i like to imagine theyd like... talked to each other a bit since phoenix’s disbarment because of valant visiting trucy (see below) and overall its very awkward and neither of them want to make eye contact and it never gets mentioned again

C: what is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends

valant’s concept of family is very Fucked and also hes got issues, w/ authority mostly stemming from apprenticing under magnifi for a long period of time... i think it’s safe to say that magnifi was canon abusive to the other gramaryes and like, i v strongly hc valant as borderline which Doesnt Help lmao

and i know theres 0 canon info about valants life outside of his work so i can make up whatever i want so i say he isnt in touch with his bio family and didnt get along with them very well so when he was around 16-17 he just basically moved in with thalassa and magnifi (i havent worked out where zak fits into this yet) and magnifi became very much an Unpleasable Dad Figure that valant idolized and i think that valant was like.... aware that a lot of the way magnifi treated his apprentices and his daughter was not at all okay or defensible but didnt really want to admit it, and magnifi’s death didnt make that any easier lmfao

also this only sort of related but i want to include it- valant idealized zak for a long time and the similarities between zak and magnifi dont help with that, and i like to think that the two of them became v close after thalassa ran away? and neither of them really expected her to come back

and zak and thalassa getting married (? i dont remember if they officially got married in canon but i kind of assume they did) after her returning definitely felt like a betrayal from zak at least, i dont think valant blamed thalassa for it at all but it definitely solidified in valants mind that he was Unnecessary and like, i know zak is pretty objectively an asshole but imo valant didnt think of him that way despite splitting on him? valant interpreted those feelings more as jealousy than as like, justified anger on his part bc zak was the favored one, the Good one, and over time valant just. increasingly sort of accepted that he couldn’t be on zak’s level and that lead to a lot of bitterness

i have Thoughts about thalassa’s “death” also but this is super long already so i’ll save it for another post

D: what would never work with canon but the canon is shit so i believe it anyways

ok the fact that theres a four year age gap between valant and thalassa and valant and zak is BULLSHIT imo and i hate... female characters being markedly younger than men who are into them lmao and also theres no fucking reason they cant be the same age, it changes NOTHING about canon aside from making things a little less fucky So i like to just. pretend they were all born around 85-87 and knew each other as teenz

but also. what is even more bullshit is valant not visiting trucy for 7 years, what the fuck capcom i will fight you over this

SO gimme valant staying in touch with the wrights and like, its a bit weird because he knows phoenix is struggling financially and its kiind of his fault but phoenix feels really weird about accepting money from him because hes aware that valant is also struggling so mostly what happens is that valant like, periodically invites trucy and phoenix to like, get pancakes or go to festivals and its partly an Advertising opportunity for valant because he can be in persona and do tricks and usually there is some kind of small crowd around them by the end of it and trucy loves it and phoenix Hates it

just.... give me positive valant-trucy interactions ;________;

[dahniwitchoflight]

Something kinda disturbing in Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice that I feel the need to talk about

Not something I usually talk about I know, but there’s a certain character in case 4 I think, the one about Rakugo stuff (spoilers btw if you havent played it and care about the ace attorney series lol) that just.

has so many disturbing implications and when playing it with my boyfriend I got Very Upset about it cuz the actual reveal was very sudden and all like all the stuff before suddenly made sense to me all at once and i was like oh god and now I feel the need to make a post about it to be like I’m not the only one who noticed this right???

but basically warning for talking about disturbing content like severe child abuse and multiple personality disorder and sexual abuse esp so if those things upset you just warning there in here

but yeah lets just dive right into it holy shit Uendo Toneido what the hell happened to you???

theres SO MANY THINGS that point to disturbing things that happened to you when you were a child, but I have no idea if Capcom really intended to make this connection or make this that dark since in the case they never really go into his backstory at all at any point, not even why he has Multiple Personalities in the first place, and its not relevant to the murdercase at all, so its just, never touched upon or outright said but like, all of it fits together into a coherent narrative if you care to actually put the evidence side by side so theres no way it wasnt 100% unintentional but jesus christ.

Uendo was traumatically raped as a child. someone got him drunk and violently raped him, maybe even repeatedly, and thats where his MPD/DID and all of his alters come from. thats the only conclusion I can come to after everything about him that we know.

for one, this is a character that has multiple personality disorder with 4 alters:

Uendo, the rakugo performer, Patches, the jester, Kisegawa, the female courtesan, all adults and can share memories and front at the same time kinda, and Owen, the child who has separate memories and can’t front unless all 3 of the others do not

the first 3 are ones that are revealed when Uendo first reveals that he has MPD/DID, and for most of the case hes being accused as a murderer, with the first 3 protecting/hiding the fourth from the court at first

and firstly MPD/DID is already something that cannot exist without some kind of severe trauma happening in very young childhood, with the most common cause being severe sexual abuse that a child cannot handle on any level forcing the mental split into an alter that can handle it, so already just from that i know something bad happened to Uendo.

and one of the alters is a female Courtesan. aka a prostitute. so theres another point to the trauma and abuse being of a sexual nature, and I ain’t even close to being done with evidence pointing to something like that happening to Uendo as a child.

nextly in the case, the defense originally thinks 4th personality must be the murderer, since its a point made that they know Owen exists from other evidence and Owen’s memories are cut off from the other 3 Memories (with the first 3 all able to front at the same time and memory share, but Owen being a totally seperate one from the others)

but when he’s forced to reveal his 4th personality, its because the court mandates that they prove the defenses theory about Owen being unable to front unless the other 3 are unconscious by forcing him to consume alcohol to get pass out drunk since hes apparently a ridiculous lightweight, like he claims licking some off his fingers would make him pass out that much of a lightweight

its actually a baked good without about half a shot of uncooked alcohol in it thats apparently enough to make him pass out drunk, but the thing is its physically impossible to get pass out drunk from that amount, especially from a baked good which likely lost its alcoholic content anyway, especially because alcohol works on a physical level with your blood and brain and stuff, not a mental one and Owen the child showed no signs of being drunk at all immediately after, which highly suggests to me that hes not a lightweight, its just the taste of alcohol severely triggers him back into his trauma-child state.

thirdly, then its actually revealed that Owen isnt the murderer, but the witness to the murder, and god, the way that Owen is portrayed as absolutely scared and traumatized by watching his sister figure forcibly suffocate his father figure is awful, especially because hes so upset he cant remember all the details properly and is crying and shaking about the whole ordeal

and then exactly which details he blocked out over the course of the in-court therapy session just prove my point even more

A) like first he remembers standing somewhere, and merely seeing his dad also standing up with blood dripping on his face

B) then after some therapy digging, he remembers they were both lying on the ground and the blood drops make more sense

C) then after that is when he remembers that his sister figure is actually on top of his father figure straddling him and shoving dough in his face to suffocate him while bleeding on him because she accidentally got cut with a knife the dad guy was wielding

like the amount of blocking out to get from point C to point A is tremendous, and the fact that all the things being blocked out were the existence of another person in the process of straddling and murdering another person by pushing something into them, like when you ask why he would mentally block out those details and not other ones its becomes clear if you add the fact that as a child something very violently similar was done to him

and the only reason it was the inner trauma child that witnessed that and not Uendo the main fronting alter is because Uendo accidentally consumed alcohol from those very same baked goods I mentioned earlier and passed out in the same room, murderer just didnt think that this would cause Owen to come out, she just thought he was actually pass out drunk

but like, godamn, all of it is so, directly pointing to that one conclusion.

the fact that he has MPD/DID at all in the first place

the fact that one of his alters is a female prostitute

His unusal triggery reaction to the taste of alcohol, not the alcoholic content itself because there really wasn’t physically enough to do that

the way he blocked out certain details of an unrelated traumatic event because they were so similar to his original traumatic event/s

and I say possibly eventS because MPD/DID is what can happen after severe trauma. and one of the alters was a prostitute, suggesting that his brains way of eventually coping as a child was to create an alter that could handle what he was going through, aka repeated sexual encounters, something a prostitute’s whole job description entails

like holy fuck that is a seriously dark backstory for a character we never see before or after this one case that’s mostly unrelated to the larger ongoing plot of the game in the other cases

like Ace Attorney is not a game this dark and I have trouble believing Capcom really intended this, but its fits too perfectly to be pure coincidence and they HAVE made M Rated Ace Attorney games before. its just, never gotten to this level of dark, they only ever deal with murders and the occasionally theft, we’ve never had any dealings at all with any kind of sexual assault and even in this game its not delved into or relevant at all to the case Uendo is in

but anyway yeah I got really upset when Uendo’s 4th Alter was suddenly revealed to be a traumatized child and not the True Murderer like the whole case before was implying and hyping up because that was just too real too fast yknow. I was totally expecting the whole hollywood “mentally ill people are dangerous” narrative not something actually accurate to MPD/DID

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prideandprejudiceandkittens replied to your post “Something kinda disturbing in Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice that I...”

ok this is very insightful and likely, BUT kisegawa and the japanese idea of the "courtesan" (like geisha) IS NOT sexual. it isn't, really. japanese oiran (which is what kisegawa is clearly evoking) are sexual workers but their main role is to perform, they are trained under classical instruments, tea ceremony, calligraphy, etc. it's like a traditional display of femininity and much less centered around the whole "prostitute" part. just had to clear this up.

? I never said they were a Geisha or an Oiran, I said they were a courtesan/prostitute? I mean, they clearly are evoking the image of a prostitute with Kisegawa, but I never implied that that’s what a Geisha is. I never even said the word Geisha anywhere here

those performers like you said are elegant and perform femininity to entertain, Kisegawa is coarse and rough and female with harsh language and not presenting any skills like an entertainer (other than Rakugo like they all do) therefore Kisegawa is a female courtesan/prostitute?

[offbrandsphinx]

Big Dream Chat

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:44] Ok so in my dream there was like this old tower

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:44] I think it used to be like a hospital or hotel or something? But it was like stupid tall

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:45] And there was this gang that lived up there

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:45] And they all had weapons that were also like, musical instruments

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:46] That was like a thing in this universe I guess

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:47] So somebody (also with an instrument) would like challenge the tower and have to fight their way to the top

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:48] And there was supposedly like, some kinda prize up there

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:49] o_o

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:49] that's pretty cool holy shit

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:49] & I challenged the tower but my weapon was different cause it was like one of those old microphones back in like the 20s?

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:50] And it was like a magic staff and integral to getting the prize at the top somehow

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:50] those mics are really neat looking

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:50] During these duels you had to harmonize with your opponent as well as fight them

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:50] So it was like a duet?

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:51] DUET DUEL

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:51] Duelet

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:51] And I was like dude this would be a fucking awesome game

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:51] That would be.

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:52] Also Rebecca was there for some reason

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:52] She had an electric guitar/chainsaw and she was fuckin pissed

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:52] OMFG

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:52] she gonna fuck dudes up

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:52] and by dudes I mean capcom

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 09:54] It had like lighting powers because of course it would

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:54] SCIENCE! AND A CHAINSAW! AND MUSIC!

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 09:54] -guitar riff-

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 10:01] No but honestly it cool as shit and I really wanna think about these other weapons

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 10:05] Like a violin/crossbow that shoots ghosts or something

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 10:05] holy shit

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 10:06] Final boss should be a big monster choir

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 10:07] when you say that, I think of like a pipe organ, but each pipe is a ghostcorpse fused to the others

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 10:07] and they scream just slightly out of tune with each other

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 10:08] I think of like a big gospel choir

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Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 11:42] but what i was going to say is i had an idea for the instrument thing

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 11:42] so maybe after you beat somebody you get the ability to use their weapon

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 11:43] like they drop a concert ticket and you can exchange it at the same place that you get upgrades

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 11:43] oh my god

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 11:43] that's amazing

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 11:44] also maybe a dude with like a digerido thats also a fuckin leiomano

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 11:49] ohsit those things!

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 11:49] with the shark teeth!

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 11:49] i could probably make a brass knuckles pun

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 11:51] i want to have a dude that has that Botswana heavy metal culture thing because its the coolest shit ive ever seen in my goddamn life

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 11:52] like? bruh

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 11:52] holy shit yes

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 11:52] DEATH METAL COWBOYS

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 11:52] that's rad af

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 11:53] god its so fuckin cool

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 11:53] nothing will ever top this probably

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Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:02] Sorry I don't mean to distract I just had another idea

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 12:02] it's cool, I'd like a distraction

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:03] A guy who's weapon is like one of those mixing boards

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:03] Like for electronic artists?

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:03] And his weapon is the level itself

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 12:04] like, changing the level with his mixer?

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:04] Yeah and like making traps and stuff

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:05] You just have to hit him once but he moves around the level

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 12:05] That's pretty sick, I love it

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:05] And he has like a cube on his head like daft punk

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:06] And like a tshirt/sweatpants combo

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:06] Fashion

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:06] Slippers maybe

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 12:06] with the drawstrings on the waist band visible

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:06] Yes

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 12:06] SLIPPERS WITH BUNNIES ON THEM or something else ridic like that

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 12:06] cubes

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:06] Crocodiles

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 12:06] cubes like his head

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:06] Oh my god

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:07] Mice

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 12:08] MEECES

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:09] Because deadmau5

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 12:09] HA, nice!

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:16] Carrying a mug of coffee

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:16] Takes a drink

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 12:16] Coffee spills down the front of the cube

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Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:14] http://offendedbydjinns.tumblr.com/post/155403818337/i-had-an-amazing-dream-last-night-where-i-had-to

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:12] oh fuck I should add a little pointed tail like an electrical chord

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:14] omg

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:14] i thought of it as i was posting SHYET

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:15] SICK

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:15] whoever's using Bezek is definately like the second to last boss or something

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:16] beast ass fuckin chainsaw

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:19] lightning noises? does it roar?

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:20] prolly sounds like thunder clapping

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:20] and also like a fuckin sick guitar riff

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:20] fuck yes

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:21] im so excited i wanna make a whole thing now

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:21] DEWIT

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:21] it's rad as hell dude

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:24] ok ok so

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:25] broken down building

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:25] is it bad i wanna do like a semi apocalypse? soft apocalypse kinda

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:25] no, that shit is badass

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:25] where society is kinda rebuilt from the remenants of the old one cause i like that

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:26] ok so, wars maybe

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:26] unrelated to the musis stuff/before the music stuff

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:26] and then like, the choir shows up?

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:27] called by the siren song of a dying world

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:28] and theyre big and scary but they like uh, rock and roll and violence

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:28] sort of a eldritch/celestial group who prefer anarchy to order like a bunch of weirdos

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:29] so the tower maybe used to be a hotel but theyve converted it to a big concert hall slash arena

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:30] and theres a musician on every floor kinda trapped in their own weird time bubble where they dont age and cant die and whatnot

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:31] and they say theres a prize on top but theres not really the choir just hangs out there and if you make it to the top you get your own floor

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:31] which is sort of a raw deal tbh

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:32] yeah

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:32] so like does the floor get added to the top or the bottom

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:32] and if you dont make it your corpse becomes a bellhop or something idk

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:32] or somewhere in between

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:32] omfg

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:32] depending on how good your music is the higher your floor is

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:33] and the memphis rod is special cause its the only weapon that can kill the choir

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:33] or at least get rid of them

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:34] so that would be like an actual reward and all the musicians can leave this fuckin building and get to go outside for a change goddamn

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:34] they cant go to each others floors either its super boring

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:36] they all leave and theyre like o shit its been a while remember when i kicked your ass that was great

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:45] omg

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:45] can they communicate between floors

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:45] like with a lobby phone?

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:45] no

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:46] awh

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:46] do they get to do anything fun with the bellhops?

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:46] is there roomservice? or snack machines?

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:46] do they get free ice?

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:46] yes and yes and yes

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 15:46] fuck yes

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:47] the bellhops are super helpful and its a nice hotel but they have no will of their own whatsoever and are not fun at parties

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:49] and the floors are very fancy and spacious

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 15:50] so id be fun for a while but then its like wait shit im stuck here

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Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:02] Oh shit!!!

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:03] I'll needs to make a new rock n roll guy cause I can't use Rebecca lmao

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 17:07] Rebecca with a goatee

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 17:07] evil alternate universe rebecca

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:07] I

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:08] Bright blue spiked hair, longish

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:08] Painted face like kiss

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 17:09] DO IT

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:09] LEA👏THER👏JAC👏KET👏

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 17:09] kiss references are the best

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:10] Fingerless gloves! Punk rock anger machine!

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 17:12] YES

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:16] Yeeeeee!!!!!

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:16] Highly favored. Choir is a big fan

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:17] The shopkeeper is like

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:18] Shaped like the witch woman from spirited away and just as big

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 17:18] excellent

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 17:18] beeeeeeg

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:18] And has like a big goofy powdered conductors wig

TacitKaiju, [04.01.17 17:18] omg

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:19] And a bunch of spindly arms and its face is like a void

Flaccid Pancake, [04.01.17 17:19] And he just upgrades your weapons and shit

[pinksweatergettingbetter]

MAYA I TRUSTED YOU

WHAT WOULD WILL POWERS SAY

ok he'd probably be like ‘hehe; guess I'm falling further into obscurity thats cool i was never amazing in the first place’

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“theres only one!”

...that is rare

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“i traded my watch to my kooraheenese friend! it plays the steel samurai theme when it goes off!”

I SMELL A CHEKOVS GUN

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“it sounds just like the steel samurai theme”

“no it doesn't!”

mayas right, it doesn't sound like the steel samurai's theme. 

it sounds BAD.

seriously i feel like my soul is physically rejecting it 

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put your arms akimbo at me again young lady and ill push you into your magic soul pool.

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“that whole séance thing makes trials completely different”

meh

speaking of trials, we’re back to trials! ya–– i dont want to deal with nahyuta

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“you have to pitch your terrible crossover!! i won't let you down”

as much as i disapprove of the crossover let it be known that phoenix is a sweetie pie.

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“The sacred murder dagger was used to murder someone?!?!??! BLASPHEMY!!!”

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“The lowest level of hell; the Hell of Tickling” IM KINKSHAMING KOOORAHEENISM

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“They shall not escape on their /redtext/ Freedom Express today!”

she did it yaaaaayy!

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U R DIARHOEA!!! KOORAHEEN!!!

well i

i cant argue....

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oh god no t voice acting again

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LOL YOU CAN SKIP IT AHAHHAHHA

AND THE DANCE TOO HJDSJSFAKJ

guess its not *that* important eh

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the entire court just called phoenix a shithead. 

i mean people say “Polkhunka” when theyre surprised, and the term is “polkhunan”. so yeah. either hellion, or shithead. nice.

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phoenix: this makes no sense 

me: ooh i cant wait for the bullshit excuse!! 

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Well ill be damned to tickle-hell. Rayfa’s a television aerial. 

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oh i see how they did that. i guess spirit visions have steady-cam?

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.........he ran right into it

dude why 

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i just love this. “yes he ran directly at the killer, to fight them! with his arms flailing in terror!! it might look stupid and fake but actually it’s kooraheen’s biggest martial art, RonDeliteFu!”

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every time Rayfa does her hand-flinging-out pose i mistake her sash for a stick and i keep thinking she’s a muppet 

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“we can’t let the special fires go out, so we make sure to remove the glass around them every year on top of a window mountain so that a woman can um...... walk around it i guess.”

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i hate to admit it but these stupid pond vision things are really stumping my blind ass

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i stg pohlkunka is the stupidest sounding made-up expletive ive ever heard

id rather heard cowabunga every time something shocking happens for godssakes

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“wow he really does care about ema”

hey show dont tell lol

“i cant believe he's come to understand their value”

uhhh well

they stated that they still hold investigations despite their magic pool parties, so uhhhhhhh yeah???? forensic investigators are usually pretty helpful??

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since Sadmad’s catchphrase appears to be ‘putrid’, i keep reading ‘purification rite’ as ‘putrification rite’

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i cant believe they did a “what if... (EXTREME CLOSE UP ZOOM) PLOT TWIST?!”

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STOP SAYING PUTRID

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oh hey its dirty hobo man! ...also i guess the ‘sexy pan up shot’ is for every new character :/

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hobo rangers go...

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...Nahyuta named him A’nohn Ihmus. A’nohn Ihmus.

Well that just cements my idea that Kooraheenians are just a bunch of Americans that stole a landmass and made up a phony baloney culture. 

It has been confirmed that they are legitimately just taking english words and ‘kooraheenifying’ them.

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“i used my binoculars to spy on the rite at the inner sanctum”

A’nohn is just as perverted as his namesake from Tuhmbl’r

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“Feh. I knew you were a fool...” 

Cue Franziska crashing her plane into the court room to yank on Sadmad’s braid to scold him for taking her word.

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“shall be reborn as a witless sea urchin with barbs limited to your posterior”

ok well sadmad, sea urchins asses are next to their mouths... on the bottom of them. completely opposite to the, uh, you know. Spiky part.

So I’m not sure if that serves to strengthen your point or just make you look like a moron

i mean i guess it served to enhance sadmad’s point since phoenix’d be totally smooth and unprotected, but then he wouldn’t even reach adulthood so that sea otter wouldn’t come in too early and...

...he just said phoenix will be reborn as not only mentally slow but also physically deformed.

...uh... nice one, sadmad.

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AND MAYA PULLED A REACHAROUND ON THE PRIEST 

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST FROM THE HOLY MONK, GUYS

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to be fair, she could have stabbed him with a reverse-grip or not; one doesn’t have to hold their hand at any particular to perform a reach around 

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oh well at least the contradiction is incredibly obvious 

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at least hobo ranger has an excuse to use words like “bucko”

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i hate that,,,, theres a rule against climbing the mountains during the rite. that means that there have been perverts of yore who tried to spy on the lady changing 

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hes gonna see her shad–– (sigh)

yknow, i dont think shadows are detailed enough to know which way someone is holding a knife.

also moonlight isn't that bright 

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DWAAYYYYMMMN

sasquatch’d!!

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ok so... does happiraki mean “hello” or “hooray!” because its been used it both contexts 

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i just realized that the Plumed Punisher theme song sounds like one of those posts where someone takes a recognizable song and fucks with it in a silly way, like pitch shifting it at awkward moments or changing the key

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i cannot believe i have to use a fucking walkthrough for this game. I'm disgusted with myself. I'm better than this.

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“no one was allowed in there and the only way up were the stairs!”

ah yes, the unguarded stairs surrounded by people who had their heads down. in prayer.

totally impenetrable. 

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“What?! This is insane!!” no no, phoenix, youre doing it wrong. you have to say “this”, then sadmad has to say “is” and then the judge has to yell “insaaaaane!!” because its funny when one person says one word of a sentence each!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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‘rah rah sis boom bah, fight, fight, phoenix wright!!”

um excuse me maya who gave you the right to be cute

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why does sadmad only have one hand-guard-glove thingy

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“my bag of bluffs” is an interesting and long way to say “ass”

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they put... a maximum security prison... on top of their holy mountain. they put their criminals... on top of their. holy mountain.

they put a jail. in a church. in fact they put it higher up... closer to... god. 

what the fuck. the fourth one. only accessible by helicopter.

who was smoking what when they decided this???

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(sigh) mmmmm id been waiting to use that patchwork quilt

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“hell of hangnails”

not as fetishy but still pretty–– actually you know what that sounds kinda fucked up. isn't that just kinda G rated torture anyway 

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wow that incredibly obvious lie deserves the terrible pursuit theme??

maybe its the last one (i hope)

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“are you the rebel hunter!!??!?!?!??”

um well no, unless the rebel hunter is a criminal. jackass.

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...cutting dirty deals with criminals, are we, sadmad?

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“haha, the fact that the third person at the scene was a wanted criminal destroys your theory that it was the rebel hunter Keera that killed the high priest!!”

...wow... gosh i was wrong... and the fact that a wanted criminal was actually at the scene... doesn’t help me at all... because once i said that one person didi it, it couldn’t possibly be someone else... oh no... i guess it was Maya who did it... for reals... not the.... wanted criminal....

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...hang on, his little power rangers dance was the defiant dragons dance? how... did nobody notice this?? sadmad really was colluding with criminals wasn’t he. gosh. what a trustworthy guy.

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phoenix: oh no!! his testimony was a lie!!

oh no! the testimony that did nothing but damage your case was a lie!!! 

??????

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sadmad: get him!

hobo ranger: (does a little hop and daintily scurries off)

sadmad: ... (takes a good five leisurely seconds to stop the background music) put everyone on high alert. i want everyone after that guy

that guy who just. skipped out of a courtroom. past hundreds of crazy people and several bailiffs. 

haha... the kooraheenes police. to quote phelous... THEY’RE THE BEST!

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“what was the point of all that, anyway?”

search me, phoenix.

“well, i cant help but feel that entire episode was an enormous waste of time”

hey capcom? hanging a lampshade on it doesn’t make it better. it just amplifies how much it sucks.

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“yes! i recognized that piece of paper because it looks exactly like the piece i have! thats covered in blood and unrecognizable!!!”

...nice

OH AND ITS THE PERFECT FIT TO COVER THE BLOODSTAIN WELL ISNT THAT JUST FUCKIN SERENDIPITOUS 

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“the ignorant lawyer has not bothered to learn out language??”

well A) he's not an international attorney, B) he was on vacation, not studying abroad, and C) fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. you’re all speaking english all the time anyway, you bunch of fuckin phoneys 

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i stg sadmad if you say putrid one more time i’ll cram a rotten egg down your pasty white gullet and show you the meaning of the word 

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“the criminal could have only escaped if the high priest helped him out, so why would he kill him?”

hey sadmad? remember that thing about using your putrid brain? yeah, doesn’t take too big a leap to realize that you might’ve just proved phoenix’s ‘idiot theory’ right. maybe the priest um... was a rebel??? who was going to do just that??? and the rebel killer offed his sorry ass?

perhaps, o foolish prosecutor, you should think before you open your rancid lips... lo, in your ignorance, you will be cast down to the hell of those who are kind of stupid....... the hell of perpetual fart smell. there you shall inhale the decomposing winds of ten thousand and one accursed mihtama, while fart fetishists gaze on in envy... 

oh wow i didnt even need to go on that spiel, he just admitted it straight up. but yeah, apparently when Lady Kee’ra impersonator kills a rebel, it’s A-OK. But when Maya kills a rebel, well, fuck, she’s a foreign bitch, execute her!!

also the way he said it seems to imply that he knew all along so uh

maybe people should start suspecting this guy. he seems to... know a lot of rebel criminals.

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every time sadmad shakes his head i wanna break his neck

man i remember being annoyed at edgeworth in the first game and wanting to hop my desk and rough him up, but never wanting to physically maim or kill him. you suck, sadmad. 

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WE GOT IT, FOLKS!! WE GOT THE ASSAULT!! IT’S UM, IT’S SUPERNATURAL FORCE ASSAULT THIS TIME. 

FUCK BIRDS AND SWORDS, I GUESS? ACTUAL MAGIC IS THE WAY TO GO?

hey sadmad; tickling? bondage? can we... keep that out of the courtroom please?

also “oh no! i can’t point my finger!!” phoenix cries, forgetting that he has two arms. i guess capcom won’t spring for more than one sprite tho haha

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“the keera we saw was the statue draped in the sacred robes!”

with a... knife sticking out, apparently. ok..?

also gosh, maya’s really fast, tiptoeing around the abbot, draping the costume just so, then tiptoeing back around? like lightning she is!!

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he just cut off his own theme song.

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“she used her fiendish tricks to fool the court room”

which didn’t work at all if you remember the beginning of this court so fuck you?

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“she sought to use the divination seance to mislead us!”

good going, pointing out an absolutely massive flaw in your country’s legal system, sadmad.

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i cant believe we had a flashback for absolutely no other reason than Sadmad to gloat. I FILE FOR A MISTRIAL ON GROUNDS OF MISUSE OF FLASHBACKS.

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please oh god just let it end i dont have enough space in my stomach for any more ulcers

i can’t stand hearing him say let it go one more time please I'm begging you

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oh no... phoenix has failed... he’s going to die... it’s really going to happen...

just get to the surprise witness or whatever already

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oh thank god. love you, headband guy

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“the dagger bears the finger prints of maya fey!”

wow. the police suck major ass at catching running people, but their finger print checking speed is second-to-none. ...either that or they waited a while before telling people about a dead body.......

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oh gosh!!! its totally maya!!! she arrived 2 years ago and so did lady keera and 

yeah no. it’s not her. 

but even if it was, kinda awkward there, sadmad? she’s um. kind of a hero to you.

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i dont get it why is everyone freaking out. i thought the keera impersonator was considered some kind of vigilante hero? why is it suddenly bad when they “find out” it’s maya? is it because she isn't kooraheenees?

I'm honestly really confused. everyone was rooting for the masked defender one moment, but now that its maya, it’s murder?? 

seriously what the fuck. like the gallery was legit going “ah!! lady keera has come back to save us from the rebels!”

and then its like “its not divine its some foreign bitch in a cloak” and now its like SERIAL KILLER. also, nice. we’ve never been allowed another day in court because there was a second charge racked up. awesome. (with the possible exception of Ron Delite, tho he was changing his charge)

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sadmad can go choke on his own braid and the gallery can lick their own hypocritical asses. i can’t believe i stayed up till 2 am to finish this section.