#rookie errors

[polyanamam]

[hiriajuu-suffering]

Oh yeah, I made mistakes.

[casdeans-pie]

When Casifer puts his hand on the wrong shoulder and Kill Bill Sirens go off in Dean's brain. still absolutely cracks me up

[yesterdayiwrote]

Just had a delayed realisation from the George interview about his dad, and that is that at the very least HMRC will be very interested that his dad suddenly came in to an additional £1.5m in wealth and maybe that's the karma of the piece...

[haventacluewhatimdoing]

Doctor dude why did you leave the deadly machine thing in the same room AS THE MASTER??

[inkwitchgames]

Why yes I have learned my lesson 😊 I'll definitely be calling for playtesters for the Fivesaken demo!

[everythingcounts2007remaster]

I found Tron Catalyst deeply underwhelming on a lot of levels. Mike Bithell has some neat ideas, but is a poor writer. Each time I leap into the indigo waters of his Tron games, I shatter my shins because it's only ankle deep. 

I think it annoys me because he tries to make something deeper. And it's not. I hate the shallow-ass way he does "diversity." You need more to your character than their minority traits. We learn nothing about Exo. Her traits are: Black, woman, courier, protagonist (and I got to flirt with a woman one time before it was permanently erased). It's like Exo didn't even exist before booting up the game.

Does she like her job? Is she saving up to go elsewhere? What were her goals before becoming a time goddess? Does she buy into the doomsday glitch rumors that everyone else seems to know? What did she think of Core before getting arrested -- maybe lukewarm, or uninformed, or trusting? Maybe she already harbored disdain for them since outlawing lightcycles; as a courier I imagine that was quite a blow. Does she have no connections prior to the game? You telling me she's never heard of Automata or Reset? It would have brought SO much more depth with just that simple change: "Oh yeah, I've heard of [your group here], they're [incorrect boilerplate opinion here that gets more nuanced over the course of the game]" or whatever. She meets everyone for the first time enough times that there could have been some, I dunno, character development there beyond "yeah I've done this before." Mike Bithell tells me she trusts these programs but he definitely doesn't show me. Surely she's heard of the games at least---maybe experiencing them first hand could have been enlightening. "I thought it was volunteer, they say it's volunteer..." Make her a person, make her someone who exists outside of the viewer/player/reader's eye.

And that's not even touching the boring as hell dialogue. God. Every single sentence is doing exactly one job and it's exactly what it says on the tin. No foreshadowing, no beautifully blended exposition, no worldbuilding except if you explicitly ask for it, nothing. At least we get every single beat for beat goodbye sequence though!! Ugh. If there was any subtext it was solely in Bithell's head and we aren't given access to it.

And I don't believe these things can be blamed on low budget. Games like Night in the Woods, Tacoma, Gone Home, etc do a masterful amount of worldbuilding and characterization with a fraction of the writing.

I suppose it's easier to list the things I did like about the game:

- lightcycle was fun - i ran into a lot of things but the lightjet was enjoyable - Query's voice - some of the art - that blink-and-you-miss-it container marked kflynn/storage/bin/permanentserver or whatever it was (an ounce of foreshadowing yayyy!!!) - the handful of references to better Tron stories but alas, a nostalgia button push does not a good story make - the antifascist vibes even though the execution was deeply lacking (like seriously crack open any edition of Clarkesworld and you're bound to find a short story pulling it off better)

[wisteriagoesvroom]

i missed live quali but i did make this bracelet

[way-down-aevistown]

Got the wind direction wrong and now I'm hiding under a tree because I am not wearing anything waterproof

[apple-grass-and-smiles]

Official Summary: Tim tries (and fails) to put some rumors to rest, Lucy sets up a dinner in a very convoluted way, and Miles is mostly left on read.

Unofficial Summary: I just spent so. much. time. formatting these texts. And am not above asking for pity because, again, so many texts. (Also, Angela and Tamara call out their respective friends on failing at being broken up.)

[team43]

pocos deportes son tan competitivos como la f1, al final del dia son los equipos quienes toman las decisiones y no hay mucho que el piloto pueda hacer más que tener un poco de suerte de su lado y terminar bien la carrera

[ravenpuffheadcanons]

Chapters: 2/5 Fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Leo Fitz/Jemma Simmons Characters: Leo Fitz, Jemma Simmons, Bobbi Morse, Lance Hunter, Seth Dormer, minor guest appearances from other characters Additional Tags: Fitzsimmons Secret Santa 2024, Christmas, Alternate Universe - Academia, There Was Only One Bed, solving a mystery, women in STEM, Mostly Fluff, strangers to co-investigators of an historical mystery to lovers Summary:

When Leo Fitz's most annoying postgraduate student dumps a mystery on his desk and takes off, all he can think about is the fact that this will eat up his much-anticipated Christmas break. Luckily for him, new starter Jemma Simmons offers to give him a hand in solving it. Their festive quest may take them places they aren't expecting.

[sebnameyourcar]

another amazing observation from barcelona gp: why are so many people complaining about how long the queues were to leave. babe the train cost €3 and if you wait until after 8pm they come every 10 minutes. have 3-5 glasses of sangria at the bar by the station with a full on concert set, vibe, then head home. no queues. bliss.

[ashildrs]

look i enjoy the rookie but man have the writers never coordinated on details or even a timeline. the characters ages change every few episodes, still confused about how nolan is 46 but dropped out of college to have his 20 year old kid when he was 20, lucy is lactose intolerant one episode and complaining about being out of milk the next.... like please just have a conversation with each other

[stormyrainyday]

i failed to consider when browsing kurapika art that i am icked out by spiders and eyeballs

[deweydecimalchickens]

You know sometimes you snap awake with one word very loud in your brain?

Last night's was "NEUROPATHY!", on account of the unfamiliar sharp pains dancing over my knee.

Turned out Perky was making biscuits on my leggings and got his claws stuck.