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have i ever shown u people my hand sofa

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the best trope in media is: “characters turn on the lights, see the monster, and immediately turn the lights back off”

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Did you know? You're haunted

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worst relationship status to have w someone is “objectively they’re a fine person who is nice but i don’t enjoy their company as much as they enjoy mine”

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me and my wife killing everyone in a restaurant with duall uzis like the matrix because my card got declined

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"what's your dream job??" Uhh to have 17 weird little hobbies that I don't have to be good at and hang out with friends. I get money via being the world's specialist little princess

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if someone brought karl marx back to life the first thing I would do is have a shopping montage to get him modern outfits where I shake my head yes or no to the outfits he picks out but then after that we'd get down to serious business

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day 154 Meganium

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literally going insane over the fact that so many companies refuse to send rejection emails like it’s disgraceful tbh. you put so much time and effort into putting together an application and they can’t even be bothered tell you via some measly automated message that you didn’t get the job. you’re expected to just infer

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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Alright, I'll give this to FGO. Soujuurou becoming a servant being explained away as Soujuurou being given yet another part time job but this time by the Throne of Heroes is both extremely funny and completely in character.

He's not the least bit confused about becoming a superhuman ghost he just does what he's told as always

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Dare I ask what's an Acceptable Kind of Horny?

in truth there is no acceptable kind... but if you really must do it, then lust after efficient agricultural spending, well-paved roads, community enriching statues of branson dundy and other positive role models, that sort of thing

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Bloodborne is an amazing game because you are never given a diegetic choice to question your surroundings. You're a foreigner in a strange town, you're hated by everyone, you're given strange substances, and you know what you don't do? Ask any fucking questions. The beasts starting slashing and you just fucking roll with it.

A lesser game would give you a voiced protagonist, dozens of scared and confused voice lines, text prompts displaying fear and confusion and revulsion. Not Bloodborne. You kill and get killed in a horrific place with almost no semblance of realness left to it and you either roll with it like the game expects or you stop.

It's this lack of asking that is so poignant. After a while the game slips away because to a point you really do embody the character; you also just arrived here and decided to pick up a weapon without asking questions. Is it human nature to swing an axe just because it fits our hand? Do we question the means that brought us here or do we see them to their ends? This lack of choice and reflection is one of the best pieces of commentary that Bloodborne makes about systemic violence, because both we and our characters took part in it thoughtlessly.