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you would think that "using 'you're gay and you have gay sex' as an insult is homophobic even when it's directed towards fascists" wouldn't be a controversial statement on the supposedly "queerest place on the internet" and yet

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beginning to suspect one of my four elemental generals may be showing sympathy to the heroes and allowing them a fair fight instead of following my orders to destroy them at any cost

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I think polyamory should be used to make romance subplots even more convoluted, actually. Sure, it could theoretically solve a love triangle- but it could also make things infinitely more chaotic and that's way better.

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starting Hundred Line, it really feels like coming home in several ways: of course there's Kodaka and the DR connection, Ushikoshi and AITSF (the only of his i've played so far), but also it was Rui Komatsuzaki's art (Dantes and Cleopatra) that started me on the road of getting into Fate, and on the Fate illustrator note, Shimadoiru's another designer for Hundred Line (and AITSF, i saw in the credits), so while the game itself doesn't directly connect to the Fate series, it does still have this link to literally one of my favorite things ever, as well as Danganronpa, which i've been basically a fan of since i started my blog, despite literally never having played one until now.

it just feels really fuckin good...

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been a fan of Dangan ronpa since 2012~2013, real excited to play it for the first time with Hundred Line

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something ive been thinking abt is how uncreative veilguard feels to me. in the writing and gameplay specifically. there is a lot of creativity in the environmental design for example and i dont wanna drag them into this. but like where is the writing creativity. especially when you were given one of the most interesting and unique pre-existing lore-rich fantasy worlds with 15 years of development to go off of. and they made it.... less creative? nothing is new or interesting or reinvents the wheel of fantasy or rpgs. or even comments on it the way old games made explicit commentary on the genre and what it meant to be a hero. lore that was previously unique to thedas gets dumbed down and simplified in favor of being explained as quickly and in as few words as possible because god forbid the player have to think. the CC is clearly a sims 4 rework. the combat is god of war. the UI is literally identical to the most recent assassins creed games. THE PUZZLES ARE PULLED RIGHT FROM GENSHIN IMPACT???? the once-distinct fantasy world of thedas is now generic high fantasy indistinguishable from any cash grab fantasy MMORPG from the past few years. i said once i hate emmrich's lichdom plot and i do. because liches have NEVER been mentioned before in the entire series. and now we suddenly have fucking liches. why? because fantasy worlds have liches. oh my god literally fuck off. its so embarrassing. there is nothing new and interesting. there is no preservation of the aspects that once made thedas unique. it was so clearly about what would sell the most copies. oh fantasy worlds have liches. people like fantasy worlds with liches right? we should put liches in dragon age. oh people like techno-futiristic fantasy nowadays, right? lets make the ancient elves suddenly have technology. what can we do to make sure we make money? what can we do to make sure people like this? does it make sense why the lichdom is a smoking gun for me. thedas doesnt have liches. it makes me feel insane. you have destroyed and betrayed your franchise for nothing considering how shit this game sold. this is exactly what that post was talking about with the difference between art and a product. its a product. its a product its a product its ap roducughrti perisi it sp sa pproddouc c ct t t

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Reeve Tuesti is a top tier character concept btw. What if there was a bogstandard pathetic buisnessman whose only ambitions in life were to like. Build public transit and design street layouts. But unfortunately he works at Company Of Mega Capitalism That Murders People so instead he has to go into meetings everyday and be like "I want to build. A highway." And all his coworkers laugh in his face and call him chickenshit and loudly talk over him about how they're going to restructure the budget to put 300% of their spending into torture and unethical science. And to cope with the unending guilt of failing the city he loves, he goes and designs a fursona of a little kitty boy who's always chipper and friendly and helps people. Then borrows company assets to build himself a fursuit and LARP as him. 10/10 no notes.

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MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM

Episode 41: A Cosmic Glow / Encounters in Space

All this anger was once love. All this anger is now grief. (x)

rehashing what’s certainly already been said about a 40 year old movie:

buuuut i’m obsessed lately with the differences between the 0079 show and movies…. lalah’s death/newtype connection to amuro sequences are so beautiful and tragic and these scenes are sososo special to me.

i’m forever partial to the tv show version of the still of amuro’s eyes. so furious, such an uncomfortable boring into the viewer…. the movie reads to me as much more regretful, and lacks the edge that makes the original so striking. the starkness of just the darkest shadows around his eyes against the white is so much more arrestive in the moment. the movie just doesn’t have quite the same bite.

however! the longer sequence of the rising water works more to the benefit of the movie, along with the more psychedelic lalah bits. the build up to the parting of the water gives it a bit more power, but as a nitpick, i wish they kept the same deep dark water rather than the bluer, brighter movie water. but that’s just meeee

anyway if you read this kiss kiss for u 💋

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GaviTomi and speculation on Terran eating habits.

Phidians don't seem to chew that much, so their meals are probably over quickly.

Posted with permission. Original here.

TL: Google Translate (+JP-Eng Dictionary)

Localization, Typesetting: Me

Pepper corrected in a later post that Ho'olheyak is not a Phidian.

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starrail saber

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HEY HAVE YALL SEEN THIS?

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Sheesh dude did you hear about the new hero shooter? You gotta spend 80$ everyone's playing it! No not that one, the new extraction shooter, go spend 90$ everyone's playing it! Huh? No we're all playing the new crafting survival game, go pay 70$ bro everyone's playing it! Wdym you haven't picked up the new proximity voice horror game? Go spend 60$ everyone's playing it! Next weekend we're all gonna pick up the new game everyone's gonna be playing!! Hope you've set aside 100$!!