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Hey yall, just popping by after over a year of not posting to say I’m doing well enough. Finally finished grad school! Still no plans to be active on tumblr again though, even though I do get nostalgic for it from time to time. But if you wanna keep tabs on me, I’m around over on twitter 

https://twitter.com/Luffymaid

Hope everyone’s hanging in there! 

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you’re a monster but its in your nature 🦆

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B I G

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Uh... I'm assuming you don't accept One Piece asks here, but can you at least tell us what your general opinion about what we see so far from Wano Arc (assuming you're still reading the manga). Thanks in advance!

My “asking about one piece is illegal” policy is my rule so I get to choose when to allow it and decline to execute ppl for their crimes. I don’t think I’ve ever actually said anything about the Wano arc. Like I’ve gone this entire arc without saying a word about it. And that would mostly be because I haven’t been very impressed by it. Not gonna dive super deep into it, but it feels too sprawling. Massive cast, way too much time spent on side characters that I never got attached to. It’s had a handful of well loved fellow Supernovas there but barely made any use of them. It’s 50 chapters long already and we’re only just now getting to a flashback with a character who we’ve heard a lot about but that I feel 0 actual interest in. Wano’s been a place of interest for over 450 chapters. That’s a LOT of build up, and I’ve never felt that Momo or Kin’emon or Kanjuro or Raizo did a good job of interesting me or investing me in Wano in the preceding arcs. Ryuma’s zombie was awesome 450 chapters ago, and I feel like that connection has been underutilized. O-Kiku? Amazing and also underutilized. There are still good parts about it and I have no doubts that most fans are enjoying it plenty, but the arc hasn’t done anything to reignite any of the passion I used to have for OP. 

One last pro: I felt vindicated when Luffy got fuckng one-shotted by Kaido b/c I still remember when one anon tried to argue with me that Luffy could totally beat the Yonko after the time skip One last con: I felt super robbed that Oda just went and skipped over the Revere. I wanted to see politics in motion, and Vivi, and political intrigue and the secret Straw Hats fanclub meeting each other and all that good stuff! We were robbed. 

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How do you feel about Endeavours current stuff in manga like im incredibly mixed because I don't like how readily Fuyumi and Rei seemingly accepted him back but i do like stuff with him really having to consider the consequences of what he has done to his family and how that has negatively impacted his relationship with some of them

Not a huge fan. There are elements that are, by themselves, good, like Endeavor’s multiple acknowledgements that he fucked up and can only “try” to atone for it, but numerous other parts of how it’s been handled fucked it up bad IMO. What you said about his wife/daughter in particular is my biggest sticking point. Wrote all about this exact topic a ways back (here), and I think that all holds true still. 

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nortoncampbell replied to your post “It may have been announced earlier, but I’ll go ahead and count the...”

did u see that pluto anime teaser a while back?

I did but I forgot about it! TBH I’m not sure if I’ll watch it because it’s such a major investment to watch something I know is going to just beat the ever loving shit out of my tear ducts 

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half-man-half-lime replied to your post “birth”

Happy!

thank~

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It may have been announced earlier, but I’ll go ahead and count the Dorohedoro anime announcement as a birthday present 

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Join us in our talk on Torterra tree care, much needed after our PoGo community day recently.

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The third Spider-Man movie continues like normal but anytime any character from the MCU is mentioned, it's censored like a swear word and Peter Parker turns towards the camera like he's in The Office

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Went on twitter to check out artist posts and I stubbled upon leaked chatlogs of Zoe Quinns. Can’t say I’m invested in the goings on but I saw a lot if pitchfork waving twitter users (so average twitter users) claiming it’s proof Quinn lied about Alec. As to why I’m here, I’m bored and looking for a shit storm to gawk at.

Two things to say here. One, I was concerned when I remembered that Zoe Quinns has already been a target of an intense online harassment campaign before. I’m not planning on diving into that. I’m an advocate of people both believing victims and people doing their own research before jumping to conclusions, but the one article I’ve looked at claiming to ~unravel~ the initial statements made by Zoe regarding Alec was a mile long and seemed like the webpage equivalent of a red string conspiracy theory board. 

Second, even if you aren’t invested in NITW or its creators, it’s kinda crappy to treat a situation like this as a form of entertainment. 

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I know you're a big fan of Night in the Woods, so I was wondering if you knew about the recent drama surrounding the game/what your thoughts on it are? Would you still recommend it in spite of all that?

Yes, I’ve read about the situation. I’m not going to try to summarize it here, so I’ll just provide this link. People who don’t know but want to can read more there and it’s highly recommended to read the posts by Scott Bensen, the lead writer and director of the game. 

Getting to it, “drama” doesn’t really do much to describe the situation. At least how I feel about it, “drama” is beauty vlougers on youtube making back to back callout videos that ultimately seem to be more about fighting for subscriber counts than anything else. The recent events involving Alec and his role in the NITW game and the lives of the people around him is something very far away from drama. It’s a situation of widespread abuse going back years that “ended” tragically, with the people involved making single statements they feel they owe to others and then stepping away from the public spotlight to continue processing both Alec’s death and the realization that what they personally went through had happened to so many other people without their realizing it. That’s not drama, that’s the reality of the life in the 21st century where creative types and their audiences feel connected to each other, which inherently involves the individual creatives becoming partially public figures who are expected to talk to their audience. Additionally, separate from that expectation, it’s also Scott and company’s right to be able to use their platforms to say, “I’ve heard something awful about my former team member, and this is how I feel about it and what I’ve been through myself.” 

As far as recommending the game goes, there are two basic perspectives that come to my mind. The first is cynical. It’s, “Sure Alec was minimally involved in the creative processes (aside from the music), but regardless of that and the work of the other team members, the success of NITW enabled an abusive person to gain more influence and hurt more people.” A simpler version of that take is as direct as, “A person who I would never want to support was involved in making NITW, so I do not want to support NITW.” However, the flip side of that is equally true. Even though NITW wouldn’t exist without Alec, Scott Benson went through veritable hell to create NITW because of Alec, and to decide to condemn the game is also to condemn all the hard work and passion of one of Alec’s victims. 

Scott himself has said that it’s up to every person to decide how they should feel about this, and that’s true. But Alec is gone, while Scott and Bethany are still here. I’ll let that statement speak for itself. Plus, NITW speaks for itself. Regardless of the abusive actions of its lead programmer and composer, the game is a heartfelt and masterful exploration of fighting for hope and life in dark places while your town slowly dies and every year people seem to struggle a bit more than they did before. I would feel differently about that if every person on the NITW team was someone who I would feel bad about supporting, but that’s not the case with NITW. The only thing the recent developments have changed for me is to make me feel even more acutely invested in the heart-wrenching tale of personal and collective struggle that Scott and Bethany worked so hard to bring into the world while fighting their way through their own struggles to make it through each day. 

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A female dragonborn paladin with the noble background is the ultimate switch: she can be the knight, the princess or the dragon, as circumstances require.

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I was wondering if you have played FEThreeHouses and if you did, what are your thoughts of it?

I have not played! I know it has rave reviews, and I am genuinely curious/tempted. My main issue is that I still don’t know how much I actually like Fire Emblem games. Do I like the characters? Absolutely. But do I like the gameplay itself? Uhhh not necessarily. I played Awakening and enjoyed it, but I tried playing Fates Conquest, got like 1/3rd? 1/2? of the way through the game and just dropped it and never finished it. That’s what I worry about with Three Houses. Strategy games that have huge, oversized maps stress me out because I’m a perfectionist and I get paralyzed by the prospect of messing up on something where it’s tricky to undo your mistakes. But at the same time doing something on too easy of a mode takes that challenge and fun out of it for me.

Another major problem for me with games like FE is that I have a hard time with games that have branching stories, time limited things to do, and where making some choices blocks off other parts of the game. I want to experience everything! Which is why games like BoTW are so essentially perfect for me--the game is set up to enable to you have the chance to do everything the game has to offer, and you can do it at your own pace in any order. It takes a massive amount of stress off my shoulders that I get burdened by when I play game that give you consequence based freedom where everything you do has the potential to bar you from doing/experience something else. 

So that’s what’s holding me back! I’m still very much tempted and intrigued by it and how positively it has been reviewed, but I just don’t know if it is fundamentally the kind of game I’d fully be able to enjoy. Frankly, I’m more like to list it as a birthday or Christmas gift option than I am to decide to buy the game myself. There’s just so much other stuff that is going to be comming out soon that I am embracing wholeheartedly, so Fire Emblem, pros and cons combined, is a bit lower down on my priorities list