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If you use arab.org like I do please consider taking the extra 30-60 seconds to click on ALL of their causes. Palestine is important but so are the environment, refugees, children, women, and the impoverished across the middle east and it doesn't take away from Palestine to click for multiple causes. The arab world faces a lot of problems and they only get worsened by how western nations have oppressed and attacked them. Clicking is small but it generates something and overtime it does benefit the greater good. It takes all of us clicking as often as possible but we can do it! It's really easy and safe and they have proofs on their site on how they do make an impact and are donating your click money

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me seeing they made a sports anime about water polo: lmfaooooo water polo?! that's so funny 😂😂😂😂😂

watching the water polo sports anime:

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ouhhh BROTHER xander's longposting about zack lives again

prompted by my friend showing me a post about no character death being equally as interesting and i am of course thinking about rebirth again. i still really think the remakes are fucking up the narrative. i will never fully understand or like the direction they're going in. and i seriously think we're losing the plot which sucks cos i think it's only adding to people being upset zack dies? so i've just been thinking like. i think more people should really sit down and think about WHAT zack is. his narrative function. try to remove the bias of liking him, and just think about WHAT he is. his narrative function is TO BE a dead guy. like, the dude's fucking dead already in the game you like! and in the prequel, the whole thing is building up to him dying! i genuinely don't think you can fully make the claim that zack could have so much to do in the canon narrative if he was still alive if literally the entire story is built on him being dead before we even begin. like no i think the narrative progresses quite fine as it is.

and i don't mean to say lives aus are like Bad. a moral failing. like i'm better than anybody. i'm not! i enjoy a lives au as well. i just think that if you truly find yourself wishing for the CANON narrative to keep zack alive, it's probably time to reanalyze the story you're working with here.

this is one place where, in my opinion, rebirth REALLY fumbles what zack is supposed to be doing. zack is somewhat elusive in the original game, honestly. you hear about Some guy that aerith says was her first boyfriend, and that you (cloud) were the same rank. you don't even learn his name here. in the golden saucer date with her she tells you that you reminded her of him in a lot of ways. if i remember correctly, the first time you actually get zack's name is when you go to gongaga and talk to his parents. you learn a bit more about him, but not much. and i'm pretty sure the first time you even get to SEE him is in the reveal of cloud's memories being distorted. you get a little more characterization of him if you backtrack to nibelheim in the basement, you see that zack and cloud were Potentially friends, that zack is maybe a bit hyper, he's self sacrificing, and that's about it. zack's true strength is not here, in the moments we actively see him in, but in how his existence recontextualizes the entire game. maybe you could see that cloud was an unreliable narrator as time goes on, but you don't exactly know HOW until zack is fully revealed and you see just how many aspects of the game he had touched. it's INCREDIBLE and replaying the game had me absolutely tearing my hair out in certain parts, and there's a really good analysis i read on zack haunting the narrative that put even more things into perspective for me like. zack's role in the original game is to be dead and it's AMAZING.

even in crisis core where he IS alive, you're still most likely aware that he's going to die the entire time. you know how this game ends, but you still want to know more anyway. you get to learn so much about zack's motivations, his relationships with aerith and cloud, with sephiroth and with tseng and with hojo. it's able to recontextualize the original game even further if you take it as canon! and it adds so much more complexity to zack's death scene, with the idea of legacy. it's a really good prequel that doesn't detract anything from the original game, in my opinion.

where remake and rebirth are failing, i think, is in this loss of mystique. if you're a new fan going in completely blind and you get to the end of remake and see some random guy holding up cloud's sword, what are you supposed to think? when the dlc comes out and you see the cutscene of some guy standing awkwardly outside the church, what are you supposed to think? when you play rebirth and see this guy straight up carrying cloud to midgar, what are you supposed to think? and when cloud literally tells us straight to our faces that they used to be friends, what are you supposed to think? that this is mysterious? that this is intriguing? it's just showing you things you don't need to be shown yet and telling you things you'd be able to interpret LATER. zack is NOT meant to be shown to us yet at this point in the story. we hear about him, we pick up some passing information about him, we might start piecing some clues together but we do NOT see him yet. it takes out all the intrigue for who he could be i feel. because cloud literally just tells us they used to be close. AND THAT HE DROWNED IN A RIVER?

i'm still not over the drowning thing. in a vacuum i can see where cloud would come to this conclusion and i can understand why tifa just chooses to go along with it. but the thing is, they created this weird problem for themselves out of NOWHERE because they wanted cloud to know who zack is for the final team up battle against sephiroth. that's literally it. the ONLY reason cloud needs to know who zack is at this point is so they can fight together later. because they split this game into three parts and you NEED to fight sephiroth in every single one of them, otherwise it's not an ff7 game!

zack has lost his sense of mystery within the narrative. you already know about him, so you can watch him be all cute with marlene and cry over aerith and give biggs a peptalk and you can get EXCITED when he says he'll be returning for the next game. but he loses his purpose like this, being shown up front and center, we KNOW his relationship to aerith we KNOW his relationship to cloud we KNOW his ties to sephiroth, so there's nothing to really uncover. no pieces to put together, you already know that it's him. like what was the point of all this? show off zack some more cos the fans like him? i guess so. but what made him so intriguing in the FIRST place? because i don't think it was him showing up in the middle of the game with aerith's ribbon wrapped around his hand barreling off to get killed trying to TALK to hojo.

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I ACCIDENTALLY SAID 'TAXICRAB' THAT ONE TIME AND MADE YOU LAUGH HYSTERICALLY, COME ON!!!!!!

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word association disease is taking over my life i accidentally said TAXICRAB that one time and made you laugh HYSTERICALLY COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Break me off another tangerine wedge I’m not driving

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funniest character dynamic in the world to me is when you have one guy knows hes gay but doesnt realise hes in love with his best friend and another guy who knows hes in love with his best friend but does not know hes gay

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future shadow, omega and sage designs for leonid's timeline! a pair of old fucks and the (only slightly younger) current ruler of the eggman empire

vote for leonid in the @sonic-fankid-showdown!

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If you use arab.org like I do please consider taking the extra 30-60 seconds to click on ALL of their causes. Palestine is important but so are the environment, refugees, children, women, and the impoverished across the middle east and it doesn't take away from Palestine to click for multiple causes. The arab world faces a lot of problems and they only get worsened by how western nations have oppressed and attacked them. Clicking is small but it generates something and overtime it does benefit the greater good. It takes all of us clicking as often as possible but we can do it! It's really easy and safe and they have proofs on their site on how they do make an impact and are donating your click money

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guys.... i think angeals new apprentice is cringe... WTF..