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I love this❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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My son saw a bug on the ceiling for the first time

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do you wipe standing or sitting

I wipe thinking

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I believe honour systems in games are usually poorly implemented, mostly because of how *non-sensical* they are.

You really can't make the same protagonist switch between being an angelic force for good/batshit crazy without it destroying the credibility of the plot, and yet it is what most video games do.

But it works so well in RDR2 (for the plot, I'm not talking about the gameplay elements surrounding the system) due to its absolutely stellar writing and characterization of Arthur Morgan. Both sides of the story *fits his character perfectly*. I've always wanted to rant about this, so here goes:

The foundation of Arthur Morgan built on the fact that he is a violent, angry, and broken man. He has felt love, and he has had it taken away from him, and he has seen the absolute worst of what the world has to offer.. He has has been through the *wringer*, and it was before the game even begins. Added points for Rockstar for NOT making him a cookie-cutter stoic, gruff hero like so many other stories. Our protagonist here still appreciates much of the little things the world has to offer. This also helps in keeping things fun in side quests and stuff without making it seem out of place for the character! It also adds to him being as endearing as he is.

[POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME YET]

The honour system is there to decide where we can take Arthur from here, in the final acts of his life. High-honour Arthur finds it in himself to seek redemption, and do some good before his end.

Low-honour Arthur on the other hand embraces the violence that he *thinks* is innate to his nature. All the while trying to save the last bits of hope his gang has, because that's all he has ever had. (Or not even that, depending on what ending you chose.)

I might not be doing proper justice to just how nuanced they made the characters in this game. They really portrayed a method of storytelling that could only be done with the dynamicity of a video game, and i wish more developers took note of this and delivered.

i get weirdly defensive over low honour arthur. not because i think he's defensible in any manner, but because i think the low honour aspects of this game are really interesting and thought provoking. as much as i appreciate the catharsis of giving arthur a more satisfactory ending, there is some really underrated characterization and writing that i feel goes unnoticed and under-appreciated sometimes.

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The ADHD urge to not

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Allos think demisexual and demiromantic are "just what everybody is like" because when they hear that we need to have formed a bond to experience attraction they think that just means "getting to know somebody over a few drinks at the bar or a couple dates" and not needing to have an established, long-term relationship that could take a significant amount of time to build,

I'm demiromantic and I've only gotten two crushes and they were on my best, closest friends that I'd known for months or years and saw every day at school, and I had to risk ruining my closest friendship to pursue it, which is absolutely not how alloromantics experience crushes.

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there’s this wasp whose scientific name is just ahaha

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ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

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WGHY DOES HE HAVE A FOUR WHEELER TGATS SO FUNNY. WHO GAVE HIM THAT?????

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big fan of binary star systems and/or doomed relationships

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Every time there's a new tumblr meme there's always people like "this isn't funny anymore, it's gotten boring/cringe" We are on tumblr, we drag dead jokes around so that their blood decorates the place like a children's hospital

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Twilight Princess honestly has one of the most nuanced approaches to light is not good/dark is not evil that I've ever seen.

On the obvious side, Midna is the dark-is-not-evil and the Twili are almost all innocent victims of Zant and Ganondorf. Ganondorf's sword is white, symbolizing what may have very well been an unjust execution (i.e. almost certainly without trial and possibly without real evidence) by the Hylians, the supposed "good guys."

That sword is now being used against someone who never actually wronged Ganondorf: Link. We can argue all day over how much the incarnations of the hero's spirit have in common, but this incarnation of Link never raised a finger to hurt Ganondorf until well after Ganondorf attacked his family and came close to destroying his home.

Even though his actions resulted in Ganondorf's arrest and attempted execution, the Hero of Time was also innocent. He was a child caught up in the vicious politics of the royal court; moreover, he was a traumatized child coming back from a nightmare of a future. (Someone get these boys to therapy.)

We see what the Twilight does to light-worlders trapped in it and it's tragic and frightening, just as the light is harmful to Midna.

In addition, I would characterize Lanayru forcing Link to experience that nightmare of a vision as, not a villain, but it's definitely not a heroic action because Link had already seen what the fused shadows do to people. Link had just arrived in Lanayru Province from Eldin, where he had seen a beloved patriarch turned into a monster by one. Putting him through a vision to get the point across was unnecessary and cruel.

As I see it, the deeper message here is that both light and dark are necessary and good parts of the world, it's when they become disordered--when one tries to eclipse the other, or when they invade places that are not for them--that there's a problem.

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this is literally what i think of when seeing 80% of girls/boys memes