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met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name

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From!

Oh hey. It’s a nice memory of a young Fei playing ball with his mom.

Or…it’s a recording of a memory?

Oh, it’s Fei watching a recording of a memory of him playing ball with his mom. Wait…no…

It’s Fei watching his younger self watching a recording of a memory of him playing ball with his mom.

But wait…WE are watching Fei watching his younger self watching a recording of a memory of him playing ball with his mom.

…But given the government’s constant monitoring of its populace, that means the government is watching us watching Fei watching his younger self watching a recording of a memory of him playing ball with his mom.

But then you factor in the extraterrestrial observation scouting unit planning its invasion of Earth and that would make it aliens are watching the government watching us watching Fei watching his younger self watching a recording of a memory of him playing ball with his mom.

But then THE LORD sees all. So it’s really God watching the aliens watching the government watching us watching Fei watching his younger self watching a recording of a memory of him playing ball with his mom.

B-but then you factor in that God is just a figment of Tommy Westphall’s imagination and…where…where does that leave us?! WHERE?! 

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One way to improve the story of Xenogears would be to make Citan less of an asshole, but the way I think would be more interesting would be to have everyone else actually acknowledge his dickishness and call him out for it, but still begrudgingly keep him as a member of the party because he's too damned useful; he knows everything about everything and even if he withholds a lot of this very crucial information from his alleged "friends" until it's immediately relevant, or sometimes after, it's still better than not having that intel at all, because nobody else knows more than a little of what Solaris is up to.*

So basically, I want him to be a mild-mannered, nerdy version of Riddick circa Pitch Black--they can't trust him, but they also can't survive without his help.

Edit: Actually, I guess that makes him a cross between Riddick and Benjamin Linus from Lost.

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Lightbulbasaur 💡

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The 12th Mortal Kombat game is called Mortal Kombat 1, with no subtitle despite that being the obvious right choice, making discussions about the original game in the series needlessly confusing.

The upcoming Mortal Kombat movie is just called Mortal Kombat II, the same title as the second game in the franchise down to the use of Roman numerals, despite the fact that the movie is clearly not even an adaptation of that game.

What is it with the this franchise and dumb naming decisions? Is that just baked into its identity ever since they first decided to misspell "combat"? Did the Furies or whoever put a curse* on the series thirty-three years ago as punishment for that K?

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this is what queer infighting leads to

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ib: crepuscularqueens

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WHAT

THE GUY THAT SELLS ME PENIS ENLARGEMENT PILLS IS 5000 YEAR OLD FORMER SUPERSTAR & PULITZER PRIZE WINNER????

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I can play Chop Suey on the ukulele and that is a fact I should remember more often because playing it always makes me so happy.

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I am a firm believer in RPGs needing to have more than one (or even two) standard battle themes through the entire game. And in particular, I think final dungeons should always have their own unique battle theme.

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, by Tula Lotay.

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Tula Lotay

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a fool will say “You already did that post.”

the wise reader will note that self-plagiarism is identity

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They should invent a method of asking for reassurance that nobody secretly hates you that doesn't make people secretly hate you.

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