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I wonder if this is supposed to be a Biggie Smalls reference even though I'm pretty sure Ready to Die was released in 1994 and this patch takes place in 1990. Another continuation error from BP ig.

However with all this "continuation errors" (like regulus' records in ch1 and Spongebob in J's trailer), I'm starting to think that this is less of a continuation error and more like one of the side effects of the Storm they don't talk about where medias and pop culture would appear way before they're supposed to because of the people who survived from the previous eras.

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I had a dream where I was reading a yaoi/bl about a loser antisocial guy who has a one-sided hatred towards the cool hot popular dude in his class and gets in a Kimi no Na wa situation with his future self where he's married to said dude and the switch happens every 24 hour. So now I'm so mad that it's not real.

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I still think it's crazy how recoleta is fr just somebody's oc just walking around irl like imagine if that happened to you and your oc

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Sometimes I wonder if the people in ZZZ universe especially Thirens see furries like how we see rcta people here, or maybe they're more equivalent to a weaboo? Are Thiren-fishing and Thirenface a thing??

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I'm a bit too scared to post this take anywhere else, but I think every single fight in JoJo has always been "protagonist guy using their wits to outsmart the bad guy" and I'm tired of people pretending that it's a part 7-9 thing.

On that note, I feel like people tend to undermine how intelligent and cunning Jotaro is even in part 3 just because his stand is just big punchy dude when it's precisely because his stand is just big punchy dude for the most of the story that he actually had to use his head to get past his enemies' bs stand powers.

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Imagine a twst character with this as their groovification materials

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Istg people on r1999twt are justifying shipping recoleta with aleph and ms. Hunting by saying "oh, she's a spirit who's been wandering around for 20+ years" THAT DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT SHE'S PHYSICALLY A 17 YEAR OLD TEENAGE GIRL??? TF????? 😭😭😭

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Sometimes I wonder what other things are still "around" despite the storm since it's technically "currently" 2007. Do they still have the internet? YouTube? MySpace? And Joe's trailer sort of implies that Nickelodeon somehow survived the storm and still airs Spongebob after 1999 up to the year 1990 (2007).

(I know everyone thinks this is a continuation error like Regulus' records in ch 1, but I'd like to think that this is what happened bc it's funnier)

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⚠️HSR AMPHOREUS SPOILER!!⚠️

⚠️STONE OCEAN SPOILER!! ⚠️

Ok so from what I understand, their plan is to basically "Made in Heaven" the entirety of Amphoreus, probably minus the whole "giving humanity existential dread of knowing their fate from the moment they're born until their demise in hopes that they somehow make peace with that knowledge".

So for my prediction for the story moving forward is that more chrysos heirs will tragically bite the dust/succumb to their fate (Cipher and Hyacine are next on the chopping block lmao) and the finale would probably just be the end of Stone Ocean with Aglaea/Phainon possibly being the "Jolyne" and Phainon/TB being "Emporio" (iykyk) depending on which route hoyo will take. And in the end, everything would reset and be all hunky dory except for Phainon and/or the TB who now have to live with the memory (and trauma) of everything that happened and the Heirs may or may not become the new Titans or something just happens at the finale and they all got reset along with everyone else too and everyone live happily ever after kinda and we will get introduced to more Heirs who have died off screen like Hysilens or something.

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Now that TWST anime is now a thing, I just wanted to say I always liked how there's this phenomenon where people collectively assign Aleks Le as Idia's english voice (for the longest time, might I add) and Billy Kametz (R.I.P. king🥀) as Deuce bc same tbh, I always read the event stories in their voices in my head.

(Also pls tell me if there's other popular choice of VAs for other characters 🙏 I wanna know if there's more)

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I'm fully aware that the Storm made the timelines all fucked up but it gets even weirder when you think about the character's ages chronologically bc wdym that chronologically Sotheby is 6 years older than Shamane*?? Or that Horropedia would have been 4 years old in the events of Nightmare at Green Lake**???

Also do you think they ever told Avgust and his friends abt the Storm or do they just slowly realize that they haven't aged for the past 4 years since leaving their town?

*Sotheby was 14 in 1929 which means that she was born in 1915 (a year after ch 6) and Shamane was 45 in 1966 which means he was born in 1921 (8 years before ch 2)

**Since he mentioned growing up in SPDM like Vertin and was there to witness the events of ch 3, it's safe to assume that he was born in 1986 (2007-21) unlike Blonney who's born in 1972 or Jessica in 1963. On that note, Tooth Fairy was probably originally from 1996 after the first storm considering that she's still looks the same in 2.3 and 1.2 which means that she was probably born in 1971 idk.

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Everyone is so excited for the new Yuu the fact that her name is a play on "Princess Jasmine" flew right above everyone's head lmao

Her surname is literally 逢生(Oujou) which is a play on 王女(oujo) which means Princess and her 菜(na) looks suspiciously similar to 茉 which means Jasmine.

Tell me I'm not crazy.

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I got inspired by 2.6 and the skins so here's r1999 characters as trpg classes based on their vibes

Unrelated, but can we agree that the dwarf paladin skin on Erik is so freaking cute??? Elf ranger Lopera?? Also I think the idea that Kaalaa Baunaa and Willow giving each other their respective skins based on Willow's birthday letter is a neat little detail. Like, Willow actually making friends in the suitcase?? (Good for her)

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Theory: Genshin is changing their target demographic. Let me explain.

Honestly I've never seen a more Whole House Mad situation in the Genshin community than with the recent Varesa leaks. I open twt and see people obviously not happy with her design, animation, the fact that Iansan supposedly lost her 5* slot for this and the fact that she's supposed to be a "chubby" cow Luchadores when she looks...like that. And then I go into xhs and see Chinese players mad about pretty much the same thing. A lot of them have been upset since Natlan's release, saying that the characters feel like east asians cosplaying as/ appropriating other cultures, which didn't sit right with them. Some are also saying that the fact that Hoyo is calling Varesa's body type "fat" indirectly insults players who have that same, relatively healthy bmi and skinny body type. And yeah, I also have that same body type and my BMI is 22 which very normal unless you're on edtwt (lol).

So it got me thinking. Who is the target audience for this? It's definitely not the majority of the global audience or the Chinese audience bc they're all not happy. And to be frank since Natlan, I've never seen anyone who genuinely like the character designs and the only ones who do are either a. Only likes it as bait to "own the libs" like "oh this makes the people I hate mad therefore I like it" or b. People who are purposefully being ignorant about how problematic the characters are and refuses to see other people's perspective. So obviously they're trying to appeal to the incels and gooners even though they are a small (yet very loud) minority.

You might have seen posts about people sharing pictures of Fontaine characters, captioning it with something like "what happened to the character designs 💔" but I'm sorry to tell you, but I think they legitimately stopped caring about appealing to the general audience and yes, it is heartbreaking to see where this game's direction is going. If you remember, the incels and gooners are mad at some of the characters and their design in this era. Some notable examples here are Lyney, Furina, and Wanderer (boy, they really hate those boyshorts, huh?). From what I can tell, for some reason these people really freaking hates it when something appeals to a wider audience (namely female players and other minorities) and not cater to them specifically. I mean, just look at these incels seething over Infinity Nikki and Love and Deepspace for existing, not to appeal to them. Not to mention the fact that Wanderer and Furina often wins the top most popular Male and Female characters polls respectively but also one of the most hated characters by incels. And for some reason Hoyo decided to coddle these freaks as their business strategy, maybe they saw how successful ZZZ is with their goonerbait and tried to copy them and decided to abandon their preexisting audience? We may never know. For the record, I think ZZZ's strategy of baiting gooners and then BAM! give them deep dank lore therefore warding off weirdos who "aint reading allat" and hooking people who can look past the goonery, maturely engage with and actually enjoy the game and lore therefore resulting in a relatively chill community (at least compared to other Hoyo communities) really freaking genius. And what's funnier is that in Indonesian social media spaces, Genshin has been called a "gooner game" by people outside of the fandom long before ZZZ's release, which at the time is obviously not true and now it's sort of become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Personally my opinion on Varesa's design is the same case for Mizuki's design for me, I get what Hoyo's trying to go for but the overall design gets ruined by the fact that they are very obviously and not so subtly trying to appeal to a certain audience. And I'm afraid at this rate it will get worse from here on out. And to the people who genuinely, wholeheartedly like Varesa's character design, you are free to do so, but you cannot deny the type of audience she's specifically made for in mind and why people think it's problematic.

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Correction: 1.5 actually takes place after ch8 and 2.5 takes place before 2.4

After some feedback here and there I think I've finally figured out the complete timeline of when the event and main story took place

Idk if this is a theory or a fact, but I read somewhere that people who survived the storm from their era stopped aging which might explain characters like Avgust and Flutterpage who should be around Vertin's age in ch 3

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Lowkey, I sometimes forgot that some r1999 VAs also do actual acting on TV and movies bc what do you mean the actress who played the little girl in My Babysitter's a Vampire would grow up and voice a Viennese Opera Singer who has a lesbian situationship with her therapist??

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After some feedback here and there I think I've finally figured out the complete timeline of when the event and main story took place

Idk if this is a theory or a fact, but I read somewhere that people who survived the storm from their era stopped aging which might explain characters like Avgust and Flutterpage who should be around Vertin's age in ch 3