#🌌sleeptalkings

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from the beginning of the stream this was a little surreal

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oh yeah lemme shill actually

check out my homestuck-like mspfa btw

still rlly early on (~30pgs) but expect creatures and awful behavior from everyone involved <3

https://mspfa.com/?s=55387&p=1

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in the pokemon brain zone once again

ok so i feel like larry is honestly just something something overqualified meme of just being stuck in pokemon training

like, he was initially having fun with the whole pokemon raising and training thing, hell, using the geeta rival headcanon maybe she was his rival who got him involved. he grew up and was invited to be a gym leader and he was, obviously a good battler. inviting the area zero sorts of headcanon he has a very important role and would have to be a really skilled trainer. but its just like, not really any sort of passion anymore. like, either between the mental illness feels burnout or just, growing out of the phase, he only really keeps doing it because its just his most stable option and well if it aint broke dont fix it.

like i think hes grown past some jaded views he might have had towards being a league member, seen the job for what it is, and its gone from dream job to just... what gets the bills paid.

man im so close to derailing this post into my anti capitalism rant but rlly i just think larrys an old prune whos just not into the job anymore but trying to move on and do anything else is just not viable in this economy, hed have to start from zero relevant experience again and thats just not realistic.

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currently sad abt how paldea just has No culture

long post ahead i rambled longer than i expected

like ive been replaying gen 7 and like. the regional identity and theme is so strong??? the island deitys, the overhauling of traditional progression, the clear messages of friendship and family, kindness, nature, etc. and even between different towns, theres the tourist downtown strip, malie which has been built by those who immigrated from Johto, fuckin PO TOWN. but dont even get me STARTED on how powerful team skull is, being hoodlums of teens forgotten and ignored by the world now rejecting the island challenge and everything it stands for in pursuit of finding their own family with the other team skull members.

what does paldea have. they all need cyclizars to get around this obscenely way too large map or taxi money to go in a cab lofted by parrots because theres seemingly no other ways to get around. also the citys are based off those in spain and like. they type of gym leader there but ultimately have next to no individual flavor. nobody talks to you about the towns or world, the overarching theme of the game is "treasure" which is already dumb but also barely feels present beyond everything you do, the "evil" team is interesting but ultimately a self contained plot point that basically only hinges around the school, noone talks about team star outside of their specific scenes or the intro sequence. theres no god tier legendaries the people respect and look up to, nobody talks about the world at best people talk about that rich school thats so important for Some Reason and yet we still know so little concretely about it and. ARGH.

this game has such good plots and stories but ultimately despite supposedly being open world, the world doesn't EXIST. the people here dont have any serious beliefs or culture, they just talk about battles and sandwiches i guess.

Like, compare this to Every other game in the series. Kanto was. kanto. but like, even then lavender town and some other locations give more character to the graveyardless (DESPITE HAVING A GRAVESTONE POKEMON) Paldea. even while less cohesive, Johto is astonishingly rich even this early on, Hoenn has connection between people and Pokemon, sinnoh has. so much i love sinnoh even tho its a bit weaker imo but still has belief in good versus nihilism with Cyrus, with several towns having their own flavors, unova was unova yall already know its better, gen 6 region name even bests paldea with having beauty of life as a theme, alola i talked about, galar i never played nor got invested in but i feel like its better than PALDEA.

i say this as someone with 200+ hours in this game. i hate how little real identity it has. the fact that this main entry thats actually proud of itself is better than xy-KALOS IT'S KALOS. the fact that this does better than goddamn kalos in generation six, year of the "we got scared of regional identity and were dealing with a lot right now, we put gen 1 in here to appeal to the genwunners pls enjoy and buy game. also we're too scared to even do a pokemon Z. please dont pay attention to anything new this game brought to the series pllllssss" is ASTONISHING. FOR A SUPPOSED OPEN WORLD GAME!

and NO! scarlet and violet are not "open world" games. Theres no world to explore, theres no extra things you Get for exploring, theres nothing to see that doesn't look like Plastic, there is still an intended progression order you need to follow to even have a shot at enjoying the battles, theres no extra stories you get for exploring, no extra cities, noone who talks about anything interesting, nothing. The world exists only as a map you use your sandwich dragon to get across. Which, it's UNNECESSARILY MASSIVE. there is NO reason for the map to be this large.

BECAUSE THERE'S NO CULTURE OR IDENTITY THE OPEN WORLD FEELING SUFFERS. you dont get anything for going out of your way and exploring the world at hand, you just get like, scattered XP candies and berries or an HM or two. a couple trainer battles with generic dialogue. In a good open world, there are sidequests in various locations, that give you something about the world and offer a unique task. A random trainer at the bottom of a cliff is charming but... Why cant we help???!

Also, I'm not talking about DLC. Glimmerazzi, ogre ousting, the absolute dogshit BBQ situation are all interesting but I'm not paying Another 30$ for a finished game and also most of that has nothing to Do with paldea so cope. I will say though that the base game needed more glimmerazzi or perrin's pokemon snap quest. Like, being given the opportunity to do something that doesn't tie back in the story, just being there to do aside from the story.

anyways this post is a mess im so aurgh about this game ok. i love it and i want to see it be better. i keep trying to think about the characters in the world itself but paldea just has. Nothing!!! there's nothing we learn about them and it's so frustrating bc i Want to see that!!! and yet there's just. Nothing.

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one of these days the bots are gonna get so advanced to the point where they have such severely tumblr usernames it will actually be indistinguishable past having a selfie pfp

like one of these days tumblr spambot communistvriska is gonna follow me and ill just be like shit i cant block that

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saw this tiktok of some mom mocking her 10 yo kid for being unable to open a cd case earlier and have never gotten over it.

like are you mocking her or yourself here because you do realise you are. her parent. whos supposed to. teach her things. at some point. such as. i dunno. maybe. how to open a cd case. im just saying.

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i just felt like id mention i watched a video appreciating waluigi so if i ever start reblogging waluigi art and start kicking my feet about him im sorry about what I've become

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anyone else see a orange leaf & their mind just just goes

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new tumblr feature just dropped called my follow feed is fuckig broken....

what did i DO

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love seeing literally noone happy about splatfest results. i dont even go here i just see absolute dismay on my dash

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lowkey in such a fic writing brain bc i love when larry is literally just some guy in a sort of situation

i have an incredibly specific vision here tho. like i want him to be doing cool shit in an expressly uncool manner. yes hes on a secret mission protecting the region from an outbreak of the powerful area zero monsters and thats his Actual third job. but he just severely boring about it. not even like a cool angst point past plot device its literally just his job. hes not reeeally supposed to talk about it (NDAs amirite) but yeah ultimately geeta just contracted him to do that and he could do with the money tbfh (rent these days) so he just agreed and well here he is now ig w/e

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love how that fucking. wacky tournament has pulled every soundcloud tourneyguy out of the fucking Woodwork for roommate

like roommate, as an absurdly niche character from some random ass soundcloud community who about three people have ever posted about on tumblr ever, managed to pull through past fucking Mortdecai Madagascar. absolutely insane about it.

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how come no one's mentioned the new awful tumblr mobile video format like i'm going to start causing problems what IS THIS

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every night i go to bed and decide whether to watch youtube for an hour or to watch blorbo thoughts in my brain for and hour and i aaaaaalways pick the blorbos

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i refused to get into deltarune for the longest time bc i knew id be upset by the cliffhangers

and now here i am

upset by the cliffhangers

whoever could have seen this coming ....

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i always feel so bad bc i just cant stand one piece anymore since the tumblr ad campaign it just feels like an ad now. like i know its not & etc etc but every time i see one piece i just internally go SILENCE BRAND!! even while knowing it's just a popular anime