ok among my favorite parts of qsmp is the fact that charlie slimecicle can only hold the act of being mad at mariana when mariana isn't in the room. like he successfully rp'd being mad at his deadbeat puta esposa for months while mariana wasn't logging on, like he complained about mariana at the wedding, during the election, in subsequent appearances, and then he's messaging mariana in the chat during purgatory and he's still holding it
and then they're both at spawn like as close to face to face as they get. and bro CANNOT hold the act it drops so fast lmfao he was like "yea cellbit i'm gonna kill mariana" and instead they have a genuinely heartfelt conversation and then rp sexo in the fountain
and i know i'm brainrotting purgatory rn but i'm actually thinking about this bc i saw a clip of mariana and slime talking during the awards show and literally. slime's face goes from 😡🤬 MARIANA'S HERE, SAY SOMETHING PUTA ESPOSA to 😄😁 the second mariana shows up on the screen
like he's still pretending to be mad but dude is grinning like absolute crazy and i love that
It's pretty fun for me to play Zelda games in a manner mostly isolated from fandom opinions. Like don't get me wrong I've absorbed a lot of LOZ spoilers, headcanons, interpretations etc. via osmosis, I am not playing these games blind. But regardless of how many spoilers and fanart/fanfic I've seen going through the AO3 tag after playing BOTW was still an Experience because it made me realize that the way I interpret both Link as a character and the game as a whole is apparently completely counter to the majority fandom opinion. Something I was blissfully oblivious to while playing the game.
y'all bandai themselves is assigning me with the apocalymon autism
[ID: A photo of a someone holding a copy of the parallel art of Apocalymon from the Exceed Apocalypse expansion of the Digimon Card Game. The alt art depicts Apocalymon's humanoid body with an intense expression. The card itself is in a gold sleeve.]
we only bought four packs (the first time we have bought packs since 2021) and this was the last card in the last pack
we're getting the whole pizza with this one fellas
WHATEVER i wanna talk about why the duel is hilarious
because this is it: this is where izzy is not asking us to just believe he is why things happened. (aka: ‘i massaged the crew’s opinions of you!’ and then a smash cut to izzy not realizing his actual inability to massage the crew’s opinions are about to get his tight lil ass chucked over the side as lucius stares right into the camera like he’s on the pirate office in his soul, if i had to guess who would be the one staring right at camera in these moments)
this is HIS THING. he is GOOD AT STABBING. he can STAB ALL DAY. there is NO SUBTEXT HERE SHUT UP HE WILL STAB YOU SHUT UP NOT LIKE T H A T & etc.
by all logical rules both muppet and real, stede really should lose this one. and he does! kind of! he gets stabbed.
but stede is a fancy man with a fancy ship and a fancy mast: how the everloving fuck is izzy supposed to factor in ‘this motherfucker right here spent more money than i will see in perhaps even my lifetime! who knows! giving his gay lil’ ship the best that money could buy’. that is insane. that is NOT A THING IN HIS WORLD.
WHO DOES THIS?
stede does this!!!! because if that hadn’t been the fiiiiinest cherrywood from brazil or whatever the fuck, izzy would have still won. it’s the fact that stede had the money needed to outfit his ship in this utterly insane way that lost izzy this duel, in the end, because even clever twisting to the side doesn’t matter when your mast is made out of wood The Poors can afford.
(also. stede won by getting subtextually fucked and izzy lost by subtextually fucking him??????? i am. this show.
I’ve been going slowly insane for like the past week and I finally just have to post about it because sweet pool as a VN is so overwhelmingly successful at creating an atmosphere that it actually makes me kind of insane? Like, everything from the weird UI to the music to the kinda anatomically janky art to the backgrounds to the little moving icon that appears after the text, it all combines to create this space that just is. Hostile to all life and I kind of love it? Not even to mention the fact that it’s third person, which is so immediately and obviously jarring if you have ANY knowledge of VNs! The whole thing is just designed to make you uncomfortable and put you off balance and it makes me feel batshit
what the everliving fuck? did i do so wrong? i tried difficulty ONE of swarm disaster, says for team lvl 66, i took in 4 80s, and on the second stage kafka pasted my entire party?? (trl phys, qq, dhil, and luocha). i just...that is the literal BEGINNING after the tutorial?? what the fuck? how did i fuck up so *badly*
Knight Artorias continues to be one of my absolute favorite boss fights
"victim of the Abyss" is the sexiest description one can read on a soul in this entire game by far
decided midway through fighting him that I wanted to go for a no-healing kill, mostly to prolong the experience and see if I could, and: success!! I can and did!
literally whose fucking idea within hoyoverse was it to make the most sadistic boss mechanic-wise, have all the dialogue unskippable even if its your second or third or god fucking tenth attempt at the boss, then have the new event start two days after the trailblaze mission and not have Genshin's Quick Start so anyone who can't get pass the boss gets fucked out of event rewards
a short list of bits from the past couple Road to PARTIZAN eps that have put a wild, open-mouthed grin behind my mask as i (you guessed it!) listened to them at work:
ONE. Briar Brightline's mood hat.
TWO. Art, Austin, and Keith playing pitch-perfect rascally, irreverent 7-year-olds alongside Jack's greatly distressed, long-dead mech pilot.
THREE. "Hey, Austin. You wanna know what the weak point of a mech is? The fucking pilot."