#Moga Chatter

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Almost a whole year after the show has ended and im still like ‘AND ANOTHER THING’

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Being an adult means being able to choose the theme for your bathroom 😌

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I’ve been playing Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town and I have..... Thoughts™

Some light spoilers.

I can’t call it a bad game, I’m having fun, but it’s not.... Good, either.

The character customization is FANTASTIC, imo. I really like a lot of the options, and the ability to change the color of your individual eyes is pretty neat! I’ve really enjoyed the addition of being able to customize the MC in the newer games, and I’m glad it’s something they’ve kept around (even if the default MCs are rly cute too)

The addition of a moped is neat, though I’ll admit it seems... Superfluous. The horse in previous games was primarily used as a way to get around faster. I understand you have to unlock your moped, but the same goes for the horse, and with the way the game mechanics work, I have my moped back before I have the stable rebuilt, which kind of...Renders the horse moot. Why would I bother to build the stable now and waste fodder/stamina on an animal when I have a moped again?

In terms of the villagers, I can’t say I’m very attached to any of them. I’ve got a small handful that I guess I like but I’m just generally not invested in any of them or their lives.The dialogue is all very samey, and I feel like there’s little variation in what they say to me-- Which is generally a problem in most of the games, but it seems more noticeable here, and almost makes me ache for Save the Homeland’s dialogue style instead.

The voice clips are a nice touch, remind me vaguely of Magical Melody, and I’ll admit it’s a nice little touch. To be frank, the lack of visible talksprites and heart meters being hidden in notes VERY much reminds me of StH or MM, and isn’t necessarily something that bothers me (even if the camera angles get a lil wonky.)

As for how the farm works... I absolutely hate that the makers can only make one item at a time. I hate hate hate that I have several of these damn things lined up on my farm, taking up space, just so I can have the materials I need, and even then I only get ONE AT A TIME! And I need SEVERAL of these items to do anything from upgrading my tools, to expanding my house, to making clothes. In previous games, YES, you had to have certain items to do these things as well, but you (usually) didn’t need to turn ores into ingots first. Lumber was straight up logs that you cut down, and stones were actually useful. But here? HERE?

Cut the tree down. Save the logs. Put 3 logs into a maker. Get one (1) piece of lumber. Repeat ad nauseam.

By the way, there’s at least 5 different types of lumber. And grass. And you need them all for different things! And you need a lot of them for the different things!

There’s 3 mines, which are, frankly, kind of disappointing. The 3rd and largest mine is only 50 floors, and while the addition of the moles make for an... Interesting angle (and fighting off enemies isn’t new at all in certain games) it’s just... Boring. Part of the reason I enjoyed the mines so much in previous games was part of the challenge! It zapped your stamina so easily, and the further down you got, the more exciting it was! But it (personally) feels like there’s no challenge to these mines, and their low variety makes them boring. In reality, you’re only down there to get ores to shove into the ingot makers, so you can progress. (Because remember, these take more than one ore, to make just one (1) ingot!)

Your farm also has various trees and grasses growing over its 3 levels, which is all well and good. However, they crop up and grow VERY fast, including in places you don’t want them to. You have to cover spaces with flooring to stop them from popping up somewhere inconvenient, and even then, they’ll appear where you weren’t ALLOWED to place the flooring. You can’t just sickle the saplings, either. You have to mash those down with a hammer.

Your sickle is ONLY used for cutting the grass, which makes it almost useless in terms of upgrading. You cannot use it on crops, weeds, etc. Just the grass.

There’s also these blue stepping stones across your farm in various places. To my knowledge they cannot be moved or broken, and you cannot till them away, or place anything over them, resulting in wasted space, frankly.

As for the animals, it’s very... Strange? In my opinion. I’m unsure if it’s because of the mode I selected, but the livestock does not NEED to be brushed every day. Rather, when you go to take care of them, the animal will have a small speech bubble over them, indicating what they want at the moment. Your cows and goats will often have a milk icon over their head most days, and only OCCASIONALLY (in my experience) will they want to be brushed. Strangely, you don’t need to buy any tools to do so, either. You interact, they’re milked. You interact, they’re brushed. It’s all very quick, as well.

Also strangely, you have to purchase the ability to breed your chickens, rather than just putting an egg into the incubator.

As for the animal variety... I like it! The goats and the rabbits are very fun additions! And simply finding your animals (and the new varieties) randomly on your farm and then ‘taming’ them is kind of fun, but it does feel like you don’t particularly get a say in if you want to have the new animals in the first place, even if you CAN release animals via the Earth Sprites.

Which, by the way, make me miss the Harvest Sprites, very much. They’re sort of cute, I guess, but ultimately a little boring, if not helpful. Even the Spirit is... Interesting, and beautiful as she is, she’s so. Bland. You can’t really befriend her, just sort of talk to her, but it doesn’t really seem to do much.

I miss you, Harvest Goddess.........

There’s an added museum feature, very similar to animal crossing, but save for the small statues being built of animals you take photos of, it’s just another way to pad out the game, and is very unimpressive to look at.

Crop, meanwhile, are very... Eh, to me. Crops that previously used to be able to be harvested from all season, last 1-3 harvests before disappearing, and then need to be replanted--Including things like tea bushes. Thankfully, the seed makers are a maker that give you 2 seeds out of 1 item-- Though the seed bags only cover 1 tilled square, rather than 9, like in a few previous games.

Your rucksack is also limited in space-- Once again, nothing new, but very frustrating for a game that requires you to have a variety of materials on hold to make XYZ thing. The shipping bin ALSO only holds so many items, and to my knowledge cannot be upgraded. Got 25 items to ship? Sorry! You can only ship 24! Guess you have to wait until tomorrow :)

There’s also only 2 festivals per season, one of which is a mini game, while the other... Is not. It’s kind of a bummer, actually, and I don’t find myself looking forward to them at all.

It’s not all bad, though!

I do enjoy the ability to build sprinklers and let THOSE water your crops for you. It’s very time and stamina saving, and I thoroughly enjoy it.

The variety of crops and wild flowers is nice as well! You can get some crops grown wild, pop those into a seed maker, and then BOOM! You just got strawberries, or melons, or pineapples for free! Nice!

I DO like that your farm has 3 different levels, and unlocking them by fixing bridges is pretty cool, and genuinely feels like it’s been earned when you DO save up enough money (or materials) to unlock them.

The character models look pretty nice, if not a little strange at times. I feel like they can move stiffly in cutscenes, and they have very limited expressions, but they’re still nice to look at. I thoroughly enjoy the happy dance villagers do when you give them a gift they particularly like.

But...

I won’t lie to you guys, but EVERY time I pick up to play (which I’ll admit is a lot, despite my complaints), I find myself wanting to play the older games instead. Now I’ll admit a lot of the newer games could be lacking in particular areas, but there was ALWAYS a lot of enjoyment for me while playing them, so to have this absolute ACHE to dig out my ps2 or my gamecube to play Save the Homeland or Magical Melody INSTEAD is.... Kind of astounding to me.

It’s a fun game to turn your brain off and play, but I don’t think it’s deserving of the price tag-- Even with the new downloadable content on the way (that also costs money, even if you can save some with the expansion pass.). It feels oddly hollow and very... Mobile-game like to me, and while it’s not the WORST game I’ve ever played, it feels like it’s missing a lot of the charm that previous titles have had.

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Thinks again about how the series could have and should have given Rapunzel deep emotional bonds with people outside of her immediate circle (or even with her parents) but it just

didn’t

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Hector Keychain Update;

Idk what happened, idk who fucked up, but they've all been sent back to me from this last batch.

I'm gonna try to figure it out, and I'm so so sorry for the delay guys.

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kinda wanna change my url.......

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Ive been meaning to draw more stuff for the Sunny Brotherhood AU (aka; the AU where Punz and the brotherhood take off after Cass in season 3, while Eugene returns to Corona to handle the situation there) BUT art brain go brrrrr for now, so take some story beats/rough ideas instead

Punz starts out with Adira and Edmund, and they pick up Hector early on. It’s very awkward between all 4 of them for various reasons.

Edmund, while still having some of his goofy charm, is ultimately grave and serious like in his debut. He let his guard down and let people in to the moonstone, and it was taken, and now things are worse, which briefly gives him some conflict with Rapunzel and Adira-- How were they to know Cass would take it and run off? Hector, as always, is on Edmund’s side.

Rapunzel and Edmund talk a LOT. About Eugene. About the moonstone and sundrop, about their years in isolation, about what it is to be a good ruler and leader. They ultimately reach an understanding, and something does occur that helps Edmund lighten up and stop blaming the situation on Adira and Rapunzel-- It’s no help anyway.

Through Edmund’s own stories as king, and his regrets, Rapunzel reflects on some of her own choices and treatment of Cass and other people, and chooses to learn from her AND his mistakes.

Edmund’s attitude shift leaves Hector feeling a little bitter and more lost when he realizes that Edmund has chosen to agree to reunite the moonstone and sundrop, rather than destroy the moonstone or keep it locked away.

Hector and Rapunzel also connect over being isolated for so long and unsure of what to do with yourself once you get your freedom.

Naturally there is going to be the occasional unrelated danger to them chasing Cass, and echoes of what’s happened before. In particular, a bit where Rapunzel has to choose between handling a situation herself, or trusting someone else to know what they’re doing despite immediate danger (Ala, a callback to RATG, when Cass is begging Rapunzel not to use the incantation.) Hector is the one most likely trying to convince Rapunzel to let him handle the situation they’re in. She relents, and it goes better than it would have otherwise.

Adira and Rapunzel also connect more, and we possibly learn more about Adira herself.

Generally just some Insert Backstory Here for the brotherhood.

Adira and Hector squabbling, and Rapunzel calls them Cass and Eugene at least once-- It’s awkward.

Edmund’s crows help Rapunzel keep in touch with Eugene and everyone else in Corona.

Rapunzel does realize at some point that she should have been listening to Cass-- Albeit not in a do what she says way, but in a ‘I Hear what you’re saying, let’s talk about this sort of way’

Perhaps one day I’ll draw some of this lmao

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It's passed midnight here now

🎉 I am now 27 🎉

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ALL HECTOR KEYCHAINS ARE OFFICIALLY SHIPPED OUT!!

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Regarding that last post, since I was already sorta discussing it with someone, but... God Damn the lack of reading comprehension in most people nowadays is Exhausting.

Like fuck dude it doesn’t even matter if it’s a show, a book, a movie. It’s like unless someone explicitly spells it out that xyz thing isn’t okay and obviously Should Never Be Done but we’re Making a Point Here Guys, I as the Writer obviously Do Not Condone Such Actions--

It’s gonna be taken like it is. Like! Do you think! Do you think at all in any way that isn’t just you peacocking for Woke Points! Did you actually read the thing? Did you actually watch the thing? Did you actually take the time to think about it and process it and realize what was being said so you could form your own opinion, or are you just regurgitating some Fake Woke bile you heard somewhere so you can be part of the crowd that is obviously condemning this Bad Thing to the point where you might as well be preaching to a three year old?

“Well this thing is bad and the Author didn’t SAY that it was MEANT to be bad so--”

You’re running on bad faith, all the time! Isn’t it exhausting! To assume the worst out of everyone! All the time! Isn’t it exhausting to assume that unless it’s Explicitly stated otherwise, then this writer/creator/etc is clearly excusing these bad behaviors? Or you insert your own narrative! “Well they didn’t explain that THIS thing is bad, or that THIS thing is bad--” MAYBE BECAUSE THAT’S NOT WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT? MAYBE BECAUSE YOU’RE PUTTING WORDS IN THEIR MOUTH? MAYBE BECAUSE THEY HAD HOPED YOU’D HAVE TWO BRAINCELLS TO RUB TOGETHER, AND REALIZE THAT’S OBVIOUSLY NOT WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT, BASED ON THE CONTEXT OF THE WORK AROUND IT.

And then you want it to DISAPPEAR because YOU don’t understand, or like it, or want to think on it for more than five seconds in a positive light? Because you’ve got it so far in your thick skull that they’re wrong, or evil, or depraved, or what the fuck ever, because you’ve completely missed their point and inserted your own.

Like! For fuck’s sake man! Just because you don’t grasp a concept doesn’t mean nobody else does! Just because you’re not getting something out of it doesn’t mean nobody else is! Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean somebody else doesn’t!

Fuck!

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Anyway I lost the ability to take LOUD "critical consumption" of media people seriously when i saw someone SERIOUSLY say that the Mad Mod episode of Teen Titans was teaching kids to be scared of British People

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Kinda wanna try my hand at making and selling enamel pins tbh

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Finally scheduled to get vaccinated eyyyy

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Okay so... Anyone who’s followed me for a while know I’m v fascinated by water fae and spirits, particularly the Nokk (Nnnno, not Frozen 2′s rendition) and generally have a love for these violin playing bastards. You can find some basic info on them floating around, a lot of it largely the same even if there’s some differences here and there. Ya follow me?

Usually a pretty dude, even if it’s not his real face. Plays a violin or fiddle (soooometimes a harp, but that’s usually associated more with Fossegrim, which to SOME are the same spirit, but to others aren’t, but I digress), they can change into a horse, or sometimes items like a boat, a coin, a book, etc. They’re dangerous water spirits, and can and will drown you if given the chance. Repelled by steel.

Generally the basics here, right? Most sources will give you this kind of info.

So I bought this book, right.

Book on water fae, mermaids, stuff like that. I'm flippin through it since I havent had the attention span to properly read it yet, and I catch the word Nokke.

Excuse me. Excuse me??? Where did you get this god damn info???? Nothing in that first paragraph even remotely lines up with the information I'm familiar with!! Centaur like? Red cap???

The red cap bit has me like "DID YOU GET CONFUSED WITH A MERROW? HELLO???"

No idea where this centaur shit came from, but I genuinely don't think this person did any research at all holy FUCK

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WHY didnt ANYONE tell me Marina had new music

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Gotta appreciate the p0rnbot i just blocked called Buttdudeuniverse