#XVI. p

[illuminated-in-darkness]

Vane Schemes Black Sails Musical Parallels | XVI. XXV.

note: the percussive rhythm in both scenes is part of the Unlikely Tactics parallel.

I spent a year rewatching Black Sails and tracking all the bits of music that repeated at any point during the show, and my findings are reinforcing that Bear McCreary is a genius and this show should have been called 'parallels that will kill you over and over again'* (tag | chronological)

[esteljune]

Videogames I played in 2k23

[nenedominik]

Art vs Artist 2023 ✨✨

Like every year I feel happy and proud to have so many people who follow and support me and my art! Thank you so much to everyone!🙏🏻❤️ I hope to get better and better💪🏻🔥

[cliji]

oh we fawking love you gentle clive rosfield.

no but i need to know under what context cause he’s very gentle around jilljosh, albeit sometimes a little stern on josh (duh he’s his older brother). like does it have to do with the people of misidia or leviathan’s dominant maybe IDKKKK

but for me (user cliji, warfield megafan), i want jill warrick Going Through It™️ and clive just reverting back to his 28yr old persona where he’s 🥺 all over jill and everyone

[karoiseka]

Karoiseka, Dominant of Oschon,

Eikon of Wind and Wanderings.

[skeith-platinumprincess]

Hey all! To celebrate all the amazing video game releases of 2023 I decided to throw together a big AMV showcasing 60 different titles that released this year! The song is Herald of Darkness by Poets of the Fall

[grimdraaaws]

I rmb i was really depressed and immediately apologized to Jill when the ending showed Metia's light fading.

Eventhough it's only a game, I literally swear to bring Clive back to her just before they set off for Origin... please give us an alternate or extended ending, Yoshi-P. 😔

[bunnywithin]

clive and joshua who came to love jill as a sister ;(

[doozclops]

How did you get that colour!!!

[fostersffff]

For anyone not running in the same Gaming News circles I do: last week, Naoki Yoshida (aka Yoshi-P) did an interview to coincide with some early previews of Final Fantasy XVI, and during part of it he mentioned that he's uncomfortable with the term "JRPG" and wouldn't describe XVI as such, because to him, he can't shake the feeling that it's a discriminatory description.

Some people took this as another check in the "XVI is going to be Elder Scrolls: Game of Thrones instead of an actual Final Fantasy" column, but other people pointed out that, especially during the 7th console generation (360/PS3/Wii), JRPG was largely used as a derogatory term. Or at the very least, JRPGs typically got worse treatment than their WRPG counterparts. Even when coverage was positive, it would still be peppered with "oh those WACKY Japanese and their incomprehensible ANIMAY stories!" Hell, just last year, in the wake of Elden Ring being The Video Game, Western developers who worked on games like Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West were going "But the UI is bad! It's bad, it's so bad! Why do people like this game with this... bad UI!", with the pretty clear subtext that they wanted to say "this game is made wrong compared to the way WE make games" but knowing better than to actually say that.

In response to the claim that "games media was shitty towards Japan 15 years ago", games media figureheads from that time crawled out of the woodwork to go "THAT'S INSANE, YOU'RE INSANE, WE NEVER DID THAT, YOU'RE WRONG, WHAT EVEN IS A 7TH CONSOLE GENERATION, NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THAT MEANS, ANIME AVIS AT IT AGAIN". This was met with actual clips from G4- the TV channel that was all about video games- that were just... insanely racist:

(even before the actual review, what the fuck is she talking about with the THEY'RE GOING TO REPLACE US shit???)

The guy doing the actual review, noted coke-fiend Adam Sessler, decided to respond to this, and rather than say something like "15 years ago was a different time" or "ok that was bad but I think you're cherry picking to support your argument*" or even a deflection like "man I didn't write the reviews, I just read them for work", he instead chose:

Please remember this entire thing was kicked off by the producer of Final Fantasy XVI going "I thought JRPG was a discriminatory thing for the longest time"

[rainbowdonkee]

I can't wait for Summer 2023!!! Thank you Square Enix!!!

[lilithvanille]

One of these squeenix producers is older than the other, and it's not the one you think

[zencribnotes]

Fucking sucks to have Yoshi-p say “No black or brown people in our reality-based medieval Europe-inspired land mass” and lackluster reply around prominent female characters.

Like, paragraphs about how the team are GOT fans and yet even GOT has diverse people? What are you all watching that your takeaway is to reiterate racist narratives around medieval Europe?

[asha-mage]

Listen all I want in life is to watch queer people in extremely fancy vaguely period clothing yell at each other about Shakespearean bullshit before kissing-and-or-killing each other. Is that so much to ask?

[glamgoblin]

The absolute king behavior of releasing a final fantasy game with a canonically queer character during pride month

[cliji]

MY NORTHERN QUEEN oh it’s joeverrrrr 😞

i’m very aware that japanese ppl are upstanding people but can somebody 😹😹leak😹😹😹 just😹😹this😂🤣one😂😂thing🤣🤣……pleeeaaaseee😂😂😂