#and they blew it out of the park

[gojuo]

I thought I had abandoned that pride. I had decided to not respect myself or anyone else. I thought I had chosen to live like that...

Megumi? Who is that?

JUJUTSU KAISEN / 呪術廻戦 Hidden Inventory IV, "懐玉－肆－"

[renlyslittlerose]

My dad: I only spent one night in jail.

Me: For possession, right?

My dad: Nah. For being drunk and disorderly

Me: When????

My dad: When I was 16 :) I climbed a water tower when I was working in Saskatchewan :)

[artsy-book]

I just want to make it clear that I will never be the same again after watching genloss. I have been fundamentally changed by watching it and I do not know what to do now

[ambafaerie]

Allen: What is it?

Nolan: I think… I miss my wife

[azuresage]

ok heres some slightly organized notes on the new wilds stuff that ive been editing over the past few days

seems both the palico and the hunter now have spoken dialogue in the story. Before, the hunter never had a voice of their own, until risebreak added in-quest situational voice lines. Now they've gone the full mile. I'm into it.. provided we get personality options to choose from. they could do what they did for dragons dogma 2 and have personality sets with unique dialogue for each set. there should also be an option to remain silent, as well. that would be ideal. also hoping the character creator will be as in depth as dd2's...

right away, we see the hunter use the slinger for environmental effects. that's probably the most inoffensive thing they could have carried over from world... still really didn't want to see it back.

i see the new mount can scoop you up when you get downed, so wirefall is still a thing, just in a new form. looks a little more balanced, at least.

small monsters attacking a large monster in a group. that's neat. kind of like an expansion on turf wars.

we see the hunter swap from a greataword to a bowgun while riding the mount. that's pretty insane. we've never had a weapon change on the fly like that before. that's gonna be a game-changer. part of me wants to complain about it detracting from the spirit of pre-hunt preparation, but that spirit's been dead since world introduced item box and cooking at camp anyway, so i dunno how to feel...

the next thing we see is a montage of brand new moves, and possibly a stance change with the greatsword. so im going to make a guess here... rather than switch skills, we're getting stances. so it could kind of be akin to the skill swap scroll in sunbreak where you switch between two custom movesets on the fly. now we are changing our stances, and with it our movesets. i have to admit, the idea of that really gets me excited. thats just the sort of spice to the gameplay i was hoping for... if it's what they're doing. and the new greatsword moves all looked incredibly cool. i did say more command input type moves would be a satisfactory alternative to special moves. we already see three new ones for just the greatsword. the more the better. im hoping its at least three per stance. i have to say, i'm feeling optimistic about this now. its looking to be more than world 2 electric boogaloo, if this is anything to go on. ^ so they came out and said that this is called focus mode, and it... is basically what i thought it was gonna be, kind of? it still sounds cool. it slows you down and lets to target specific parts of monsters, it sounds like. that's neat. its still an alternative gameplay style. me likey that. the more move variety, the better. switching in and out of focus mode does kind of still make me think of skill swap from sunbreak, and its still got new moves to go with it. im for it.

sos flare from world is back. i just hope it doesnt suck like it did in world. rise's version of it was functionally better, id say. i hope they improved upon the mechanics of it if theyre pulling more from world than rise for this.

im gonna make an easy guess that the story is youre searching for that kid with the necklace's parents who went missing on an expedition into these "forbidden lands" as theyre apparently called. honestly as far as im concerned the story is just a set piece for the locales. the maps in world sucked, but some of them had really neat lore to go with their biomes, so if theyre continuing with that, all i can hope for is better layouts. also laughing my ass off at seikret autorunning to objectives. no thanks. that's an L. world's maps were so bad they had to introduce that to make chasing monsters through them bearable. the fact that we are doing that again doesnt inspire confidence. i also hope the story doesnt command too much attention. it was really intrusive in world/iceborne, if im being honest. risebreak did a fine enough job of it, i think. monhun really doesnt need a deep story.

in the same vein, i really do not care for how hard theyre trying to push the series to be this big triple a game that competes with god of war or something. it doesnt need 50 billion ray tracings and the ability to see pores on the skin of the npcs, who i must agree do look kind of uncanny. gemma and alma's faces look off... like. rise looked perfectly fine. the fidelity of the graphics are not that important. we dont need the bloatware. speaking of which, this game better run on steam deck just fine, or i will explode capcom. i dont want to deal with another dragons dogma 2 situation.

this deserves a separate bullet. they better keep monster hunter language as a voice option like they did for rise. im still pissed they didn't carry that into stories 2, and even more pissed they cut it out of the stories 1 remaster entirely (which was a deal-breaker on the remaster for me). dont let that die. its so cool. its a big part of the immersion and its such a charming thing about the series.

[plausible-possible-perhaps]

Zoë, I was familiar with your game, but holy shit. Holy fuck. Do more.

[gorillaxyz]

jfks kennedy for me ad is SO GOOOOOOOODDDDDD

[baeshijima]

Sophie. Your tags on that art are gonna make me cry again. Super fitting that it's the Hydro archon quest bc I sure can feel the Hydro in my eyes rn!! 🥲🥲🥲🥲

Also related but unrelated but I wanna talk about how much I appreciate the role they let the Traveler have in the archon quest. I'm really glad they didn't make the Traveler some foreign entity that swooped in from afar to save everyone from impending disaster, and instead made it such that all the Fontaine characters each played their own part in mitigating the effects of the prophecy (from Lyney's magic pockets to Wrio's flying ship), and it just so happened that things led to the Traveler helping to expedite this overall process and eventually proving to play an integral part in the greater scheme of things. Like, it's really satisfying that it's not all about *them*, yknow? In this archon quest, Furina and Neuvi were easily the true protagonists over Traveler, and I really appreciate that.

Wow that's a lot of brainrot... I'm really wordy nowadays, sorry about that >< BUT YEAH I can't stop screaming about this archon quest!! When everyone thought it would be impossible for them to top Sumeru's finale AND THEY DID!!!!

iryth. i will never recover from the quest. it gets worse when i have more realisations abt the impact of focalors and furinas sacrifices (in their own ways) and the actual, in-game world impact it has bc they were literally the first to actually deal a heavy blow to celestia directly by deceiving them for the last five centuries and overturned the prophecy that was sure to happen ;w; they deserve so much and i hope focalors finds peace and that furina can carry a happy life from now on ;w;;

AND NO BC I FEEL THE SAME ???? like,,, we were actually a spectator to this massive, large-scale opera from the very beginning with furina as the main character and focalors as the playwright and neuvi having such an important role from coming to understand and love humans during the five hundred years of being the iudex, all to arrive at the moment where focalors self-sacrifices to return his authority just so he can overturn the prophecy and declare fontainians as not guilty bc of his love for them and !!!! OURGH im so unwell i hate it here hyv stop this insanity i physically and emotionally cannot handle anymore (she says while replaying the focalors-furina-neuvillette cutscene ;w;)

[goldlightsaber]

in a way kendall is his best at his lowest because he actually sees the world in stark clarity, he sees the evil and disaster of the things around him, but it's just too much to bear and impossible to cope with so he either falls into a deeper depression, finds another high, or convinces himself he needs to take over again. he can't escape the cycle because there is no safety net when he experiences a moment of conscience or clarity or "honesty." the closest he comes to it is at the end of season 3 when his siblings are there to sort of hold him up after logan has torn him down, re: the confession moment. then logan dies and it all falls apart, he's sucked into that mental loop again. but there are moments, brief but potent, where he clearly wants to escape ("let me out," he says, but logan says, "maybe i want you close" -- because he's kicked kendall enough and now he's all too pleased to have him crawl back). he begs logan to be freed and his father won't afford him that mercy. all logan had to do was say, "okay, son. be free. just go." but no -- that would've been too generous. and that's the cruelest punishment of all

[anadorablekiwi]

Music Event spoilers

*doing music event quest*

*performance time, preparing for goofy itto and secondhand embarrassment*

*song starts*

…

*Absolute. Jaw. Drop.*

WHAT?!

GJSBDBDJSBDJDBBSHS

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[baede-6]

To the people who keep blowing up my Sparrow for literally no reason when it's out of the way:

[torao-chan]

the touchstarved fandom: i don’t trust leander =^=

me: yuss, I love him (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

the fandom: nonono!! he’s too good, that’s extremely sussy. i don’t trust him >:c

me: that’s what i meannnnn (((☆▽☆)))

[just-jay-drawing]

If they ever do a p4 remake I hope to whatever god is out there that theyre removing all the homophobic and transphobic shit bc that was so fucking bad that I legit cannot bring myself to play it again-

[dedbuny]

my august ^ w ^

best: children of god - swans

worst: grom - behemoth

[nonbinary-cryptid-baby]

It’s been brought to my attention that people only like to watch movies once and than not see them again?