#huge wasted opportunity if not

[opbackgrounds]

The restraint on Oda's part to wait nearly 500 chapters to drop this line is incredible.

[miscelliteeous]

[newvegascowboy]

I actually really love how megaton looks. Like in comparison, diamond city feels really barren and devoid of character to me, but megaton feels sooo much like a real city. Seeing the creative ways people make use of limited space, and how the city feels so organically built. Diamond City feels so lacking in comparison and like. I guess i get why with engine limitations and all, but it just feels like there was so much more that could have been done. Idk. Megaton just feels like a really good example of fun city planning.

[redladydeath]

cannot even begin to describe how bad an idea "no second and third covers with only three alts and one full-time super swing" is if it's true and not classic six misdirection. after what happened on the uk tour earlier this year when tamara and shakira were out, they should know by now how important it is to have multiple queens on hand who know at least three tracks.

[storm-driver]

Having finished the DLCs in full, and thus gotten my fill of FFXVI in its entirety (save the Final Fantasy mode and the Kairos Gate endings), I can officially say, with all certainty, FFXVI is a game that exists.

Spoilers below the cut for FFXVI and its DLCs.

I'm not one to mince words when I wanna gush about a game I love. And FFXVI has the makings of something truly fucking incredible. Wonderful fight choreography, out-of-this-world kaiju battles, music that brings you to tears through passion alone, environments that speak for their rich history, characters with such strong bases and motivations, all tied up in a bow of underwhelming character writing and a misguided ending to what could've been one of the best stories I'd seen in the JRPG genre.

I wanna reiterate: I love this game. I think FFXVI is fucking amazing, was worth the 60$ price tag, and it's two DLCs were very fun to play through. I stand by my original word that Clive Rosfield is one of the best FF protagonists we've gotten since Final Fantasy X.

However, loving the game for what it does right can stand in the same room as disliking the game for what it does wrong. It's unfortunate that I feel the need to tear into the game like this, given how much I want to praise its feats. And I still will, I still think this game is worth playing in spite of what it does wrong. But it also be remiss of me to say "just ignore these parts of the game!" and hope that people can turn a blind eye like I can.

I was hoping the DLC could ammend something I originally disliked about the original game: the ending. The ending is by far one of the most contested parts of the game when it comes to discussing the positives and negatives. Some people like the ambiguity of it all, others would rather have the truth spilled.

For me personally, I'm not in either field. Because I don't think the ending to the game is a culmination of the journey Clive takes. It does not feel genuine. It doesn't feel like he deserved his fate to be left up to guessing. If he died on that beach or if he let his name fade away in history in favor of his brother. Neither of those choices speak to me as "Yeah, that's where the story was going."

It's bitter. Not bittersweet. Plain bitter. It feels like a kick in the teeth for trying to fight his destiny. How dare he try to change fate for himself and the world. You are now cursed to live a false life, if you even survive that long. Not even your dust will be remembered.

Now, my fervent and desperate hopes regarding this game were that the acquisition of the Leviathan eikon would change his fate. After all, we saw at the end of the game that Clive was an "incomplete" vessel, thought we're never told exactly why. The assumption is the missing Eikon in Leviathan. But if not Leviathan missing, what is? Is his humanity itself keeping him grounded, to a point where he cannot change his fate? The fate of his brother?

Is the ending, and I ask this with the utmost of curiousity, meant to tell us that Clive was destined to lose everything in the end? That fighting his shackles only helped the world, and he couldn't even save himself or his brother? That a price must be paid for hubris on this grand a scale, and Clive is the unfortunate victim of it all?

This game screamed to me constantly that he wasn't going to die easily. He would not let himself lose everything he'd worked so hard to retain. For god's sake, the main message of the Bearers and Dominants is that they should get to choose how to live their life, and to live their life to the fullest.

The ending of the game speaks of inevitability. A direct contrast to everything Clive was fighting for. The ending doesn't do a good job of making it feel like a bittersweet victory, as it just kills off Joshua and deliberately tells Clive, "Nope, not good enough."

I digress, this is gripes with the ending, and how I had hoped it would change. Obviously my hopes were misplaced. Or maybe I'm jaded and trying to interpret this in ways that the writers didn't intend. But I can't help but percieve it this way, especially when I look at other people discussing the DLC and finding a lot of them thought the same.

Another thing, the hidden Eikon in the Kairos gate content. Ultima being an eikon you channel. I genuinely do not understand the point of this eikon outside of it being a means for trailer bait. Because that's all it ending up being. No story implications. Not even true practical usage besides being intense damage nukes and an overall homage to Ultima as a source of power. Prove me wrong if something at the end of Kairos gate ends up being story related, but I have a very strong feeling it is not.

[papirouge]

Did you know that Miss Japan 2024 was a White Ukrainian?👀

I wonder why the anti woke anti diversity mob didn't clutch their pearls at this one whining about virtue signalling and political agenda ? 🙃

[sunhated-a]

" What does 'glazing' someone mean? "

[robinsnest2111]

reached the time of night where I ask myself: am I aroace because I simply do not feel romantic/sexual attraction OR am I aroace because of mental illness reasons and would I be a totally different person who craves romantic/sexual experiences if it weren't for that one nebulous but all-consuming factor?????

but most of all: I don't feel real I don't feel human I don't exist at all, this is all a simulation and I'm doing everything wrong because everyone else knows what to do except me and I'm just stumbling through the dark, feeling so fake and hollow and utterly useless and pointless

[ikolit]

that strange new worlds had the episode premise of having Spock temporarily turned fully human and then managed to miss in every aspect of his characterization and how that would affect his relationship with the rest of the crew is truly amazing

[modern-alebrije]

did dc superhero gurls ever do a release where dolls came with their superhero costume and a civilian look?

[ralsky]

I don't want Guillermo to come back to the house as a perfect vampire

I want Guillermo to come back and learn how to be a vampire with the rest of them

[cherish--these--times]

( bc it was too long for ask sjdhaksh )

okay so…….it should have been johns baby bc like some of y'all have said imagine a baby with wraith dna ( which is what michael wanted ) AND the ata gene. michael would kill for that istg. there must be ppl out there including athosians who both have parents with the wraith gene ( maybe it had to be a baby idek ). i feel a child with both wraith and ata genes would be one of a kind and then michael could have best of both worlds asjkdhasl. 

can we also just talk about the storyline it would be for john to not only rescue teyla, but also to rescue his own child i mean…..pls.

i know when rachel got pregnant the writers/producers etc put either a child with john or someone else and they all went john except one ( one of the top ones i can’t remember who ). doppelganger was so obv set up for john and teyla like the amount of hints were insane and obv the scene when teyla goes to johns for comfort was gon be when they would sleep together. it honestly seemed like they decided it wasn’t gon be his after they wrote this ep or smth istg

i can’t say anything bad or good about kanaan bc you know why…oh yeah he was only in like 4 episodes most of which was a hybrid boy. poor guy was the father of one of the main charas yet got no screentime or storyline. i hated how they just brought in this random chara that was never mentioned before. then they did nothing with him. like-

[watchmakermori]

the table scene in attack on titan season 4 hits just as hard the second time. even though eren has already gone so far off into the deep end by that point, that’s still the moment where you’re like ‘WOW i really hate this motherfucker’

[genetierneysattorney]

Enid is giving Marilyn Munster 😩

[smartichokes]

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[tawna]

manifesting the nitro squad’s presence in whatever game they’re announcing at TGA.