I love all the "discourse" surrounding Palworld bc literally none of it holds up when you actually look at the game itself
"Stolen Assets!": Lmao no. "Heavily Inspired" (Blatantly ripped off) absolutely but people act like they just threw actual Pokemon models in there when they're Legally Distinct at best
"It's just that lame edgy joke about killing Pokemon": Lmao no *again*. For a game that advertised itself by giving their creatures guns and putting them to work on assembly lines it's actually remarkably tame. Not a single drop of blood is ever shed even when you butcher Pals for resources. As well, overworking them is heavily dis-incentivized directly and indirectly (the game straight up tells you not to push them too hard).
There's plenty to criticize the game for (doesn't really do anything original so much as puts other ideas in a blender, feels kinda empty at times, the bosses just kind of exist without much more context, to say nothing of the games overall performance and stability) but all the "discourse" I've seen on here has clearly been from butthurt Pokemon fans who are angry that this game is eating Game Freaks lunch by daring to try things that would be seen as sacrilege in a Pokemon title.
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Something really great about the persona 2 cast is that they all individually fucking SUCK to talk to casually. Every single one of them. They are all infuriating. We have:
Tatsuya, who will stare at you blankly if you try to initiate conversation (IS) and will dip without saying a word afterward (EP)
Batsuya, who will scoff and brush you off/otherwise act dismissive
Eikichi, who might honestly be the best to talk to in the IS crew and that is not saying much, who WILL talk extremely loudly over you (probably not on purpose?) and will not be paying particularly close attention to the conversation beyond whatever he wants to say (gets points for talking about his gf. gets points taken away for constantly talking about his gf)
Lisa, who will automatically assume bad faith and will be rude to you the entire conversation unless you manage to defuse her temper (good luck)
Jun, who is uncommunicative at BEST and requires an encyclopedic knowledge of flowers, metaphor and body language just to get a HINT on what he’s thinking, and who will be extremely polite but completely unhelpful. If you tried asking him what he wants for dinner I guarantee it will be the longest 30 minutes of your life as he goes “oh I have no opinion :) whatever you want. :))” EXCEPT HE DOES HAVE OPINIONS. He has SO MANY OPINIONS. He is Expecting you to be able to pick up on his “obvious” clues. He will be passive aggressive if you don’t. (Jun babygirl you suck so bad I love u)
Maya, who is a delight but will very quickly become grating if you try to talk to her about anything serious as she hits you with the white suburban mom's "how to live a happy, healthy life" lifecoach slogans. You can’t even mention, like, stepping in a puddle or something without her hitting you with the positivity beam.
Yukino is great actually. 10/10. She’s fabulous we love her. Incredible conversationalist, chill and fun and easy to get along with. But she’s from Persona One, she doesn’t Count.
Ulala, who WILL bring up her relationship problems in every conversation within 10 minutes at least once. Any longer and she will start talking about Maya.
Do I even need to explain Baofu. Have you seen him.
And finally, Katsuya, who is a cop and a kiss ass and Very Obvious about these things. Also he can't talk to women. He can barely talk to men. Help Him.
And yet they all work wonderfully as a group. They are so annoying I love them
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what's written on paper: miyano shiho changed kudou shinichi's status from "unknown" to "deceased" to conceal the truth so that she could examine him by herself.
what i'm reading: this was shiho's first act of defiance against the organization, which inevitably saved shinichi's life. meaning, shiho had unintentionally saved his life twice before they even met - first time was when he was given the drug she had reconstructed, which did not kill him but shrank him instead. otherwise gin would have put a bullet to his head. second time was by changing his current status. up until this point, we know that shiho had rebelled against the organization twice. first was for shinichi and second for akemi, which eventually led to her betraying the organization.
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artists featured on bad omens' concrete jungle [the ost] + genres
poppy (v.a.n): post-genre, with elements of art pop, nu metal, industrial, experimental, electronic, metalcore, electro-pop synth-pop, grunge...
health (the drain): industrial, sludge, noise rock, experimental rock
swarm (the drain): edm, industrial edm, edm-metal
bob vylan (terms & conditions): grime, punk rock, hip-hop, rap-rock
wargasm [uk] (hedonist [recharged]): electro-punk, nu metal, post-hardcore
erra (anything > human): technical progressive metal(core), melodic metalcore, jesse cash co-wrote/co-produced artificial suicide, what do you want from me? and more from this upcoming album
iRis.EXE (nervous system): industrial goth rock, electro-pop
thousand below (artificial suicide [unzipped], the grey [unzipped]: post-hardcore, metalcore
we are fury (the death of peace of mind [we are fury patch]): edm, trap, melodic dubstep
so wylie (the death of peace of mind [so wylie patch]: electronic, alt-pop
dahlia (bad decisions [lofi]): machine learning powered femminoid trained on sevdaliza's voice (an iranian-dutch singer), unknown
let's eat grandma (just pretend [credits]): experimental pop, art pop
chief (just pretend [credits]): indie pop, michael taylor co-wrote/co-produced who are you? v.a.n, the drain and more from this upcoming album
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck the goddamn music-
I don't know the name for the technique but there's this thing that was in there that's the string players, like, tapping the instrument with the bow to create a more percussive sound and normally I wouldn't think too much of it but I swear to god it sounded like creeping spider legs. During the case set at Hill Top Road. With the very obvious references to the Buried and the Stranger and all the rest. Which dropped about a hundred Achives references including Jon's fucking name???
I have always respected the soundscaping they do at Rusty Quill but they're really going above and beyond for this show.
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Johnny finds Neil high out on the balcony and confronts him about his apparent uptake in kalif use, causing Neil to spiral further. Weighed down by visions and signs, he shuts down, leaving Johnny to care for him in a moment of vulnerability.
After three months, I'm finally finished. Apparently, I just needed to be trapped inside for three days straight with nothing else to do.
Anyway, if you click through, mind the tags.
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not to bring up mass effect but that’s one of the most interesting things it ever posited when it came to the idea of organic vs artificial intelligence. a machine, if sentient, knows who created it and why it was created. and a person will never know that. like, even lacking spirituality, even if you ascribe all this to random cause-and-effect, that doesn’t actually get you any closer to understanding why there is a you. but a robot can look their creator in the eye, can read out the whole of its purpose, and know that no matter what it modifies, this is what it was made to be. and what if it was made limited, or flawed, or shackled. there are elements of that a person can relate to, maybe understand, but not all of it, not enough to fathom how different the experience of the world is when you have no questions about your origins.
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