#is 16 a perfect game?? no

[silverselfshippingchaos]

i am SO unwell about f.f16

[odetojupiter]

can never wrap my head around how kevin and riko managed to play on three teams (EAU ravens, baltimore wildcats and US court) whilst also following the 16 hour ravens schedule AND going to classes. cause the way the 16 hour days work means ‘night-time’ in the nest would not be aligned with real night time so what are they supposed to do when the schedule says they should be sleeping but they’re actually supposed to be at practice in baltimore (and they have to travel to baltimore from west virginia?? i have no idea how long that would take but they’d have to cross state lines for that so??) or the schedule says they should be doing whatever but they’re actually supposed to be playing a game for court. like when the hell are they sleeping?? eating??

i feel suspension of belief is required but ultimately it shows how tetsuji really was not setting the two of them up for a long and successful career - it seems he mostly wanted to set himself up for success. cause once kevin and riko went pro they’d have started to burn out and crash, and tetsuji would have been able to spin it so that their success seems dependent on him. like, look what they were achieving when i was the one coaching them, they managed three teams and college and were still the best in the country. without me, they’re nothing.

i’m not gonna talk about how tetsuji’s mentality mirrors the mentality of late stage capitalism but i could i really could but i won’t

it would end up with their early success reflecting well on tetsuji, and their later failures reflecting badly on themselves. and since i’m assuming there was no agreement that tetsuji would take any of their earnings post-ravens, tetsuji would no longer benefit from their success after they graduate, beyond how their reputations and the reputation of the ravens reflects on him. and if he can spin it that it was the him that gave them their success, more people - exy players, the media etc - will vie for his attention, endorsing him financially and applying to the ravens, becoming more willing to abide by his control in an attempt to reach the success kevin and riko did during their time with tetsuji.

personally though i don’t think this operation would last, because there’s only so many star players that tetsuji can create, and if they all wash up less than five years after graduation eventually people are gonna become suspicious

[rithmeres]

on a mountain of their corpses i stand.

[bolithesenate]

ik she's not an oc but she should belong to you! 🖊 for komari??

you know what? you are so right 😌✊🏻

*yoinks all the character rights away from canon*

anyways, you know what I want for Komari? That she isn't technically a *good* Jedi, but that she is a terrifyingly *efficient* one.

Yoda's words were 'do or not do, there is no try', so I like to imagine Komari as a true force of nature because she does not doubt herself at any point. At least not truly.

She just does.

Does she do it because it makes her feel cool and admired? sure. but people around her (and she herself) have learned to direct that energy into a direction that more or less serves the greater good. The way I see Komari is that she truly likes being a Jedi and that she has found her niche amongst the Order to live her dream. She might not exactly do it for selfless reasons like many of her peers do, but that doesn't diminish the good she does.

it's also what makes her the ultimative hype-man.

she lives unapologetically and is her happiest self, so she encourages everyone around her to also do that. social anxiety and fomo? she's never known them.

Also, out of her entire lineage, Komari is the one most firmly rooted in the Cosmic Force. Dooku himself leans heavily towards it too, but he's also got a strong Unifying influence in his life through Sifo-Dyas, so it's a bit muddled.

Komari tho is, in fact, *such* a Cosmic Force baby that she often doesnt realize it is working through her. She just does Her Thing TM because It Feels Good TM not really questioning *why* it does that.

It's a very simple mindset, technically, but also very effective

[0livdocx]

It’s always the boys with these “paint me like one of your French girls” poses

[tblsomedoodles]

Me playing Rimworld like a scifi family simulator? never.

anyways, i've been playing far too much Rimworld so have some little doodles of my main couple's four kinda creepy kids lol. I will admit, "Feral" is technically his nickname, but i can't remember what they actually named him and i don't feel like booting up my game just to check.

Sandy and Feral are very close in age. Timothy is pretty close behind them, and Alice only just hit toddler stage recently. I was sooo worried about Timothy when he was tiny. B/c he was born sick, recovered from that only to catch malaria. Recovered from that and immediately caught the plague. he's alright now.

Sandy and Feral will sit on their dad's research desk to watch him work in game, and i think that's just the cutest thing, so i doodled that too.

fun fact! According to Alice's genetics, she's supposed to have purple hair, but she, instead, matches Timothy with his grey/white hair.

there's a lot of other kids running around my colony too, but they belong to others (one being just a clone lol). no joke, i think i have 5-6 adults and about 8 kids running around the place. it's chaos. i love it lol : )

[purpleshadow-star]

Apparently there's been a lot of discourse about Nico and Percy on Twitter lately? Idk about here cause I haven't seen much personally, but here are a few facts I think people need to remember, coming from someone who is rereading the series right now:

Nico and Percy do NOT hate each other. They don't even dislike each other

Nico never hated Percy. Nico never really blamed Percy for Bianca's death (he was projecting. This was explained in tbotl).

Nico never wanted Percy dead or to get any revenge on Percy for Bianca's death

Percy never bullied Nico or was even outright mean to him, except for in the Last Olympian

Nico and Percy were on good terms by the end of the Battle of the Labyrinth. They were fine. There was literally no bad blood between them

NICO WAS WRONG TO TAKE PERCY TO HADES WITH NO WARNING. Nico thought Percy wouldn't get hurt because Hades told him he wouldn't hurt him (remember, Nico has no reason not to trust his dad), but Nico still could have at least explained the situation to Percy before taking him to Hades. There was no need to trick him. Percy might have even agreed to go talk to Hades to help Nico in exchange for Nico's help gaining the curse of Achilles, or explained his history with Hades and that Hades was most likely tricking him. Nico probably would have listened! There should have been communication from Nico to Percy

PERCY WAS WRONG FOR THE WAY HE TREATED NICO IN THE LAST OLYMPIAN. Yes, he was stressed. Yes, he was under a lot of pressure. That does not excuse his actions. Him being mad at Nico is 100% understandable. Him holding a sword to Nico's throat and purposely not moving it when he realized Nico was there to get him out is inexcusable, especially when he claimed Silena and Luke were heroes after they got multiple demigods killed and almost killed him/ got him killed multiple times (he called them heroes in the same book, when he was just as stressed, if not more so bc he was literally in the middle of fighting a war and people were dying around him). All three of them took actions to right their wrongs, but only Nico isn't considered a hero to Percy? Why, because he didn't die for him?

Regardless, Nico and Percy DO NOT HAVE BEEF after that. Nico convinced Hades to help and goes and helps in the battle of Manhattan, and Percy appreciates and acknowledges it. No more beef between them

I'm going to stop here because I haven't reread the Heroes of Olympus series yet, and I don't want to misremember anything, but the point is:

Nico and Percy have a complicated relationship. They both have hurt each other, but they've moved past it. They're friends. They're not super duper close, but they do care about each other, and no one can or should deny that.

The faster people accept that they both have done bad things to each other and have moved past those things and don't dislike each other, the faster we can put an end to this ridiculous discourse.

[allysio]

i'm rereading the hunger games and peeta is protective over katniss in the begging of the mockingjay, he really would do anything for her

[crowcryptid]

every time i launch a boomer shooter my gpu starts shaking and crying because it wants to be playing 4k gigashits cyperspunk with 12 different graphics mods instead

[greetings-inferiors]

I just finished final fantasy 16, and by god what a phenomenal game. How good? As good as 7. If not better. Obviously the remake trilogy could be better but still.

This might be my favourite final fantasy. 7 puts up a strong fight but I wouldn’t want to play it again, at least for a long time - it’s not aged the best, and I’m content just rewatching my favourite moments. I’m already considering replaying 16. Yes, the 50 hour long game. I won’t until at least next time I’m home from uni, and even then kh4 might be out so I might play that instead, but still. It’s truly phenomenal.

Also while I LOVE the ff16 title art of Phoenix and ifrit clashing, it is from a moment right at the start - if anyone’s made a fan made ff16 title art of either origin (because it’s the final mothercrystal) or Clive embracing Joshua at the end with the Phoenix wings (because their relationship is such a massive focus of the game), PLEASE let me know.

Another good idea is all the mother crystals standing tall with origin towering above them - because the whole plot of the game revolves around destroying the mother crystals and eventually origin. Please I just love the art and I want more of it. Only having one scene per game represented isn’t enough for me

[hecksupremechips]

Girl like. The reason he said "this is how it should be" and faced death with a smile....is cuz he wanted to die. For 2 years he sat there thinking he was worthless and deserved to die. If he hadn’t be shot, his death would’ve been suicide, he was fully planning to die in a gutter somewhere undetected. When saying "this is how it should be" hes literally saying "don’t cry because I’m dying, my death is a good thing actually because I fucking suck and you are better off without me". I don’t think that’s badass even slightly, it’s actually really sad and really shitty. Shinjiro is so convinced that he deserves to die and hates the idea of anyone giving a shit about him because he literally can’t wrap his mind around the idea that he will be missed when he’s gone, that his death is a bad thing actually. And his last words were meant to be comforting because he fully did not intend for anyone to be there when he died, he intended to die alone, so he says them as a reminder that he’s not worth crying over

Personally, if it were me, if I was holding my dying best friend in my arms who was deeply depressed and suicidal and he said "this is how it should be" uh. I wouldn’t admire him for it??? Like am I losing my mind when I say the way this game handles Shinji is bad or is anyone else seeing this too 😰

[vsnotresponding]

oc name meaning tag

thanks @pluttskutt for the tag!

Rules: Put down an OC or more and tell what their name means

i look at the rules and i ignore the rules. this is a fun way to give examples of how i name my ocs and so i'll explain:

this name came to me in a dream and I have no idea what it means:

Eak: from the Ancient Greek “Aiakós (Αἰακός). Aiakos was one of three judges of the dead, underworld demi-god.

doesn't fit him at all lmao

chosen for the actual meaning:

Anuna: follower

basically what he is

scrambled a word in another language to get the name:

Raichta: from meabhlaireachta "decieve"

this is sher's noble name btw

chosen for symbolic reasons:

Hannah: graciousness

i chose hannah because it reads the same backwards. and you know. circular time

Ira: watchful of a city, watchful

fitting meaning, but she got her name from the word for rage in Spanish

honoring a fictional character:

Ely: ascension

fitting, even if i got it from Elyon (God Most High) from WITCH lol

Enzo: home ruler

doesn't fit my boy. got the name from The Young Elites

i grew attached to a pokemon during a playthrough and used the nickname for an oc (only in tfb)

Arion: greek mythology horse

Chimera: greek mythology animal

open tag + @my-cursed-prince @on-noon @k--havok @aquil-writes @mjjune and @sunset-a-story

[vanosslirious]

Eli: Wait, a vent!

SMii7y: *hiding near a vent* Why are you just saying things?

Eli: ...They don't know where you are.

[devileaterjaek]

Dragon Ball Z Ultimate 22 intro FMV on the Playstation

At least it's not GT

[xtoomanytimelinesx]

How Attractive are you from 1-100?

“Obviously this shit is broken.”

“Obviously I am the superior 16.”

[orcelito]

I pulled out Hades bc I decided I needed some good ol' reflex games to deal with the aggression. & it was a Great idea. I did the shield & had a nearly perfect run lol. Only lost One death defiance, & it was while I was fighting hades, so that was fine lol. A very damage-heavy game. It was fun 😌