#it was supposed to be a school hw

[wxxderbxrr]

yo wassup am back again :DD

i tried my best to make it look like a front cover of those japanese magazines i saw on pinterest :')) it was difficult finding the right fonts but i did it and it took a long time too :'))

also don't worry about thailand (he's their manager), been their #1 defender since day 1

[fisherrprince]

So how was stormblood? I know it's very hit or miss for people, so what're your thoughts?

I understand why it’s hit or miss! It — to get to the point i would be straight up lying if I said I was an unbiased consumer because I’m not, I’m a coastal American mid 20s rando with a Lot of very current cultural baggage around concepts like patriotism and freedom. And Hamilton references. It all has a sweet and strong and very anti-occupation message (along with themes I very much enjoy dissecting like the constant assertion that it Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, or the expansion into You may not understand this person but you must be able to accept them,) but when combined with Stormblood’s shakier coherence in writing and dialogue and pacing, it comes off as A Bit Off. to me. And I think it missed ever so slightly just due to how it was all structured and set up with the characters we have and motivations we have because the stuff OUTSIDE or Adjacent to the main story, despite how out of place it could feel, was structured great!! Like the Kojin and the Ananta trial and the Kugane mishaps and trying to murder Zenos twice and the ghost ship. Could the main structure have come across very well yes absolutely! It does it on and off it succeeds in there often! But sometimes it doesn’t. I can see a lot of where concepts were promised and not fully delivered, pacing was a bit off, things just happened without really belonging there (despite how much I loved Susano, he could have been better structured. same with many instances and also I feel like the unethical science should have been MORE IMPORTANT THAN IT — maybe it comes back. Who is that scientist.), sometimes dialogue felt somewhat canned. I feel like in a consequences-heavy expansion, many things just didn’t have important consequences, which was very strange

HOWEVER! I cannot give the new gameplay features abd dungeons any crap they are all SO GOOD. And so PRETTYYYYY. And there were so many solo duties that ruled! Every dungeon in this expansion was like whoa this is a PLACE im in you know what I mean??? I’m in a place that’s big and there’s people and there’s NEW MECHANICS and active time maneuvers (??!!!!!!!) and unique fights! I can jump on the roofs in Kugane! And, mind you, when the dialogue was good, it was good. Lyse has a fantastic voice actor. Alisaie is my favorite girl elf creature in thw world. Estinien is like the best p- the guy ever. also m’naago is my new friend. The tower was a great part of sb to me despite my singular gripe. I think Zenos’— I know it’s controversial to some people because he does assume your wol to be a bit more murderous than some people would prefer their characters be and doesn’t take no for an answer, but his um speech did something to my brain a little bit

ON that note the ending was very fast?????? Or like — not FAST, but I wasn’t expecting Zenos or Shinryu to go down in one fight. Two co-op fights, right next to each other. I kind of wanted to beat him up myself. And when Zenos was so impossible to beat before. I was expecting both of them to be WAY harder. Though Shinryu is a COOL fight I’d do the royal menagerie again in a second. I was kind of expecting a three stage trial? Like Nidhogg? I love going into space hiiii big dragon where were you this whole time… u were shafted… but u could not be suffered to live so. Maybe if we’d gotten an instance of fighting the dragon alone after beating the trial?? Could have been Themes. I don’t know

anyways no I can’t quite pin it down, but I’ve said it before I think they had the outline for the story and then built it and went oh this is too much and not enough at the same time and got stuck writing the whole thing after getting stuck in the story they already had. A COMMENDABLE job for getting turned around like that, way better than a lot of video games stories out there, good gameplay and areas that didn’t feel too empty. glances at coerthas falcons nest area. I think the ways they did the exploration thing was good, having us venture further into occupied territory etc, but so much exploration stuff felt oneoff and not there to do much for someone who has been skipping almost all of the side content except stuff I’ve been told is good. It almost felt like they were Trying New Stuff a lot, and some of it succeeded some of it failed. Such is trying stuff!! Such is trying to imitate what you had while making something new and exciting! And I can’t fault them for that

so like — putting aside the fact that I haven’t done post-sb which is like missing 40% of the Thing according to past expansions and my thoughts very well might change, i would 100% do the fights again, maybe watch some cutscenes, but I don’t think I’d NG+ this one. where is that lady selling buuz it is a CRIME i did not get to have any buuz let me buy one yoshi p

[tianshiisdead]

u may ask me ‘why do you never draw japan if japan is ur favourite’ well the answer to that is that i also hate him and throw him against the wall daily. do i love him more than i hate him? who knows.

But, I do think it’s a little sad i never get around to Japanposting. i have a lot of thoughts, a lot of fascination, some of it a little morbid. Japan lies at the center of my historical interests and yet never quite within them: colonialism in Northeast Asia and postcolonial modernity. Even when outside of the room and not in the conversation, its presence is always looming just beyond the margins, always heavy, and usually bitter. I’m fascinated with what colonialism did to East Asia, and what colonialism did to Japan, the metropole. I’m fascinated by the rocky road to modernity and the ways nonwestern imperialism dresses itself in the language of liberation. I’m fascinated, if equally disgusted, by the gendering of nations and ethnicities in the eyes of both its self and other, the national-relations-as-romance depictions in then-popular propaganda films, in the blurry margins of intra-regional popular culture movements in wartime, and the cultures that emerge from surviving under a colonization that must have felt as though it would never end.

And when I think about it and consider painting, it leaves me a little wistful but also a little lost on how to approach art of Keekoo. I study this history’s shadow, I build my thoughts through a series of absences, I view it by viewing what it has done and the things it’s created - and destroyed. But… I am interested! I have a lot of strong feelings about this character. His contradictions are fascinating to me, even a little intimate. I worry I build him too much from my own viewpoint, poisoned by my family’s history as colonized, I worry that when I carve out what I think he should be I can’t help but focus too much on the shadows created rather than the object itself creating them.

But angst aside I do want to come up with a painting focusing on Kiku and Japan itself and not just having him ominously off screen somewhere LOL

[todaysromano]

10.28.2023

Today, Romano showed up to America's Halloween party dressed in one of his old military uniforms from the late risorgimento period. He had, of course, been in Rome until it was finally captured in 1870.

Romano's outfit definitely turned the heads of some of the other countries that had fought in this war including France, Austria, and Prussia, but Italy definitely noticed the outfit as well. Fortunately, enough time (and other wars) had passed since the risorgimento that wounds had healed between the nations and no new fights broke out. It helped that Romano was the losing party and the one to bring up the topic.

The worst part of the party was that one too many nations had a bit too much to drink and a small fight broke out about who had the best costume.

[gillianthecat]

Lewis Acids and Bases here we GO!

I have a chemistry exam tomorrow and I'm about two weeks behind on the material for this class, so I was panicking. BUT apparently the last week and a half of content WON'T be on THIS exam (it'll be on the next one) so I don't have to teach myself thermochemistry in the next 20 hours. So Lewis acids and bases are the only challenging concepts I've left to learn, and the rest is just review and practice. whew.

[hillerskaroyals]

raise your hand if you have ever felt personally victimized by young royals

[hypotheticalcrow]

burnt out Ravenclaws

I know I know… but hear me out

Burnout syndrome is a very common thing for those who fucking love learning.

also imagine the young Ravenclaws who always got bad grades in muggle school, pressured by the immediate assumption that they had to be smart.

imagine Neurodivergent kids being 11, knowing that you’re Neurodivergent, and you are still that sort of the smart house

or would imagine, not, knowing . not knowing your Neurodivergent and you’re in Ravenclaw.

Imagine the seventh year, genuinely, don’t know this house not understanding how they got failing grades.

imagine seeing somebody from a different house, so much smarter.

imagine being the first year who couldn’t get into the common room because of the riddle. Feeling undeserving of being in the great house.

That’s quite sad, but imagine.

7th year realising that the sixth year s going down the same spiral they had.

imagine them telling the riddle to fuck off, and the door opening

imagine the young Ravenclaws get support from the older.

Imagine Ravenclaws.

[many-gay-magpies]

starting to realize part of the reason ive been feeling so mediocre lately is that i lost like a good 3 hours of my non-socializing people recharge time when my family's schedule changed, so now instead of 2+ hours of complete alone time in bed at night i have to wake up at 4 in the morning and sit in a semi-crowded starbucks for an hour or so, then ride an even MORE crowded bus for half of one.

[un-pearable]

incredibly ironic to me that i spent all of high school putting all my stats into math and science bc ~women in stem~ but i’ve never been happier than now when i get to study arguably the most human of the humanities (anthropology) and i’m cranking out multiple thousands of words a day of bullshit analysis, having the time of my life AND not having to attend 8am calc classes. triple win (does not have to think about physics).

[locallibrarylover]

are you ever so stressed that. you cant do the thing youre stressing about because it makes you too stressed

[procrastinating-mush]

WHY DURING FINALS DOES MY COLLEGE I PAY 40K A SEMESTER NOT HAVE WIFI AND WONT FIX IT

[fen-the-space-dragon]

Every passing day. My need for therapy grows. Exponentially. Yet every time I try to get it, something gets in the way. Isn’t that funny? Cuz I think that’s so fucking funny. Now my parents are trying to help me get on meds. I wonder what will get in the way of me getting help this time

[radio-charlie]

Whats this about papa xi telling the unemployed young who can’t find good wage jobs despite their academic record to 吃苦. those who really busted their asses off trying to get good grades (chinese high school timetable is not forgiving lol) and then do well in uni - v understandable that there’s grumbling. the kids of rich shanghainese and shenzhenites could maybe stand to get their hands a bit muddy though

[p2ii]

Everyday I am forced to do schoolwork

Good news tho!!! I finished 1/2 of my portfolios for art!!! All I got left is my expressive final (which is half done and due tommorow (😬)) and that's all my practical work for this year ever finished!!! I can just breath and study for finals.

[devotedlystrangewizard]

long google docs take so long to load :( (i did this to myself)