#post-game takeaways

[xariarte]

post-game takeaways for raptors vs taipans (yes i know i'm one day late but oh well)

-the Australians were getting beat up by the Canadians out there on the court...but also they WERE missing their best players so they weren't bringing their best anyway

-Markquis Nowell didn't get bullied in the second half which was an improvement from the first preseason game at least lol

-there were so many Pascal Siakam smiles!!! so glad to see him smiling on and off court 👀💖

-confession: i didn't actually watch the second half, only the highlights bc i felt sorry for the Taipans out there and couldn't take it 😭😭

[katnissmellarkkk]

I think that Peeta was onto something about us destroying one another and letting some decent species take over. Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences. You can spin it any way you like. Snow thought the Hunger Games were an efficient means of control. Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war. But in the end, who does it benefit? No one. The truth is, it benefits no one to live in a world where these things happen.

this quote is very seldomly mentioned but to me it’s one of the most significant of the whole series. in my opinion, this right here is katniss’ overall takeaway of the whole series.

[dirty-bear-rick-sanchez]

Prime really is the Rickest Rick, not because he ‘doesn’t care’ or anything like that, but because his wife told him she’d been faking orgasms for the entire duration of their relationship and his response was to literally invent interdimensional travel to run away from her and then erase her from existence entirely rather than improve his tongue game

[churrobear]

[ct-multifandom]

I don’t know if this is a controversial hot take or something a lot of people feel, but I’m tired of hearing people unironically describe Ace Attorney as being “about gay lawyers”. Because it’s not. Do the lawyers act gay? Yes. But that’s not what 99% of the playtime is about.

At the end of the day, Ace Attorney is a satirical story about the corrupt justice system in Japan as represented by a kind-hearted defense attorney protecting (mostly) innocent defendants from having their lives ruined by misguided prosecutors. Its goal was to flip the cultural narrative that defense attorneys are trashy scum who make money off of sympathizing with criminals. And they did this through episodic, goofy murder mysteries.

So where does the gay come in? They wrote some accidentally romantically-charged dialogue, fans were obsessed, and the writers decided, yeah it’s pretty good, let’s do more of that. So they proceeded to toss in more gay side-banter and whatnot amongst the homicide investigations and court sessions.

Now, it’s not like Ace Attorney is the deepest, most poetic social commentary ever written, but it still has a meaningful theme inspired by a real life issue, so it’s pretty discouraging seeing people either not process it or straight up ignore it in favor of “the gay lawyers”. And that’s not even getting into all the other meaningful, non-romantic character relationships that have way more presence in the plot.

I know there will always be uncritical, shipping-brained people in every fandom, but what gets me about how bad it is here is that people who only know as much about AA as what they’ve heard really think it’s “about gay lawyers”. I was watching Drawfee recently, and genuinely all they know about the games is contextualized by Karina’s gay lawyer ship art and brief plot description of how gay the lawyers are. My friend recently told my other friend that Ace Attorney is about gay lawyers to which he was like oh yeah I heard about the unnecessary feelings scene. This is all he knows about the games.

I don’t want to make this sound like a bigger deal than it is, but damn. It truly feels like a lot of people refuse to engage with media in any way that doesn’t involve smashing male characters together like dolls. If you comb through the entirety of the Ace Attorney franchise, you’ll see that such a small fragment of everything that happens is homosexual law, yet that’s the thing that gets amplified to ridiculous proportions. All I can do for now is focus on the posts from fans that love the games themselves just as much if not more than they love the ships.

[thegreatyin]

Oh wait did The Scoundrel change to she/her pronouns while I wasn't looking? Congrats on her (non bat kind) transition

the scoundrel uses any pronouns! always has ^w^ i just tend to default to it/its or they/them, just for simplicities sake

[kdsburneraccount]

hope the author of that orlando magic fic is having a good day 🙏

[heloflor]

Btw I played Paper Mario 64 recently and just finished it last week, three takeaways from it:

1. Bowser is a delight of a character no matter the game, he’s hilarious and I love how hard he’s trying when “courting” Peach.

2. Peach was the absolute MVP of that game and amazing proof that you don’t need to know how to fight to play a vital role in a story.

3. The Kolorados need to divorce already.

8.5/10 Really good game!

[crescentfool]

going to keep this vague on purpose but playing reload has reactivated brain chemicals in me that i forgot i had.

i think i'd want to make a more thought out post later, but i think my favorite thing about reload (aside from seeing minato in full HD glory) is how much it's made me think about video games as a storytelling medium- specifically with what mechanics and game design imply for characters.

there's a lot of quality of life features added to reload that help players easily enter a flow state and get immersed in the gameplay (most notable with tartarus)! which is so dope! reload has been such a nice blend of the mechanics from both FES and portable and it feels like a love letter to persona 3 fans.

there are definitely mechanics i miss from FES (minato's ability to wield multiple weapons being one of them). i can't deny that FES has some dated mechanics that don't necessarily feel fun for the player experience... but!

i think i mostly miss things from FES because i feel like so much of minato's characterization (for me) was informed by the gameplay experience and mechanics (e.g. fatigue system). obviously there's still other ways you can put together his personality (his dialogue responses), but i think game mechanics are a bit part of it, for me.

but in spite of that, i think reload is a really nice introduction to persona 3, it's so much more accessible and has a bunch of things to help make it more fun :) so far i think i'd recommend it to people :D

[soliusss]

To me being a lesbian is being attracted to all women and then some random fictional guy from cod mw2 with a sheet over his head

[oldxenomorph]

might need to surgically remove neve from da4 if the game turns out to be a mess…. i will save you beloved…. you deserve to be treated right queen….

[xariarte]

Steve Kerr really said, Haliburton and Tatum are our golden retriever bench cheerleaders today!!! 🥰🥰

[palms-upturned]

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[evanatsuhi]

i wonder what kind of image im painting of umineko through my posts to anyone here who doesnt know it LOL

[churrobear]

[kikizoshi]

Whenever I'm writing a scene between Fyodor and Nikolai, I like to keep in mind which 'you' Nikolai would be using at that moment. 'Cause like, for Fyodor, it's easy: he always refers to Nikolai with "ты". But with Nikolai, it depends. Usually, especially in a more relaxed conversation, he'll use "ты", but sometimes—like if he's particularly annoyed and wants to passive-aggressively distance himself from Fyodor (something that happens a lot)—he'll use "вы".

Of course, it's more than just "вы". Sometimes it's "Fyodor" instead of "Fedya", and in more extreme cases—"Fyodor Mikhailovich". It's a casual closing-off of body language, an un-intimising tone that one uses with acquaintances. It's a "forgetfulness" around the everyday details of Fyodor. A certain feigned lack of his usual care and attentiveness. And it can be any number of these, in any combination. But that all comes through in English, whereas "вы" doesn't, which is why I wanted to mention it.

I've thought about how I could maybe work it in, and the best I could probably do is the same as some Ruslit translators and call 'вы' 'thou', but it's so stilted that it really doesn't work. So my whole "вы" thing is just a headcanon in my own fiction, never to be expressed on the page. But it brings me joy.