#still interesting though

[undying-love]

“I worked in the music industry briefly from 67-70 and I have seen for myself some very revealing things but I don't find it appropriate to dish it out here. One day it will be revealed, definitely not while Paul or Yoko is alive maybe soon after. The most I can say for now, is Yoko gave a very watered down version of the names the Apples' staff gave to Paul, though they also gave a very derogatory name for John as well." -User from Datalounge

[alchemistdetective]

@nekasu replied to your post “I WANT ALL OF THESE FOUR STARS ESPECIALLY COLLEI”:

It's at around 22:30 of the livestream if you were curious. They talk about it more at 38:40.

It's something to be used in Co-op, which is great!

BUT THERE IS ONE PROBLEM

I HAVE NO FRIENDS

[konans-stuff]

Anyone got any comic recommendations? I'm trying to read more stuff than the usual batman oriented stuff and the occasional binge of Spiderman comics. I'm not looking for anything in particular per se but something that's not too gorey or stuff to do with ghosts. So! Any thoughts?

[elle-p]

P3 Club Book pages 9-10 transcription.

Don't seem to be any spoilers, still in japanese.

Qペルソナのデザインについて、いろいろと教えてください。

イ   ここで小休止を兼ねまして、裏設に関する質問にもお答えしましょう。ひと口にデザインと言われましても、今作で副島成記氏が新しくデザインされたものと、シリーズ通しておなじみの金子一馬氏デザインのものがありますが······。

エ   それでは、まず副島氏デザインの新規ペルソナからどうぞ。

イ   副島ペルソナの特徴は、まず無機的なロボットのようなデザインに尽きますな。これは、心の鎧であるというペルソナの一側面が、大きく反映したものだと言えましょう。まに、副島氏デザインのペルソナのおべてが、仮面を着けた姿を取っているという���も興味深い。

エ   仮面というと、確かシャドウもアルカナに応じた仮面をつけておりましたが、何か関係が？

イ   さあ、それは永遠の謎と言うほかありますまい。もしかすると、いずれ明かされる謎かもしれませんが。

エ   普段は心の底に秘められた存在ですから、実は単なる恥ずかしがり屋でした、というオチでないことを心から祈るばかりでございます。

イ   また、これは気づいている方も多いでしょうが、主人公以外の皆さんが持つペルソナの覚醒前と覚醒後のデザインは、同じパーツが含まれているものが多いのですよ。良く見比べてみるとよろしい。

エ   ポリデュークスとカエサルのように、原型が跡形も残っていないものもございますが。

イ   沈黙は金ですよ、エリザベス。

エ   ところで余談ではありますが、副島氏の絵の原点をお聞きしたところ、専門的な絵の勉強をなさったというこではなく、昔読んだマンガの影響が大きハとのことです。

イ   ほう、それは興味深い。

エ   とくにコミックNORA (学習研究社から発行されていた月チリ誌。1986年創刊、1998年に休刊) がお好きだったようです。

イ   それはまた······かなりマイナーな漫画雑誌ではないですか。

エ   しかし、同じアトラスの名作RPG『グローランサー』で、原画とキャラクターデザインを担当する、うるし原智志氏も描かれていた雑誌です。意外なところで、意外な縁があるものでございますね。

Qゲーム製作作業中、ペルソナを各アルカナに対応させるのは、どういった方法でやったのですか？

イ   これはもう、涙なくては語れないほどの、担当ス夕ッフの方の努力の賜物と言えるでしょうな。

エ   イゴール様、それは少々大げさなのでは······？

イ   いやいや。これが決して大げさではないのですよ。まず、苦労の原因となるのが、メガテンシリーズ名物の合体システムといえましょう。この合体法則をまとめた合体表ですが、機械的に適当にアルカナを割り振っているのではないのです。このアルカナとこのアルカナを合体させたら、こんなアルカナになるんじゃないか、といったイン一ジを合致させることに加え、合体前後のペルソナのレべルや強さも考慮に入れる必要がありますから、それはそれは根気のいる試行錯誤が要求されるのでありますよ。

エ   それは、確かに大変そうです。

イ   その上で、各ペルソナを相応しいアルカナに振り分けるのですから、相当な作業量となりますな。時おり、複数の作品にまたがって登場する悪魔やペルソナの場合、作品ごとにアルカナ (種族) や能力が変わっていることがありますが、それも作品ごとのバランスを緻密に考えている結果といえるでしょう。

エ   『葛葉ライドウ』で銀氷属だったオクニヌシが、今作で火炎が得意なペルソナになっているのも、文句を言ってはいけませんね。

イ   禁句です。

エ   しかし、簡単にイメージに合わせると言っても難しそうです。例えば別作品では悪霊として知られるレギオンが、どうしてフールに属おるのか不思議に思えるのですが？

イ   それは担当ス夕ッフの方が仰ってましたが、フールがさまざまな可能性、多面性を示すアルカナですから、たくさんの顔を持つレギオンが相応しいと考えれたのだとか。

エ   なるほど。納得いたしました。

Qそれはさておき、イゴールとエリザベスの正体は？

イ   また、本当にいきなりのご質問でございますね。

エ   私は私、単なるエリザベスでございます。

イ   元ネ夕ということでしたら、多少はお教えすることができますが、それで宜しいかな？

エ   元ネ夕が存在するのですか？

イ   それがあるのですよ。シリーズ第一作目の『女神異聞録ペルソナ』の開発中、ほぼ同時に『真・女神転生デビルサマナー』の開発も行なわれていました。このときに、過去作品で「邪教の館」として和られる合体場所に、新たに合体を担うキャラク夕ーを作ろうということになったのだとか。そして、そこでヒントとなったのが、人造モンス夕ーを化学のカで作り出す古典ホラー『フランケンシュ夕イン』でした。

エ   確かに、合体システムに通じるものがございますね。

イ   その結果、『デビルサマナー』の方には、フランケンシュ夕イン博士のフルネーム、ヴィクトル・フランクンシュ夕インから「ヴィクトル」というキャラク夕ーが生まれ、『ペルソナ』の方には、そのフランケンシュ夕イン博士の召使として働く男の名を取って、私「イゴール」が生まれたという次第ですな。

エ   私は今作で初登場ですが、何か用来があるのですか？

イ   先ほどの『フランケンシュ夕イン』の続編である『フランケンシュ夕インの在嫁』で、人造モンス夕ーの花嫁として造られる美女の名が、ズバリ、エリザベスと言うのですよ。

エ   まあ、それは光栄ですわ。

イ   まあ······映画の中では、造られてからあっという間に殺されてしまうのですがね。

エ   ······。メギドラ······。

イ   お願いですから、私に当たらないでいただきたい。

Q各ペルソナの由来となる、神話や伝説について和りたい���す。

イ   今作の固有ペルソナは、初期ペルソナはギリシャ神話から、そして覚醒後はそれ以外の神話から、というルールで設定されているようですな。これは、覚醒によって各人の可能性が広がることを、システム的にも表現するためなのですよ。

エ   では、ここから各ペルソナの由来解説は、それぞれの装着者の方にお願いいたしましょう。

○オルフェウス

主人公   ······。

イ   あー、少々無口な方のようですので、ここは私が解説いたしましょう。オルフェウスはギリシャ神話の登場人物で、黄泉の国に行った恋人エウリディケを追っていったことで有名ですな。また太陽神アポロンの息子でもあります。背中の堅琴は、このオルフェウスが堅琴の名手として知られた逸話から来たもので、ゲーム中でもミックスレイドのカデンシァ (独奏即興曲という意味) に、その音楽的才能の片鱗が見受けられます。黄泉の国の逸話でも、その堅琴の音色で冥府の門番ケルべロスを眠らせるなど、さまざまな活躍を見せているようです。ちなみにこと座は、このオルフェウスの堅琴をゼウスが星座にしたと伝えられております。

Orphean

[doedipus]

I feel like at this point I've established enough of a workflow with the menu/calendar and worksheet things that I don't actually need to "borrow" stuff from that one site anymore if I don't want to, which is great because a lot of the sample images they have on that site are so small that even waifu2x can't save them, and I'm running out of the ones that are usable

[shiniestcrow]

First 8 hours at sea are done and we have reached harbour

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

[loriache]

"I've been waiting for ages for somebody to unmask them."

This moment tends to elicit negative reactions in a first read through, and I've got some opinions about why where Kabru is coming from here actually makes a lot of logical sense. So I thought I'd elaborate on that.

I think people hear this and go, "He thinks they must be hiding something because they gave money to someone? What a cynic." Or "he dislikes them because they did charity?? What's wrong with this guy!". And obviously, a lot, a lot is wrong with him. But I think this makes more sense than it seems at first glance! What people evaluating this judgement miss is why Kabru is paying attention to Laios and co to begin with.

Kabru knows of the Touden siblings because (he's a little bit of a stalker-) he is keeping an eye on all the relevant parties in events developing on the island, in order to be able to guide them to his preferred outcome. This includes adventurers because they are the ones actually exploring the dungeon! He's well aware that something as minor as internal tensions between party members could be key to the historical events that are developing. (He would love the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.)

His desired outcome is that whatever the rewards are of breaking the dungeon's curse, whether that's kingship or the ancient elven secrets of dungeons, are claimed by:

A) a short lived person

B) Someone who will be a good, effective leader and/or use those secrets and the power they carry wisely, with foresight, and to establish a political bloc for short lived people.

The person he can best trust to do this is, of course, himself. But due to his PTSD regarding dungeons and monsters, he's not able to develop the necessary skills to conquer the dungeon. Once he realises this, he starts looking for someone else who he can support to that end.

But most of the adventurers don't have any intentions of conquering the dungeon, don't have the skills, or are unsuitable in other ways. In fact, it seems like some potentially suitable people are the Toudens. There are a lot of good rumours about them going around - they actually seem to have a very positive reputation! That's what Kabru means when he says "unmask".

So when Kabru is observing something like them giving money to an old comrade from their gold-peeling days, he doesn't consider it a problem because "they're giving money to this person who doesn't actually need it" or because they must have some dark secret if they act superficially nice. I think he actually understands this situation and what it implies about Laios (in particular) perfectly well.

Laios and Falin gave money to an old comrade who got injured and couldn't work. That person then healed up but kept taking their money. Then he used the money to start smuggling illicit goods to the island.

The key is that for Kabru, the problem here is the same as with the corpse retrievers - people using the dungeon's resources to fuel dangerous, selfish, or violent pursuits cause problems for the island, attract more criminals and people with motives other than breaking the curse, and increase the chances of the whole situation ending in tragedy.

Kabru is willing to work with the Shadow Lord of the island if it gets him to his goal - he isn't scrupulous - but the criminal element of the island increasing is something he sees as a major issue.

Also, when you're evaluating someone as a candidate for power, riches, secrets, potentially kingship - then being curious about how the money you give to people is going to be used is kind of a relevant trait!

Interpersonally, Kabru's actually very easygoing - I mean, Mickbell isn't exactly an upstanding guy, is he! But Kabru likes him and they get along well. These traits wouldn't be a problem at all in a friend, or a comrade, or someone Kabru was confident he could use. But he can't get a handle on Laios, and Laios is someone who has the potential to be a major player!

On Laios' end, this is the same as with the marriage seeker who joined their party. She kept asking for things and he gave them to her, because he tries to be nice to others. He even gives her money! It's the exact same thing.

That's fine, but it became a problem because he basically wasn't interested in her motives, didn't notice she was trying to manipulate him, and it also didn't occur to him that the other party members would notice or be affected. We can assume the situation with the gold peeler is the same. When Kabru says that "It's not that they're bad people, they just aren't interested in humans," he isn't wrong.

The extent to which this is true of Laios is linked to his autism imo, (because it isn't just disinterest - he genuinely isn't able to notice nonverbal cues that people are lying to him or have ulterior motives) but to a greater or lesser extent I think it's a very common trait. Most people aren't actually that interested in other people who aren't close to them. Kabru is the weird one here. It isn't an issue except as a leader - which is why we see an immediate comparison to the Island's Lord, because that's how Kabru is evaluating them.

And disinterest in/lack of ability with people to the extent Laios exhibits it, it does, actually, make him a worse leader... it's just that as we see in the story, people can help him out. The rest of the party tell him the marriage seeker is taking advantage of him so he tells her he can't give her special treatment anymore. They're pissed and it's a crisis point - he couldn't have recovered their trust without Marcille and Falin - but that's exactly the point. With Marcille and Falin, he was able to recover their trust.

And he has other good traits that make up for it, such as his intelligence, strategic knowledge, open-mindedness and sense of fairplay.

Kabru doesn't disqualify Laios as a candidate based on what he sees about him from afar, though - he still tries very hard to get close to him, obviously hoping that if he manages he can steer Laios to defeat the dungeon and make up for his lack of people-skills in the aftermath. (Which... he does eventually achieve that goal!) He completely fails until the events of the story, so... definitely I think "They just aren't interested in humans" could also partially be a stung reaction to Laios' complete disinterest in him.

Anyway, that's my read on what exactly Kabru's "issue" with Laios is. Obviously, once he does find out what Laios' true nature is like - about his love for monsters - he develops an entirely new set of fears about Laios' priorities. But since Laios kept that a secret until the start of the story, he has no idea of that yet.

Given all that, I think it's interesting that he says that he doesn't think that the Toudens are suitable to defeat the dungeon, and that he's hoping they'll turn out to be the thieves. As some of his few potential candidates, people who he thinks may play a big role in the island's future, you'd think he'd hope they would be good people!

I suppose it's better, in his eyes, because it means that he's involved in something "interesting". They haven't just had their stuff stolen by regular criminals (boring, puts them further away from his goal) - they've been caught up in the beginning stages of "a historic event". The desperate and dwindling group forgetting morals in their quest to retrieve their lost comrade probably appeals to his sense of melodrama. Because he also just... loves drama.

Despite it being "uglier than anything he was expecting", he still pursues Laios as the person he wants to conquer the dungeon pretty much as soon as it becomes clear that he won't be able to do it himself and they are out of time. That's because... well, to be fair, there aren't any other options. And he fits standard A: he's short-lived!

and Kabru still hopes he can fit standard B, too, and be persuaded to use the power he wins for good. No matter how many nightmares he has about Laios, or whether he thinks about killing him. He doubts him, but ultimately he puts his faith in him and seems happy after the manga's ending that he made the right decision.

[intotheelliwoods]

You will never guess who is back on the Huggy Leo train...

(me its me. per usual I am on the huggy leo train <3)

[spyroforlife]

Alastor: And then she called me an 'ace in the hole', whatever that means

Angel: It was a joke, she's saying you're asexual

Alastor: A sexual what? I'm not sexual for ANYTHING

Angel: Yeah, I mean asexual, all one word. As in, without sexuality. You don't feel sexual attraction. We call it asexual, often shortened to ace. Ergo, you're an 'ace in the hole'

Alastor: There's actually a word for that?? Ridiculous. But points to Rosie for the cute wordplay, I suppose.

Angel: I know you aren't but if you WERE a sex-favorable asexual, well. You could be an ace in MY hole-

Alastor: (immediately bonks him with his mic)

[bet-on-me-13]

Desperate Villain Danny AU

(this is a 17 yr old danny)

It started out slowly.

First, a few of Danny's less active Rouges stopped showing up at all. He didn't really notice, and just assumed that they had finally had their Fill of their Obsession for a while and would simmer down for a bit.

Then, some more of his Rouges stopped showing up. No big deal, but he is getting a little concerned for them. They had definitely not had their fill of their Obsessions yet, why did they stop?

Then, the worst started happen. All of his actual Ghost Friends start to disappear. Ember, Kitty, Johnny, even Amorpho, they all start to not show up at all in the Living World.

He goes looking for them in Realms, but he can't find any of them whatsoever. He tries asking around, but everybody else noticed the disappearances much earlier than him and began to hide away from whatever was taking all of the strong Ghosts. He can't find anybody, and the ones he does find won't tell him anything (or don't know themselves)

It takes weeks of searching, but eventually he gets his answer.

The GIW show up in Amity again after a period of absolutely no activity. They have stepped up their operations HARD. Advanced Ghost Hunting Equipment, Much more Competent Agents, and most worrying of all, they seem to know that Phantom is friends with Sam, Tucker, and Danny Fenton.

The GIW comes to his house for a Meeting with his parents, where he overhears them offering his parents a position in their Organization as Head Scientists. While there they also manage to plant Bugs in Danny's room somehow. Although he finds them quickly enough and destroys them.

And then, one night during dinner while his parents are ranting about the GIWs Labs, they mention something that cinches it for Danny.

"And today we even got to Dissect one of the Spooks! It was that Mind Controlly one, you know the one with the blue firey hair stuff that sang a bunch! We're going back tomorrow to continue our Study, this time we'll see how long it'll pretend to experience pain before it decides to give up on tricking us!"

That night, Danny packed up all his things, destroyed the Ghost Portal alongside everything else in his parents Lab, and left his house.

He tracked down the GIW Base, saved Ember from her Cell, and decimated the surrounding Area. No survivors, none of the research is preserved, and he left the Site Director alive to question him.

Turns out, the GIW had managed to Reverse Engineer the Ghost Portal from that brief period of time where they had taken control of Fenton Works. They had been using their own Portal to kidnap any Ghost they could get their hands on. Using the research from those subjects, they perfected their Ghost Hunting Tech and started going after the bigger fish.

"But good luck finding it, Ecto Scum! The Portals location was hidden to everybody, even me!" He said.

"Where are the others!" Danny cried. He was losing control of his appearance by this point. After seeing what they had done to Ember, he was too angry to maintain his Humanoid Form successfully. Even now, with most of his control, he could hear the Static in the air around him, and see the Glitching of his hands as they clenched this Monsters clothes.

"Scattered!" He said with a crazed laugh, "We knew we couldn't contain all of them, so we send them to all of our sites across the Country! You'll never find them!"

Without another word, Danny plowed his arm through the man's chest.

He turned around, picking up Embers weakened Body, before beginning his long flight to Wisconsin. Vlad still owed him a few Favors after all, and honestly his mentorship offers seemed VERY Tempting right now.

(Why reject him if you don't care about keeping your dad alive anymore?)

...

The JLA had recently received a distress signal from somewhere in the middle of some random Forest in Illinois, but when they got to the location, all they found was a crater filled with the ruins of some kind of Military Base, and so so many Bodies.

They had managed to figure out that this was a Government Site owned by an organization called the GIW. A Paranormal Investigation Wing of the Government focused on the study and capture of Supernatural Beings called Ecto-Entities, otherwise referred to as Ghosts.

As it turns out, an Ecto-Entity that had been terrorizing the local town for a few years now had made a drastic change in normal behavior and had attacked the GIW Base that had been posted there.

They would have destroyed it years ago, but this one was unnaturally powerful. It had eluded their capture and terrorized the Town for years, but they had too much pride to contact the JLA and admit that they needed help. And honestly until now, they didn't really need it. The Entity had been entirely confined to the singular town, and had not strayed from that behavioral Pattern in the 3 years since it's inital sighting. They had made the difficult choice to leave it there, sacrificing one town in exchange for the rest of the country.

But now they did need their help. This Entity, this Phantom, was one of the most powerful beings that had ever recorded, maybe even The Most Powerful. The fact that it had left the Secluded town it usually frequented meant that it was loose to wreak havoc across the rest of the world.

The JLA Needed to Find this thing, and Fast.

[frodo-a-gogo]

Let us be brutally honest with ourselves and with eachother for a moment. If he weren't obese you motherfuckers would be capable of percieving evrart claires sexy sexy moral ambiguity and complex charms

[opera-ghost]

it's immensely funny to me how andrew lloyd webber read this passage from the book and was like yeah the journey down to the phantom's lair is this really breathtaking magical gondola ride where christine is just captivated by the strange and fantastical beauty of it all (see below)

when in the novel they're both like in a rowboat in the dark with christine scared out of her mind and confused as hell while erik is paddling like he's out for an extreme day of fishing and just staring christine down for the entire duration of the journey without blinking once . like mind you his eyes quite literally GLOW in the DARK and he's just fucking staring into her soul and silently rowing and probably not even breathing like

[kettleghost]

just heard fionna and cake has been greenlit for another season! scrounged up some stuff i never posted in honour of it :D

cat golbetty design inspired by @carrioncider’s adaptation! u can see their post here!!!!!

Ok cool bye

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

[octoir]

tomarry hot take: I actually don’t think Harry would even come close to defeating Tom in a duel

I think he COULD come close, with extreme levels of training and practice, but that classic “step into DADA and whoop Tom’s ass” scene? guys…I have something to confess.

Tom’s a fucking nerd.

he’s studied and practiced dark magic for years. he’s canonically regarded by DUMBLEDORE as the most brilliant student to ever walk through Hogwarts. Tom would DESTROY him.

imho the real fun of tomarry comes from the subsequent arc of Harry training to defeat him, and then actually coming close, and THEN Tom starts to become intrigued bc who the fuck is this semi-competent little shit?? and why is he now thinking about him all the time??