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This is so funny both because of how absurdly informal it sounds but also because, like, yeah I guess Secretary Nagi's name is Ken technically

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Oh look, The Roottrees are Dead omega-spoilers: women handling motor vehicles edition 🫣

Cool grandma Sam is my favorite character for reasons that are obvious to literally anybody who's played this game. That being said, there's something kind of neat I want to get off my mind that I noticed upon watching someone else on YT play this game.

There's a single anecdote in Lauren's diary (circa 1963) where she mentions that Sam had given Eli M. some tools and taught him how to do silly bike stuff. And then Lauren and the rest of the Next Gens get butthurt about how improper it is about how some random lady raised by the evil farm hands is teaching a boy how to handle machines.

Because Miracle Sr. and Jr. have canon ages in this game, one could do the math and reasonably assume Eli was like 10 or something when this all happened.

And I was like damn, this single encounter with Sam very well might've been the single most influential moment of his entire fucking life; because he's the guy who grows up to be a mechanic, who marries a female mechanic and then raises a daughter who also ends up being a mechanic.

Plus, I really, really don't think Miracle would have been the one to encourage a Roottree to do dirty peasant work for a living or promote women working male-dominated jobs in the first place. So I doubt his son got any of that from him.

Didn't really think about it in my own playthrough since I kind of assumed everyone in Lauren's diary entries was an adult with a fully established life unless otherwise stated lmao

Therefore, Sam is not only a 10/10 character for standing up for the gays, but also corrupting the christian youth by introducing them to the sinful world of women who fix cars.

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visiting ambrette rn and i appear to have encountered a lovers' quarrel

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finally got back to playing xenoblade x and my god it reminds me at every turn how much I love HB.

I was doing tatsu's first mission where tora shows up for the first time right and they clearly hate each other. HB's stupid ass gives a heart to the option "wonder if theyre twin brothers." never encountered that in a playthrough before.

I already know because I've previously played all of his missions already but he is still just the character ever. he cares SO much. but he's terrible. he's an asshole. but he likes you so much that he shows you his heart of gold. he's actually so niceys. and he's so smart, he's an elite, right? WRONG. he is so dumb. he is EVERYTHING to me.

im also grinding class levels on my cross rn so I've taken to controlling HB. brother he is sooo fun to play as. the topple to decoy round to last stand loop is soo good and I love having my party never run out of TP. also his voice lines are hilarious. fundamentally unserious character.

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he is playing the hit 2009 indie classic "Minecraft"

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cleaned out my youtube subscriptions of all the folks who turned out to be fucking psychopaths the whole time

feels good (　・ω・)

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ur payin eighty dollars for this?

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Never before seen my hype for a game die so quickly. This and other things have killed it like the lack of physical

At least I still have the 3ds versions

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Remembering how hard I laughed at Brilliant Diamond when I had to go get Roark out of the mine and he just fucking nyoomed out of there.

In DPPt, he just kinda walked out like "lol ok"

In BDSP he fucking books it

And here's the gif version

WHY ARE YOU RUNNING?

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Lazarus would have hated hippies so much 🥲

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Rise of the Golden Idol isn't perfect and I'm still trying to pinpoint exactly how I feel about it (I'll probably watch like 7 other people play it and then go from there), but I will say it's story is pretty fucking top notch.

It builds a brilliant web of intrigue that balances genuine unease with dark, dry comedy to the point where trying to describe any of the plot points in this game makes you feel like you're trying to summarize a season of Riverdale to someone who's never heard of it.

Allow me to demonstrate, minor spoilers for RotGI:

Okay so it's like 1973 or 4 or something like that and a local TV station is holding its annual talent show. Two of the entrants, a magician and a musician, used to date but had a REALLY nasty breakup so he unlocks the cage holding her rabbit which breaks loose and she fills his trumpet with O-Range™ soda. (It's what happy tastes like!™) Trouble is, that Soda belongs to a *deep breath* professional burpist who is going to *deeper breath* close the show by burping a series of impressions of the presidents. Without the carbonation to fuel his... talent(?) he instead decides to wing it and dance freestyle. When he does he unintentionally does a perfect recreation of an interpretive dance from a bygone, vaguely Lovecraftian culture which, when translated from DANCE LANGUAGE, conveys a message about the dangers of trusting fools who mess with powers beyond their comprehension. The fools messing with powers beyond their comprehension who are responsible for this happening deem said information as "completely useless." The man wins the talent show. Everybody flips shit. A ballerina attacks the host. This is a minor plot point that is only tangentially related to the main story. It is one of the less bananas things that happens.

DO YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN????????

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For all the Binacle fans in the chat...this one's for you

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you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny

take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)

apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender

have fun and be yourself!

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Don't get krilled

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イーノック・ドレッバーとコネット・ローザイク

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here's a small piece of fan art for a game that makes my brain feel equally as small

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More character bios have dropped in the leaks, tho some things (particularly a few ages here and there) might have changed in the final product.

Some highlights:

Cynthia is apparently a year older than Cyrus, I feel that would irk him a little

Siebold has had lunch with Lysandre before

Wikstrom is popular with the ladies

Drayden wrestles, and just looking at him. Yeah.

Ramos met AZ's Floette

Shauntal does human x Pokemon stories sometimes (I'm expecting people to tie this to those old myths that were circulating)

Crasher Wake isn't actually a wrestler. He just wants to look cool.

Bertha was made for us to speculate on her relationship with Agatha

Alder is based on Obi-wan.

Charon steals others people's research (which we do see, he claimed the research Cyrus did on Rotom)