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I'm up-to-date with Deltarune (yay) and I'm surprised to see no one saying how much this game is Twin Peaks coded.

Toby tricked us with a Fantasy Adventure and forced us to watch a small town mystery and also the Black Lodge is there

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i love the time loop mental illness game

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I'm still thinking about some implication of a character of The Hundred Line, so spoiler under the cut, read if you have played until the first story lock or one of the endings it needs. (That's where i am for now)

Having now found out that Hiruko is a Time Looper, recontestualize all the game to me, but in an extremely funny way.

Imagine you are a Time Looper, and every time you die or manage to meet a certain condiction, you come back to the start, and of course, it's frustrating, it's annoying, it's the worst experience in your life.

Of course, you are also stubborn, and as all time looper you want to get to the end with every one alive, so it doesn't matter how many time you die, going back to the past is a weapon and you know how to wield it.

But there's more

Every time you come back, there's this dude, that says he came back from the future, but just one, not a bunch like you. For this they made him leader of the bunch, with the duty of taking matter in his hands.

"Pretty easy" you say, "He's predictable like the others in the end"

There is only one problem

He takes decisions like he's extracting Lottery numbers.

Every time you come back he's going to change course of actions. Sometimes he does the same things as last time for 60 days then does a moral 180 out of context. Sometimes at the starts before you even wake up he decides to kill his toxic lover and everything is fucked. It's idiotic, It's stupid, It's dump. But it's also charming in a way.

Everything you try to do backfires. You have no power, You have no free will.

You can just hope he doesn't send everything up to flames the next time you go back.

You are Hiruko Shizuhara

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I've finally completed a certain infamous route, so I've made this to celebrate

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talking about a certain hundred line route, obvs spoilers

I think the Cult of Takumi route is kind of genius in how it's actually pretty easy to stumble into and serves as an exceptional tone setting route for those looking to 100% the game, or at least hunt for a few more endings.

Here's the thing, the Cult Route is preceded by choices that seem pretty obvious to take on the surface if you share even a modecum of Takumi's goals in saving all his friends: sparing Eito, Takumi revealing his foreknowledge, and saving LDA vs SLDA on day 9/10

Now, if you're anything like me you probably went into the first loop thinking "alright how do i save all my friends this time, let's do less warcrimes" so sparing Eito initially seems like a good idea, you'd want that golden route ending where everyone manages to make it. Revealing your foreknowledge also seems like a good idea, it's a really easy thing to prove and the cast trusts you immediately as well, and going in blind and undivided is what caused all the problems in Route 0, so a unifying force in providing foreknowledge seems good. Going to save SLDA seems pretty obvious too, not doing so would result in Moko disappearing initially, but the fact that Takumi inadvertently buffed the commanders by going back in time also means that it's far likelier that ALL the SDLA members could die this time, PLUS you're right there, surely the LDA can survive ONE battle without you.

However, the game punishes you for this last choice by permakilling Darumi, one of Takumi's first friends in Route 0. Darumi's death hangs over him and serves as a constant reminder not only that your choices have consequences, but that you might not actually be making things better this time. Foreknowledge doesn't necessarily mean an easy go this time, and Takumi is faced with the risk that going back like this might actually make things far worse. This continually sticks with Takumi throughout the preceding days and haunts him before it gets even worse: The sacrifice choice between Kyoshika, Tsubasa, and Takemaru.

Kyoshika is terrified to die but still chooses to offer herself up, Tsubasa is even moreso because she didn't even expect to be a sacrifice option, and Takemaru... nudges you to choose him. Out of the three, he seems the most prepared for this.

Takemaru, the second of Takumi's first friends.

In Route 0, Takumi's first friends were Hiruko, Eito, Darumi and Takemaru. Hiruko did not last long and Eito was a traitor, but Darumi and Takemaru were Takumi's closest friends who continued to support him throughout Route 0. And for the Cult Route to form, he loses both of them.

Both of these deaths are what stuck with Takumi the most, even well into the ending of the Cult Route where he thinks of honoring them while taking over the world, but it's the starting point for him taking Yugamu's funny pheromone hentai drug, and it only gets worse because of Sirei. Sirei initially makes Takumi a leader, something he already doesn't want to be, but also sets the seed to make Takumi a cult leader. Initially, Takumi keeps swearing up and down that this is just a temporary measure to keep everyone united, that once they reach day 100, he can have this removed, but after Takemaru's sacrifice, there are no other big choices except for the very last day: choosing between Nozomi and Eito in making a cure.

However, the game punishes you again, this time for choosing Nozomi. If you try to correct the course and not be a fucked up pheromone alpha male guy right at the very end even if it might cause further problems (which I imagine is the FAR more chosen option, I'd love if this game revealed metrics on what choices people made the most), Takumi is left paralyzed and forced to watch as the cast brutally beat Nozomi to death, ending on a scene of Eito having his way with Takumi as he's stuck being a living idol.

The fucked up thing, though, is that if you choose Eito, this route really does work out in all their favors in the long run. Takumi managed to save most of his friends this time and reconciled with Eito, all of them as a collective take charge of both the planet and humanity and forcibly end the war, ensuring a better future that isn't a dead end for either humanity or the futurans, which we know because Takumi's inner monologue makes a point of bringing humanity to heel so that they don't wipe out the futurans. Takumi lost two friends but ultimately the entire situation is resolved in a way that doesn't damn either side to extinction.

But it's also horrific. The technically better for everyone ending is also one of the morally worst. Takumi is warped physically and mentally into this egotistical alpha male cult leader with all his friends being living subservient slaves and he uses a newly brainwashed Nozomi as a doll to replace Karua. Even with access to Takumi's inner monologue where he is presented as genuinely caring for all his friends, it's still a horrific turn to see Takumi this warped, justifying these actions with what are, in fact, tangibly better results compared to last time.

And I think that's so genius that this route with minimal casualties and a defined, almost hopeful ending for the future is also presented as so morally twisted, because this route I think is remarkably easy to stumble into if you're doing your best to try and save the whole cast: You tried to make all the 'good' choices, you try to save everyone and minimize as many casualties as you could even at the cost of your morality and principles, but even a 'good' ending isn't necessarily a better one.

And if this is one of the first endings you get, it really sticks with you for every choice going forward in hunting other endings. Just how much worse could things be?

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I've finally started Death Stranding, I'm only at chapter 3, and so I'll bless you with this cursed post

I think this is a good shipping pair, I love using a shipping diagram from my favorite webcomic [SARCASM]

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! This was an idea I had several months ago and having gotten the chance to work with all these amazing artists has been such an honour. Everyone did a tarot card inspired design based on the magnus archives fears and OH MY GOD they turned out so good.

feel free to check out each participants work and socials as listed! :D

The Lonely - @mariibeann

The Hunt - @oceanichymns

The Vast - @vpstrange

The Stranger - pencilshavings13 (IG)

The Flesh - @mintybagels

The Extinction - @wolfythewitch

The Desolation - swing_byforest (IG)

The Spiral - @mistspelt

The Dark - raven_and_rook (IG)

The Eye - @lailas-in-space

The Slaughter - eggbench (IG)

The Web - @mossiistars

The Buried - @teafromthemicrowave

The Corruption - @jouxlskaard

The End - @yelloartt

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Ceaseless Watcher, did you pay for that train ticket?

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I think one of the most interesting differences between TMA and TMAGP is that in the first, the majority of plot lines already happened, while in the latter, it's all happening right now.

When Jon starts as an archivist, Agnes is already dead, the Dark cult is in shambles, Leitner already was attacked and is into hiding, Salesa stopped his operations, ecc. For most of them, we only get to hear the end of the storyline first hand, and it always feel like we are just listening to an already complete story. Almost like, our job, just like Jon, is to listen and archive it in our memories.

While, when Sam starts working at the OIAR, a lot of the "statements" are recent, and the Externals are alive. We literally have an episode that is the direct conseguence of an action of a character. This makes TMAGP feels more proactive than TMA.

Basically, we are now watching Geltrude Robinson as an Archivist, instead of Jon.

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Good morning tma fandom here's another meme. I'm just at the start of Season 4, so no Peter Lukas (I've seen so little of him) The template is from @lutik328 on twitter

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Honestly that's a really good take i've never seen anyone have. I really like it I will rethink a lot about that book with this perspective. Also i'm only at half of season 2 of TMA :c, that's why i put the question mark on the "Girls kissing"

Stupid meme i made because it's my first day of summer break from work and this is what i do with my time off. please judge.

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AHDASHUIORFASDFDIOFASDJASH

That's perfect thank you

How could i've been so blind and never thought about this category, truly the best one.

Stupid meme i made because it's my first day of summer break from work and this is what i do with my time off. please judge.

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That's exectly why i didn't put it there. While it is impossible and terrifying it doesn't have the connotaction of an House, like the comfort it should have but of which it was deprived

Stupid meme i made because it's my first day of summer break from work and this is what i do with my time off. please judge.

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Stupid meme i made because it's my first day of summer break from work and this is what i do with my time off. please judge. Edit: I had plenty of comments about stp being in the girls kissing category for a lot of various reasons so yeah. Let the princess kiss herself!

Also i've put the ? on TMA because i'm only halfway trought Season 2, sorry for the confusion.

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I've just now (after 2 years of procrastination) finished listening to the first season of The Magnus Archives, and it's already giving me ideas.

For what i've listened it seems like these entities are related to Fear, and you know whom other entities have their power related to Fear? Exactly: The Chainsaw Man Devils.

Now let me paint you a picture. Imagine the Falling Devil degusting a cremè caramel watching the event of MAG21 - Freefall with whatever entity made that possible (i still have no clue) while complimenting the idea of a subspace instead of just reversing the gravity.

Yoru loving the war stories in MAG7 and MAG29, only to quit listening the moment one of her sister's avatar makes an appereance

and maybe the Spider Devil watching MAG16 unfold and being disappointed in the entity because they made a dude kill a small spider and then tortured him for years (she loves humans too!)

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an art request (sorta????? not really this just popped into my head and i needed to share the idea so i am telling you now because youre the only person i know who shares both these media as like. fixations, also dont feel obliged to draw art dont do that bad for you) isat gang as the magical girls

OMG YES thank you so much for this suggestion!!!!

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When i was little i was a really big fun of the Odyssey, it was my very first hyperfixxation, so finding about EPIC: The Musical is like striking gold. I love it so much it's so good. BUT I will literally cry my eyes out if they manage to put Argo in it please i beg put Argo in it i wanna see best doggo i want to see Odysseus frozen in place and forced not to address him so to not give away his disguise