But... but he gets better, right?

Heard that Aoko and Alice's boyfriend scattered into a pile of ashes. SAD. Oh well they have each other still.

Did you know gaming: Aoko’s third skill is a targetable buff that gives a status called “Protagonist Correction” which negates any self-destruct or suicide effects allies have from from noble phantasms or skills, such as Mandricardo’s crit/attack buff that kills him after he uses it. Interestingly, this does NOT stop Soujuurou from becoming a dirt pile on the floor if he uses his NP, because not even Magic can bring back the dead.

Ah-- Meow-- meow-- lest-- meow-- seek:

If you're doing a Fromsoft-esque request for asks, can we be your level up lady?

Sure! What’s your generic dialogue that everyone skips past to get to the level up screen?

If you stare too long into the anonymous gestalt your inbox will eventually bow its head and slouch towards the cat carrier to the vet

Nononononono not the carrier! It's too cramped!

Oh thank goodness, was worried the task due in two days was the assignment itself.

Oh no, what's the classwork due in two days?

Select a bunch of potential projects from a group to work on for the assignment, and write about the <pros-cons-self analysis thing> of selecting this project. So we can work out which project is best to work on for a customer pitch. Largely tedious stuff lmao.

Oooooohgghhh the misery! every kitty wants to be my enemy!

Decided to play along with as many anons as possible in order to encourage more asks, and now look at us: The anons have put us back in the cone.

So many indignancies! And I hear they're gonna put you back in the cone!

Oooooohgghhh! THE MISERY OF IT ALL.

You do seem like a howler and a yowler

[← Endlessly full of indignancies about the world]

Catgirl living in the back room of a trading card shop in Puppy Dog City sounds like the setup for a poorly-thought out story about racism

At night, the howling starts.

Tbf she's Italian and not Sami (not to defend the name ofc but I feel like someone else might mention it)

Ahh, interesting.

Still a very poorly chosen name!

From memory, there was a Europa Universalis challenge or achievement or something making a pun on a "Lap" Dance, only y'know, spelled the other way instead. It was pointed out to the devs, "hey, that's a slur" and they were like "oh shit, sorry" and renamed it.

So, y'know, hopefully Arknights can change that.

I believe in prison abolition but The Brickster is a monster who should never again see the light of day

Justice For

Why are you building a prison complex with legos?

It's literally one of the most normal things to build with legos.

There's probably no sociopolitical implications to this being a children's toy. Cops and robbers is a normal game.

Surely that gacha character already exists in some form

Well like, that's the joke, Arknights does a lot of cultural references, including pulling from the Sami population of Scandinavia, but named one such character Lappland.

You can't say that, Arknights.

Aspect ratios on SNES games is a fun prank to play on yourself, because once you notice the issues you'll never be able to play a game in peace again.

[Playing SNES game on emulator] Where's the composite video filter? This game needs to be enshittened before it looks right.

Arknights has a character named Lappland, which based on what we understand of it, would be akin to creating a gacha character themed after various Native American stereotypes and then announcing: "Their name is Indjun'country"

[Playing SNES game on emulator] Where's the composite video filter? This game needs to be enshittened before it looks right.

Oh yeah a composite filter on SNES games changes the fucking game. It's not a CRT effect but it does have the same energy as "watching a lets play from before HDMI recordings of old games was a thing" and thus, nostalgia.

like what i am interested in emulating with CRT shaders is the dot pattern and the color bleed but all anyone ever wants to talk about is SCANLINES who even CARES scanlines are literally the least interesting part of the CRT look

Great part of Andor is that he pulls off this big heist against the Empire but gets away scott-free and what actually kicks off the prison break arc of the show is that he gets arrested for literally nothing but being vaguely near a crime scene because the Empire is a Totalitarian shithole government.