Just a quick heads up that if you put untagged Hades 2 spoilers on my dash I will insta-block you. It's 2024, tagging for spoilers is not a new concept.

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Top 5 video games (without listing FFT as all five :D)

Oh shit, I actually have a LOT of favorite vidya games and it's gonna be hard to rank just five

5. Suikoden/Suikoden 2 (they are almost the same game). Colorful, fun, a huge cast of characters, a huge cast of characters, a ... HUGE cast of characters (108!) and a cool plot. The only reason the Suikos aren't higher up is that they can get VERY level-grindy and sometimes figuring out how to recruit someone is straight impossible without a walkthrough. It's cool to see more and more people hanging out and interacting in the Avengers Tower though.

4. Breath of Fire 3/ Breath of Fire 4 (again, v similar). Colorful! Weird! The character designs and sprite animations are AMAZING, way more detailed and smooth than they had any right to be. The gameplay is good, perfect for taking up a long afternoon while listening to your brother's album collection. The story is frankly mid though, which is what keeps it out of the top three.

3. Final Fantasy IV. There are 86 quadrillion video essays and reviews and retro reviews talking about how amazing this game is. It was so incredible that it shifted the JRPG genre on its axis. It has been remade and re-remade and re-re-re-made dozens of times across dozens of platforms and that's because it fucking rocks. The battle music is iconic, recognizable even to people who have never Finaled a Fantasy. Downsides? It just... keeps going. I'm not gonna complain about more game to play, but the story sometimes makes detours into weird places and when you get out of them Cecil announces that the only way to save the world is to find a secret spaceship and take it to the moon. Where it turns out he's from.

2. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Come for the pretty vampire man, stay for the absolutely ADDICTING gameplay. Once again, lots and lots of people have and will say it better than me, but SOTN is another one of those "tilt the gaming world on its axis" titles. No other Castlevania game before or since can match it for popularity. The game is simple to figure out but still remains challenging enough to be engaging, there's cool sprite animations and sick monsters (several bosses so big that they don't even fit in the screen!), a dope-ass OST and terrible 90s voice acting, and when you've finished the story portion of the game, there is still so much more game to play in the form of secret bosses, hidden rooms, ultra-rare weapons and accessories, funny little Easter eggs and also a bunch of ways to accidentally or on purpose get stuck inside a wall. It WOULD be my number one, except for...

1. Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions.

Do I need to explain this one?

I think we all know Fitz is a "faceplant into bed fully clothed, in boxers or completely bare-assed" kind of a guy but. for the meme. more accurate bonus:

If any kind of puppet would be cursed it would be a bunraku puppet, but I still kinda want one.

Look at him. Hims a lil man.

For a long time I thought I was very blank faced and stoic, but about ten years ago I was informed that when I'm pissed off, EVERYONE in the room can see it. Several men in my acquaintance have (apparently) seen my expression and body language abruptly change and hurried to put themselves between me and whoever I was about to kill.

On the other hand my mouth naturally curves down into a severe RBF that high school friends described as "evil." Masking when I go out of the house is useful because I can approach someone without having to painfully bunch and pull my facial muscles into a smile so they aren't alarmed by my visage.

This is what I look like, approximately:

Assume you're not actively/consciously making a certain expression or hiding your emotions.

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top 5 breed of dog

top 5 final fantasy characters

top 5 stims (e.g. flappy hands, tapping, rocking)

*cracks knuckles* alright motherfuckers let's do this Top 5 Dog Breeds 5. Australian Shepherd. This is not a dog *I* would want to own, but they're super underrated, just as smart as Border Collies and just as energetic but with a cheerful energy instead of a "Finnish Soldier on Meth" one. Plus the lil butt. 4. Boxer. These dogs are pretty much just a bundle of Weird Dog Disorders and they aren't brilliant but they're SO fukken goofy and I love it. Boxers love a good time. 3. French Bulldog. I liked these before they were trendy, okay, but even though I love their lil ears and their bug eyes and the way they wail when they throw a tantrum, I probably wouldn't own one-- the breeding practices are cruel especially now that they're popular. Still, adorable little bug-eyed divas. 2. Any hound breed, honestly, but Coon Hounds. YOOOOOOOOOOH! YOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!! (one time a neighbor came over to check on my hound Travis because she thought "he might be injured or trapped somewhere" and I was like no he's just like that) 1. Pit Bull. Obvious choice, Velvet House Hippos are sweet, smart, loyal, cuddly, and loving. They're genuinely delighted to see you. They smile all the time. They've still got a good dose of derpiness and goofosity going on, too. I would totally own another Pibble, or five, or ten. Top 5 Final Fantasy Characters 5. Golbez/Theodore Harvey. Were you unsatisfied with how twinky and emo and pale the protagonist of Final Fantasy IV was? Meet his Better In Every Way older brother. 4. Tossup between Sephiroth and Zack Fair. Both of them were trying so hard to do the right thing, following orders, supporting and protecting their friends, and they were both done so dirty by Shinra. Also Sephiroth has schizophrenia. 3. Delita Heiral. Not a villain, not even the antagonist. Just a dead man walking, so focused on endgame that he doesn't care about all the blood he's wading through to get to it. 2. Isilud Tengille. The boy, the myth, the legend. Indoor Grasshopper, indoctrinated church kid, chapter three miniboss, he's in three scenes and there's a fantastic sprite animation of his dad slapping him across the face so hard that he falls to his knees. Delicious. 1. KAIN MOTHERFUCKING HIGHWIND. No FF character is more iconic, none more emo, none more perfect. Just his silhouette, the shape of his helmet, the spear, THOSE LEGS are instantly recognizable. He's on your side and then he's not but now he is and now he's not again just kidding now he is haha kidding again he's not now. At the end of FF4 he takes off his helmet and WHOOPS HE'S A TOTAL HOTTIE. His unrequited love for his best friend's girlfriend is so powerful that he breaks into two people so one of them can kidnap the girl and the other can fuck his best friend's son. In later adaptations, he's given an ovary-exploding sexy baritone voice by Liam O'brien. Don't let anyone tell you Kain is toxic or weird or creepy or inferior to whatever FFXIV character that is blatantly ripping him off: Kain Highwind is THE Final Fantasy character, period. Top 5 stims, if you're still here after I had a Kain Rant 5. Rotating the foot. Sometimes both feet, but just one is great. 4. Finger to thumb taps, rubs, and picks. Classic. 3. Joint cracking. Comes with added benefit of Noises. 2. Singing/echolalia. Just good in the mouth, also the dogs like it. 1. Playin' with textures, especially little ones. Bite off a fingernail, roll it against my thumb for a while. Paradise.

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I'm gonna kill that fucking groundhog and I'm not gonna do it nicely I'm gonna buy a fucking AR-15

put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer ok go

God I think about that poor Peter Actor all the time. Does anybody know where he is now? Is he okay?

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

You absolutely can! It's not a thing the hoppers decide to do, it's a physiological reaction to certain stimulus, like getting goosebumps or going on HRT.

@catsruleokay OH BOY I GET TO LEARN YOU A THING It was thought for a long time that grasshoppers and locusts were two different insects, because they look different and have vastly different behaviors. But it TURNS OUT that they are the SAME EXACT INSECT. A locust is a grasshopper in Swarm Mode ™. (note: this is only true for a specific family of grasshoppers, Acrididae. There are no locust swarms in North America because the grasshoppers here don’t have a swarming phase.) These species of grasshoppers generally live non-social lives, just kind of hopping and grassing and not being too scary. But overcrowding causes them to undergo a FANTASTIC TRANSFORMATION which includes changing their look and overall behaviors and suddenly becoming very social, very horny and VERY hungry. Basically the “overcrowding” signal triggers a serotonin dump into their brains, and it’s suddenly LOCUST POWAAAAH MAAAAKE UP! How do grasshoppers know they’re being overcrowded, you ask? Is it by sight? By sound? NO! It’s by touch! But they can’t just bump into each other once– the grasshoppers have to experience a Grasshopper Collision several times a minute for about four hours. Then they start flying, they start fucking, and they start eating. Theoretically you can just bash two grasshoppers together while watching the extended cut of The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (with DVD extras) and turn them into locusts, but I don’t know why you’d do that! I am absolutely not an entomologist and I don’t even like bugs but the instant I learned about The Locust Touch I had to tell other people.

Oh yes, they go super saiyan

@catsruleokay OH BOY I GET TO LEARN YOU A THING It was thought for a long time that grasshoppers and locusts were two different insects, because they look different and have vastly different behaviors. But it TURNS OUT that they are the SAME EXACT INSECT. A locust is a grasshopper in Swarm Mode ™. (note: this is only true for a specific family of grasshoppers, Acrididae. There are no locust swarms in North America because the grasshoppers here don’t have a swarming phase.) These species of grasshoppers generally live non-social lives, just kind of hopping and grassing and not being too scary. But overcrowding causes them to undergo a FANTASTIC TRANSFORMATION which includes changing their look and overall behaviors and suddenly becoming very social, very horny and VERY hungry. Basically the “overcrowding” signal triggers a serotonin dump into their brains, and it’s suddenly LOCUST POWAAAAH MAAAAKE UP! How do grasshoppers know they’re being overcrowded, you ask? Is it by sight? By sound? NO! It’s by touch! But they can’t just bump into each other once– the grasshoppers have to experience a Grasshopper Collision several times a minute for about four hours. Then they start flying, they start fucking, and they start eating. Theoretically you can just bash two grasshoppers together while watching the extended cut of The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (with DVD extras) and turn them into locusts, but I don’t know why you’d do that! I am absolutely not an entomologist and I don’t even like bugs but the instant I learned about The Locust Touch I had to tell other people.

*singing* girl rip your nipples off, they've been there way too long, just pull the tape and remove them

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The night terrors seem to happen less than an hour into being asleep, and almost always when I'm sleeping on my back.

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.