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lurkingshan · 9 months

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Thai QL Favorites Tag Game

Tagged by @telomeke and @chickenstrangers - thank you for inviting me to play! I had to keep reminding myself this is for Thai shows only, because I kept trying to include Japanese bls, my beloveds. But I got it now and I wrote way too much, as I am wont to do. :)))

Favorite Thai QL: I was just talking with @waitmyturtles about the distinction between favorite and best in comparing two major Thai bls–I Told Sunset About You and Bad Buddy. For me, ITSAY is objectively the best Thai bl ever made, in terms of its quality, fidelity to its vision, and execution of its story and themes. But Bad Buddy is my favorite. It is not without its flaws, but it is peak storytelling and it does my absolute favorite thing in any romance–it gets the couple together early in the story and lets me live in their relationship and see how they would navigate the many challenges coming their way while protecting their relationship. I’m not sure any other Thai ql drama will ever top it for me (but please do keep trying, Thailand).

Favorite pairing: *steps on soap box, taps mic* The branded pairing system in Thai ql, while good for marketing and (sometimes) for actor relationships/chemistry and job security, is a hindrance to art and severely limits the storytelling capabilities of Thai dramas. I am not opposed to pairs who choose it working together across multiple projects, but I absolutely hate the real person shipping culture it encourages and the restrictions it places on some actors and productions. I have seen some positive signs of a loosening around these restrictions–like Earth and Mix both being allowed to play intimate scenes with other actors in Moonlight Chicken–but it still prevents actors from having more freedom to try different projects and often results in poor casting choices because everything has to be worked around a set pair instead of a more organic casting process.

Ahem. All of that said, I think if I had to name a pair I like best and am most comfortable with, it would be Off and Gun. They work well together, their shows only get better over time, they don’t do the performative shit where they pretend they might be dating, and they seem to have a strong friendship and comfortable dynamic that insulates them somewhat from the worst of the shipper nonsense. I am very much looking forward to Cooking Crush.

Most underrated actor: Fluke Pusit. If The Warp Effect and A Boss and a Babe didn’t convince GMMTV that this man is ready to headline his own drama, I don’t know what will!

Favorite main character: Teh, I Told Sunset About You and I Promised You the Moon. Yes, both shows, and before you all come yell at me: I SAID WHAT I SAID. As I’ve mentioned before, Teh is a masterpiece of mess. He loves deeply and obsessively, he is passionate and mercurial in the extreme, and he is just as likely to crush you as he is to make your heart soar. In the category of emotional intensity he is unbeatable. He is fascinating to watch, and he is both infuriating and entirely legible, because every thought, feeling, and impulse are right there on his sleeve for you to see. He’s a legendary character crafted by brilliant writers and portrayed by one of the most talented young actors in Thailand, and I love him!

Favorite side character: I am cheating and naming two: our favorite gay uncles Cheep and Dej from My Ride. I know @bengiyo feels me on this one. I love their relationship dynamic where they are constantly (lovingly) nagging at each other, I love the way they care for Mork, I love the delight they take in raising and guiding baby gays, and I even love their bad flashback wigs.

Favorite scene in a QL: Teh and Oh-aew, on the floor, end of episode 3 of ITSAY. You know the one. I will never forget the raw intensity of that scene or the way I literally stopped breathing the first time I saw it. Holy shit. Honorable mention to Bad Buddy rooftop kiss, but I figure almost everyone else is going to talk about that one.

Favorite line in a QL: Ya know, when I think about great lines of dialogue, my mind invariably goes to Japanese and Korean dramas. I think that’s mostly because of my own language limitations and translation issues - Thai to English is tough and we get a lot of awkward subs as a result. But one I will always remember is from Love Sick, when Noh says to Phun: “It’s a terrible feeling, not knowing where the line between us is, isn’t it?”

Because woof, yes Noh it is!

Most anticipated QL (& why): Joining the chorus for Only Friends, because I usually love Jojo’s shows and I am here for a good time. I am also really happy we’re finally getting some Thai historicals, and am very much hoping I Feel You Linger in the Air will be great.

Healthiest relationship in a QL: This is a tough one because these are romance dramas, which means most of the romances are unhealthy by design, because that’s what the plot is about! You mostly see healthy relationships in the sides who are there to impart their wisdom (like Three and Zo in A Boss and a Babe). I will use this excuse to give a shout out to Patts from La Pluie, however, for modeling honest communication through most of the show (which was not reciprocated, which is what made the relationship unhealthy and led to the big conflict). Listen to La Pluie and communicate with your partners, fam!

Most toxic relationship in a QL: I don’t know if it’s the most toxic, but I was just talking to @bengiyo @neuroticbookworm and @wen-kexing-apologist about how much I hate the relationship dynamic that @absolutebl calls “Tom and Jerry.” This is where one person relentlessly chases the other as they vocally resist, often via negging and bullying. This came up in our My Ride discussion about Toy and Boss, and it’s also the dynamic of the main couple in My Engineer, which is why I don’t really like that drama despite Ram and King. I HATE THE TOM AND JERRY DYNAMIC SO MUCH. I don’t think it’s cute, I don’t think it’s funny, and I don’t root for these couples.

Guilty pleasure series: I don’t feel guilty about my pleasures. :)

Most underrated series: Make it Right. I finally watched this recently thanks to @waitmyturtles and @bengiyo and it was so much better than I expected. I have written about both seasons and how much joy I got out of my watch despite the undeniable messiness of the show. This one deserves more respect as a Thai bl legacy show that paved the way for many others.

Tagging @shortpplfedup @ginnymoonbeam @so-much-yet-to-learn @blmpff @troubled-mind @rocketturtle4 @lurkingteapot @nieves-de-sugui @syrena-del-mar @emotionallychargedtowel @slayerkitty @callipigio in case you want to play.

Feel free to ignore if not and definitely don’t feel obligated to write whole ass essays just because I’m a wordy b. :)

#tag game #thai bl #shan shouts into the void

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ultiy · 2 years

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Its been a while and i have a amount of drawins i would like to spread around this website.

Despite its low fidelity, this is in fact a representation of the RX 6600 that I currently using to see this screen and subsequently write this sentence

Holy shit, it's Apollo from the hit game "Diminish" positively reviewed by "Will" and made for "Will."

Apollo has been swimming for 1/5 the amount of time I've been playing Garry's mod. They deserved that [amount of time] break when they got to land.

If your a dweller of the Garry's mod steam workshop like i am, you are probably familiar with this model. despite that fact that this image contains a M14, this image idea was conceptualized by a friend.

Here is the persona of said friend.

According to Random Clips 11 [this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqw511t3-0o at 1:38 and 2:38] He states he has several families, therefor he has several families

he chillin [insert chillin reverbed ad nausea]

I don't have to explain this one.

#drawing #digital art #furry #ultiy's art

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shooks-stupid-stuff · 3 months

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back on my music bs for another night, but this time to gush instead of rant and about pokemon music!

ive been just. deep in the pokemon trenches honestly since scarlet and violet came out (say what you want about the graphical fidelity and glitches, but they're the only games period to have ever surpassed my playtime is ORAS so. i think my opinion is apparent lol), so understandably i have a LOT of thoughts and opinions on the characters and music from them + the dlc

and holy shit guys. i know i originally joked about carmine since yknow, i have an oc with that name too haha but like. she is EASILY my 2nd favorite pokemon character of all time, and i think her battle theme might be my favorite song from any pokemon game???? (though do note i don't think it's the 'objective' best or anything, just my personal fave by FAR lmao-)

like. what fucking drugs did they put in this song man. why is it so good. the fucking VIBES it emanates, it's just- AUGH

i've been in love with this song since i first heard it while playing through the dlc, and i doubt that'll change any time soon. like, this beats out the AI PROFFESSOR battle theme for me. which is VERY HARD TO DO BECAUSE THAT SONG. DEAR GOD-

anyways im much too delirious to actually put my thoughts to cohesive words about this but like. carmine battle theme my beloved. carmine my beloved.

i should really finally get around to doing those stupid kitakami sib doodles i've been wanting to do huh lol-

#shook rambles #music shiz #new tag bc this may become a regular occurrence lol #anyways. back to drawing out a oc family tree for no reason other than i wish to #explore the interworkings of a horribly broken family! yippee!!!!

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tacofriend · 6 months

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Explaining the current state of video games and you don't realize it until you say it, but like, holy shit gamers are such a sad bunch. The push for graphical fidelity has pushed the power requirements of machines and therefore price of machines to a completely unconscionable level and gamers cheered it on. Corporations jangled overly detailed graphics and 70,000 polygon sandwiches in front of gamers like keys in front of a baby, and they fucking bought it. There are so many recent games that I just can't play because I don't want to spend $1000 on this stupid hobby. I heard the new Street Fighter game is incredible. Shame I'll never be able to play it. I got some Need for Speed games on sale. Even at their lowest graphical settings, they chug along at single digit framerates.

I just want to play video games.

#Taco talks #i fucking hate video games

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andyridgeley · 11 months

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For the ask game!: Recommend stuff to me, please!

ohhhh yeah i got you!!! i just watched renfield tonight and loved it i'd recommend it if you're fine with gore!

also i've been rewatching psych and i'll always rec that one it's so good! everytime i rewatch it i pick up on something new!

anything that watcher channel comes out with on youtube is exquisite there's so much content on there now its *chefs kiss* i just watched the new mystery files ep today <3

and to live up to my url and current marathoning i'll list out my fav john cusack movies and this will be long so under the cut:

1408 - underrated stephen king horror flick they really put john cusack in a room and said act a one man show babey and he killed it where's his academy award love & mercy - why does no one talk about this movie best music biopic ever made alright better off dead - i dig on dark humor and quote this movie all the time whoops say anything - i love complicated love sometimes ok sue me high fidelity - i live and breathe for it oK grosse pointe blank - i think about this movie everyday (also war inc. was decent and is a bit of a sequel, not officially, and there's this really funny thing i think about with that movie but its a spoiler so alksdjf) con air - the nic cage accent, john malkovich puns, and john cusack specifically choosing to wear those sandals of it all serendipity - i love love and convoluted romcom plots centering on fate and destiny and dare i say serendipity being john malkovich - ohmygod. hot tub time machine - it's so *clenches fists* dumb i love it sebastian stan as an all american asshole 80s ski bro what eight men out - maybe i just LIKE BASEBALL OK is that a CRIME? hot pursuit - ok maybe hes just cute in this one identity - honestly it's a decent flick but last time i rewatched it i laughed so har dholy shit. like throughout the whole thing. theres a moment ray liotta picks up a key on the floor and john cusack is TWO INCHES AWAY FROM HIM and liotta is like look at this and cusack is like where'd you find that and liotta was like it was on the ground holy shit also when the Twist Is Revealed cusack says ............ wHat. the way he says its... . . . .ohmygod ... jesus wept. one crazy summer - ok maybe hes just cute in this one too also its such a great late night trippy 80s movie the sure thing - i love the john cusack pointing out constellations in the sky as a pickup line cinematic universe the raven - i just really dig him as edgar allan poe ok like the movies not amazing but thanku for casting him as poe I JUST!! the grifters - this movie fucked me up<3 true colors - they should've let john cusack and james spader get it on

#ANYWAY ALSDKFJLAKSDJF #very focused recs whoops but theres some a few genres in there hope you find something new and fun!#didn't think i'd go off under the cut but here we are i took it as an opportunity to vent laksjdf #fare thee ask

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mayasaura · 2 years

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We Bring Hell First

Gideon the Ninth FST - A playlist in chronological order

Headstrong- Trapt

This is not where you belong/I can't give everything away/I won't give everything away

She pulled a watch out of her pocket and checked it: Twenty minutes to go, a quarter an hour and change. Gideon was home free. Gideon was gone. Nothing and nobody could change that now.

Shiver - The Birthday Massacre

A painting for every face/No correction just cover up/She can't afford to come off hot cause she's too cold to shiver

"It's embarrassing that it had to come to this," said the Lady of the Ninth, pulling back her hood. Her pale-painted face was a white blotch among all the black. Even her hands were gloved.

Please Don't Leave Me - P!nk

I always say how I don't need you but it's always gonna come right back to this/Please don't leave me

"You don't get to turn and leave quite so easily, Nav," said Harrowhark, with a palpable chill.

"You want your ass kicked by way of goodbye?"

Choke- I Don't Know How But They Found Me

Now shut your dirty mouth/If I could burn this town/I wouldn't hesitate to smile while you suffocate and die

Nonagesimus," she said slowly, "The only job I would do for you would be if you wanted someone to hold the sword as you fell on it."

Get Out Alive - Nightcore Reality

It's hard to imagine/But one day you'll end up like me/Then she said/If you want to get out alive/Oh oh run for your life

“Go on and say no,” said her captain. “It’s your choice … If she doesn’t take you, I’ll go with her and gladly. But she knows … and I know … and I think you damn well know … that if you don’t get out now, you won’t even get out in a box.”

Glory and Gore - Lorde

Delicate in every way but one (the sword play)/God knows we like archaic kinds of fun (the old ways)

Holy shit. Here was a warrior, not just a cavalier. Gideon was suddenly fighting for her life and exhilarated by it.

Use Me - Fox Stevenson

I know you've got a lot to do/You could use me (use me)/Like you should

"...Don’t go down there solo. Don’t die in a bone. I am your creature, gloom mistress. I serve you with fidelity as big as a mountain, penumbral lady.”

Harrow’s eyes flickered open. “Stop.”

Game of Survival - Ruelle

There's no surrender and there's no escape/Are we the hunters or are we the prey

"Murder is done by the living," said Teacher. "They were found entering the facility . . . ... I told each of you who asked my permission to enter that place that it would mean your death. I did not say that figuratively. I told all of you that you were walking into the most dangerous place in the system of Dominicus, and I meant it. There are monsters here."

If You Could Only Read My Mind - Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows

If you could only read my mind/you would know what I feel for you/If you could only read my mind/it’s only friendship that I seek and truth

“I need you to trust me.”

“I need you to be trustworthy.”

In the thick dimness of the room she watched the black-garbed girl in front of her struggle around a thing that had settled over them like a net; a thing that had fused between them like a badly broken limb, shattered numerous times, healing gnarled and awful.

Killer – The Hoosiers

Don't turn out the lights/Kiss yourself goodnight 'cause there's a killer/And he's coming after you

Jeannemary’s eyes were very slightly open. There was blood spattered in her curls, and there was blood spattered over the headboard. Gideon’s gaze followed the splatter upward. Written on the wall, in silky wet red, was:

SWEET DREAMS

Bury a Friend - Billie Eilish

It's probably somethin' that shouldn't be said out loud/Honestly, I thought that I would be dead by now

"Magnus the Fifth was a better cavalier than I am. Jeannemary the Fourth was ten times the cavalier I am. They should be alive and we should be bacteria food. Two big bags of algor mortis. We're alive through dumb luck and Jeannemary isn't and you're acting like me letting Dulcinea die is all that's standing between you and Lyctorhood—"

I Hate Everything About You - Halocene ft. Violet Orlandi

I hate everything about you, why do I love you?/You hate everything about me, why do you love me?

"Harrow, I hate you," said Gideon. "I never stopped hating you. I will always hate you, and you will always hate me. Don't forget that. It's not like I ever can."

Harrow's mouth twisted so much that it should have been a reef knot. Her eyes closed briefly, and she sheathed her hands inside her gloves.

What Have You Done – Within Temptation

I won't show mercy on you now/I know I should stop believing/I know there's no retrieving/It's over now, what have you done?

"She's mine."

"You've said that five times now."

"I mean it. Whatever goes down—whatever happens—you have to let me do it. You have to."

"Gideon—"

"What do I do," she said, quite casually, "if she's the murderer?"

My Enemy - CHVRCHES

And you could be my enemy/And you could be my judge

"I have tried to dismantle you, Gideon Nav! The Ninth House poisoned you, we trod you underfoot–I took you to this killing field as my slave–you refuse to die, and you pity me! Strike me down. You've won. I've lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die by your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you."

One Foot In Front Of The Other - Emilie Autumn

We fought hard not to die, yet we don’t know how to live/How do we change our world to what we want it to be?/How do we move beyond all of this misery?

Gideon braced her shoulders against the weight of what she was about to do. She shed eighteen years of living in the dark with a bunch of bad nuns.

What The Water Gave Me - Florence and the Machine

Lay me down/Let the only sound/Be the overflow/Pockets full of stones

They both went under the water, and the world went dark and salty. The Revered Daughter fell calm and limp, as was natural for one being ritually drowned,

Can't Go Back - The Crane Wives

It's time to learn to be more forgiving of yourself and your sins

“Too many words,” said Gideon confidently. “How about these: One flesh, one end, bitch.”

She's My Religion - Pale Waves

She's cold she's dark she's cynical/She's forever angry at the world/She's no angel but she is my religion

Her eyes opened. A small, astonished smile creased her mouth. The smile transformed her face into an affliction of beauty that Gideon had heretofore managed to ignore.

Golden Eyes - Hanna Willow

At least for tonight/Your golden eyes are mine

For all the rest of that evening they were furtive and unwilling to let the other one out of their sight for more than a minute, as though distance would compromise everything all over again

No Me Without You – Harem Scarem

Don’t run into battle all alone/If you’re the dark then I’m light/Together I know we’ll never fall/There is no me without you

“Of course we’re not running,” said Harrowhark disdainfully. “I said a necromancer alone. I have you. We bring hell.”

With Harrow there, suddenly it was easy, and her horror of the monster turned into the ferocious joy of vengeance.

Arms Tonite - Mother Mother

I fell in your arms tonight/Suicide in your arms/And hey, you, don’t you think it’s kind of cute that I (I) died (died) right inside your arms tonight

“Nav,” she said, “what are you doing?”

“The cruelest thing anyone has ever done to you in your whole entire life, believe me.” said Gideon. “You’ll know what to do, and if you don’t do it, what I’m about to do will be no use to anyone.”

Take Me to Church - Grace Gaustad

No masters or kings when the ritual begins/There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin/In the madness and soil of that sad ugly scene

Harrow said-

“I cannot do this.”

“You already did it,” said Gideon. “It’s done. You ate me and rebuilt me. We can’t go home again.”

Without You – Ursine Vulpine

Hold me now/Hold me like I never did anything to hurt you/Don't let go/Give me another minute to lay here in your echo

“One flesh, one end,” said Gideon, and it was a murmur now, on the very edge of hearing.

Harrow said, “Don’t leave me.”

Don't Forget - Toby Fox ft. Laura Shigihara

There's a light inside your soul that's still shining in the cold/With the truth the promise in our hearts/Don't forget/I'm with you in the dark

“But that soul’s inside you now.”

Isolation (The Loneliness In December) - Mercenary

I can't seem to find you/I don't believe you're there/Is this your hand?/Is this the turning?/I need to say I lost you/I need to say goodbye

She expected to feel something, but she didn’t. She felt nothing at all. There was a great and gnawing emptiness, which was mildly better than feeling something, at least. A tiny voice in the back of her head was saying, Someone will burn for this, but it was only ever her own.

Hebrews 11:40 - The Mountain Goats

It gets dark and then/I feel certain I am going to rise again/If not by faith, then by the sword/I'm going to be restored

“I need to find out what happened to my cavalier’s body. I need to know what happened to the others.”

#playlist writeup under the readmore #gideon the ninth #playlist #song rec #this playlist is my baby I've been working on it for AGES #the locked tomb #no harrow the ninth spoilers! all these songs were picked before I read Harrow the Ninth!#I've been narrowing them down #it is mostly Harrow and Gideon’s relationship but lbr so was the book #gideon nav #harrow nonagesimus #harrowhark nonagesimus #griddlehark

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liketheinferno2 · 2 years

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Like any other series in the world, FFXIV does have it's ups and downs. No matter what though, I think you'll find things to love and enjoy in Stormblood and i'm personally quite excited to hear your thoughts as you go through it.

Truly the WORST I've ever seen FFXIV get was still really good for an MMO. I feel like fandom types tend to get skewed certain ways depending on stuff they've been into before but after digging in the ground for cohesive characters and story in shit like Borderlands and Far Cry for years of my life I'm like hey it seems like Final Fantasy is actually a big budget popular video game series that is good. Who'd have thought THAT possible.

Nier was similar for me, just, holy shit this game is narratively complete. I don't have to feel like a suckered-in narratively-cucked idiot for expecting it to satiate my artistic mind. For so long I was the Genuinely Expects Queer Rep In The MCU Guy of gamers and now I'm playing stuff where it's like the writing was taken seriously as a piece of art, god fucking forbid, y'know?

Excuse me hijacking this sweet ask to rant about vidya gaem fanwank but I just... I enjoy Final Fantasy very very much. Generally I prefer to play stuff that HAS that wealth of content and fidelity that you can only get from a big studio but I feel like that usually comes at a cost to tight writing and emotional impact. It'd be like, common practice to discuss what parts of the story we'd "fix" or delete entirely, to go over and over what parts we hate about the thing we're ostensibly enjoying, but I'm no longer someone who's like "fuck canon I rewrite my own better version" BECAUSE THE GAME IS ALREADY GOOD. THE GAME IS GOOD!!! GOT DAMN!!!!!!!!

Like fuck me I'm thinking about Estinien a lot right now as you can probably tell but it's because I've never had a game crack into that feeling this hard before in my life. We've all met this guy. Angry difficult traumatised person who you know is in a bad situation and maybe they could get better if you could just help them out, but they don't want to leave. In real life you probably cannot save this guy, but this is Final Fantasy!

And even then they don't make it easy, the consequences for people giving up on Estinien are fucking DIRE, but it's the way this story takes you as low as you can go before letting you crawl out of there together. The process of getting you to think of a certain person as a partner or best friend or like-family to your protagonist and then taking them out in a way that makes you understand for a moment why Estinien and Nidhogg have fallen so far in grief and anger themselves. ..

And what I really love about FFXIV is it gives you a space for recovery and reflection, it's not throwing tragedy at you just for spectacle or shock. When someone dies, you mourn. When you retrieve Estinien from what was essentially a kidnapping, he's in the hospital for a while. Shit like Aymeric reaching out almost desperately for companionship after the events of Heavensward and the way they build such a protective relationship between the player and Alphinaud is like there's so much CARE in this, they take feelings so completely seriously and really that's what you need to do in a game like this. When the literal situations are all JRPG levels of absurd nonsense it's like you either go hard on the feelings or you've lost me.

There's been a big push in recent years that art has to SAY SOMETHING or TACKLE THINGS but that attitude can often be antithetical to stories that are effective and cathartic and that feel genuine. The other thing I like about FFXIV is it's weird and atypical fantasy in a lot of places but it doesn't do any of this in service of defying or subverting the tropes to make a statement or whatever the fuck. You can just have weird stuff like the GO LITTLE BETA BOY GO thing with the Tias, or that their elf-equivalent is the racial majority instead of humans, or the massive height differences any time you interact with anybody, or that the Lalafell are the little gnome wombat ruling capitalist class, without knowing that it's only weird because it's trying so hard to not be normal.

I gotta stop before I carry on forever but there's so many little good things in FFXIV that (along with the overwhelmingly caring tone of the entire game) make it a very special experience; ESPECIALLY in comparison to the stuff I used to play, so I'm pretty much enjoying everything it throws at me. :D

#let him speak #dante plays catboy simulator

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munmunwerewoof · 3 years

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your opinion on: each of the yakuza games; i know u like those but theres. so many of them

ok so thisll just be mainline. i have not played the original 1 and 2 or the spinoffs. spoilers minimum yadda yadda start 0- exceptional game. everything is super solid, its basically the peak of the brawler games. big reccomend k1- eh. the remake is basically just y0 2 but funny majima lmao!! and even then the majima shit gets boring after like, idk, 5 times. its alright though, the combat can get pretty crazy but thats like, it. k2- imma be completely honest: this was the most forgettable game for me LMAO. like yea ryuji is cool i guess and sotenbori in the dragon engine is pretty but other than that? its like... okay. like its not bad its just like whatever cool game. also i did like 0 side content in this game i think like i didnt touch the businesses at ALL. 3- its alright. the transition from super high fidelity dragon engine to early ps3 game engine was a little weird at first but other than that its okay. ppl complain about the combat but i didnt have much of an issue with it 4- SPEAKING OF COMBAT! least fave. i barely care abt the story and also the combat just DOES NOT FEEL GOOD. like as akiyama its all fine but then you're hit with a clunky slow style and a style that is not balanced at all with the other enemies. and the boss fights are BAD. genuinely some of the worst fights in this game. ugh i hate 4 so much 5- holy shit if you love side content youd adore this game. i honestly had more fun just doing side content than plot, but thats not to say its bad! its just that you kinda forget whats going on and you just shut your brain off. idk i like 5 its mega amibitious dumb fun with a story that falls apart when you think about it for more than a minute 6- speaking of stories that fall apart when you think about it for more than a minute is 6! its.. fine. ik people have a lot of problems with it but id say its still fun. i will say though that god damn this story is not written well at all. 7- absolute masterpiece. i honestly think if anyone should play at least one it should be 7. its just so good man the story and the gameplay and UGH its so fucking good man when i finish lost judgment ask me again and ill give my hot takes on the judgment games

#yakuza

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but-the-library-of-alexandria · 5 years

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I have some thoughts about Good Omens, Crowley and Aziraphale and Change. Maybe all this is obvious but indulge me anyway.

One of the many ways that C&A are visually presented as opposites - one of the subtler ones, I think - is that Crowley’s appearance changes frequently. Crowley’s aesthetic and his everyday lifestyle is in many ways defined by his changeability. He has a few favourite pieces, but he seems to wake up each morning and find something new and on-trend to wear. He has a new haircut every few years and a few times he(?) changes his gender presentation for a while, too. Sure, he has an old-fashioned answerphone and a vintage car, but those things are pretty on-trend right now, and he also has a smartphone, a fancy TV and a chic, relatively modern home. His modernity, in every era, relies on making frequent changes to everything he owns, and himself.

Hell, one of the first things we see Crowley do is change:

The next we hear of him, he’s changed his name. He’s changed it again when we see him in the forties, and both times there’s a whole little dialogue around it, just to make it more conspicuous.

And Aziraphale? Well, he literally wears the same jacket for over a hundred years. He’s had the same haircut for all of time. Aziraphale’s aesthetic - both in terms of his own clothes and in his home/bookshop/favourite places - is defined by the old-fashioned and preserved. His whole earthly life has been built around preserving antiques - the bookshop, that jacket again:

Aziraphale also never seems to change his name. He presumably has a human alias, but it’s only used once (the Nazis call him ‘Mr. Fell’) and his false forenames are never revealed, except that the initials are A.Z (according to the sign over his bookshop). He generally seems to go by Aziraphale or nothing at all; he doesn’t seem to have given a name at all to Shadwell, while Crowley invented yet another alias to deal with him.

Doesn’t this reflect their different attitudes to bigger things as well?

Crowley is all for carving out a new path pretty much the moment the apocalypse shows it’s face on earth, while Aziraphale, the dude who said ‘you go too fast for me’ after 6000 years, waits until the very last minute to give up on going the approved, official route.

It’s change Crowley threatens Aziraphale with to scare him into helping stop the apocalypse - the loss of his routine, the things he loves, his old things, old books and old clothes. The end of the world would promise an enormous change, even if ‘good’ were to win the war and create some kind of paradise.

Of course, they’re both in this because they like their familiar lives on earth and don’t want to lose that, but it seems to be lack of change Crowley fears:

Perhaps progress, new experiences, and constant stimulation are what Crowley likes best about being on earth, as opposed to the timeless stagnation of either heaven or hell. Aziraphale, meanwhile, likes to live in a bit of a cocoon, at least in the modern day: he’s not keeping up with the latest music or technology, just basking in the things humans have already created.

This isn’t to say that Aziraphale doesn’t change at all. In fact, he adapts his look to the current fashions for thousands of years in episode three: a new, usually quite showy, outfit for almost every era of history.

The moment he startings settling into his Forever Look is sometime during The Breakup - here he is on that day, wearing his soon-to-be signature jacket:

and again, in the forties, in almost the same outfit:

and sporting the same Look for this infamous moment:

And he sticks with it into the modern day.

He stops changing around the time he starts to get scared about how things are going. Earlier in time - pre-Arrangement and into the earlier stages of the Arrangement era - he seems happy enough to move with the times, fashion-wise and in terms of culture. It’s only when shit starts getting real with this whole thing he has going with Crowley - when Crowley starts asking for holy water and breaking into churches, and making it clear that what they’re doing is dangerous but that he doesn’t plan to let that stop him - that Aziraphale starts looking for more stability and clinging to ‘the old days’.

That iconic line fits this whole Change theme perfectly: at some point in time, Aziraphale was happy to be swept along, but when he’s hit with the very real possibility of his and Crowley’s destruction, all of a sudden it’s all about keeping things how they are, or even how they were, in defiance of a future where things look to be getting more and more dangerous for them. Perhaps the sweet spot was right there in the Victorian era, after their formative lunch date in Paris but just before the holy water debacle that made Aziraphale back-pedal - so he wears the jacket that belonged to that ideal time forever.

Crowley has the opposite approach to being faced with possible destruction: change more! Explore new avenues of self-defence, new ways of living and of being! Get hold of holy water, stop the apocalypse, form a whole new ‘side’ distinct from either heaven or hell! But Aziraphale conspicuously struggles to accept Crowley’s changes, struggling with his new names, getting confused by his new-fashioned music and slang, and of course, his proposed changes to their relationship over the course of the years.

And I think it’s this dichotomy, more than the good/evil, angel/demon one, that causes most of the tension in their relationship. I’m gonna promote this post again for Good Shit relating to this: basically the idea that crowley’s reaction to danger is to commit to your stance and prepare some ways to survive the inevitable consequences, whereas Aziraphale’s reaction is to put the brakes on whatever you’re doing wrong and try not to get into any more trouble.

Aziraphale’s instinct to hold back, to look back to a time before the trouble started - his instinct to stop things from getting worse, and to keep everything that’s working well, everything he’s comfortable with, exactly as it is, clashes with Crowley’s instinct to keep adapting and moving forward to stay ahead of the game. And isn’t that the real difference between angels and demons: fidelity to the status quo vs. questioning and pushing boundaries?

And I just love that you can see all this in their clothes.

#I've been sitting on this for weeks and I finally wrote it down halleluja #good omens #good omens meta #go #ineffable husbands #Elise's posts

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breadknight-likes-things · 4 years

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Game Journal 04/19/20: The Numbers Bread! What About The F!#$&%G Numbers?!

Call of Duty Black Ops is completely insane. CoD games aren’t exactly know for their subtle plots, but holy hell does Black Ops crank it up to eleven and just lose it by the end of it’s plot. It’s hard to believe that at any point Call of Duty Black Ops was pegged to be “The Vietnam Game”, because not only does the Vietnam War only lightly factor into the plot, but by the time you’re hunting down old Nazi’s, using a hazmat suit to survive insane gas attacks and beating the hell out of your own player character, you’ll completely forget about any sort of historical conflict this game may be based around. Black Ops gets wild almost right away, and somehow it only gets crazier as the game goes on. Sure leading a revolution in a soviet gulag alongside an 8 foot tall monster man impaling guys on a pick axe is cool, but what if I told you two hours from then you’d be inducing an avalanche to bury a soviet military installation, or being shown implicit evidence that your player character is going to murder J.F.K.

How many other games feature a sequence where you beat down your own player character in first person, right after they’ve lost it completely and started shouting that they were a long dead WW2 Soviet squad leader...just the one? Please tell me if there’s another.

Between “The Numbers”, soviet brainwashing, and the literal twist from Fight Club, the back half of Call of Duty Black Ops is bizarre, and I absolutely adore it! Sure, Call of Duty isn’t the place you go for mind bending plots that make you think, but I deeply appreciate how unhinged Black Ops gets. Call of Duty is at it’s best as a series when it leans as far as it can into being a bat-shit action movie, and Black Ops is an excellent example of the highest excesses of that attitude. A year before Black Ops we had Modern Warfare 2, which tried and failed to make a controversial point with No Russian, the closest thing to a message being imparted in in Black Ops is not to trust the machinations of Soviet Russia.

If every CoD entry was as bombastically ludicrous as Black Ops we just might have had a perfect entry on our hands....unfortunately, we’ll always have Ghosts...but hey, at least Bradon Routh was in that one.....right?

Random Screenshot Of The Day:

And then post credits, you’re dumped into the games zombie survival mode, wherein you play as JFK, Robert McNamara, Fidel Castro and....Richard Nixon, fighting off killer zombies in the pentagon. You can’t make this stuff up people.

Stray Game Notes:

- Hey, so are we just not gonna ever talk about the fact that Black Ops ends with the heavy implication Alex Mason killed J.F.K and then never brings it up in the sequels?

- I can’t wait to move into Black Ops 2, as far as I remember the branching paths of that game provided a lot of fun moments, even if the flashback missions tended to be weaker than the main plot of the original game.

- Fallout 76 update: Met a Miss Nanny who thought she was a hard core raider. Wasn’t sure if I should be scared of her or just think she’s adorably punk rock. Still really loving this update!

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How did you come up with all the binomial names?

By drawing a pentagram on my bedroom floor and sacrificing a goat to some eldritch monstrosity, in exchange for arcane knowledge.

Honestly, my approach to creating binomen varies from monster to monster. I always set out with the intention of keeping the names as grammatically correct as possible, in line with the declensions for Greek and Latin. I do my best to adhere to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, but at the end of the day, I’m just one nerd with no formal training. I’m very much an armchair linguist, and while there’s nothing wrong with being an autodidact, it does make me prone to second-guessing. Doesn’t really help that I don’t have a list of acquaintances to consult, who would actually be able to give me reliable feedback.

Sometimes, though, I think a little inexperience makes the naming process more authentic. Because scientists are people, and you can never underestimate the capacity of people to be Extra As Hell.

Let me give you a few examples:

In 2004, entomologists Kelly B. Miller and Quentin D. Wheeler reclassified a genus of leiodid fungus beetles as Gelae (/ˈdʒɛli/). Yes, it is pronounced exactly the way you think it is. The species in this newly-christened genus include G. baen (“jelly bean”), G. belae (“jelly belly”), G. donut (“jelly doughnut”), G. fish (“jelly fish”), and G. rol (“jelly roll”). The authors said that they were merely wordplays without any taxonomical jargon; a “whimsical arrangement of letters.”

And then there’s the lovely Heteropoda davidbowie, described by Peter Jäger. The name was selected for a few reasons: (1), the colors and patterns on the spider’s face resemble the painted face makeup David Bowie wore in his early career; (2), the name references the song “Glass Spider,” as well as his album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars; (3), the species has an estimated 500 individuals left, so Jäger hoped that giving it a catchy name would draw headlines and help with conservation efforts.

Allow me to introduce you to a trilobite described by Samuel Turvey in 2005. Its name? Han solo. Turvey called it that because a couple of his friends dared him to name a species after a Star Wars character. And while you might roll your eyes at that, the name is actually really clever. The generic name Han is a reference to the Han people, the largest ethnic group in China (where the trilobite was found); the specific epithet solo refers to the fact it’s the sole species belonging to that genus; and like many trilobites, the fossils tend to be extremely well-preserved, similar to how Harrison Ford was preserved in carbonite.

I could literally go on for days. There’s even a website dedicated to compiling all of the ridiculous names out there called Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature. The person who does the heavy-lifting is a bloke named Mark Isaak, and they deserve mad respect.

There’s a point I’m trying to make, I swear.

You see, if professional scientists with degrees can get away with making nerdy references and butchering the grammar of Latin and Greek, THEN SO CAN I.

Sometimes I’ll give monsters really cool or epic-sounding names that try to capture a quality about them, whether that’s their appearance, geographic range, behavior, or some historical fact pertaining to their discovery.

Some of my favorites include:

The verdant qurupeco, Cantio sirenius. Its name means “siren’s song” in Latin, a reference to the high fidelity of its vocal mimicry.

The dire miralis, Pyrothalassion basileus. Its name translates to “Greek fire emperor.” Its generic name comes from an incendiary weapon used by the Byzantine navy. Remember the wildfire from Game of Thrones? It’s basically that. The name felt pretty appropriate for a sea-dwelling dragon that breathes fire.

The black nargacuga, Xyrafiptera cervarius. Its name means “razor-winged deer-hunter” in Latin, a combination of physical descriptors and behavior. It also sounds rad as hell.

And then…we have those names.

The disufiroa, Apparentia absurda. You can take a wild guess what that translates to. I mean, just look at this thing. It’s got weird, inverted, spike-things on its chest. No idea what the fuck those are for.

The harudomerugu, Retentio incredulitatis. Its name is the closest I could get to “suspension of disbelief” in Latin. By now you might have noticed that scientific names are basically my way of bullying the Frontier monsters, because seriously, what the hell, Capcom?

The baruragaru, Stercusanctum currite. Okay, so this one isn’t me taking the piss out of the Frontier design team, because I actually like this monster. Its name is based on my reaction when I first saw the G3 trailer: Jesus Christ, what is that thing? The baruragaru was given the dubious honor of being named “holy shit, run,” because if I saw that thing in real life I’d be trying to put as many doors, walls, and preferably continents between it and myself as possible.

The great jaggi, Magnaraptor ebrius. Also known as the “drunken great thief.” Full disclosure: I’m a big fan of NCHProductions and wanted to sneak in a fun reference to their videos. Whenever they animate the great jaggi it’s always drunk, so I named it in honor of its alcoholism.

The pariapuria, Haustranguis amphibious. Its name means “amphibious bucket dragon” in Latin, and there’s a reason for that. You see, The Encyclopedia wasn’t just intended as a fun creative exercise, but as a learning tool for people interested in zoological classification. In taxonomy there’s this thing called a wastebasket taxon—when a species is incertae sedis, or of uncertain placement, it might get dumped into a poly- or paraphyletic taxon. Academically, this is what’s known as “this thing is weird and I don’t know where it goes, so for now I’m putting it in time out.” When I first tried to classify the pariapuria I couldn’t really figure out what it was related to: The tigrexes? The nargas? Neither? And then it hit me: I didn’t have to have an answer. Instead, I decided to put it in a wastebasket taxon. It’s meant to be a nod to the harrows of IRL taxonomy, and just how much of a clusterfuck it can be sometimes. As for why it’s called “bucket dragon,” and not “basket dragon,” well. I couldn’t exactly find a translation for “basket” in Latin, so I asked myself, “Okay, what’s the next best thing?” And thus we have bucket dragon.

Isn’t taxonomy fun?

#asks #iamthekaijuking #taxonomy #binomial names #qurupeco #dire miralis #nargacuga #disufiroa #harudomerugu #baruragaru #great jaggi #pariapuria #i'm slowly working my way through my inbox #so your other questions about elders and ornithischians are gonna get answered #i'm sorry it's taking me forever to write back

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imagine-loki · 5 years

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End Game Spoilers

Imagine you’re on the team that travels back in time to Thor: The Dark World. You lose Thor to his anxiety attack early on but manage to get the Aether with Rocket pretty quick with plenty of time to spare. Suddenly, a desire to see Loki alive one last time overcomes your rationality even though you know you shouldn’t meddle with the events of this timeline. When Rocket isn’t looking, you slip out of Jane’s room unnoticed and make your way to the dungeons. Poor Rocket can’t believe he’s been ditched by both Asgardians on this mission - you and Thor were supposed to be the experts on this time and place.

Down in the dungeons you make it into Loki’s cell (your sorceress skills helped you out here). The books Frigga had you pick out from the library lie in the corner, mostly untouched. You see Loki lying down on his day bed, eyes closed, flinging and catching the same object you had seen when you first arrived, sneaking by with Thor and Rocket. By now he was catching it purely from muscle memory— he must have been doing this for hours. You can’t help but think how beautiful he looks and more importantly how alive. You think to yourself that you need to get out of there ASAP before you screw up this timeline but your feet are stuck in place. You let out a sigh, some sort of mix between relief that you get to see him one more time and frustration that there’s nothing you can do to change the course of history. That sigh has major repercussions: he opens his eyes. Before you have a chance to turn yourself invisible or apparate the hell out of there you hear him get up and say “Y/N?”

You try and play it cool, squeaking an unnaturally high-pitched “Hi”.

Your real self from this timeline would not have seen Loki since before he fell off the Bifrost and before he broke up with you for literally no reason (you later found out he did it to protect you). You would have been pissed at him for the shit he pulled off on Earth and Asgard before that — yet here you stand not angry at all, just sad and a total mess. You consider getting the hell out of there now - you’ve already done one history-altering mistake, you really can’t afford to do another one. Maybe you could trick him into thinking he’s hallucinating —but who were you kidding? Tricking a trickster? There was no turning back. That’s when you blurt out: “I know about Thanos. ” Dammit - second time-altering mistake.

Loki’s lips press into a thin line, his eyes become dark. “Did he hurt you?” he asks. You frown. “No,” you say as your eyes start to burn. The voice is your head continues ‘he does worse’ but you refrain from actually saying it.

He almost looks relieved. He spent the last couple of years fearing that Thanos would use you or his family against him; torture you, kill you to get his way with him. You became a secret that Loki wanted to hide from Thanos at all costs. That’s why he had to appear so ruthless and incapable of love, why he didn’t try to defend himself during his trial and why he never confided in you despite years of him living in the same realm as you under the guise of Odin. He knew the whole of Asgard would try to go after Thanos with a blind eye. He just wanted to protect you, protect everyone.

Due to your strange behaviour, coupled with the fact that you’re wearing weird earthling clothes acquired in New Asgard, it doesn’t take Loki very long to guess you’re a Y/N from the future (like Frigga does with Thor), even if you deny it at first.

You reach for his hands, something he’s more than willing to give. He’s missed you too, or at least some version of ‘you’. You just need to feel him one more time, know he’s real. You contemplate telling him that you love him but somewhere deep inside you know this isn’t your Loki and you decide against it. This Loki belongs to the other you, the you from this timeline and the thought of their fate completely tears you apart. You let the tears flow free from your eyes. You want so bad to spare the Y/N of this timeline the sorrow and heartbreak you’ve been feeling for the past five years. But what should you say? What can you say? You were running out of time. You think of maybe telling him not to pose as Odin. Or not to bring the Tesseract on the ship. But what if all that doesn’t mean anything anymore? You’ve already changed history just by being there. There’s no guarantee that those specific events will happen. You had to think: what is inevitable?

“…He will kill you.” Your words hang heavily in the air, words that hold the weight of the universe.

You dread his reaction. Is he going to ask questions? How would you answer them? Is he going to live the rest of his life in constant, resurgent fear? You start to regret telling him already.

His actual reaction, however, catches you by surprise: he’s laughing. You’re so confused that you’ve stopped crying.

“Darling, do you really believe that?”

At first you think this is ‘overconfident Loki’ talking. Or maybe you look so pitiful right now that he feels sorry for you, enough so that he’s willing to lie to your face about everything being alright.

But then he starts relating to you a story of how he’s been planning on deceiving Thanos into thinking he’s dead so he can break free from the horrible pact he made with him while under his influence. He planned to fake his death, wait around 5-10 years until he was sure Thanos had forgotten about him or was killed. You try and process these words, staring at an imaginary spot on the floor. Your heart begins to race when he starts naming all the ways he’s planned on faking his death.

“Which one was it, Y/N? Falling off a cliff? Drowning? Spontaneous combustion?…”

You keep staring at the floor, your heart beating ever faster as he continues to name a shockingly long list of ways to die so nonchalantly.

“…Asphyxiation?” he continues and your eyes shoot right up to look at him. “Ahh,” he says, smiling, “interesting.”

You hate how handsome he looks in this moment, smiling so mischievously. It’s completely preventing you from forming any kind of coherent sentence in your head. Luckily for you, he keeps talking.

“You know, I’ve even thought of these dramatic monologues to recite in case there are any witnesses. It’s really too funny, listen to this one: “Oh mighty Thanos, spare me for I hereby pledge to you my undying fidelity.” Do you get it?” He laughs again while you stare at him dumbfounded. Those words were not too dissimilar to those Thor had told you when he shared the story of their last few moments on the wrecked half of the Asgardian refugee ship.

All of a sudden, it hits you like a ton of bricks: holy shit, your Loki is alive. He faked his death. Again. Your heart continues to beat like crazy, you break out in a cold sweat. You think you’re going to be sick. You want to ask him so badly ‘What happens after? Where do you go? Where can I find you?’ but nothing comes out. Just then, the time-space GPS starts beeping. You’re out of time.

#Loki #Others #Imagine #submission #end game spoilers #avengers endame spoilers #darklyfearfullyafar #team #asgard #cells #thor #anxiety attack

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