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myfandomrealitea · 19 days

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With my recent Harry Potter posts gaining traction, I just want to make an important note:

You are not a bad person for having enjoyed Harry Potter. You are not a bad person for finding it hard to let go of something so ingrained into your life. You are not a bad person for enjoying the overall story of Harry Potter despite the bigotry JK Rowling managed to smatter into it.

Nobody should be telling you that you are. Your past relationship with Harry Potter is not the issue.

The issue is what you and we all do moving forward with the new information and facts that we know.

And the facts are that JK Rowling is a rampant and proud bigot who is hellbent on using the fortune Harry Potter made her to actively pursue the entire trans community with hostile intent.

And she does not care. She is happy that she is doing it. She is happy that people oppose her because it gives her an excuse to play victim and paint trans people who oppose her as violent, aggressive and evil.

This is not about how you engaged with Harry Potter in the past. Or even how you engage with it privately. This is about whether or not you choose to contribute toward her mission and towards the persecution of trans people right now.

Because when you buy that licensed merch in the store, she gets part of the profit. When you go to Harry Potter World, she gets part of the profit. When you buy the Harry Potter game, she gets part of the profit.

And all of those things result in three consequences:

It shows the marketing departments that Harry Potter is still a cashcow.

It shows JK Rowling that she can say and do whatever the hell she wants and nothing is going to stop that money rolling in.

She is given a steady cashflow which she uses to bankroll anti-trans movements and spokespeople and government petitions.

That is the reality of your choice from here on out. That is why people are asking you to set aside what you once had with Harry Potter and to stand with the people she has made it her life's mission to destroy.

You don't even have to let go of it completely. Just let go of the interactions that directly fund JK Rowling. Just cut off the cashflow she's using to ruin the lives of people she's never even met.

Buy fanmade merchandise or learn how to make your own. If you're cosplaying? Buy unofficial cosplays or buy second-hand off resale websites. Same with other merchandise.

If you want to watch Harry Potter, there are hundreds of non-licensed steaming websites showing it which do not contribute royalty income to JK Rowling.

If you're writing Harry Potter fanfiction, use a site like AO3 which will defend you tooth and claw if she gets desperate and starts coming after fan creators.

Harry Potter might be the comforting memories of your childhood, but JK Rowling is an active threat to the literal livelihood of trans people. People who could lose legal rights and protections simply because of one vicious woman with a bigoted agenda and deep pockets.

All we're asking is that you compare your reasons for enjoying Harry Potter with the facts of why you should make a few simple, easy choices to avoid bankrolling her and determine which is more important.

Or rather, which one should be more important.

And make the right choice.

#myfandomrealitea #sephiroth speaks #reality #proship #proshipping #harry potter #anti harry potter #jk rowling #anti jk rowling #trans rights #queer rights #lgbt

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clbcashflowhn · 2 years

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#gaming #cashflow

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coriannawrites · 4 months

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Accidentally Breaking Something Dear To You

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Mammon x Gender Neutral MC

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Everybody but Mammon saw this coming. Be honest– even you, despite how much you loved your first man, could admit his clumsy antics and theatrics always landed Mammon in hot water. You’ve petitioned Lucifer to cut Mammon some slack before; a promise to help Lucifer with his overflowing work payment for the vase Mammon had pawned off.

But who’ll beg for leniency on his behalf when he’s hurt you? Not physically, Mammon would rather sell Goldie before putting you in pain. But your most prized possession, that was in the strict “NO SELLING. NO STEALING.” category, has been destroyed.

Asmo says emotional pain can traumatize and kill humans. So you best believe the Great Mammon will fix things! Somehow.

When (not if) Mammon breaks something dear to you, expect him to go from clingy and loving to awkwardly refusing to make eye-contact and running away.

Mammon’s working often, late night shifts. There are days where you don’t see your first man because he’s arguing with witches to fix it. Hell, he’s reached the point he’ll ask Solomon for help– and if Solomon requests a pact… he might consider the shady bastard’s deal. Just for you.

Anything for you.

Expect Mammon to be shady while he’s trying to right his wrongs. But if you send him an “I miss you” text, he’s skipping work and spending his newfound cashflow on making you smile.

He’s head over heels for you. Mammon will make sure you never find out he broke your stuff (Levi exposes him a week later during game night).

#obey me x reader #gender neutral reader #gn!reader #mammon #obey me mammon #coriannawrites #coripure #mammon x reader #obey me mammon x reader #obey me imagines #obey me drabbles

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cursed-40k-thoughts · 9 months

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Not to sound like a grognard but i do not like gw's new reveal for the legends range. Like don't get me wrong i want newcomers to the hobby, but i do not want it at the expense of 40k going from being niche in it's style and themes to some generic mcu copycat (derogatory) with a 'broader audience appeal' (EXTREMELY DEROGATORY)

It has nothing to do with "broader audience appeal". I don't know if GW has said that it is, but if it is, they're lying and you shouldn't believe them. Life lesson for anything any corporation says, but y'know. In fact, saying "this is because of newcomers" is actively serving GW's interests, because it shifts blame away from them.

GW is not legends-ing a bunch a minis for newcomers. They aren't doing it for mechanical balance. They aren't doing it for product clarity.

They doing it because a) it's a calculated move incentivising people -particularly competitive players- to purchase into multiple of their tabletop IPs to get a maintained rules experience with their full collection of minis and b) so that they don't have to as readily produce products that aren't bringing them the revenue they want.

That's it. It's got nothing to do with anything except cashflow. In fact, the older players are likely more of a target for these changes, because they're the ones who have already sunk cost into the game, and will look for avenues to continue to use and justify their existing minis.

You know who buys GW minis most? Existing players. You know who doesn't? Newcomers. GW knows where its money comes from. These changes are structured around data from existing consumers, to milk them as effectively as possible within sequenced short term profit cycles. Boring, maybe, but that's it. That's how it works.

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itsbenedict · 1 month

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BP Postmortem post 2 bc/image limit

Don't read this unless you've read the first one already! There's a 30-images-per-post limit and I had to split it up! Opening this readmore will immediately spoil lots of stuff and be confusing.

So, right. Nolan. Didn't that guy die? Case 1 killer?

Well, you see... that wasn't Nolan Cubbins. Not a very Brazilian name, was it? So... who's this kid?

That's Lucas Rossi, Davi's younger brother and host of "Bullet Proof", the fourth-most-popular Enoshima knockoff killing game on the air! (And the most popular one being broadcast in English!) While there's a whole production crew on the ground that edits together the footage, he's the host and director on-set.

Why's he doing this? Well... for the money, mainly.

Lucas met Junko Enoshima while she was doing a despair tour through Brazil. He'd been a student activist at the time, and student activists were sort of her favored prey, and what should have happened is that he was brainwashed like basically everyone else who ever met her. And that is what happened, until he went home to Davi and tried to spread the gospel of despair and Davi was like, what the fuck? And did some brain surgery to his little brother to erase the memory of meeting Junko.

After finding out what'd happened to him, and being deeply deeply discomfited by how malleable he turned out to be in the face of superpowered charisma, he developed a pretty intense hatred of her and the whole despair cult! He eventually connected with the Future Foundation, and found... that the Future Foundation was underfunded and needed more resources to put a stop to the apocalypse. They needed money. A lot of it.

So... Lucas got into showbiz. Despair-based entertainment was like, the only thing anyone cared about anymore, for some impossible reason, and lots of people had life savings they no longer cared about because life is pointless and only Despair matters, so... it was easy to play to the crowd. With Davi's help, he was able to put together some very convincing bloodsport and execution videos, but... the apocalypse is a tough environment for indie payment processors, so they had an audience, but not much money.

That's when the Bright Conglomerate reached out with a big budget and big plans to convert a flying Hope's Peak safehouse into a staged deathgame. They'd have top-of-the-line equipment, a whole production staff, and a major corporation working to adapt to the economic realities of the despair apocalypse and ensure cashflow. Lucas and Davi would get a cut of the revenue, and it'd be a lot of revenue- which he'd be able to divert to the Future Foundation in hopes of putting all this madness to rest.

So they flew up there and took over, thanks to Gwen and Sakura not bothering to turn on most of the ship's defenses, and Henry running interference. They initially tried to negotiate with Will Bookerton (still an adult at that point, trying to root out whoever had taken over Monokuma and started some sort of cockamamie Deception Game), and... faced opposition. Will didn't trust the tech, Henry wanted to cultivate more of a family-friendly image for the show which was insane and counter to the whole idea, and ultimately Lucas had Davi erase their memories so they couldn't interfere with production. It was all going to go perfectly!

And it went perfectly! A smash hit! Made billions! Bullet Proof was a reality TV craze that swept the, uh, anarcho-despairist perpetual riot that they had instead of a nation by that point.

Y'know, for the first couple seasons. Until season 3, when Lashauna shoved this dipshit off the top of the school building and his head got pulped on impact:

This was sort of a crisis point. Davi was forced to confront the reality that his skills couldn't undo every murder that happened on the show, and that the charade would have a cost in human lives. And a reality TV star dying in an accident during filming would be a huge scandal for a normal show!

But obviously this led to a huge jump in ratings with the show's core demo, so there was a bit of a moral dilemma there.

Lucas, in charge, ultimately decided... by the numbers, it was worth it. One fatal accident every so often, in exchange for funneling millions to stop the apocalypse where hundreds of thousands of people were dying every day? It... made sense, right? It was worth it. The show must go on.

Agnesi Wu Jessie Bai, until this point, was in the same boat as Raymond and Lilakali- a genuine Hope's Peak student who voluntarily assisted with the production of Bullet Proof. When she thought no one was really in any danger thanks to Davi's miracle resurrection tech, she was in league with Lucas to help fund the Future Foundation, and was happy to play the heel a bit to make the show more exciting. But, uh... once it became clear that people were actually dying, she wanted nothing more to do with it, and they started wiping her memory just like Henry and the rest. Still, there exists footage of her confessing to being the mastermind from earlier seasons, which was going to show up in case 5 as a misdirect.

So people kept dying off. And they needed replacements for the dead students, so there'd be enough suspects, of course. So they imported some fake Ultimates.

Martha and Vic were what they called "Murder Geniuses"- prolific killers who, after succumbing to despair, performed highly public and dramatic killings without suffering repercussions. Martha had formed an impromptu military unit that had dominated an entire city, and Vic was a prolific serial killer known as the Gumball Maniac. Bullet Proof's production crew managed to capture them, revert them to teenagers, and erase their memories of despair- adding some bigshot celebrities to the cast. I forget if I set this up in the adventure, but there was going to be another misdirect with the Hope's Peak student records, where their profiles would be missing- casting suspicion on them as mastermind candidates.

So... remember that one time I posted these, and was like "one of these is an actual evil mastermind design, hee hee hoo hoo"?

HAHA! GOTCHA! They were all actual evil mastermind designs! Kinda... bad ones, in retrospect, but whatever.

Anyway... it didn't take too long before the show caught the eye of Cyrus Bookerton, who was supposed to be headmaster of the school. He saw Billy on TV and was freaked out- deciding that it was worth opening up his safehouse and sending his daughter, ???? Bookerton, Ultimate Impostor, to rescue her older brother and put a stop to this.

"Alice", in one of her earlier guises, posed as an intern at the production studio on the ground. As she was eager to get involved, she was eventually sent up to assist Lucas, Davi, Lilakali, and Raymond as a replacement student on the show.

She pretended Lucas was her hero, in her guise as an ascended fangirl working her dream job. He spilled everything to her, explaining how everything was to divert money to the Future Foundation and save the world. They were very close!

And as a result of them being very close, she noticed something. She noticed that Lucas had given up. Compromise after compromise made to keep the show on the air and the money coming in had worn him down, and he'd stopped really caring about where the money was going. Despair was beginning to get to him, the longer those Future Foundation millions went without saving the world. Nothing seemed to be changing, but all he could do was keep doing what he'd always done. He didn't really believe in what it was all for anymore. And... he'd gotten very good at doing his job.

So she went to go do what she was sent there to do. Kill Davi Rossi, put an end to Bullet Proof, and rescue her brother.

Only she got caught and failed.

She'd set up a bomb in the lab, but was caught red-handed and forcibly sedated and mindwiped. Because she'd been a double agent for so long, Davi had to do a pretty complicated mind-wipe, making swiss cheese of her memory so she'd only remember rehearsing her various cover identities. She was left only with the memory of being Alice Bayko, SHSL Stage Magician, normal student at Hope's Peak Academy. (Or Alistair Bayko, or Charlie Range, or Diana Ingenue, depending on what the player selected at the start of the game.) Demoted from showrunner/double agent to hapless cast member- with a suite of fuzzy and awkward half-remembered memories bleeding through.

After that... well, Lucas trusted her a lot. She helped run a bunch of seasons of the show, and her betrayal really got to him. In a fit of paranoia, he decided to become a shadow mastermind, operating from behind the scenes of behind the scenes, so that Raymond and Lilakali couldn't betray him too. No more mistakes like this one! Delete him from their memories, make them think it'd just been the two of them that whole time. Keep that Nolan Cubbins kid on ice- he'd take his place, and then...

...after posing as an easily-caught culprit in case 1, he'd get harpooned during his execution, and then... reeled back into the ship, where Davi would patch him up ahead of schedule. A perfect disappearing act.

As for Alice- getting mind-wiped wasn't an outcome she failed to anticipate.

It was always possible she'd get captured and mind-wiped. And if that happened, someone needed to finish the job. The state-of-the-art custom Monokuma droid she'd been set up with as part of her cover identity: Flopsy-Turvy. She'd programmed it with instructions to kill Davi and then self-destruct, destroying his lab and making it impossible for Bullet Proof to continue.

She didn't think to program it not to catch Billy in the blast, though, who happened to be infiltrating that very same lab via the secret passage he built in the first place.

I really hadn't figured out how I was going to present this whole setup to the players deductively, to be honest, but that's the upshot of Case 5: Determining that Flopsy-Turvy was the culprit, and by extension Alice.

And then Lucas, whose mental state at the time is best-represented by this TMBG song...

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...executes Alice in a fit of rage and betrayal.

That's about as far as I had planned. I knew I wanted there to be some sort of case 6, getting into the backstory with Lucas and Henry and all the other backstory details that weren't explored in case 5, but I didn't have any clear plans- maybe some kind of action scene as Lucas's control over the guns and security systems goes up against the whole class working together to evade his defenses and subdue him, shot like an execution? And then an ending where the survivors take over the airship and fly off into the sunset with a vague intent to save the world somehow? Most of the dead would still be in Davi's tanks and hypothetically recoverable, if they found some other Ultimate Doctor. I didn't really have the ending nailed down from there, except that...

...with Alice dead, I was going to have Jo take off the incongruently feminine costume and reveal the ahoge, becoming the new protagonist. It's a rule of Danganronpa that the protagonist has to be a boy with a stupid hair doinker thingy! Joe Alejo, Ultimate Hope!

I was setting up a bunch of Gender stuff with Jo leading up to this protagonist reveal- when Davi's Monokuma was going to show up to treat the wound Martha suffered from Gwen's saw trap, he was going to notice Jo was binding with Ace bandages and be like. No. Honey. Come on. Here's my old binder from before I used my necromancer powers to trans my gender. That's so unsafe.

(Which... in retrospect, wouldn't have made sense? Surely this season isn't the first one in which Jo had a gender journey, and Davi who was responsible for reanimating them a bunch of times wouldn't have failed to notice this. Hrm. Would find a way to rewrite that moment in the reboot.)

That is... I think that's everything! Aside from... a few changes I was going to make in the reboot.

Reboot changes

One was going to be that... I was going to just cut Violette and Caleb. Violette's shtick was too annoying to write consistently, and Caleb was kind of me working through some religious baggage that I'm kinda distant from at this point.

To replace Violette as case 1's victim, I was going to build up to case 3's super tragic thing with Lashauna and Mill some more. To do this, I was going to split Dominique into two different characters.

Dom had... a couple of weird things going on with him. The initial conception of his shtick was... completely cishet guy who acted all camp and flamboyant because he just liked messing with people. The kind of guy who's, like, absolutely homophobic, thinks queerness is deviant and disgusting- but thinks deviant and disgusting people are so funny to laugh at that he supports them anyway? Joins in on the bit? Like being gay is the funniest joke he can think of? A little extremely confused, and doesn't got the spirit at all, but somehow the same energy anyway?

Plus, like- Dominique was like, late twenties, absolutely not a real high-schooler, and Lashauna was... I want to say like, 18? Definitely too young for him, but also she's his boss so there was a weirdass power dynamic that definitely wasn't healthy in some direction or other- and it definitely wasn't a good look to have the camp gay guy be sort of a sexual predator.

That was always a really awkward bit to write, and I ended up not really committing to it at all. So instead he just sort of ended up... like, a normal stereotypical camp gay hairstylist guy? And then he died before there could really be any exploring any of the fucked-up parts of his character. It didn't really work.

So instead, we've now got Dominique Locke, Ultimate Stylist, and Nick Martin, Ultimate Gambler.

Dominique is just straight-up genderfluid, a shy and untalkative kid who uses their hairstyling and makeup skills to modulate their gender performance on a moment-to-moment basis. They get the hair-changes-every-portrait shtick, and get killed in case 1 only to come back alive in case 5.

Nick, meanwhile, gets most of the scummier elements. He's the homophobic one in charge of the Diamonds who colludes with Henry re:crime stuff and dies in case 2's double murder. This guy's very clearly not a teenager by any stretch of the imagination, and technically neither is Lashauna in this iteration, though I still want to have like, the too-young-but-also-his-boss fucked-up power dynamic for their weird relationship.

The idea there is to build up, like... one Hit Deck member dying in both cases before case 3, to build up to Lashauna and Mill's conflict re:whether she should cut her losses and kill him to escape or try and stick it out and save her last surviving subordinate.

The other thing I'd do is... foreshadow the reality TV and loops thing more. Introduce impossible footage of things that didn't happen earlier, find some way to explain the rules of memory modification ahead of time, and use the Monokumas as mouthpieces more liberally. Maybe have Davi show up in person only to disappear hastily at some point, so he doesn't come out of nowhere. There's a lot of this plot that just wasn't really sufficiently foreshadowed, I think, and with this many layers to it it would definitely be doable to start peeling them back earlier.

And, of course, rework the logic of the cases more to be, uh, better. More fair and solvable with multiple roads to noticing the relevant clues. The ones I did were very much a first attempt, and I didn't really have the knack for it yet.

And that's, uh... that's it! I think that's everything. If you've got any questions, ask box is open. Thanks to everyone who read and supported Bullet Proof while I was making it!

#bullet proof #bullet proof spoilers. like all of them

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digitalguap · 1 year

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France & China in Business Together? - Robert Kiyosaki and Andy Schectman

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cashflowgame · 1 year

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kim tứ đồ là gì? Những kinh nghiệm để đạt được sự tự do tài chính

Kim Tứ Đồ (Tiếng anh: Cashflow Quadrant) là một mô hình mô tả về tiền bạc trên thế giới và cách mà nó được tạo ra.

#kimtứđồ #kimtứđồlàgì #cashflow game #game cashflow #kim tứ đồ #kim tứ đồ là gì

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gamebird · 2 months

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About a month ago, I read 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' based on a recommendation from a friend. It had some good points and bad ones.

Good points:

It is super important for me to have discussions with my kids about how to handle money, what their options are with the money I've given them, and what that means for standard of living, activities, etc.

It is very important in people's lives to have someone advising them about money, instead of just leaving them to fend for themselves and figure it out on their own.

If you already have money (like tens or hundreds of thousands of unencumbered cash), then there are a lot of relatively low risk, low labor means to put that money to work for you and generate income. It's a lot less tedious than, say, working for a living. But you have to have the money FIRST.

The various principles laid out in the book caused me to move my money around. Now instead of retiring in 4 years and leaving nothing to my kids in inheritance unless I died early, because I'd need everything to fund my retirement, I'm going to retire end of next year and leave millions, assuming I live that long. And if I don't, then there will still be a nest egg. Same standard of living for me either way.

Bad points:

Gotdamn does this guy undersell how hard it is to get your hands on enough money to start with to do this. It takes generations and he doesn't acknowledge that.

He also undersells the value and rarity of someone giving you good advice at every turn, feeding you opportunities, and picking you up when you fall ... and never victimizing or abusing you in the process.

He makes almost no mention of the severe adversities many people find in their lives, like chronic health problems, useless or abusive partners, addiction, expensive hobbies, terrible families, bad luck, accidents, legal problems, and the like. Some of these you have a little control over; a lot of them you don't; and even with barely controllable things like partners and family you don't know its bad until its already bad and its not exactly too late at that point, but it really sucks.

So anyway, I tried to get my kids to listen to the audiobook. No dice. I found it on YouTube for free. No doing. I bought the guy's Cashflow board game. Huzzah! They played it a couple times. This let us talk about things. (I mean, I'd already tried talking to them, but trying to discuss the relative merits of savings account vs t-bills vs etfs was not making much progress.)

We talked about:

What's a mortgage and why can't I just be homeless and not pay that

Why are my expenses so high

Why are children expensive

Why do I have to pay for a loan (I was surprised and shocked they only barely understood interest rates. My inability to communicate effectively about investments made sense now. I have failed as a parent. But I'm trying to fix it.) also: why is a credit score important

What the fuck why does this boat cost so damn much?!? (the boat is the most expensive piece of shit doodad you can get saddled with in the game; I talked to them about the dangers of expensive hobbies)

OH MY FUCKING GOD I ONLY MISSED ONE PAYCHECK AND I AM RUINED (because ... yeah. that's real)

What does 'yield' mean

What's a trading range

And a bunch of other things. I also talked to them about the things the game does not include, those things I mentioned earlier like accidents, addictions, lawsuits, and health problems, or the same happening to anyone you financially support or feel beholden to, like a partner or child or possibly parent. I talked to them about the mentality of 'my savings always gets wasted on emergencies so why bother having any', which is valid and real, as well as a rational reaction to a maddingly irrational situation.

An interesting thing about the game - there's no rule for or against giving money to each other. And it makes a huge difference in propelling someone from the rat race stage of the game where you're working for a living and into the cashflow part of the game where your money is working for you instead. In the two games we played, I ended up ahead early each time (half of this I credit to good decisions while my kids were making dumb ones, even after I told them they were dumb choices; half was probably luck). But each time once I had my position secured, I started giving wads of cash to them and it was remarkable how much that improved their situation.

Kind of like real life.

I also read Bullshit Jobs a couple weeks ago and it ends with a lovely piece about the social value of universal basic income. Which, yeah. We need to do that.

#mundane #all politics are fundamentally economic

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theliterarywolf · 1 year

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It's really sad that Pokemon and Game Freak just ignore the numerous spinoff series that could make them just as much money if they properly marketed them, Ranger and Mystery Dungeon especially, but they're so dead set on the main series that they don't even give anyone a chance to breathe after a new release. I thought that DLC might have been a good chance to stretch out the time between new gens but clearly they didn't think that way

Anonymous asked: The problem with Pokemon's development cycles is that why would Nintendo/Gamefreak/TPC change it if it would seem that no matter what they release it will sell within minutes? Despite of the issues the game was the fastest selling Pokemon tittle to date. Unless it starts hitting them on their wallets they won't change jackshit.

Whatever happened to Mystery Dungeon, man? I think we got one remake a few years ago but that's weirdly it?

But, yeah, oh my God: for all GameFreak knows 'we could put Pokemon on anything and make millions', there are so many smaller-scale projects they could do to keep cashflow coming in while mainline titles are being developed.

I mean, let's address this little nugget of OBVIOUSNESS: Make a series of games in the same vein as Stadium/Stadium 2. You could have each game only focus on the Pokemon from two regions so they wouldn't have to worry about the 'oh, but there's 800+ Pokemon and there's no realistic way for all of them to be in one game' debacle.

People probably wouldn't mind too much as long as they put in a minuscule story-mode and what was the biggest draw for the Stadium games? The Mini-Game Corner!

Or, hell, make a Mario Party clone! Even Animal Crossing had their swing at a board-game... It was an ungodly abomination of 'buy our plastic shite', but if we live in a timeline where Amiibo Festival and Sonic Shuffle exist, then there's no reason for Pokemon not to have one.

PokePark could use a new game. A return to the Colosseum/XD formula would be appreciated. Hell, Pokemon: Conquest! With how popular things like Fire Emblem have gotten in recent years, I'm surprised that GameFreak hasn't said 'Hm... Let's give Conquest another shot but make it less Japanese and more vaguely European fantasy'.

I'm not trying to say 'oh, big game companies should stop wanting to make money' but GOD, there are so many ways to go about this that DON'T result in 'sandwich minigames that make WarioWare look like Final Fantasy XV'

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talesxofxthalia · 6 months

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Name: Thalia Grace Lyra Age / D.O.B.: 27 / October 10, 1996 Gender, Pronouns & Sexuality: cis-female, she/her, bi-sexual Hometown: Chicago, IL & Rockford, Maine Affiliation: Civilian Job position: Bartender at the Cancun Education: High School Graduate Relationship status: Single Children: 0 Positive traits: (5) Bold, Observant, Resourceful, Independent, Playful Negative traits: (5) Selfish, Cynical, Reactive, Suspicious, Jealous

Bio TW: Assault, Child Abuse, Death

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Thalia's mother was written off by her parents after she fell pregnant with her first child, Theodore. She then dropped out of school to raise him. She worked in a coffee shop by day and as an exotic dancer on the weekends to bring in the much needed extra cashflow. It was during one of these shifts six years after Theodore had been born that Thelma discovered she was pregnant with Thalia. She knew it was one of her side-clients but as she wasn’t sure who, she kept it to herself. Thalia’s birth was the wake-up call Thelma needed to start getting serious about her life, and, after begging help from a particularly rich client, she was able to enroll herself in community college to earn her nursing degree. From there she was determined to move out of the city and so they did, to a small quaint town on the coast of Maine. Thalia was into karate and dance as a young child and as a game between her and her mother she would try to copy and learn one new dance move a week to impress her mother with on Friday nights: the family movie night. Both she and her brother excelled at academics much to the pride of their mother. Thalia was about to be moved into an accelerated STEM program when tragedy struck. Their mother, tired from working a double-shift at the hospital, flew through a red-light and was t-boned by a semi. Death was instantaneous.

By this point, Thalia was ten and her brother seventeen, so rather than go into the system, Theodore applied for his emancipation of minor status and won, allowing him to gain custody of Thalia. They moved back to Chicago so that it would be easier to find work. Unfortunately, between school and taking care of his little sister, Theodore found it difficult to hold down a job and became involved in local gang activity. Thalia meanwhile became involved in kickboxing, able to easily manipulate her body to do what was required of the intense sport. Everything turned upside down when her brother was arrested two years later the day after Thalia’s twelfth birthday for felony robbery and abetting murder. Thalia went into foster care.

Most of the homes were less than ideal. Some with ‘fathers’ who tried to take advantage of those within her care. Others with 'mothers' who restricted access to food and other necessities, viewing the foster child as merely a way to make money. At age fourteen in yet another foster home, driven by her anger and grief she got herself involved in gang activity. With them, her fighting skills were an asset, something to be celebrated. Her small size and stature made her seem to be an easy target, thus helping her slip by those who incorrectly thought that a drug runner wouldn’t send his stuff out with someone so small, so incapable of self-defense. At fifteen, she was officially initiated into the gang, a diamond tattoo and the gang’s words, “Bandas de Almas” (gang of souls) tattooed in delicate font behind her ear.

Partying and getting high on Percocet’s became her life, and, at the age of sixteen, she was arrested for drug possession and sentenced to four years in juvenile detention on a plea deal that would keep her from going to the big house when she turned twenty-one. While in juvie, she received extensive counseling. Those in charge of mental health ensured that she received proper care for the grief of losing both her mother and effectively her brother as well. She walked through therapy sessions untangling the feelings of shame, low self-worth, and most of all anger. By the time her four years were over, she felt like a new person. Unfortunately, after she was released the gang of souls found her and made her pay for her betrayal. They did not kill her, but throughout the brutal torture she received she found herself wishing they would have. Now she bears the scars of their actions and all the emotions she had managed to work through in therapy came rolling back to the surface, throwing her back into her old self.

She spent two years on parole after she was released from the system at twenty-one. During that year she threw herself into kickboxing, the freedom of moving her body as she saw fit liberating. She even joined the kickboxing team at the local community college that had a program for those on parole, while still focusing significantly on her schoolwork. They gave her room and board in exchange for good grades. Of course, old habits die hard, and when she was not busy with kickboxing or school she could be found getting back up to her old habits of partying and fighting, though she was smart enough to lay-off getting high during her parole. After those years, she was officially free; her records permanently sealed as she had been charged as a juvenile.

A few months after the end of her parole Thalia became swept up in a whirlwind romance with a man who she truly believed loved her-- and perhaps he did, but after the pair were married in a drunken state at a casino in Paris, France, things began to fall apart. Less than one month into their new marriage he had cheated on her once more. He had made a habit of it before, but the two had never outright made things official until trying to give their accidental marriage a go. His deliberate cheating, despite his excuse of being high and ‘forgetting’ that he was married, was the final straw for Thalia, and she fled. It took her over a year to push the divorce through due to his reluctance to let her go, and during that time she found herself hitchhiking across the country, wanting to explore all that life had to offer.

Thalia has been in New York for a little over a year working as a bartender at The Cancun. Due to her romantic mishap, Thalia never finished school and while tips are good they aren't enough to feed her addiction to tiny tattoos and the drugs that help her sleep at night. To make up the money she fights regularly in the underground ring. She’s quite good and its more than enough to supplement her income, allowing her to live in a studio apartment in higher-scale neighborhood. Often times the fights leave her bruised up enough that she will disappear for up to a week from her bartending job. She has noticed some of what is going on between the different gangs, but has largely kept herself out of it. Thalia is intrigued and could be persuaded to join, but her past has left her jaded and untrusting.

#tw: abuse #tw: child abuse #tw: death #tw: assault #wb.intro #thalia.intro

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