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vg-commentary · 9 months

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Some interesting tidbits about district assignments

Each underboss starts with one district, their "home" district, if you will. You get to decide which additional districts they get, but there's some assignments that some underbosses might like more than the others.

Southdowns - Vito/Cassandra

Pedestrian chatter indicate it had a large, if almost exclusive Italian presence before.

Vito comments on having a "favorite diner in Southdowns."

If you assign Cassandra to Southdowns, some pedestrians are concerned about the Italians and Haitians not getting along. Some pedestrians say they're getting along.

Cassandra says, "Laundry Machines, cigarettes and stereos. Southdowns knows how to turn a dollar out of everyday items. This is real good for us."

In contrast, Burke doesn't have anything interesting to say.

Barclay Mills - Cassandra

The other two comment on Barclay Mills being garbage, but Cassandra has dreams of revitalizing Barclay Mills. Curiously, Emmanuel says that that's because "she never has to go there."

Vito and Alma admit to having little experience with trains and factories.

Tickfaw Harbor - Cassandra/Vito/Burke

Emmanuel comments on the harbor being good for the marijuana business, and Cassandra likes it for general import/export.

Vito and Alma mention that the harbor would make their smuggling operation easier.

Burke and Nicki seems to be more interested in the car rackets.

Downtown - Cassandra

Burke and Vito seem more focused on the money while Cassandra's top priority is power and City Hall.

There's the usual talk about rising crime if Burke or Vito get the district, but with Cassandra, people comment on protests and clashes with the police.

Frisco Fields

All the underbosses seem to like Frisco Fields as a way to spite the wealthy, white residents there, and they don't seem too disappointed if they don't get the district.

Alma is a bit surprised if you give Frisco Fields to Vito.

Nicki dislikes Frisco Fields. It might be because she was in their ER once.

French Ward - Cassandra/Burke

Cassandra and Emmanuel mentions taking care of the sex workers there.

Burke likes vice and the rackets but Nicki seems more exasperated because of him.

Vito has little experience with the rackets there, but he seems to want to run it. Alma has no desire to run the sex rackets.

There's also some common themes in the chatter around each underboss's assignment.

Vito: Increased Italian presence, crime, protection rackets. People also comment on increased Italian cuisine. Memorable quote: "Guess what's at every crime scene lately in Frisco Fields? Marinara."

Burke: Increased Irish presence, moonshine, robberies.

Cassandra: Increased Haitian and black presence. The commentary is usually just racist remarks, but black pedestrians comment on increased black businesses and diversity.

#please correct me if i'm wrong!#im basing this off of their lines if they did or didnt get the district #without the in-game context #mafia 3 #cassandra mafia #thomas burke #vito scaletta #emmanuel lazare #nicki burke #alma diaz #all in all it seems cassandra has lots of dreams and plans that she needs money and power for #while burke seems to be going through the motions #and vito just sees it as money and business #cassandra and emmanuel are most aligned #vito and alma are next but occasionally vito surprises alma #and obviously burke and nicki are in conflict #or nicki comments more on the history of the district #i am confused that he thought lincoln would give him french ward though #and it's interesting that both vito and burke dont really care about politics

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aro-arttorneys · 4 months

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Happy "it wasn't christmas yet!" to those who celebrate 🥳

#ace attorney #miles edgeworth #what do i tag this as aaaa #turnabout goodbyes #manfred von karma #almost christmas #hii i worked real hard on this one -twirls hair-#while discovering the ins and outs of procreate dsjhfkjdfh #i almost gave up the entire project bc i couldn't get VK's hand right #but it worked out in the end #i always think about Von Karma's plan in 1-4 it drives me nuts #he planned this for 15 years and had a plan A and B just in case they'd get the real killer #all to make sure the Edgeworth family dies in the most agonising way possible #amazing. sublime. aa1 is still my favorite game by far #and 1-4 is still my favorite case. it blew me away. stellar game design and insane storytelling #i showed this drawing to my dad and tried to explain the symbolism and that was. hard without the full context HAHA

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linkisanenby · 8 months

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I love Outer Wilds so much. I will never get over it.

#outer wilds #outer wilds spoilers #well kind of spoilers #it's without context #but it's also like one of the major themes of the game

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operationlove · 9 days

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Metamy : just pausibly / hinted at in the tags

me: they are gonna marry at the end, Metal is actually kidnapping her bcs that's how they flirt

Sure, why not

#[You got mail]#anon #metamy #amy rose #metal sonic #[file missing]#if you see this without context Im so sorry #if you see this with context im not sorry at all #anon put big money on the yuri end game

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moodnamars · 7 months

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getting lost checking out the weird lighthouse fits ahaaaa...

#ts4 #ts4 cas #the sims 4 #old point #elise #ara #benji #damien #everytime i go months without opening my game i go right back to them and play dressup again #and fix them up. .#:) my children #i love posting them but with no context to their story #bc i probably will never get around to actually posting old point EIGUHGE

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noelles-legacy · 2 months

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A little context…

During one of the main quests with Sebastian, him and Ominis argue about something in the undercroft. While they were doing that I figured out that I could use Transformation on the boxes and benches in the area and turn them into random things. So while they were having a heated little argument I was messing around, chasing rabbits🐇 and toads🐸, and overall making a huge mess of the place, completely entranced by the fact that this was possible.

It was a moment that was so stupid I had to draw it, it’s been on the back burner of my projects for a bit and I finally had the motivation to finish it, so here it is 😅🎃

#ngl it was so goddamn late when I originally made this and I know without context it makes no flipping sense 😅#i don’t even know if anyone’s even going to relate to this lmao #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts mc #hogwarts legacy ominis #hogwarts legacy sebastian #hogwarts oc #original art #slytherin #harry potter hogwarts game #hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry #ominis gaunt #hogwarts legacy meme #hogwarts legacy mc #hogwarts legacy art #hogwarts legacy comic #the undercroft #random shit

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strixcattus · 3 months

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I really enjoy looking at this still from Slay the Princess:

In the midst of all the weird imagery from the first part of the Stranger route, you see for a moment—and it is cut off at the end, so I had to be quick with my screenshot—every route laid out in front of you, paired up as the game does elsewhere, and described, interestingly enough, from what I can only believe is the Voices' perspectives, or perhaps the relationship between the Princess and the Voice of a given route.

Consumption: The Beast (Hunted), the ribcages in the bottom right. Being eaten, alive or half so, is one way or another the outcome you face in the Beast. This one seems to be the least connected to its route's Voice, though I can still see it in a relational sort of way. Betrayal: The Witch (Opportunist), the nail-studded... I can't tell what it is, but it's at the top left. Betrayal on your part is the cause of the Witch's route, and it too is inevitable in some form once you're on that route—the Opportunist is very vocal about it.

Skepticism: The Prisoner (Skeptic), the chains at the bottom. Pretty clear analogue given the name of the Voice, but not to neglect—you reach the Prisoner by taking the blade (distrust of the Princess) but ultimately using it to free the Princess (you take the time to think critically about what you're being asked to do, and decide the Narrator is less trustworthy). Blind devotion: The Damsel (Smitten), the... I can only imagine locks of hair at the top. You reach the Damsel by immediately and wholly assuming she has no ill intentions, an attitude made manifest in the Smitten.

Rivalry: The Adversary (Stubborn), the spikes to the left. The Adversary route is, so long as you embrace it, about your probably-a-metaphor-for-sex-I-mean-the-Eye of the Needle-isn't-even-trying-to-veil-it eternal fight with the Adversary, with the Stubborn in strong support. Submission: The Tower (Broken), the stone columns to the right. One of the most clear-cut "this is about the Voice" examples—the Broken has completely submitted to the Tower's will, even though the player still has a few chances to resist her.

Terror: The Nightmare (Paranoid), the eyes in the upper right. Of course, the Nightmare is all about fear, and the Paranoid is the embodiment of your fear of the Princess—the fear that made you lock her in the basement and the fear that stopped your heart when she broke free. Longing: The Spectre (Cold), the wisps in the bottom left. This one is interesting, and almost made me second-guess my "Voices" reading, as the Spectre herself is clearly a creature of longing—but then what about "Submission?" The Tower is not "submitting" to anything. That's her whole deal. Perhaps this one is connected to your desire for something other than what the Narrator calls the "Good Ending..." or perhaps it has something to do with the Cold's interest in feeling something, which he expresses in a few routes (the Greys being the most obvious).

Pain: The Razor (Cheated,) the spikes at the top. She skewers you, and you die. Over and over again she skewers you, and you die, and it is painful over and over again. I'm not sure I have much to add to this one. Unfamiliarity: The Stranger (Contrarian), the abstract DNA-like strand at the bottom. You reach the Stranger by refusing to interact with the Princess, leaving her an unfamiliar blank slate whose actions you cannot predict and thus fracture into every possible image of her.

And at the heart of it all, an emotion that can only be described as—what? The Narrator doesn't get the chance to finish his sentence before you wake up in the Prisoner's basement, but I'd think the answer is obvious once you've finished the game.

After all, this is a love story.

#slay the princess #less analysis more rambling but boy did I need to get this out #anyway just. the imagery of this one.#the way the stranger is infinite potentiality #reflecting every possible version of the Princess in such a way that she cannot be any of them #and how you get the clearest glimpse into what's going on in this moment #but expressed in a way you could never hope to understand without context #it's a map of the whole game but you need to find the key yourself to make sense of it

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philiesslit · 3 months

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dnp really just sit there and watch their grandchild shag his boyfriend.

#no context #every time without fail #is there even an ounce of secondhand embarrassment?#dan and phil #dan and phil games #dnpgames #dnp #phil lester #philip lester #amazingphil #dan howell #daniel howell #sims 4 #dab howlter #dab and evan #phan #phandom

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donuqx-art · 6 months

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VIX OMORI art dump cuz sometimes I forget about TUMBLR’S existence,,, oops,,

#omori #omori game #omori oc #omori vix #vix omori #omori aubrey #aubrey omori #omori sunny #sunny omori #omori kel #kel omori #these are like??? a few months old #these are the pieces without any context other than for fun #the lore(ish) pieces I did these past months will follow afterwards #it’s literally only 2 pieces but oh well :33

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driftingballoons · 1 month

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Some creatures are more difficult to perceive than others

#Treecko #skitty #dusknoir #chatot #pokemon doodles #original art #context: I’ve said this before but explorers was the very first pokemon game I ever played #I wasn’t watching the anime then so it was also the first time I ever saw a dusknoir #And for whatever reason I just couldn’t quite….comprehend what he was supposed to be #Thought he was some kind of robot until he did his ghostly disappearing act #Definitely a fun game to play when you know nothing about pokemon!#Everything was so new and exciting! And you don’t know what anyone looks like until you meet them!#The other thing in a similar vein was with dialga #I didn’t know what dialga was SUPPOSED to look like so when they’re all talking about how fucked up he is I was like damn #He DOES look pretty fucked up. Some kind of beast #And then after fixing time you see he looks THE SAME except with a palette change #Like oh. i see. That’s just what you look like #Dialga should’ve got a special form tho #Maybe something replacing the steel type with ghost #Bc without time he’s technically not alive #And I read somewhere the steel typing might’ve represented the steady nature of time or something #So with time being stopped it’s not flowing so steadily huh #This wasn’t supposed to be abt dialga tho. Get your own post #ANYWAY dusknoir is a weird looking guy especially when you’re not quite sure what you’re looking at #but he is canonically handsome so do with that what you will

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commsroom · 2 months

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it's always kinda been a headcanon of mine that the way hera operates the hephaestus - how she thinks, how she keeps track of and organizes and prioritizes tasks, how she executes those tasks, the way she files information, etc. - is highly unusual and would be impossible to parse for another AI. the equivalent of an 'organized chaos' workspace where it looks like a complete mess, and a lot of the steps she takes are convoluted and unintuitive, but she knows where it all is and can't find it if it's even slightly rearranged.

like, the fact she's deemed "flighty and mercurial [with] poor impulse control" while also having "record response times, unique problem-solving abilities, and highly original thought patterns" is such an interesting and significant part of her character. hera is smart, and she's creative, but she isn't smart in a way that can be standardized and made useful by goddard. and that's why she wouldn't have survived, if cutter hadn't needed to put together a functionally disposable crew. with regards to neurodivergence, i think there's something to be said about differing types of intelligence in a society that only values a certain kind of productivity and compliance.

#wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #like i think it's far more interesting that she's not really 'top of the class'#if anything she's kind of dead last. the one who just barely made it by 'exceptional circumstances'#i think hera could test well if she had the chance to practice and figure out the patterns and how to game the system #but without that context i think she was probably bad at standardized tests because she overthought and focused on the 'wrong' things.

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frimoussette88 · 2 years

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“You were made to be kissed, often and well.”

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vynnyal · 4 months

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This is likely the hardest I've laughed in rain world yet. Basically, you can glitch a spear into a quantum state using a dead bat body, allowing stabbed enemies to follow you through tunnels. So I tried bringing a leviathan to Moon. And the game really, really didn't like that

#rainworld #rain world #game clips #I cut out the moment I died because the footage froze for a solid 20 seconds right at that moment #I was so close!! But I accidentally went back through the tunnel and got crushed.#And for some reason while grinding this out I somehow glitched the game into thinking I died 200 times #So my score is like -130 which is really funny. Like I can casually speedrun hunter with 1 or 2 deaths to this point #Game fr said ''skill issue''#God no am I gonna try actually speedrunning this game. The actual advanced movement tech is crazy hard #Anyways welcome to my gaming channel please like and subscribe /j #I posted a hk highlight clip but then realized that since I'm shifting fandoms I'm likely spoiling the hell out of my new followers #Sorry if you saw that LMAO #I have another video of torturing moon that I found really funny but it's like 5 minutes long #And no way do y'all have the patience to watch that. Especially without context #So that's a friend-exclusive #Or maybe I'll put it on my literal YouTube channel with like 300 subs for. Some reason #OR THE ART ONE LMAO ''it's been three years check out this completely unrelated video''

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thyhauntedmansion · 8 months

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My dad texted me at a work party and asked what I wanted air brushed on a hat, cause they were free, and I-

(I’ve only gotten a couple strange looks in public💀 when I have the balls to wear it)

@resident-lover

#without any context it’s hilarious #my parents were confused but supportive #they know RL as ‘the lesbian game’#easiet way to explain it to them💀 LMAO #resident lover #if y’all make any merch in the future..👀

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un-pearable · 1 year

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ngl while i love the implications of the elemental masters there’s a criminal loss in the canon now that wu was just collecting the kids of his old friends. how dare they play down the utterly deranged nature of wu going “oh no… my brother is Returning…” and grabbing literally three random kids out of the suspiciously scenic countryside and then his (presumably dead) bffs’ son for shits n giggles. and it WORKED

#text✨#ninjago #ninjago wu #slash jay this is comedy. i do genuinely love the retcons #this has once again been ‘jay rose thinks about the world presented by the pilots’#yknow i SAY i love how future knowledge changes the context of earlier installments and i DO. but also the pilots are so so funny if you #think about them without the later context #this is 100% what the developers of LEGO battles ninjago thought lmao #god. zane wasn’t a even a robot when that game came out. wild

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thankstothe · 10 months

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#house md #gregory house #thirteen #remy hadley #screencap #s07e18 “The Dig”#very touching #and kinda funny without context #prob my fav episode in the season 7 #god i love their friendship #shame we drip fed it #13 might be the only duckling who actually connected w house #like chase foreman and amber were “house”#but 13 always spoke to him as equal #no grandiose monologues on morality or sucking up and playing “the games”#like “yeah you're the worst I'm the worst what about it?”#or throw the most effective “no u” at house #bi solidarity #its canon to me

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