So a friend recently convinced me to play DRAMAticle Murder! It was fun! I love Virtual Novels, but I dont play them often. It was nice to sit down with one of the titans. If you too like 2010s Boys Love then you have probably already played this game. If you haven't I recomend fixing that at your earliest convenience.
DISCLAIMER! I've only played the base game good endings so far, my opinions are subject to change as I get more information! I wanted to write down my thoughts so far is all. Detailed thoughts on the love interests (and spoilers) under the cut:
Going in the order I played them- first is Noiz!
I hate him.
Spesifically, he is the exact type of infuriating that makes me want to shove him into a locker. At first I was unsure about him, but finding out he's 19 made a lot of things make sense. He grew on me like a fungus. My friend has accused me of treating him like a tsundere- WHICH IS A LIE!
I DONT LIKE THIS JERK AT ALL!
WHO DOSE HE THINK HE IS WORRYING AOBA AND ME FOR THREE MONTHS HUH?
NOIZ! YOU SHOULDVE CALLED YOU DUMMY!
HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME WORRY! YOU ASSHOLE!!!!
Final score: Fungus or perhaps a Clam
Next is Mink!
He's... fine? Im completely apathetic towards him tbh. It was fun watching Aoba Whump The Route, but between the Racism and how much Mink resists being understood as a character beyond being an antagonist until the very very end... I just didn't find him very compelling.
Final score: Dont let your bird smoke??? I don't care that it's an allmate, smoke is bad for birds.
I was playing these routes in mostly recomended order, but I knew Mink was going to be rough, so I saved the one I was looking forward to the most for after him. Koujaku time!
Marry Me.
Seriously, Marry Me.
Idk if it's because of the contrast with Mink, but the way he genuinly genuinly cares about Aoba as a person? It was so refreshing. I really like them and Koujaku feels like the most believable romance With Aoba to me. They seem like they would have the most stable staying power as a couple which is cute. Only casualty is Aoba's hair (sad)
Final score: Marry Me
Final normal route was Clear~
He's such a silly rabbit~ I like that I predicted he was gonna be an allmate/robot the moment he got introduced. That said these boys were going to give me a heart attack when they kept takeing off Clear's mask. We didnt know what it was protecting him from!!! What if he got hypnotized or worse!!!!
I really liked the timer at the end of his route, and how you had to let it run out. That was really fun and reinforced the themes of agency and autonomy.
Final score: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8qTaW7LRW9o&list=RD8qTaW7LRW9o&start_radio=1&pp=ygUacHJpbmNlc3MgamVsbHlmaXNoIG9wZW5pbmegBwE%3D
Ren's route will be getting its own post later uwu
A bumper berry harvest has New Zealand’s weird flightless parrot in a rare mood for romance
The world’s only flightless parrot species was once thought to be doomed by design. The kakapo is too heavy, too slow and, frankly, too delicious to survive around predators, and takes a shamelessly relaxed approach to reproduction.
But the nocturnal and reclusive New Zealand native bird ’s fate is teetering toward survival after an unlikely conservation effort that has coaxed the population from 50 to more than 200 over three decades.
This year, with a bumper crop of the strange parrot’s favorite berries prompting a rare enthusiasm for mating, those working to save the birds hope for a record number of chicks in February, which would move the kakapo closer to defying what was not long ago believed to be certain extinction.
Kakapo live on three tiny, remote islands off New Zealand’s southern coast and chances to see them in the wild are scarce. This breeding season has launched one of the birds to internet fame through a livestreamed video of her underground nest, where her chick hatched on Tuesday...
Read more: The endangered kakapo parrot could have a record breeding season | AP News
Ok, mother of GOD that's a lot of responses and I am but one man with Excel. I'll update these ASAP but also some rules:
A Pokemon only counts for itself, not its evolution line.
A Pokemon with multiple forms (like Zygarde) will only be counted for the specified form. A Pokemon with multiple appearances (like Spinda, Vivillon, Sylvally, etc.) count for all their appearances.
I'm literally doing this as a testament to my own depression that not everyone is lovable, so add that to the weight of this post's meaning.
welcome to the big crazy world, you!!! oh my goodness, so ugly! so sweet! so so special! thank you to ngāi tahu and DOC for all the ridiculously hard work over the past 30+ years to save kākāpō from the threat of extinction. and of course thank you tīwhiri, who laid the egg, and yasmine, for fostering the egg!
A quick 8.1 one following up on the G.E.A.R.S. Reimagined update, here's the NPC Update! Filling this once empty world with many NPCs from across Mechquest's universe!
Download Link at the Masterpost
Warning : You will need Optifine (Forge) or EMF/ETF (Fabric) to see the NPCs
Revisit every location on the map to discover new overworld NPCs
Meet brand new GEARS Teachers
And even come across the OCs of many other fans of Mechquests, wandering across the map (you can submit your own OCs for future updates here)
(included in this screenshot is @high-voltage-rat's Ravyn)
Get ready for a brand new years at G.E.A.R.S. University as it becomes the latest location to be updated in my map!
Now with many more rooms, more connected corridors and a more defined interior mapping, all thanks to @7yd1a, @high-voltage-rat and @theloverofdragons and their experience with universities
Brother (nonbinary), it's a whole-ass thing. Ever since the main story quest The Second Dream one of the game's taglines has been
"Dream... not of what you are... but of what you want to be."
Brother (nonbinary), there is no cishet neurotypical explanation for that. This game is deeply queer. This game is deeply neurodivergent. This game's devs have spent the last five years leaning into that. They hired a fan-artist that made porn of the game's characters (mostly M/M) to design deluxe skins.
There is absolutely something up with Warframe and being trans it is absolutely a thing.
Though I don’t have a fear of dogs, I find it really sad and disgusting the way the phobia is treated at large. Cynophobia is one of the most common and debilitating phobias and it often forms in childhood, especially after a traumatic event. I grew up in the middle of nowhere with a lot of unleashed, untrained and/or stray dogs and I was bitten and knocked down by several dogs as a kid. Your dog might be your best friend, your dog might be a very good dog but that person may look at your dog and only remember being a helpless 6 year old child with a dog’s jaw around their neck. The fear seems irrational and hilarious to you, someone who has had mostly positive interactions with dogs but remember not everyone has lived the life you have.
So many dog owners are practically allergic to doing anything to alleviate human anxiety around their dog, even things that would greatly benefit the dog like keeping it leashed and not bringing it into high stress environments* without cause. If a friend told me they were afraid of cats, I’d tell them it is best we meet outside of my home because that is a completely reasonable accommodation. There are so many horror stories about someone being told another person is afraid of dogs and repeatedly putting them in situations where they have to be in close proximity to a dog without that person’s consent because they think it’s funny or because ‘My dog is such a good dog. It’ll definitely change their mind about dogs. This is like impromptu exposure therapy.’ and it makes everything worse.
Someone being frightened and on the verge of a panic attack at your little Shih Tzu mix may seem like an amusing overreaction to you but those bitches (pun absolutely intended) do bite and the safest thing to do for that person and your dog is to keep them separated. You don’t know what life they’ve lead.
*This post is not about service dog and handler teams. If your dog is a disability aid, it is the responsibility of others to Buck Up and Deal regardless of their opinions on dogs. This is about the epidemic of terrible dog owners taking their poorly trained dogs places and being completely inconsiderate towards others AND their own dog.
RIGHT! Someone saying “Dogs are not my thing. I’m a bit nervous around dogs. I’m not fond of them.” is so different than wishing harm on your dog. I’m a cat owner and I’m very used to people who hate cats saying vile things about them but there really is a stark difference between “I don’t really like cats.” and “I would love to sic my dog on your stupid fucking cat.” but many dog owners see anything other than totally loving dogs as a sign the person is inherently evil.
characters who are actually two characters are so important to me. d.i.d. doppelgängers. possession. twins. clones. au versions of the same person. sometimes a guy is two guys and that is so so so important to me
