“it’s katniss, cabrón.”

i take showers just to flex on jake mckenzie

[damiennazario]

anyways pb drop the script for hero 2, i aint playing these games

[damiennazario]

sorry to disappoint u guys but i wouldn’t hold my breath for blades 2... why would they announce it for a year as arbitrary as 2022?? they did the same thing for hero 2 and rod 2 when they announced them for 2020 and we see how that went, not to mention that blades 2 is probably more expensive art-wise since it’s fantasy and given their track record with not wanting to release as many ‘expensive’ books, i’m willing to bet money that it’ll get axed soon too. calling it rn. lol once oh3 is over im dippin dots

[damiennazario]

my rant about hazel from hot couture

hi hello i’m back. i got really mad so i had to vent my frustrations out to something and reddit wouldn’t let me so here i am. there are spoilers for hot couture in here so keep scrolling if u dont want to see them. otherwise, buckle up.

okay. so i got really mad about this and thought i'd preface it with a disclaimer. i am a bisexual person who romanced ethan in open heart, and love, love, LOVE emotionally constipated lis. so it'd be no surprise that i fell in love with hazel nguyen, fellow emotionally constipated li. i wish they'd write more lis like her rather than the bff/flirty archetype, but i digress.

with my knowledge of both ethan and hazel's routes, i can't help but draw parallels between them. they're both mc's bosses, and are both on the older side of the li spectrum. they've also been emotionally jaded one way or another, and yada yada yada. basically, hazel is the closest thing to a female ethan we'll get, and as an ethan lover, i ate that up. foolish me, thinking that since she was so similar to ethan and was also mc's boss, that she'd get just as much screen time as ethan did. but no. she probably got as much screen time as aurora did in open heart, with maybe two diamond scenes to herself. otherwise, all the other diamond scenes were divvied up between marco, luz, and travis (who didn't even WORK with mc!) and what do we get to show for it? a steamy makeout scene at the literal ass-end of the book, only for her to tell mc that she 'can't handle her' and 'doesn't have the time for entanglements' and for her not to be an endgame option in the last scene on the bridge. are you kidding me, pb? are you absolutely KIDDING me? even in a stinking vip book they can't give female lis what they deserve unless they're gender customizable. i hate it here. i'm just waiting for when they release it to everyone who rightfully didn't drop a dime for these books, so they can see for themselves just how shittily they treated a female li who couldn't be any more similar to a beloved male li, and tear pb limb from limb. if you're like me and love emotionally constipated (female) lis, steer clear and don't waste your time - or try not to get too attached.

p.s., cleo should've been a li instead of luz because she had no real personality/development other than being mc's yes woman which is a common theme i see in a lot of female bff lis, if not bff lis in general, but since we've established that pb hates wlw, that's a moot point.

[damiennazario]

@playchoices ending distant shores like That is inherently antiblack as it inconveniences me, a black person, and for this reason i not-so-humbly ask you to continue it or else i will be notifying the NAACP xx

[delightchange]

@mangoruby taking something as important and powerful as the blm movement and trivializing it as nothing more than riots is disgusting. you are defending a book, it’s characters - who are first and foremost, not real and will never thank you for defending them. and it’s company, who quite frankly will only ever see you as a consumer of their product.

these are people’s lives that they’re fighting for. you have no right to belittle that, ever. stop talking over poc’s about their concerns over obviously racist storylines and sidelining poc characters.

[playchoices]

PSA 📣Open Heart is a mature story that explores many painful themes and difficult issues. Upon consideration, we feel now is not the right time for the storyline we had planned. We’ll be moving the launch of these chapters to later dates. Thanks for understanding.

[tombraidxr]

So rather then address the issues with POC representation that people have been pointing out lately, you’re just going to put the book on hold until a time when said issues might stir less controversy? How thoughtful of you…

[damiennazario]

y’all really needed me to come back here and yell at u huh. ok ill oblige u

disclaimer: im an ethan stan. im also black. and y’all complaining about people being ‘spoiled brats’ complaining to pb are being incredibly tone deaf and insensitive, just because it means you’ll have to wait another couple weeks to see ur fave. cry me a river.

yes, choices books are fictional. but people use them as a means of escapism from their own lives and the often times harsh political climate. so no poc (black especially) readers like me will want to read about yet another beloved black character (kyra or rafael) dying. postponing the launch will not solve the problem. the black lives matter movement won’t just fizzle out. and if they plan to release these chapters somewhere down the line, it’ll come off as even more insensitive since they’re waiting around for the movement to ‘end’ before they go ahead and kill off a black character anyway and expect their readers to suddenly be okay with it. that’ll only make the problem that made you pull its release in the first place get worse. pb, if you really value your black characters and players and black lives, then why not just scrap the entire book and rewrite it? the rafael subplot with his ‘childhood friend’ was pretty nonsensical and shoehorned in as it is and could use a lot of reworking. i suspect you made it that way to try to turn his stans away from him to soften the blow if he died.

i know it’s a hospital drama that deals with harsh themes like death and loss, but you don’t always have to kill off characters that people love to make your story have an emotional impact. put your money where your mouth is, or expect to lose a lot of support from black readers and other readers of color. 

[cuipids]

pb saying they’ll release open heart chapters at later dates bc “now is not the right time” as if blm is just some trend they’re waiting to pass...

[playchoices]

PSA 📣Open Heart is a mature story that explores many painful themes and difficult issues. Upon consideration, we feel now is not the right time for the storyline we had planned. We’ll be moving the launch of these chapters to later dates. Thanks for understanding.

[delightchange]

if you feel now is not the “right time” to release the chapters you have planned, then rewrite the chapters. because the issue is so obviously not the time, the issue is what you wrote.

[damiennazario]

hi guys so ive been lurking here for a while and I've noticed that it’s becoming increasingly common ever since the release of bolas for ‘romance options’ to be weirdly flirty often at the most inappropriate times?? like when ds mc has the option to compliment the captain on his appearance in the middle of battle or when bolas mc flirts with characters and sometimes mal will be like “mc are u seriously flirting right now” like idk if im the only one but I personally don’t find it charming or quirky or whatever? I feel like it disrupts the flow of the budding romance and doesn’t really set the scene for a slowburn… like I want longing glances and tender lingering touches not some brazen “I would’ve just slept with Edward to get his secrets” like??? uhh…. could we at least get some intermediate romance option without going 0-100 like that??? I just felt the need to point that out bc I feel like not a lot of people talk about it so idk if i’m the only one who has an issue with it but yeah

[unclefather]

[midsommmar]

colt spent so much time yearning for his father’s acceptance and left college just to go to go to la and be with him only to find that his father had “replaced” him with someone else and the time he wasted thinking about ways to make his father proud suddenly felt so meaningless because maybe the problem isn’t that teppei isn’t a good father maybe HE is the problem if there was no issue becoming a father figure for someone else… colt is willing to fuck up his entire future just to be with his father who in the end commits the ultimate sacrifice by dying just to offer his son a chance to start over and not get caught up in the same mess that prevented him from being the father his son deserved… and now that he truly lost his father he’s aimless and he convinced himself that he’s in love with a girl he just met because of their respective issues with their fathers and all the shit they went through together in such a short time because he wants a purpose, because until that moment his only aim was to have his father in his life but he can’t have that anymore and he’s left with feelings of grief and anger and vengeance and i just… love colt so much

[sailorbrazil]

[thoodleoo]

odysseus, immediately after telling polyphemus that his name is nobody, blinding polyphemus, and sneaking out of polyphemus’s cave: by the way the name’s odysseus lol, nothing you can do about it now

poseidon:

[raimi]

Hey idk how many of you follow Phoenix Wright in the news but

You know how he’s supposed be like this paragon of virtue who’s going to “fix everything wrong with our courts” right? Yeah… no. Today, it was discovered that he. fucking. forged evidence. It’s not even really the first time he’s done something shady either – remember back in March of last year when he tried to pin the blame that rightfully belonged to his client on an innocent woman? Or December three years ago when he got the judge to overturn an already-announced guilty verdict? So, yeah, that guy’s fucking cancelled.

Honestly things like this are why I don’t have any faith in our court system :/

[drcuriousvii]

lmao y'all seriously weren’t suspicious when he got off Miles “Manfred von Karma 2″ Edgeworth off for a murder with a clear eyewitness? or, fuck - the time he claimed THE GHOST OF HIS HIGH SCHOOL EX was a more likely suspect than his client? Wright is a crooked-ass garbage man

[saddlemewithunnecessaryfeelings]

i already suspected him a long time ago. did you remember the case with matt engarde? it was really suspicious how desperate that phoenix guy was during that time. i mean, edgeworth already has a ton of evidence against matt engarde, but phoenix kept on stalling and i’m pretty sure that’s already a red fllag. the guy’s not honourable at all, he doesn’t care about the truth, he only cares about winning. it’s sick that he managed to fool everyone for so long.

[fangorl-screaming]

Y'all CHILL. I haven’t been really keeping up with the news, so I might be being a bit biased, but calling Wright a joke? I think he was a reasonably good lawyer before he forged evidence, and C'MON, being a lawyer seems HARD. could you people just tone it down a notch? Plus he seems like a decent person, it makes me really sad to see him ckme down to this.

And that Kristoph guy… he really makes me nervous. His brother’s a total thot, not gonna lie, but at least he seems a whole lot less shady. I really hope Kristoph doesn’t get too famous, he kinda freaks me out

[scarlettlawyer]

LOL get a load of this person…

Look, I’m sorry, but you’ve really got to know when to quit. The fact that he forged evidence calls the rest of his career into question.

I know it’s kinda hard to accept and super disappointing to boot since things seemed to be actually looking up for the legal system, but we can’t make excuses like “being a lawyer is hard”. This is a grown man we’re talking about, and he CHOSE to go into the law profession. He absolutely 100% should have known better than forging evidence.

Also what you got against the coolest defense in the west anyway (I hope that name for him catches on tbh)? Kristoph Gavin seems to know what he’s doing and imo is competent, unlike Phoenix, and would never stoop so low as to forge evidence.

[fangorl-screaming]

HOLD UP. You are really choosing to trust that Gavin? I mean, I’m not going to argue but I’m pretty sure he’s gonna turn up less honest that Phoenix.

Speaking of which are there any more updates? I lost track after the disbarment ceremony thing. Is Wright ok? I still feel kinda sorry for him.

Oh and that one girl, the daughter(?) of the guy Wright was defending, what happened to her? This has turned out to be one pretty sad day.

[scarlettlawyer]

You’re right. There’s no one we can really trust. The legal system is screwed. This truly is a dark age of the law that we’re living in. I’ve just about lost all my faith in the system.

No point feeling sorry for him. He doesn’t deserve it, and what’s done is done.

It’s tragic that a little girl got caught up in all of this, too. I hope she’s okay and has someone who can take good care of her.

[inkymint]

Happy “Phoenix gets disbarred” Day everyone!

[gabo2oo]

Watch out Phoenix that evidence is forged. Oh my god he has airpods in. He can’t hear us. OH GOD OH FUCK