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So I just hit ending 50 in 100 Line Last Defense Academy and jfc it's been basically 39 flavors of fucked up, 6 flavors of meh (comedy routes), 2 flavors of genuinely weirdly funny (comedy routes), 2 flavors of these endings are DEFINITELY not worth the effort put into them (serial battle routes which took a record 8 fucking hours to finish), and 1 flavor of weirdly fucked up and sweet (on the KILLING GAME route of all things).

And there's still another 50 endings left

#100 line last defense academy #the scenario writers must've gone INSANE during the creation of this game

The older I get the more I want to be either reincarnated in my next life as a pampered house cat or isekai as the random follower #2 who gets to tell the villainess fiancee "dump that cheating asshole" in high drama shoujo fantasy

#life fail #i turn 45 next month #i guess this is about as close to a mid-life crisis as I'm probably to get

Given the amount of wrongly directed email I get, including the wedding invitation I just recieved, I find myself wondering why there's no romantic comedy where the wrong recipient decides to just... show up. Not as an impersonator of the person who was supposed to get the invite but as themselves. They got the invite -- why not? And shenanigans ensure.

#fiction fail #i suppose this could be the premise of a reverse fairy story #maleficient DOES get the invite but it was meant for someone else

...if you only have 12 episodes. Why. Just. WHY. Would you use one of those 12 as a recap episode. WHY.

#creative fail

There must be a word that describes the inexplicable feeling when you realize that a fic has over 50K hits and only 10 kudos...

#fanfic fail

So it's Thanksgiving break on campus and I'm enjoying my days off by finally getting around to a Last of Us marathon on tv and just wondering how the fuck everyone has perfect teeth in the apocalypse...

#i'm enjoying the show #but really #they mess up beautiful people like anna torv #enough that if i didn't know it was her i might not recognize her at first glance #and melanie lynskey who is gorgeous looks worn and wan and like 5 miles of bad road #but everyone has perfect teeth in the midst of a ruined world with a scarcity economy and fascist dictatorship

So I finally platinumed Dragon Age Veilguard and am about 2/3rds of the way through my second playthrough to see if there are any substantive differences if you make the other choice in chapter six (the answer seems to generally be not really) and my thoughts tend to boil down to:

It feels like they either forgot 15 years of lore explored in the previous three games or are just wiping out everything prior so they can take the series in a new direction without any baggage (see also my note about there being no substantive differences in the playthrough despite a fairly consequential choice in chapter 6 BEFORE YOU EVEN RECRUIT THE ENTIRE PARTY and the way that the background you pick really plays out for flavor text but, again, not really much substantial)

I liked all the characters but Emmrich was a special delight, if only because he was such a stereotypical example of what laypeople think academics are like but that one review I read that said it was like a "party full of Wylls without the Mizora plot twist" was so fucking right

The choice you have to make in chapter, er, 10? 11? The OTHER big choice sucks rocks both because I like the characters but also because neither makes sense lore-wise

I really want some lore drop on the other Evanuris now, especially Dirthamin and Falon Din, given the whole Mythal thing...

...I also am happy to see that Emmrich/Rook is popular on AO3, not surprised to see that Lucanis/Rook seems to be the most popular pairing, and saddened to see there's only 8 Felassan/Solas fics (THE FUCKING NOTES ALL OVER THE FADE GDI) and there appears to be exactly 0, yes ZERO, friends with benefits Warden Rook/Antoine/Evka fics. This is a fucking disaster folks.

#dragon age #dragon age veilguard #you can definitely tell there's been turnover in the staff at bioware #it was about on the level of andromeda for me #(this is a good thing because i LIKED andromeda a lot #but andromeda was still the pierce brosnan to the sean connery of mass effect #no matter how good it might be #it would never fill the shoes of an incomparable and unforgettable original)

So October has been a fairly exhausting month, in which:

I had minor surgery

I ended up in the ER and subsequently in the hospital 5 days after the minor surgery for the same problem the minor surgery was supposed to fix

Metaphor ReFantazio came out and I finished it

Ys 10 Nordics came out and I finished it

Dragon Age Veilguard came out and I've started playing it and I think after about 8 hours of gameplay I'm sort of kind of MAYBE finally used to the fucking uncanny valley of the faces -- like who the fuck approved this art design because I CANNOT IT'S LIKE EVERY CHARACTER IS THE FUCKING FINAL PAM THE LIPS THE LIPS THE LIPS I CAN'T

Sorry, it's just I spent at least the first two hours of game play cringing (and don't get me started on how it looks like every character has their mouths open all the fucking time)

#life fail #no but maybe it's because i played two fucking amazing games this month that were both excellent stories and incredibly beautiful #with great designs #but man is da: v coming off so much worse in comparison in basically every way #but the character design #(like morrigan's character design changed so much I LEGIT DID NOT KNOW WHO SHE WAS UNTIL THEY SAID HER NAME #AND CLAUDIA BLACK'S VOICE CAME OUT OF THE CHARACTER'S MOUTH)#and the way it feels like dragon age has become phase 1 mcu #definitely top the list of wtf

demilypyro

They just announced a new Like A Dragon game: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii with Majima as the protagonist

I woke up with this in my inbox and was sure it was a bit. But I looked it up to make sure. And it's real.

What the fuck. I love videogames

demilypyro

THIS WAS APPARENTLY LEAKED BACK IN MAY BUT NO ONE BELIEVED IT BECAUSE IT SOUNDS SO CRAZY LMAOOOO

drverstehen1

I watched this trailer grinning in disbelief while whispering "what the fuck am i fucking watching what the fuck" over and over for the full six minutes

#yakuza #video games #what the fuck were they smoking #and where can i get some

skipppppy

drverstehen1

This is awesome that there's going to be a new movie but gdi the font on that means I squinted and immediately wondered what the fuck kind of Scooby Doo mystery movie would be titled Make Up Dead Ham.

#knives out #lol #it legit took me 20 seconds to realize that probably says “MAN” not “HAM”#but it at least only took 4-5 seconds to realize Make = Wake #hopefully #correct me if i'm wrong #because that shit's impossible for me to read

So, I just saw a notification in the Yuletide comm, which means it's about that time of year again. I haven't written anything creative since, like, 2020 and I'd really like to get back into the habit. BUT if I don't have accountability, I'll never do it. So, Yuletide seems like a good option. On the other hand, the last time I tried -- I defaulted and I'm afraid I'll do so again (also, not so sure what I'd have to do to be re-eligible again?).

It's a conundrum!

#life fail #fanfic fail #it would also be nice to request some super rare fandoms that either have 1 fic or 0 fics on AO3 #gaaah i dunno

Occasionally you just have to go on AO3 to answer the question of "somebody HAS to have written that, right?" and reaffirm that, yes, humans are fucking weird and, yes, somebody HAS INDEED WRITTEN THAT.

#fanfic fail

You know what I really want? The transmigration story in which an accountant ends up in the body of a famous movie star in the middle of filming a multi million dollar movie. Without the cheat of any of the original body's skills or memories.

#i just want to read a story where the introvert nobly struggles against an extrovert profession #brought to you by binging ridiculous entertainment c-novels this weekend

That feeling when you search AO3 for a fandom, surprise yourself to find about 50 fics (disappoint yourself that most are eh on the writing and the longest one is only about 10K) but realize that 48 of those 50 fics are for the same non-canon pairing and the other 2 are for the canon pairing pairing and you like BOTH pairings and you spend two hours reading the entire library in that fandom

#there's gotta be a word for this #but hells if i know what it is

samreich

lilygo

drverstehen1

It was a really great episode and I knew it was going to be something diabolical when Sam's intro of "here the whole time" sounded joyful and welcoming instead of sinister

#dropouttv #game changer #definitely one of my favorite episodes this season #brennan's FACE at the twist #actually ALL their faces at the twist

so I just finished ff7 rebirth and just --

At least with OG I just had to put in a different disc instead of waiting literal years for the next part

#ff7 rebirth #i really enjoyed the game #(despite my annoyance with the lack of accessibility options #particularly in the mini-games #and all the fucking rapid tap inputs that i consistently fail at #i turn that shit off when given the option for a fucking reason #and the sheer amount of mini-games was fucking ridiculous #i skipped as many of the games as i could in og #other than chocobo breeding because knights of round #((ftr if knights of the round isn't in the next game i'll throw hands ok)#seriously i'm tired of the same 6 fucking summons #give me back my unique summons #like knights #or some of the wacky shit we got in ff10 #like the 3 sisters #that was wild))#but with rebirth SOOOO many of the damn mini-games were tied to side quests #so even the ones that might be enjoyable became chores #then combine the sheer amount with non-accessible controls #just urgggggh #anyway i'm torn on the ending #but it finally makes sense why the game is titled rebirth and not reunion #also i have a bone to pick with the missing areas #like it makes sense given that cid and vincent aren't playable characters #like i'd LOVE to see banora #for REASONS #like what did shinra do to cover up nuking the town????#not to mention the loss of rocket town #(i assume we'll get that in the next game? please?)#also why can't i buy the human member's Loveless costumes????

I'M PLAYING FF7 REBIRTH AND HIT CHAPTER THE END OF CHAPTER 4 AND JUST WHY ARE YOU GIVING RUFUS DEPTH? I AM NOT HERE FOR GIVING TYRANNICAL NEPO BABY DICTATORS DEPTH

#ff7 rebirth #ff7 #fuck shinra #don't give the capitalist pig dictator depth ok #just keep him a 1-note villain #we'll be all better off for it #(this opinion is subject to change as i continue playing the game)

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