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[drake-dragon]

KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN. KIERAN.

[en-tailsgaythings]

Limited time art installation by 0ts is soooooo good im not very good with words but oh fuck it is incredible i think it is one of my top 5 songs of all time

my favorite line is probably "perfect or pointless, there is no in between" both for the lyrics and i think it is my favorite part of the song musically as well

[abandoned-quiche]

why would toby fox have a dream where the characters all leave behind the fantasy adventure world as a metaphor for escapism, wake up in the morning, and be like "holy shit i NEED to make this a reality, this has never been done before, i need to dedicate the next twenty years of my life to making a game about this. this is REVOLUTIONARY"

[shovelwareyaoi]

at this point we have to discuss how insidious this shit is because the only light world problem susie is "ignoring" is her implied abusive family that she does not want to go home to for fear of being physically punished or worse. almost every dark world forces susie to confront her problems and when she does "ignore" problems they are ones specific to the dark world. is there literally anything in the light world susie is "ignoring" that she isnt completely in the right to ignore or not want to engage with. does susie not have just as much enthusiam for the festival as she does for hanging out with ralsei

[reverssentiment]

Asgore is the first character in Deltarune who's actually treated the Dark Worlds as a lotus-eater Matrix dreamscape, and this is presented to us pretty unequivocally as a miserable moral failure on his end.

His eyes remain firmly fixed on "reality," and he's disinterested in and neglectful of his "perfect family" more or less from its inception. At best, he's "playing along." When Asgore fantasizes, it's about the Light World. Unreal scenarios, sure – parading their body through the streets, getting back with his ex-wife, skateboards with Azzy – but never the Dark World itself. Everything he does, he does in order to capture and kill the Knight, after which he intends to leave the Dark World.

And it sucks! It makes the Seven-Colored Flowers miserable (and we see way more of them than Asgore; our sympathies align naturally with them over him). It doesn't make Asgore happy either, and it certainly doesn't help him fulfill his equally-implausible nostalgic visions of being big hero copman again.

Escapism, nothing. This is why I can't take seriously anyone who suggests Susie's living situation is her running away from the real world. The Dark may be a dream, but treating it as a valueless illusory prison doesn't actually get you any closer to reality.

[abandoned-quiche]

i often wonder what a "game over" actually means in this game.

you'd think it just means you die, but i don't think that's the case. a lot of enemies aren't fighting you with the aim to kill. and of those enemies, some cause a game over if you lose to them, while others don't.

in fact, in queen's FIRST fight, losing just causes a game over, but in the SECOND fight if you lose you can just continue the story. in neither instance is she trying to kill you - the only difference here is that queen beating you the second time is how the story is supposed to go.

so my current thought is that a game over is caused by anything that prevents the story from unfolding. ralsei does say, after all, that your soul holds the fate of the world within.

that's why your only choices are to go back or to stop playing - continuing just isn't something that can happen. there is only one story here. it's the same in any game, really - a game over happens because your failure is not how the story goes. it's just in this case, it's diegetic.

and so your only options are to try again, or leave the story unfinished.

in this interpretation "the world was covered in darkness" isn't meant in the roaring sense, but rather in the oneshot sense - we chose to stop playing the game, and so our LIGHT stopped shining on the world.

if this is the case then there'd be something painfully ironic about how flowery defeating you is one of the only times being defeated DOESN'T cause a game over - after that whole thing of "you want to see if i can defeat you, and defy fate," he couldn't even do that.

[lady-hibiscus]

>post by a person of color giving insightful commentary on racism

>opens notes

[triple-a-battering-ram]

perhaps the worst opening do a sentence ever devised

[ricospriteart]

[ricospriteart]

[just-a-little-creature]

Something I forgot about until just now, the way Susie talks to Kris in the end of ch5 when you "walk her home" kind of can be read as Susie being vague bc she's embarrassed or that Kris has done this before and already knew. If you take her to the apartments, she says something like, "Kris, you know that's not what I meant." When you finish, she just thanks Kris and leaves without acknowledgement. If you decline and Kris puts you in balloon jail, they walk side by side straight to the school, like Kris knows exactly the path to take.

It's very sweet to me that they've probably been hanging out off screen without us and even have connections that we are not privy to. It's not something WE get to have as us, the player, Kris, and Susie. That was just for Kris and Susie. I may be wrong but I think the only other major thing that Kris gets to have without us interfering is their piano playing (you may include whatever is happening with the Knight here but while we are in the dark about it, we are still directly oppositional so I don't really count it myself). So I guess if we needed more evidence that Kris and Susie don't need us to be friends, that's there.

[deepfrieddeltarunememes]

[jaronofthebored]

If Kris did open the card kingdom fountain that makes them hesitating at the closet fountain really funny. like "what the hell that's not where I put it"

[echoriptera]

The thing I love about blues design in deltarune is that they made a black-coded feminine man, which already doesn’t happen a lot, but also was completely unapologetic and unhesitant in giving him black and poc and masculine features, and that it doesn’t take away from his femininity and beauty. he’s got a strong jaw, he’s got locs, he’s got broad shoulders, he’s got thick eyebrows, and he’s still drop dead gorgeous and is treated as such and is never made to seem otherwise

so often feminine men are solely depicted as white or white passing, and are stripped of their more masculine features in order to seem beautiful or feminine, or their masculinity are at odds with their femininity, which can perpetuate traditional gender roles, racism, and even transphobia and transmisogyny.

in reality femininity and masculinity aren’t competing opposites, but go hand and hand, and same is the case with blackness and beauty

blue isn’t beautiful in spite of his blackness or masculinity, but rather because of it, and I think that’s delightful

[demilypyro]

it's important to be able to recognize when a character is speaking for the author and when the author wants you to realize a character is full of shit.

when Batou says the ends justify the means, we're supposed to take this as fact, something he learned due to years of law enforcement experience, something that's sad but undeniably true. the guy in the car with him who believes rules need to be followed only believes this because he's young and inexperienced and naive. the narrative (read: the author) will prove that this is correct, again and again.

when Morgan says nothing she does could ever materially matter, however, we're supposed to realize that this is bullshit: she's literally standing in a crowd of protesters who would not BE there if not for her actions. by this point she's ended countless lives and despite her intentions, her actions are causing real change, affecting real people. the narrative (read: the author) will prove that she is wrong, again and again.

[demilypyro]

girls love zero indexing and camelcased variable names

[mousidy]

how the fuck could they possibly make a good zelda movie

[mousidy]

it's really not hard to make a fun wahoo mario movie that passes the bar of acceptability, and they just about did it once, but then the sequel was catastrophically bad, which is kind of an achievement given how easy the task should have been. you can't fart out an acceptable high fantasy film though you just can't. the people you get to do it have to be at least 50x better at their craft than illumination

[redsixwing]

Hey, Bandcamp users. You have probably already heard, but Bandcamp was bought by a music licensing firm, and laid off half its staff "as a cost cutting measure."

I will be downloading everything I purchased from Bandcamp and keeping an eye on it.

Bandcamp Undergoes Ownership Transition with Layoffs and Industry Concerns | Enterprise Wired

In a significant shift of ownership, Bandcamp, the renowned digital music marketplace, has officially transitioned from its previous owner,

[innerchildabortionclinic]

every time I tell a child "btw you don't have to be touched by anyone. you can say you don't like that" I feel so happy. I told this to a girl today after another kid tickled her. if I didn't tell her she would've just awkwardly accepted the tickling