(Mainly) a Choices side-blog.

Currently replaying: BOLAS [she/her]

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The people who write walkthroughs for the Choices wiki are literally the backbone of society.

[kainebell]

lots of really cool and normal smiles in the new book, they definitely did not startle me at all!!!!!!!

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Nearly every character in The Holiday Bakeoff looks like they’re possessed by a demon whenever they smile.

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That ending in chapter 6 was actually horrifying

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After reading chapter 15, I no longer gaf about any of the characters left unless their name is Jun.

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Okay, so after reading the latest chapter, maybe I jumped to conclusions a bit quickly 👀

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After reading chapter 15, I no longer gaf about any of the characters left unless their name is Jun.

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I’m up to the part in Open Heart Book 3 where MC is consoling Ethan after he confessed to tampering with Elijah’s research, and uh………..… Why is he suddenly talking about “being in control”?

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@ Pixelberry please let me romance Tobias Carrick I know I can fix him.

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LMAO 😭

[ariendiel]

Well, I guess this is the end then. What a shame, but also not surprised as fusebox has run this game into the ground 💔

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Choices has definitely gotten worse at the picking skin colours for Asian MCs, because why do they look Jaundiced all of a sudden? 😵‍💫

[sciralta]

I’m not joking, especially considering the recent layoffs at PB apparently included artists, we should all absolutely bully PB online for having the unmitigated gall to use GenAI for their book covers.

[vivalgi]

What in the AI f*ckery is PB up to again? There is 0 doubt the cover "art" for TDG was largely done with the help of AI tools.

Let's start with Farah. There's a lot of similarities in the hair between the in-game sprite and the cover "art" portrait, so PB probably fed both images and text prompts to the generator. What gives away that it's AI generated though is that part of the hair on the right side is randomly swept back.

Upon initial look Dante looks pretty genuine, a suave Latin-American actor, if not for the t-shirt changing to dress shirt. But if you zoom into the hair, it's definitely an AI generated smudgy mess.

This young nerdy girl with deer-in-the-headlights look and piggy nose is supposed to be our deadpan doctor.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this actress in an early 2000s black comedy movie. The hair color is totally wrong as well.

People have complained for a long time that Choices (East) Asian characters don't look very ...Asian. Probably that's why this generic young K-pop starlet looks nothing like Astoria the influencer lady in TDG.

The "artist" inserting the prompts should have clarified to AI that the COO has no gray hair or goatee. The pattern on his jacket doesn't even match his roleplay costume.

PB just generated a random black guy and copy-pasted the toupée on his head, which is probably one of the only two non-AI generated objects in the cover "art".

She is literally Sarah Hyland!

Again, like with the influencer above, the AI isn't aware that generally Asian men in Choices look big and bulky, along with other western beauty ideals.

Please stop this bullsh*t, @playchoices! AI generated images are not art, it's blatant theft. In order to train their AI tools, companies steal billions of artwork made by hardworking and underpaid artists. I'm certain you wouldn't be happy either if someone used your stories and artwork without your consent for training their AI to then profit from it.

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Finally finished BOLAS 2. It was a fun read and I looked forward to it every week, but I felt like the storytelling wasn’t as neat and tidy as the first book.

One example i could think of is with those specific fight scenes where the characters would start having heart-to-heart conversations right in the middle of a skirmish (e.g. fighting the Thieves Guild with Mal and Wren). Like, the sudden change in tone/pacing always felt jarring to me, and I kept wondering what these hordes of enemies were doing while MC and somebody else would start yammering to each other as if the world around them was on pause.

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This man should’ve been a love interest I’m so serious right now @playchoices

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Because what do you mean my only options are a man with anger issues and a cardboard cutout?????

[rafaveiro]

i miss aerin ://

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This man should’ve been a love interest I’m so serious right now @playchoices