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I'm just sorta here really. She/Her. 22.

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Even though it's been a while now, I haven't been able to stop thinking about Jerry's realisation scene. Unproofread rambles under the cut.

The fact that Jerry imediately asks to be turned back into a drawer is devistating to me. And then he accepts he can't go back by putting himself down. I know that he wasn't doing perfectly before but it's still sad to see, especially since it's the player characters responsibility to maintain the stuff in the house. He was the last dateable I realised (other than Skylar of course) and I had gotten used to the datables responding positively, and so there was also the whiplash of Jerry feeling such discomfort. I know he ends up fine with his train collection which he gets to show others like he always wanted, but does part of him still want to go back? I believe that this is where fandom people are supposed to write 100 angst fics, but I don't know how to write that without it consisting exclusively of Jerry and the homeowner dramatically crying on the floor.

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So about those flowers...

Deltarune chapter 5 spoilers under the cut

Some flowers seem to evoke certain lightners extremely strongly. This post about Rudy and Flowery being similar was what got me thinking about that.

Aqua parallels Kris. Visually with cyan skin and the red accents evoking Kris's dark world apperance and soul, with the bow looking particularly heart shaped. They also both have dark hair over where their eyes would be. Aqua likes knives, and has a concerning lack of distinction between aggression and play. Kris has their own knife, has a history of somewhat mean pranks on Noelle, and if the Ch 4 egg room is anything to go by, needed therapy that specified the goal was to (paraphrased from memory) "make art and not kill people"

Seth parallels Berdly by being a glasses wearing, annoying, book obsessed nerd (said lovingly. I adore them both.) Wierdly, Seth knows about Berdly enough to look up to him. Where did he get this info from? It doesn't seem like Birdly would have had the chance to interact with the flowers, in the darkworld or otherwise. Did Kris tell them?

It might be misremembering because I haven't played the previous chapters in a while, but the others don't seem to have parallels as strong. I suppose Yellow and Blue are in some ways like Aplhys and Mettaton in Undertale. A yellow person who blames themselves easily and a dramatic peformer who supports them. But that's a weaker connection to a different continuity. Green = The bunny who runs the diner? Orange = ???

Maybe not every flower is supposed to have a lightner equivalent but it's interesting how strongly some do.

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Obviously Caine is the son of Spamton and Tenna. Where else would he inherit the fancy suit, wacky showmanship and unhealthy levels of desperation from?

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I like how the way Jerry talks about Silky is similar to how people talk about cats. "Oh yeah, thats just the creature who shows up at my house and chews my things. I've decided that he works here actually, (even though he's no help at all because he's a literal animal.)"

Have you ever seen thise videos where a cat sits on a model train track and knocks the oncoming trains over? I feel like he might allow that. Maybe. A little.

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Date everything is a great game that I adore dearly, except for all the bugs. How did they add more?

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I generally enjoyed the gameoverse pilot, but I do have to complain about it doing the "men get diverse bodies while women are conventially attractive" trope. It's not inherently bad to have a conventionally attractive female main character, or to give multiple characters the same build. On it's own Kit's design is fine and it makes complete sense for Kit to have the same build as her mother and her villian counterpart. What does become an issue is when the prevalence of these tropes is gendered. Kit looks nothing like her father, who looks disproportionately animalistic compared to the female cat people we got to see, and Kit looks like other women she isn't related to including those from different worlds to her like Miss Information, while men get clearly different builds. Kerboodle looks much less like his villian counterpart despite both being robots, while also looking even less like characters from other worlds.

Not only is this trope sexist, it also reduces the clarity of the worldbuilding. Men from different worlds can be distinguished by being different creatures entirely, while the women are humans with distinguishing features that can easily be hidden by camera angles or different clothing. Which becomes more of an issue when the women are the only ones to change outfits. Gobbles will never not look like a dinosaur/learnosaurus, even if he changes his outfit, and Fold will always be paper cheat sheet regardless of what form he folds himself into, but Kit's bikini makes it more prominent how much more humanoid she is, and Miss Information stopped looking like an informant when she ditched her uniform.

It's not like having humanoid characters can't work here. Dusk (the sharp feature having, elfish, vanmipish guy we see when Kits world is destroyed) and Warrick (the muscular, armour headded, frankensteined syntax leader) are both humanoid archetypes who are still distinct from each other. Inversely, Crabgirl is a non humanoid woman, but she ends up feeling like a caricature of the unique designs the men get, with her only saying "I'm Crabgirl," and being comically disgusting, making her an odd one out compared to other women in the show, rather than one part of a diverse set of female character designs. Still, maybe this was an attempt to diversify the female characters?

This could be rectified somewhat by more female characters being added later on. I hope that is the case. Especially since there are less women than men here in general. To finish though I want to highlight the issues this style of character design causes.

I thought the Lulu depicted in the second image was a cat person. We can't see where the cat ears would be because the first photo covers the top. Based on the show's poster though, she seems like a non cat woman. Is she from Miss Information's world then? Or are the similarities because they are both women in a show that makes women look the same? Based on the way this show genders character designs, I doubt it would be this ambiguous had the characters in question been men.

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So if you are zoomed in on one miis face and wait, there's a chance that another me will stick their face in frame to say hi.

That is literally my blorbo, Jerry from Date Everything, looking at me. We are both happy because I feed him one apple per day.

I didn't think I wanted this game. I have no idea who else I'd add to my island. But I love this. It is the correct amount of silly.

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Editing my Jerry mii so much I forgot that I should go to bed actually. I'll do that now.

Removed the lightbulb because I didn't like how flat it looked in the middle of his hair. And a few other edits. I think he looks Jerrier now? Maybe?

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Ok I get tomodachi life now. You put the blorbos into the enclosure. You are god, but only in ways that are as silly as they are. Watch the blorbos. Feed the blorbos. Pet the blorbos. Carry the blorbos. Help the blorbos feel more like themselves.

Also they are miis. Which is beautiful.

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I downloaded the tomodachi life demo just so I could test the editor out. I tried to make Jerry from Date Everything but he isn't feeling Jerry enough to me. I need to make him Jerrier!

This has got to be at least the 3rd revision of him and each one was drastically different. I wish I took more photos for comparison. I like the new customisation options they've added, like the eye options and the seperate front and back portions of the hairstyles, though I wish tying the hair in bunches was a seperate option to the back portion of the hair. There's also no button that lets you automatically create Jerry, but I'm sure that nintendo will see the importance of adding this to the full game.

I don't like how flat the face paint is either. Maybe different clothing would help achieve detail with volume, but I hear the clothing shop makes your miis stay inside and ramble about interesting items they might obtain in the future. Wait, that seems in character for Jerry! Maybe thay did add automatic Jerry creation after all!!

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Do short video creators not realise that captions are supposed to be legible, so they can be useful? If you only have 1-4 words show up at a time, have visual effects show up on the words, or be the wrong words entirerly because the AI auto captioner got it wrong, then people who rely on captions can't make use of yours. And people who don't want them can't avoid them because the captions are baked in and actively excessive.

Captions are an accesability feature that are relied on by people who would struggle to understand the video otherwise, and can still be a benifit to people who don't strictly need them. Broadcasters have standards for captions, not because they are boring companies, but because those standards are the difference between people being excluded or not. If it'd be an incomprehensible experience to watch a captioned video for the first time while it is muted, those captions are bad.

I'm not someone who heavily relies on captions, but I hate that an accessibility feature has become the online equivalent of jangling keys to keep your attention. They could be useful, but are being used in a way that is counter to why they even exist at all, and it feels insulting. At least if they didn't have baked in bad captions there'd be a chance of togglable good captions being added later. But it's standard to put a little bit of effort to make an AI give a worse experience for everyone. Which is the theme of the present, sadly.

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(Tadc episode 8 spoilers ahead!!!)

When ep 7 came out, I made this post about how creatures that eat people are a recuring thing in tadc, beyond the one Jax/Caine scene in that episode. (I.e. Gloink queen, fudge monster, angel head, ect...) I floated the idea that Caine was doing this on purpose, and he had been lead to believe that Jax was approving of this, before I chalked the whole thing up to a recurring Gooseworx thing, with no deeper meaning in the show itself.

I am now partially un-discarding this theory.

I'm not convinced that Jax's percieved approval was ever a thing, but we now know that the Red AI ate the Blue AI. I believe that Caine's repeated use of monsters that eat others was intentional characterisation for Caine, consistant with this reveal. Consuming another is one of the first things Caine did. It is what he continues to be obsessed with. He is literally a mouth.

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Since everyone is expressing their feelings about Diceplay (not my fav ship but its cute), theres one more thing I feel I have to share with you.

I did not care for Dicehoarders or Messytabletop

It insists upon itself 😔

Kinda doesnt help that my fav ships when it comes to Jerry are always him with the characters made of salt, vinegar, and everything sinister. And Hector..he doesn't fit those categories but he'd take care of Jerry so so well he'd shower him in kisses.

And me as well but that's ahem...another thing.

Anyways Dicehoarders or Messytabletop never rlly clicked with me! I wanna see different Jerry ships other than those 2! Cmon gang! Expand your horizons!

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This has been bouncing around in my brain for a while now, and since I'm replaying the game again it has only intensified, so I thought I'd share.

Jerry x Hoove

Why you ask? That's simple. I think their personalities would make it possible for them to get each others hate, friend, or love endings, which allows for relationship progression between them.

Jerry hates you if you clear out his drawer. Hoove's job is to clean stuff up. Inversely, Hoove hates you if you don't clear out his bag. Jerry never wants anything to be thrown away.

But on the other hand, Hoove would understand that Jerry's collection is meaningful to him just as his own stuff is. And Jerry would be happy to take the things Hoove is weighed down by off his hands, and show off the rest of his collection, giving Hoove the space to observe without the expectation to carry everything himself. Hoove's stories of the outside bars and sports games would inspire Jerry's art, and said art once completed would further uplift Hoove's outlook as his baggage dissapates.

I have this whole scenario in my head where Mayor Celia hires Hoove to get rid of Jerry's stuff and they start off absolutley despising each other. But as time goes on the realise that they don't want to hate each other and eventually fall in love.

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Death of the Author means that any interpretation of a work, that is supported by the work itself, is a valid way of interpreting the work, even if the author did not intend it.

Death of the Author does not mean that the author should be sent death threats if the story you made up about the work gets contradicted by the author later on.

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The new mobile tumblr ui has repeatedly caused me to accidently reblog posts when I meant to look at other reblogs. Having "I want to look at other people responding to this" and "I want to spread the reach of this myself" be separated by how far down the thumb reaches is a recipe for disaster, because the thumb can very easily fall short when only using one hand.

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Why does the date everything tag have so many bots in it? I am not interested in AI generated women, or casino games. I want the junk drawer man, and I could easily be scammed out of all my money by a single drawing of him asking me for my life savings. All this spam is unnecessary.

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I love Mr Ant Tenna but I can't truly love Mr Ant Tenna until he lets his employees unionise.