had to scour the internet last night for snippets of the scene where simon gets brought back up from the blood ocean because people were making me feel crazy that it was jack asking if simon would need more oxygen and I was so sure it was David. and it was David 😭 there wasn't a hint of an Irish accent in sight. it had that southern lilt and everything. hate feeling like im insane lmao
its definitely David, yah! hes also the one who speaks to Simon over the speaker after Ava takes Jack to the infirmary. Jack never says anything in the movie
I knowww 😭 i had a whole server on my ass telling me im wrong and I was like. uhm! ive listened to this man's southern fucking accent almost every day for nearly two years now. ive been watching jack for maybe 5 years. I KNOW what im listening to. it was crazy 😭😭😭 and then when I finally doubted myself and said sorry, they were just like, well, you should have listened to us, more people were saying it was him than not >:(
they really wanted it to be ironbutcher crumbs and I feel for them, but it wasn't 😔
im gonna say smth and its prolly gonna sound judgemental af but... that server sounds MISERABLE if they were actually getting on ur ass abt that like??? its so obviously not Jack. Jack can hundo percent do a decent American accent but it always comes out very "standard hollywood american", he doesnt have the slight Texan accent that Troy does 😭😭 Troy Baker has such a distinct voice too that unless hes specifically doing a different accent (like in Far Cry 4), hes so easy to identify 😭😭
"well u should have listened to us" but they were wrong af 😒😒
Literally everyone I've talked to who knows slightly what Troy Baker sounds like, including someone who said "hey that sounds like the Ocelot guy," know it's troy baker. Like I get if you THINK you've never heard him before but, like. Dude is in everything. You've heard a Baker even if you don't know it.
(I was one of the people getting attacked for daring to say it wasn't Jack)
The yeehaw baker... He's starving... Just a little voice actor who is barely getting by with his entire script versus a single jack line... How will he ever make it...
I can't believe this has to be the first thing I post on the blog and this is in no way to send someone hate but
Do NOT join this server. This server glorifies mental illnesses to the point where they have the ability to assign yourself a role specified by your mental illness. Not only is this harmful, but it makes it easier for predators to take advantage of an already very vulnerable group people should they choose to do so.
They allow minors to join the server- this isnt an issue in and of itself, however the only protection there is for minors is a role that says "minor" or ">18". This doesn't prevent you from assigning yourself the NSFW roles and you can actually change it yourself at any time. They openly speak about NSFW topics in the general chat and one of the mods has the role of "piss princess" (alluding to their love of watersports) which minors have access to see.
The server owner/mods have posted in the adult channel (woohoo the adult channel /s) that they were going to off themselves or that they have self harmed and have gone into way too much detail for it to not be censored. There was a user who stated that they might need to go back to therapy and another user told them that they shouldn't let other people tell them they're sick.
They openly allow the usage of slurs "as long as you're part of that community" even though all roles are self assigned and you cannot prove that they are/are not who they say they are.
This server has been watched like a hawk and what I've learned about it is that the people who run it do not care about the health and safety of all in the server.
I have a bone to pick with the entire crew of the Michelangelo or whatever the fuck it's called. It's almost 4AM, I'm not going to go look up how it's spelled. Also, fuck Tarman, he's involved too.
Why the fuck does every single character in Death Stranding 2 spend the entire goddamned game straight up lying to Sam, given that he's supposed to be their friend?
I'm actually going to start with Fragile, because fuck Fragile. I loved her in the first game and I am so PISSED at her in the second game.
She knows that Lou is dead. Oh, we may get a super bullshitty excuse from her at the end of the game about how she magically forgot key details, but he fucking knows Lou is dead. From the start. She knows she's gone. Does she tell Sam? No, of course she doesn't, because she wants something from him. She lets him walk right into this stupid mission thinking there's still a chance. She lets him carry that tiny flicker of hope and DELUSION like it's a cargo container strapped to his back.
And for what? So he'll do what they want? So he'll stop grieving his dead child?
It's so manipulative. It's so gross. She looks him in the eyes and just lets him keep believing that Lou is inside that stupid, empty little coffin strapped to his chest. She weaponizes his grief the delusion born of it to force him to be okay enough to help them even though he's obviously not fucking okay. That's not friendship, it's exploitation.
And the rest of them are no better. The whole Magellan squad, every single one of them is complicit. They treat Sam like a tool, like some kind of half-feral, half-divine postman they can just point in a direction and trust he'll deliver the impossible no matter how many times it kills him, even if it breaks him in the end.
None of them respect him enough to tell him the truth. None of them actually let him choose to grieve. Him being able-bodied and somewhat able-minded serves them more than a broken man who'd just lost his child and needs time to come to terms with that, so they just let him not come to terms with it for as long as it takes them to finish the mission.
They treat him like a fucking pack mule. I don't give a shit about Noman Reedus not being able to mocap as much. The animators could have worked without it. You get NO bonding time with the crew when you go back to the Magellan. They just tell him to go get some rest every time he tries to spend time with them and what the FUCK? You guys could at least pretend you give a shit.
And then the truth comes out and it's fucking devastating, because of course it is. All that grief building up behind that steadily cracking dam of deluded hope for so long, patched over by the duct tape of your "friends" playing along with your delusions so that you'll continue to be useful for them. And then he deals with that pain and suffers alone in that awful, painful cutscene because Fragile just walks out like a coward when she and Dollman are finally forced to admit it.
Because, you know, the only person in this entire two-game series that never lied to Sam (Higgs? HIGGS?!) has finally sown enough seeds of doubt that he's beginning to see through his own delusion.
Also they're near the end of the mission, so they don't need him to pretend to be okay anymore, so whatever.
I will fistfight the entire crew of the Magellan in a tar pit.
idk how valid i am with being upset, not having finished the first game and not having all the knowledge so my simpleton view is literally what do you mean the monster entity that killed billions (made worse by lou Not doing that) gets away with it because she occasionally gave sam a hug in his dreams but the guy who did considerably less is somehow beyond help 💀
(DS1 + DS2 spoilers ahead)
I mean to be fair I do understand why Amelie could be considered more ‘suitable’ for ‘redemption’, because as an Extinction Entity it’s literally hardwired into her DNA that her purpose is to bring about the apocalypse and end up killing everyone, whether she wants to or not—my understanding and what I remember of Amelie is that she tried to go against her nature when she was younger so the Beach ‘punished’ her and gave her uterine cancer which she had to have a hysterectomy for, which would then make her unable to have biological children whilst also separating her Ha and Ka, stranding her Ka on the Beach for probably around 50-60ish living world years, which would be around… several million on the Beach, and bear in mind this is complete isolation with the very very occasional visit from Sam. Amelie is clearly distressed about her situation with being an Extinction Entity, although her ways of going about it are clearly dubious, but her goals are reasonable based on her position—she spent millions of years in isolation in purgatory, cut off from the land of the living and the land of the dead. Her way of getting around this is hopefully merging all Beaches into one so she’s finally not alone. Yes it would kill everyone but they’ll die either way, better she doesn’t have to wait so long and her isolation stops.
Higgs on the other hand—whilst I absolutely adore and relate to him with every fibre of my being, he seems much more like someone who does not want help, he wants to either wallow in what anger and resentment he has, or get worse, but I think it’s more likely that he’s unaware that he’s doomed to repeat his mistakes because he’s blinded by his emotions and thus can’t learn from them. Also, unlike Amelie, Higgs is a regular human. It wasn’t in the nature of his very being to hurt people and cause suffering and extinction, he did that because he actively chose to, whether he was coerced or not. At some point he became a willing participant. And I don’t blame him for that. For all the shit he’s been through in his life, all the cycling abuse, all the manipulation, being used and used and used until he has to bite his way out, it’s no wonder he’s turned out how he has, but that’s something he has that Amelie doesn’t—a deep, all-consuming resentment for people and the connections they form. Whilst Amelie is actively trying to reach out and form connections, Higgs (whilst deep down he likely has the desire to, as a base human instinct from being social creatures and craving something he’s always lacked) sees the harm it causes and thinks connection’s ‘pointless’, it feeds into his rebellious personality and whole separatist thing, he doesn’t want to be chained down and he thinks that a premature extinction is, in his own way, a form of mercy. “Humanity has a few hundred thousand years, tops” and “Why delay the inevitable” and “We’re all a part of the Death Stranding”. He seems to have this outlook that all humans are good for anymore is dying. Add all the hurt he’s caused Sam and Fragile, out of sadism and revenge, as well as tens of thousands of years of complete isolation on the Beach and being alone with his anger that now had the room to spiral and spiral and spiral on top of all that. Yeah. It’s no wonder Amelie got the nicer treatment. She was Sam’s family, and she was trying—she wasn’t a sadist even though she had done a lot of wrong. Higgs, on the ofher hand, whilst yes he’s suffered a lot of hurt and he’s right to feel the way he does, he actively goes out of his way to hurt people, and whilst him and Fragile have history, I would say it’s very different to the type of bond Sam and Amelie had. They have a reason to save Amelie. They don’t have a reason to save Higgs.
And I guess that’s partly why it hurts.
I do want to say that I think you’re completely valid for your emotions, I myself am also still quite upset about it and I finished the game nearly two weeks ago, so this isn’t me trying to invalidate your feelings. It’s more me trying to look at it from an objective point of view and how the differences in their character would’ve fed into the direction they went for their arcs. And believe me I was desperate for, if not a redemption arc, then at least a healing arc for Higgs. But he got worse and worse until he had to get put down like a sick dog. And it cuts deep because of how attached I am to him and how much I relate to him. But I also understand why they went the way they did for him. Was it the best option? Probably not. And I think it goes against the message of the first game, as well as what I feel like the second game might be trying to say—I do think his arc feels hypocritical in the bigger picture, but as an individual, Higgs’ inclination for escalation until self-destruction fits with an ending like that.
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