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[jpbreakfast]

twitter liked this one

[p4nishers]

the project hail mary universe is one of the only ones out there where orpheus turning around actually saved eurydice btw

[saucefunk]

dirty dirty dirty

[bgm05]

i see that you media addicted louts have filled your tomodachi life islands with video game and movie characters instead of great leftist thinkers

[tongue-twists]

the enlightened pervert can look beyond kink to find meaning. and then get horny about the meaning instead.

[nimsabeef]

i love this game

[nimsabeef]

i love it when i befriend a chicken and it starts telling me about the everstinking horse

[nimsabeef]

i made slavoj žižek in tomodachi life and he immediately fell in love with karl marx

[saradiation]

✨🎂 Happy 413! 🎂✨

[memorycycle]

wake up in the morning go to sleep

[anphivenas]

wake up in the morning go to sleep

[twizzta-old]

[anphivenas]

whoaaa .... whats a lovely slimer like you doing in the benthic zone. .....

[memorycycle]

wake up in the morning go to sleep

[flipchild]

[memorycycle]

whoaaa .... whats a lovely slimer like you doing in the benthic zone. .....

[flipchild]

wake up in the morning go to sleep

[martindykewood]

im barely exaggerating when i say i think of this every single day

[a-town-called-hometown]

deltarune ultimately posits that when you are in a position of power over someone, it is unavoidable that you will hurt them no matter how good your intentions are. we hurt kris, even if we want to respect their wishes. the lightners hurt the darkners, even if they truly are trying to do the right thing. on a much less severe scale, the adults in the game hurt the children even when they mean well. it's not necessarily a question of blame - it's a question of whether or not certain powers can even be wielded without someone getting hurt.

this is why discussions about culpability and blame in this game frequently miss the mark for me. while it's important to discuss how some characters' actions can hurt other characters, it also ignores a large part of the game's nuance if we don't also acknowledge that every character in the game is a nuanced, complex person who is reacting to a world that is not fair. a lot of these characters evoke pathos precisely because there isn't a reasonable way for them to overcome their circumstances!

when your actions in a world hurt someone else automatically, what can be done about it? that's the uncomfortable question the game is asking. if we can't let the game be uncomfortable and challenging, we simply can't have good discussions about it.

[khaleesiofalicante]

Can I just say I absolutely loved the bit where they showed Benedict playing with his brothers, throwing shaving cream around, and then immediately cut to the scene where Sophie was walking past that room when her friend was cleaning up the mess the boys made. Class difference masterfully shown without a single word being used. Lovely stuff.

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

the phasmid in disco elysium has to be in the 99.99th percentile of effectiveness for characters that, when i actually interacted with them first, changed my perception of the entire world a piece of media had built up. like DE, pre-phasmid, has some wondrous magical realism kind of elements that appear more as you progress (the existence of the pale and its whole deal, harry’s skills allowing him insight he should not have, etc) that juxtapose some of the more gritty and real aspects (we’re investigating a murder here. and an extremely politically and emotionally charged one at that) but i just feel like the phasmid’s appearance really solidifies that yes, this game does feature serious topics and interactions that are desperate and sad and violent, but oh my god we have to keep going. like oh my GOD we have to keep living so bad. there’s hope and here is wonder still undiscovered by the rest of the world. there’s more to see out there and while we have that we have to continue seeking it out. things can be strange and impossible and beautiful and so sad at the same time and i want to see it all. all bc this big fuck-off insect that looks like a clump of reeds told me to do it for the working class. nods. okay phasmid. okay

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

[triprobellant-deactivated201709]

this passage describing sexual cannibalism in praying mantises contains the only use of an exclamation point in a wikipedia article i have ever seen

[kmnm1403]

the autopsy report is outdated Hajime

[doityourselfbombs]

every day I have to make decisions

[doityourselfbombs]

back in the fucking building again