full of emotions, unfortunately

// he/him // early 30's // 18+ to follow // •☆♤QUEER LEFTIST♤☆• earthengear-arts.tumblr.com anti-censorship, antifascist. i like cowboys, knights, elves, art, RWBY, Arcane, and Jedi Fallen Order (HAUUGGHH)

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go look at my art blog while you're here

@earthengear-arts

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it's crazy that you can go to the store and buy a jug of chocolate milk. you ever think about that??? they just have FULL jugs of chocolate milk there

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this is SUCH satisfying analysis, and i love that he clearly LOVES star wars.

i don't know a ton about historical fencing but it's sooo vindicating to see an expert point out many of the things i've thought about while watching lightsaber battles.

i started to talk about this while streaming jedi survivor the other day (and immediately got distracted because i think it was the final fight/never finished the sentence) but i'm never quite sure what the mass/drag situation is supposed to be on a lightsaber.

obviously the physical lightsaber prop has to have mass where the blade is and swings kind of the same way a big stick would. they're big sticks lol.

but i constantly think about the fact that a lightsaber would (probably? unless i'm missing something) only have mass in the hilt. they would handle SO differently if the blades didn't have mass--my assumption is that in-universe there's supposed to be some kind of electromagnetic "drag" on the blade, but it's super interesting to think about. are they affected by gravity? would they handle differently in the presence of a strong EM field?

just cool to think about. (-:

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whatever *adds my enemies' corpses to my shambling skeleton army*

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BEHOLD MY SKELETON ARMY #myskeletonarmy

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you cant escape my #myskeletonarmy

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i ended up with over 4000 skeletons on a map a few days ago #myskeletonarmy

[nick-nonya]

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@hugoweavingbaskets @tiny-knives hellow founding members of the bd and cal best friend club

(i think they're best friends and i would at all times like to talk about it)

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everyone reading this is invited to the club btw (-:

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My contribution to the club ✨️

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YES!!! YES!!!!!!!

[aquashark18]

hope this is ok for the club 🙏

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DELIGHTFUL CONTRIBUTION, THANK YOU!!!!!! :-D

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me before i get my paycheck: i'm so excited to spend this on essentials and save the rest wisely

me as soon as that direct deposit hits: you know i've always wanted to learn the theremin

[iamanewvagina101]

what r ur kinks

I'm consumed by grief

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decisions

[shaythey]

Part two of my Jedi: Fallen Order Moments That Make Me Go Crazy series

[animatedjen]

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@hugoweavingbaskets @tiny-knives hellow founding members of the bd and cal best friend club

(i think they're best friends and i would at all times like to talk about it)

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everyone reading this is invited to the club btw (-:

[tiny-knives]

My contribution to the club ✨️

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YES!!! YES!!!!!!!

[auloscaelifer]

Unexpected friendships (Cal and Omega would definitely be best friends tho

[animatedjen]

Cal “No Bones” Kestis:

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jedi survivor thoughts part 16

MAJOR SPOILERS ABOUT THE ENDING

as suspected (and just like with jfo) the laaaaast little shred of plot was held up by me just being unable to defeat the boss lmaoooo

man HOW fucking bleak!!!!!!!! i tend to prefer tragedies, so this was kind of catnip for me.

was really expecting it to end on a hopeful note with merrin's speech to kata. was NOT expecting them to then continue and go for SUCH a dark tone.

what i wonder was the significance of cal leaving bode's lightsaber? were they telling us that cal is going to fall or kata? i mean, it's gotta be cal. they've been pushing that HARD since day 1 with the inevitability of becoming an inquisitor thing

the fact that bode's whole Thing was "i'm doing this for kata" and then nearly shoves her off a cliff at the end of the battle.....insane. fully makes sense for his character! just brutal to watch though. that poor kid.

poor kata. oh my god. i don't know if it's better or worse that she saw it all happen. like at least she seemed to know that bode's end was very much his own fault. i straight up thought merrin was toast. but what a complex set of emotions now that the ONLY people kata has to take care of her now are the people who orphaned her. good god.

what a terrible mirror between bode and cal--that desperate longing on bode's face for just. death! after the battle. i get the sense that a lot of bode's jabs during the last battle ("Why won't you just die?!") are things he says to himself internally, and same with cal. something something i am a shadowy reflection of you.

i like that SO many questions were fully unanswered about bode's history. this doesn't bother me the same way as the holes in what happened with the mantis crew post-jfo. not sure why! i'll have to think about that.

really struggling to understand the rationale behind tanalorr. it made sense that it was secret 200 years ago, when ONLY the jedi knew it was there. but now there's a developed world below the anomaly that witnessed days of GIANT BEAMS shooting into the sky AND 8000 sightings of a jedi who everybody knows is a jedi and they're just.......not gonna mention it to the empire???? even cal's insistence that it'll be a safe haven is something i don't follow--in one of the first visions he has of tanalorr, the planet is getting attacked! like. what

YEAH HELLO???? there's now an imperial uhhhh destroyer i think (the evil triangle looking ones) orbiting koboh. like! they've immediately found you out. your safe haven is a myth

(also went back through my observations and like. we never got information on what the koboh dust was, or what santari lied to the council about. why was dagan SO obsessed with tanalorr pre-council-rejection? again, i get the sense that they wanted the player to read between the lines a lot--a reasonable choice!--but i wish we'd gotten a lot more information on major plot elements like that.)

oh noooo there's a force echo where bode used to sit at pyloon's. i'm sure this will be fine. OOOOF OOF OOF good shit good shit. between that and kata singing her "ghost star" song up on the roof with pili AND her chat with cal ("Oh. I think I understand.")......i'm experiencing an Emotion.

overall, very fun despite some complaints about the characters' relationships, the unnecessary tight pants on merrin (why dude), and some elements of the plot i just don't really get. i love the original trilogy but i think this was at least as strong as any of those stories, and ultimately (despite my critiques) i thought it was a good game. i hope that they get to make a third game. really enjoyed this one.

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jedi survivor thoughts part uhhh 14 i think AGAIN MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR ENDGAME SPOILERS

cal: "I just sensed something, Greez. Did you feel that?" cal that is the second most concerning thing you possibly could have said, the first being "i'm fine"

Cere: "Cal. Master Tapal would be proud of the Jedi you've become." straight up had to pause the game. i'm FINE

THE FADE TO BLACK.....I KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS LMAO. they fucked!!!

CORDOVA//////im cry.

EXCUSE ME???? BODE IS WHAT/? HE'S FUCKIGN WHAT

i knew that he betrayed cal. i did not know uhhhhhhh any of the rest of it. and may i just say: holy shit

oh no. not again. god why does every fucking jedi we find have to be evil. that's so fucking depressing.

this plot line hits soooo much fucking harder than merrical no offense

the fucking respawn

HANG ON FUCKING WHAT WHY I AM PLAYING CERE RIGHT NOW

man i wanted to play cere but not like this. jesus fucking christ (straight up unsure if cal is alive at this point) (this is awesome by the way)

absolutely love that cere is just SO absurdly capable. and that her meditation points look different. of course they do!! i fucking love that. also tried to go into the menu to see what skills she has and they so wisely do not give me that information lmaoooo

god cere is so fucking cool. it is genuinely hilarious how clumsy and inept cal is by comparison

related: why are they having me save every four seconds. cere has fucking got this lmao

genuinely devastating to see the archive in flames. their hard work.....gone

............oh OK so we're fucked. vader's here. we're just fucked now

this fucking fight has my heart pounding. i keep yelling "COME ON CERE" looool. dude. everything is fine. one death so far.

death count: ||||| ||||| | (i got so fucking close that time and yelled "NO!!!!" embarassingly loudly) |||| |

i am genuinely devastated by cere's death. dude. i'm experiencing an emotion. maybe two.

also meta-wise what a brilliant way to have the player experience the lead-up to cere's death (cal experiencing the force echo of what you played through.) smart, devastating choice

it is soooooo normal and fine that cal's meditation space is now tinged with red. and also that i can use sith powers. don't even worry about it

gotta say, this is probably controversial considering the number of times i saw this in the tags for jfo, but i just wasn't ever interested in inquisitor!cal. it just seems kind of boring tbh. it's more interesting with the events of jedi survivor, but still....honestly? i'm more interested in having a main character who has a moral code. i do really enjoy the way that they're playing with his morality here! and i'm glad it wasn't just "cal is an inquisitor now." i think that's what's unappealing to me about au's where he works for the empire--without significant buildup, i am just not on board with it. this IS really solid rationale for why cal would suddenly be OK with doing stuff that up til now was morally unpalatable. (that said, to each their own and i'm glad that other people enjoy their au's--everybody's got their own preferences. (-: )

bode fight count: ||||| (lost count tbh, too lazy to rewatch the stream and check)

bed time