Pop Culture is Culture

Posting occasionnally about anime, games, litterature... when I think I have something to say and my IRL friends don't have the reference. Standard style and pic because I'm a backend person, an oldschool roguelike enjoyer, and very lazy

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Tolveilouka POV :

"At some point, you had to assume great events in the world were all connected. There was, apparently, a literal string of fate that you could see and alter.

He’d heard that from a [Witch], once. A dreadful [Witch] who’d dug her way down to the heart of the world and trapped an Old One in a pit of magic to summon until the end of time.

He should know. He’d done the digging. And she hadn’t helped a damn bit."

It really does seem like all the old monsters know each other, huh. Which means we can now add Tolve/Putrid one to the Nerrhavia/Bel/Az'kerash/etc... shipping chart :D

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So, it turns out that when Calidus Reinhart isn't fettered, he remakes Vault-Tec with his caravans.

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“This matters. But I’m really afraid. I want to do something. But am I—am I allowed to do my best? To try even if it kills me? It’s easier if nothing matters. Is it okay if I care?”

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Mrsha was right from the start : Venim must die

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Well, aren't we cheeky ^^

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*nods* Ah yes, the strong body odor of the elves

[jakesbrain]

Every cyberpunk heroine owes a debt of gratitude to these two.

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What I love about Motoko is that -she's basically a fusion of Molly and Case skills-wise, and so the Neuromancer influence on GitS is blatant, -canonically bi since her first iteration and I would bet able and willing to propose a threesome if she met the other two in a bar

(also, so influential to the second wave of cyberpunk that I bet a lot of people made janky Cyberpunk/Shadowrun/etc... characters wishing to emulate her rizz and failing to do both hacking and fighting with hilarious results *raise hand*)

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You look up twi one time and you get spoilers seared into your mind so now you gotta gaslight yourself and make yourself forget

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don't worry, depending on the spoilers it's either early things that won't be spoiling for long, or things that won't make any sense for sooo long that you'll doubt your memory until they finally materialize. I personally learned of Ryoka's current romantic choice while reading volume 3, and so spent a good few chapters going "Wait, what ? Seriously ? THAT ONE ?" *retch*

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As everyone knows, cocoa is made from coco nuts

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I'm your worst nightmare... A slug with legs.

And wings. And axes. And a stinger. And...

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If someone knows how to fix the infinite world map travel bug, I'm taking any and all solutions because I really don't want to abandon a character with 12 hands :(

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I'm your worst nightmare... A slug with legs.

And wings. And axes. And a stinger. And...

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"And Hashwower came and said : 'Decapitate the rich', and the people were awed and called her the Cerulean Communist

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Fun with chimeras

So it seems that taking burrowing claws is coded to put them on your two first hand-like appendages, so I got one clawed hand on my right arm and one clawed pincer on my back because bilateral symettry is for chumps

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A lot of Arco is pain, but there are still moments like this one

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Read in a fic a line where some secondary character says to Tattletale "You're not Chevalier." and...

it reminded me of this iconic Marx Brothers scene https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7clor and I thought about the (very contrived) scenario of the same scene with the Undersiders (classic lineup, so pre-Needlepoints). -Brian puts on civvies and the hat, with shadow always conveniently obscuring his face whenever the customs guy tries to compare the picture with it. He absolutely refuses to sing, though, and is sent back in the line.

-Lisa goes in as herself, purple suit and all, and still makes the customs officer doubt for a few minutes that this blonde teenager is or isn't french singer Maurice Chevalier. And then she pushes on his buttons a little more, he quits his job and is replaced by another guy. Back in the line.

-Rachel can do a convincing disguise... As long as she doesn't talk. Also, the customs guy say something about her dogs and so she punches him. Back in the line.

-Alec finds the real Chevalier on-board, masters him and make the real guy impersonate himself, musical number included. He passes customs, go down to port while signing autographs to everyone (and flirting with everyone too because Regent is having fun) and only when he's gone does Alec remember the assignment, and that he's still stuck on the ship and also now the passport is gone. He never even entered the line. :(

-Aisha, laughing her ass off, brings back the passport since she can come and go as she wishes and... What was I talking about ? I forgot.

-Taylor, as always, decides to go above and beyond the call of duty, removes her glasses, puts on a perfect masc outfit and trains her voice to mimic Maurice's using Internet clips, agonizes over hiding her hair yet do it for the team anyway (and has a few weird gender thoughts that she decides to bury and never explore ever again, as Taylor does). She even has an alright singing voice, but the public attention makes her have Emma trauma flashbacks, she buries everyone in bees and flies and the Undersiders leave the ship in the confusion.

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A lot has been said about Arco's fun gameplay, its killer soundtrack and its anticolonial text, but I bet the game can get even more attention on the hellsite if I mention that the main characters of the two first chapters past the prologue are respectively

-a grandpa-aged not-mexicano on a revenge quest against big oil thugs, -a not-aztec woman built like a brickhouse with her tits out who wishes to be a professional arena fighter and has a single braincell (sometimes)