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Reposting this from reddit as it has now been taken down. If you have been wondering about the downfall of choices here’s some info for you!

Hi all! I’m sure y’all have been confused by the direction Choices has taken lately. run.tv slop products, such as Hero: Homecoming and It Lives Within (no, not the fan project – side note, don’t forget there’s an Obsidian Cut in the work), or the Queen B merge game that still feels like a fever dream. Well, we have Choices insider info! Not the monthly newsletters. Actual tea. Buckle up, it’s crazy! or at least was at the helm of, which is run.tv’s predecessor.

sporticus1234

So essentially another insecure person went on a massive power trip because their ego got bruised and decided to destroy the app itself rather than actually improve it.

Sounds about right for a modern day corpo-villain. Especially the part where they basically take 0 time to self-reflect and realize they are the problem. They're more upset the fandom is giving them backlash rather than them just rolling over and saying thank you to whatever fuckery and bullshit they decide to bestow upon them.

#playchoices #choices #pixelberry

So I've been catching up on Disney's Descendants lately to prepare for the 5th movie coming out this week, and just from the snippets they have released...

It became infinitely clear to me they had the outline and the ideas for this movie way before the 4th movie was even a thing. But because they couldn't immediately jump into the 5th movie without putting up some type of plot line to get there, it feels like they threw something together quickly to try and bridge that gap, which resulted in the 4th movie, which to me explains why the 4th movie seems so lackluster and missing that spark that the other movies had.

Just the song "Dancing with the Enemy" is already clearing the entire 4th movie's soundtrack altogether, so I'm hoping the 5th movie really steps it up if the trailer and the teased songs are an indication.

The one thing I will keep criticizing Disney for is to STOP REUSING THE SAME VILLIANS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. We already had Harry Hook take a prominent role in Descendants 2 and 3, and even Celia Facilier had good screentime over Dizzy and the Smee twins in Descendants 3.

Disney, you have so many other villains you can pull from that have children canonically if you would just go back to the very first books. Because according to the first two books:

Mother Gothel had a daughter named Ginny.

Lady Tremaine had a grandson named Anthony Tremaine.

The Ringmaster from Dumbo had a daughter named Hermie.

Claude Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame had a daughter named Claudine Frollo.

Yzma from Emperor's New Groove had two children: Zevon and Yzla

Jasper and Horace from 101 Dalmatians had children named Jace & Harry Badun.

Literally so many other villains.

I don't mind the Smee twins having a comeback in this film because they didn't really do anything in the 3rd movie, but like...do we really need another Hook child when we already had Harriet, Harry, and CJ or another Facilier child when we had Celia and Freddie? Like, you could've easily gone back into the book series and pulled already canon VKs and had that same continuity between the books and movies. Plus, it would've been a great opportunity from Villains in older, underrated movies like Dumbo and Hunchback of Notre Dame to get a spotlight shone back on them.

#descendants #disney descendants #disney #disney villains #descendants wicked wonderland #wicked wonderland

One of the genres I like that pops up on my Tiktok FYP a lot are people's like truly hot takes, whether it be on TV shows, Kpop, books, etc. And one of the ones that I saw fierce debate over was one for Harry Potter and the Sorting Hat. I can't remember the exact take word for word, but it went something along the lines of: Hermione would make a terrible Ravenclaw or Peter Pettigrew and Gilderoy Lockhart were in the correct houses.

And boy the debate was insane, and I felt the need to give my unsolicited opinion and thoughts on the matter because I have nothing better to do with this dystopian timeline we're in.

Adding in a read more so your timeline isn't overwhelmed with text if you are interested in the ramblings of a 29 year old. If you want a spoiler: Yes, I do agree with the take above wholeheartedly.

#ramblings #my thoughts #harry potter #sorting hat #long post

itlivesproject

Hello everyone, mod win here.

A couple days ago, I made a post addressing Pixelberry/Series Entertainment's "It Lives Within." At the time, I wasn't aware of the story, I only knew that the name was the same. Since then, I saw many people accusing it of plagiarizing our game. I decided to look into it more, and after having watched all the episodes on YouTube, the claims of plagiarism unfortunately seem to be valid. As such, I'd like to further address this situation, and provide a list of stolen ideas and art with screenshot proofs and explanations.

A few years ago, I had a video call with one of the original writers for the It Lives Series. He no longer works for Pixelberry, and did not work with them at the time of the video call. Though I knew nothing about their original plans for the game before starting this project (including that they also intended to name the game "It Lives Within"), he told me their plans on that call. It was going to be a survivor-type cave crawl story with giant bug-inspired and creepy crawler monster enemies, where you play as a new character who is attacked by these creatures while camping and separated from their friends. From my understanding, Connor and his crew would be sort of like Sam and Dean from SPN, acting as these experienced "hunters" who help protect them.

That is not what the story of what Choices "It Lives Within" was. At all.

This means that the AI """writers""" at Series Entertainment/PB were not creating this story based on the original writers’ plans. They made their story idea later - after ILW was completed in its entirety. Therefore, it's reasonable to follow that unlike the title, these similarities are not coincidence. Though even then, the title It Lives Within had to do with the cave setting and going literally into the earth, while the AI version has nothing to do with caves. So the reasoning for the title is not the same as the reasoning for their original title.

With all this in mind, let’s go over the similarities between our game and the Choices It Lives Within AI show. I am going to be putting it beneath a read more, in case there are people who are interested in playing ILW and don’t want to get it spoiled.

sporticus1234

Seriously? Fuck you Pixelberry. Sold out for AI and the best they could come up with was ripping off another creator who spent MONTHS to make this story?

This is disgustingly low.

I am so sorry this happened to you.

#fuck you pixelberry #playchoices #it lives within

Saw Wicked 2. idk how you can say the witch got a happy ending

Because technically, she did get her happy ending. All of the 5 major characters (outside of the Wizard and Madame Morrible) did in some type of fashion.

Throughout the whole movie and the musical, there were two things Elphaba wanted more than anything in the world. She wanted equality and acceptance of the animals and humans. But the 2nd thing we saw a lot more of in the 1st film was her underlying desire to be accepted and loved by others. Elphaba grew up shunned by literally everyone, and the only person who really had some type of love for her was Nessarose. Elphaba longingly wanted to have friends, have people love her for her, and not be a perpetual outcast because of her green skin.

In the end, she did get what she wanted. She found someone who loves her for who she is and sees past her green skin (Fiyero), and animals have been free and accepted back into society. However, Wicked always portrayed the idea that when you choose the behavior, you choose the consequence. And that goes for every major character in the musical and the film.

Glinda-Became a powerful figure in Oz, beloved by everyone, and climbed the mountain to the top. However, she had to push everyone else down to reach the top, and in the end, her rise meant that everyone else had to fall, and now she's alone at the top of the mountain.

Elphaba-Finally found someone who loves her for her (outside of Glinda), and her work allowed the animals to eventually become accepted and free. However, it's a world that she will never be able to see again.

Fiyero-Got to have his future with Elphaba. However, it's a future where is no longer human because of his choice to sacrifice himself to let her escape.

Boq-Finally got free of Nessarose and her clutches and got his revenge on Elphaba who turned him into a tinman. However, he is also now alone in this world and will forever be a tinman.

Nessarose-Did everything in her power to prevent Boq from leaving her clutches and managed to have Elphaba save him from dying. However, she will never be able to have a future with Boq because she died (Oh well).

The one thing I love about Wicked is that it doesn't hide the terrible consequences that came from everyone's decisions, and it doesn't try to redeem the characters to the point where they do not face the repercussions of these consequences. You actually see them having to live with the pain and regret of their choices. So while everyone in this movie does get their happy ending and want they want in their hearts, it's a happy ending that doesn't come without its consequences. And I think that's a portrayal of real life. We all strive to have happiness in our lives, but in order to get that happiness, we have to sacrifice something in order to get it.

#wicked #wicked for good #wicked film #anons #my thoughts

I fear I have fallen victim to those ridiculously stupid, cringy short reels that you see advertised all over tiktok like Dramawave and Drama Box.

I don't know what it is, because the acting and the stories are legit cliche, cheesy, mediocre, and downright laughable at times, but like why is this my new hyperfixation?

#not choices #vertical shorts #shortreels #dramabox

the-unconquered-queen

The insane coverage disparity between female vs male Choices armor outfits strikes again :/

sporticus1234

Im fucking dying at this.

Someone really went "you know what a suit of armor needs more than protection of vital body parts and organs?"

"Cleavage and thigh"

#a knight in new york #playchoices #choices #pixelberry

I understand the results, but from this day forward, I will refuse to accept whatever the fuck that was.

Whatever those fucking judges were smoking, pass some my way.

And yes 100% fuck that rape apologist and believe survivors.

#milano cortina 2026 #guillaume cizeron #fuck the rape apologist #believe survivors #winter olympics #olympics 2026

The judging on figure skating reminds me so much of gymnastics judging post 2005 when they got rid of the "perfect 10" system in favor of the "open scoring" system and seeing gymnasts who can do the difficult flips and tumbles with shoddy execution get medals because their difficulty saved their sloppy execution.

Difficulty gets rewarded over the execution and artistry of the performance because explain to me how Shun's PCS was lower than Ilia's?

No hate to Ilia because jesus christ is he impressive in his own right, but seeing a near-flawless routine from Shun not get a higher PCS score is straight up ragebait from the judges.

#milano cortina 2026 #winter olympics #shun sato #olympics 2026

I FINALLY made it to Winter Olympic Tiktok and immediately went on a hunt to find out the one piece of news I care about.

According to my research, the Milan version of the chocolate muffin from Paris is the Tiramisu.

Will follow up in a few days to see if Winter Olympic Tiktok can beat Paris Summer Olympic Tiktok.

#the olympics #olympics #olympics 2026 #winter olympics #milano cortina 2026

In your opinion, what do you think caused the downfall of Choices?

It's honestly hard to pinpoint one definitive answer as to why Choices fell off. This is just from my perspective of why I think Choices fell off, and there's around 3-4 stories that I can pick off the top of my head that sort of led to the direction Choices was going down. (Adding a read more because it is LONG)

The Nanny Affair/Queen B-This was a time that you had to be there because when I tell you The Nanny Affair (1st Book) was INSANELY HUGE on Tumblr, I'm not kidding. Same with how Queen B went. I always had a sneaking suspicion Choices was going to go into a more "adult route", and Queen B, Nanny Affair, and Witness were the first toe dip into the genre. I think the massive success of Nanny Affair's first book was the deciding factor for PB to throw a bunch of resources into creating smut romance because it was cheap to make and yielded high profits. Ultimately, I do not think they lived up to the hype because with Nanny Affair, after that had their first night together having sex, the book and series just collapsed afterwards with bad plots and nothing but sex and sex and a Main Character they bent over backwards to try and make perfect. And then there was the whole Queen B racist act that really turned people away from the story. And the fandom fighting that happened afterwards with people seeing it for what it was vs the people who were defending it really soured a lot of people.

#choices #playchoices #anons #my thoughts #pixelberry

This is going to be such a super random post but does anyone remember the sprites they used for My Two First Loves?

I think it's absolutely batshit hilarious that for the male love interests Mason and Noah, they actually created a unique sprite and backgrounds but for the female love interest Ava, they literally took her default pose (that overused sassy hand on hip pose) and slapped it onto a pre-existing blurry background and added gold lighting because they literally did not give a fuck about her in that story loooooooool.

I just randomly thought about it and laughed to myself for like 10 minutes.

#choices #playchoices #my two first loves #choices my two first loves #this was insane #choices really hated female love interests

Even though I don't play this app anymore and very seldom go through the news and blogposts anymore, but...

You're telling me that Pixelberry, a mobile app that has the backing of a multi-million company that expressed their joy at using generative AI to create stuff...

Cannot think of anything better than to go back and "remake" their old stories into a completely different art style that NO ONE requested...

AI is literally destroying the environment and the best this AI company can do is reheat expired nachos.

How ironic.

#pixelberry #playchoices #choices #high school story #high school story remake

You say Galinda is complicit in the Wizard's plan, but still don't believe she's as wicked as them or the villain of the series?

Correct.

Something people need to realize, especially when it comes to Glinda's character, is that you can't put her in one extreme or the other. I've seen people who vehemently paint her as being as wicked as Madame Morrible or the Wizard, but I also see people who are painting her as the victim as going "She's representative of the girl who loves and helps everyone and still ends up alone". Both of these takes are extreme, but it also downplays a lot of who Glinda is and who she becomes. She doesn't do anything evil like Madame Morrible or the Wizard, but you cannot sit here and paint her as the victim and a girl who loved everyone, because as the first film/Act has shown us, Glinda is anything BUT a girl who loves everyone and helps them out of the goodness of her heart.

The fact is, Glinda is a grey, nuanced character. But when you look through the lens of who Glinda represents, you will understand it better. I could go into a whole dissertation about Glinda and her character, but if you take out the whimsical, fantasy of Oz and really focus on the personalities of the characters, you would see Glinda is a representative of real-life people.

People who are apathetic and indifferent to other groups of people because they are not being affected by the problem or circumstance other groups of people are being affected by. People whose privilege blinds them to the reality of others because they have not experienced what others have experienced and never will. People who want their cake and want to eat it too. People who refuse to compromise their beliefs or their own comfort and instead, tell the other side they are the ones who have to compromise and make concessions. People, who at the end of the day, would rather stay silent and turn a blind eye to problems if it meant they kept their safety and comfort. People who only care about issues and problems when it directly affects them and their own comfort, but otherwise stay silent when it affects others.

The reality is, a lot of people in real-life are a Glinda. And if everyone is a Glinda, does that mean everyone in this world is evil and wicked? No. People cannot be classified and divided into black and white, but rather, the majority of us are all shades of grey in the middle. And that's why Glinda cannot be painted into one extreme or the other, because she's just like any other person we know or are, and not everyone we know is a horrible, awful person, right?

Now, that's not to say there have been people who are pure evil and wicked like the Wizard or Madame Morrible, because history has shown those people have existed. But it's much harder to paint someone as the good and pure hero like Elphaba, because even Elphaba, despite her fight against the oppression of others and being propped up to be the "good" hero in the story by being painted in a more sympathetic light, does commit awful, horrible things (i.e, kidnapping an innocent girl and holding her hostage just to name 1 thing she does.)

#wicked #wicked movie #wicked for good #wicked 2024 #wicked part two #wicked part one #anons #my thoughts #long post #glinda upland #glinda #galinda #galinda upland

We've seen the highlights, but what about the lowlights?

Oh boy.

I want to first preface this by stating I will still stand by my opinion that this was one of the best film adaptations of a musical. However, it does fall short in areas that make me understand some of the critic's reviews.

First, if you're a fan of the musical, you would know the problem that plagues the 2nd Act of Wicked already, and unfortunately, this film is not immune to that. The pacing does move quite fast that it can be difficult to keep up with. They jump from scene to scene with not enough flow or transition between it. I will be interested to see the deleted scenes and wonder if they will provide more context to some of these cuts because the pacing makes the film seem choppy and crunchy. It's not smooth or flows easily to digest.

Second, some of the iconic transitions people have come to expect are not in this movie. There's no transition between the reprise of Not That Girl and As Long As You're Mine, and they cut out the incredible FIYERO scream Glinda does that morphs into Elphaba's voice. You will still hear it, but it's arranged to be in a different point of the song rather than the beginning.

Third, the SFX makeup for the transformations is terrible. They really took my boy Jonathan Bailey and turned him into THAT. Same with Jeff Goldblum. I will leave that for you to see because no amount of words can describe how much I will loathe them for that.

Fourth, the new songs I found to be fitting for the characters. While the characters show emotion throughout the movie, the transition of their characters becomes affected by the choppy pacing of the movie. I wish we could have seen a more natural transition of the characters, but we don't. I didn't mind the new songs as I think it gave depths to the characters more and explained the forthcoming scenes of their actions, but what annoyed me was where they put "Girl in the Bubble". They ruined that part of the film for me by putting it where they did because it hurt the energy and flow of that scene.

Fifth and final one, it makes a lot of callbacks to the first film, which I wished they didn't do so much of. I get that when they split the movies into two parts and waiting a year between films, this might be a problem, and it was. They brought in flashbacks and callbacks to the first film, and while I understand why they did it, I wish it was only for more important things to give the plot better understanding and explain the mysteries. Some scenes from the first film I did not find were needed in this one.

Overall, it's not a completely terrible film, but it's not the greatest piece of work out there. I will forever stand by that it did make me emotional seeing it, and I will defend it being one of the best film adaptations of a musical. But you can see where certain decisions made at the start of the filming process would hurt the franchise by the time the 2nd movie came out.

#wicked #wicked for good #wicked movie #wicked for good movie #wicked spoilers #wicked for good spoilers #spoilers #anons

So, I was incredibly fortunate to be one of the people who was able to see Wicked: For Good last night, and now that's been a day since I've seen it (and yes, I will be seeing it again), I guess the only thing I can start with is wow.

Is this the grandest piece of cinema ever created as some people are claiming it is? No, it's not. I can think of ten films off the top of my head that clear this film in terms of casting, cinematography, story/plot line, etc.

But, for a film adaptation of a musical, I can say this is EASILY top 5 of all time. Film adaptations of musicals are tricky, because you're going to have constant comparisons between the film and musical. But you also need to be able to appeal to the market of people who don't like live theater or musicals and be able to draw them in.

The reason why I think Wicked does this so well is because they got the right cast to play these parts. Initially, I was skeptical when they announced Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh in the film, not because they are bad actors, but because the bulk of their careers were the opposite of musicals and theater. However, Michelle really blew my expectations out of the water. If there was one thing I would change about the film, I probably would have re-casted Jeff. He was a good Wizard, but I still didn't feel he fully grasped the twistedness the Wizard has, but overall, I'm not that upset about it. But you can easily tell this cast LOVES theater and really appreciates the art behind it and wanted to come together to make this adaptation as amazing as it could be. I'm only 29, but if there isn't a re-make of this adaption when I'm in my 70s or 80s and this is the only one we get of Wicked, I will not be upset about it.

Also amazing props to John Chu for actually taking this huge task seriously and wanting to actually have it be seen as more than just an adaption of a widely acclaimed musical. You could tell he loved the story and wanted to portray it as best as he could.

STOP HERE IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO READ FURTHER FOR SPOILERS.

#Wicked for good #Wicked movie #wicked 2024 #wicked for good spoilers #long post #my thoughts #my opinions #wicked spoilers #spoilers

Is Glinda the real villain of Wicked?

No. Next Question.

No but in all seriousness, Madame Morrible and The Wizard were always meant to be the true villains of Wicked. A lot of people have a belief that Glinda is a villain too due to her alignment with the Wizard, but Glinda in my view has always been a grey character, and that's a hill I will die on. The musical and the film do their best to portray her in a more "favorable" (and I use that term loosely) light because she's given a lot of time being a comedic relief, so her vapidness, shallowness, and hungry ambition are laughed off as being funny.

Adding a read more for potential spoilers.

#wicked #anons #wicked movie #glinda upland #galinda upland #wicked for good #wicked musical

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