#*yes

[great-gatsby]

had a dream last night that an ex mutual (we both have each other blocked now) sent me a message from a second account to tell me they’ve always loved me and wanna marry me. & i was like listen if you buy me an apple watch, the years of mess will all be water under the bridge & i will absolutely marry you. woke up before i could find out what they said to my counter proposal. anyway should i unblock them and propose yes or no

[gamebunny-advance]

Most Inane Rambling Yet

Sorry I haven't been around. Just been feeling *weird* lately. I'm just not connecting with my hobbies right now.

That said, I did go ahead and pick up "Date Everything" recently.

I don't have the "fandom brainworms" for it the way I did NSR, but I am burning through it pretty heavily. (But, I do that for literally EVERY game I own. There's a difference between my fandom brainworms, and the "consume literally every piece of content that exists for this thing" brainworms. They can overlap, but less often than you'd think.)

Anyway, I've got a lot of thoughts about it, but this is the most inane one:

(Frank discussion about sex past this point. Also, spoilers for Date Everything.)

Despite being a game where you can ostensively date and/or f*ck anything, it seems actually kind of unkind to objectum people.

Granted, it's not a community I have a lot of experience or knowledge about, but despite the premise of the game, it does seem to shame you a bit if you actually want to fuck your furniture.

Not *heavily*, but there is some built-in disdain for the concept. If you bring it up to Skylar (responding with "What if I actually want to fuck the furniture?" when you ask her if that's what's actually happening in the more "intimate" scenes), she reacts in disgust to this. It's not like an "Oh... okay..." kind of dismissal that I think would be expected from the tone of the game, but she reacts with actual disdain for you if you answer like that. Like, this is probably meant to be self depreciating humor, like, "Hey, isn't it crazy that we're insinuating that you're actually fucking your furniture?" without realizing that there are in fact people that want to fuck their furniture unironically.

Like, you can absolutely think that's weird. I'm just in the camp of, "If it's not hurting anybody, then let people do what they want." It just strikes me because otherwise this game is basically about the power of empathy. Most characters are treated sympathetically, in spite of their flaws. Very few characters are taken as "jokes" or shamed, even if their disabilities can initially present themselves in humorous ways. Distinct exceptions to this rule are the characters that present as non-human, even with the dateviators.

The first is Sinclair the sink. Most of the player character's reactions to Sinclair are dismissive at best and outright aggressive at worst. I guess because the player is supposed to assume that he's just a liar rather than someone that's actually struggling with insanity. In reality, he's suffering from drug-induced confusion, but I don't think that should make him a less sympathetic person. And I think they only thought they could get away with this because he is less anthropomorphized than the other characters.

This is a man struggling to make sense of who he is right now, and the player's kindest action to him is just to figure out the cause of his confusion. You are never given options to sympathize with his situation, just try to solve it. It irks me a little because very few of the mental health focused routes expect you to "fix" the person. They usually respect that "fixing" those sorts of problems isn't possible, or at the very least is gonna take a long time to overcome. The best ending for a lot of these is just giving those characters the tools they need to help cope with their bad mental health and/or support them through their journey as they work out their problems. With Sinclair, the player character is never written to actually be supportive of him. He's essentially treated as a puzzle box as part of someone else's quest, instead of a person in need *because* he is a sink.

Second is Dishy, whose gimmick doesn't need additional explaining, but he is nonetheless a less anthropomorphized character that is treated as a "joke" option specifically because he is less human. Don't get me wrong, it's funny. The commentary about invasive smart-appliances is topical, and the evil mascot character is basically a staple at this point. But that doesn't change that he's a joke-character *because* he is a dishwasher.

But, if you want to be totally fair, (at least as I recall), sex-scenes with these characters aren't written any less sincerely than the others. So at the very least, the game does *let* you fuck them if you want to, and it is still described sensually. But it's shaking its head disapprovingly as it does so.

And I wanna make it clear, I'm not offended by any of this, and I don't know if actual objectums would be. I can't really say that the game is "punching down" because objectums are such a niche and unknown community. It's the kind of thing that would sound ridiculous to the average person, and is thus a source of comedy. And, these characters are funny. It is funny that I get to have a boss battle with my dishwasher and then willingly fuck it afterwards. It is funny when the sink-man breaks the 4th wall to tell you to get him off the character introduction screen. It is funny that both of their human forms are decidedly off-putting on purpose to further emphasize that they are very different from the others.

I just think it's weird that a game about fucking your furniture shames you if you want to fuck your furniture. But I think the idea that I'm even taking it that seriously is the most inane thing I've done in a while.

Nonetheless, these are my honest thoughts about the situation.

[dykecinema]

Wait I am kinda obsessed with Oscar/Winterton

[dasozelotvonnebenan]

2 3 and 11 from the asks for the character you play the most!

My most played character, with a proud 745 hours a solid 16% of overall playtime, is Aerana. I guess that makes me technically an ele main. (but engies combined have more hours than eles combined)

2: What is their biggest character flaw? What do they THINK is their biggest character flaw?

Aerana has a lot of great qualities. They are all undermined by the fact that Aerana simply does not care if her actions hurt random people.

She thinks her biggest flaw is not being good with money. Truly if she were good at money things she could be the ultimate criminal.

3: The reverse of the previous: What is their biggest strength? What do they THINK is their biggest strength?

She is really really smart not only at science things but also at social things, the latter of which is a thing often overlooked by asura. She would never have come this far without really understanding how people tick. This does manifest in a bit of a manipulative streak, but really, can you call that a bad behaviour if she is also using it on herself?*

She thinks her biggest strenght is her unrivalled multidisciplinary understanding of golemancy.

11: What impression do they want to give off to strangers? How do they want to appear?

Intimidatingly smart, ruthless and in the know about everything everywhere all the time.

She does not want you to decide to do something, she wants you to accept that you were always going to do it. You were already part of her plan and you will never be able to understand the intricacies of it because you are not as smart as her. You will do as you are told because she will hurt you if resist your purpose. (She didn't even know you existed five minutes ago, but she is really good at hiding that fact)

[canine-teethed-sheets]

hey grabs you hey hey can you write spilverizz, can you make silver splice and rizz be gay can you write them grips wall

cackles >:]

[ spilverrizz / splice, silver @psycho-chair ]

Splice had been searching for Silver EVERYWHERE in the mansion but he was nowhere to be seen. It was almost like he just...

Poofed out of existance!!

He had checked every room, the kitchen, the hallways, even the followers room just in case he decided to feed from them. (Though he's starting to almost regret it as some of them gave him the stank eye.)

There is only one room left to check and with no doubt in his soul, Silver would be there.

And of course, he wouldn't be alone.

He pushed back the large doors residing Rizz's personal gym room, with hoops dangling about alongside flying colors of ribbons and a lone pole, standing majestically in the middle.

And as expected, he sees Rizz swooning Silver on, enticing him with his gracious moves and hypnotic spins. As if pulled, he watches the performance he is definitely not complaining.

Of course he shuts the door once he was inside.

This show is only reserved for the VIPs.

[acrosstobear]

MICK SCHUMACHER Saturday, 2022 British GP by Andy Hone for AP Images

[atdhpgirl]

Let me empathize CLEARLY! POTTUH! CLEARLY!- words by Snape if he saw this.