#dumb ramble

[anothersongaboutghosts]

my ultimate sp hot take is that i hate the way the fandom portrays most characters but i love fanon kenny. like yessss give that boy a southern accent. give him eight piercings on each ear. make him yap up a storm. make him morally ambiguous the way god intended

[pyropuppytf2]

lwk feel like pyro rn because I have lost my voice and I can’t SPEAK I HAVE A MOUTH BUT I CANT SCREAM HEHEHSHAKBFFHHGG

(someone sav me from this clogged throat dawg 😔💔)

[arcanemadman]

I swear to god people need to learn the difference between a character being whitewashed and a character being under different light.

I've seen people complain about Xenoblade X white washing Elma, which isn't a new complaint because the same thing was levied at Sharla and Alvis when Xenoblade Chronicles DE came out, and especially remember when people threw a hissy fit over Alvis being bleached in 3 before being told that's not Alvis.

On the left is Alvis, in the middle is Alpha, and on the right is Alvis but not a dude.

Like look at these two screenshots of Sharla. One's in the sun, the others in the shade.

She's still got dark skin, but she's in a completely different game engine to the one on the wii with models and meshes that interact with the light in a completely different manner, and the change from an attempt at realism to a more stylised design just made that clearer.

And as you can see, its not like Sharla was singled out to be given a slightly different skin tone. The engine Monolith have been using with games currently is very different to the ones they used on Wii and Wii U, and they changed from an attempt at realism for a more stylised approach which I think is good to keep in mind.

This image slide shows it best. Everything is a slightly different colour now because they removed the grey filter and have brighter lighting. The yellow on Cross's shirt is more vibrant, Elma's clothes go from rust to red, her hair gets bigger which is funny in comparison but overall you get the idea.

Xenoblade X Original vs Definitive Edition - Imgsli

And need I remind you of white Claude?

So in Fire Emblem there's Claude, the resident uwu I'm so mysterious and morally grey without doing anything morally grey, and he looks like this.

He's stated to come from another land and he's clearly dark skinned. Fairly standard, stuff.

And this is White Claude, which happens when you don't export him right.

All that ain't whitewashing.

This shit is whitewashing.

Deliberate attempts to change a character to make them white or having a white person playing someone of a different ethnicity is shitty and rightfully deserves to be called out, no mistakes about that. But taking someone and standing them under a different lightbulb is not the same at all.

Besides she's a blue alien anyway so does that mean she's doing blackface?

[togamicchi]

Im kind of intimidated but also thank you long term togami fans for being around... like Wow.. i admire you and think you are pretty cool. 7 years going strong with this guy and theres people whove been with it for 10+!!!!!! insane ... I must get to your level... Soon..

[cryptid-artha]

Something I hate in fantasy and Sci-fi is entire races/species that are evil. And when killing those creatures or subjecting them to terrible things is seen as a heroic act.

Things like orcs from a lot of fantasy media, or Drow from Dungeons and Dragons. Or the Wraith from Stargate: Atlantis, or in parasites whose name I can't pronounce from Stargate SG1 (There's a little nuance later in the series but not much).

I was watching Stargate Atlantis on Hulu, and kept wanting to learn more about the Wraith antagonists and hoping to see other sides to the species, but it never happened. And then the series of episodes around what was done to the Wraith referred to as Micheal. How they experimented on him and betrayed him, several times, used him and eventually killed him... And that episode ended on a triumphant note after the settlement him and many others were killed. They REALLY could have used that to really get into Wraith minds and the attempt to tackle the morality of their actions, and an attempt was made. And ruined the instant they ended killing them all on a triumphant note as if it was heroic. They tried to tackle the moral issues behind it all, but it was so surface level, and it still ended with feeling like the writers were saying "This race is pure evil and we are keeping it that way :)"

The thing that really honestly annoyed me the MOST was how the Wraith not being human was what was blamed for them being evil. How making them "not evil" was using a retrovirus to take out their non-human side. They were a race created for the show just to be evil, and nothing more. They weren't really given a chance to be anything else, when playing with the basic concept of what they were and how they worked could have been so interesting.

I would have LOVED to see some of the Wraith realize that their hunting and feeding on humans was snuffing out conscious minds and more exploration of what they must do to survive and how it effects their mind and society. It would have been so interesting without making them less threatening.

An entire species can't be pure evil. I would have LOVED to see more exploration of their minds, their societies, maybe some groups trying to find better ways to do things. But the way they were portrayed makes absolutely no sense to me, I just can't really figure out HOW they could have become space faring while basically being aggressive predators that barely even get along with eachother. But the shoddy worldbuilding behind them is a whole other subject.

Anyway, all rambling aside, show me nuance! Show me how orcs live and how their society works. Don't make them evil, make them different! Show how differences in beliefs and ways of life might make them clash with other species or within their own species. Show me individuals in the orc armies working under a warlike leader and how it effects them and their motivations and what they are taught. Show me inside their minds!

Show me an orc warrior who looks over the destruction the army they are a part of has done, and feels regret when he sees the bodies of innocents killed in their onslought, even if he ends up rationalizing it and his loyalty to his army doesn't waver. Show me the fight between the ideals he was raised with, and the reality of the actions of his army.

With races added in to be antagonistic, give me reasons why! Explore that race, their biology and psychology, their culture, their side of the story! Show outliers, show general society outside of the warriors fought by the heroes of the story. Show us civilians. Members of a race can absolutely be antagonists, but don't make the entire species evil because that's convenient for you!

Anyway, rambling aside. I haven't finished Stargate Atlantis yet, which spawned this ramble. Here's to hoping they DO actually show more nuance with the Wraith. If not.... I am very tempted to make an AU that actually makes the race actually make sense, even if just for brief exploration because the species has a lot of interesting potential.

[asinasura]

if i ever get around to making a flcl themed cosmetic for tf2, i know the perfect thing to reference that both:

fits the art style / setting of tf2, and would look snazy as fuck

i'm talking about canti's jacket !!

yeah my boy Joseph canti ( according to the wiki ) has just what i'd want to reference >:D

firstly, the jacket itself. the jacket is an ma-1 flight jacket ( specifically, the vietnam era type ma-1 flight jacket ( specifically SPECIFICALLY the japanese replica. )) tf2 takes place around the 1960's, meanwhile the jacket was produced around the 1950's, if my information is correct :p

this would fit for both the setting and art style, as i don't see the jacket itself obscuring much, nor being too small of a change. also, due to the jacket being mostly a sage-greenish colour, then it'd be easy to swap out for ( perhaps ) a mellow red colour

( actually, the jackets were initially produced in midnight blue and sage green, with blue being the original colour for the military. then it was replaced by the sage green )

secondly, the jacket is a jacket that was primarily worn by pilots during wars. this would fit with the pvp-styled gamemode that tf2 is known for. personally, i would see this being a cosmetic for scout, soldier, and demo. however i don't think it'd be out of place as an all-class cosmetic

all in all, i think this would be a good cosmetic that would fit the game, while also being a fun, subtle reference to flcl. i know the jacket itself isn't a reference to flcl, but if i were to theoretically Make this and theoretically Name this, then i'd imagine the name would be a subtle ( or not-so subtle ) allusion to flcl. maybe something like "fool's cool flight jacket" or some shit like that lol. idk i'm not clever, tell me if u got ideas tho >:J

ok little ending thing: if i were to make a cosmetic that references flcl without caring about the art style and setting of tf2 i would make pyro wear mamimi's uniform because firestarter >:D

that or give scout / demo a rickenbacker 4001 that makes a loud BWAAAHHH bass noise on hit, so its obnoxiously loud like the frying pan

[somethingaboutmint]

This is so niche but im gonna go insane if i dont talk about it. I 100% legit non ironically think that one of the best things fo4 did was the way it handled radiation poisoning. In fo3/nv i still dont understand what radiation poisoning actually DOES and even if i do get it its rare and i usually have enough radaway to deal with it but fo4? Its so good. I love that while it doesnt have active adverse effects it lowers ur health bar. It had me STRUGGLING in the early game and radaway/radx is not easy to find! Perfect game design. For once in my life: thank u todd

[ele-nixu]

So I finally sat down to animate something after weeks of not spending more than 15 minutes on a doodle. I actually enjoyed it and I consider it a HUGE deal bc it’s been so long since I find enjoyment and meaning in what I do, even if the meaning is I'm making this dummy move and sing with drawings.