#lis blogging

[mxmeiyun]

if life is strange could stop making just snippets of songs by fictional bands and instead release whole songs, that'd be great

[wrasslerjedi]

 i’m thinking about replaying life is strange again.

[lemedy]

We’re back in Life is Strange land, people. Only happy shiny times are sure to follow.

Right away the game’s shaming me for that whole ‘Choose the Bay’ thing from last game. Or rather, the game wants to know so that it can obviously tweak certain scenes that call back to Max and Chloe’s adventures, and asks you if you chose to sacrifice Arcadia Bay or not. Sadly I did indeed save the Bay. I had my reasons, I swear.

‘Lisztomania’ plays and well played game, I too owned that particular year’s Triple J Hottest 100 album.

Even if the promo material for LIS2 hadn’t blatantly spoiled that Sean and Daniel’s father was going to be tragically killed right at the beginning, I would have assumed anyway because the few short scenes we get of him is him being the actual perfect father. So obviously he was doomed.

Credit to the game though, you know the father’s death is coming and yet it’s still brutal to watch, especially with all the fuckery going on in the world. Brutal, awful and for a second I was ‘IT’S OKAY WE CAN JUST RESET TIME HE’LL BE FINE’ and then I remembered wrong superpower. And everything was bad.

Wandering around the woods and building a campsite with Daniel was weirdly tense because the game keeps dropping this heavy bear hints and so I assumed that at any given second a goddamn bear was going to jump out and try to eat the boys.

I knew I was back to Life Is Strange when Sean took a few moments to sit down on his ass and romanticise a bloody petrol station.

Sean/I didn’t shoplift anything – well, not right away – because while I’m already attached to the boys and want them to stay well fed, I also figured Sean would be wanting to stay off the radar as much as possible and therefore wouldn’t risk getting busted for the sake of a loaf of bread.

I did however steal that camping gear and kicked the racist old dude who locked Sean up and I have zero moral issues with that.

Brody = actual sincere nice dude unless the game’s fooling me and he turns out to be a Jefferson.

HI THERE ARCADIA BAY, looking all fine and dandy because I’m a terrible person who killed Chloe.

HONESTLY TAKING THE PUPPY SEEMS LIKE A BAD IDEA, but also Daniel’s a tiny grieving sad kid who is also a powerhouse psychic so probably it’s fine to let him have his dog.

One episode in and I’m already incredibly attached to these two kids just as much as I was Max, Chloe and Rachel Amber. I never had a chance, I’m a sucker for these ‘siblings thrown into shitty situations and have to stick together to survive’ stories.

I guess we’ll meet Chris again eventually in the main story? Max herself I’m not so sure of because it does feel very much like her story is done – which I’m fine with, after a full game, a prequel game and that soon to be released comic. Not that I wouldn’t be happy with a cameo or appearance, but I’m feeling very much that this story belongs to Sean and Daniel and I’m happy for it to stay that way.

Although if we get an explanation as to why a nerdy teenage hipster and a little kid woke up with surprise superpowers, or see if there’s any kind of actual connection between Max and Daniel – yeah, I’d welcome that happily.

[keeping-tabs]

Would a straight guy say THIS? (the answer is no)

[thegeminisage]

plot twists i have successfully predicted in the last year alone:

(spoilers for everything ever)

dishonored: the heart belongs to jessamine, also havelock & co are gonna stab you in the back - took me longer to figure out the first one but i had havelock pinned for a motherfucker before i even met him and i have recorded proof

life is strange: mr. jefferson is a serial killer, also had this pegged from nearly day 1, i guess day 2? as soon as the game told me he slept w/ rachel amber i was like, wow! so he’s a motherfucker! and lo

the good place: i don't even watch this show but when my mom was explaining to me how the swearing filter changed "fucked up" to "forked up" and etc i was like "man if i got to heaven and couldn't swear i would assume i was actually in some warped version of hell" and What Do You Know

anyway all the stereotypes about infjs are true: im psychic

[littlesocialistrobot]

the male gaze

[mxmeiyun]

Every time Aabria asks them to explicitly state their course of action

[mxmeiyun]

some chick (gender neutral)