#mild take

[marlasomething]

Funpoison is just sorta kinda unhinged Enjoltaire

[nightmarebunnyking]

Lmk hot take or mild take; I do think Mei should have more a grudge towards macaque and they shouldn't have been a duo in s4

[taw-k]

I actually liked Age of Ultron and The dark world

[iamunique]

Mild take: I know it, we know it; Jasper's book 2 wasn't awful

I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that his first book WAS down bad but his second book was...meh, kinda mid tbh. Not my favorite but it's probably not my least favorite at least in the moment, it's just there. I really liked seeing Tetris, Sewan is cool ig, there's not much I can say about it in general, there weren't any memorable moments in my opinion since I forgot literally half the story, it's decent at best and I'l, just keep it that. But overall I was definitely expecting worse thanks to his first book but I'm glad it wasn't how I imagined it would be but still the most forgettable book 2 I've played I would love to hear your opinion on this (Edited at 10 : 54 pm ET)

[maiselous]

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is more progressive than Emily in Paris.

[allium-phyrzz]

I am slightly uncomfortable

So now that we have this information, am I the only one who is a bit uncomfortable with shipping Midoriya, like, at all? Just the idea of 7 and 1/2 adults feeling all of his emotions through relationships makes me a little bit uncomfortable. I am down with the potential this has for Hurt/Comfort and Found Family tropes, and I always vibe with QPR’s, but any romantic relationship potential is just kind of gone for me, at least within cannon.

[joyce-stick]

so I keep thinking about updating my thoughts on the Coffin of Andy and Leyley, because they did change, but I'm not currently doing that

The main thought I have is

I played only part of one of the routes, the one where Andrew befriends the demon, and I really was not a fan of the reveal that the whole organ harvesting scheme was like. surgeon guy who thought it would get his rocks off if he could harvest organs from people

And then this line about Andrew not thinking Luigi is a good Mario Kart racer was said

and i was just like... okay sure whatever

I mean I don't feel like Luigi is the best Mario Kart racer either, but something about the whole thing turned me off.

so anyway I decided to just wait and maybe see when the story is finished how I feel about the whole thing but right now I'm just sort of like. i dunno. that whole reveal felt like stupid bullshit and it bummed me out and made me feel a bit stupid for thinking the story was smart.

was I just projecting my own politics into it? idk. I should probably keep my mouth shut about it until I can assess the full context and divine a proper answer to that question

[izzynstuffz]

this MIGHT be a hot take but i dont like the agents narration in season 2. it feels like a bit of a cop out… too much “tell” and not enough “show.” i think other podcasts are able to get away with a certain level of narration (i mean, look at malevolent), but it often feels more… relevant than the agent does. if you weren’t reading the descriptions for the episodes, it would be ABSOLUTELY out of nowhere. even though i was reading them the sudden narration felt a bit out of place/sudden. if it had been introduced in season one i might be a little less weirded out by it? but i wish this dude spoke a little less. it gets excessive at times.

Im currently relistening to file 39 (the first adam therapy episode) and the descriptions of the office being entirely done by the agent feels a bit… lazy? not to be rude? but i feel like a few lines of dialogue between sydney and adam could’ve done a lot more. a quick “I didn’t know you had so many certifications,” or “What’s with the lack of color?” could’ve told nearly the exact same things without blatantly explaining the entire room. sure, the agent could’ve chipped in, but still.

im sure this one gripe will be answered, but there’s also the question as to how the agent exactly knows all of these things. we know this isnt retrospective, and a lot of the descriptions are peoples actions, so how would the agent know this? im thinking there’s some sort of surveillance system, which would line up well with a lot of other things, but in certain places (like the middle of the woods, adams office, etc) it doesnt seem like there could exactly be a camera. that is to say, this agency doesnt seem to be exactly bound to the laws of reality, but yknow….

it kinda feels like the agents main role is to play explainer. which, lore wise, doesnt really make sense? in the descriptions, (im assuming its the same agent) he talks to someone that’s clearly in on it, so it doesnt seem like they would need the explanation. are these files also being shared so someone else? or am i assuming wrong and the provider of these files is doing the narration and the person in the description is receiving these? its a bit confusing and i hope we get an answer sometime soon. But it just makes it seem like there’s not a real lore explanation behind this narration? there HAS to be. i KNOW it. but i just… can’t find one. and it only makes me more irritated??

i just feel like there’s a lot of instances where a few short lines of dialogue could’ve been fudged around to not have mister man over here yammer about the setting/ give us eyes. It feels out of place in a format thats specifically meant to give us an audio experience. in season one, since there’s no narrator, there’s a lot more environmental storytelling. just the sound design showing the listener what’s happening, yknow…. im sure there’ll be more reasons as to why hes giving us these strange monologues in the middle of scenes…. i dunno…..