#my salt

[hi-vis-kennycat]

mother and grandmama and aunty cleaned the apartment yesterday and now I can sit on the table next to the window #my window #my salt #my pepper #my altoids tin #my candle

[zorosnavigator]

All the people complaining abt Katara not being 'angry', 'passionate' or 'raging' enough in the live action and then then you'll see Katara in s2 being the angriest motherfucker ever (against the fire nation, Zuko, or Sokka, even Aang... whatever they'll decide to do) and people will still be like 'wait. wait. no! nononono! angry, but not like that! '.

[reasonreblogs]

The thing that really grinds my gears, really irks me, really fucking annoys me is when people frame not supporting party candidates as “being picky and expecting a perfect candidate.”

Nah bro, I’m looking for a car that drives.

Every election, I go to whatever god forsaken lot looking for something that will wheel from point A to point B. Saying people are expecting the perfect candidate is acting like people go to the lot and are saying “aww this car would be perfect but it’s BLUE, I can’t buy it if it isn’t RED.”

No, I come up to this lot and get told “this is the car you want!” I ask if it turns on and get told it has a back up camera, three whole doors and only half the bottom rusted out. I ask if it runs and get told I need to focus on how it can seat five. Then tacit admission that there is an engine but no keys to the car available and there will be legal trouble if I try to get them made.

I just want a damn car that runs. I want something that goes from point a to point b. It can be a FLINTSTONES CAR because then at least pushing it with my own fucking feet is BY DESIGN. Instead the lot is trying to tell me it’s my moral duty to buy this one that’s electric even though there’s no charger to speak of and no way to take it off the lot. All the options we’re getting is a burned out husk or all the cosmetic features with a drawing of an engine under the hood and told we’re being spoiled, selfish, and privileged for expecting better.

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

bayonetta doesn’t have a canon sexuality, she is implied to be bisexual through her torture attacks on male and female angels (+ her relationship with jeanne) but i don’t see why her being a lesbian would mean anything, considering her independence and confidence in game stems from her being a witch…not because she likes women. you might support lgbt+ rights but your post came across as a little homophobic, especially finding it in the bayojeanne tag.

My apologies if my post about "what I no longer like about Bayonetta" seems homophobic, but I have not played these games for years and I was very excited when they announced the third installment a few months ago, so, I relived some of the game encountering some cliches that "I stopped liking".

I'm not a big fan of ships anymore, so I was surprised to learn that Cereza and Jeanne are a canonical couple (because when I played the first two games I was 10, and it was with my dad). Again, I'm very sorry if my post seems homophobic (I'm not that good at expressing my opinion either, bad for me I know).

Still, I'm not throwing hatred on the game and its community, I just gave an opinion (which was supposed to be aimed at handling the male characters).

"but i don’t see why her being a lesbian would mean anything, considering her independence and confidence in game stems from her being a witch…not because she likes women."

And your right. Again I apologize, but I still will stand by my opinion that is not a ship I would live for.

And, this opinion comes from having seen some blatant attempts at LGBT + representation in video games and television shows.

In short: I am coming slowly back to the Bayonetta fandom so I'm finding myself with new lore about the game, things that I like, and others that I don't like, but still waiting for the next game with excitement. (I also speak about this with another fan)

[hereissomething]

sure go on and whine that i talk abt fright night 1985 too much but gdi its important for gay people esp those in horror community

[cmdrsarahpalmer]

The Infinite Salt post

(I’m just getting this out of my system, I don’t like being a constant downer so after this I will restrict myself to the occasional gif reaction in my new My Salt tag unless there’s some massive breaking news that must be commented upon, I promise.)

Ok, this ended up longer and saltier than I had thought, also more off-brand, so under the cut it goes!

So, gameplay reveal reaction was…mixed. I wasn’t really surprised at them going hard on the Combat Evolved aesthetic and story beats, but after that Slipspace Engine trailer a few years back I was expecting it to look a lot prettier (I don’t really care about 4k and 60fps and all that guff, but when fricking Domino’s is taking shots then yeesh).

Ok, start positive: I like the Pilot, a bit cheesy, but I like him. I like his and Chief’s interaction, I like how Chief responded which shows we’re not just getting block of wood blank slate so the dudebros can project Chief, so that’s nice. Pity I can’t allow myself to get attached, as he’s already getting some heat for talking back to Chief, and if anything gets criticised that means it must be swept away, rather than worked on, developed, or given a conclusion, am I right?!

Confession: I don’t hate Halo 5. It is extremely flawed in execution, and does things to loved characters which needed much more development and explanation in the game, and was too overcrowded to let its characters breathe, but I don’t hate it. (Perhaps one day I will write my True Heresy, ‘Why I Don’t Hate Halo 5: An Essay,’ but I need to write ‘Sarah Palmer is Awesome And You Guys Are Just Mean’ first). With some more work and development, a proper conclusion might have salvaged it.

But nope! Let’s just ignore that gigantic elephant in the room. Let’s kill Banished, they’re like the Covenant, right. People liked them in Halo Wars 2, right? Yeah, so I didn’t care for the Banished. Felt it was a lot of big overture, reality their top guy getting chumped by a century old colony ship. Also Brutes suck to fight, that’s right I said it! And I am extremely sensitive to evil monologueing. Almost ruined the Didact for me, had I not read the Greg Bear novels afterwards (Forerunner Trilogy for life!) I am glad Darin De Paul is getting a pay check though (he’s Mayor of BlizzCon don’t you know)

I’m here for the Infinity crew, not just Palmer. Another confession, Spartan Ops cutscenes was my first exposure to Halo. That’s quite different to traditional Halo, so the vast majority of fans are going to prefer and have nostalgia for the old stuff. I accept that. But I think what’s saddened me is that before I had thought there was room on the edges for me. In interviews 343 keep saying it is a follow on from what went before, and old fans will be able to pick up what’s been going on in the universe these past couple of years. But what I’m hearing is: lore scraps in terminals and collectables for some, reboot and killing aliens and not afraiding of anything for others.

I’m here for cheesy sci-fi action. Love the wider universe, and think the best stuff is outside the main games, so if 343 wants to play it extremely safe looking back at CE and focusing purely on Chief, fine. I’d actually come to terms with that as it’s what they’ve been saying and showing for the past few years. The games are where the conflict between Halo as narrative universe and capitalist product are most in tension. Microsoft needs this number of product shipped by x date or execs and shareholders won’t get their bonuses, after all. So if playing it safe is what they have to do, fine. I was just hoping for a bit more daring around the edges, maybe a little experimental DLC (and hope of hopes Palmer DLC).

They need a good solid Master Chief game at its base, fine, completely agree. But when they’re talking about following up with even more Master Chief adventures, I have concerns. When they talk about the game as a platform and that they will be developing it long after launch, I have concerns. When they talk of the much vaunted ray tracing going in after launch, I have concerns. It sounds like this game is going to be launched no matter how incomplete or broken, because they must make the holiday period and new console launch because everyone will die there will not be bonuses. I’ve heard people expressing concerns it’s going to be a Destiny game as a service, and I’m here going man I wish it were a Destiny (Destiny has room for lots of cool background characters). I think it’s going to be another Master Chief Collection, Sea of Thieves, or No Mans Sky. Love to be proved wrong, but yeah expectations are being carefully angled downwards for the actual game.  

Man gaming fandom is going to continue to be a tire fire.

So. Storywise. The bit I actually care about. My expectations are adjusted as follows:

Good: some lore scraps in the terminals and collectables

Neutral: Palmer, Infinity and other characters I like don’t show up at all

Bad: Infinity blew up so they can slow pan on Chief’s visor as he overlooks the wreckage

So there’s my salt. Anyway, now I’m just going to keep a casual eye on developments, and go back to gifing previous games and writing fanfic and being positive about what I like.

[janiedean]

Since Jon Connington is the one who has the trigger with bells, did the show combine Daenerys’ character with Jon Connington by the end? (Similar to how they combined Jon Snow with Aegon and Sansa with Jeyne Poole?)

ah OF COURSE they did :)))))))) same as they combined aegon’s sl also with cersei’s and joncon’s with jorah’s bc of the grayscale thing :)))))))) spoiler: not a good idea as finally everyone has noticed -_-’’’’’’

[eulerami-art]

Plz, do tell us more about how the fo4 bothers u 👀

Oh man...that writing.

New Vegas cast a huge shadow. You don't need stellar graphics or complex interfaces to have excellent writing. Ulysses is one of the greatest characters ever written and I'll scream that from any rooftop, lol.

FO4 is ugly. The lighting is blinding and unnatural. There's no color theme, like FO3 (blue,) and NV (orange.) It's just either BLINDING or DULL, two settings.

The world feels empty, small, stagnant, and uninspired. The character models are uncanny and "off." The style misses the mark despite having concept art from the late Adam Adamowicz.

Not to mention the voice acting (of your character) and simplified dialogue trees...flashbacks of DA:2 (which despite people's love of the characters was an absolute garbage fire of a game from a technical perspective.) It's the problem of tone again; the tone will read differently than the character speaks.

Just...no...we didn't need another fallout in that location, there's a lot more places in the fallout universe begging for exploration. Maybe tropical (Florida mod for NV,) Alaska, somewhere coastal and flooded with a boat interface, and mutated aquatic creatures? The Great Lakes? Hawaii? Other countries? Tons of things available.

It was lazy. Crafting cash-grab. The catastrophic FO76 really proved they let quality slide.