#pyre.txt

[phoenixlooper]

Reminder that the general consensus for romance games and dating simulators is so bad, that this sentence, (more than just a dating sim,)

shows up on the page for the fan translation patch, for TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL on the SNES. THE. DATING SIM. THAT DEFINED THE GENRE. OF DATING SIM.

Imagine having this little faith in your work that you need to essentially cut it down???? I'm still mad about this.

[villafordefeatedvillains]

real in-sys interaction that happened while i was drawing the tma doodles. dont go to syscord kids its the bad place. ESPECIALLY from 2020-2022

[ IF YOU SYSCOURSE ON MY POST I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU ]

[light-me-on-pyre]

💥 COLLISON - what emotions do they have trouble dealing with?

🌈 RAINBOW - what advice would they give to their younger self?

🙈 SEE-NO-EVIL - whats a side of your oc that they don't want to show other people?

For Kevin!

💥 COLLISON - what emotions do they have trouble dealing with? 🙈 SEE-NO-EVIL - whats a side of your oc that they don't want to show other people?

Shame, mostly. He's a very prideful person, very confident in what he does. Which means when he fails, in trivial matters or in serious danger, he has difficulty getting over it. He deflects, overexplains stupid mistakes.

He- gets better- at dealing with failure and shame of being taken advantage of as the story goes on. But when he's younger and fresh off the boat, he doesnt talk about it, just pushes it down. He eventually opens up to Julian specifically, but even then he doesn't tell him everything. After escaping the MP torture dungeon, he talks to Julian more readily, and I don't think he would hold much back at this point, but he wouldn't want anyone else to know any details.

By the time he's in prison and with Alex, there's significant time passed. He still absolutely hates it, but he decides to prioritize physical safety over pride, especially if his pride is being stripped anyway. This way he can say he's at least Choosing this. During this time, the scars and brands would be on full display. Even if he was left alone, you aren't hiding anything in the showers, and when you have a number burned right above a series of whip scars people notice. Cops take notes, possibly pictures to put under 'identifiable marks'. Pictures that are put on the news when he breaks parole, for the whole world to see. And he can't deal with people Knowing, even if they don't really know the story. How he was stupid and trusted someone he shouldn't have. How he took torture to protect people that he now sees as turning their backs on him.

AND there's the cop who embarrassed him in front of his coworkers because he accidentally broke parole, so he showed up at his hard-to-find-with-a-criminal-record job to arrest/berate him about it- triggering the 'even when I try to follow the rules its not good enough' revenge arc. (Oh yeah and he's disabled in a time when that isn't given lots of grace. *Shrek meme* He's not even a war veteran)

When he returns to paradis, he still has trust issues and goes back to bottling everything up, now with a side of not letting anyone see him with his shirt off. He still stews over how just because he won't be exposed now doesn't erase that everyone back there has seen him, seen him humiliated by Alex, seen his scars. He ends up marking himself up further, because if he can't erase his scars then he can add to them in the way of his choosing. Because these new ones are intentional, not mistakes. Which causes an Issue when Julian sees him without his shirt on for the first time since he's come back and is worried which sets Kevin off-

Then of course with the final round of torture, resulting in almost total communication loss for a bit, its back to bottling things back up completely (though not by his choice). There's the added shame of again, Letting This Happen To Him, of his comrades finding him because he couldn't escape this one on his own, and those previous scars being seen by everyone(though generally unnoticed under yknow. The blood. But there is the worry that Quinn will put it in his report, which would be unnecessary and would hurt him to know that the world is once again updated on his physical and mental condition)

There's also at this point the shame of yelling at and calling his comrades traitors and what he did to lash out when he believed that, when he is now clear enough to know that was never true.

All of this is so so hard for him to get over. He can push it down only for so long.

🌈 RAINBOW - what advice would they give to their younger self?

Don't make friends with cops they'll always stab you in the back, even if you think they're on your side.

If you're in a good place, stay there.

[kkrbvrai]

“Mr. Coolatta, Tommy, dinner’s ready!”

Darnold’s voice rings clearly from nearby, and Tommy smiles in his direction. They beckon with a wave.

Tommy: “D-Darnold, can you g-get everyone to come over? I-I think we s-should thank the spirits o-one last time before w-we turn the camera off.”

Their boyfriend’s reply is muffled, but soon the Players join Tommy and Gin in front of the camera. They turn to you, O wandering spirits. Smiling, waving. Faces that you’ve come to know, saying a goodbye to the voices that guided them to this new life. And their farewell rings out as a chorus:

“Thank you!”

KAKURENBO VR, BUT THE AI IS SELF AWARE: END.

[vilebutcher]

this take sucks 100% full offense

[pyrepostings]

Honestly I'm still thinking about the best line in GOT. "I need you to do something for me. I need you to pretend to be someone you're not. I need you to pretend to be Theon Greyjoy."

The using his status without loosing his hold. The line delivery being slowly given so that if youre insane enough you figure it out before he's done talking. The way Theon would be protecting himself by throwing himself into the Reek role, only to be ordered to touch his old life with his fingertips, to be burned like on a hot stove with memories of the torture that got him where he is now.

Normally when I'm rotating a blorbo, I'm putting them in a ballerina music box but in this case I am biting down hard and death rolling like an alligator.

[phoenixlooper]

So way back, around when P5 was coming out, MysticDistance was making a name subtitling prerelease stuff and interviews. I was in a group with him, The Mayonaka Network, where it was covered, and also later ran interviews with voice actors. But what happens when no one is looking to you for information anymore? You start trying to find stuff to leak. This got him kicked from the group because he started leaking the interviews in advance, and it turned into a whole struggle because he allied himself with another guy in the group, Mike/Skull, who was an asshole (and also kicked). Cut forward a few years, the two of them, (Skull had rebranded to Phansite at this point), have been trying to cultivate Pure Sweet Friendly Community images on twitter pages, before having a big falling out because- they're both kind of shitty people. Mike/Skull/Phansite goes dark, Mystic tries to find Persona news and leaks by pestering people and is wrong too many times before he vanishes too. As it turned out, Mystic wiped (most) of their account, rebranded to Midori and then went back to practicing their japanese and translating Atlus things. Until they somehow managed to get access to some sort of leaked SEGA document, internal 2022-2023 presentations that formed the basis for the shareholder meetings showing their next years plans. So now they create their new persona, a female japanese atlus or sega game dev, who has started Leaking information whilst learning english. The information is mostly correct, and they become super popular. Sonic and Persona are making big numbers after all. But the presentation doc eventually runs out, and they have No More New Information. So they start trying to pester and harass people over dms to try and get new info, which causes a bunch of people to go 'wait the way you're acting is kind of familiar'. It triggers enough flags for some people to go through all of midori's posts and- Wow it turns out Mystic didn't delete all of their old posts, and the wayback machine can prove the account rebrand. And that's the story of how we know that the 'English Learning Game Dev Girl from Japan' Midori, infamous and largely correct leaker on twitter, turned out to be MysticDistance/Ryan, a white dude from Chicago who wants to run for city council. How the hell do you not just clear your account?

[phoenixlooper]

So I'm playing this game for review that is vaguely zero escape like, and it's reminding me of these other vaguely zero escape like games, which I will not name (for now) because I don't want to be too mean, and it's actually making me annoyed at- Zero Escape Memes. So people make jokes about Zero Escape tangents, monologues, conversations that go wayyyyy off the beaten path for 'seemingly' no reason.

And it feels like a these zero escape-likes, are aware that zero escape does this, and the memes and that zero escape is pretty popular within the western side of adventure games. So they do them too. "Here's your infodump about a principle that will be relevant when the Overarching Narrative Stuff comes to a head later" But Zero Escape leads into them. They don't come out of nowhere, they have a distinct path or place where they come from. Early in 999 alone we have a knife so useless, it shares a descriptor with the name of a book about a ship called the titanic. Akane's fun facts about frozen rocks comes off a conversation started about knowing fun random facts that could be used to solve a puzzle. Lotus yapping about some theories to pass the time as she does her super hacking, that are related to the computer she's using. Clover reminded of a thought experiment because it was almost the solution to a puzzle. These other games just. Don't do the setup. A character just starts talking about the Doppler effect, or Monty Hall, or Schrodinger's cat to make sure you're aware for the Big Part, and don't even try to use it to give characters personality. It's bugging me. Do they actually know? or do they just know the jokes?