#shmuzzie rambles

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The backrooms are a failing brain trying to hold onto even the most basic of memories, even as they warp and decay.

The backrooms are generative AI trying to capture something real but only achieving a malformed, mindless imitation.

The backrooms are stagnation, an unwillingness to step into the new and uncomfortable effort of changing, instead running through the same old routine even as it starts to fall in on itself.

The backrooms are nostalgia cannibalizing itself, trying to remake and remake what it already knows without making anything new, until the familiar is so bastardized it's barely recognizable.

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I love the difference between Corbeau's "professional" smile and his little grin that quirks slightly to the left. I feel like the smile is put on both to charm and maybe intimidate people, and it's what he does when posing for photos when the happy music is playing. But then you get the grin when he sees the new tenant keep the Gengar, when you beat him in battles and toward the end of the game when you meet up with him and before he falls off the human ladder, but those are harder to see due to the angle he's facing.

You also see it when he's upset. He has his :< frown usually but there are a few moments where he grimaces and it's also quirked to the left side of his face. I noticed it mostly when Philippe embarrases him at the tournament and when you keep jumping off the roof. It also looks like he's tapping his foot or bouncing his leg in the last gif like he's getting exasperated and I love it.

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I can't believe Remus finally got his own jam

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Patton's being very in-character right now

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Hyperspace AZ made me so disappointed the DLC didn't go further with the idea of Hyperspace representations of other characters. We have those little side quests where you get character outfits, but it's vague enough on if they're real or not that I don't think it counts.

I want side quests where you get to see what Lumiose City thinks of these characters, bonus points if that actual character is there to see it. I want to see a super idolized Canari that she cringes at, or a super destructive Ivor that makes him feel bad and apologize to Gwynn.

I would've LOVED if they made a Hyperspace Lysandre, or two. One that represents the judgement of people against his evil actions, and the other representing all the good he did beforehand that people remember. Get Grisham, Griselle, Mable and Corbeau involved and give them all a chance to get some sort of closure, either by fighting the bad Hyperspace Lysandre or talking it out with the good one.

The Hoopa Unbound battle would've been the perfect opportunity to do so, since Corbeau said it was powerful to the point where he was worried. Evil Hyperspace Lysandre decides to use this Hoopa to get into our world and finish what he started, so we have to fight his original team and then Hoopa Rogue Mega style. Maybe with Grisham and Corbeau as your teammates instead of Taunie/Urbain and Korrina? That would've been awesome.

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What was Legends ZA doing having the protagonist and Corbeau fight a Mega Gardevoir and Gallade...literally a pair, a prince and princess...and in a big round enclosed area acting like a ballroom...

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Tomodachi Life is going well for the boys

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Vaporeon fans I finally understand your pain