#thinkies

[thahxa]

because of the way technology works ofc we're getting facial recognition for age detection at the exact same moment we're getting hyper realistic ai generated video

[owointehstreetsss]

i think we're really quick to gloss over the implications of tenna having electro shock therapy in his life. of course, i realize that tricky tony probably just included it to be funny, but in practice ECT is used to treat a lot of different brain-related issues. practitioners use medically controlled seizures to treat things like bipolar, mania, major depressive disorder, some psychotic disorders and other brain conditions like catatonia. it's also done on a consistent schedule, about two or three times a week depending on patient conditions. however, because of how ECT works, its only used when literally anything else fails. medication? cognitive behavioral therapy? other treatment methods? ECT is a last result because scientists dont exactly know why it works so well and it comes with some minor risks to patient health. however, those risks aside, ECT is very good at fixing problems in the brain for some reason.

knowing this, what was the thing that FUCKED him UP so HARD that he started using ECT?????? i'm sure it's probably whatever depression the guy has developed from being a man child caught in the middle of a nasty divorce and also spamton but like which thing did him in?????? and how long as he been doing ECT??? more importantly, is it or is it not working?! i think its scarier to conclude that it has worked and that the version of tenna we see now is him with effective treatment because it implies a version of himself and his mental health that is ASTRONOMICALLY WORSE. how fucking bad was his attachment issues when working with spamton??? his depression???? HOW FAR GONE WAS HE, TOBY FOX????

[lucius-illusions]

thinks

i should do more freaky art

[mr-meero]

Created a sad edit of Keero and CasBix ship only to be served a 2:34 sad edit of just Syril and I’m in my grave

[1m-s0-d1rty-bab3-xd]

would you… sniffle… would you still love us if we… if we… if we were a pubby…

[hatosaur]

if/when we get tlou3, what would you want to see happen? realistically OR your total dream scenario, either way...where do you see ellie's story going? what would you love to see and what would you hateeee to see go down?

realistically speaking, i imagine tlou3 would be what wraps up the franchise. if there's ever going to be more games after part 2, i pray to god naughty dog doesn't milk the franchise and make a billion games. people like to say "well, what if they focused on characters other than joel and ellie?" to which i say, shut the fuck up, you don't understand the last of us, you just want a sad zombie game, and i'm much smarter than you. because tlou IS joel and ellie's story; without ellie and joel, without even the idea of them, it isn't the last of us.

i'll be honest, i don't have any specific plot points that i'd for sure want in part 3. maybe it would be ellie's long journey back home after who knows how long. maybe the ending of part 2 was her deciding she needed to stay out of people's lives but circumstances drag her back home. abby and lev are just a part of it now -- it'd be weird to have them for one game and then just forget about them lol -- so they could share the focus. i'm not a big fan of firefly plots but that's their through-line if ellie crashes into abby and lev's path or vice versa. whatever, i kinda don't really care about the nitty-gritty.

but what i do want, over anything in the entire world, is ellie finally getting a happy ending. now this only works if part 3 is actually the end of the story, which again i hope it is. the game would be shit if ellie gets another bad ending or dies in the end (though her dying could be done right, i'd just prefer her death not be a tragic, depressing one). to me, the point of the games isn't the darkness of humanity or the futility of hope the way people say. it's about love, from beginning to end. it's love that drives joel to disastrous ends all for ellie, it's love that sends ellie on a revenge mission lamenting her chance to reconcile with joel, it's love that causes dina to follow ellie and then to ultimately leave the farmhouse with jj, it's love that forms abby and lev's duo and gets them as far as they do. no one wants to see it, because it's "corny" or whatever, but it's true.

ellie dying a tragic death or losing everything again or ending up somewhere in a depressive state doesn't round off any themes, because if the point of the games where that humanity is shit and love doesn't prevail, things would have been much, much darker.

ellie is a symbol of hope in the first game and a symbol of doom in the second, and i would love it if the third game could just allow her to be a person without any heroic or self-destructive sense of purpose. make her come to a point where she sees that her value lies in something beyond being a cure or an avenger; and maybe that's just being a person. being there in her loved ones lives. being a mom and partner, or a valued member of her community.

there is no point to be made in ellie reaching a new low -- she reaches rock bottom at the end of part 2 -- because there's nothing to say there. saying "everything is shit and horrible and everything good in the world dies" directly clashes with the moral of the first game, that even in a hellscape of monsters, infected or not, you can find purpose. ellie is joel's purpose in part 1. revenge is ellie's "purpose" in part 2. what about part 3?

again, it's "corny," so people won't want it, but what if it was just...her family?

it makes the most sense to me, the series begins with joel's loss of family, so why not end with ellie gaining hers back?

[skiploom]

guys what is he thinking about

[verymoonperson]

If Incineroar is known as the "heel" pokemon, which one would be the corresponding "face" pokemon?

Aside from Glalie, because I think they're using a much more literal definition there