Endearing Misanthrope

26, she/they, asian-american, temperamental cat, enthusiast of anime, JRPGs, comics, film, and other random bullshit

[vera-sama]

i need to be like her so bad

[vera-sama]

logan wishing he lived in japan with the love of his life mariko vs ororo wishing she lived in japan with the love of her life yukio

[vera-sama]

if i had a nickel for every time a fan of the singer laufey overestimated how well known she is and made a joke about her in relation to the new god of war but no one else in the room knew who she was, i'd have two, which isn't a lot but so on and so on

[vera-sama]

i wish more people knew how good the old wheel of time PC game from 1999 is, lol. it kinda rocks, but it's definitely not for the casual fan, it's like surprisingly kinda hard if you're not used to older games that don't hold your hand, but the plus side is that the puzzles and the variety of magic are so creative, it's really impressive for a game that ideally will only take you like 7 hours to beat.

huge fan of the extremely specific puzzle spells and the way the levels are designed. one level there's just a random fucking gong in the middle of a cave for no reason, and it sticks out from the cavern wall, there's no way to miss it. you curiously shoot it, bang against it, and naturally it goes bwooong. you move on and make your way to the top of a gate that leads to a dead end, with only a really specific "switch places with an enemy" spell. you peer through a window and see, like half a mile away, another gong on another gate. you shoot a magic dart at it and an enemy runs out to check it out, and that's when you use the switch spell to suddenly teleport halfway across the map.

also a huge fan of the "teleport 5 meters forward" spell that you only use like twice. in one case there's a closed gate you have to get past, so you use that and then you instantly blow up because there were actually MINES on the ground, just so you know you also needed a fire shield active (at least the trial and error isn't annoying because there's insta-save and load).

it's also like surprisingly really atmospheric. the environments are so big, almost to a fault with how empty they are devoid of you and enemies, but you can't help feel kinda drawn into it. especially when it gets downright scary at times when you have to travel through shadar logoth, or traveling through the ways where it's pitch black and you can't see five feet ahead of you and black ajah can just suddenly pop up in front of you. which is still not as terrifying as when machin shin shows up as a fucking giant tornado of ghostly skulls screeching at you lmao. so good

[vera-sama]

really crazy to sit down and consider that benoit blanc really is the most iconic character from an original movie of the last 6 years. i can easily imagine, one day, daniel craig will be more famous for being benoit than james bond

[vera-sama]

the people who respond to this with a self-smug "i didnt even know he was bond but that's because i'm sooo out of touch with the mainstream" really overestimate how endearing it is to be really dumb

[sadgrrly02]

[sadgrrly02]

gay

[jibunbosh]

why does google suddenly consider itself literally Ereshkigal, goddess of Kur when you search her up

[vera-sama]

i'm not really the type to watch anime made for teenage boys, look at the women, and go "oh, such a pity she's stuck in hetslop... she's meant to be gay" BUT. yor, my dear yor. now that's a woman who needs another woman.

[billymayslesbian]

imagining a universe where porn is a marketable genre so you have to deal with raycon ads while trying to jerk your shit

[torchichate]

You’re an easy slut, aren’t you kitten? Almost as easy as dinner with Hellofresh

[cdigoddess]

"games are special.... because we... have stories to tell..."

*montage of third person combat in unreal engine 5*

[vera-sama]

picturing this as gigi as described by hathaway and/or kenneth

[vera-sama]

not to sound like a danny rand hater, he's just a character that makes me go "it is what it is," but it's so funny remembering when the preview of the last ultimates issue dropped and danny was dressed up like classic iron fist and people were like "oooh he's gonna be the mirror image of evil hulk, who appropriated k'un-l'un's culture while danny is the foreigner who came to truly appreciate it and let it make him better. they're the natural enemies of each other" like ok you guys just had nothing to say about shang-chi literally right next to him reclaiming his k'un-l'un culture lol.

big 2026 and people were still clamoring for a mere whiff of "good white vs bad cultural appropriator" even when the descendant of said culture was like literally right there. we ain't never getting woke 2.0 dawg

[sisterof-thevoid-deactivated202]

I have the Fantasy Maiden Wars demo shortcut on my desktop and when I went to delete it I nearly got a heart attack.

[vera-sama]

well. at least they remembered to give "shang-chi with the iron fist" one aura and hype moment before the end lol. good night, my sweet prince. the awesome things you could have said and done.

[vihra]

Pablo Uchida Design Works

[vera-sama]

mandalorian and grogu was such a weird movie. what other movie do you know that starts with "protagonist, carry out this mission for me" and then he just. completely accomplishes it with minimal problems an hour in?

probably even worse is that it takes "three ultra-jacked giant slugs duke it out" and makes it not as fun as it sounds. how did we get here, man.

[maskdoll]

deadpan kuudere girl who holds up printed out discord emojis so people can understand what she's feeling